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hey anyone know whats the major difference between the intel quad cre 2 processor over amd turion64x2 processor or visi vera, a detailed explaination would help

hi i am running windows 2000 on my laptop and every time i boot up i sign on and i get a message alert box that says "Avsynmgr.exe has gereated errors and will be closed by windows. ect. I know it has to do with McAfee virus scan but why …

Hi there, first timer here. My one year old Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop has caught some nasty off the web in the last week. I know this a) because internet explorer's performance was massively hampered, and b) the laptop's getting a lot hotter than normal. I had this problem a …

Hey guys.I am new to this forum..I needed some help.I am unable to access my c drive.whenever i double click on it I get "c:\ access is denied",I can run it by right clicking and clicking on search,I have win xp sp 2..The file system is FAT..please help.

Please help... I really don't know what I am doing but I think I might have a virus. Last night I was on the internet and Bugs started eating on my screen (not real bugs, fake bugs) then it said I had spyware on my computer. I ran my ad-ware …

I uninstalled a Microsoft windows office trial and now my shortcuts won't work, I can't start the programs from their file folders either. Control panel is out. I get a message that says this is a file that cannot be opened on everything. I can't install or uninstall anything. I …

I'm running Windows XP Media Player 11. I have sound from Music CD's and other sources but DVD's play with no sound. Any suggestions? Also...when I put in a music CD it brings up the Itunes site and plays there by default.

This is a crazy problem that probably has a simple solution. Any help I can get will be appreciated. I connect to the internet via w-fi. I just acquired a used computer (vista, athlon 64). The previous user used firefox. Firefox and AVG update connect to the internet perfectly. IE7, …

My PC ( windows Xp 2002 version) and my External Hard drive are brand new ( about 2 months old) and the external hard drive ( this one [url]http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=290760&sourceid=2012[/url] ) It told me on the package that I could use it on my Mac aswell as my PC, it works …

I have the yellow shield in my taskbar that shows an update being downloaded. It has been downloading for 3 days. It is on 60% now. When I mouse over it it shows the percentage complete. If I try to right or left click on the icon it does nothing. …

hey guys and gals I am in need of some help. I have a computer I am working on (running xp) that was loaded with malware. The files are also badly fragmented and the computer was very slow. So, I finally got it clean, but defrag does not defrag all …

I am wanting to gain some hands-on knowledge of security (permissions, sharing, etc.). Can I install Windows XP Professional on a second computer and configure it as a server with Active Directory? If so, will this enable me to gain some practice as mentioned above? Where can I get the …

Hello to all member of this forum. I need your help guys, I encountered problem with my PC, 1. I can't open any program in my PC and install any programs or I can run the setup but after few minutes it will close by istelf 2. I decided to …

Hi can someone help me. I am having problems with getting windows xp to start. When I restart my computer the fallowing message appears We apologise for the inconvience, but windows did nto start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have cause this. I have tried all the …

Hi. I have a Toshiba laptop that has been running Windows XP for several months now. Several days ago I got a large amount of spyware, etc from a website I visited. So I used system restore to set my computer back a day and then I used Ad-aware to …

can i use my yahoo and hotmail account into outlook express ? what is the procedure ?

My hard drives have been set up as FAT32 under Windows XP. Now I wish to convert the drives to NTFS. I started to convert drive E, which is one of my data drives. I ran convert E: /fs:ntfs in a cmd window. I got the following messages: The type …

Hi there people. I am trying to resurrect an old HP Compaq nc6000 notebook for my work and I have got it going, but everytime I turn it on I ger a rundll error saying: Error loading cmicnfg.cpl The specified module could not be found. I have found out it …

yesterday in my Pc outlook express bullitin is hidden , its not showing , also when i go in add / remove programs there is already check but showing size 0.0 MB there , here are some screen shorts , so pls tell me how i can get bullitin outlook …

Hi, I have a dell xps 1210 with 120Gb and windows xp professional on it and suddenly i lost all the free space on the hard disk. It wasn't even half full and today i am left with only 7GB. Please help me. I have done a system restore but …

Hello, I have a read around first to see if anyone else had a similar problem, but didn't find something similar. I will cont. looking though. Our family computer keeps restarting in a sense that what comes up on the screen is it saying that Windows was unable to start …

Hi, I am new to the forum. I dont know where to post this question so i'll post it here 1st.. my pc background cannot click after i change wallpaper.. all my icons gone too.. when i press start > control panel everything hangs.. i can only move my mouse …

"The windows vista home premium key you typed is invalid for activation" I'm getting this message about 4 - 5 days after re-installing Windows with a valid key at the side of my computer. Wtf is going on? What can I do?

