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hi, about a day ago i wiped my computer. its a windows xp, the inter net i use is broadban ethernet cable from comcast but after ive reinstalled the drivers from my dell drivers disk under device manager it still says that the ethernet, and multmedia drivers are missing ive …

Wow so many expert yet no one knows how to recover admin passwords in server 2003...if u that good show me how..give me a link or tell me something. some expert this site has

My dad has a Windows Vista computer and suddenly today the internet didn't work. So we restarted it a few times and it still didn't work. We tried to ping google and it worked and in task manager it said that the wireless internet and hard line were both working. …

Hi, I have a really weird problem that i was hoping somebody might be able to assist with. Whenever i click on the control panel the window will open, and then close, taking the rest of explorer with it. The Start menu and task bar disappear, i see the background, …

I am getting redirected to random websites when I click on search engine links and I also get a "Failed to Connect" message when I try to access anti virus web sites. My AVG earlier today detected "trojan horse SHeur:chkn" today. AVG and my computer freezes up before i can …

Hello, I am new to this so I hope I have posted this in the right place... I have just come back home after a few months aborad. PC propmpted me to download all latest windows updates on first boot. Since that, I cannot access any windows websites like msn.com, …

my status monitor is greyed out - the printer works but one cannot see the ink levels - is there a fix for this as I have reinstalled many times in various ways but no luck [ I have turned the anti virus off]

MY FRIENDS, iM TRYING TO DO AS ASKED. BUT MY COMP IS A BOOKERS ORIGINAL. OKAY I CLEANED MY HARD DRIVES DID THE MALWARE TRICK. BUT I GOT PROGRAMS IN ADD AND REMOVE THAT CANT BE REMOVED. I WAS ABLE TO START MY COMP WITH OUT USING THE ABORT BAT …

Hello, New to the website. Today I was cleaning my fiance's father's computer and last thing I had done was do a check for bad sectors ( C: ) Right click and did a system check for bad sectors and repaired them. After that I had removed some applications that …

i m having a dell1525.i m havin XP installed in it.i tried installing windows vista but, wasnt able to..my laptop is havin 160gb hard disk n 2gb ram..it is displayin an error code 0XE0000100 when tryin to install vista business edition n error code 0XC0000005 when tryin to install vista …

Please help I've been working on a home movie since last christmas. When I view it, it plays perfect but after I save it to my computer it either dosen't play all the music or randomley flashes through all the pictures and no music. I've had it with this program …

Hi all, I hope you can give me some advice, my son has a gateway 32 bit lap top which runs vista. vista came pre-installed with internet explorer yesterday he downloaded ie8 beta ( I told him not too as a mother would...lol) Now every time he opens the internet …

Hello, My school has a 'atheros ar5007 802.11b/g wifi adaptor' with an unsecured open connection. My new HP dv9700 laptop with vista says i have a great signal but nothing worked. When I went to my college's office they said their wifi does not work with vista. Is there any …

I uninstallled Norton antivi as I have systemsuite6 prof and like it better. Now during DOS startup it says theres a file system ini wants and can't find. I press continue and all proceeds without incedent and everything seems to work. Norton is long gone and I wouldn't know how …

Kind of weird what is happening really! My computer and internet seem to be working fine, then for the last few days, the internet will just stop working. It won't slow down, nothing strange happens on the screen that I can see, but all of the sudden my internet drops. …

Friend of mine is working on making a Bank Database in Microsoft Access. After trying different validation format, we failed to get exactly what we wanted. We did the setting for "Account Number" as "AutoNumber" & set the format in the way, that every time the new record gets created, …

hello everyone. I'm new here, so please tell me if I've posted in the wrong place. Here's my problem: I have downloaded the latest version of msn messenger 7. I sign in to msn messenger successfully and then after about one second, messenger exits. When I move my mouse over …

I want to convert my windows xp desktop pc into a 3 monitor viewing station setup. Im not sure if just adding a hub and connecting additional monitors and mice will do the job. Im trying to accomplish the following: have 1 pc with windows xp connected to main monitor …

Hi, My computers Hard disk was crashed last month then i have taken all the backup of data from computer on CD/DVD And my laptop. and replaced the hard disk and reinstall the XP but now some of the CD/DVDs are not readable by XP, i mean now some CD/DVDs …

Gooday. As you were the only people that could solve my last problem, hope you can help here. Every now and then my computer freezes. Everything is still on the screen but everytning stops, I have to push the reset button. It might do it 3 times in an hour …

ok so my laptop is acting strange. it is a hp c502us and has many problems right now. 1st problem is that when i start the laptop it tells me to select an operating system. the 2 choices are Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and Microsoft Windows XP Setup. everytime …

Hi, I've been noticing my computer running very slow lately. I was able to run and play games smoothly and now it's very choppy and lags a lot. I recently reinstalled windows xp and I did it wrong and ended up with 2 windows. I manged to delete the previous …

hi! I am using windows 2003 standard edition, the RAM on the server is 4gb, there is a database on the server which is having 1.7 gb memory configured. The page file usage is around 3 gb, there are no other applications running on the server, what can be the …

Hi, I really do need some help, and it seems, that this is the best place to get some. A while ago, i was looking for an alternative to stage 6 DivX hosting, when i came to a side which suddenly smashed a whole lot of spyware on my computer. …

Im unsure on what i have to delete from my log as i do not know much! Please hep me by telling me what is safe to delete! Here is my log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 9:04:28 PM, on 9/5/2008 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT …

