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Hi, I keep geeting this error number when trying to obtain Windows updates. I have had 4 brand new PC's arrive this week (2 HP & 2 Fujitsu) all 4 have had nothing done to them except started up and attempted to connect to the Windows website. I have internet …

Hi, I have been trying to get Real VNC 4 to work with the lovely Vista. I have managed to install it and get it up and running by changing a few settings here and their. However the only way I could get it to run at start up without …

Hi Guys. Can anyone recommend a decent piece of video editing software they has the capability of de-noising the audio track? I have a 6 minute mp4 which I recorded on my mobile phone but all you can hear is the stupid woman next to me talking. Is there anyway …

so i recently vacuumed all the dust out of my computer and cleaned a few parts with alcohol and q-tips. well after that a couple days later it shut down automatically and has not been putting video out put to the monitor. i know the monitor works cuz i plugged …

Hi, am working on unidrv printer driver. I have implemented writeprinter function in the rendering plug-in of the Unidrv printer driver , by opening a file and capturing the out put data given by the Unidrv driver into a .txt file. Now can any one tell me how can i …

well first of all i want to tell you guys how gratefull i am to find a site wich helps people in trouble without asking for money (you dont see that very muvh lately), and now ito my problem, i am runnin a compaq presario 900, OS windows xp sp3, …

Hi i have a dell inspiron 5160 with WINDOWS XP .And from 2 days whenever i start the laptop it shows the "DELL SCREEN AND A LOADING BAR" Bar loads up to 3/4 th .Then it stops . i was trying to repair XP using the XP CD which i …

A client of mine is having an annoying problem with outlook express. When she hits the send button the whole thing shuts down with no error message. After hours of googling I've only found one referene to the issue and no responses other than "go find a OE Forum" Any …

Dell Latitude D610 P4, 512mb, 30gb HD, XP Pro SP2 Please help. My daughter's laptop caught a virus which avg found. She tried to quarantine it but it kept reappearing. She then tried deleting it, then on startup, a window appeared entitled 'Isass.exe' with the message 'An invalid parameter was …

Hi friends, My laptop support only vista operating system. Can I change this into windows xp? And the other question is when I connect my laptop to internet it automatically begin updating windows, How can I disable this updating? 10qs! Sign with LOVE!!

Hi All. When I try to install the following: [COLOR="Red"]Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - July 2008 (KB890830) Security Update for Windows XP (KB951748) Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB952142) Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB953463) Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 …

I have an old dell 133 my wife uses to play games on, yesterday it quit working and in my ignorance, I deleted the partition. I put in the Win 98 start up disk, but won't recognize it. I put in the Win 95 start up disk and I can …

Hi, I'm loading server 2003 onto a 2.66 core2duo with 4Gb of Ram and a 500 HD. When the software install gets to installing hardware the error message comes up with the above. I know this has sometging to do with a device or driver that the OS doesn't like, …

Hello good folks at Dani Web !!! I have a Dell Dimension 2350, 1 GB RAM, Service Pack 2. I have been trying for a week to install Service Pack 3 on this machine that has Windows XP Home , on it. I have tried to download and install it …

Well, the old Armada M700 hardly seems worth rescuing this time... EXCEPT IRREPLACEABLE FILES ARE ON IT. And Goddess damn it all, I forgot to back them up. So, can anyone help? Here's what's going on: Last night I shut down my computer. This morning I go to turn it …

Today is the third time in three weeks that I am having to reset the modem and set up the internet for my friend again. I have never had this problem with any other Windows OS system... (Including 95) Is this a normal thing for Windows Vista? Or is something …

I have a Dell Inspiron i8000 Laptop, and it will not boot up. The power does come on but it will not boot up nor is it able to go into the bios. The cooling fans do not come on either. I have takin everything out possible to try to …

When installing XP on the [U]ASUS EeePC 2GB Surf[/U] from an external CD all appears to go well until the first restart, then I get the Welcome to Setup screen again. The recovery console works, but how do I tell Setup to continue from where it left off?

i got this computer from my brother. the hardrive was to full fore me to do anything with it. so i got a program called window washer. window washer had a option called clean hardrive. so i clicked on it. now my computer say operating system not found. plz help. …

My internet connection has stopped working. This is true in both my email client and in any browser that I open. It appears the browser, or other program, sends a request to connect to a specific server, and then does not get a connection to the server back. The browser …

Hi, I am residing in Mexico and have been playing a Disney online game ( hey not just for kids!) and on June 3rd for some reason I have been unable to maintain a connection for more than a few minutes. I have tried all the troubleshooting techniques I can …

I have been getting the "Windows needs your credentials" balloon in the systray. This is what I have already tried, Run GPEDIT.MSC. Under computer configuration, expand administrative templates>system>logon. Select the "Always wait for the network at computer startup" value. The default state is "not configured". Set this to "On". but …

Im looking to get a microsoft office package for a new PC that I have brought. Would Vista be the best one to get or does any one recommend something better? I have heard mixed reviews on vista.

