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Hello, i just installed fresh copy of Windows Vista Home Premium SP1. Windows media player 11 uses 100% CPU when i try to listen music or watch movie. I want to know is there are any way to fix it. Thanks for replies.

Hello, I seem to be having a variety of different problems but I think they may be all related. Automatic updates cannot be turned on when i go into the services and change it to automatic; instead i get an error message: "error 1058: the service cannot be started either …

When i click on 'Start', i get this black screen thing and when i click on 'All Programs' it won't show up. Any help?

Hi to the DaniWeb family ! I have a Thinkpad 600, laptop......I know it's outdated, it's just for surfin the net . My sound driver/program is having problems remembering the settings when I turn the laptop off. Everytime I start the laptop I have to go into Device Manager, and …

The Microsoft detected my OS on my older rig that it is illegal but I still can use the pc, there is a notification message on the wallpaper that I cannot remove it says I was a victim of counterfeiting , is re-installation of XP will do? It is ok …

I recently found a trojan.vundo on my computer and dowoaded a tool called fixvundo from the Symantec wbsite. I followed the instructions and it said thatit had been successfully removed. I wanted to make sure So I did a full system scan last night and when I checked back on …

Hello I have an older P.C. and I would like to upgrade the video card. I currently have an ATI RADEON X300 SE PCI-E graphics card with 128mb of DDR memory. I am running windows XP with 1GB of DDR SDRAM memory. What should I look for in a new …

Hello! I'm looking for some good app for disk space reporting. Does anybody know something like this? (i know only Directory Size but not being sure whether its worth using). Thanks

Christmas day, yay. Hi all, i hope someone can help me as i bought a customer returned dell 720. It has no operating system with it so i tried to load it. After setting boot device i put the disc in and it starts the cycle. It gets as far …

Please help some one :( I'm desperate (sad but true). I used to have (until yesterday) a 22" widescreen (1680x1050)monitor connected to my comp (A64 3200+, WinXP SP3, nVidia 7800GT, 2GB Ram, 2x250GB Raid 1 h/d). Then last night it broke, went off, died the death. So I connected my …

Hi Guys, if our DC has gone down then what will be our first step for the same that keep on everything working in domain from Amit kushwaha

Right people Got a new laptop for christmas with windows vista home edition (32-bit) on and set it up to access the wireless internet (d-link router) it has worked fine for couple of weeks and then all of a sudden it has stopped working i have a XP PC which …

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now i may be kind of a newbie with comps but i do know some things im just completely flabergasted by my current issue, which is i have normal and good color in most aspects of my computer the parts that are not right are anything that is played by …

I got a few new/old computers from work, NetVista 8303-21U's (Windows XP SP3, 2.0MHz 1g RAM) however I'm ready to just overclock them all to death... I've had some issue in the past few days but solved them, but my most recent is a Kodak 5100 EZ share printer that …

This is an odd thing that I have never seen before. When I restart this computer everything boots up just fine. Same thing when I hit the reset button on the front of the box. [B]BUT[/B], when I shut down the computer entirely and press the power button to start …

Ok whenever i burn a disk it used to take like 3:20... not it takes like 7:30 and whenever i installed CS4 it took 28 hours... could it be a problem with the hard drive? NEED HELP!!!!!!!!

Hello, Recently I have been having problems with a dell inspiron 6000 laptop booting past the welcome screen. It won't. I have performed a fixboot and chkdsk through the recovery console of the xp disk. It has service pack 2 installed. It also will not continue into safe mode because …

Dell Inspirion 6000 Laptop - Windows XP. The Laptop has had a working wireless with the same router, with the same WEP key, for a good long time without any changes. At some unknown date it stop working. It connects the the router, gets an IP address from the Router. …

Hi, Can anyone please help with the commands to install SNMP on remote Server. Thanx

I am getting the BlueScreen at some times while I'm on the computer. The error message is as follows: "A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. A wait operation, attach process, or yield was attempted from a DPC routine. If …

Hi forum, I have Windows 2003 Server. I want to implement SSL Secuirty on my Intranet Application. I have followed "HOW TO: Secure an ASP.NET Application Using Client-Side Certificates" at [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315588[/url] This example is working fine on Server. But When I want to access it on any other system then …

I am setting up ACT Customer Relations software on the server and I want everyone else in my office and in the field to be able to access the program and be able to sync back to the main database file on my server. To be honest it likes a …

My computer will not boot. I run Windows XP SP1. Over several weeks it just keep shutting down when my son was using it. It eventually just stopped booting. When I tried to restore to a previous restore point, all of them had the same problem. I get a message: …

McAfee picks up this PUP - GTDownDE_87.ocx Should i remove it, i have no idea what it is ? Thanks Dave

Automatic updates won't come up on the taskbar. Windows update won't load. I went to stop the automatic updates under services. *not Disable* it says that it reached and error I'm guessing I accidentally went to this site called av5scan.com that was disguised as another. it just kept prompting me …

