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Good morning lads! Just stumbled across this site (think it was one of the top matches in Google when I searched for how to consistently show the solutions on EE without signing up :P) But what I was searching for on there, and what I will ask on here is: …

Hi, I am connected to internet but my browser is not able to access any of the sites. All my chat clients and my outook is working fine but browser always displays "Page not found" error. I was reading on these forums and someone suggested running the WinSockFix utility which …

I have modified permissions, edited config files, and rewritten my code several times and no results whatsoever. I am at a dead end and I have no way around this that I have come up with or been able to find online though countless help forums. The error that I …

http://educateyourmemory.blogspot.com/2015/10/2-common-e-mail-problems-and-what-to-do.html Title: 2 Common E-Mail Problems and What To Do About Them Word Count: 822 Summary: When it works well, e-mail can be great. It's hard to beat e-mail for everything from staying in touch with family to requesting information from businesses or other organizations. Want to send the same …

i purchased this hp with windows 7 and when i first turn on laptop a black screen with a white bar in center asks for password. its the old owners password id like to remove it permanently its very annoying

Microsoft release surface computer, as a programmer I am wondering which operation system is more promising to study?

So i recently upgraded to windows 10, after using windows 10 for a short period of time i decided to revert back to windows 7 some of the system 32 files were lost in the process and now my computer can not load anything, it takes a long time to …

I Reinstalled Windows 7 via image recovery and overwritten a drive C without backing up data on drive c. After installing windows i recovered data of C drive through easeus data recovery tool. Although i have recovered all the files yet pictures are not viewable in Windows Photo Viewer. Anyone …

Hi Again! I need a little bit of help with this DDS Log as i'm trying to pinpoint the exact problem with it. Also some people say that spoolsv.exe is a virus, trojan and worm. Is this correct or is it false acquisition? I've attached a file so people can …

I would like to ask for help on this problem that I've tried to troubleshoot, but have had no success at. The print spooler on a windows XP Home Edition SP3 machine is refusing to start. Previous to this problem, 5 or 6 printers had been configured and working for …

If i have a hard drive with BitLocker encrypted drive and I completely wipe it by formatting it will it still be encrypted? I heard something about a TPM chip and if they don't match then the drive can't be used.

Hi everyone. I've actually been a member of Daniweb for some time, but this is the first time I've asked a question. Please help if you can. About 10 days ago I went through the online process in the Microsoft store for paying $99 and getting the upgrade from Windows …

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Hi, My environment looks like this... Windows 2003 server x64 Citrix 4.5 Users are logged onto a Citrix published desktop and use Outlook 2003 for email. A strange problem occurs when a user tries to open a project 2003 mpp file in an email using content redirection because MS project …

Here's one that's stumping me. Does anyone know where in the registry the two-digit year regional setting is located? I am working on a system that refuses to apply this setting server wide, making it so we have to run windows services under specific log on accounts instead of a …

Problems resetting the /safeboot option in the BOOT.INI when the computer decided to never go into safe mode. I have tried reinstalling windows but no luck. Any other ideas on how I might be able to reset that option to off? PLS HELP!!!!

HI guys, I have to reinstall windows XP onto my samsung nc10 laptop because I want to sell it, but alas, I've just realized that the label at the bottom has faded out completely so I don't have a window key anymore. The thing is the lappy, when I bought …

Firefox is default browser but Thunderbird email links have stopped opening in the browser in the last few days. Have tried most of Mozilla's recommendations but nothing has worked so far.

Hi all, I just joined the forum hoping to find an answer to this problem. When I try to open "My eBooks" folder in Win XP Pro, I get an error message that says "My eBooks is not accessable" "the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable". The first thing …

Skype used to have a setting that would allow me to block all unsolicited contact requests. Shortly after Microsoft acquired Skype this feature was removed. I used to get 2-3 requests per week and it was easy enough to delete-and-report-abuse although I suspect nobody ever actually looked at these reports. …

I am considering upgrading a computer from Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 10. However, before I start the process, I have a couple questions hopefully users here can answer: 1) Does the upgrade require user registration info? The computer came with Windows pre-installed, years ago, and I really don't …

Hey guys, I'm not sure what the problem is and don't know what info you even need to figure this out, but my laptop is only able to properly shut down about 20% of the time. The rest of the time, it shows the Shutting Down screen and waits forever, …

I use Skype frequently for voip. After I reboot, and for an indefinite time after, everything works fine. But eventually my microphone (Dell built-in) stops working. The party at the other end no longer hears me. It's not just Skype. Windows Sound Recorder doesn't pick up anything. Neither does Audacity. …

Hi - I have a corrupted Excel file which I can't repair. Cannot attach the file writes that "The file type you are attempting to upload is not allowed." When I open the file writes that "cannot open the file because the file format or the file extension is invalid. …

Do any body know, how to retrieve Produck Key from windows 10 after upgrading it?

