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So I'm trying to wipe my installation of XP Home on a Dell Inspiron E1705 and when I try to run the installation I get ACPI.sys is corrupted. I've already updated the BIOS and the Chipset from Dell's website, I've tried multiple installation disks, but no avail. If anyone has …

Hi Guys Its been a while since i been to this site. Well here s the problem. I am having the blue screen coming up saying that there may be some issue with the drivers or something and then the system starts the physical memory dump. I thougt it could …

Dear All, My husband has an issue which is not entirely unique, but the fixes which have worked for others are having no impact. His desktop computer can download email to Thunderbird, but neither Firefox nor IE can browse the internet. We don't get an error, or a "Firefox cannot …

Once or twice a day, my windows 2000 machine loses internet access. I have to turn off the switch to which it is connected, wait about 10 seconds and then turn the switch on. And then I regain access. Loss of access means that I get the message from the …

[i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Set, View, Change, or Remove Special Permissions for Files and Folders in Windows XP[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]In Windows XP, you can apply special access permissions to files or folders that are located on NTFS file system volumes. …

This just started less than a month ago. When I click the Search button in the Explorer toolbar, the following message appears: "A file that is required to run search companion cannot be found. You may need to run setup." I am running Microsoft Windows XP Sp3. (finally, I had …

Hi, I'm new to using queries in Access and am stuck on trying to run a query from a table. I have thousands of records with fields such as customer name, Company Name, Company Country and Balance. What I want to do is run the query to count the number …

Hi guys I've got a good one. Colleague brought problem to me, as subject says it's an ACER Aspire 9303 ([URL="http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/as9300.htm"]specs here[/URL]). The user turned it on (hadn't used it since before christmas) and apparently found out that sound not working. I'm led to believe it worked at some point …

I been having some problems with Spyware Guard 2008 and all. This happen 1-2 weeks ago. I noticed some problem and then after a while I assume just to go look for Spyware Guard 2008 stuff, just because it was out there. After a bit of learning some more tricks …

I have an older computer that was running Windows XP SP1. The computer is severly infected. I updated the OS to SP2 and am now having problems using my browser (firefox and netscape). IE is so corrupted that I can't even open without muliple windows popping up. I have purchased …

Hi, I don't know very much about computers so bare with me and hopfully i will be able to figure this out. I just go a P4 3ghz prossecer, 512 mb ram and i am running XP Pro sp 2 . I don't know what the problem is but my …

OK guys....I experience occasional bouts of overheating on my normally fast, 2gig ram dell inspiron 9400. It should idle at 40degC (according to the i8kfangui temp utility) but when it get's unhappy from time to time it idles at 50degC, and all other temps seem to be inflated 10 - …

This is a very strange situation we are. Our AD domain is the same as our webserver domain. For example, let's say our: AD domain is: ourcompany.usa.org Webserver domain is: ourcompany.usa.org This would be all fine if we had our webserver and domain controller in the same network. However, our …

Hi, been on windows vista home premium for 9 months & have occasionally tried to find out how to send a web page link to the desktop & haven't yet discovered how to! With XP it was simply a case of going to 'file', then 'send link to', & then …

i own a 2 years old Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with a windows Xp service pack 2. for the past few months i have been experiencing Blue screen error, frequently. it occurs around 2 to 3 hours after i work on my laptop. i contacted the Dell technical support, and …

I have been have a slow startup problem with Outlook Express for tha last few days and narrowed it down to a piece of junk from Microsoft call Silverlight. Once it was removed my Outlook Express now starts with the speed it use to before I installed Siverlight. I thought …

Hey guys please help, ok this problem started a while ago (2 weeks?) anyways the problem was I would login but my desktop and task bar would not appear, so i figured out a while later Ctrl + Alt + Delete and then run a programs filer like C:/Documents or …

Ok so just recently started having this problem. Don't know what started it, except i previously unplugged the power unintentionally while my laptop was in hibernate. Turned it on today, it gets to the login screen, and when i enter my password all i get is a black screen. I …

I have an ASUS p5k-e motherboard. It's roughly about 2 years old... I turned it off one day to clean it about 2 days ago and it didn't have a boot sequence.... I took everything out after the first unsuccessful boot process, but it still didn't boot.... My whole life …

Hi, I have previously formatted and installed Windows 98,2000, XP and vista on many,many hard drives. I have never had this problem. A high spec machine with 2gb ram and 250 sata 2 seagate HD. The machine runs beautifully except that I suspect a virus infection because the security service …

Hi, I'm running Windows XP and have multiple accounts going using Fast User Switching. I'm looking for a method to turn off the message that says "Other people are logged on to this computer. Shutting down Windows might cause them to lose data. Do you want to continue shutting down?" …

Hi, I found one good program - [URL="http://agatasoft.com/ping_utility.html"]Auto ping utility[/URL](it is freeware). I hope it will be helpful for anyone else. This program can show where is a problem of your internet connection. I mean it do ping command all time for chosen hosts, and show in the system tray …

My computer just went on the fritz. I can get it to boot up and it gets up to the choice of family members, I can choose and then the HD does it thing and the desktop picture shows up and thats it. No icons, no startup bar, nothing. If …

I have a dell Inspiron 6400/e1505 I was wondering if you can run vista 54 but off it. I have a core 2 due 1.83 ghz processor. I know that its a 64 bit setup but i was wondering if it able to handle the 64 bit version?

