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After I changed to a newer video card, shut down and started again my monitor has been dark, no display. RAM, processor, drive are all OK; the video card is in its slot and I have confirmed that all cards are firmly in their slots. Does anybody have an idea …
Hi, This is NOT an Internet Explorer question. I do not have access to this machine. I loaded Windows XP Media Center Edition on a 1 - 2 yr old Gateway PC using the supplied Gateway recovery CD. I downloaded the [color=#e10000][b]correct[/b][/color] chipset, nic, video card, sound card drivers from …
Hello good folks at Daniweb !!!!!! I have a Dell Dimention 2350 , Windows XP Home edition, SP2. The computer just shuts down at time without error messages. I can be on the net or running any program. Then it just restarts as if I I pushed the start button. …
Hi there! I haven't been able to boot my xp machine for a couple of weeks, and decided to "repair" it with the xp cd (SP1) And there wasent no problems at all until the computer restarted like it was supsosed to, and began to install some files, or something …
Hello all, I bought a new HP slimline with Vista. I installed Office 95, but found out it wouldn't open files I created with a later edition. I tried to uninstall it, but the software won't uninstall. I did have a Office 2002 Cd, so I tried to install that …
Hi everyone, When my system connected to net, it asked to register my windows xp . i have registered and it has been verified my microsoft and declared that it is not genuine, and asking me go buy genuine. And iam not allowed to update my system. Later i bot …
I recently installed Itunes. Since doing this windows media player has added duplicates of most of the music files. I am running windows xp with sp2 which was upgraded from windows me. Computer runs fine but since installing itunes I noticed in windows explorer that itunes installed itself in the …
XP doesn't see cdrom drives after system restore. BIOS sees them fine, device manager has yellow flags on both drives, says drivers are missing or corrupt. Installed older cdrom drive, saya the same thing.
I got a nasty little virus so I deleted my hard drive but I restarted my pc before it finished formatting (STUPID) now I cant format it at all when I go into set up windows XP it believes the disc isn't in the machine when it is. Can anyone …
I bought half life that came with two disks.I run the auto popup screen that install a so called steam program.no sign of half life (original disks).after the install a run steam and it says cant find steam.dll.I download file and it says cant find steamUI.dll,I download and install the …
My mom give me this scanner, Visioneer One Touch 5300 usb, and the cd that came with it is win 98. Without using cd I plugged it in and used my subcription to driver guide.com to find the driver, it recognized the device and give me the driver, I installed …
I have got a nasty virus on my desktop running windows xp sp2 Basically, it has: - Disable mcafee services - Disabled all cookies - Hijacked my ie I have read countless forums and have tried what seems like thousands of methods All of the methods I have read about …
hi I run Windows XP SP2. Whenever i go to the "run" dialog box and enter "cmd", i get a dialog box that says [B]your system is shutting down in 49:59[/B]. I have to type "shutdown -a" to get rid of it, but i've got sick of it. Plus i …
I tried a repair install on Windows XP, but in the middle of it it tried to run rundll32.exe and is now asking me to choose a program to open with. I posted for help about the original virus on the forums, and got asked for a log. But, I …
Hello.. i have serious problem with games... on both OS xp and vista.. first i have xp when i play any game including CS 1.6 .. my fps goes down to 10 for 1 minute or more. and then go back to normal after that.. this repeats.. also when that …
My gateway 500sb computers hard drive recenlty crashed as in, its toast. I now have another hardrive- Western Digital 400- 40 gb. Now when i start to install windows XP it says "No hard disc found, please make sure it is connected blah blah blah." I made sure it is …
I have Norton Internet Security 2008 on my laptop. It automatically told me to download a file at start up. I followed Norton's instructions and downloaded the file, and ran the program it told me to. The files name was SymFix_1002-1.exe. I then restarted the computer as the instructions read. …
Hi all, I m using win xp sp2. Since last two weeks my ie7 started crashing regularly. so i downloaded firefox 3 and after working for a few days it also started crashing. Same story after i downloaded & installed safari. Finally i rolled back to ie6 and firefox2. But …
I am using windows XP and I am having probles with the Internet Explorer Address Tool Bar as when I do a search , usualy with Google when I click on one of the search results it initialy displays the correct URL address but then this changes to a copletly …
I am using Windows XP version 2002 SP 2 as i start computer a dialog box with title "Can't run 16-bit Windows program" opens in desktop and where "Insufficient memory to run this application. Quit one or more Windows application and then try again" is written. there is only OK …
I am getting an error that sais: The instruction at "0x636e315e" refrenced memory at "0x00c6c0b0". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program and a message like that comes 6 times for every time i close somthing. I need help on fixing this error please …
I recently formatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows xp pro. After putting on all my data and programmes i released i had no sound on the computer. There is no icon on the taskbar and device manager at the sigmatel high defination audio codec there is a question mark. …
Can anyone please tell me what they believe to be the BEST antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall....I have quiet a few virus related problems a year :S
Dear Friends Whenever i restart my pc it shows [B]press F1 to continue[/B] at startup screen How can i remove this problem and my pc is new hp brand pc (3 days old) Thanking you pardeep
[QOUTE] Hai friends , i have the HP laptop with Window's vista OS , while i am working in my laptop ,sometime it sudenly restart and show the physical memory problem in blue screen. is this my laptop problem or OS problem , please share your opinion ....... thanks in …
Ok I wanna play this game and its a culmination of a long desire to upgrade my new computer Called Age of Conan...My budget is about up $500 heres the requirements Required OS: Windows Vista/XP Processor: 3GHz Pentium IV RAM: 1GB RAM Video Card: Shader Model 2.0 and 128MB RAM: …
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 …
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 …
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