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I recently had a "Security Alert" when I was on the internet. I immediatley turned the computer off. Now when I start windows I get the "chess Piece" symbol and my logon name but when I click on the symbol windows does not start up. I get the message "Loading …

Hello there, I was curious as to what sort of beginners guide's to Microsoft Servers there are? I have Server 2008, but this is my first Server-based distro of Windows and so it's been a lot of trial and error so far. I have been unable to find any sort …

Hi, I have win XP and it has started to show the time as the correct time with b-b2g after it. How can I fix this? Thank you in advance for your help.

during installation blue screen came up with this message and a stop code stop: 0x0000000A (0x82563b74, 0x0000001c, 0x00000001,0x804E639B) please help me........

Here there, I have a problem with my Internet Explorer. When I search on Google or Yahoo or any other search engine, I get redirected to a totally random website unrelated to my search. My computer is less then a year old. I do have anti-virus software but when I …

For some reason or other I am not getting updates from Microsoft on Win XP Pro. My Automatic Updates is set to notify me but don't automatically download or install. I've had nothing the past 32 months. Anyone have an ideas. Also I have not yet installed SP3. Is this …

Sir , i am using windows 2003 server .Can anybody tell me. How should i share 1 folder so that only 2 person on the domain can access the folder.other person don't see that particular folder. Any help would be greately appreciated.

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I have a toshiba laptop with ample hardrive space and 1.5 gigs of ram......Celeron M 530 processor My toshiba model is A-135-s7403........My problem deals with connecting to the internet via a linksys wrt54g router.......I can hook in fine being hardwired, but cannot hook in, via an air based router.... The …

This just started recently. My laptop will turn off with no warning. It has done this a few times already, after the laptop has been on for maybe less than 10 minutes sometimes. I just earlier got the BSOD for the first time for this problem. The reason that it …

Hi Guys, I have a laptop and sometimes when I take it out of hibernate the Hibernation bar fills up but the it just goes into a black screen and I have to turn it off by holding down the power button. Shutting down and then rebooting seems fine and …

Hey, so randomly the right side of my screen will be cut off... like i can see my desktop but the windows wont go past it... im on win7 x64 (i had the same problem in vista) with a raedon x1550 rebooting fixes it, mi not sure what causes it. …

Hi all I have a Toshiba L40 laptop witch I just formated with Win XP service Pack 2. Problem is when the laptop had a BIOS password on it. I knew the password but after installing a couple of windows drivers (sound, graphics etc) and needed to restart the pc …

guys i want to uninstall a program but i cant, so i want to remove it from registry manually, how can i do that?

I got these old Native American pictures and they are .ART files. This is from when I had AoL online on a desktop way back when. I wanted to convert them to .PNG files but I can't even find a program to even open them with. I was thinking of …

Hey guys, I think it would be helpful if I gave you an overview of the office. Attached is a picture of the network. Every now and then, some computers will have problems and run slow. I usually end up using system restore to get them up and running again. …

Hi, I'm trying to use my Brother MFC8840D all-in-one as a network printer from Win 64. I have it connected with a hub, but can't make anything happen. I've tried to use their out-of-date manual and the latest (but not new) drivers, set a default IP address on the machine, …

Hello Some time a go PC Dr did a repair job on my Compaq Presario 900 and as part of this they created a copy directory of "my documents" directory called "owners documents". This directory replications all documents and transactions (create, copy, delete) of "my documents". I can't see the …

Hi, How can I fix Internal Error codes I keep getting pop-up, No 302 and No 502? Can anyone help me please.

Hello to all, I am a new user of this forum. I am a software developer and I am here just share my experience to each other. Please leave a message to make me busy

I have reinstalled serveral times for diffrent reasons, one of them being that javascript links all the sudden stopped working with no change in computer settings or software. Sence then, they have never worked, even after numerous reformats. I have the latest Firefox and IE, and the latest Java Enironment, …

I'm working on a Vista Home Premium machine for someone. Its a new Toshiba laptop and works well except for retrieval of some attachments, most notably PPS (PowerPointShow) files. Her ISP is MSN and she accesses email through that interface as installed by the QWest DSL group. While these new …

Hey guys. I have a gateway t-1628 and one day my microphone could not be heard by the person on the other end of the messenger. It worked just fine before but something must have happened. I checked all of my drivers and still could not solve the problem. The …

so i'm runnign 64 bit vista on a self built machine... anytime i plug in an ethernet cable my computer freezes after between 15-45 min. It took me forever to figure out what was causing the problem but i'm now 99% sure that's what it is. As it hasn't frozen …

