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Ok, so yesterday my computer was basically in the dump, it was crashing every 10 minutes, and i couldnt do much of anything on it. So i ran Memtest and received 54000 errors... this morning i reinstalled windows cleared the hard drive and now the computer runs better then ever, …

How do I start to find out why my new computer will not reconize the 8GB on the motherboars when the motherboard says it will accept 8 GB?

Hi, I am Hizamri. I am from Danisco Malaysia. Currently I am trying to make a Ghost of my SATA HDD. We have Ghost2003. I have already view some comments on the ghost procedure for SATA HDD. But I am not able to make an XP bootable disk that recognize …

Hi all, Came home from work the other day to find out that since I had accidentally left the windows xp student edition sp3 cd still in the drive, when my room mate booted it looks like he's decided to start reinstalling windows ontop of itself..... Anyway obviosuly I don't …

I was hooking up another monitor onto my computer and went to the nVidiea control panal (I am a nube at this). My screen turned black and I tried restarting. The windows staring up works but... when it gets to the loggon screen it all turns black. All my important …

Hey guys...Just bought a Razer Carcharias and it worked great the first day I owned it. Today I decided to down-grade from Win-7 to XP,SP2. Everything is working great in XP except the mic... I have it correctly plugged into everything,so that's not the problem. I have gone into the …

When i start windows I get an Explorer EXE application error the instruction at 0x02f63c26 referenced memory at 0x02fb625c. the memory could not be read. then my desk top freezes along with the task bar. any thoughts?

Hi there wonder if you can help? i've got a dell pc when started shows dell icon bar but then just: no boot sector on internal hard drive no bootable devices strike f1 to retry boot, f2 for setup utility Been into utility setup and checked all settings are on …

Hi, I've recently lost sound in my computer. I have re-installed windows, re-installed my audio drivers, have gone to run: services.msc/ windows audio set my setting to automatic, checked to make sure sndvol.exe was in Windows/system32. When I click on volume control I still get no mixer device available. I …

I have a connector ps2 to usb port. Can I use that usb port as a regular USB port? I know that they are for usb mouse and keyboard but can I use it for a flash driver or some other device? Are there any other types of devices that …

Hi, my PC is connected in a LAN where a static IP is given by my ISP provider. Obviously my router has given another IP address for our LAN. Now, my request is that there is a professional talk every walk and i wanted to publish over the internet by …

Hey something happened to my computer a few days ago. I haven't downloaded or installed any new programs for the past couple of months. My computer was working fine, when suddenly it reset itself. When i now turn it on I am given a screen which asks me to choose …

Hi everyone, surely, there is someone out there that can help, no joy so far: since virgin installed their bb, my son is unable to connect to internet. he has windows vista and uses a belkin adapter that is getting as far as the router but no further. i have …

Hi ! I hav two HD 1 Ide & other sata both 80 GB. I installed a third sata 250 gb segate HD but it dosent show in vist . I hav XP on drv 0 and Vista on the other. I tried many times changing the cables etc but …

i have an asus x83v, it came preinstalled vista home prem, 2 partitions, one 150 gb for vista, then 150gb for data. 6 months ago shrunk the c: drive with vista about 10 gbs for Unbutu linux. Accidently formatted the unbutu partition, not windows dosnt load. black screen with blinking …

I was wondering about removing win 7. I recently recovered my hd when i dual booted unbuntu, tried to remove the unbuntu and got an MBR error onto my laptop with the help of Xlphos. here is the real bugger, what do you do after u have installed win 7 …

Hello and sorry for bad English. I'm having a problem with Windows 2003 server. Clients have Windows XP SP2 installed. I'm sharing a folder which contains Excel and Word files. If I try to open them from WinXP machine I have to wait like 30-60 seconds before they open. Recently …

hi i have the asus p5pe vm mbd.. cant find windows vista 32 bit drivers for this board.. mbd specs P5PE-VM CPU LGA775 socket for Intel®Pentium D/Pentium 4/Celeron CPU Compatible with Intel® 05B/05A and 04B/04A processors Support Intel®EM64T/Hyper-Threading Technology Chipset Intel 865G Intel ICH5 Front Side Bus 1066/800/ 533 MHz …

Hi, When I create a new message in outlook 2007, a clipboard shows up in the left panel. I tried to remove this by "x" but every time when I restart outlook it shows up again. even when the "collect without showing office clipboard" is selected. I don't want to …

Hi, How can i prevent users to logon Windows domain if they don't have a network connection? (30+ users) GPO? if yes, how....? Thanks in advance !

Windows98se. I am talking about Windows Explorer not Internet explorer. For no apparent reason,there appears a box with this inside,'The program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.If the problem persists contact the program vendor" Details- This program caused an invalid page fault in module <unknown> at …

I have had problems with my computer for a while, I noticed little by little I kept getting my messgaes of files missing and things not working properly. Today, I tried to do a system restore. I tried 3 times. every time the computer turned back on the message NTLDR …

Hi, My laptop computer's Internet explorer wont connect to the internet and keeps opening new windows and gives me an error with wierd symbols. I tried system restore and it worked for a few minutes then it started back up again. Please Help! Here is my Log File from hijackthis: …

Hi all, The company i work for is rearranging their network drives and they assigned our department the task of designing a new structure and make an inventory of the existing folders on the networkdrives. designing a new folder structure will be no problem. Making an folderlisting however is. All …

