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Hi i am trying to find a way to connect 4 cameras to one computer and view them all at the same time. The connection type is a normal video RCA input. I figured i would need some type of converting box with 4 video inputs and some sort of …

I have a crappy, old Dell Latitude CP M233ST, which I got for free. I just wanted to use it for typing Word documents, etc., but it runs terribly. The person I got it from installed XP on it when it barely meets the requirements and takes like 10 minutes …

Often, we want to access to word,powerpoint or excel. We click start -> all programs -> microsoft office -> choose word,ppoint or excel. My friend's computer does not show it. Anybody knows how to find and add these to start menu. Please advise

Hey, So my computer was running fine a few days ago and then i got a school assignment and i decided to download CS4 adobe photoshop. But i had to pay so i torrented a cracked full version, i downloaded and i scanned with norton and all was good so …

I am having Linux Fedora installed on my system. I want to remove it and install Windows Xp. But when i boot the system from the XP CD, it does all the configuration loading etc. and comes to the partition information page. There it shows "Unknown Partition type" and "No …

I've got a 32-bit machine (Pentium 4) running Windows XP Pro (version 2002). I understand that there are 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows XP Pro, and that some 64-bit versions of XP Pro will run on 32-bit machines (although I can hardly believe it, and I've also been told …

any one recently found office 2003 or 2007 applications getting frozen....as i am getting the same. proccess is offlb.exe or excel.exe..... pls help

Hi All I am a new PC owner and am getting the hang of looking after my PC but am having great difficulty with a Virus it has picked up, I have had my PC for less than 3 months, and am in dire need of advice My home PC …

Hi all! I am new, not too computer literate. I have a big problem with my computer right now, windows XP (I think I deleted internet explorer and now I can't download anything) Where should I post problem? I promise I won't have any more problems!!

I have a Sony VAIO VGN A417S - purchased Jul 05 I can no longer access the Entertainment package. When I try to open it up I get the following message: Runtime Error! Program: C:\Program Files\ony\VAIO Entertainment\VAIOEnt.exe R6025 - pure virtual function call Can anybody help? Do I have to …

Hi guys, does anyone knows a software that can automatically get files on the workstation and copy to the server? or any script to do this task? any ideas is greatly appreciated... :)

Hi everybody Can any one tell me how to rename the start button. Suppose i want to name my start button as"Rahul" instead on start. Plz tell me?

One of our users has an issue with their email signature justifying across the screen only when they reply or forward. When creating a new email the signature is aligned left as it should be. Anyone have any ideas on what could cause this or how to fix it ?

My Vista PC crashed and I had to format my hard drive. Now I can't get Vista install to see the hd. It shows up in the bios. It also works for storage if I use it as a secondary drive with both Vista or XP installed on a master …

Hi guys, if DHCP server failing to assign IP Address to the workstation, what could be the problem? any idea is greatly appreciated... I tried IPCONFIG /RENEW on a workstation but it fails.. If i tried to manually configure the IP settings on TCP-IP workstation can connect to internet.. But …

hi, can any one help, over the last 2 weeks when i start up my pc then click on the the internet the home page seems to time out and i get the page saying cannot find page , but soon as i refresh or press home it goes straight …

I am new to this forum and facing a few problems with my PC. Here goes the first one: I had a virus attack and had to reformat the machine and install a new OS. My Xp Sp3 hangs when ever I insert a DVD. Earlier I never faced this …

At the first, sorry if i put this thread on windows vista forum since i can't find windows 7 forum. I've already use Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 on my laptops. After installing there is no weird problem. But now i can't close any open window via red X button …

One of my cousins computer(Running WinXP SP2) is having problems. When I booted his computer, it was running a scan(which is run when computer is not shutdown properly). It was verifying and checking the files and the folders within the C drive and FAT32 partition. But it was showing many …

i keep getting a message that says 16 bit error. C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. the system file is no suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Is there anything I can do to open up this program. Please help.

I have a new toshiba notebook and currently, i have a problem with it. It does not want to start at all. I don't know what happened to it. I was just using it when it suddently went blank and shut off by itself. I was just so worried that …

Deer peepul, Just recently, I am unable to access hyperlinks from OE. Not only that, but my computer freezes up when I click a link imbedded in an email. I run XP/SP2, and OE 6. This is driving me batty.... Thanks!

when using IE it atimes becomes unresponsive and tells me it needs to close due to some error, what do i do?

I'm in WinXP on a Sony VAIO. I have cable Internet with a Linksys CM100 modem and a Linksys WRT150N router. These cooperate well enough so that I'm watching IPTV right now wirelessly. My connection is secured by WPA TKIP. However, my laptop wireless connection is broken. (I'm connected by …

For some reason or other my system sounds and sounds on speakers/headphones disappears. A day or two later all sounds are back. Every time I check everything and it's OK, all the settings remain unaltered when I lose the sound and when it returns. I haven't been able to pinpoint …

Hi dears I had a problem with my windows so I decided to install it again.But when I install it, it never ask me about serial number and after installing my windows shows a lot of errors about dll files.What is the problem? Thanks Bye,

Now that I am able to read the Drive's Firmware Serial Number (See previous post) is there some way to relate this physical drive with the Drive letter assigned by Windows by means other than 'digitalocksmith' suggested (i.e. hardware id's in the Details window) ?

