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I run XP home edition SP3, browsers firefox google chrome and IE7, printer, scanner, have all MS updates. The trouble when I place a cd or dvd in the drive it crashes the pc. I noticed it when using OpenOffice and trying to burn a slideshow. Openoffice would crash sometimes …

hello, my pc has been fine since i got it, no problems what so ever, but now for some reason every 15 minutes or so i get the BSOD, ive run a disk check, virus check, its not overheating, cleaned out dust and everything!!!, it flashes up so quick i …

I have a windows server 2003 enterprise and want to know how can i share files over the net with or with out sharepoint and can let my family access them sharing files to do family reunion picture disc can anyone help. I seen sharepoint and thought that would be …

Strange things are happening with my computers and the Internet connection. The Internet is working just fine, so is my Mac and PC. When I logged on to my PC this morning, I got an Internet connection. But when I logged off and plugged the Internet cable into my Mac, …

[B]Problem:[/B] After installing Windows Vista Ultimate on my self-built computer, I have encountered an issue with the display of Windows Vista Ultimate. [B]Hardware:[/B] Bios Version: Pentium 4 V88 P1.60 Prescott Motherboard Processor Type: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00Ghz Processor Speed: 3000Mhz Microcode Update: F34/13 Cache Size: 1024KB Total Memory: 2048MB …

Hi. When I left work last night I had a normal Outlook (2007 on a Vista machine) with several days worth of emails showing and a PREVIEW PANE at the bottom. Today when I came in my preview pane is mysteriously GONE. I've gone to view and made sure "Message …

Hi everyone. I have a quick server environment question that is hopefully very easy for someone to answer. We used to use an SBS 2003 box as our server. Since then, we upgraded to a new SBS 2008 box. We put the SBS 2003 box away, but I just brought …

Hi everyone! I would like to create the image of my windows XP. The image should have all the software which I have installed in it, and all the settings, like limited account and other domain settings. I want to write the image to my CD or DVD and give …

explorer.exe seems to be crashing a lot and my computer has been running very sluggish but at times it seems fine, this started about 4 days ago.

I bought an Aspire 4730Z, and within a week I was having problems with it not working as fast as I thought it should. My other computer is 4 yrs old. I know very little about computers,turn on,off and in between ebay...I did not know how to open the note …

my computer had a virus that disabled its task manager, registry editor and booting my computer in safe mode.. and my USB flash drive contains davuy.exe file and suwj.exe that i cannot delete.. pls help me tnx.. [email]andrew_judah4@yahoo.com[/email]

Trying to uninstall some HP Printer programs and get the error message unauthorized program trying to access. Using Vista

My friend's computer has been having some virus troubles lately and now programs such as AIM and WMP are closing immediately after being opened, or not even opening at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated. HijackThis log is as follows: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at …

I'm looking for recommendations, I'm thinking about either Norton 360, XoftSpySE, or Shield deluxe 2009. I am also open to other recommendations, I have a Dell desktop with windows XP and an HP laptop with Vista. Thanks for your help!!

Looking around for an alternative to active desktop ive looked far and wide, i want a program that displays a usable webpage on the desktop so that for the oem machines we build, we can put a logo and link to our site, which can be easily removed.... but i …

I am totally confused on how to handle can any of you help? The page cannot be displayed The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings. To attempt fixing network connectivity problems, …

hi! i'm new. I don't know that much about software and hardware, or what makes computers buzz, so i'll be asking alot of questions. my first one is that i have some burned dvd's from a friend i'd like to burn to my computer to get them back to him. …

Windows Explorer on XP SP3 is behaving oddly. In the Folders two-pane view, I am accustomed to browsing through the contents of my folders by highlighting a folder in the left pane, then using the cursor-down key in the left pane to move to the next folder, and the next …

So my computer crashes during boot up and displays a BSOD screen saying DRIVER_NOT_EQUAL_TO..... something like that and the error says: 0x100000d1 (0x10f0e534, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x863738e7) PLEASE HELP! -also system restore to a month ago didnt do anything

hi, i have just finished building my pc, it has a GF8100VM-M5 motherboard, AMD Phenom 8450 x3 processor and a geforce 9800gt xxx edition graphics card, i have a few problems the first one is i always have to turn my pc on and off a few times before i …

Hi ! I have DELL Latitude Csx , which ( unfortunately) has its cd rom and floppy drive external (detachable), thus not allowing me to boot from devices other than hard disk. This is because , it does not recognize any device until it starts loading windows ( win 2000 …

I would like to build a batchfile on my desktop to tune the access to my HDDs. There is a command to start within cmd: "fsutil.exe fsinfo statistics c:" Does anybody know the structure of an appropriate batchfile?

We recently downloaded Internet Explorer 8 and in my profile only, I cannot click on links and have it go to a new tab (or open a window.) I cannot click on links in email, webpages, and I cannot figure out why :( My husband's profile (on the same laptop) …

To all most honorable members, Thanks for the opportunity to join this community. Here is my problem message and a little background: [U]Windows cannot access the specified device. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.[/U] I run Windows XP Home Edition. I can't access User Accounts …

I have an executive at our company that unfortunately uses the calendar reminders as a task manager. They have recently used the dismiss all button. I have been searching around for about two hours and have not found a solution yet to restore the dismissed reminders. I have tried the …

I'm using FF version 3.0.2 on 64-bit Vista. Every once in awhile it will just simply crash. I can restart and it will take me back to where it was when it crashed. Anyone know why it does that?

