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HELP!!! I haven't been connected to the internet for three months and when i eventually did the other day, windows started to automatically install some updates. It then asked me to restart my computer, which i faithfully did. But to my shock and horror, my computer would not start and …

I brought new laptop which is Toshiba Satellite A205-S5859. Now operating system is windows vista home edition. I need to install windows xp professional. But problem is xp couldn't find my sata HDDisk. How can i solve that problem. Please help me guys.

[B]HI tried booting my system and got this messege VGA-no input signal. The monitor then went off. How do i resolve this issue[/B]

Administrator, please remove me from the windows 98 forum. I got no help and don't need to use the forums anymore. thanks. petelemm

Anyway... a year ago I've bought new PC and still kept old one to use for online purposes. Few days ago I've changed GP card on new one, and it asked me to register windows online. Today it won't let me do anything until I register Windows online, the problem …

HI Guys I have a problem with a user's GFX card. In a nutshell. When I start the computer in normall mode and go to the computer management I see a the yellow exclamation mark on the GFX card.When i go to the Propeties of the card I get a …

Hi all, I have windows 2003 advance server enterprises edition been installed on dell machine with 2 network card. i connected the internet connection to one of the card and been shared then other to switch. My problem is that i can browse on the server but the workstation can …

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Hello guys, I have my laptop that came with Vista Home premium. Today I tried to install Solaris 10 but it failed. I tried to boot my Vista it failed also. Then I used Gparted to remove Solaris partition by deleting it; That made my laptop unbootable with error "No …

My Office 2007 just arrived. But it came on DVDs. But I don't have a DVD drive. Short of buying a drive I don't otherwise need, is there any way to install it? I must have it installed in two days.

Computer will not boot after installing new hardware. I was trying to install a airlink wireless cardbus adapter to my compaq evo 1020 laptop running xp. I followed the instructions. First I installed the adapter into the slot then turn on computer. I did that and it locked up when …

OK - so I installed windows 2003 server on my desktop, which is in the basement. I have a laptop upstairs (xp) which I want to connect to the desktop over remote desktop. This is working ok (networking, etc), except the way that 2003 server is working, it's making it …

Hi......First off....please be gentle with me.....I am only minimally tech/pc savvy........I have 2 accounts...(1) yahoo and (1) msn.....I uusally click on the MSN logo and my page pops up automatically....Until a week ago.....I wasn't able to get onto to MSN...so.....I went to yahoo..typed in [url]www.msn.com...and[/url] eventually found my way to …

Hey, Im at my buddies house and his keyboard randomly died.... the keyboard is 8 months old and it is used quite frequently.. I have tried uninstalling the drivers for the keyboard....but still have same problem.... The wierd part is...is that the "sleep" butoon on the keyboard still works.... You …

I want to get rite to the nittygritty before all the formal intros. Athelon 700mhz with 98SE and several sp's. I recently wanted to try using outlook express but am afraid I've gotten rid of it. I've deleted all reference to it as it ewas interferring with replying to craigslist …

I had a virus about a month ago, and have been removed from most blacklists, still so e-mail is getting returned. My question is how can I find out who is sending it back? The virus has been fixed, and the problem solved. I need to geet my clients e-mail …

G'day all :?: I very recently re-formatted my HD, and did a clean install of XP Pro, including Service pack 3. I also upped my RAM from 1.5gig to 2 gig. Every now and again (not every time) that I start up my PC, all boots up fine, until it …

(If this should go into another forum, please feel free to move.) Ok, the other day I was fighting with my Windows XP to try to play Halo without constantly getting the annoying exception errors. I updated my graphics card would still crash after trying that and a couple other …

hi guys, yesterday i got a damn virus whenever i go to c drive or open my internet explorer automatically some critical error title window come and start irritating me and automatically open IE and redirect to one site to download 1 software and unfortunately my little brother download it …

Hey there, quick question: does Windows Vista computers play DVD-R? thanks!

I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 Laptop. When i bootup everything is is fine,My Backgroung and Icon all show up. A minute later my Icon and Task bar disappear and dont come back.You have to reboot to get them back for a minute You have to be quick to open …

OK hey everyone came across this board and wondered if anyone can help me with a problem I'm having? Sometimes this laptop will start becoming jumpy, the mouse will freeze for a fraction of a second and there is a noise from the speakers which happens every few seconds. I'm …

The Dell Dimension 3000 just quit booting up and won't boot from cd or in safe mode. when trying to get into safe with prompt it just list a bunch of drivers and then locks up. Same is true when trying to boot normal it just goes to the splash …

Hi My company hosts software on a Windows 2003 server for our clients. The clients access a Https:// url to logon to their site. One of our clients is having an issue when they type in the url which is in the format of [url]https://company_name_qa.com/logon.htm[/url] The underscores resolve to percent …

Hi, I am currently using firefox and I like it better than IE, but have recently downloaded and tested out Opera. There are some things I really like about Opera, mainly the new tab button which brings up a speed dialer with a thumbnail of your web pages. Does Firefox …

Hi i am trying to downgrade from Vista to Xp, and when i try to format the hard disk with the xp disk, i get an error stating no hard disk is available.

