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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 …

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 …

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