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At me such question I can not change the menu in Windows, it looks on new why that.... Help to adjust... At me of a Window 98

Can someone please tell me a way to make my (supposedly fast) xp machine to boot up in (hopefully) less than 10 seconds. I've tried bootvis, defrag, disk clean up, and i reinstalled windows xp about a month ago. P.S. i have three machines @ home, one vista, two xp

I am getting soooo frustrated with my laptop... I just got it back from my sister, who, no doubtedly messed EVERYTHING up... My biggest problem is that the sound no longer works... She swears up and down she didn't drop it or damage it internally in any way... I really …

URGENT!!!! When I turn my PC on, it goes to the welcome page, where the administer logs on just by clicking on Administator. But when I do this, I get the message - "Windows Product Activation". "A problem is preventing windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error …

My computer keeps rebooting after it gets to the windows logon screen. I tried windows xp disk and recovery console chkdsk /r but still no luck. It might be a virus but if it is how can i clean it when i cant logon to do so. Please help.

I pulled a Gateway hard drive and installed it into an older Dell I had. The built in Ethernet did not connect to the internet when I plugged in the cat 5 cable. I put in a Belkin card and I got a "Fatal Error" Message. "No lan board found …

at startup, I get a RUNDLL window with the following message: Error Loading C:\WINDOWS\system 32\huqeloqw.dll the specified module cannot be found I have seen many problems listed that are similar, but not exactly like this message. I don't want to engage in a link that is not pertinent to this …

My daugthers Pc has a 20gb hard drive, and windows sent a message, hard drive running out of space, used the clean up utility to gain space. so I did, but only got back a few hundreds mb, and still low on space. used ccleaner and SBMAV CLEANER too; helped …

Hi all I did search before posting but couldn't find anything related to my problem so I am hoping that this will help. I have just attached an LCD widescreen monitor and I notice that the text fades from bold to light across the screen and in some cases it …

i would like some help on finding out how to get my auto play to work again...i tried scandisk,nortons utilities and fix it up...i can not figure out what happened to it...i insert discs into the cd rom and burners and nothing comes up...i check under hardware its says its …

Hello all.. I just fixed a friends PC with a new PC Chips M848A MOBO, his old MOBO was more-or-less dead and the Power supply plug was showing signs of overheating Pins, so replaced that with a 350 PSU ( a working spare) I got it booted up and after …

Hi, Following error message is displayed when i boot my computer, it's windows 2000 Service Pack 4. kwtbaim.exe - Entry Point Not Found The procedure entry point cryptStringToBinaryW could not be located in the dynamic link library CRYPT32.DLL I have attached a picture file to show exactly how message is …

Hello, Hope this is the right placw to ask this question. I have XP on 2 seperate 250 gig SATA hard drives. Can't figure how to duel boot them. Any direction will be appreciated. Thanks, SunRunner.

I have recognized that recently my computer became unstable. This occured after Auto Update. My External HDD crashed and cannot be shown even in other Laptops and in my Ubuntu. This causes worries for my 70GB data in that disk. I have tried System restore but nope! nothing works (Sys …

When I turn the computer on it goes to Windows 2000 XP and then next it goes to Start in sfe mode, last know program, normal startr up. When you choose any of the options it just freezes. If I reinstall Windows would that fix it? If not what do …

Hi , I have have just spent a day on reinstalling windows after a major crash.... but now I have no sound... anybody now how to get the drivers back up and running.. is there a standard device to start? can install say creative sound blaster? any help would be …

I have downloaded an app that needs java re 5 or above... i have the latest version installed and even when i save the app into the same drive as the jre it still gives me the response.. app could not load java check that you have latest jre installed …

Hi my laptop will not load up..A black screen appears ..asking to select the operating system when I do select ..it acts as if it will start up....windos xp..shows up on the screen...then an error message saying the application or DLL: windows/system32/shlwapI.dll is not validwindows image.Please check against your installation …

They work in other computers... They used to work in mine. Nero was re-installed, I re-flashed the firmware on the cheap sony... XP doesnt see them as having DVDs ideas??

hi guys, I'm having problems trying to upgrade ram, the pc is currently 512mb and i'm trying to put in 2gb, the pc is able to take it, i checked before i bought the ram, i have tried a single 2gb stick and two 1gb sticks but it just wont …

i ave got a toshiba tecra 8200 and im tying to install windows xp but it wont boot from he cd, the cd works and i have set the bios to boot from cd first but i still wont boot from cd please help

hi, This problem has been bothering me for awhile now. Everytime i play avi files at my windows media player, there will be some point where the audio will not be synchronized with the video. This happens for like a couple of minutes then goes back to normal then happens …

Hi, My system is Windows XP Home. When I click ' remove' in the Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel for 'Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 trial'; nothing happens. Anything else I want to remove works ok. Any suggestions? Is it possible the program has been removed although it is …

Maybe you dont like the current WMP you have an want to Downgrade but get the annoying message you have a newer version?? Navigate to this key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Setup\Installed Versions and change the values of the 3 subkeys to whats listed below (This makes it look like you have wmp9 and …

Hi, I'm new here so not sure if I put this in the right spot. My hotmail has a new bug. When I go to any site and click on a mailto link, hotmail opens the hotmail home page insted of a new message page. I can use outlook to …

Gooday. I have a spare hard drive I would like to add to my computer. This spare hard drive has either xp or 98 already on it. Will it be ok to use it. My existing hd has xp.

