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Hello All..... It has finally happened......vista will not load, and none of the "quick fixes" will work. Does anyone know of any location I can download a boot program that will work for vista? The only thing that is gonna work is running a fixboot or fixmbr.....but I need a …

Hi, I am running a Windows XP Professional platform with SP3. I've disabled Indexing Services. I've swept my system for spyware using PestPatrol. I'm running AVG firewall and AntiVirus. Taskmanager shows infrequent program access of programs and usually sits at 99% idle without giving me information as to what programs …

I am working out of Outlook 2003 on an Exchange Server 2003 system. One of my co workers is having problems reading some e-mails because of the font size of the lettering. He wants to have the option of changing the font size of an incoming e-mail from like 8 …

one week ago i decide to instal the service pack 2 of windows. I was usin firefox update 3 as mi browser an did not use the internet explorer 6 but then i instal the service pack 2 an fire fox star to display an error screen like if dosent …

Hello guys I have been facing a problem with my internet explorer lately.Every time i close any internet explorer window , i get a message saying internet explorer has encountered an error . It also says if send or dont send the error report.But even after sending the error report …

I was usin firefox update 3 as mi browser with windows xp pro and never use the internet explorer of windows, but i decide to instal the service pack 2 and then the fire fox stop workin and only send me a messege says fire fox can`t find the server …

When I opened my conputer to-day my favorites was missing and I dont know how to retrieve it can you help? Marian Howe

[COLOR="Green"][B]hi there i have this desktop, got it from a private company(company used PC) i tried to do a clean install of XP......but its not booting from CD,[i did set the bios to boot from cd]....... also i tried to use from start up disk[A:] but when i tried to …

It used to work now the message I get is: Internet explorer cannot download. No such interface supported. .

I have installed XP on this machine numerous times but this time I'm stuck. There are 3 disks: 1 is partitioned as Linux/NTFS. Linux boots OK while NTFS contains the necessary chipset, LAN etc drivers. Disk 2 is Linux. Disk 3 (where I am trying to install) is recognised as …

Sorry for the duplication but I did not get a response in the old "post703047"(2006). I looked at [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post703047.html[/url]. I tried all the suggestions and msconfig.exe did not work. I even checked the registry and compared it to another registry in a configuration that did work, yet I saw no …

i put new windows on my pc and now i have no sound at all i have tried everything possible please can some one help

i got a problem n my notebook... when i powered on, the network icons in startUp take a lot time to start... i have set MenuShowDelay at registry become 0... then the windows xplorer start lately too bcause it waits the start up icon... what i must do ya? thanks …

My system has alerted me that it has detected an activity of a harmful software and it has no solution to it as it redirects me to download a spyware removal tool. The name of the problem/trojan is [B][U][COLOR="Red"]Trojan-Spy.HTML.Bankfraud.dq.[/COLOR][/U][/B] Help me guys!!!

............ change the previous owners name in my 2nd hand computer? It's got Windows XP Home w/SP3 and I just want to remove their name from my daughters computer. Also, we bought one for our son but it has Windows XP Professional on it but I can't upgrade the Internet …

I think I have viruses on my computer and I have done a full scan and that and removed the viruses but i am still unable to change my background. I am running Vista Home Premium Here my Hijack this Log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at …

Hi I hope this is the right forum to post this in, it seemed the best fit for the question. Ok, we have an IBM Thinkpad running specialist auto diagnostic software built on a custom build of SCO linux - I say custom as I don't seem to be able …

A message is displayed on the screen of my computer,u have a 2038 virus on computer .... . there is link in this advertise, when i open that link it demands my bank details and forces to buy that antivirus. That antivirus name is antivirus 99, its icon is shown …

Whenever I try to open my Device Manager it gives me and error that says class not registered and I've tried opening it by running the command to open Device Manager but it didn't work.

I was told that some setting on vista can cause my issue. I am not sure what setting it is or how I would even changet them once told what the setting issue is. Here is my problem: I recently added Norton Anti-virus and a router to my PC. I …

I'm using [B]WINDOWS VISTA HOME PREMIUM [/B]edition and i applied a patch on an existing game and then, I found that after the reboot, the [I][U]monitor turned blank[/U][/I] after [I]WELCOME SCREEN[/I] is displayed. I don't know what I must do.Can any one of you guys help me? [B][I][U]Very urgent[/U][/I][/B]!!!

