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I wake up one morning and my PC is fine. Get back from classes, run AVG, adaware, spybot, and CWshredder to get rid of my hijacked homepage, reinstall WMP because it quit working, and with AVG found a virus called downloader.esepora.k. I reboot and I can't connect to the net …

What are the keystrokes while booting to restore XP to factory settings? Thank you!

hi, today morning when i start my computer i clicked on start button & clicked on all programs but from the all programs all the start programs has been suddenly disapear, & it is showing empty. I could not able to see accesories , & other installed programs. Other wise …

I have installed windows xp sp3. But I am facing problem with the Cable internet. In sp3 I am unable to surf the cable internet but dial up internet can be run. Help me

Hello, I have a compaq nx6325 laptop, how can i access the BIOS? i tried f2, f9, f10, f12 but none of them work. F12 will let me chose if i run from CD or HD. F10 loads something up (not the BIOS though because i cant partition a hard …

I have Windows XP Professional SP3 (32bit) installed on one hard drive. I installed Windows 7 Beta (64bit) on a separate hard drive. Ever since I installed Windows 7, the Windows Installer service does not start on Windows XP. I googled this and attempted to reinstall it; now it's not …

I have HP and above mentioned softwares. I dont see their importance because they fail to update. I have even disabled at startup for they choke me with ----problems found....then cannot fix them due to no update. SHOULD I REMOVE THEM??

Hi I just bought the newest version of mcafee VirusScan Plus. whenever I open the security centre I just get a box which is blank inside I have attached a screenshot of what I meen. This has happened ever since I first got it a few days ago. can anyone …

hey guys ,,, does anyone here now how to get water effect from windows vista...

hi i have one server with windows 2003 operating system. daily i take backup on tapes(digital data storage 4) using windows ntbackup . since two days i am getting error in middle of backup process saying [COLOR="#ff0000"]Backup utility: An inconsistency was encountered on the requested media"[/COLOR] what could be the …

So.. my computer has gradually been screwing up and now it's to the point where I want to use recovery and start from scratch. I get numerous errors with almost everything I try to do. At one point my computer wouldn't even go past the Compaq loading screen. Being the …

Hello Everybody, First to introduce myself, I am a total beginner to the computer scene. I'm am getting much better, but it can get frustrating. Anyway... my first problem. I like to watch movies on <snip>, but lately the veoh ones quit working. Can anybody help? Could this be a …

Hello all!! I am new to this forum and I have researched this forum for my problem concerning active desktop recovery issues but....I have one question or problem that is. I am a computer technician at a high school where students are trying to do webpages and they are getting …

I have many e-books. Some of it in txt format, some in PDF, some in DjVu. Can you advise one viewer (freeware of course) for all of this books? Adobe Reader is great, but can't open DjVu, and i want use only one software for all this documents

I have been having a problem with my emachines T6520 desktop with Windows XP. The CDROM and DVD+/RW are not being recognized by my pc. I follweed the instructions emachines gave me for deleting upper and lower filters. It didn't change a thing. the drives didn't show, autorun didn't work …

So after re-installing Windows XP every month for four months due to being contaminated with Viruses & Trojans, I decided to turn off my Pentium 4 and use my Celeron with Windows 2000 as my main Internet PC with the Pentium 4 using Windows XP as the back up. One …

hey, i have an interesting problem. theres this hp laptop that im working on, a pavilion dv 4000 , the user was having wierd problems with it. wen you turn it on, u hear repetitive beeping, like wen keys are being held down... it boots.. after the boot screen, then …

I tried to install View Sonic User guide and instalation software and recieved this message SEVERE Unable to update registry. The monitor works but I can not adjust the contrast and the users guide did not load. I am also having problems loading Famil Tree Maker. Any help will be …

I was using a program called simple center on my pc when the screen went black restarted my computer then all of the sudden showed the message error loading operating system and shows that message everytime i restart i also cannot press f8 during start up it does nothing does …

The default speed of the Start Menu is pretty slow, but it can be fixed by editing a Registry Key. Open up the Registry Editor and navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Control Panel \ Desktop \ MenuShowDelay By default, the value is 400. It can be given a …

Anyone know why my sound keeds getting set to mute? It gets set to mute every once in awhile, I don't know why. Also, on related question, I have a set of Bose ear phones, the kind you stick in each ear (see thumbnail). The problem is that sound comes …

So the thumbnails for all my videos ie. AVI WMV and MPEG are gone! I did try the "regsvr32 shmedia.dll" trick and it's worked in the past, but now nothing seems to be working. Do I have to go into my registry? Or is there another way I can fix …

I am having an issue where a shared network drive cannot be accessed by a couple users. I am one of the ones that cannot access it, and I noticed when I checked the properties of my shared drive that it is showing a RAW file system. On another users …

in my windows mail i can use the find message option to find who my mail is from. i put the name in the from section and click find now, the message i'm looking from is found then windows mail freezes and i can't do another search. Could this be …

After insralling xp sp2, I get this message when I try to connect my ipod, "ipodservice module has encountered a problem and needs to close." searching the web, i realized that my device manager is empty. Can you guys help me with this?

Hi. I'm new to this forum. Please excuse any naivete. I am downloading videos and periodically the display is only jerky images without continuity. Is this a function of my internet speed. It's 4 megs. If not how do I correct the problem? Feedback is much appreciated.