Hey guys I had a problem with my laptop of which i raised the issue on this forum (the problem was that my Windows XP OS was not loading my personal profile on start up) and the solutions were suggested one of it been that i should create new user …

trying to uninstall yahoo messenger get message cannot open install log file can anyone help

HI! I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to computers. I've been getting a system 32 error on start up and I can't seem to shake it. Any ideas on how to solve this dilemma would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanx, Lostcaper

Gooday. I have xp and in my device manager there is a yellow other devices question mark and in that there is a yellow question mark with video controller. I think that before had display adaptors with the video in it. How can I put it back the way it …

Hi,I have a problem..I just tried to reformat and install windows XP home edition, and upon coming to the screen of "Repair" or "Install fresh copy" I received an error reporting: Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are …

I have a hard drive that I formatted and dropped into a Gateway PC and cannot seem to load Windows XP. It tells me that all kinds of .dll files are missing or corrupted. HELP!!

Hi, I really hope someone can help me here I've turned my computer into a 20lb paperweight. Now I'd just deal with it and reformat had I not been a complete tool and didn't backup all my files to cd. This is what happened, I had 4 partitions on my …

i recentl downgraded, or shall i say "upgraded" my hp pavilion 2415nr laptop from vista to xp. Everything went great, except for the sound card installation. None of the drivers on any forum work. was wondering if anybody had done this, or know what to do.

I was given an older Dell laptop (a Latitude LXi w/pent I) which had been wiped. I need to get an operating system on it. It had originally had Win 95 so I downloaded a bootable 95 and saved it to floppy. The bios it set to read the floppy …

I have this Windows server 2003 O/S witch gives me this window error message witch i can not close it from my desktop. explorer.exe - Application Error The instruction at "0x0134f512" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "written". Click on OK to terminate the program Click on …

I've noticed other somewhat similar problems being discussed but not exactly. The fans come on, the disc drives check, the lights flash on the keyboard but nothing else. no beeps. sometimes the monitor seems to be getting nothing from the computer. I've opened it up, checked all connections, tested the …

Hi, I'm a new subscriber here. Just happened to fall into this website and hope it's a keeper. I've had a frustrating problem downloading games at worldwinner since I got this new computer 4 months ago. I've asked my manufacturer (Dell), the game website itself and my ISP for help …

Hi, Hoping someone will be able to help me. Whenever I try to run a game on my computer, for example Company of Heroes, I am getting the following error message: Failed to set a working mode for rendering device. This could be due to having an old version of …

So, this is what I have. [url]http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e273/jubdaddy/AORNK-1.jpg[/url] I want to get the most drive room on (c) can I "merge" D and Free Space into C. I was told I would have to reformat the whole disk. Thanks guys.

my d drive (cd drive) will let me burn play and rip cds but wont let me play n e games or dvds.... whats the problem

I recently got a mess of stuff happening with my laptop's hard drive so I removed it and put in into a USB enclosure so I could access my data. My laptop did use a windows password which I obviously know but while hooked up USB, I can not access …

Hey Guys My friend has a laptop he deleted D partition of his hard drive and formatted the C partition, after completion, on restart his computer started complaining "Hard Disk Drive 0 not found ". When external Hard Drive is connected it will display message "NTLDR is missing". Please what …

I forgot ,how can we apply local security policy on a computer running WinXP? Do we have to right click on My Computer and go to Manage for that? I donot see how can we apply local security policy from there? Regards,

This started a couple of months ago, probably and it has me baffled. I primarily use Firefox 3 as my browser, but also have IE 7 installed. From time to time, if I go to MySpace (using FF) and then try to leave, everything hangs up for a few seconds, …

I need help my TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223F driver does not read dvd and cd. Every time i put a dvd show me that is empty.What i have to do to fix the problem?

i downloaded nero and installed it and it turned out to be a virus. Iv got avg on but it wont detect it.I cant access task manager, i can't access control panel ( i can by going "run" and typing "control.exe", i can't access regedit as well. When i go …

Ok my problem is real simple :) You know how when you plug your speakers/headphones/microphone into the back of your computer a little screen pops up asking you what you just plugged into your comp? ( usually i got a screen with the colored plugs picture) Well my wife did …

Hi, dont know whether I am in the right area, new so here we go. Have a samsung YP-K3 player and trying to synch it but keep getting an error report...Windows Media Player has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. It lets us …

Hey all, i recently ran DBAN (using the autonuke function) to wipe my dads old business laptop, and now have a big problem.... There is a cd drive attachment for this laptop, and everytime i try to reinstall windows 2000 (its an old computer), the following error appears: "No boot …