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I must have lost a few screws today, because after many years I decided to upgrade my system from WIN2K to XP. Its XP Pro with SP2 on the install disk. Everything was fine until the middle of the install, the system came with many beeping sounds, with the messege …

Hi all hope someone can help me i have reciently come accross a problem where windows media playing when playing files on the web or on my pc playes sound ok but has no picture i have run the usual programes adaware spybot avg system mechanic i have also deinstalled …

Unplugged all my puter stuff in a hurry in lightning storm and when I turned it back on got message Windows sytem32 cooonfig system. I know from searching this forum I am suppose to put in the operating system disk that came with the puter, but since I have no …

At our office we have special software in which we can create users. Once the software is running completely, the users created in our software are automatically created in Windows. They belong to the restricted users group, so that means that they are not able to change the Power options …

This link -- [url]http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/homeusers/articles/5tips.mspx[/url] -- will show how to: Stretch the taskbar Add special characters Open files with one click Change your pointer scheme Change the power button

I need some help with renaming files using a batch script... Say in a folder I have 2 html files. - 1.htm 2.htm I need a bat file that will rename "1.htm" to "1a.htm" and then change "2.htm" to "1.htm" In other words I need "2.htm" to become "1.htm"... Anyone …

I'm in the process of reinstalling my whole pc. I have completely formatted C: and left D: (second HDD) as it was with my data on it. I have reinstalled XP and had next to no problems doing that. My first problem was it seemed to install two versions of …

I stumbled upon this peice of software called "[URL="http://www.inputdirector.com/"]Input Director[/URL]" and thought it could be useful because i have two desktops and dont have enough room for two keyboards and mice. My problem is that these computers are not connected in any way at all and was wondering if any …

How do you minimize a user login? Hi guys & girls!!! Ok, here's my problem. I need to run a BOT for my game but it reads off pixels which is what makes it un-detectable because it acts out the mouse & keyboard. I can only run the BOT when …

how do i get a fresh copy of windows on a hard drive that is fucked up does not boot into the windows that is on it and when i push f8 and tell it to boot from my disk drive to run to windows disk that i have it …

i have discwizard installed in my new hdd but theres something wrong with it thats either corrupted or not installed completely by the technician so i am having problems installing xp now how do i clean my hdd, no,NO! repartitioning,formating didnt work the prog is still installed i want to …

hello to alll and thanks for checkin this out i am on a Dell laptop with windows vista and i have been having some weird problems with my internet connection. i recieve my internet from a wireless router on the downstairs computer. it connects to the laptop perfectly but for …

OK - hi to everyone - I am new! I know next to nothing about computers so really need your help.. I used my husbands laptop last night, turned it off as usual, and when I turned it on today - nothing but error messages It won't start up and …

My OS: WinXP Home/SP2/AOL 9.0 I cannot read any .pdf documents. I have Adobe Reader 7.0 but I do not know if this is the program for reading this type of file. Would appreciate any advice. Thanks.

every now and then when browsing the web certain sites cause this pop up to occur: [IMG]http://www.kortclan.com/RoundTable/Vault/data/images/lamethings.JPG[/IMG] what can i do to disable this piece of crap. I dont want to make a passport and i sure as hell dont want to be reminded every freaking 5 seconds when im …

I am using a brand new toshiba a135 laptop with Vista Basic installed. Ok, I have been having the same problem with Vista wireless as many other people. I have been looking throughout the forums for and answer all to no avail. Please help. I was able to connect on …

Hi lads right i went and left my PC unlocked friday afternoon and shut my PC down when i got bk in, came on it this morning and relised one of the lads at work have decided to messa round with the settings on my PC 3 thing he has …

Hello all, I have a windows XP SP2 and on board sound chip C-Media CMI9761A. Now I have a microphone, but the sound I get in sound recorder or in the speakears it's too low. I tried with other microphone and it's the same. In sound properties I have the …

A friend of mine turned off his PC while the updates for Windows XP Home Edition were being installed on his Compaq minitower. Now he can't reboot. He tells me that he tries both starting normally and in safe mode but cannot do it. I am going to his house …

I am aware that RMDIR /S /Q will delete any directory in a quiet way even if it has content. However, it does not allow the use of wild char for the removal in batch mode. How can I accomplish the task of deleting several directories at once at the …

Hi i was wondering how i know what graphics card and ram to buy so it matches and is compatible with my computer... thankyou.

Have an illegal versian of xp pro on my computor. Of couse I dont have the cd I would like to remove it and install the legal version of xp home edition Is this possible?

I can find my way around a PC and I'm not bad at working out new software, however, my brother asked me to have a look at the BlueSoleil software that came with his Mikomi Bluetooth dongle. He'd successfully coupled his mobile and PC and we can send whatever we …

okay, i have a netgear wgr614 v5 and 2 desktops and 1 laptop. all of them were connected and working, then i did a system restore on my laptop, and when it was running again i couldnt get internet, it was connected to the wireless router as "exellent' but the …

For the longest time I have had a GIF file for my desktop. I make them from photos I've taken with my camera. I tried to change over to a new one recently and it kept returning to my current one. I finally got frustrated and deleted all instances of …

Ok my usb mass storage driver has a little yellow warning sign next to it and it isnt working to well so I am trying to find a download online buyt nothing seems to be free can anyone help me out.