I have tried to install a new xp pro sp3 disc on a new computer but have been getting errors in the installation. I have tried 3 different times but it says that the disc is missing some components and when it is final it does not work properly. I …

so after much trouble downloading the sims 2 i got the sims 2 university and i've tryied every and have been looking for hours online trying to figure out why it wont let me install i took it out and cleaned it really well but for some reason it always …

hi all, I posted a message yesterday asking for hrlp on pages on loading and that my hard drive space was shrinking anyway after some research i have managed to sort out the problems i installed thye new version of IE 8 and switched off the protected mode it seems …

I am trying to find a good ram boosting programme (Ram defragmenter) that will work with XP and 3Gbt Ram. Previously when I had 2Gbt Ram I used FreeMem Pro 5 and was very happy with it. Unfortunately FreeMem does not work with 3Gbt Ram so I had to uninstall …

* Configuring Password Policy : Password Policy allows you to improve security on your computer by controlling how passwords are created and managed. You can specify the maximum length of time a password can be used before the user must change it. Changing passwords decreases the chances of an unauthorized …

Hi there. I'm new to this forum but not that new with computers. I've got a computer here and whenever I connect it all up to use, the monitor displays 'no signal'. However I plug a different machine into the same monitor and all is well. I have taken out …

Hi to all the good folks at DaniWeb !!! I have a Emachine W3503, Windows XP, Serive Pack 3. This computer had MANY viruses on it. I got them cleaned. Spybot, Super Antispyware and Malwarebytes all say I'm clean now. The internet works fine and the whole computer seems to …

This is my first time joining a community. I am after some specific help with uninstalling Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 trial!! I have tried to remove it from Add/Remove Programs in the control panel but the remove button doesn't work for some reason. Everything else I remove works. …

How do you re-intall a video driver when you have no interface to work with?

hey. my PC caught the virus about 2 weeks ago. since then ive been trying to get rid of it, nothing seems to work. there was alot of files, programs and images installed to different folders and subfolders, by this virus, have gotten most of it out, cleaned and defragged …

as i haven't enough money to buy windows Xp, i decide to use illegal copies. my friend downloaded a copy of xp, used a sepcial software to make a key, and actived it. now it works very well and can update. i want to do the same, but i don't …

Hi, am in a bit of trouble here... I wiped and installed XPSP2 Professional on a machine that was previously running Vista Home Premium as the machine was crawling. The guy who owns it copied all his files onto an external USB drive before I did the install. Now the …

Hello My HP crashed the other day and i bought a new hard drive and reinstalled XP home every thing working fine started to load my programs that i had lost and i have rebooted it a couple of times in the last day. but today i got a new …

I tried to boot my computer this morning and i got the dreaded blue screen with this message c000021a fatal system error I cant get into safe mode either, I also tried booting with windows xp cd but still no joy the disc loaded all the drivers but then stopped. …

Hi guys wonder if you can help. I had an Korean student staying with me and she downloaded korean programmes on my computer without my knowledge anyway since their discovery I have been trying with no luck to remove them. One is Daum Activex. another is nateon.nate.com. I have tried …

Can we play LAN games using VPN on XP Pro ?? If so how??

Hello to the great folks at Daniweb !!!!!!!! I bought my first laptop, a IBM ThinkPad 600, with Windows 98 on it. Not much of one but I didn't need much for just surfing the net in the livingroom. I bought it used, $20.00 and had a dead cmos battery …

My wife's HP desktop runs with XP Home. Every now and then, the desktop freezes. Completely. She has to unplug the computer, then it boots and runs ok. The freezeup mostly happens when the desktop has been sitting idle for quite a while, but sometimes it occurs after only a …

Can we play LAN games using VPN on XP Pro ?? If so how??

Hey all! Again, it has been a while. Anyway... I just replaced the battery on my laptop, and I've been having issues with the volume control icon in the taskbar tray. Every time I start the computer, it's not there. If I go to "Sounds and Audio Devices" in the …

My sister has recently been receiving some errors concerning .net framework, so I ran windows update as a preliminary measure. It proceeded through steps one and two of the installation process and then asked to be restarted. After being restarted, it came back and said "Configuring updates: Stage 3 of …

I remember one of the most useful pieces of info anyone ever gave me regarding XP and my current build, they said buy the upgrade only, IF you still have your 98 disk. Because the entire OS, was on the XP update CD, and during installation if XP didn't find …

I want to setup a network/server for sharing of files between my friends using internet. Me and my friends should be able to share our files over internet using this network. I don't want to use yahoo messenger's send file option. Also it should authenticate the user be he can …

Hello everyone I had to reinstall winxp and changed the boot settings, but now i can't change it to boot from hard drive instead of CD rom, it will not let me change any settings at all. I have Dell Dimension 4500S and the Bios version is Dell Computer Corporation …