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Hi, [INDENT]I converted an .AVI file to .VOB using Super (free video converter). Know my only question is, how would I burn this file onto a DVD-R. I only have the avi to the vob nothing else. Should I have converted the avi to somehing else. Please help, I don't …

Hi all, I whant to clear some folder, 1. [Profile]\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files 2. [Profile]\Local Settings\History 3. [Profile]\Local Settings\Temp 4. [Profile]\Cookies 5. [Profile]\Recent 6. [SystemRoot]\Temp but windows is blocking those files, how can i delete those files during startup of a computer ? i have already create a Batch file …

I dont know whats the problem. All of my programs are taking way too long to load, as well as web pages. Images look like they are downloading at dial up speeds, and some wont load at alol (i am on Comcast cable internet connection). I had a clean sweep …

I have been having black and blue screens of death since I updated my drivers for ATI Radeon HD2600 video card in my Toshiba A200 laptop. When it finally recovers, and searches for an answer to the issue, it always suggests I download the lastest drivers. The latest drivers available …

Hey guys i have a hp psc 1210 printer cum scanner cum copier..I am having problems in printing.I am unable to print anything at all. I have downloaded the software from the hp site also and reinstalled it twice.But whenever i give any document to print it says system error …

I recently relocated a Windows 2000 machine. I took it off the network in order to make it a stand alone machine. I disabled the NIC card in the process. Now when I boot it up it gets stuck at the preparing network connections screen. Its been two days and …

Hi, I am a teacher in the North Eastern part of Thailand. This morning, while booting up the classroom computer, the keyboard did not power up. The mouse was functioning, I accessed the device manager, and saw that the keyboard was unrecognized. After some fiddeling around I mistakingly disabled the …

Hello out there. I seem to have encountered a nice block in my operating, and before I go and spend 200 bucks to fix the problem, I thought I'd make a little plea for any advice. I was staying at a friends' house in another city, and was using my …

I want to restore my hp pavillion dv9000 to the factory settings but I need some help can someone help me out !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Okay, well today when I got on my computer, my AVG was done scanning and it said i had about 18 infections. So i deleted all the infections. Well, now when I get on, my computer restarts all the time. A popup comes up and says something like "System just …

Hi there, i bought a dell laptop with windows vista recently. I also have a desktop with Windows XP and my internet connection is via wired modem (PPoE). I have absolutely no problems accesing internet on my desktop but am not able to access same with my laptop. Tried calling …

After installing upddates for windows vista computer error occurred Error message Windows activation error. A problem occurred when windows tried to activate Error code oxc004e003 This is a valid copy of vista pruchased on a lenovo t61 tablet Any suggestions Called Lenovo and they put us through to microsoft and …

can anybody give me a solution why my computer screen is blinking when I am reading the web page of news paper

Hi I´m hoping someone can help. System restore is not listed in the My Computer Properties. I have searched the web and tried to restart it using the Microsoft KB using Net Start, but, it doesn´t want to play. Every suggestion I have found seems to assume that System Restore …

Hi. My PC got infected with trojans and other malware. I install Kaspersky AV and it disinfected all (maybe) of them. When I open My Computer to explore any of 2 local drives, a box appears asking me to choose which program I should choose to open the [I]file[/I]. Why …

Hope someone can help me out here. I am running an old PIII 400, 512 Ram, XP SP2 and it freezes right after the Welcome screen. I see the Welcome screen for approx 2 mins. and then it goes to a blue screen and just hangs there. I see the …

Ok seeing as there isn't really a sound card section in the hardware board, and considering I know Windows XP Black Edition is what caused it I'm posting here. Ok So I reformatted using the Windows XP disc that came with my computer. Immediatly after that I reformatted again using …

Recently I picked up some kind of malware or something and it's been annoying me to no end. Everytime I click on a folder a Critical Error pops up that says the following: Critical Error Attention, {username}! Some dangerous viruses detected in your system. Microsoft Windows XP files corrupted. This …

it all started about 4 months ago on a thursday.at first,when i powered up my pc the motherboard cooler started rotating with an incredibly high speed making noise like the turbine of a plane.along with this my computer just wouldn't boot or anything. after turning it off, i tried again. …

my background tab is gone and stuck with a blue screen with a warning on it from some spyware or something my brother did. I cleaned with adaware and spybot S&D, ran AVG there were no viruses, but a ton of adaware. checked hijack this all was ok. I had …

4 years ago i bought a dvd copy plus from 321studios, i havent used it, i am trying to install it now and it teels me i have used up all my lisc installation amts. i know the company is out of bussiness, any ideas?

