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I had to put a new Motherboard and CPU in a computer after the motherboard burned out. The current installation of XP will boot in safemode (only as far as cursor, no icons) and get past the splash screen before a quick BSOD and restart in standard mode. Big surprise, …

hi foilks i have acquired a new AMDX64 500 with sli motherboard so i statred to load windows home edition and it prepares the initial installation drivers etc then just before the agreement page you know where you press f8 to accept term etc it goes into a blue screen. …

Hello!:) Need your help. Recently some problem has appeared on my pc - there are many duplicates in it. Now i'm looking for some good duplicate file finder to delete these clones. Maybe you know app like this? I know just Clone Remover - in my opinion nice program but …

I had XP Home on my system, which met with an untimely demise. I had a copy of XP Pro (not belonging to me), which I loaded to have a functional system, expecting to be able to get a (legal and brand new) copy of Home from a Microsoft employee …

Hi I have TOSHIBA Satelite series Laptop with Me. when i bought it Vista OS is there. Now I want to install XP in it. Is it possible?

alright i looked around for awhile and nothing helped me. my computer doesnt boot it turns on lights fans everything but it wont boot keyboard is haulted they flash on once and thats it nothing else works no screen or anything, its a navigator custom built i donno whats wrong …

hi. ive been trying to sign onto to a website but everytime i do i get the message : The system cannot find the file specified. today i had removed sum software and also ran a couple of cleaners etc so im wondering whether thats why. please please please help …

I have two partitions in my hard disc. One is Primary DOS Partition and another is extended DOS-partition. And there are two logical dos drives inside the Extended DOS Partition. I want to delete the existing partitions and make new partitions, but when I am going to delete the Extended …

ok, im running windows xp professional, since yesterday my internet explorer has been givin me hell. when i type in an address i want to go to another internet explorer window opens and it wont load the page i am trying to go to, when i exit the second internet …

Hi, I have a several computers on my LAN. One of the computers is the file server. There are a shared folder that is currently shared on the network. There is no a proper permission set on that folder. This means anyone can access to it. What i'd like to …

Hi everybody, I'm new to this. My name is Dusty, anyways I was helping a friend with burning pics to cd-r. It was successful and then when tried to view the pics, it showed up as a blank cd. It said, it got 271 mb out of 700 mb, but …

Hello everyone, I am using Windows XP and I have about 40% free space. I just recently discovered that when I clicked the Itunes icon, nothing happens. When I click the Internet Explorer icon, a blank window pops up and it freezes or says that Internet Explorer has to close. …

[B]Hello. I was wondering if someone could PLEASE help me figure out why my laptop keeps lagging / freezing. I dont usually have anything open except a couple of webpages (ebay & verizon email). Even IE freezes all the time (or lags ALOTTT). Alot of the times they permanently freeze …

First I apologize if I'm in the wrong area. I'm new. I am running Vista Home Premium on a Dell XPS410. I have BitDefender Internet Security 2009. After running the program without problem or incident for some time, suddenly the scan results were telling me that some files were not …

i went to restart and all i got was a blue screen and a F1 at the botton and a F10 at the bottom and then i locked up and could do nothing.. i took out the hard drive and put it in a enclosure kit and tryed to get …

[url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread72275.html[/url] I read that thread and found that I have the same problem. However, that appears to be help for a Desktop PC instead of a Notebook PC. My computer freezes randomly every 20 seconds to 10 minutes. It freezes for about 5 seconds to 10 minutes. I used to …

Hi all, I have forget my admin password in window xp please help me to run the admin .

Hi, I have Windows Vista Home edition. I reinstalled Windows some days back & took back up of my data. After reinstalling Windows when I try to Back up, its giving me the following Error ------------ RESTORE DID NOT COMPLETE SUCESSFULLY Restore did not finish successfully. Error Code: The backup …

Hi Guys My PC has recently refused to boot up to windows XP. It reads a message saying "Press CTRL + ALT + DELETE to restart", when I do this it loads up with exactly the same message and I end up going round in circles! Someone advised me to …

Internet Explorer 8 will not work , when i press on it on desk top nothing happens, except hour glass for about 1 sec. So i tried deleting it in control panel well that doesnt work, when i get to near deleting it, it says the ieencode is needed so …

I am running XP professional. I haven't received any updates since August 2008. I have SP2 but nor SP3. The Security center showed automatic update ON and I went to check for the latest updates from windows updates. I received a window which stated the site cannot continue because one …

[COLOR="Red"][/COLOR]hello, i am having a problem with my dvd's they freeze up but in different places when i play them I use convertx to dvd and convert on the slowest setting, I then burn them using nero on usually about 4 speed and i am using ritek discs i think …

Hey, I just recently had a windows xp partition fail (blue screen of death), so i decided to just get a new SATA drive and install a new windows xp pro partition. After restarting the computer 20 times to set the slave and master drives for SATA, i tried to …

:eek: [font=Comic Sans MS][size=4]Okay, Okay....so I made a Boo-Boo on my part[/size][/font].:o [font=Comic Sans MS][size=3]I have a fetish with changing the way my computer looks....(wallpaper, fonts, boot screens, taskbar....etc.....) Well I went and tweaked my computer, and tried to change the XP Boot screen by first [color=red]backing up the ntoskrnl.exe …

Hi! Does anybody know how to analyze occupied disk space? Maybe some program is needed for this? I know only Directory Size. Is it right for this? Thanks

I have no Doubt that Zone Alarm is the Best and simple Firewall. I have used not Long time but it is promising! I have stuck with Avast for Long now and haven't Let me down, So I will stick with it! The Problem is, I used to have ASquared …

My computer has been randomly going to a black screen and having white random blink white lines flash horizontally across it. Also it has gone to a full screen gray with black diagonal hash marks. I have videos and pictures of the screen. [I]<<email snipped>>[/I] if you wanna see the …

Anybody out there having trouble getting your deployments to join a domain with this product?

