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Can XP be installed on a Dell Inspiron 1525 lap top 32 bit Vista OS 1 gig mem. and if so please tell me how or should I just look into getting a system with XP to compliment this one?

Hello to ALL ....... I know that this subject has been approached before ....... BUT ! ....... things change so rapidly and I cannot afford the incorrect choice. My question: Am about to invest in a new laptop and have a choice between VISTA & XP. What do I do …

is there any way how to check if ur friends are appear offline,,,, or really offline? pls help if possible!

How to install the Win XP on virtual PC I have not CD rom attatched with my PC.

I have a home network with three desktops running XP SP2 and a laptop running Vista Business. I would like to use Windows Remote Desktop Web service to control and access my desktops from my laptop (via broadband wireless) while I am away from home. I have used Webex’s PCNow …

I can't install any Windows XP upgrades, including Service Pack 3, after the following sequence of events: 1. I used SpyBot to check for spyware. It found 8 objects and removed them. 2. The next time I turned on my computer, it immediately logged off my user name each time …

A friends netvista/xp pro machine locked up on friday afternoon at 1500. They called and said there was a video issue, the keybd/mouse was not responding, and reboots were causing chkdsk to run. When I arrived the video image was half displayed on the screen (much like the horizontal hold …

Hi ! I have a question to ask. My question is do softwares developed in VB 6.0 work on win vista or not? Do vista come with the visual basic runtime library or you have to install the dll's ? Thanks, Hassan Ahmad.

Hi to everyone, i have this computer which a friend of mine gave me as a gift it has windows 2000, but when you click on start, the menu shows but if you click it won't allow to do anything, you can not click on anything, the menu stays there …

Hi Guys, I have an Acer ASPIRE 3683WXMi, and recently the Keyboard just simply stopped working. Funny enough, the On-Screen Keyboard is still working perfectly. Please any clues for resolving this problem will be greatly appreciated.?

ok, heres the situation. i booted up an old laptop windows loaded then froze and nothing would work so i hard booted. this time it comes up os not found. I get my xp os cd to try to repair. it won't do it. so i try to reinstall the …

my network communications are being held hostage by Norton's, need help to remove it. catalana

I have a major problem. Spybot Search and Destroy had finished scanning my computer (Dell Dimension e520 running Windows XP service pack 2). I then clicked on it to fix the problems it found, and started doing something else on Tradestation. A short time later, a message popped up on …

Hey guys, I'm having a small problem with this error message "error finding BTMagic.img run bootmagic install press any key to boot active partition. I tried installing bootmagic again and it says that there isn't any visible fat or fat 32 files. Is there any way that I can get …

I've been having this problem for months now and it's really bugging me. Whenever I load up the computer, I get the [i]Floppy disk fail (40)[/i] error. I go into BIOS to disable. However, I still get the error on startup. So I go into the Device Manager and disable …

how i can remove bios password...........

I uninstalled Java Runtime Environment 6 through Add/Remove Programs - with the intention of reinstalling the latest update version which I have not yet done. I did a Search for Java and found several files - some as far back as 1999...got my pc in 2002. Before I reinstall JRE, …

Is my Windows system using 13 Gb or 3½ Gb? This is a bit of a number cruncher, so here's a summary: My C:\Windows (XP) on a partitioned HDD states it is using 13 Gb out of 20 Gb. There are three [B]big[/B] folders only on C drive, and nothing …

Hi everyone, Have a strange problem with my dual boot. Vista and XP are both on the same hard drive. Vista is partition C: and XP is partition F: Vista was installed first, then I added XP. Used easyBCD to create a bootloader allowing me to choose which OS to …

ok ill start from the start. my login was taking longer than usual and usually wen this happens the net wont work but dw about that for now. so during the login i press the restart button on my computer. so after it just keeps searching to boot from cd …

My girlfriends laptop was working fine before we went camping for three days. When we came back, it said something like "Windows was interrupted during start up blah blah blah. If <-that happed, or you don't know what happened, choose start windows normally. You can also do last good configuration …

I have an older Gateway that was originally set up with Me (yea, I know). Recently, I installed 2003 and upgraded through the internet with 2007 packs. I purchased XPSecurity for virus control and it obviously did not work, as I soon become infected with numerous viruses. Asking everywhere, I …

When I click on the start button on the desktop taskbar, I do not find the Run command. I started the 'Secondary Logon Service' and clicked 'start' on the Action menu. But it does not bring back the 'Run' Command. Please help me, by suggesting what to do to bring …

Please help. Stein's posting on how to reformat a hard drive was most helpful. I was able to complete it and install windows XP. Immediately after light use, the computer froze and I did a hard shut down. Now when I turn the computer on, the monitor displays nothing. I …

[B]I have a Gateway 3310 PC with Windows XP SP2 at 2.66 Ghz and a Intel Celeron processor. The computer originally had 2 sticks of Samsung 256MB DDR RAM PC3200 CL3. I recently went out and bought 2 sticks of Centon 512MB DDR RAM that is running currently at 333 …

