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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 …

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?