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This lesson presents methods that will help you automate Windows XP Professional installations. When you must install Windows XP Professional on computers with varying configurations, scripting provides automation with increased flexibility. You will learn how the Windows Setup Manager makes it easy to create the UNATTEND.TXT files that are necessary …

When opening Microsoft Office outlook - personal files part of titles are in gibberish Who knows how to repare it? Thanks

Any help with my problem would be gratefully accepted. I have a Compaq Presario 5116EA with Intel Celeron X86 Family 6 Model 8 Processor 797 MHz. I have upgraded to Windows XP Pro Version 2002 Service Pack 2 and added 256 mb of memory, increasing it to 512mb by adding …

Not sure if im allowed to post what i am going to post... Windows 7 is awesome, even the beta, which is on microsoft.com now for free download, the beta is not finished and needs a few more things added, or removed. such things as the kernel size, have not …

Amd Athlon 64 processor 3000+ , 1.0 ram . 80Gb internal hd . Radeon 9250 . Windows 2000xp professional sp2 . WD elements 500 Gb external hd . We did not receive any recovery disks with our custom made computer in August 2006 ; bought from a shop that was …

Hi, I get this error window when I boot up my computer. "Error loading C:\Windows\system32\tenugizu.dll The specified module could not be found." My internet is really slow (I use Mozilla) and pop ups come up frequently when I click on links or go to various sites. I'm not that literate …

I have the enterprise version of Norton Suite, it has the console etc.. I want to be able to set up a session on my server where I can host ghost images.. the only thing I want to know is how do you create an image of a client computer? …

I've created a service using srvany which starts a little prog I wrote to monitor for a "switch user" condition and then on recognising one, kicks off a batch file which starts an ftp synchronisation. The service is set to autostart and I've added Spooler as a dependency. The problem …

Hi to everyone here and thanks in advance for any suggestions. Let me preface this by saying my computer skills are very limited, so speak slowly, lol. I have an Emachines T6534. About 2 weeks ago, out of nowhere, I got a blue screen error message. Something about nv4.dll file …

hello everyone i just configured my first server. I made a domain named "test.local" and added a xp computer to the domain. I can see the computer in the active directory and can log into the domain with the correct username/password. My problems are: 1) When i change the Group …

Computer = Acer Aspire 5515 Laptop OS = Vista home basic with SP1 Router = USR 8054 with WEP encryption I can not get the wireless connection to work with my network. It sees my home network, but when I try to connect, it fails to connect, when I diagnose …

I am getting a Blue screen of death when I use steam to install games. It started yesterday when I tried to play a game while I was installing Visual Studio 2008, it flashed a blue screen for a split second and restarted. I changed my settings to not automatically …

I have Windows Vista Home Premium, and i have noticed that their is now a SP1 waiting to be installed via windows update, i would like to know how many Vista users have moved up to SP1, and what their views on it are ? Thanks

ok so i have a windows 2000 and i dont get on the internet with it. everything i have on it ive transferrred it from another computer... now, heres the problem: one day i noticed my moniter flash blue, i figured it was nothin because it automatically restarted itself... ugh …

Hi, I need to ask for help about how to change windows XP name at startup. I have installed 2 WIN XP and I want to give them different names when the system shows me the text like this after booting: "Select windows XP professional" Thanks Regards,

I have never posted here before; if it's inappropriate to ask this question here, I apologize and I hope someone will direct me accordingly. PROBLEMS SUMMARIZED: 1. Administrative Accounts cannot access power settings. 2. Screen goes dark after 1 minute, regardless of settings. 3. Computer goes into hibernation after a …

Can anyone share with me the great mysterious wonder of where to locate the Outlook Addressbook on my C drive ??? Thank you in advance:)

I want a FREE program for windows to convert a CD or DVD into an ISO image on my hard drive. Are there any around?

Pages sometime hang up., IF I reinstall XP is this a fix for this and if I try to do that, what disk do I use? Only one disk>?

I have a laptop that has an interesting problem. When browsing "Myspace" and only that site, it continuosly looses and reconnects when running wirelessly. You can see everything and can change to any Myspace site, but it is quite slow loading becausre of that. This problem goes away when you …

Two questions here...One how is is possible that entering a specific site "my space" my cursor freezes? it appears to be only that site.... Secondly say I wanted to wipe out my system and start new, is it as easy as it was on Windows 98? That was just pop …

Hi all. My question is about the registry. I've read many tutorials ,but I want to understand it more deeply, from "programmer point of view" How,why, and what exactly ends up in the registry? lets say I had developed a program in C++ (a text editor,with windows,menus etcc.. ) Now, …

Hello! I have the following, very annoying problem, and can't get rid of it. We use a barcode-reader, and since I've installed IE7, whenever I read a barcode, it pops-up the favorites' window's rss feed panel. It's very annoying, since we have to read lots of bar-codes with it, and …

We have a G wireless router that works well with all of our XP computers. Just purchased an HP with Vista Home Premium SP1 with a built in N wireless router. It does not communicate with the G wireless router. Internet is fine when hard wired to our comcast modem. …

When I had Windows XP, I could have names appear on my screensaver images. I now have Windows Vista 32 and cannot find where to check to have the names appear in Screen Savings Setting.