When I s/on my PC I get a window like this: "window unable to find 'regsvr.exe' invalid entry , use search to find the missing file from start menu". This problem I am getting after some unwanted virus entered in my system. any suggestions from anybody please goahead. thanks venu,india

hi i downloaded the XP theme but i m not ure how to install the same i have saved the .RAR file saved on desktop but please guide me ho to install the theme ......please

I've been using Vista for a few months and one of the features I enjoy is the thumbnail previews of windows on the taskbar. Unfortunately, recently they have stopped appearing and I'm not sure why. When I go to taskbar properties, the option to turn on "window previews" is grayed …

Having a strange problem. Just got my first windows Vista PC. IE worked initially, I used it to download Firefox which is my preferred browser. But now firefox alone can access the internet. The Dial-up Connection box is always up and I can never get it to connect. IE downs't …

can anyone plz tell me how to get rid from this type of virus...

My other computer says that there is no IP Address. it says the IP address is 00000000000 with periods in there somewhere. My internet wont work obviously. How can i fix this?

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My sons computer will not boot into windows, he has the genuine windows xp software, when it was running he kept getting a message to validate within so many days , he did not do it as he thought it was already validated, it has now run out and all …

i downloaded borland turbo C explorer in my xp but now i have shifted to vista the problem is that when ever i try to install it shows a message box asking for .NET v1.1 i downloaded it also but when i install .Net v1.1 it gives the following error …

I have several computers and one needs to be reformatted. The problem is that I have lost the recovery media for it. What I am asking is if it is possible to use the recovery media from a Dell desktop to an HP laptop. Both have the same operating system …

I recently bought a play and charge kit for my xbox 360 control pad and was led to believe that now i could use the USB connection to connect the pad and use it to play games on my PC? however I cant figure out how to do this? im …

I have an IBM T22 to which I am upgrading the RAM memory. It will go to 512 MB, but I can only get it to go to 384 MB. If I install two 256 MB sticks, I get a windows 32 driver error and I can't boot up at …

my command prompt sometimes doesnot work....

I am writing a batch file to automate and carry out a list of tasks. One part of my work is to add certain repetitive lines to a text file. However each time the line must be accompanied by a number running from 0001 to 7000. (I need 0001 as …

How do you make a loggout sceen say PLEASE INSERT CARD OR PRES CNTL+ALT+DELETE TO LOGIN. On my computer its just the regular loged out screen for Windows Vista.

I tried the 'add/remove' pgm in windows XP Limewire was deleted from the list, went to desktop and clicked on the icon on the desktop and the pgm still ran. I rebooted and the Limewire still can be run from the desktop icon. The only diff is it does not …

I installed a new Western Digital 120GB SATA hard drive on an Intel motherboard. All is well. Then I installed another WD 80GB SATA hard drive. BIOS recognizes both hard drives. All is still well, except Windows does not recognize the second hard drive. Ideas?

Whenever I try to install a USB mouse I get a new device wizard and from that point 1 of 2 scenarios plays out. Either A) It recognizes the device by name and then tries to install the driver and then kicks back cannot install the hardware with the reason …

hello I on my keyboard the @ and " keys are opposite, could you please help me with this? thanks Steve

Hey guys weather its windows 7 or vista i found these grate steps online to start,run and shutdown your vista operating system and make all those 3 main things happen much faster and smoothley. 1. Restrict the no. of start-ups. Why have programs starting up when you dont really use …

hi, I know u all would say that it is a problem well talked about in other threads, but my problem is different. I have also been using XP SP2 and since i was facing this problem I formatted my computer as last resort not knowing what to do..to fix …

HELP!! i can't install programs that need activex control and java. my information bar doesn't display. :sad:

Does anyone out there know how to stop user accounts from loading offensive material onto the desktop background? I have looked ing the registry and found some HKEY listings for user account and desktop but I have got no idea what I'm looking at really,or the values that may need …

I have installed a modem but it keeps on being undetected after every reboot. I always have to search for plug and play devices after every reboot to return it into the Device Manager hardware list. Why does this happen?

Does anyone know how to set the time and date from the registry. My computer sits on a domain and the time and dateis synchronised from the network. I changed the time and date but forgot to change back and now I cannot log onto the PC. I log on …

Hi guys, Have helped a friend set up bigpond wireless gateway and found her pc is not wireless enabled so we used the netgear wireless adapter supplied but this would not work either, finally we had to use the ethernet cable to get connection. Is anyone able to tell me …