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I recently reinstalled windows as it crashed on me,but since then i have been unable to use my bluetooth dongle with my mobile phone.(samsung d500) The problem is not the phone, but either my dongle not been recognised or the bluesoleil software/drivers not working right i guess?? The dongle is …

When i turn my computer on it will go all the way up to the windows XP logo with the little green loading bar but than 2 secs later it will flash blue really quick and then just restart over and over idk what to do the computer just keeps …

when i open my folder then inside it the .exe file exist which has same name as the host folder... when i del it .. it comes again n again... can anyone plz tell me the solution

Hey there everyone, I got myself into abit of a dilemma, well i normally double click on the C: drive harddrive pict to get into it but last night for some reason my antivirus picked it up as a virus or something i was not expecting it to be my …

My file reads this, "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="My Bad Ass Machine" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptOut" should it not say optin instead of optout?

I have a 40 gig drive on my Toshiba Satellite with XP SP3 installed. It comes up as only 37 gigs so 3 gigs are in the void there but I'm not worried about that because I realize that when they say 40 they mean "almost 40". What I am …

Windows XP Pro. SP3. IE7. Have always been able to update this rather new computer. I get to express or custome. As always I hit express. A window comes up that says something about control panel but it goes quick but I believe it states to check the time and …

Can anyone enlighten me on how to do this, WHAT disks are needed is it only 1, ect? I would like to wipe everything out & start NEW?

I have a Dell laptop with Windows XP, SP2. After using Internet Explorer for a while, the computer freezes up. Control/Alt/Delete does not clear it and the only thing that works is to unplug the power and disconnect and reconnect the battery. It happened twice within a couple hours. I …

Hello all hopefully you can help, I tried googleing it but found no clear answer. I ran a system recovery on this older Gateway its from about 2005 and runs on Windows XP. After doing the recovery it showed no local area connection, I was able to download some network …

My computer takes around 8 minutes to start, and I want to turn off some of the 75+ processes that start when my computer boots. How can I do this? I have the program Autoruns from Sysinternals on my computer, but unfortunately whenever I open it, the window appears in …

Hey every1, this is my first post on this forum and I hope it turns up good results! Im experiencing some problems with a few versions of windows! I have 3 installed currently(ive been testing to see which one to stick with). I currently have Windows Xp Dark Edition V2 …

I read a post on Joe Harris' blog (author of Cisco Network Security, Little Black Book), and he says Cisco isn't going to support Windows Vista 64-bit and he recommends using NCP Secure Entry Client. Does anyone use NCPs product? If so, how is the support? And is it easy …

Hi, over the past week or so I've noticed that my computer is running particularly slow. When I look at my task manager, it shows my cpu usage is always above 40% but at the same time System Idle Process is over 90%. I have no idea what may be …

hi,my mail server is MDaemon v9.6.1 .for some of users the Internal Mail being sent to SPAM folder. please help me,thanks a lot.

I've got a Vista Home machine that is not playing well with my XP workgroup. I originally tried to connect to a printer shared on an XP machine. Jobs from the Vista machine would cause an error on the printer. So I connected the printer to the Vista machine and …

My boss just bought a cheap-o Dell with Vista Home for our small office. We're running a workgroup with 2 other XP Pro machines. Had a huge amount of trouble with Vista Home but now have everything working except the backup to an external drive hanging off one of the …

Hi guys I have a rather simple question. Is there a free full version app that I can use to password protect only certain folder with its content. The files is local and I only have one account. Any advice is appreciated. Regards Sids

I need to access safe mode so that i can configure some things.. the thing is when i restart and try to press F8, nothing happens.. i press it over and over and it still does not let me choose safe mode, it just loads xp everytime can anyone help?

How to delete .dll files especially those which remain after uninstallation of software like realplayer

hi guys, do you know how to edit microsoft pocket internet explorer security settings? i need to enable activeX controls for pocket internet explorer. thanks

hi, am trying to configure my email account in microsoft outlook for the very first time and after completing the wizard when i try to send and receive emails the enter network password window is popping up again and again even when i enter the right password and check the …

We have a VB6 application that was developed in-house, that are trying to make available to remote users. The remote users are connecting from the other side of the world, through a VPN tunnel to our network; RDPing into a terminal services server and then running the VB6 application. Essentially, …

Just happened - error message "will not display webpage" MSN works. O/S Windows Vista Premium. Have checked for viruses system protected by Windows defender. Other PC ok. HTTP set to 1.1 . Addon ons disabled . Temp files deleted. SSL ticked to 3 and TSL to 2.0. Windows diagnostic and …

