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When I click on "Help and Support", I get an error message saying "Windows cannot open Help and Support because a system service is not running. To fix this problem, start the service named 'Help and Support'." The only problem is when I go to services.msc there is no 'Help …

Hope this is the right forum to post this on! One of my clients, a construction company, has set up several webcams on their construction site (in Turkey) for their UK clients to monitor progress. However, apparently the security settings on the browsers of most of the clients are blocking …

Hello, this is how my experience goes. I turned on the computer one morning before going to work and after startup the CMOS screen came up. I checked no to the question I don't remember and it gave me a follow up message about something not working if I continued. …

I am not new to the business but I am definitely not advanced in any way, also I am new to daniweb and am not sure if this is the correct forum. I am trying to create a batch file in XP that clears the IE cache, temp internet fils, …

Lately i have been having trouble booting up my computer, it loads up the acer brand name then goes to a black screen saying the following: Broadcom UNDI, PXE-2.1 (build 082) v2.0.6 Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Broadcom Corporation Copyright (C) 1997-200 Inter Corporation All rights reserved. PXE-E61: Media test failure, check …

:'( Im trying to do my final paper for college...I cant get rid of this mess!! I also have winlog Notify cryptnet dll names anonymous REG_DWORD value data 0x00000000 (0) and Impersonate REG_DWORD value data 0x00000000 (0) 6BB45534C867516E6B1D181C9C18AC30 here's my locate.com compare...* DLLCompare Log version(1.0.0.127)Files Found that Windows does not …

A neighbor's husband died last year. He ran a business from his house. She gave me one of his disktop Gateway computers (which had a dead power supply) that I replaced. [URL="http://support.gateway.com/s//MOTHERBD/INTEL/2517815/2517815nv.shtml"]Here[/URL] is the motherboard. Upon booting, I notice that it is set to run on a domain. It has …

I am having an issue where the the option for network adapter is not being displayed in the device manager. I've alway had a network adapter displayed in the task bar and out of a sudden I can not see this display. could it be that my NIC card may …

I need a freeware program besides bootskin to change my boot screen. a cia screen would also help.

Hello, is it possible to resize partitions under win XP using Disk management tools, or I need special software for that? I know there are couple of software tools such as Partition Magic. However, I'd like to know if this is possible to be done in Win XP itself. Regards

I have a relatively new (couple months) Dell XP Pro laptop (Precision M90), current on patches, up to date AV (AVG Network Edition) that after the user attempted to install some software on, and it went to hell. There was an error on boot up from TCSD_Win32.exe, which apparently a …

Hi there, Here is my problem: I get this message "Windows/System32/Config/System file missing or corrupt". I have tried this so far: -Using my Windows Installation disk to try to repair my registry, using the windows tutorial [URL="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us"](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us)[/URL], but when i try to enter the first line (c:\>md tmp) i get …

Up until now, I've been able to login to update a Web Site I have with [url]ftp://www.sitename.ca[/url] as the address, Now, all I get is [B]"Windows cannot access this folder. Make sure you typed the filename correctly or have permission to access this folder"[/B] There were a couple of Automatic …

I am having problems with games and other aspects of my computer graphics not loading properly and taking more than 10 minutes to load at all. Also games can become very slow and lots of the graphics incomplete on screen. I have a Packard Bell computer with Windows XP service …

hi, got a couple of problems with my desktop which came loveingly installed with windows vista . . . my sister has installed and "apparently deleted" a webcam that needed registering, and it constantly pops up that you need to register it . . . regardless of if you register …

im actually not a computer guy but i have a problem i was hoping someone could help me with. my computer is stuck in a reboot loop. i have an intel pentium 4 desktop computer. it is windows xp home edition. the problem happened after i installed the windows service …

Is there a way I can set Windows Media Player as my default music player? When I download a music file it opens in Real Player. I would like to use WMP instead. Thanks. janda5

hi to all, just a quick one as confused slightly... have a compaq presarion laptop with a wireless card slot . . . seemed to have walked into a mine field when trying to find one thats not rediculusly expensive and still has a range of over a couple of …

hi, irolands here, newbie, need help installing vista, i'm upgrading from xp, in the install it gives me the option of installing without entering product key so i click "no" then it just goes back to wanting me to enter the key. what am i doing wrong? i have also …

I put this computer together, and I have Windows XP on the hard drive. I gto a cd with my motherboard with the drivers, I installed them all but my sound doesn't work. In device manager it says that the drivers are there and working but there is no sound …

hello. I have a very annoying problem with my OS. My computer freezes within minutes of turning on the computer. It usually happens whenever I attempt to web browse or install something. Within seconds after attempting to do anything, the computer locks up and I am forced to manually turn …

Every time I try opening the control panel, the following error appears -" This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Contact your system administrator." Please help me out wiyhout having to reinstall windows.

Hi All, I all of a sudden one morning had a problem with my wireless. All I got was the 'Cannot display this page' message no matter what I was trying to connect to. I have a Netgear wireless router and all the lights on it were lit as normal, …

I am having problems with using the icons like bold, code, quote, etc (the entire toolbar). This is the first time I am experiencing it. I am using IE7 & also I am not able to use the save, cancel buttons while editing too. In other words I am not …

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Hello all Can any help me,How task manager find which applictions are running on our desktop? Or Which Window Api helps to find the running application in our system?