Hello, Any help on this is greatly appreciated. Basically, I'm running Vista and have two external hard drives, a 500gb Western Digital, and a 2tb Lacie which I just purchased. I use both at the moment, but I'm beginning the process of transferring my files bit by bit from the …

I've had this problem with Hotmail over the last 3 weeks, everytime I go to login, the page begins to load and just goes blank while "loading." The little hourglass still shows that it's working but nothing happens. Sometimes after a long, long period of time (hours), the page will …

Okay, after booting up my vista based notebook, it runs like an angel. Only problem, it takes 65 seconds to boot up, from the older 45 seconds. I performed every single tweak i could get my hands on. about 55 to 60 of those seconds are spent on the vista …

I recently purchased a new computer with Vista Home Premium. During the time I am setting it up, I attempted to set Windows Update in order for it to automatically seek the newest updates. I am unable to do so because the selections are grey out. There is a message …

My computer screen keeps randomly blacking out and I have no idea what to do. I'll start it up, use it for a while and then it seems to still be running but I cant see anything but a black screen. I have tried everything to get it to go …

Hi there, Just wondering if anybody can help me out here. I'm in no ways a computer whizz so please excuse my ignorance on this! I have just tried to set up Microsoft Outlook with a new mail account. While I can send from this new account I don't seem …

Well over time my cpu has slowed down and I have followed all of the cleaning and virus/maleware/trojen cleanup procedures and I am clean as a whistle, but I have a very slow boot up. My question is, can I just reinstall windows and not loose any files or important …

I'm really sorry to ask this but, I'm a complete noobie when it comes to computers. I won't go into too much detail but, basically I was force to reinstall my OS and I'm missing three drivers for it. I am unable to connect to the internet and my other …

Hi Guys, I really hope you can help me with this as i'm going mad trying to find an answer. It's quite a story and i will try and keep it short. I have a HP laptop, and the operating system is windows XP, and it works on Service Pack …

I copied photos to desktop and now cnnot delete them. In fact, they are multiplying! I delete the icons and they deep coming back. Up to 11-12 copies to this point. Anyone know what is going on? Jack

When I had XP, I found it incredibly easy to get my microphone to pick up good, high quality sound. However upon getting Vista, I'm having trouble getting it to pick up anything quieter than shouts. I thought I'd fixed it yesterday when playing Team Fortress 2, as it seemed …

I'm not sure if I changed a setting for start up because when I tap/hold F8 to get the safe mode selection screen, I get another black screen that says: "Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Copy Right 1985-1988 All Rights Reserved" "Dell System Dimension 4600i BIOS Version A/O" and some other …

I am new to DANIWEB. I am desperate because I bought a laptop on the internet a year plus ago and it locks up/freezes up/cpu loop/ or whatever the lingo translates to. I retired from IBM after 35 1/2 years and have 8 software patents in the mainframe world. I …

Just a quick question... I have an HP Pavilion with Intel Core 2 Duo (the lowly 1.87 Ghz E6300 version). For the most part, it is pretty decent. When I first got it, was pretty happy; thought it was much faster than my last pc...but now I want to pep …

Hi, I am currently using the latest version of Mozilla Firefox running on XP. I also am using a 21" monitor which I suspect to be altering my viewing abilities while surfing. I am unable to see most color and details on web pages and what should be tabbed or …

I've Googled this problem until my fingers were numb, and even went through Ubisoft technical support. They tried to help but couldn't. I recently got nostalgic for old games and bought Ghost Recon (the original game, [I]not[/I] Advanced Warfighter or Advanced Warfighter 2 or even Desert Siege or Island Thunder) …

I am looking for a small software package that will allow me to work every where with a usb smart drive.I heard one , but i can't Recollect the software's name,i hope someone help

I'm having trouble with my start up I keep getting an error message and my desktop wont display my start menu or toolbars.....

hi I'm new to this group and I am looking for some help with my windows vista. I'm just back from two week holiday during which time the pc was switched off. I've tried starting up numerous times today and it just goes to blue screen and freezes. It won't …

HI, I have reviewed several threads with the same problem however I thought I would start proper with my own. I have run Smitfraud.cmd in safe mode option 1 Log below: SmitFraudFix v2.328 Scan done at 13:44:03.07, Mon 07/07/2008 Run from C:\Documents and Settings\owner\Desktop\SmitfraudFix OS: Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] …

ive been having a few problems with vista for the last week due to trojans, but only problems like the system running slow, software disruption and constant pop ups. a friend installed kaspersky and the problems seemd to go away until the next scan where kaspersky prompted me that an …

We have just installed a new exchange server into our domain, moved all the mailboxes to the new server and then changed the IP address of the old server so that we could move the new servers ip into place for a clean swap over (IP wise) When we do …

somehow my google home page has changed, where i use to type in my question had 2 boxes at the bottom with search the web or search australia only and this is very handy for me, and i would like to get it back

in the past, I used "net use LocalDriveLetter \\remotecomputername\remoteDriveLetter$ password /user:username" in winxp to login remotely and map the remote drive as a local one. When I try to access to a Vista workstation, I was told "Access is denied". I'm wondering if Vista doesn't support this command line, or …

Hi, lately the domain controller freezes when some editing to the GPO occur. I think the problem has been present since the schema was upgraded to update from W2K3 SE to W2K3 R2 EE. The server that acts as a domain controller also hosts DHCP, DNS as well as Active …

hello to all!! My girlfriend's laptop has Vista on it and she is very unhappy with it as am I. She has used my laptop with XP MCE on it with various tweaks and what not and agrees that it is an extremely better OS. Her laptop is a Dell …

Hello all I am trying to dual boot a Dell Latitude D600 with windows 98se and windows xp pro. I have partitioned and formated the hard drive and windows 98 loads ok until it gets to the following screen, Windfows 98 setup Windows is now setting up the following items: …