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computer moron, here. The computer (tower--maybe from 2003) I use every few months for pictures isn't working. It comes on, the blue hp screen comes up, then the "thinking" windows screen comes on.... and stays. Eventually the screen goes blank and the routine starts over. I just want to get …

while playing some media files in my computer,sometimes it hangs with giving abnormal sound(It sounds Kyaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaa) and Task Manager also can't be opened,the key board doesn't work for power off.The power button of the CPU also doesn't work,But Re-start Button works ,and I have to Re-start the computer many times …

Hi.. I'm having problems with my torrent downloads. When I use utorrent as my client, the speed is stuck to 11 Kbps. I tried changing the port number but it doesn't make any progress. When I finally gave up utorrent, I tried Torrent2Exe which converts a .torrent file into a …

I am hoping that somebody has a quick fix to my problem. I am support for my company and a user brouht me her laptop and it will not reboot. It goes to the Windows screen, then the boot in normal mode, then back to Windows. The user and I …

Hello, My 1st time here. I recently removed a hard drive & changed sata connections. The "C" drive will not boot correctly, XP boots but settings will not load, programs & files will not open.I ran CMS Products, Inc. - BounceBack Version 7, 1, 6, 0 b/4 opening up the …

I have 2 computers and both the CD and DVD burners were working fine, but now when I go to "My Computer" they're missing from both computers. (I have WinXP Home Edition) I read that this could have been caused from itunes which I had on both computers. I've uninstalled …

Hello everyone, I getting this mesage "UserInit.exe" application error everytime we I'm trying to signon to my computer. Once I ok to the message the computer goes to my desktop without any Icons. Help!!! have does anyone knowhow to fix this issue.

Hello Folks, my problem is, i began to notice my mechine was lagging alot; a couple of days ago. I decide to turn off alot of programs from the task mgr, which didnt help very much. After i did a reboot thinking this might help my problem because i leave …

Tried to load a Medal of Honor game on a Vaio Vgc RA834G Media ctr computer. Game loaded fine, have checked all that I dare and the game won't boot up. It even asks for the CD if not in place, yet does nothing. Checked for upgrades and have downloaded …

#1: There are 4 users on my pc. All have administrator status. Recently only one has been able to successfully open documents, use the internet, etc. Can't understand how this occurred. #2 : CdRw drive has a disk, but dialog says to insert one. Can't copy my digital files to …

Gooday. I have an old tv, it has only one input output and that is the aerial hole. Can I hook my computer up to it. I have the little box that I can use the dvd player.

hi i got attacked by a virus/malware i dont know what it was.it created a file svhost.exe in my windows system folder.it disabled my task manager. i got some help from microsoft website and i went into msconfig and changed some setings and restarted the pc as told. when i …

hi guys just joined to get some help my friend pc windows she forgot her password and cant open windows i dont know if she has acces to admin to change but if she dont any help to access pc from start up after losing password???

i have the blue screen of death, im guessing, ive been reading forums for 3 hrs and it sounds like thats what i have. i dont know anything about computers and my computer is pretty slow, so i goout to look for some advise to make it faster. i find …

for the past 3 days i cant access [url]http://mail.yahoo.com[/url] although it connects to yahoo.com. when i click mail in yahoo.com it once again doesnt connect. i get the message the server at mail.yahoo.com has been taking too long to respond in mozilla firefox. however on the first day mail.yahoo.com page …

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Can any one help me... I have IIS v5.1 installed on my windows XP SP2, each time it try to access it from web browser it will prompt for user name and password on entering my windows user name and password it will give me a message "You are not …

ok, lets start introducing my setup, i have 4 computers linked to a linksys wrt54G router(latest firmware) 1. win xp destop linkto the router with wired connection - [B]internet works[/B] 2. win xp laptop with wifi -[B] internet works[/B] 3. win vista laptop with a Dell wireless-G card - [B]internet …

There have been several questions and requests here regarding dual-booting. While there are many explanations on the web on how to do this, I have not found any that were fully clear and complete, so I created my own, which are attached here. If you use these, and find any …

Hello, i am currently running windows xp pro, and have 2 hardrives main (hitachi 160gb) for system and programmes and a secondary (Maxtor 250gb) for my documents etc. i have found that with the secondary hd plugged in then the boot time for my computer is considerably slower than if …

Ok, i have 2 computers on my network and only my computer is experiencing these problems. About 2 days ago my main browser (Firefox) starting having problems. After restarting my computer numerous times the same thing happens. Firefox will open and find webpages for about 2-5 minutes and then it …

Hello guys, I have a question about connecting to my sons computer. He's in his teens and I want to monitor what he is downloading and getting into on there without him knowing it. He spends too much time on there so I am a bit concerned. So my question …

Hi, My uncle gave my dad an old compaq laptop, and I have a dlink router+adapter to use with it (my uncle used the same model before too.) I reinstalled windows on it so now its a fresh xp media edition, and when i plug in the adapter no setup …

My CD and DVD burners were working fine, but now when I click on My Computer neither one of the burners are there. I've tried to uninstall both of them and reinstall. When I tried to reinstall, it says my drivers are either corrupt or missing. I'm using WindowsXP. Someone …