Hi, recently my laptop has been getting a blue screen error, it's only happened a few times but I don't like it happening at all. The error says it has something wrong with either new hardware or software. Although it's not new I think it has something to do with …

Hi, i want write a script for windows 2003 server. How do i zip the files from the cmd. Thanks

hi good day. my cpu is havin problem with auto-shutdown.. even i set this settings Settings / Control Panel / System / Advanced / Startup and Recovery / Settings. Make sure the box is UNCHECKED where it says "Automatically Restart" under System Failure." still my computer keep on restarting.

I am running windows XP, when i start up my computer the windows xp loads and then goes to a black screen with a white blinking cursor in the upper left of the screen. It never go to the accounts screen. It just started today december 28th (i am posting …

Hello, I have an XP Pro "corporate" laptop that I'd like to turn into a basic home computer. It was configured to log into a domain controller. I went to Control Panel -> System -> Computer Name and told the system it was part of a workgroup and not a …

Not 100% certain this belongs in this section but anyway: Over night, my computer downloaded the automatic windows update and restarted. Once I logged back on, my browser would not connect to the internet. I knew i was online because I was running AIM. I restarted my computer and I …

I recently flash my HP with a new Bios and now it gets to the XP screen and freezes up. I flashed it again just in case of some kind of error during the first flash, but still get the same result. I tried to reboot from the last known …

Hi all, When I play my wave file through media player and an amplifier, volume is fantastic. Once I put the wave file onto my mp3 player and play them through the exact same amplifier, the volume sucks. I've tried fiddling with volume settings in media player to no avail. …

Hello, My Windows XP Pro SP2 setup gets through formatting my hd(500gb) and all the way down to Installing Windows but once the install bar gets to about half way and says installing devices my comp restarts and it loads up to this point and starts to install and then …

So, I have 2 computers, both of which did an automatic update a few days ago. Here are the problems I'm having: My Personal Computer: Doesn't work at all! As Windows starts up there are either blue or green vertical lines spread accross the screen in groups of 5 or …

Hey to all at Dani Web !!! I have a Emachine, T1740, with Windows Xp Home Edition on it. I'm lost when it comes to dealing with hardware that won't install right. This computer was givin to me. It was loaded with a few viruses and had issues I couldn't …

my family has an older gateway computer. It has a 600Mhz AMD processor, and 192 megs of ram. A while back the harddrive broke(made this clicking noise when we turned it on) so we bought another HD and intalled everything fine, and it all worked great except for when we …

Hi! Please have a look at the attached picture... Left: you got the process list sorted by CPU usage. Right, task manager showing 50 + % CPu Usage... wtf? Thanks for your help! [IMG]http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l464/ggogeta1/Cpuusage.jpg[/IMG]

I switched my computer on and on the start up it's half way down the page. Then it goes on to window starting up and just reboots again. I have tried the safe mode and that does the same. Can anyone offer me any help. Thanks

The message "Generic Host Process for Win 32 services has encountered a problem and needs to close" comes up each time I re-boot and seems to cause Sound Card, Firewall and other problems. This seems a common problem. I have looked at many postings and applied many suggested fixes but …

I have a main C: hard drive, plus a secondary drive. The 2nd hard drive is G: and is connected to the proper place on the cable that plugs into the mobo. I can open files on the G drive if there is a shortcut to a file or folder …

I just wanted to know that when we upgrade windows to the latest version of windows, example WinXP to WinVista, then is the program folder and documents and settings folder also effected or only the windows folder is changed? I hope my question is clear Regards,

okay - so I am not a computer pro and i am very frusrated right now. I will try to be as descriptive as possible and maybe some one can help me. Please be as descriptive as possible in your reply as well. So a few days ago I tried …

TV not detected as secondary display device on laptop connected through S-Video to RCA adapter:(TV Out) I have a compaq presario V3070TU laptop connected through S-Video out to the RCA input of my TV (Samsung CS-29K44ME).Laptop has Intel 945 mobile chipset as graphics card. I am unable to get my …

After being left idle for a little while, my computer stops responding and freezes. i first thought it was a problem with the sleep function, but i turned off sleep and it still has the same problem. i am not sure what would cause this sort of problem, and i …

My hard drive D (Recovery only has 23.MB left and I keep getting a popup about it. My son tells me that because Microsoft has partitioned its hard drive that it cannot be cleaned. Is that right and does anyone know what I can do to get some free space …

I'm a novice when comes to computer networking. I would like to know if there is any way I am able to change the tcp/ip setting as user. It has been disabled by the administrator. Thank you.