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When I insert the cd to install i automatically get this error..."Setup cannot run on this version of the Operating System. To Install windows please try booting from the install media." I try to restart my computer and it doesn't give me the normal boot screen that it normally does …

Hi - XP laptop (genuine, not pirated) froze today - now constantly reboots. It goes through the motion of rebooting - I see the windows XP screen with the little "meter" thing running, then it tells me that it wasn't shut down properly before so offers me options - safe …

Hi everyone, my fiance's computer at the moment is having some problems. Its a custom built computer thats she has had for 4 year now. And since then she's had no problems with it. Well today we wake up and turn on her computer and for no reason it turns …

What is the difference between user account and group account?

Does anyone know if there is a way to connect a server which has previously been set up as a DOMAIN CONTROLLER, (by someone else) to an existing WORKGROUP of 3 or 4 PC's running XP. DOMAIN CONTROLLERS usually connect to DOMAIN CLIENTS WORKGROUPS usually connect to each other as …

Hi guys I've been passed a Toshiba Satellite laptop to have a look at. On start up the number keys behave as though the shift button is pressed, so just symbols (!"£$ etc) appear. If I press the shift key symbols still appear. Also on start up the caps lock …

Google has just released the beta of its brand new web browser called Chrome. I have used it a little bit now and I really like it. All of the extras it offers are very cool, but the best part as far as I've seen is the AMAZING speed that …

Hi, I want to encrypt my pen drive. Are there any open source or freeware programs that I can use to do this? Being able to decrypt it on any computer running XP without installing any software would be nice. Thanks in advance.

Hi I have just reinstalled windows XP on my deskytop computer and I'am wondering if it is worthwhile putting XP SP3 on it. I have put SP3 on my laptop and it is now really slow, I have done this twice on my laptop, is it SP3 or is it …

Hi all, i've encountered this trojan while downloading some music using FrostWire thru Sanboxie. NOD32 got it and supposedly got rid of it. But i'm somewhat uncomfortable and i downloaded hijackThis. Some BHOs seem suspicious but i really don't want to mess something up so i'm posting the log. Please …

Ok when l start windows XP and l come to the desktop l lose control of my mouse, l can move it but not click l have to do Ctrl + Alt + Delete when the window open l suddenly can click. And in games sometimes the mouse respond slow …

As stated in the subject line, my windows XP MCE does not detect my Canon SD400 camera. It did at one time, but now neither the windows nor the canon software recognize the camera when it is plugged into the USB. I know that the USB port works because I …

today, my computer started freaking out, command line started popping up, random internet pop ups, i have not had a pop up in a VERY long time. so first instinct was to run, AVG and lavasoft ad-aware. ad-aware found tracking cookies, only 5 though, AVG found 5 trojans though, AVG …

My laptop has been giving me some grief and I'm wondering if anyone else has had any similar problems, and if so what solutions they've found. When I turn on my laptop the display usually stays black unless I hold in the power button for about 15 seconds (flushing capacitors?) …

I currently have two pc's set up in my home office. The first one is a Dell Dimension with 512 MB DDR RAM, P4 2.8 Ghz. There are quite a few peograms on here which I use on a daily basis. The most important one is a stock market scaaning …

I'm having an issue with my desktop as the title eludes to. I recently found a background I like and I prefer to have it centered. This leaves some room for default background (blue) to cover the top and bottom of the screen. The problem ensues after adjusting the default …

hello there, can somebody read sandra report? i scaned my comp for drivers info becaus my cpu is high and i have no idea how to read this report. whats going on in my machine? thanks guys! this is the report: ***** Start of Report ***** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <<< Computer Overview …

Approximately a month ago the card reader on my laptop quit working correctly. I say correctly, because it obviously still recognizes when I insert the card and remove it because I get that tell-tale chime. It used to open a window asking what I wanted to do as far as …

hi, i have a INTERNAL for 3.5" IDE hdd and i want to make it bootable. i have windows 2003 installed and i can't boot from it. I looked over the internet but not a chance. i found nothing Ok first. I just finished formatting a laptop and tried the …

Hey guys, I've used these forums to find help for a variety of malware issues and have had great success in the past. I'm hoping someone can help me with a stop error I'm receiving. A little history on my machine: Xeon processor, 2.66ghz quad core 8 Gb RAM 2 …

it is a stupid question. i am a newbie. these days i wanna extact audio from my DVD. could anybody recommend me some software? much appreciated!

hi guys, I cant play DVD with power dvd v8.0 ultra, it gives me an error which says, "Internal error code 80040216". I have uninstalled and reinstalled the software but still it gives me the error. Anyone who can help me please?