Hello All, First of all, let me say that I really don't know much about computers, but I want to try to fix mine without just trashing it. My husband was downloading a new poker site and he got a blue screen that said" the windows logon prosess system terminated …

I know a few threads have been made about this but I'm still not so sure. When I start up the computer everything looks fine, I use Windows XP Media center edition for at home. I'm not for certain but my computer is a gateway that I got a few …

Hi guys ive been having quite a bit of trouble with my internet starting up automatically every time i log in to the computer. i looked at some of the older threads and i have the hijack this program. just wondering if you could help me figure out my problem

Hello, Recently I bought a "Win-Stars" digital webcam for my Windows Vista (desktop). After installing it, I saw a box that claimed that the camera was installed successfully and that my computer needed to restart. I did so, but I did not find the device anywhere in the computer after …

Heres an odd one. I have about 40 users on a pair of load balanced citrix servers running a series of published applications (Office products and such). Occasionally, there are a couple user profiles that corrupt here and there (this is windows, after all). Typically, I go into the documents …

I can not use the scroll bar at all...tried using mouse, pg up and pg dn, home, end, arrows... nothing works. This happens for all programs I have tried... explorer, word, excel... any ideas? Fixes or work-arounds would be appreciated. Thank you for your help!

[url=http://www.ultrafunk.com/products][u]Popcorn[/u][/url] is a freeware ultra-lightweight POP3/SMTP e-mail client for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. It works as a client/server application,reading mail "directly" from POP3 servers. It is ideally suited for "on the road" mail access,for scanning,reading and sending mail over slow connections. It supports multiple user profiles,enabling you to read and send mail …

Alright well I just reformated my hardrive and put windows xp professional on it. Previously it had home edition and the sound worked on that. My issue is no matter how many times I try to update the audio codex or drivers for some reason windows will not recognize any …

I have had it with Vista HP, as it cannot support SQL Server at the level needed. Too bad Microsoft doesn't tell you about the problem (I found out by surfing their forums) I've purchased an XP Pro disk, but now I discover that XP cannot see my hard drive! …

Hey gang I am new ans this is a quick intro on me for what it's worth. Born Scotland 2 kids married and skint. I need help. I have no money and I cant afford to update the windows 2000 system I am on one particular problem I keep getting …

First of all, let me apologize for all the mistakes I'm making while posting my question. This is my second time to post and I'm still new at computer terminology. I don't have a website, I've never blogged and I just recently learned what a "thread" is. I guess my …

hi all, I have been sharing a laptop with my cousins and I use an administrator account as they do. But my account is more sensitive as it contains most of my school works and personal projects. Plus I have saved passwords in the browser for every website I have …

Hello everyone, i seem to have a problem that i can't find the answer to and is somewhat hard to explain. It started when i needed to switch PCI-E cards between a Geforce 7900gt to a GeForce 7600gs, i did so without taking into consideration any drivers installed, as i …

Hello, I'm trying to create a batch file that will delete & remake temporary directories, but it isn't working. There are two directories that I want to do this two, and the second one doesn't work. here is the code: @echo off rd c:\windows\TEMP /s /q md C:\windows\TEMP rd C:\Documents …

Im using WinXp ; When I rename a file; I get a message that tells me that I will lose the file association as it thinks i am changing the file extension also "as the file extension is listed in the name of the file". How to correct this and …

Hey everyone. I work at a library and I have some public access computers for searching our catalog with internet explorer. I want the user to not be able to close this internet explorer window, and I believe the setting for that is in the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in …

[B] I have a Gateway 3310 with Windows XP home with 512 megs of RAM. It's still running a bit sluggish. And when I run certain programs that ran okay in my old computer that had a lot less RAM here the program occassionaly freezes, the computer was running at …

Windows vista home premium toshiba a205-s4577 1.75mHz, 2gb ram It started this morning after reseting my computer, first problem was that my internet didnt connect, when i placed my mouse over the tray icon it said" connection status unknown, the dependency service or group failed to start". Also i got …

Hi all My cousin has got a PC which I have built for him 3 years ago, it was working fine until last night suddenly it switch itself Off and does not want to power on again. If I disconnect the hard disk the PC works fine without any problem …

Hey guys! I have an old Win 2k machine here that I want to use as my bench machine more or less dedicated to scanning peoples' computers for malware and viruses. Its used, though, and being disposed of by a client of mine- so now its mine. I've cleaned it …

Hi all. I have been doing some registry tweaks lately to improve performance. Everything went great for a couple of days and now xp wont let me login. It boots normally and everything appears to be fine but when I click on the profile to login, nothing happens. Last Known …

Last night I downloaded a skin for my Windows XP to look like it was running Vista. It worked perfectly fine last night. I restarted it today to find that the skin no longer was working, so I tried reinstalling it. It requested that it needed to replace a file …

Anyone know where I can get a copy of Windows XP?

I build a home network with a desktop running on xp x64 (1) and a laptop running on xp x32/SP2 (2). The shared folders from (1) are shown on (2), but on (1), I get the message: "\\laptop cannot be accessed. ...". On (1), I run "msinfo32.exe": System Information->Components->Network->Protocol does …