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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.

Hello, I installed the Vista Transformation pack a few weeks ago and I have decided to remove it and replace it with a nicer looking theme that Lifehacker wrote about. I restored my computer back to before the installation, but for some reason there are still parks of the pack …

I have had great help here in the past, so i thought i would try my last resort. Nothing has helped me yet I get this Event Viewer > System error every time i turn on my pc ****** The LogMeIn Kernel Information Provider service failed to start due to …

Antivirus XP 2008 arrived on my machine today uninvited! I think I have managed to get rid of all of the files but now I am unable to change my wallpaper. Half of the tabs are missing when I go into "Properties for my desk top. I have been working …

C:\DOCUME~1\Family\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERc23a.dir00\Mini101008-02.dmp C:\DOCUME~1\Family\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERc23a.dir00\sysdata.xml How do i go about fixing this? happens on start up most times or computer randomly restarts.

I keep getting a popup saying that windows virtual memory is low. I go in and check it and it seems fine, although I did bump it up to the recommended size, not sure if I should've or not, will leave it alone until I find out whats going on. …

I have Windows Vista Premium and cable internet through Charter Communications. All of a sudden my ipv4 address reverted to a 169. I called their technical support and we walked thru several possible solutions such as release/renew, resetting the connection from their end, resetting my modem which is connected directly …

This is probably an old question but I can't connect to a couple of sites..pgatour.com and bestbuy.ca. I have avg antivirus which I deleted and tried with no luck and I turned off windows firewall..still no luck

All I did was let Windows update install SP1. I get the box: Startup Repair cannot repair this computer automatically. I'm now doing a full system recover...thank goodness this was a new computer! So, do I prevent the thing from doing a Windows update? How do you take care of …

i am using vista home premium operating system i am facing new problem from the last 2 weeks. all the time when i switch on my laptop this pop up massage is come more than 2 or 3 times in the screen. [B][COLOR="Red"]"distributed file system replication has stopped working"[/COLOR][/B] please, …

im trying to install my western digital hard drive on windows 2000

Hi Every One I have a new mother board with a intell duel core 3 ghz processor and 4 gig of 1066mhz ram. When i try to install win98 i get a message not enough memory. Can any one help. Thanks oneamp.

Is it possible to retrieve the original "File Created" date from a file when the date has been changed due to copying from one system to another? I understand there are ways of preserving the dates if steps are taken [i]before[/i] the copying, but is there anything that can be …

hi! everybody may some one please help me i can't get 2 my boot device i get this msg. "windows could not start because the following file hs missing or corrupt : \windows\System32\config\system you can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using original setup cd-rom. select 'r' …

Alright I have a big problem with my gateway laptop, I'm posting this from my PC. Here is my problem, it wont let me connect to the internet with the wireless connection and it seems like my wireless connection in my whole house is down due to this one computer. …

Hey I have Windows XP Professional 32-bit, SP 3 but I have a problem with Safe Mode, it won't boot. Normal mode works perfectly :) but I won't press F8 and restart with safe mode, it won't boot at all .. I don't understand why.. Can somebody please help with …

Hello, I was wondering if anybody could help. I can not get on to the internet despite my computer saying that I am connected. I have tried internet explorer and firefox and have had no joy with both. I get "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" and something similar with …

On my dell Inspiron 1505 laptop I'm running windows XP sp3. every time I try to shutdown or log off everything but the wallpaper disappears and it freezes up. I've given it as much as an hour so it isn't just going slow. This laptop was working fine until a …

Is there any way to edit windows boot.ini outside windows?,i mean editing boot.ini without loging in to xp.

Hello Everyone, I have my Windows Xp operating system with perntium 4 in my Pc with 20 gb hardisk installed. So i divided the space into 2 partitions , C: with 8 GB and D with 11 GB and the other was just unformatted. It was running Fine. But suddenly …

Hi,am suffering from a very big problem of dual bootup.u can view my problem here [url]http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5928734#post5928734[/url] i hav a prob in my system and need to do a fast recovery..da prob is dat i dnt hav the xp cd to boot frm startup,but i got da new service pack 3 …

hey, i recently formatted my hd, when i re-installed windows (xp) i noticed that the longer the pc was runing my mouse started to lag every 2 secs for a period of 4 secs at a time, upon looking at my processes in the task manager, i noticed my cpu …

My WMP screen is cut by half horizontally. The top poertion is a clean view of what is playing, the bottom portion is either dark or distorted screen. What can I do ? I have re-installed windows 2000 and re-installem Windows media player and the problem is still the same …

I tried to search for answers to this problem on this forum and did not find any, so I am posting my question here. Please note that I am a novice user. I have a Compaq Nevo800v laptop computer running Windows XP. I am using a Compaq Wireless 110 LAN …

For a year I have been using a Dell 3010cn laser printer on a wireless network. The Dell is attached to my office pc via a USB connection. There are three other computers in the house all connecting via wireless router. There has never been a problem printing to the …

Hi! I've read a similar thread... [url]http://techrepublic.com.com/5206-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=230371&start=0[/url] But the way our network works, is simply a central server, and I have 6 other computers that make a remote desktop connection (terminal/server). Each user has a different user account. Now my problem is.. I am logged under administrator account (directly on …

Hi, I have recntly been having problems with my laptop recognizing my external hard drive, When the hard drive is switched on, the usb input sound happens but the device displays the 'busy' light and is not displayed in 'My Computer' and is therefore unaccessable. I have tried using it …

After messing up my Win 2000 desktop I took it to the local repair shop where the incompetent owner restored it to life, but managed to lose about 50 GB of hard disk space. Yes lose it. I've searched meticulously for a file that big, without success. What can have …

Good Day! Can someone help me to install Symantec Anti-Virus in Windows 98. I'm taking a hard time to install it. There's a message saying that it can't proceed to installing until you update your OS. Please help me to do it... Thanks!!! -=[ PJ ]=-