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Can an OS like Windows 98 be installed on a zip disk?

Hi, I have been using my laptop for 2 years and never had an issue like this. I keep it as clean as possible with 20GB space on the HD and regularly run AVG etc. In the past few days when I have been using itunes I have noticed it …

Hello everyone, I'm new at this so please be gentle. When ever I try to add a photo to something, (ie facebook or E mail), 'My pictures' starts up but freezes my computer completely. I have 'Process Explorer' running and when I check out whats taking up all my space …

Hi, I have just installed a clean version on Windows XP 64-bit on my computer. Every worked fine, i logged in and no problems. I restarted the computer just to make sure everything is good before i start installing my drivers. The first thing i installed was my chipset drivers. …

Hi We have a Windows Server 2003 Ent Ed SP2 and unable to FTP using both Windows FTP and Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro for any account EXCEPT one specific domain admin account. The error received is: ftp: connect :Connection timed out I have tried various accounts all of which are members …

I have a Dell Inspirion 1000 that I "love" and it will not log on. It gets as far as saying "logging on, saving personal setting" but it jumps right into "logging off"! Can someone help me with this.... Jean

I'm sure that many Office 2007 users are totally hacked off at the choice of colour scheme available and the lack of contrast at the top border. For example, if I've got Word and Outlook on the same screen, more often than not I end up minimising Word rather than …

I'm trying to restore a laptop back to an earlier time with Windows XP System Restore. It's been going for about 4.5 hours now. I'm afraid it might be frozen! Is it safe to turn off or restart the computer while running system restore? Any ideas?

Hi, I need help with my outlook 2007. I am running XP Home Edition and I have 2 email addresses with my own domain. My problem is that Outlook keeps picking up old messages and resending them to my Inbox - or to wherever my Rules re-locate them to. I …

Yesterday morning I've turned on my computer and instead of my barely 1 month old XP SP2 a blue screen showed up (only for a second). After recording it with my phone I've managed to realize the error which is 0x24. On the net I've found that in recovery console …

Hi, how to create an e-mail account on POP3 (windows 2003) remotely? what software is needed to be used? any ideas is greatly appreciated.. thanks... pls. help..

Hi. I am running Outlook 2007 SP1 on Vista and often if I start Outlook, delete some email and exit Outlook....the next time I start Outlook the "deleted" emails are still there. For some reason, the changes aren't being recorded upon exit. It wasn't always like this, but I don't …

I now have the windows xp disk that came with my previous HP computer. How do I go about uninstalling the windows vista, from my new computer and then installing windows xp with the xp disk? can anyone give me a step by step instruction, on this? I have the …

Hi guys! I´ve got a problem with my RealPlayer, when I try to play a radio station, my Internet Connection gets disconnected. I´ve tried several different Live Audio websites, like BBC and ShoutCast, and it´s all the same. I´ve tried unstalling and re-installing RealPlayer, but it doesn´t help. What should …

Dear forumers! A usual setup for me is that I play some PC Game and my girlfriend watches some movie. I have a 8800 GT a Samsung Syncmaster 2232BW, and a Samsung LCD TV with analog connection available. So what i would like to achieve now, I had been doing …

IBM Thinkpad Machine cannot start. Once it started and displayed Warning that desktop was recovered and then it hanged. Now it cannot start completely. I wonder what would be wrong. I remove RAM and HDD and nothing happens. I returns everything in place, yet nothing :( The friend reported that, …

how to fix a long pause or hang in windows start up process?

hi guys, is it possible to create an E-mail account via FTP or remotely? i'm using windows 2003.. if possible can provide the steps.. thanks guys..please help.. needed it urgently..

I am running Win XP Pro,and have just installed Vista HP on a partition.When I boot up,I get the choice of Earlier Version of Windows(XP) or Vista,but vista is listed twice. I am not fimiliar with the boot files in Vista yet,so anyone have any ideas?

I am running win XP pro on an AMD athlon 2000+ with 512Mb of RAM and I am getting a popup on startup saying that "windows cannot find C:\windows\config\csrss.exe. Make sure you typed the name correctly and try again." I don't know why I am getting this. I have run …

I was able to install Visual Basic 6.0 in Vista Ultimate without problems... However, when I try to activate the ADO Data Control Component, it displays an error message (something concerning with the registry entries or some sort)... Then I tried reinstalling VB 6. The same thing happens again.. Can …

Hi, I have windows vista,I get Error Message 2869 when I uninstall the software.Pls help.

What do I click on to determine WHICH verzion do I have? Is IE 8 actually out for commercial use? Are there any OUTLOOK legitimate repair downloads out?> And IF I download IE 7 or 8 does this also update OUTLOOK?

hi all, im a newbie im having problems with my laptop, i can log on to msn but not the internet i keep getting internet explorer cannot display the webpage... i did a diagnose connection problem and it comes back... check the firewall settings for the HTTP port (80) HTTPS …

Whenever i start diablo2, i get this error: The instruction at "0x00382c43" referenced at "0x00000004" the memory could not be "written" any ideas?