Hi This may be a rather easy question. Ive deleted the users account and recreated it. The users email account is already up and running on his XP machine, But now I want to import his address book witch is resideing on the Server. Question is 1.Where can I find …

Hello everyone, I'm having a strange problem with my computer that I would have expected to be more common, but I can't seem to find any threads already on the topic. My computer somehow became infected with a few viruses that targeted about 20 different files in my C:\windows folder. …

sony vaio laptop VGN CR407E hello everyone! i've joined this website for the sole purpose of getting answers to fixing my laptop. for any info/help, i thank you in advance. so this is the story: opening an email from a legit website (intercontinental hotels group), then my computer suddenly freezes. …

I thought RIS was on server 2003? for some reason I have WDS on my server 2003 machine.... is this normal? well if it is, here is my question... I need help making an automated .wim image for the server, I am only 15 so would like help in resolving …

Hi, I'm Fred. I understand Computers somewhat but definitely no Expert. I have a question about a Display Properties feature. My Computer is an HP 6738 Pavilion Windows ME 4.90.3000 700 Mhz 319 MB of Ram Internet Explorer 6 Outlook Express 6 I have created custom colors and other features …

:) Hi , tried installing Chrome from google but unable to do the same as the event viewer showed the following error "The description for Event ID ( 20 ) in Source ( Google Update ) cannot be found." also Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with …

Hello all, I am new, this is my first post. I am happy to be here. A friend recommended me from a GTO site I belong to. I hope I am posting in the right section, forgive me if I am not. My computer is fairly new, about eight months …

Hello, My Win2003 R2 domain server showing high cpu use. When I started domain backup. It was taking whole 2 days for just 280 GB data. Few day ago it was taking only 5 Hrs. Please help me in this regards, Tushar Joshi

I'm having trouble with a particular folder... I should have over 3,000 files in it, but it's only showing 21. The files must be hidden because the program i'm using to open these files are working properly. I just cant see them in the folder.... I tried dragging some new …

Picasa (a google product) scans disk looking for jpgs. It assumes that there will be files in ...\My Documents\My pictures. This worked as advertised until I had problems with sound on DVD movies. Dell fixed that by installing new firmware for the DVD player. After that Picasa was able to …

Well, I don't know if this is a computer issue--because I doubt it is. Yet I do not know if it is a Vista issue. I have Windows Vista 32 Home Premium, and here's the thing. My computer will take a long time to load web pages--but that's not the …

Hi, I hope someone can help me with this cause its driving me crazy!! I have a number of folders in the c:\Windows directory that I cannot delete (they all start with lots of underscore ______) and also 4 shortcuts in the quick link bar and cookies in the cookies …

So I have a brand new hp laptop. I put in a DVD yesterday and it says the region is not supported. It asks me if I want to change the region. This is strange to me because this is a U.S. DVD and the laptop should be set to …

After Burning a number of files to a CD I find that the capacity has been reached. I write to inquire about the remaining files. Is there a way to use the operating system to 'compare' what has been copied and highlight what remains to be copied. Similarly, Is there …

all I get when I start my computer is the wallpaper pic and error missing C\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHLWAPI.DLL THEN IT SAYS ERROR LOADING EXPLORER.EXE MUST REINSTALL WINDOWS IT WON'T DO ANYTHING EXCEPT SHOW THESE 2 ERROR MESSAGES

After updating Norton Internet Security. After the update I was advised to restart computer. Now the computer just goes to a black screen that says run windows normally, safe mode, etc. when I click Normal mode it shows the Windows XP start up loading screen with the green bars below …

I have windows xp sp3 installed in my system with xp sp2....but i have real problem in my computer..i got once virus in my computer....after that i format it ....but it is not gone.....i think i got virus from pendrive.....whenever installing my xp i got virus.....i am using net...i used …

ive lost my windows XP setup disk but i have my serial code thing on a sticker which is on PC. is there a way to download Windows XP on a computer running vista and then burning it onto a disk and installing windows in that way? cheers, THIS IS …

It quarantined 110 files. I could not clean them so I deleted them all (all of them are recoverable or I can get by downloading/reinstalling. Then I restarted and run another scan, but before that I ran HijackThis... Things were fine until I updated to XP SP3 :-/ ;) Can …

Hiya Not sure if this is the correct forum, but thought i would give it a go Keep getting e-mails that have the message This is a multi-part message in MIME format And the rest of the email is just gobble dee gook. Any ideas how i can get to …

Forgive me if this is answered somewhere else, but I have tried searching on the problem and am not coming up with any relevant results (anywhere on the web). I have Vista 32 Ultimate installed on a P4 Quad Core with 2GB of ram and an onboard NIC (10/100). The …

I just built a computer So i have No operating system on it at all. I Used an old version of Windows XP Professional That I began to Install, but Now i do not have the CD Key. How Can I Uninstall Windows So I can start With A Clean …

I worked through the tips to tweak my XP and its messed up my graphics; I ran 'sfc / scannow' to correct any .dll's etc using my XP SP2 disk. I run a 19" widescreen monitor and use 1440 x900 resolution, I can only see 1280 x 1024 and 1400 …

Last two times I have booted my computer up it takes me to the screen where you select what mode to run it in. Then usually takes a couple more screens of scans and loads before it boots up. Has restarted twice for no reason while I am on it. …

Hi, I am just about to set up a home server that i will install windows server 2003 on. I am planning on using a fairly old pc, that is no longer used but yet still does perform very well and meets all the system requirements of windows server 2003 …