Hello.....i have forgetten ma xp adminstrator password....and there is no other adminstrator how can i recover ma password without rebooting my computer....or how can i add any other adminstrator account

So I have an xp that my family uses and well im having some hardcore virus problems that I dont know how to fix the first is my Desktop and start always dissapear this has been happening since yesterday also When i reboot my computer and go to the login …

HELLO to all, anyways straight to it, i've got a miner problem. My media player has a limit to how many songs i can have in the library for some reason. at first i was just using winamp and after ripping 200songs or so it just kept replacing the old …

help, i am tryin to format the c drive, and re-install win xp pro.. but thats not so easy when i cant boot from xp cd. i get the "media failure, check cable exiting intel boot agent" message.. so i tryed paragon partition magic to format c. it went into …

Hi friends, I tried to upgrade my XP Student release to XP Vista Look and after some process, the screen stops with this message [DR-DOS] A:\>. Can anybody guide me how to complete the upgradation. Of note, when booting, I could see XP student release and XP Vista Look, meaning …

Hey people i am having a problem of not being able to copy and paste anything out of the current drive to another drive..can someone tell me what is wrong..???

Hello, Whenever I use my home computer, which is not connected to the internet, in the first five minutes, a box comes up with "no connection is detected. To view your stored web pages offline, click work offline." or something like that. And then it does it every hour after …

Hello, and I hope you can help me with this. I recently updated my motherboard drivers using a program named Driver Detective. I had used this before, and without any problems, but this time, I had some serious ones. My first attempts to update resulted in my computer only semi …

somehow, i have deleted the windows games suite from my pc. I don't have an installation disk, I have XP Home so I didn't create a restore point. The deleted files do not appear in the Recycle Bin. I am desperate to get them back. Can anyone tell me how …

I'm having a problem with my computer freezing up, I'm running windows xp service pk 3, pentium 4, 1.80 ghz, 512 ddr ram, some times it will run for days without freezing and other times it will freeze after a few minutes, so i cut the power supply wait a …

Hey guys, Quick question; I'm using Window Vista Basic and I'm encountering a new problem with Windows Update. Windows Update informs me that I have 2 new updates. I instructed it to download and install the update. Windows update proceeds to start the download, but is stuck at 0% with …

Can someone tell me how to start my Dell Dimension E80 with Window XP in Dos Mode? I have been infected by a bug and it will not even start. I am planning on typing format C: /s once dos mode is open so I can start new. Thanks for …

I need some help with a display issue, please. I got a call from a co-worker yesterday complaining about the text having shrunk inside his windows on all programs, but not on his desktop. He tells me he didn't do anything that would have caused this. I had him play …

There is program error while running outlook. I can execute it but after few seconds program error message shows. Help !!!

Well. . . This has been two years of one problem after another since I got my GAteway Tablet PC from Best Buy. The worst. Since the last time I had to turn it in for weeks for one serious problem or another, [B][COLOR="Red"]I have not been able to connect …

Newly built computer, Windows XP Home Edition installed. Graphics Card is: MSI GeForce 7300LE Graphics Card with TurboCache Technology GEFORCE 7300LE PCIE 256MB VISTA VGA DVI TV OUT NVIDIA Graphics Card - 256MB 64bit Once drivers were installed and resolution set to what the 19" monitor wanted, I get the …

I have just installed Windows XP SP3. When the system re-starts it says that file \windows\inf\biosinf.inf is missing and that I should repair Windows installation with original CD using the "R" command. In the middle of doing that, it request it me an administrator password in order to continue installation. …

I have a video clip my son created that I want to email to others. It is 12mb and thus to large to email as is. I attempted to send the file to a compressed file via the windows xp option (ie. right click, send to compressed file). It created …

Hi there! I sincerly hope you can help me! The problem started yesterday! When I boot my computer, the task bar and the icons appears and then disappears. I opened the task manager and noticed that explorer.exe keeps shutting down and reloading, and I had to terminate the process and …

Basically what the title says. [url]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/Emeryl/foldermenu.jpg[/url] All the options that usually appear at the top of my folders are gone. Every time I try to look it up I find other things about a virus that deletes the "folder options" button, but I can't find anything about the entire menu …

hey! i hope someone can help me here, i've tried many other computer support chats. Apprently, i have no sound at all. I have a emachine, and uses Window XP. i tried to reinstall the audio drives, and also the latest versions of them. I checked the speakers and wires. …

Hi, I can't get my pc to boot up past the windows xp logo. Can anyone help get past this point? Obviously it isn't this pc that I'm on now. Thanks, John

Please bear with me folks, I'll try and be as concise as possible. I'm admittedly not the brightest or most experienced IT person on the block, but I'm as close as our small non-profit medical office can get. I wasn't able to identify a solution thru a forum search. [B]We …

My Dell 6000 is having some problems booting up. When I attempt to boot up it goes to the dell boot up page. Then it almost immediately goes to a black blank screen with a flashing cursor in the top left corner. I can't type anything in the cursor and …

What do I need to do to print from Windows XP to a Vista shared printer