I have a Paviion a6120n running Vista Home Premium. I cannot seem to find my drives. All I am now shown is (C), (D) and (E). Although the iPods will charge and are able to be used, my MP3 will not charge and isn't even recognize. Computer is not reading …

Hi all The Safety Remove Hardware icon seems to have disappeared from the taskbar in my [U][B]Windows XP SP3[/B] [/U]installation. Even when I connect a USB drive it does not appear. When I go into the task manager properties I find it in past items. I have set it to …

I am a Windows XP Pro SP2 user and I would like to know how I can activate the request to press Ctrl - Alt - Del when the computer is started? Also: I would like to create a message which appears after CTRL-ALT-DEL telling people the computer rules?? Hope …

I was attempting to uninstall McAfee Total Protection when it froze and eventually gave me the Blue Screen Of Death. I continue to get the BSOD every time that I attempt to re-boot. I cannot even boot in safe mode. I am running windows xp sp3. I am receiving the …

I am trying to put HP Laserjet p3005n printers on older NT 4.0 boxes, and am having great difficulty. The NT boxes cannot be upgraded, as they are running production tools and we would have to purchase an entire new tool to upgrade the PC. They are all running NT …

Is there a possibility of a software that converts .exe files to .bin files. I know that it can be done using command prompt but I could not understand the method.

hi when i turn on my pc while starting up it show me (please select the operating system to start windows xp professional windows xp professional 30 sec to start) this is annoying is there a way i can turn this off? Thanks

Hi, i'm new to this and not sure exactly how to do all of this but here it goes....I have been having a lot of problems with my inspiron 1521 at first it would recognize any of my apps and now it's dumping suddenly...is there anything i can do to …

my daughter who is 9 months pregnant and has to stay in bed until birth has a compaq 5400 with xp professional and it will not let her access internet or mozilla. ie gives a we need to close sorry for the blah blah drill and mozilla crashes but everything …

is it able to use a router cable connected to a modem then to a pc to transfer files from pc to pc....

Ok, I didn't know where I should put this so I put it here. :mrgreen: Well, I have Adobe Photoshop, and for some reason (this has happened before) it doesn't let me type text onto the picture. I type, and say the size is 72, it is very tiny and …

Hello helpful people, thanks for looking at my thread. I have recently ended my main email pop3 address and moved to a new email account using imap folders. I cannot seem to move my imap folder to be the personal folder. I have removed the email account that i originally …

I'm running XP Home SP3. I rebooted my computer this afternoon only to be presented with an NT login screen when the machine came back up. It had my name and it lets me leave the PW blank and still logs me in (which is good, b/c I've never had …

backup an unusable HDD. I don't know what happened to my external, probably disconnecting it without having the computer off. But I have ruined it so hardcore that when I plug it in it says "windows must format (instert drive letter here), before it can use it." I have a …

Hey guys sorry am not exactly sure how to explain my problem so will try my best to explain best I can. First off my keyboard started to open up my web browser useing the control key and a few other keys although never noted them as it was mainly …

Hi All, I run Windows XP and everything appears to work fine, I can surf the web at will, all is fast and easy EXCEPT that I cannot access ANY Mozilla sites whatsoever unless through a proxy browser. I have tried so many different methods and still have not come …

Hello people, Am trying to set up Windows live mail so that I can send/receive emails. Thus far I can check my emails but cannot send any. The configuration I am using is: Incoming POP3 server - smail.warwick.ac.uk Outgoing mail server (SMTP) - smtp.virgin.net Incoming mail port - 995 SSL …

Hi i was wondering if anyone knows of a free program that checks your computer for errors and viruses and fix them for free. i have searched online but every time i find one that says its free i can only scan for free but not fix all error.

Hi guys, can you give me some help? It all basically started some times ago. I don't remember doing anything but suddenly my IE stopped working. Everything, and I mean it - everything opens in Firefox. It may be OK in 90% of cases, but I want to be able …

Am running IE6 SP1 on a recently installed version of XP Pro version 2002 (No SPs). Have little software on machine except McAfee Internet Security and various device drivers. Whenever I right click on any web page using IE6 SP1, I get an Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and …

2 computers vista & xp...Problem is sporatic on BOTH computer., sometimes things function fine...Very odd...on the XP computer at times ., specifically sites like MY SPACE. Windows freeze., I dont know if the 2 things are related.. Input is really appreciated, I do clear temp files, de frag and I …

Hello, I'm not very computer savvy and was hoping I could find someone to help me with this problem. Whenever I go to a webpage that has music in the background or some type of flash, a box pops up and asks to run activex. I click the OK button …

Hi guys For diagnostic reasons I think it would be really useful to be able to somehow get a log showing each file accessed when running anything in XP. The TASK MANAGER seems to go a little way towards this but I don't want to get a defined output such …

Oki this is a weird one... My Sony VAIO NS140's dvd was screwy so I told the computer to shut down and then proceeded to take it out to look at it...anyway, apparently it wasn't properly shut down and it didn't like that. After rebooting, Vista took me to a …

I am using windows xp... I need to know what architecture (little or big) my machine is using...??? I have read that xp is always based on little Endian.. Is it true?? plz help..

I did a reinstall of win xp media after backing up files with Ghost. Now all the user accounts and data are listed in explorer. Can someone please tell me how to make user profiles for these existing accounts? I would like them to appear on the logon screen. Thanks!