Can you connect 2 PCs on 1 phone line? Like daisy chain? Are the modem outputs 'phone' and 'line' connected? ie: shorted together

Hi everyone,i have this Dell machine that's running win xp professional and it's really driving me to the wall.When it's booting it comes up with some funny looking words and doesn't completely boot. Removed the hard disk and used another machine on it and it works just fine. What could …

I am getting an error in Internet Explorer: "Internet Explorer Cannot Display Web Page" Can someone tell me how to solve this problem? TIA!! CBuddha

Hi. My PC has WinXP SP2 and I have a problem with webpages not displaying properly in IE6. It seems that any site with the ending .aspx won't load at all, i just get a blank page with no error messages or anything to tell me what the problem is. …

Hi there Wondering if someone can help/advise me? Will try and make this as clear as possible!! 1. I have a standard internet connection which I have 2 pc's connected to. One is my works laptop (XP) which works fine. I also have a personal pc with Vista (3 months …

I formatted my HP DV6000 laptop that comes with vista and installed Windows XP on it, i downloaded ethe driver for the Dv6000 laptop but it doesnt work at all on it, anybody with a good idea on this should please help me out, my sound my Display won't work …

Hi, I have a Acer desktop with a Celeron D CPU 3,46GHz 3.47 GHz. 1.25 GB of RAM Physical address extension running Windows XP Pro Version 2002 with SP3 I have a list of problems:- 1. when using my pc with one of three internet programs, IE, Opera and Mozella, …

I have this old PC that I resurrected and from what I can see there is something weird going with OS issues. When logging on I'm given 2 options Win 2000 or XP Pro. I want to delete the Win 2000 partition so I don't have this issue anymore. Help …

Hi all i just got a hp dv 6000 with visa home premium. After a few days i keep getting a message saying windows aero is not working and that my copy of windows is not genuine, the message has a link to microsoft website which validates my copy of …

I have a Windows 2000 server computer, do backups on usb hard drives. Get the following error during backup of about 90Gb of data. This error is not always generated. I am using 3 external disks in turn. Source Ftdisk, Event ID 50.

Hi everyone. I have some troubles i been wracking my mind to fix and just no luck so far was wondering if anyone could help. Ok here is it is. I have two computers i had set up going though a a router to my dsl. Now i switched to …

Recently for the first time two or three of the programs listed for startup are not doing so, namely gadwin Printscreen and Scottie. A restart brought them back with the icon showing at the bottom right of the screen. This is annoying as I use gadwin a lot when writing …

Possible virus help.Recently added some software to detect autorun files and viruses on flash disks.The problem now is that my computer wont let me log in.When i reach the log on part it logs me off.Cnt do anything.Tried reapiring my XP files but still no change.

My computer start to work slow. I have no idea what happened even my comp is supposed to be fast with 3.5 Gb, 3Gb RAM, 500 HD, Windows XP... Anyway, sending my HijackThis Scan and hope someone would know what need to fix. Thanks to everybody. Logfile of Trend Micro …

Hi, I have recently returned to my student flat to find that my desktop PC does not work on the wireless we have. All my other flat m8s can get internet fine where as mine it some times says it is connected but i cant get internet and some times …

Hey i have recently found a problem im not sure what its to do with but when i go to the start menu and go to the quick programmes that i use reguarly such as itunes i click on it and a box comes up with a loader saying windows …

Hi, i'm installing the xp in my laptop but the it hangs on this screen "no hdd detected"

Hey there, I've seem to have a major problem with opening up "my computer" and "control panal". It happened a few months back, and I was wondering how you can solve this. Every time I opened it, my pc crashes and freezes and I have to keep on rebooting my …

I am having a horrible time installing vista on my computer. It just keeps crashing. i have all the requirements Vista prescribes. Any thoughts?

I have not used my yahoo messenger for a while and when I did I find that it won't open. So I attempted to uninstall it and reinstall it, but the uninstall program locks up and won't work either. Any suggestions?

Hi, We seem to have a problem with IIS on our portal/intranet server. I will try and explain the situation now. Usually users are able to connect to the portal/intranet page by following the link to [url]http://servername/portal[/url]. However, since restarting the server this morning users have be unable to access …

when J leave my computer for about 15-20 minutes it freezes..and before leaving it,everything is ok..J have kaspersky and several simular programmes(ccleaner,tune up..) do you know where the problem is?

Alright here's whats going on. I have my friends computer which has been a problem repeatedly. Its had almost all of its parts replaced and for a while it was working perfectly. Then one morning when it starts up as it boots windows it just resets itself. This has been …

I have a dell laptop that I had win 98 on, It's like 500 mhz with 128 mb of ram. I installed win xp pro but it ran very slowly (I know cause of the ram), Anyway I uninstalled it and formatted it then tried to load another os on …

Suddenly Internet Explorer refuses to open. Outlook Express is fine. BT Yahoo is fine. Something is preventing down-loading Google Chrome. Notices about firewalls etc. BT Broadband/India version after 3 complex calls say I have to get an expert in....this goes against my inclinations as it is expensive and probably unecessary. …

My wife uses her computer only rarely. Every time she tries to sign on, her password has expired. I know there's a way to keep the password from expiring until I (administrator) tell it to. I'm darned if I remember how to do it and looking through "users and passwords" …

My friend has a HP pavilion zv6000 with windows XP home edition. The computer starts up then shuts right down. Does anyone have any thoughts on what might be wrong? Thanks.

I have this file named Blocks on my hard drive that only appeared after a full system restore. It takes up a lot of space and I was wondering if I can get rid of it.

Hello all good folks at Dani Web !!!!!! I have an Emachine, W3050, Windows XP Home edition. It had MANY viruses,maleware etc... I got it clean to where SpyBot and Super Antispyware gives me a clean report ! Yeah ! I ran quite a few "cleaners" , including ComboFix. Now, …