My system: WinXP Home SP3, Intel 2.2 GHz Dual Core, 3.0 Gig DDR system RAM, Intel DG33BU motherboard with G33 chipset, XFX "Alpha Dog" 8800 512 Graphics Card, 750 W PS. I was attempting to upgrade my audio to a Creative Labs Blaster 64mb card when.....I disabled the on-board audio …

Hello, I have a Dell 1.80 Ghz running Windows 2000 NT Professional. The main problem is that I cant get to the desktop anymore when I start my computer. The computer boots and gets to the screen where I type in my username and password to get to my desktop. …

Hi guys. My Acer Power has a thing called LANScope Agent. This has locked me out of my CD drive and USB ports, and it won't let me alter the settings to allow the use. I have seen similar threads that say to uninstall it, but there is no Remove …

When my system with Windows XP Log on and automatically Log Off what is th problem

It looks like my computer picked up the a.exe virus about 3 weeks ago. Since then I've had all sorts of problems. 1. Can't login to internet 2. Can't reinstall software for net card 3. Can't see properties in device manager 4. Can't printer 5. Can't reinstall printer - spooler …

This problem is driving me round the bend. Google failed me and so I thought I'd revisit a (very) old haunt to find some real answers. I'm trying to download Windows Live Messenger because all my hip friends on the interwebs say that they're using lots of pretty colours and …

So here is the problem--I have the quick launch toolbar activated and and when I click on the double arrow to show the hidden items or when I go and open up a folder like My Computer I get a message basically telling me that Windows has encountered a problem …

Where can I download free DVD decoders for x64???????????

So i just wiped my laptop and installed XP Home SP3. Everything was going find until I started downloading a few things, software removal tools, pc maintenance tools, etc. I started to see that my firefox is using about 50% of my cpu usage anytime that it's open now. Not …

I suddenly find myself unable to access my desktop to change it, getting tired of the 3 kings. Where should I look to see what changed? I am dumb as a stump about some of this stuff but I can follow directions....

My wifes laptop was short of harddrive space so I thought i would investigate .........so i got rid of all the silly pictures and stuff and unwanted,unused programmes,but it oly left about 10% of free space on a 40gb drive !!! So i thought that windows maybey was hanging on …

OK. I installed the newest version of iTunes on my PC so I could play with my new iPod. Instantly, all my video and audio started stuttering. It's made the PC useless for watching videos or using audio. Since I also use this machine to edit video and audio, this …

I would like to get 'help and support' back on my XP machine, but this is proving difficult. I need to turn on the service, but it is not even listed in the services console (it goes from 'Health Key and Certificate Management Service' to 'HTTP SSL' with nothing in …

I have Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit), with 1GB RAM and it seems that the Hibernation option suddenly not work... However when I tried to hibernate it, the computer goes on to the sleep state... The Hibernation option is still on... Is there any way to diagonise the problem???

Okay, so I tried uninstalling a program from the 'Uninstall Programs' menu (Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10) but it gave some weird error message, so I decided to hunt for all the files and delete it myself. However, I think the uninstaller is the Microsoft Installer, therefore, I can't actually delete the …

I need a way to play some kind of alert or sound when a cerain process is not running in the task manager. This program needs to always be running and occasionally throught the day it stops running for some reason and I have no way to tell when it …

I have a spare computer - reformatted the HD and now cannot get into bios to reinstall Windows ME. I hear the fan running, it continually reads both CD-Rom drives but will not read any disk. It will also not respond to any F key at startup to load BIOS. …

Anyone know a website which has printable downloadable listing of windows command prompts which are grouped (not in alphabetical order) but by topics eg network commands, file commands, hardware commands etc. I can find numerous links which has them in aphabetical order but I want them grouped in topic area. …

I'm not able to access the internet-have Windows XP. It appears that the problem is that my computer won't renew the ip address. I've tried ipconfig/release - which worked fine, but when I tried ipconfig/renew - nothing happens. I've done flushdns, reset winsock, checked under administrative tools and services to …

In the SYSTEM32 folder there should be a file called 'OEMINFO.INI' If there isnt,make it using Notepad. ("SYSTEM" directory for 98) Put the following lines in OEMINFO: [General] Manufacturer=(Type here without brackets) Model=(Type here without brackets) And thats it! What you typed will appear in the system properties page under …

My computer sometimes runs smooth than after a while it begins to lag very bad I cannot afford to purchase a new PC so please any help will be great. System Specs OS: XP Home edition System Manufacturer: Dell System Model: Dimension 2400 BIOS: Pheonix ROM BIOS Plus Version 1.10 …

i need intel webcam drivers for windows 64bit. please help me

Im a novice here so if in wrong place forgive me. can I get software that will let me wipe files clean and not just release them for use but leave info there? FWIW am using a dell with XP pro..

Hey guys, I'm new to the forum... I recently installed a Vista update and upon restarting, windows explorer kept crashing. The avira antivir would not run and claimed files were missing and I couldnt open my computer because when I did, explorer kept crashing. Because I have an external HD, …

Everyone I've run into a problem with an XP Home SP2 box that seems to have a problem with the default (\\computername) share. For some reason, I cannot access this system's shares over the network. The firewalls have been disabled, the server service is running, and I've created new test …

I was on my computer last night and I was just messing around but then i went on World of Warcraft and was playing for about 30mins. Then all of a sudden my Laptop (Which is a HP dv9208nr) Monitor scrambled like if u try and play a dirty VHS …

in my notebook pc msoffice was deleted suddenly how can i get back that

I work in a small office and we have a network of 5 computers. They were running slow, so we decided to run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Removal. There were several trojans on each computer, so we removed them. It worked...except on one machine...MINE! When the program was deleting the files I …