Hello Everyone. I need a little help here trying to figure out what could be causing this. I just received a Dell Dimension XPS Desktop computer. I just did a Clean OEM install of XP Home. During the install i had the selection of NTFS(Quick) or NTFS. I choose NTFS …

I recently found out that the motherboard in my desktop is faulty, and I will be replacing it with a new motherboard soon, is there any way to keep a (stable) copy of windows without having to reinstall? I just built this computer, so I do not want to install …

Hi guys, if DHCP server failing to assign IP Address to the workstation, what could be the problem? any idea is greatly appreciated... I tried IPCONFIG /RENEW on a workstation but it fails.. If i tried to manually configure the IP settings on TCP-IP workstation can connect to internet.. But …

Hi I brought this for my god daughter and I cannot get camera or wireless internet to work. Camera says not found but there is one installed but will not start. Wireless Card is also installed but it says turned off and I cannot find how to turn it on. …

hey my task manger look like something else... without the menu... Just cheak the picture... Does any one has the clue..

Hello Everyone, First I want to thank you for taking a look at this thread. I appreciate your time a great deal, as I've been living with this issue for quite some time, and really would love to get it resolved. Here's the deal. I've got a home-built computer that …

When I booted up my Acer, I couldn't get into windows, it was stuck at "Verifying DMI pool data.....". I refreshed the CMOS by taking out the battery and putting it back in after a couple miniutes. Now my moniter display does not display anything and I do not know …

My wireless card and ethernet both connect to the network, but when I try to use a browser or any other program that uses the internet I get no connection. I've tried resetting the winsock and the internet protocol but neither worked. I made a call to verizon tech support …

Hey guys, I have a brother (aged 23) who plays world of warcraft day in, day out. He plays for up to 16 hours a day, has no job and is becoming dumber by the day. The game has taken over his life and is seriously damaging his life, the …

Does anyone know of any program that allows me to change my product key from volume license to OEM? I lost my recovery cd's and have used a disk that had corporate licensing. I tried to change the key using the activation utility that is pre-installed on XP, but to …

A programme was making my system crash and I was unable to uninstall it the normal way as the computer would crash when runing the uninstall feature so I had to delete files manually to get it off the system. However I am nervous about removing some entries in the …

Hi and I have installed some software called virtualbox which is a universal operating system emulator. I have XP Pro and emulated XP Home inside XP Pro but my problem is that my keyboard can only input one key stroke a second. Is it possible that it is because my …

Hey, I deleted some of my video files by accident, and recovered them using a recovery software called Recuva. Does the video file quality change in any way after recovering them, or are they the exact same files that I deleted? Thanks

I am asking a question which has been asked before, although the previous replies did not offer a solution in my case. How does one read the Firmware Hard Disk Serial Number in Windows (XP) by a user not willing to use C,C++,C# and other languages? The closest answer to …

I recently experienced a problems with my outlook professional with business. Everything works fine except I cannot send an email from any of my accounts through outlook. It tells me that windows has experienced a problem and sorry for the inconvenience but must close and has a box to recover …

Still could be with the other two that dont get answer.. Well now Im having a problem where I log in and then I log out. I tried doing last well known configuration, but it still log out on it own. Any Ideas? I saw something like changing value and …

So I was searching for this particular old old software and can only be found through Demonoid torrent; however, most of the time there are no seeds. So this is the history: 1st to 2nd week, someone seeded for a while - got 1.5% complete (dl speed was 2 kb/s …

I've linked my computer with a hub with the desktop of my friend. But I'm not able to run internet on both the desktop simultaneously. However able to share data with my friend pc.

Installed nero 7 as well as Kaspersky Internet Security 2009.... There's a feature of KIS 2009 placing nero 7 in low restricted group.... After that I was not able to access nero 7 since it shows C++ runtime error..... Need solution for this.... Is this the problem of KIS or …

[COLOR="Red"][/COLOR] Ok i have a Window ME computer, and i also was gaven a e machine computer and i has Windows Xp and it has a 80 gb hard drive but that computer doesnt reconize having a monitar plugged into it and was wondering id it was safe to put …

I recently bought a new laptop with windows vista home edition (64bit). Ever since I have not been able to go online and check my work email (which is done by logging in to an employee portal site).When I do that Iexplorer crashes and I get the following message: [B]Microsoft …

Hi, Wonderful Tehcie People! :) I am having 2 odd problems that I hope you all can help me solve. (I am currently using Firefox 3.0.6) 1. Over the past week or so, whenever I open a video in YouTube (and a couple of other places online) the video - …

Hi, I recently installed windows xp onto one of my partitions because i was having so much trouble with windows 2000 on my c partition. after carefully backing up all my files i installed xp home edition on partition F. Then afterwards I tried to access my C partition again …