I have to Shut Down a computer under a same local area connection of my computer,how can I do this?

i had installed soul reaver 2 properly with crack and it gets installed...but when i open it to play then it run without sound and display for short time and it exits itself but it runs properly in other computer having processor and motherboard of Intel.....My processor is AMD athlon …

Don't know how the emitcoms got on my message. I just wanted to show the drive letter followed by a colon Joe

I own an Acer Aspire 1640z w/WinXP on it, and there's no adminstrator pwd set on the system. I'm trying to do a System Recovery from a WinXP boot disc, and I'm getting prompted to enter the administrator pwd. I pressed Enter, and I did a string of Zeros and …

In Windows Vista, for months, I've been wrestling with the Windows Update function. Out of the blue it just stop working. It gives me an error code that I've not been able to find out what it means. I don't have the exact code on hand but it reads something …

I've been having some problems with ms outlook 2007 running on XP. Randomly some emails will disappear from sent items or the inbox (around 5% of emails) its not the oldest or newest emails, and there doesn't appear to be any pattern of who the emails are too/from either. I've …

Hi, My number four on my laptop just stopped working. I took the number off just to make sure nothing was below the spring but all is clear. I've just recently installed the operating system for the first time because the plug came out during reboot- (without the battery in) …

Windows explorer ha stopped working. Have done two system restores but to no avail. I'm using Vista. Any ideas please

Hi, I hope I'm posting in the right place. My computer randomly crashes to desktop while playing games. I used to have a RADEON 8500 LE 128mb but I just upgraded to a 9800 128MB and I'm still getting the same problem. What I want to know is does Win …

Hey. I'm planning on buying a desktop, but I'm a little confused as to the difference between 32-bit Vista and 64-bit Vista, and exactly what those differences entail. Now, I think the technical difference is the size of the memory bus. Well, if I'm right, I'm not exactly sure what …

hi i recently had to format my computer and have almost every thing up and running. the only problem is i cant get my sound card working, it is the origional one i got with me dell pc but i cant find drivers any where. i ran belarc adviser and …

I think I have been hit by either a virus or malware, when I open the laptop, it is an old Dell Inspiron 8600, it appears to be opening then freezes with a black screen with just the cursor visible or it opens to my main screen but then freezes. …

[b]eFax Messenger Plus — What Really Happened?[/b] To be honest, I don't know what really happened to the software. I recently discovered that [url=www.efax.com]eFax[/url] no longer supports the eFax Messenger Plus software and that it has ceased to be made available to the consumer from both eFax and [url=www.j2global.com]j2 Global …

Trying to fix my friends computer thought I would be done in an hour or so but I ran into a retarded problem when trying to boot from the windows cd. Here is some information I know off the top of my head. If you have any input please let …

I recently got hit by a horrific malware attack which included Virtumonde. I think I'm rid of it but not entirely sure. AVG seems to find one browser highjacker at each boot which it claims to have gotten rid of each time..... I did have a taskbar message "Virus Alert" …

I have a couple of video files i am trying to play through WMP11 but there is no sound only a picture but i have the correct codec as i have other files that work fine, i am trying to watch these videos on my works computer as i downloaded …

I am installing windows xp professional on the new pc i am building, but the disk is service pack 1, and i have no intent on slip streaming. is there a way to get a standalone install of XP SP2 that i can put on a usb flash disk, to …

I recently got a copy of ReCycle 2.1 from a friend and when we installed it at the time I put in random gibberish for the name and organization fields. When I tried to reinstall it later these fields remained.. I'm really OCD when it comes to this sort of …

Here are the main specs of my computer system... My computer is a Gateway 3310s Computer: Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition OS Service Pack Service Pack 2 DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c) Computer Name YOUR-1A0F5F316F (Bob's Computer) User Name Owner Motherboard: CPU Type Intel Celeron D 330, 2666 MHz …

Hi I have a 2003 Server It is a Dell PE 2800 The server is running no services other than those necessary to boot. It is running a custom application that runs on all other servers with no problems, the other servers are the same or similar dell servers. When …

When I type ipconfig in my computer, I get the following: Windows IP Configuration An Internal error occured: The request is not supported. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services for further help. Additional information: Unable to query host name. I checked my device manager and under Network adapters I have …

I have a Windows Server 2003 x64 file server and every few days i have to reboot the server as i cannot access the shares from the network. After a reboot the problem goes away for a few days then comes back. Server is Windows Server 2003 x64 R2 with …

At Home I have tried to share an internet connection on a LAN through the WIN XP's Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service. My PC is connected to the internet via a Wireless EDGE Modem. I have used dynamic IP configuration (DHCP) to the PC's in the LAN. After sharing the …

I was told that Vista is less prone to internet virus compare to Windows. Any experiences that will correct me? I'm using vista for 2 months now, and I'm doing ok... and i still hope so in the future... thanks

My download manager displays a blank window. When working properly it would give me the names of the files that have been downloaded. I am using Firefox as a browser and downloader. Help if you can!

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