I am wondering why when I go to save something on an excel 2003 spreadsheet, and then reopen the sheet, it reverts back to the last placed i saved. For example.....today the last cell I typed in was B25, and then I saved the sheet. When I went to open …

hi, i'm using XP PRO i've tried to setup an FTP at home but i'd like to access the FTP at my office..so how do i configure the FTP to do this? in the IIS configuration should i use my router IP address or my machine ip ad? any help …

Is there a utility which you load with a .txt file which is a list of files and directories you made previously, so it generates, sort-of, a virtual directory tree (explorer-like, with icons and all)? _______________________________ For example: You have a list, a .txt file, which has this text in …

Recently I've been having trouble ripping CDs to my itunes library. The program will rip a song or two and suddenly stall. At this point Itunes becomes unresponsive and makes no more progress on the rip and I can still hear the CD drive attempting to rip the track. I've …

Im trying to fix a computer for my son in law but it wont start up. Its an emachine 420 2.60 ghz intel celeron processor 80 gb hard drive. I noticed that when i switch it on i hear a clicking sound once from the processor and the fan is …

I just got a computer of mine back from my niece. Not working very well. When boots it just has blank desktop, except for background pic. no start menu or icons. When I right click on background, I can get to various programs, but the icons won't do anything. I …

hello I have dell desktop dimension 4700. i start getting different errors on my PC like (win32 generic host) and etc and after this win32 generic error my sound dont work so i have to restart my pc to enable sound again.. and after 15-20min i again get that error …

i checked in the control panel/user accounts/change the way users log on or off Both Welcome screen and fast user switching are Enabled, even i check in the Registry (run:regedit) LogonType and AllowMultipleTSSession are "1" some i did changes too, about make some folders in my drives strict to new …

Hi, I am first going to ask if this is the proper place to post a question regarding an XP Pro format issue. I don't want to start off on the wrong foot on my very first post. If it is ok to ask please let me know and I …

Ok well recently I noticed that my internet was going extremely slow, and today I noticed that when I click on ANY google link, it opens a new tab and sends me to a random site. Sources tell me its probably spyware, but the thing is, I cant download ANY …

Hey, i was just wondering if there was a way to have Windows XP Pro automaticall shutdown the computer everyday at a specific time. I know this can be done through the schedule tasks program under control pannel, so what is the shutdown file called? Or, if there is a …

Hi, I have a Dell Dimension 8300 (Yes I know Dell sucks, please don't remind me). I bought a new Lite-On burner (DH-20A4H) to go with my NEC RWer.I had new NERO 7 installed and everything was working to burn dvd's, and my other cd-rw was fine. But I uninstalled …

hi im newbie in here,hoping some one could help me with my driver problem....my vga and pci in device manager says it is not installed and i dont know what to download and where coz i only have my windows xp cd,i have no recovery cd or what ever...im using …

i want to hibernate the system.but hibernate option is not displayed in power options in control panel.how can i enable the hibernate.i m using windows xp professional sp2.

I changed my Excel files to .CVS and I need to import them into ACT! The problem in the first names start in cell C2 and the last names start in D2. ACT! only has one place for names and will not import both cells to the same field. I …

I dont have EXACT duplication of what is mentioned however, I am wondering if anyone can shed light on these 2 things .. 1) AT times some of my system may freeze ., upon doing shift ctl break, I bring up task manager & get an error to the effect …

i have a dell dimension 4550 WINXP PRO w/ a single DVD-RW tray. now when i put a CD that someone has burned for me, it reads it as a blank CD. any advice? thanks! chuck

I have two pc Win XP & Win vista. They can not log on to each other even though I typed the correct username & password. Then I asked the google, they told me to create the same user account on each, so I can log on to each other. …

I have a laptop that I took off the domain today and made it a work station. I like an idiot do not know what any of the user names or passwords were before i did that. Is there anything I can do? I have xp and a dell precision …

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could tell me why I can't start windows in safe mode? Thanks

I while back, I went to "Add or Remove Programs" and got rid of some things that I wasn't using and I suspected were slowing things down on my computer. Since that time, whenever I shutdown, it goes right to the end of the shutdown process and then a blue …

hey, i have an Asus F3J laptop thats giving some form of memory problem.. i cleaned the RAM modules and sometimes, when it does boot, the screen has glitches, sometimes it works properly for a while then locks up, other times u just hear the startup sound but no display. …

Hi Guys Probably the most hectic one Ive experienced so far. I have a Terminal Server witch the majority of my staff connects to. It started very recently that atleast twice a day I get the error [B][I]RPC Error Unavailable[/I][/B] when some of my users try to log onto the …

My windows XP starts-up very slow, its takes bout 10mins before I can eventually put it to use. Is this normal after 4 years use? I've ran all types of malware and virus checks and the system is clean. I do run norton 360, so thats perhaps one reason for …

I have a zebra lp2844 printer connected directly to my computer, and a networked laser jet printer also hooked up. Two days ago, everything worked fine. CAme in the next day and now I cannot print to my zebra printer unless I change my system default to that printer. The …