Hey everyone, So, my question is as follows. I'm planning on building a new rig, & I'd like to put Vistax64 on it. However, I would also like to keep my old (XPx86) PATA HDD so I can have all my music, games, files, & such. My question is, what …

Network consists of windows xp with dynamically aquired ip addresses that uses a router to access the internet.. I have set one computer with a static ip address that holds a mysql database.. now this pc is not able to access the internet anymore and when i set the browser …

I have tried to repair windows (after i had a virus come through) with the xp cd and now windows will not start and i have been told to format. So i have plugged my hard drive into a friend's computer and can view the files, but cannot access the …

Can someone help me. I reloaded XP Professional without formatting the harddrive and installed application packages. Now when i try to access Local Disk (C) i get the following error message, "uis.com has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience". It goes on to …

When i start my computer, all i get is a blank black screen. If i open task manager i can see that explorer.exe is running but under CPU it shows 0. I have to end explorer.exe and restart it from "run" each time to get my computer to work. How …

Installed Fedora 9 recently in my laptop.... Resulting in dual boot system After a few days, hibernation seems not working. Can any one help me to solve this???

this problem only started yesterday the pc wont boot up passed the motherboard screen like were it says press F2 for bios any ideas what could be wrong?

Anyone know of any good hardware diagnostics software. Prefer it to able to test remotely as I work in a domain environment. Must be able to test at least the main components; CPU, memory, hard drives etc... What do you IT pros use?

I know there have been previous posts about how when running Ventrilo and WoW at the same time you get random restarts. I tryed to read through them to find a solution but I kept running into these abreviations / words that I had no idea what they mean. In …

I went to install a program and got a message telling me it could not be done. I sent the message to the company and they said my scripting is disabled. They gave me a microsoft link and it says this:Windows Script Host access is disabled on this machine. Contact …

I'm searching for the sites where most of the serial, keygen and cracks available.Do you have any idea..,please Help me ....Share your sites.

Im looking to do a bit of research on a topic, however I do not really know what to search to start. What do you call the implied software or terminology for a workstation-server system; where a user must log in with a username and password to gain access to …

hi...hope someone can help me...when i create a new account(say bob) with administrator priviledge....the administrator account icon dissappears whenever i log in.....it only shows the new account i created and guest account.Can someone teach me how to make the original administrator account appear together with bob account.thank you.

So... I have been working on a word document project on another computer and I saved it to a flash memory. Then I went home and opend the .docx document and it didnt load. The x in the .docx I think has something to do with it.

I just got this laptop this month after my beloved HP died, and it has basically the same specs as my old one, a 2.0 Ghz with 3GB of RAM, the only difference is it's a Compaq, which is still technically HP. So I figured it would run just like …

Good morning, I was happily using my PC yesterday, surfing the net, when suddenly the computer restarted. When it came on it did not boot up properly and a "NO VIDEO INPUT" message flashed around the screen. I have checked there are no loose connections. Does anyone know what the …

Im really bad with computers so i will not understand how 2 do any hardware stuff unless it is like spoon fed to me. Basicly when i Turn on my computer it beeps 7 times and the moniter says no signal input check video cable....I kno the VGA is plugged …

So I just want to confirm how to figure out when your motherboard is dead. My Gateway GT5235H Media Center Desktop Computer was functioning fine for a few weeks until suddenly one day when I tried to power it on after about a week of it not being used, the …

Hi, please help me to access the mapping drive from client PC to server in a network. Also help me to activate my missing partition, I had four partition in my Win-Xp PC of 80GB HD. where C & D is avilable but E & F is missing instead of …

hi..im new in here and i would like to seek assistance with my computer problem.. i encounter viruses such as trojan and w32...after i clean it and restart my computer im displays a message: "Error Loading C:\ Program Files\captcha5.dll.... please help..thank u very much!!

hi friends i have been trying to uninstall sp2 from windows server 2003. i read that it require to start system in safe mode, and later i can uninstall sp2 from control panel, but it was not visible there. can anybody guide?? thanx in advance...

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Hello, I've been doing network administration (quite unqualified, I might add) for my company for about 7-8 months. We have an extremely strained HP Proliant (about 5-6 years old) running Small Business Server 2003 with Exchange with about 53 users. Over the past few weeks the DHCP server has been …

hi everyone? All of a sudden my Windows XP has started seeing one of my drives as not formatted. I have an 80GB HDD that i've partitioned into 4 drives. And then i have another 20Gb Hdd that i've connected as the primary slave. I've installed two operating systems Windows …

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If someone could assist in a solution for this, I would GREATLY appreciate it since it has to do with my work laptop. My work laptop runs WXP SP2 with almost the most recent updates from WindowsUpdate. My computer was fine, then I came home last night and noticed how …