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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

On a computer that has 4 GB of RAM, the System Properties dialog box and the System Information dialog box may report less memory than you expect. This problem occurs because the address space is limited to 4 GB in a 32-bit hardware environment. Memory may be relocated to make …

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 …

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 …