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Hey everyone, I have not really posted much on here. I usually just read threads. well enough about me here's my problem and specs: I enable SLI from the NVIDIA Control Panel and its says I must restart for effect. So I hit "restart" and it reboots. During the reboot …

I am trying to install the 64-bit version of the Windows 7 beta, but have been hitting my head against the same problem over and over and over again. I tried asking about this at Anandtech, and got almost no help. The first time I tried to install, I got …

Hi I am not sure if I have posted in the right forum but I hope you can help. For the last few days I have been having issues with my PC shutting itself down whilst Im using it. I originally thought it might be the graphics card as it …

I was trying to install a new printer on an existing print server that housed another printer and now my print spooler won't stay on. I've gone in now several times and turned it on but it keeps going back off within about a min. Can anybody help with this?

Don't know but why do we keep getting this error on our Windows 2003 box? Event Type: Warning Event Source: MsiInstaller Event Category: None Event ID: 1001 Date: 5/1/2009 Time: 11:11:45 AM User: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE Computer: abc123 Description: Detection of product '{790FAF64-3086-4AD8-95CF-CBBF55B546A5}', feature 'SERVER' failed during request for component …

On one of my desktops, which runs Win ME, Ebay has slowed to a crawl. No other sites are giving me problems. Any suggestions or opinions? Thanks a lot.

Reinstalling PC Health -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Could anyone help please? System is: XP (1.80 Ghz, 120 Gb HDD 512 Mb RAM AMD, SP3 downloaded 6 months ago. Computer 4 years old and has Version 2002 SP3.) PC Health is missing. I understood this would work: - I went to C:\Windows\Inf, find the …

I am new to this so please be patient. I cannot opn the Control panel, it give me an error message and wants to send a reort to microsoft, it has only strated this in the last hour or soo. Please can someone help me Cheers itunsavvy (johnboyh)

hello.. Im having this audio problem which I've been having for like 5 days. My computer doesn't have sounds! When I tried playing a song in winamp, I get this message: "No sound device found. Please buy a soundcard first (or install proper drivers if you think that you have …

I decided to have a second hard drive/disk to my PC. In the process my purposely formated my original hard disk which was running WIN98 for sometime. My new hard disk is installed with WINDOWS 2000 professional. I have configured my new hard disk has the primary and the old …

Hello, you guys have been helpful in the past and I have decided to come back with a new issue :) My internet seems to cut in and out sometimesevery ten minutes or even up to every hour. I am using a motorola modem and a Linksys WRT54G router. I …

Here's the situation: Installed Windows 7 RC7100 (64-bit) onto its own partition. Needed to setup dual boot. Obtained WinXP Pro 64bit and installed onto new partition. After installation, PC reboots and hangs at the WindowsXP screen for about 15 seconds, then automatically restarts. It [U][B]WILL NOT[/B][/U] boot into Safe + …

Hi there, Thanks for reading my problem. I work in a internet cafe. My owner told me to make CD for each PC for recovery. Like if any computer have any problem than he wants to use that CD for recovery. In easy explanation: Step 1: Problem happened with computer/Does …

Hi Recently ran into problems with My amilo siemens Laptop, so not a problem I'll just reinstal the O/S. found the disc but upon putting it into the cd drive found it wasn't reading so naturally proceeded to clean the plastic side of the disk in order that it may …

I've run into a problem when I try to download a file from a web site the dialog does not pop up saying [B]save to file[/B] instead I have to use the FireFox plugin [B]IE Tab[/B] switch the tab over to an [B]IE Tab [/B][I]and only then[/I] will the dialog …

I cannot uninstall some of my programs on my computer. I get a message INSTALL.LOG FILE. What do i do to uninstall these programs?

Hi all , I'm new to all this , so bear with me . My friend has XP and the drive is partitioned into 3 separate sections. C drive is 10 Gb , F drive is 10 Gb, and the rest is annotated "Everything Else" which is 60 Gb, I …

I have an application error that says - "The application failed to initialize properly(0x0000034). Click ok to terminate the program". When ever my computer starts this error always appear and not just that I cannot open Windows movie maker, photo scape, and I cannot even update my windows media player …

Due to problems I decided to re-install XP Pro and formatted my Hard Drive. When I ran the installation it got as far as "Installing Devices" with 34/35 minutes left to run and then stopped. I have tried both XP Home and XP Pro with identical results. Following advice from …

Today I was copying a file from my laptop onto my USB external hard drive when the transfer froze and I had to cancel it. The file is still intact on my laptop but the unfinished copy created on my external hard drive does not seem to want to be …

Hullo everybody, I hope that I am in the right place. Lately I have developed a problem on my PC. I run Win XP with SP2. It is a genuine Intel 3.2. The problem is that I log in and am doing stuff n Internet and a box pops up …

I have a gateway ML6732 with vista , the laptop keeps asking for a hdd password which was never necessary , how can I get around this , can I flash the C_MOS or reset the C-MOS on the mother board somehow ?