I know what most people think should be done but as I have read vista upgrade is completely different than the old versions of windows. It totally cleans out everything and gives you a clean install. Does anyone care to comment on this. It takes a lot longer to do …

Hello, Something has caused the menus on certain programs (e.g. Notepad, Photoshop, AVG) to look weird. The background behind the text has changed. I think it was after uninstalling AVG, but I was making many software changes at the time, so I'm not 100% sure. I have attached a gif …

can anyone help my mate bought a new screen which keeps going into power off mode !

Hello there, I have a pc with 4gb ram and installed with it is Window Vista Premium 32x. I think it only uses 2-3 gb of my ram. Is there any way that could maximize it? I'm an avid gamer, I was suppose to buy the Windows Vista 64x but …

Hi guys i hav win xp with office 2007, i can't see my cd drive under "my computer", when i reboot my system drive light is on, but i can t see te in my computer.. i hav same problem sometimes earliar but it was solved i dont know why,, …

1) My outlook, I had several people BLOCKED via mail rules, I REMOVE the rules & the blocked senders just re appear again, I want to remove the blocks but it seems like I cant? No idea why? 2) Verizon e mail many people say they e mail me YET …

Hi THere Looking for some assistance - I've had a need to use anything other than very basic formulas in Excel, but I'm now struggling to generate the information that I want. In the attachment formula, I have some ratings, and have calculated, in column entitled Diff, the difference between …

Ok I downloaded boot and nuke to wipe my hard drive on my laptop. Once that finished and everything was completely gone, I tried to install Vista. It gets to the "Expanding files" part, hangs at 0%, then goes to 1%, then 2%, then an error comes up. "Windows could …

Hello, I was wondering whether somebody could help me. Sorry if i am in the wrong section. I am having a problem with my laptop. I am pretty sure that its now related to MS Outlook. Its definately not a mouse problem because i have tested both an external mouse …

is there any way to learn when process started on windows? when i open task manager i can see the list of processes but i cant see when they are started. is there any way to learn it? Thanks

As a PowerPoint expert, I often receive a lot of PowerPoint question about sound. Here I pick out four typical questions and supply a solution for each question. Hope it helps you at the process of creating PowerPoint presentation. All the solutions below is taking PowerPoint 2007 for example. PowerPoint …

"faulting module mshtml.dll, version 7.0.6000.16640" is the error message in the event viewer. Now..... there are some suggestions to untick the web history in the desktop index on Google desktop, but I don't have this on the machine. PC is running XP pro and is on the network. All machines …

Hi, I have a PC that has 2 users. One an admin and the other a user. In the desktop properties in screen saving under power settings - advanced, the admin log in has not got the Lock screen ticked but it has in the user log in. When trying …

It does not sound like it is booting. I am consistently getting this error message and only this message. After a minute or so, I just get a blue screen. Funny thing is that the mouse tracks across the screen! I have swapped monitors, graphics cards, cables, mouse, keyboard; but …

My windows internet explorer is very very slow, I remove all temp files every night, I defragment often, I don't have any viruses (well my security says I have'nt) lol, my pc is scheduled to do full system scan everyday, I've tried deleting files and pictures all to no avail. …

I saw a similar thread to my problem, [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread11183.html[/url] I just rebooted my computer, because it was doing the same things, still now it can struggles opening sites like YouTube, Facebook, Microsoft Updates, etc. Since I just rebooted it I don't have Java installed, I only have my drivers installed, …

This is a 2 part question: Microsoft says that the windows 7 beta will "expire" in May '09. Does this mean that there is something within the software that will cause it to not run anymore after that date unless you purchase it? Also, what's the latest on 64-bit in …

Hi guys can anyone tell me what spuninst is i have found around 80 files that are blue and have no idea what they are or how they were generated, i have searched some forums and am confused weather to delete or leave them alone.

hi, I have my own PC and this time I have Windows Vista, now I want to install the Windows XP. Then Can anyone tell me that what can I do in this regard? Thanks . With Regards.

have just started my first website, [url]www.eatleigh.com[/url] I did it on my Mac using QuarkXpress, then converting to HTML. It works fine on all five of my browsers here but Windows users using Internet Explorer can't see the gifs. I have set permissions to both 755 and 777, plus added …

I am going to do a reinstall and want to slipstream my windows cd. I have copied the cd to the hdd and downloaded the full verison of sp2 from MS web-site .When I use the "/integrate:drive/path" command it said "WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command".How …

a friend of mine has a PC thats running on an XP pro 2002 version OS i tried to upgrade it to service pack 2 but theres a message that keeps popping up during setup that says : "Setup cannot upgrade due to third party kernel" What does this mean …

OK.... where to start. I originally had 2 vista installations on the same computer in order to test out different builds. Mainly to have a partition to play around in. But I haven't used it in a while. So I decide to resize the partition and delete the other half. …

Hey, Has anyone tried putting a Home and Vista on a dual boot yet????? Secondly.......how do i get a dual boot???

Hi , On the weekend I was updating my sisters Toshiba notebook, which had been off the Internet for about a year. After updating anti virus & and other security programs, Vista updated itself. After downloading all the new updates it shut itself down and proceeded to load the "3 …