Hey guys my laptop goes black right after the bios, it doesn't even show xp loading. I was able to recover everything on the HDD. When i put the new hdd in and tried to install xp, xp says the computer doesn't have any hdd. So i'm thinking this is …

Does anyone know how i can arrange photos in a specified order for it then to be burned onto a cd , i know you can arrange by filename but does anyone know how i can put them in my own customized order ? im using windows xp and does …

[B]How to enable [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Host_Controller_Interface"]AHCI[/URL] on Intel ICH9 under XP[/B] After some research by MSFN staff, we have a working solution to enable ACHI on the ICH9 with appropriate SATA/NCQ drive(s). For more [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Host_Controller_Interface"]information about AHCI[/URL], we refer to Wikipedia.or offer features not offered by Parallel ATA (PATA) controllers besides higher …

I'm very new to the computer .so please look over my mistakes. I was looking around on the computer and found something that wanted to check some file. I guess I click ok but this is what I got checking file system on C: then it went to another line …

Does anyone know of a way to disable auto restart on system failure that does not require being in Windows? I've got a laptop that will not start Windows in ANY mode (including Safe Mode) and a blue screen flashes by so quick I can't even read it. I'm wondering …

Ok so what happens is when i play video files on any media players it says something along the lines of "cannot play file - either file type not supported or missing codecs". So i downloaded GSpot to detect the missing codecs, and it says "missing codec is XVid (DivX)". …

I like WMP 10 and have resisted moving to wmp11 because after trying it awhile I got TIRED of trying to unravel why it would not play music I owned or let me copy it to my hard drive or why movies audio sounded so bad. So i finally got …

Hello all together, my old computer with WinME got a really bad virus that I couldn't remove so I reinstalled the OS. The trouble is, that after the setup BIOS tells me that no OS is installed - which seems to me that the MBR (first sector with information about …

So, trying to help out my ex wife who tried downloading Adobe Air unsucessfully. Now, when she boots up, she gets this pop up window: C\Program files\Common. In it, there resides _helper.dll 4.0.0.0; helper.dll 3.0.1.5; _helper.sig SIG File 65kb and helper.sig SIG File 38KB. It won't allow any Windows functions …

This seemed like the best place for this question, so if it isn't please let me know. I am looking at buying a new computer and I have narrowed it down to two from Dell. Both are customizable but neither have all the features I want. The Specifications are listed …

I bought my laptop with Vista OS installed, after a few months i downgraded to XP (a lot of problems to install SATA drive) then the keyboard went crazy: F10 and F11 keys are always on. I can type correctly only when i hold the Fn (function) key. I also …

About a week ago I was in the middle of playing a game online having the game open and ventrillo open. Out of nowhere my sound gets all distorted. I wasn't downloading anything it just changed. Now If I try to watch you tube I can hear the music and …

Good day people, Any Microsoft Outlook experts out here today. My problem started yesterday... I have an HP running Windows XP and last night I was working in the office, not on the computer but in the same room. It was on and online when Windows decided to do an …

Hello all.. Where is the network certificate kept / stored in Windows XP... i have Windows SP3 Pro.... I hope you get what i mean, if not, i can provide more information. Thanks, Cohen

I have a MSI neo platinum 4 mb with 2 gig ram tested with memtest, updated all drivers including video and get random bsod errors irql_not_less_or_equal. The computer may go for days than all of a sudden the machin shuts down. I have reloaded windows xp 2 times and the …

My Problem: Several of my games (typically, but not always, graphically intensive ones), have a duration when moving the mouse that varies from making it very difficult to aim, to having to wait about a second after my mouse moves left to see my character move left on the screen. …

i have a hp lap top, suddenly the images on the monitor has become sideways!!, even the the cursor is moving funny, I tried to get help by looking into the display unit, but that did not help, i amnow balancing the lap top on the side and typing from …

I have lost my product key. I am using a windows 98 PC, and it has office 2000 pro installed. I have tried several programs to recover my serial key #, but some just give me the Productl ID #, some don't give me anything. Is there a good program …

I have a doubt in my system I installed operating system XP professional2 after installed OS when I installed drivers it shows one popup message like this operating system doesn’t support Drivers so I Installed manually audio, video and LAN driver through browsing Drivers CD My problem is that when …

Hi guys. I have a big problem. I can't access any resources on the network nor can share my folders because the server service is stopped and I can't make it start. I also can't install any new programs or start messenger or skype. Also when I try to access …

Hi, I just wonder one thing with Windows update and a fresh install. Say, I'm using Vista Ultimate and I always check for updates and update whenever the updates are available. Now as we know, there's Vista service pack 1 or even 2 available, So do I need to buy …

Hi, I'm currently using Vista Ultimate version. I have two questions. I want to know which software is good and best for working with partition. And which is good for tweaking system with Vista ? Right now I'm using Advance Vista Optimizer 2008, is this a good one ? I …

Trying to help out an Ex-Wife who attempted to download Adobe Air. Problem is that when she boots up her computer she gets the dialog box entitled C:\Program Files\Common. It it there resides these four files"_helper.sig SIG File 35KB. It freezes all functions. How do I get rid of them??

Dear all, I do have window vista in my notebook. I am having problem with browsing. Once I connected to internet then I can log in my YM, MSN and google chat but unfortunately I cannot open any internet windows such as internet explorer, mozila, or safari. I really don't …