I've searched for this tool you're talking about and i think it is a good one. I saw that it records way to many internet radio stations and also it can download MP3..... Cool, maybe I'll buy it.

hello i'm new here, i have a dell dimension 3000 here, it belongs 2 my aunt, during a bad lightning storm, she turned her pc off by the power button, the next morn, she tried 2 power it up, but no power.. The light on the board is lit but …

Hi, I get the following error when I type make in the command line of windows: 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. How do I do this in windows? Thanks

I began having this proble recently. When I start my computer, I get the welcome screen. When I shift to the desktop, only the background is there. There is no desktop icons, no windows menu... NOTHING. The thing is I cant link this to anything because I reinstalled windows and …

Hello There, I have a server running Windows Server 2003 Enteprise Edition and I need some help on how to deploy windows xp sp3 I have no knowledge of deployment of software and im only 15, im doing this for a project :) Cheers

I really hope someone can help me please! For the past 3 days Firefox has crashed every 15 minutes. I've noticed similar problems - Server not found - etc, but the difference is I have to restart my computer everytime it happens. Refreshing doesn't work. Closing Firefox down doesn't help. …

I upgraded my wife's Dell laptop from XP Home Edition to XP Professional. The computer works except for the web browser. Now, the Google home page won't completely load up. Also, when she tries various websites, she gets the message "Can't Find Application". Any ideas about what might be going …

Hi all, i just got this 256mb flash disk but have a problem! when i insert it it doesnt show up in my computer, however when i type "F:\" into the explorer window it shows the relevant files! one time it automatically scandisked before windows booted, and started to work …

hello everybody! how can i make screnshot to show it my sexy girfriend?

Hello, I'm new here. After days of searching the web, I have found nothing that specifically tells me how to completely wipe the memory of my laptop. I have a Toshiba Satellite 2805-s202 with windows ME. I do not have any recovery CDs nor do I have the oem disk, …

can anyone help me identify a few of the usual culprits worth removing from my task manager list because i think they're really slowing my computer down. I'm running windows XP thanks in advance hetixo

Overclocked or Over Voltage Failure! Hi! The problem I will explain here is really causing me a headache, Big Time. i bought my computer about 18 months ago from mesh computers uk, been working great but started getting very slow n lagging, mainly because its used 24/7 by myself, wife …

Hello Guys and gals: Need some help. I Just lost my left speaker . I using windows xp pro. Also no left speaker with my head set either. Nothing wrong with any settings. I am using Via audio Deck and SRS Labs Audio Sand Box. It work fine earlier. I …

I've been working on my sisters computer for about 2 days now. It was overridden with viruses (she had no real protection) and I got most of them off. The worst was one that made an icon at the bottom of the screen near the clock of an exclamation point …

Hey, I was using my computer, and it was working nicely and normally when it freezed for no apparent reason. I had one program running at the time...the mouse was working alright, all its functions were still there; same with the keyboard; except the mouse was invisible. The pointer was …

I want to delete the backup folder on my C drive. It was created when I reset my computer and fixed a virus issue. When I go to delete it, it pops up with things like "if you delete bootstat, your pc will not work right or it will crash, …

Web pages will not open all the time can not download flashplayer keep getting message java script is not enabled it is any who can help.

How do you ping the default Gateway, and why do you want to do that? Any help appreciated. Thanks, BuddyB

I know this is gonna' be a simple one for someone. I have XP, and every time I reboot I have a "New Hardware Found" window popping up. How do I prevent this? I believe this is a hangover from a USB device set-up that I took out of the …

Is there a way to install old programs into a reinstall of windows xp?

Hi i have a major problem, it started yesterday completely randomly. Whenever i try to go to some sites in firefox it hangs on "waiting for *.com" an wont go any further, this happens on google, hotmail, facebook and many more. I've tried updating firefox to ff3, no change. I …

Hi there... ...got a second hand machine which ran perfectly well...visited windows update site to find the computer required 71 updates which all installed sucessfully. Visited the update site again and selected to install SP2. (This computer is Win XP Home Edition) Seemed to take an awful long time, well …

Hello everyone. My mom recently bought a new HP desktop PC that came with Windows Vista. We are trying to set up a new network to share printers and files. I go through Windows Vista to setup the Network and it saves the settings on a USB flash drive. I …

Hi all, I connect to the internet through aol and have discovered that my internet explorer won't work, I tried firefox won't work either - can anyone please help me Ps i am running vista

I created a new partition on my HD running XP. I formatted it in FAT32. I want to reformat it back to FAT or FAT16. When I use the disk manager to format, it goes through the motions and I end up back with FAT32. I think I saw someone …

Our setup at work is a Windows XP Pro workgroup with 3 PCs and a laptop. I've set up various scheduled maintenance tasks to run on a daily basis - clearing temporary files, backing up data and defragging. The last task to run on each PC is the defrag, running …

Hi, I have huge problems with opening programmes, I can't seem to get into the system restore or anything else. My task manager has 160+ processors running! I don't know too much about computers and have tried to fix this myself with very limmited skills. Broke up with the boyfriend …

This is what hijack this says [CODE]Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 12:37:02, on 20/07/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16674) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\aswUpdSv.exe C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashServ.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe C:\Program Files\Linksys Wireless-G PCI Wireless …

hi please help my PC restarts itself it just started out from no where it worked fine yesterday but today the problem occured when i tried the BLUE SCREEN ....it shows: STOP:0x0000008E(0xC0000005,0x8054A51A,0xB8BD2B90,0x00000000) i searched about this but nothing helps i didnt install any new programs .....as i told u ....i …