Word 97/XP Designed a page for a poster, added border all round, which shows in Print Preview as OK but when it prints the bottom border is not there. I have tried adjusting the borders, and 'kidded' the printer that the paper is a different size but still NO GO! …

Today I'm using AllWay Sync (Allwaysync.com) to synchronise "my documents"-folder between my desktop and my laptop over LAN. Since "my documents" contains about 50.000 files it takes quite a long time when AllWay Sync synchronic this folder - because it search through every file on both my desktop and laptop …

Hello, guys I use an ADSL service (my connection type is PPPoE) but in Windows Vista I just can't connect please help me.. Thanks in advance

We're wondering has anyone seen this type of virus/worm before? Our antivirus software (AVG-8) was not able to detect it. It occurred on an XP pro-SP3 workstation, (on a LAN, with internet access). The virus installs the following software, spontaneously: MS SQL server 2004, SQL server native client, native support …

I have a Windows 2003 server R2 Sp1 and XP SP2 workstations with Office 2000. Occasionally 2 users are able to access the same excel 2000 spreadsheet at the same time without receiving a file open notice until the second user tries to save the file. Then they receive a …

I was checking Windows updates on Microsoft website and there was an update for "Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update (KB951847) x86". I checked the version of .Net Framework I have and I found several previous versions including version 3.5 listed above and …

hi! guys I'm in trouble, i've forgotten my password and i can't log into my laptop now. can someone know of any mechanism to recover or reset a password? i desperately need some help.

My laptop went into a perfectly normal Update and restart, but it didn't restart right. When it did restart it was black screen and then a window popped up and tried to "repair" whatever it is that's wrong, when that didn't work it let me try a system restore and …

I have windows XP and fedora 8 installed in my laptop. For some days evreything is ok, but suddenly when I try to open windows XP It shows the windows loading screen and then it showsit shows the error AUTOCHK.EXE PROGRAM NOT FOUND SKIPPING AUTOCHEK and then restarts. I checked …

Hello IT brethren, I am being requested to develop a website for a company. After spending a day with the company, understanding their problems and thinking about solutions, I came to conclude that more than a website, what they really needed was an intranet. Their final solution, I would say, …

My IE 8 doesn't work or My internet Options either can someone help? I cannot connect to any windows microsoft websites either. updates so I had to download mozilla firefox and that browser doesnt work that great either, please someone help me. Karen1962

I'm looking for a Windows variable (accessible in c++) that contains the path to a user's my documents folder in XP, but the folder above that in vista. SO in XP: C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\My Documents Vista: C:\Users\Tom It is a program (AIM specifically), which uses this variable the directory and …

My question is, what is considered high physical memory use. I have an HP laptopo with AMD turion 64x2 and 4 gigs of ram.My operating system is VISTA Home Preimum and when I look at Resource overview, it show that I am using 69% of the physicla memory. Is this …

I have been getting the 0X000000C4 error now for days and I have resorted to eliminating nearly every piece of hardware in the macnhine and it now down to bare bones. I can not get past a recovery R option in windows boot. No matter what I seem to do …

this is a very basic command prompt question (sorry if i posted it in the wrong place) is there a command for cmd to sleep/wait for say 5 seconds? like say i have a .cmd file that says "start www.google.com" but i want it to wait 5 seconds before opening …

hi guys, how to prompt users in outlook to change their password after specified date? is it possible in outlook or how to do it? thanks...

hi guys, how to prompt users in outlook to change their email password after specified date? is it possible in outlook or how to do it? thanks... :)

I have heard this phrase a number of times in technical forums, but I have no idea what it means, or why you would do it. Can anyone enlighten me please?

Good day members. I want to know what are the shorcut keys in the Windows XP operating system. Thanks for your help.

Hello, Im stuck on a question I was asked. Id like to know the process taken by the PC to display a character from the keyboard to the word processing package say. press H sent to the CPU sent to memory word SW reads memory tells the cpu where to …

[B]Disable indexing[/B] Description: Indexing creates and maintains a database of file attributes. This can lead to multiple small writes when creating/deleting/modifying files. Searching for files will still work. Instructions: Start Menu -> Right-Click Computer -> Manage -> Services and Applications -> Services - > Right-Click Windows Search -> Startup type: …

This is a Samba Tutorial. Its for getting a linux server to replace a basic (windows NT4 level of functionality) server, perhaps in a costcutting scenario, to serve files to windows (nt4 to xp) clients. A good idea for a small home server (provided you have xp pro clients, home …

Hi! I have a big problem that I really hope experts from this sub-forum would make it small. [B]Scenario:[/B] The new PC (see specs below) was recently been installed with the OS and I gave the user a limited account (administrator accounts are password protected for my use). The machine …

Hi all, I just learned that I can edit the Windows (Vista) host file to assign IPs to domains (host) so that the local system checks the domain against the host file before going through the DNS. My question is: is there a way to redirect an IP instead for …