Hello all, i'm formatting my pc and i'm facing a problem with my CD-ROM device. in the middle of windows xp installation i get an error message that it cant read from the I/O device. i assume that my CD-ROM is damaged or something, but it happens that i have …

any one using windows 7, just downloaded it and it doesnt appear like a new operating system as yet, rather a new edition of vista

I am using XP service pack 3 and have installed WMP 11. I try to start the program and get the message " Windows Media Player is not installed properly and must be reinstalled. Do you wan:'( t to install the player from the Microsoft Web site?" Accepting 'yes' to …

How to enable Cookies in web browser i listed in this post. Web sites like myExpedient.net and others require that cookies be enabled. To specify how your browser should handle cookies, follow the instructions below for your web browser version: 1. Select the Internet Options option from the View menu. …

About a month ago I for lack of a better word tweaked my startup menu in order to help speed up my computer. I really had no problems until now when I found I was unable to install any microsoft software such as Expressions Web 2.0 and I had removed …

helllo sir, am astudent of olabisi onabanjo university i am facing problems on smtp and tcp am facing problem in running my business while still at school .............please refer me to any end solution about this... pleaese i need a lasting solution to this

So this is one of the strangest issues I've seen... I have a Windows 2000 Server box with SP4 plus all recent Windows updates. I'm not sure when this started (the server is a backup and isn't often used), but after being on from anywhere between several hours to a …

Hi, [U]Environment[/U]: My outlook 2003 default format is HTML. The Default fond for new/reply messages is Arial. [U]The Problem[/U]: I get a message in text format. When I manually change the format of this message to HTML, the font of the message is Times Roman. How can I make outlook …

Hi there, I am new to here, Not computer. At the same time i'm not in a level of top.. k I will come to the point ! I have a one setup file with 60mb. I want to zip this file 10mb separately.. totally i'll get 6 10mb files... …

I'd like a reference for all registry entries that might be used by XP after an install. All right, I know I can't get all entries, but I'd like as complete a list as I can get. I'd rather not have to go to the knowledge base or forums and …

I looked at other threads and searched online about this and I have gathered some information about what Error Loading Operating System means but I don't know what to do when it comes to my computer. I have a Dell XPS Gen 5 computer year 2005. I've started to notice …

My mother gave me an old tower that has windows NT and she can not remember the login password. Please help me, how can I bypass this or reset this?

Hi, I have built a website that uses ASP and am running IIS on windows XP professional. On my local machine I can access the website either by going to [url]http://ipaddress/sitename[/url] or [url]http://computername/sitename[/url]. THe problem comes is that I need other computers on the network to access the site, but …

After updating to XP service pack 3 from service pack 2 i was just wondering whether anyone noticed a longer time to complete hard disk drive intensive tasks such as manually launched full system anti-virus scans? My systems rate of of work done for this type of task decreased by …

I formatted my Gateway MX6420 laptop and now my sound doesn't work. I tries to install the sound driver from Gateway and a few more from HP with the same Failure message. Any one with any ideas, I've searched for weeks with no results.

Hello All. I WANT TO SHARE INTERNET WITH 2003SERVER , I HAVE 2 LAN CARDS IN MY SERVER PLEASE EXPLAIN ME WITH DOMAIN & WITH WORKGROUP , SO THAT I CAN SHRAE MY INTERNET tHANING YOU

I have some questions about DHCP and DNS Server. How do we install DHCP and DNS Server? How do we configure the DHCP Pool in the DHCP Server?

Hello, My computer is afflicted with ispynow, which prompts a phony message every 12 minutes saying just that and asking me to buy protection from some bogus third party site. Anywho, I've been reading some of the ispynow threads, and have found the following files on my computer: system32: TDSSfpmp.dll …

it has a usb jack but the computer wont recognize it ive tried everything and it just wont work. my comp doesnt have fire wire ieee1394 jack but i wonder if i install it my self will it recognize it then? i dont have the disc that came with the …

Hi! I'm working on a problem on my uncles computer (XP Home). When I start the computer up I get the generic message indicating that Windows didn't start normally. I get the standard choices to start normally, in safe mode, or with last good config. No matter which I choose …

Hey Guys please Help Explorer keeps shutting down right at reboot and keeps recurring over and over again Heres My log Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 4:56:50 PM, on 1/22/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16762) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: …

Hai everybody when i plug my laser printer to my computer the printer spooler is suddenly getting stopped. when i start is and refresh its again disabling. im using Norton 2003. it says no virus are in my pc. help me

I am facing some problem in making my system work. The system could not work beyond window is starting up though the mouseis just moving but every other things just as dead. Pls what can be done to get all my data.

Alright.. Hey.. So yeah my problem is fairly simple unlike others I don't get any bluscreens, errors, messages etc I don't get anything Simply put whenever I restart or turn my PC on, windows will not start up.. It'll get stuck anywhere along the way and usually when it gets …

Ok,so I've been messing with Win 7,Vista Home Premium and Ultimate. First off...Windows 7 flies! My question is...does vista Ultimate eat more performance than Home Premium? Because I had HP for 3 days with a patch for dream scenes...now I have Ultimate and its definately slower,especially when I can barely …

i need help on unhiding my videos which i saved in shared docs using the dos because my folder options are not showing. i even dont remember the names of the files.please help me coz i really need these files.thanx.