:-/ I have this weird problem with the pics in my folder..i have them a lot,and they are all scrambled..i wanted to sort them out in the folders,but when i was looking at them (folder view was set to 'Thumbnails') thumbnails of pictures were displaying one picture,and when i opened …

Hi guys heres a goodie for you. Client aksed me to remove XP Antivirus 2008, the fraudulent download. Ran my Malwarebytes and Spybot and all was cleared, hooray we say. Before the notebook was given to me the client installed Kaspersky to clear the issue, which obviously did not work. …

My CD and DVD drives have been missing from My Computer and I'm running WinXP Home Edition. I've gone into the registry, deleted the upper and lower filters, ran various spyware programs. Now I attempted to do a Win XP Repair, went thru all the steps, but when it gets …

Ive got this program sitting in my C:/ drive and it won't go away. Live OneCare has blocked it from the internet but i just want to get rid of it to keep a clean system. Can anyone help me?

When I load the system drivers and update the windows xp pro I am prompted to restart but when I do I lose al my drivers I just installed. I have an Asus mobo P5Q SE2 I am stumped! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hi all, I have noticed a really long delay in Windows Vista to play any media file. The media files are local, not on a CD. When I double click on any media file (for eg. mp3), it takes like 10 seconds to start! Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks.

Hi, Recently, my NTFS file system became corrupt but fortunately I was able to fix this. However, I now do not have several functions that I did have before, like the taskbar, copy, cut, paste, move, or even system restore. I am planning on resetting the pc to its factory …

Hello, As the title explains I can't make shortcuts to anything, as soon as i try to it runs the winrar install shield, even though its already installed. I'm running XP SP3. Thanks Bahra

Hi I am running win2K on a Dell optiplex gX400. I started getting the wont power off after shutdown but re-boots itself. I reset the bios settings to trap any errors and now on shut down I get the blue screen of death as shown below. Any help or advice …

We have asked this question to posters here,with BSOD [Daniweb] many times !and have gotten this answer ! Did you Install any new software lately ! Answer !, no nothing yet ,its a clean/fresh install of WinXP!

I have heard so many horror stories about this new Anti Virus 2009 Virus. I popped up on my screen next thing i know it is scanning my pc. So i just pulled the plug and wiped the hard drive and put g os back on it agin. Anybody else …

hey im working on an acer desktop...the first time i plugged it in..the ram proved faulty, so i cleaned them and the slots with electronic spray. it worked fine after that...booted it a couple times, no probs. recently it started taking really long to boot. now it isnt booting at …

did a reinstal about a week ago and all fine running well, did a windows update tonight and asked me to reboot, which I did the sony logo came up but did not go any further I tried f8 getting into safe mode but wouldnt go, tried putting windows disc …

Hello all, I have a driver problem, i reinstalled XP on my laptop. It's a Dell Latitude D505. Now, i need the LAN and WLAN drivers. I have downloaded the files off the dell site, but no luck. Can you guys help me??? I have no internet access on the …

I bought a new system and it has no OS on it. So I put in my CD and all it gives is Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and press Enter and it doesnt work I've also set CD ROM Boot as first priority. What am I doing wrong?

My laptop has Windows XP on it, and when I turned it on last time I had the infamous BSoD. It said something like "critical system error" or something along those lines. I turned it off, then back on and hit F5 then F8. and tried startup in every mode …

I read some other threads and then lost the answer. I get stuck on "lsass.ess application error, memory could not be written". I tried the safe mode, restore last settings, and all the options that come up, and always come back to this error box. HELP.

hey guys i got a quick question, i downloaded a avi file and when i play it it plays for like 10 seconds then starts skipping. when i pause it it clears up for about 4 more seconds then starts doin it again. what should i do to fix it. …

I face problems with my usb ports and unfortunately, I can't use them. This time, I really have to make use of my webcam but I can't since none of them work. Either I have to buy a new laptop or try to find a webcam that works without usb. …

Hi all, Please guide me how can I solve this newly appeared thret on my PC. It seems that the subject matter has infected my computer but I can not detect it and remove. Some malfunctionalities occur while working; such as: Disabling some features of WINXP like: system restore, system …

My Dell Dimension 2350 has a mystifying problem of shutting down its the hard drive and not rebooting. After troubleshooting for several hours last night, it "miraculously" came back to life on its own and ran fine (all programs o.k., screensaver activated o.k. w/quick resume). Then sometime this afternoon it …

Hello everybody, hopefully someone here can help as this is my last port of call before a format!!! Firstly a little background. The PC in question is my fiancee's standard HP off the shelf job with XP home. Recently it started playing up with random crashes and lenghly load periods. …

Here's the deal. I installed a game on my computer and restarted. Well the computer wouldn't restart and went into a blank black screen. Automatically i think theres a conflict. So i do the safe mode (F8) thing. I Chose the option: Last Known Good Configuration. Started and went up …

Sorry it's been forever since I posted, but have not had any issues in a long time. So I will say HI to everyone here again and thanx in advance for any help. I know everyone is sick of "rundll32.exe" posts, but I'm at a dead end with this issue. …