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Hello I want to downgrade to windows XP pro SP2 and have everything installed. So far I found audio drivers for L355D-S7825 that worked through RealTek but I tried the PCI LAN drivers and they didn't work. Right now Im using puppy Linux and puppy Linux is using RealTek RTL-8169 …

I made fresh installation of Windows XP Pro which previous times went without any troubles. However now I'm getting error 0x80096010 and I'm not able to install any software, if I try I get message such as "Extraction failed. File is corrupt." I tried to check certificates as many discussion …

I am having troubles trying to connect an notebook (with XP Pro) to a personal wireless network. I know there is no hardware problems as the notebook has connected to other wireless networks before and the wireless network works on another notebook using vista. The problem notebook detects my wireless …

just the other day my girlfriend logged onto AOL like normal to check her email, later that day when she went to log back on she could no longer connect, the model will dial but she cant get a connection, it goes through the booping and beeping while it dials …

My Toshiba laptop is having some major problems with its start up. Upon start up, there is a black screen with white writing that says: "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this. If your computer stopped …

I have 2 Firewall that I installed (ZoneAlarm & COMODO) and they are still showing active in TUT (The Ultimate Troubleshooter). I cannot turn on or off Windows Firewall. If I try to it doesnot prompt me that I am at risk. I always get a prompt in my other …

Here is the problem. I cannot access any of the Adminstrative tools, when I go to it, it has an hourglass like its getting there then it never gets there (I tested it and had it stay there overnight and nothing) I believe because of this problem I cannot install …

OK, Question is: What is the easiest way to transfer a Desktop OS build to a laptop, make it boot and keep all the settings and updates I have done on that build? I have a baseline built on a Desktop PC with all the updates and security setting but …

Hello- I am hoping that I can get some help on a pesky issue I have going on. Pardon my ignorance here folks. We trying to open IE, I get an error message. It says: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Buffer Overrun Detected! A buffer overrun has been detected which …

I have a dell xps400 with an HL-DT-ST DVDRW DL burner. I am using Roxio Creator IO Dell edition, that came with the computer when i purchased it new 18 months ago. It is a 3.2 gig with 2 gig ram. Lots of hard drive space avilable. Prviously I have …

Hi, I am trying to get a parallel port based Rowland plotter to work on my husband's Dell XPS via a parallel to USB cable. Initially I couldn't see any ports in Device Manager but I have Googled and found out how to show hidden device and now device manager …

I am doing a new build with a Geforce 7050M-M2 board with a Phenom X4 9550 Processor. New ram and HD. After files are loaded and the reboot it goes to the black screen and stops. Can someone please help me figure this one out? Thanks

Hi, I got a client who have 3 servers, running Windows 2003 server Standard R2. In the last 3 days, one of them (TS= Terminal Server) has restarted by itself, with an event saying "Unexpected shutdown" and as always, there is not much in this event, not even a code …

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I have created an application in C++ using MFC, and then one day I have executed this application using Intel VTunes just to monitor the performance of the application and to check where most of the time is consumed by my application. After analyzing I have found that about 40% …

Hi! can someone send me a link where i can download a free c And c++ compilers!

Hey people, I havw Avant browser and it keeps track of user habit.Anybody knows how to disable that option? Thanks

OK, here is what is going on. I got a nasty spyware. Trojan Horse Zlob. I have Spyhunter, XoftSpySE, Spybot Search and Destroy, and AVG. I also have windows defender and I downloaded smitfraudfix. I ran all of them to get rid of it. I think they all got rid …

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I was given a dell inspiron 2500 with windows xp professional. Problem is cant swipe it and download new stuff because I don't have any stuff. I have got to make this work. I turn on laptop... windows loads then dark blue screen then black screen then welcome to windows …

All too regularly, when I try to safely remove my USB external hard drive I get the dreaded message that a file or process is still accessing it. I know that there are huge numbers of posts on many different forums about this problem, and I have spent hours trawling …

I am not sure if this problem belongs here, if not, please accept my apology and move to correct forum. My OS is XP Pro SP3 When I visit websites with flash displays, I cannot view it, not in IE7 or in FF3.0 I get the error on the website …

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 …