On the system cooling policy under the processor power management I set the policy to active. And here is the scenario. I have an acer aspire laptop, running a time consuming process or working with visual studio with mysql service running, I basically take reboot at least once a week. …

I am running Acrobat 9 Pro Extended with Windoes 7 Pro, SP 1. I have been using this program for a long time, and I would like to update it. I downloaded all of the uodates frim Adobe's website along tiem ago. As I understand it, the updates must be …

so i recently took a position managing a schools systems network, and one project I took over halfway was updating over 2000 machines. Fun right. Well a little over a week into this project Deep freeze throws me this error "Access violation at address 77bf334f in module "NTDLL.DLL". Read of …

Esteemed readers After updating multiple times a server with W2k8R2, the Security Update for .NET KB2894854 becomes available over and over again in WU (control panel). Apparantly it's installed 4.5.52022. Thanks for your time. Faithfully, Ivan

Hello, good day to all I hope this the right section to post the thread. I just upgraded my win 7 ultimate to win 10 pro lately, and i got a problem about UAC. I have 3 user account on my windows 2 local user and the elevated built-in admin …

I have got 3 MS-Word 2007 document files (DOCX) which MS Word is now unable to open because they are corrupted. MS Word's recovery could work. Tried Stella Phoenix, Recovery Tool Box and a few more: they do the job but are for sale. Is there any free one which …

I have a oracle query and i would like to run it by powershell using ODP.Net. Below is the query. set pagesize 100 set linesize 200 break on report compute sum of free_mb on report compute sum of act_size on report compute sum of used_mb on report col %used format …

Has anyone installed Windows 10 and continued to run Lotus SmartSuite?

Hey, I recently found out how to shutdown another's computer using yours at school with command prompt and when I tried it, it didn't work. Here's the code: shutdown -i and when I click on browse, it says that the server is unavailable. And here at my school, we login …

**Toshiba Satelite A100 - A105 Laptop** MODELS: PSAA9-0CU004 and PSB10U-SA10ES1 Bios 6.0B Nvidia Driver 307.68 RAM 4GB (3GB) GO 7300 64bit (NVIDIA's 307.68 driver for Windows 8.x. It is compatible with the Geforce 7300 Go and Windows 10 and with GeForce Experience dependant on Card for full operation) **FOR THE …

[B]Both computers connected to internet on same FIOS modem. Verizon can't help. Why is one computer connection much slower than the other one. Both are running Windows 7 (build 6.1 version 7600)Home Premium 64 bit. SLOW [/B]one is Velocity Micro (2010 new)Intel core i7 860 2.80 GHz 6.0GB Ram speedtest …

Help please. My laptop suddenly restart while I'm idling. A message appears: "your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're just collecting some error info, and then we'll restart for you" This repeats in a loop. My laptop won't boot now. Aspire E1-472G. Windows 8.1

None of the archive email folders (PST) open to an account. ALL will not open. The lastest reached about 20 GB on Friday, then all became inaccessible even though they are individual pst files. I just see a tree list of folders and can not open the emails. Scanpst might …

When I started videogame on my computer, I used i3-3217U with Intel HD Graphics 4000. GPU works at 350MHz (1.05GHz with Turbo). Runned nicely on 50FPS. When I tried passing this game to a friend, from the very installer, the game has been installed and all it's requirements have been …

Hello everyone! I have a problem with Outlook 2007, I create successfully a new account but it doesn't send or receive any mail... Who can help me please? Thank you in advance!

Am having a little problem with importing data from MS SQL to and Excel sheet. I followed previous answers on daniweb, but they couldn't help me out. Here my code. Private Sub btnExcel_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnExcel.Click Dim appXL As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application Dim shXL As …

I have Windows XP (which I usually LOVE) on my HP Pavilion a820n desktop computer. I recently had to do a reinstall of XP, due to removal of an anti-virus software which (apparently) corrupted my computer. After doing a clean full reinstall of XP, some of my drivers are missing …

I recently reformatted my computer, and saved my Outlook Express Inbox, Sent, and addresses . The only way I could find to save them was in .dbx files, which I cannot seem to find a way to open!! In looking on line, I find programs ...to buy...that will open them, …

Hi , i have server HP Proliant ML350 with windows server 2012, i have connect my network to it, and every things is ok, after two days when i restart or close then open the PCs all the new data or files or folders removed from desktop or the drivers, …

I am having an issue with a formula in excel and am not understanding what it is doing =COUNTIF(J28:L31,"w")+COUNTIF(J28:L31,"l") is supposed to give me a result of the number of cells with the value of either w or l in that range But instead of displaying a number, it is …

We are building a mission critical application in OneNote 2013 and I want to develop a backup methodology that lets me restore from a few days back in case we discover a corruption. I changed the option 'Number of backup copies to keep' to 10, then have it set to …

Every time I uncheck the boxes for the proxy server in my internet options settings it keeps being reset. I even restart the computer. Can I do this in safe mode? I am having trouble accessing certain sites in IE and Mozilla browsers too.

Hello, I have been reading some posts about you to repair a file and it says to use the text converter. I dont see how to use it though. The attached file is corrupt and I think it is because my HD crashed a few days ago. I want to …

We have a Windows NT 4.0 Workstation which we forgott the admin password. The admin is the only user assigned to the machine. I want to know, is there any free software out there that will let me reset or change the password of the administrator? or how can I …