All of my browsers (firefox, IE8, Flock) go only to strangeUSA . com the address bar displays google or daniweb for example but the page displays strangeUSA dot com. HijackTHIS shows nothing at all strange. Spybot shows nothing (newest one) Nor malwarebytes Have reset my winsock and ip configuration using …

Can someone help with the removal of this? I have read and read and I can not figure it out and I need to get rid of it. Thanks Scott

Good morning!! Hope all are well. Please please please can someone help me. Not familiar with Pc's. I have a Compaq laptop and if shut down a while ago. Last week i took it to a shop to be fixed. They had fixed it and reinstalled more memory, nortons and …

Hi all, I am hoping that someone out there has a solution for this... Its driving me nuts. I have been searching the net for weeks trying to come up with a fix, but cant find one. So here it is: When using IE7 (Yeah, I know... I should be …

I setup 2 email addresses for 1 user @example1.com and @example2.com. there is no way for that user to select which email domain they send out from is there?

Well it's either this, or the domain name has been removed from the routing table. Or my Firefox is just being very biased about my browsing experience!:) Go on, [URL="http://www.microsoft.com/"]try it out now[/URL] (note depending on when you're reading this, it might have come back up and so it'll just …

Hey, whenever I click start and then run and type in regedit It won't open and I get an error message saying regedit is not a valid Win32 appliation. How do I fix this??? Also I found out my computer is infected with Zango adware andd according to this site …

Hi, Ive recently unistalled [B]unimportant[/B] software from my computer, done defragements, disk compression, disk cleanups and error checking quite regualarly for some time now. After i first started ive noticed that EVERY time i startup my computer it comes up with 2 error messages on after the other when loading …

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This will be not be the most useful feature and you can't do miracle by turning on this feature, but you would not neglect this feature because you will know soon how important this feature in vista. Vista doesn't have quick power off button and you will find it in …

I'm purchasing a laptop at the end of next month, and I want to be able to install 32-bit Vista on it. Currently, I'm looking at a Toshiba Satellite M60 laptop with the following specs: CPU: Intel Pentium M Processor 760 (2.00GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB) Ram: 1024MB (512MBx2) …

Hi all Weird problem, I deleted then re installed Picasa3 and now all it does is re load the pics from my pictures folder and then when it's done it says that there is no pictures in the program yet if I close picasa and open it again then here …

hello all i´m nowhere near a coputer wiz, so please bear with me. i got a hp 6734s laptop. love it. but, as of yesterday the media player, the entire laptops sound and mic do not work anymore. all volumes are on a high, i tried it with headphones too. …

I'm teaching myself Database design, using MS Access (2007). This question may have a basic answer, but remember, I'm just a learner and it's not so obvious to me. I would like to select a Company either by 'Name' or 'ID' or 'Account Number' in a Form and have all …

I was on my computer last night and turned it off around 3am.. I turned it back on again and it runs till the windows screen appers before user selection ad i receive a box titled above reading The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click ok to terminate the …

Hi guys! This time I'm getting help for a friend, so any advice you could offer would be awesome! So my friend has a laptop, but it won't power up anymore and it gets errors like these when it tries to: Extended Test: Service Tag HT4D0C1 (IDE Disk Test) 1) …

Just got a new modem but my PC still cannot access the internet.. can someone help ?

Ok, I should have came here first and asked my question but i stupidly thought the zonealarm forums would be able to help me. Alas i was wrong and will never err again... I see on my ZA log that there are a few connections, incoming and outgoing from svchost.exe. …

yah last week i formated my laptop with the XP window.......but after i format i found tht my photo cant preview. when i click to open is say preview not avalible.and at the same time i also cant copy all my photo. may i know what is the problem and …

I have a Windows 2003 server configured as a RRAS (Routing and Remote Access Server). This server was configured by the previous IT person, who didn't do a lot of things correctly. The VPN works okay, in the sense users can connect via VPN and then use remote desktop to …

Every now and then Vista comes up with a "Program Compatability Assistant" popup window (see image) when you want to run a .exe file. If you make the mistake, like I did, and agree with the Administrator option, then from hence foreward everytime you want to run this particular executable …

My computer won't let me name any files! I can name folders, but only once when I create it. If I try to rename a file it will say "If you change file name extension, the file may become unusable." I have some Japanese songs I want to change into …

hi, How do I install Vista on a seperate partition, I installed Vista on a seperate partition while XP was in another partition, and now only Vista is loading, what I need is to have dual boot with XP & VISTA. How do I do this... some other details... 1) …

hello everybody! I have installed windows XP in my laptop. I want to change my user name (loginname) of my XP. I followed the following steps. right click on [B]Mycomputer->manage -> users and groups -> users -> [/B] and then right click on my user name (pratapch) and say rename. …

Hi Actually i m trying to installation with XP operating system at least 3 times through the different disk but all time installation processes are uncompleted in installation phase (it is stop on the time of 34 min.) i have tow hard disk (10 gb & 40 gb) and two …

hi this is my first post, i had my wireless network all set up working fine then i reformatted my main desktop, it was always hardwired to the router, after the reformat i cannot connect threw a wire, only lets me do it threw wireless, anybody no how to fix …

Hi guys. i hope this is the right place for me to post this. i am planning on taking the MCSA. am planning on learning at home n writing it....but i need books n resources which i can purchase to help me. Any suggestions.

Im trying to reinstall Xp on my computer but i keep getting the message Data Error (Cyclic redundancy check). What does this mean and what should i do? Please Help