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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 …
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 …
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 …
hi there, i'm trying to open .mp4 videos but i cant play them none of the programs that i use could play any .mp4 video..i use (mpc star, media player, real player) i've also installed quick time and divx but it's still the same, and all other videos work good …
I have a laptop with Win XPPro. It starts up to the standard Safe Boot screen and gives me the normal boot options all of which simply return me to the same screen. If I boot from the WinXP CD and go to Recovery Console is doesn't recognise Drive C. …
Alright, I may have posted this before cant remember.... I installed the new 169 nvida forceware or whatever drivers about [U]5 months ago[/U] so yeah... The moment I installed them my computer crashed and went all crazy and every time I turned it on the monito went all mixed colours …
Hi, i wonder if you guys can help me. Ive just bought a brand new computer with XP. Ive got onto the internet and ive downloaded Divx, VLC, etc. etc. basically a lot of stuff. Basically, when im watching a film on VLC, using Firefox to watch movies or on …
Hey all, I know the first thing to suggest would be the normal.dot file, but I don't thin that is the problem. If it is, then simply replacing it with a non-corrupted version is not fixing the problem. Here's the problem: When you open word 2003 (only under 1 user …
Hey guys...anyone know how to find a computer log in the computer? Like a log that tells when and which program i installed and all the details of what my computer does in the background? Is there even anything that does this? Thanks PcPro12
I am trying to resize my partitions on the C drive. Parition runs after restart. I get an error message -- Error 27 Cannot lock drive. I reboot and it comes up again. I reboot and hit any key to abort. It comes up again. This just goes on and …
hello i got this error and tried to unistall it and reinstall it and still no luck here are my specs ...Can Anyone help me please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! System Security Status CIS Benchmark Score Available only for Windows 2000, XP Pro, and 2003 Virus Protection Up-to-date Microsoft Security Updates Up-to-date -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer …
Find the file you want to have a run command for Ex. Microsoft word - I would rather type "word" than "winword" Find the file C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE I've got Office 07 it might be different from what you might have, I'm not sure Right-click winword.exe tell it to copy …
I don't know what it is called, so I can't search for it on this forum or on Google. What I need to know is the location of the file that holds the ability offer up a previously entered email addresses as a suggestion when you start to type in …
I noticed today when using IE7 I can use it fine but whenever I close it, it stops responding and I have to end the process. I am running Windows XP and always use FF except on the rare occasion I need IE7. Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is what …
1. Please what are the consequences of Windows System32 Proper.exe ( Missing or not functioning) in a Pc using Windows NT/200/XP/2003 ? 2. If this file is missing, how do i restore it ? 3. Control Panel is missing in my Customized Start Menu with this, it is not possible …
Hey Dani Peeps Im currently using MS WIN XP because im one of the users prefering XP over VISTA.part of the reason is the restrictions.for instance when copying something and paste it,it asks are you sure amongst other "high" security. My question is,is there perhaps a way how one can …
when i was playing C&C 3, the game Hung causing me to try and end the process. the same happens in Colin Mcrae DiRT. im running Windows XP GPU:Nvidia Geforce 9800GTX 512MB! CPU:Amd Athlon X2 5200+ (2.7GHz ea core!) MOBO:Gigiabyte S-series PSU:codegen 530W RAM:1.7gb
[i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]One-Click Shutdown[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2][color=#000000]If you have Clean Sweep Deluxe, you should disable it before proceeding. Follow these directions to create a one-click shutdown shortcut:[/color][/size][/font] [list] [*][font=Arial][size=2][color=#000000]Navigate to your Desktop.[/color][/size][/font] [*][font=Arial][size=2][color=#000000]On the Desktop, right-click and go to …
I just recently got a computer from my grandparents, and its a windows xp, 2005 and the motherboard was fried, but I salvaged everything that I could, including the hardrive. So I tried to add it to my new computer witch is also an xp, and I plugged it in, …
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