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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 …

hello, this is a small tip or how to on the following if you have ever crashed a computer namely xp, and wanted the data, have you ever thaught of just putting it as a slave on another computer? well there is one problem with this, xp protects certain things …

So I started my computer this morning and I was playing a game and it froze. No big deal, I press the restart button after trying to fix the freeze. Unfortuanatly the button got jammed, so the computer continuously tried to restart itself. I knew this couldn't be good and …

hello new to this, i've been having problems connecting to I.E. 7 using windows xp, will stay connected for a few minutes in safe mode, i've seen other user's send a report and something called hijack this could you give me instuctions how to do this please. thanks Donstu.

I am planning to buy Nod32 internet security or kaspersky. But I'm not sure if these programs requires periodic subscription. Is these programs one-time payment or do I have to pay over a specific period of time say yearly? I need expert response. Thank you.

Yeah. I am not sure the policy on here about talking about this kind of stuff so forgive me if I am not supposed to but I am curious about something. Any someone gave me this older Compaq computer that is a Deskpro EN 733mhz, Pent III,128 meg of RAM. …

Hi, I've had this problem for a while now, i downloaded free AVG and Kaspersky and neither of them have found any virus. I read other blogs and have downloaded hijackthis and this is what i have saved, i hope this helps with trying to help me fix this error. …

Hi Guys! I kknow that I am probably posting in the wrong spot but I went for awhile through the forum and I was confused and couldn't find a place to insert a new thread int he Blog's area, so, I apologize, but I need a little help. 1. I …

I currently run a Win98 system at my office and am connected on an intranet. Recently we have installed new Xerox Printers which do not support Win98. In an attempt to backdoor this issue with the software/drivers I was unsuccessful. I recall reading some where about a program that could …

I'm not too keen on this new over the top 'run as administrator' thing in vista. I know it's for my own protection, to prevent malicious code from altering my system, but it makes batch programming a pain. I'm trying to write a couple scripts, one that will kill windows …

hello I chose ABC company a few years back when i found out i could choose my domain and get exactly the email address that i wanted My renewal is in september and i do not want to stay with this company - they have been purchased and it now …

I have two computers linked by switch and router. A " technician" has left me with some problems. The plan was for each computer to access the C drive of the other. When opening the C drive on the second computer everthing appears but attempts to open a program for …

Hi everyone, I started my pc today only to find a yellow triangle with a black exclamation point in it on the icon tray. My PC seems to be running well and when I try to click on the icon it disappears. It will stay in the tray for a …

HELP when i turn on my computer there is no video output. I think it boots up. please help.

I've checked the other threads relating to this message, and they all seem to occur when the user goes into IE. However, this happens on my work PC every time we boot it up. The message is: Server Busy This action cannot be completed because the other program is busy. …

yeh ive been having problems with the speed of my computer, its really slow and was never this slow. when i open up windows task manager its shows a massive page file usage, and to be honest i have no idea what this is. it always shows a low CPU …

Hello, this is my first post and I hope asking a question right off the bat is OK. So, I had Vista pre-installed on my new laptop and I thought I might as well install an XP partition on the small partition that came with it. I didn't bother looking …

11 July 2008 I installed 2 or 3 Windows updates. I have Vista Home Premium 32bit. On restarting the computer Windows will not boot either in Repair or Normal mode. There is a Stop with error messages: 0x0000007B (0x81005BA0, 0xC0000043, 0x00000000, 0x00000000). It is impossible to follow the on-screen advice …

Dear awesome IT blokes/blokettes, Today a rather curious problem has started occurring on my Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 x64 system; when I right-click on any disc image (be it .ISO, .NRG, etc) there's a brief moment when the mouse cursor changes to an egg timer, and then I get this …

I am having a terrible time with XP pro sp1- Took on a computer that was loaded with viruses. I am wanting to format the HD and start over. CD was bad (bought new one). Couldn't get in to boot with boot disks (6), so from a web page I …

hi guys .. i hope yu guys have a solution for me .. my window xp OS on my c drive had a fatal error where everytimei load and get to the blue screen it restarts endlessly .. im not sure how that happened .. this happened after i restarted …

I formated drive and partitioned the drive, installed windows xp and is back to it's old self, but if I change bios settings to boot from hard disk as first boot device instead of cdrom (for instaling win xp) I get a "boot disk failer" error. If I have it …

i was given a dell desktop computer that had the hard drive wiped clean, I installed the windows xp disk in the cd drive and it statred loading the operating system. while it was loading for about 5 minutes i had the great idea to wipe the dust off the …

Hi This might be a quick fix,can someone tell me how to delete a file that has a file with blocks (no letters or numbers) and no extension,it just says file.when I delete the file it says cannot read from source. can anyone help me this client is my BOSS.Grrrrr!