It happened a few weeks ago my computer slows down and mozilla frequently glitches and freezes. I have no idea why so here is the HiJackThis log Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 6:52:27 PM, on 08/05/2008 Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.2600.0000) Running processes: …

Hi there, i got this laptop compaq Presario v3000, i had it for almost 2 yrs. Not a long time ago, my laptop wouldnt switch on. I have to restart it twice to switch it on. Yesterday, my computer wont switch on completely, i still could see the light when …

Hi there, I have been experiencing for some time now, this sort of "freezing" system, which is more like the HD is running and then, all of a sudden, if I try to click anywhere it just wouldn'r do it.... It's like I am clicking and it gets irresponsive. In …

:( Hi everybody. Here I am with a new thread as I reckon that I am a real nerd sometimes. Here's what I've done a couple of hours ago. I downloaded IE6 after removing IE7, which has proved to be a pain. I have Windows XP SP2, by the way. …

Hi Guys! i have just bought (amongst a new graphics card and tv tuner card) an OEM copy of windows vista home premium x64bit edition. my question for whoever may be able to answer is.. what is the best method for creating a dual boot of vista and windows xp? …

Hello, Ok...I posted a while ago a problem I had with the BSOD and received some great ideas. I managed to find a way to get some of the important data off. My question...I read somewhere that some techie...when installing xp, they create 2 partitions...one with the main xp system …

Hi guys , its a long story but in short words , how can i disable all the local users and groups on Windows XP , i have a network and i want all the security issues like logging in , etc .... to relay on the server security not …

well the title says it all,anyone know of a download manager that minimizes to the system tray rather than the task bar...any ideas?

My computer was OK this morning. I am running Windows XP. When I started it up after coming home from work, all kinds of things were changed: - The display theme changed from Windows Classic to Windows XP. - My wallpaper selection is gone. - The color scheme I carefully …

Hey, I've been workin on a video project for some time where i have audio then create text effects in swish then export em into premiere then exportin both the audio and the video. After exporting them sucessfully when i try to play it in windows media play classic when …

When I start my computer everything loads normally, up until past the first loading screen of windows, after that the windows logo appears with the blue background and just stays there nothing else will load. I have tried all the alternative start ups, like safe mode and the latest working …

Hi, I´ve designed a label in nero cover designer, have found the appropriate label type,want to print it out but 2 to a page, and I can only get it to print in a format of 1 per page. Yes, I feel a bit stupid cos I´m sure it´s something …

Hello, I have spent 2 days trying to find the answer to my problem and nothing works. I dont understand what is wrong and could truly use the help of this forum please. The problem: I tried to clean up some room on my HD and deleted some files and …

Hi, whenever I put a [B]blank[/B] DVD-R or RW disk into my drive, Windows will say it's not there. The cursor turns into a little CD, but whenever I try to burn an ISO image or any type of file onto it, it says that it's not in. I looked …

my windows machine wont boot...it gives me a "c:\windows\system32\config is corrupt or missing"...what can i do.... but when i slaved this drive in another machine to take out some data ...i saw something very surprising....all the data in this drive is gone and replaced by data from another drive that …

Hello, I am getting an error 333 Application Popu for the last 4 hours... I have some other errors: 2098 2019 8032 8021 It happened at 3:47 a.m. this morning and the server hung... Any idea? Thanks

I recently ordered a custom computer from newegg and i got it today, i built it and everything went fine i didnt have the hard drive, i just wanted to use my old one, so i popped into my nice shiny no-tool needed drive slot (sorry ima show off) and …

Hi All, I am running Windows XP at present with FAT32 file system. I plan to convert my file system to NTFS. If I were to later run Windows 98 within VMWare in Windows XP, would the Windows 98 still work with NTFS? Thanks. acywong

Hey guys I have a laptop with a "bugger".Whenever I start the laptop(Dell) its performance is really slow, so I went into the task bar to realize that the [I][B]conime.exe[/B][/I] file is the culprit of absorbing the processor performance. I did some research and windows describe the file as essential(fair …

When you press the ALT button, a letter will usually appear underlined so that you can press ALT+letter that is underlined to do a certain shortcut. My question is, I remember finding a way so that this letter was always underlined in windows, but i don't know where it is …

I just got a Gateway computer with Windows XP SP2 and ever since I got the computer it has been running slow, startups take at least 2-3 minutes and there are times where after I run certain programs the CPU usage would be running at 100% and then the computer …

Hello people, this is my first post on this forum so be gentle :D I've bought a knew PC without any OS on it, cause I thought I could easily install Windows XP Pro on it myself as I have done a couple of times before. But alas I couldn't, …

Has windows xp sp3 been released??

Ok, I have a AG13+ v 3.0 mobo with onboard audio. Recently I was watching Tekzilla podcast and audio began cutting out for about 10 seconds then coming back. I thought the driver might have been corrupted so I unisntallled the driver then reinstalled with tthe latest driver from realteks …

Hi Sir, I am unable to complete windows XP professional setup. I have formatted D, E, F drives after entering into the system. After that I kept a bootable CD and I formatted C drive during setup. After setup has completed copying setup files system is restarting and displaying the …

i have program name lock my folder,i tried to lock my external hard drive but is not complete and then i canceled but after that i cant open my hard drive and they said access dinied ,even after i delete program and i install again with same password and i …

Hi I am having trouble logging in to Hotmail and this problem is manifested in both IE and firefox which I have recently just installed. It was working fine up until 3 days ago. When I enter username/password at [url]www.hotmail.com[/url] I get the message 'The page cannot bb displayed' - …