This is a Gateway unit running WinXP Pro. It worked fine when I gave it to my 90 year old father. He claims that: "it wouldn't turn off!" and so he unplugged it. Ever since it froze on start-up. Right at the point that several dots are racing across in …

I thought this was weird because i cleanup all my files and deleted old programs i rarely ever use through add/remove programs from control panel. but i did get a virus/spyware on my computer two weeks ago. but after running spybot, spydoctor, avg and avira, it says im clean. help?

Hi, I have a problem with my internet. I currently use wifi but this problem persists on both wired and wireless connections. Anytime I use firefox or any kind of internet it works fine for about 5 minutes, sometimes less, then it just stops responding. It doesn't disconnect mind you …

Hi newbie here so sorry if im posting in the wrong bit!! Just wondered if someone could post the address for getting hijack this and was also wondering if antone knew of some good free virus protectin? sam

I am getting a box with a red x in the middle when trying to view pictures that were otherwise viewable yesterday. Ex: Many pictures on my vacation resort website are not viewable. (Though it is not limited to this) Nothing has been changed on my system that I'm aware …

hello, I would really appreciate any help at all. When I started my computer I got this message windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt Then when I started it with the windows cd it went straight to windows shutting down to protect the computer check for viruses, remove any new hard …

Hi Can anyone tell me where I can get the ethernet controller driver to get my internet to work? I have a Dell Dimention 2350 and I just had to reinstalled Windows XP home edition due to viruses. Some drivers were lost and now my internet wont work. I dont …

my rma'd mother board just arrived back and works but the on board lan does not. its really not worth rma'ing again. Ive tried the three old cards i have and windows wont install them.....xp will install them, windows me, 98, 95, millenium etc.... do i have to buy a …

Ok so I recently created an additional Windows Vista account on my PC. When I turn my computer on, I get a message saying my password is invalid, because I haven't entered it yet. It seems the computer is still trying to automatically log me in to my default account. …

Can i do a diskless network via Win XP? what are the software that i will need to have a stable connection?

I am running a windows XP machine with a AMD 6400 processor with 2G of RAM. My system has been running slow at startup since the rebuild and since I added the HP 2007 Monitor I have monitor shake at startup and then everything just gets real slow or does …

Hi, I'm using ASUS W5F T2300 1.66GHz. Windows XP Home Edition SP2. Hardisk HTS421280H9AT00 --> 2 Partitions: drive C: and D: I got some registry issue that makes my windows need to be reinstalled. and ufortunately nearly hardisk failure too (I think there are some scratches on the surface) it …

Hi! Numerous problems... A) I apparently have no active mixers available... it seems like it was only a few short hours ago that i actually had sound....O WAIT! it was! B) I beleive i got the stupid Win32/Bagel virus that refuses to leave me alone.... C) I can't install any …

When I try to burn data to a CD-Recordable drive or CD-Rewritable drive, I see no option to send data to the CD-ROM drive. Even when I try to view the properties of the CD-R drive or CD-RW drive I notice that the [B]Recording [/B]tab is not displayed in the …

Hi, I have Windows XP SP2 with Norton antivirus from Rogers.com. Recently, I noticed that Windows explorer opens on its own and every few minutes a new explorer opens. After 1 hr approx. I could see about 20 windows explorer opened. I know that is a sign of a worm. …

I have written a web-site using CuteSite Builder and would now like to have a page for members only. The programme offers page password protection with php and/or asp. I have tried to load these via the HTML insertion feature but nothing seems to work. Any advice welcomed. (Windows XP/3) …

I recently restarted my computer and got a message saying that a file was missing or corrupt. I then tried to repair with the windows disc. I then got a message saying that windows shut down to protect the computer and check for viruses or chkdsk/f. Doing some research I …

My PC was recently infected by Virtumonde Trojan and in the aftermath the virus was gone and so a lot of computer's functionality. Printer service and audio are out. I tried to restart the services ( Administrative Tools > Services) but I got error 1084 "The service cannot be started …

ok so Im not sure if this should go here or in the nasties forum all the OS's that I worked with today were win xp and my OS is win xp earlier today I used my WD Passport portable hard drive to backup some files, and I also have …

I have a customer with an XP Home SP1 PC that had a whole slew of issues (spyware, adware, viruses, etc). I got rid of most of the problems except two. The one that really bothers me is the Run As window pops up every time you try to run …

sure hope i am at the right place for someone to help me....could you please tell me how i go abot reformatting my computer Michele

I am having problems with websites written in Chinese (or some other similar language) opening Internet Explorer on its own. I have followed the "PC Cleaning Procedures & Detection Tools" in a July 5, 2005, and have run AdWare, Spybot, Windows Defender, and CCleaner and it's still doing it. I …

If you compress files to save space [B][COLOR="red"]Vista will also compress the bootmgr [/COLOR][/B]! This means that you can no longer boot it up! very clever, only Microsoft could make such a dogs dinner of something like this. I also then experienced problems making the computer boot from CD. I …

A friend of mine has a problem with her email. when the email comntains a link the cursor turns into a hand when you scroll over it but won't take you to the link. She uses outlook express with widows xp home. a friend of hers put firefox in a …