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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 …

Hi my name is paul and pretty much a noob, but i need help!! teh problems start when i get to teh windows load screen in windows xp were the loading line thst blue comes up... after that a black screen comes up and stays there for about a minute …

My cd/dvd combo re-writer causes the computer to re-start after 3 uses........... can play, record, back up etc 2 disks then the 3rd one crashes the computer............... everything shuts down and comp er-starts... Any ideas how or why???? how do i fix it???? been like this since i got it …

I just got a comp from Ibuypower.com, from installation i have had odd graphics problems where when i am playing World of Warcraft all the colors change, weird patterns appear and the such, i also have my driver up to date but who knows. I am also getting the blue …

This has only started recently but whenever i start up my computer the explorer bar takes for ages to load. If i go into task manager under the processes tab it says the explorer is using up to 90 % of the CPU. How can i stop this happening?

Im running Virtual Machine95 on a XP machine.the xp machine has 1 gig ram 80gig Hard drive and a 2.0 ghz cpu.everytime the user uses the VM95 he gets the error massage out of memory error.I then need to restart the VM program. I did increase the ram size on …

Hello Everyone This question may be posted elsewhere, but I'm new and need an answer if possible, like yesterday...... Am not getting visuals on any pictures I was able to see as recent as yesterday. I'm getting a little box with a red x in the middle. What has happened? …

Hi all, Not sure is this a correct place to post. But I need some help on Norton Ghost multicast (DOS Ver). Example: PC 'A' is my server image if I need to reclone 2 pc at the same time without insert bootdisc on the 2 PC. Thks

Last night a friend tried to download a video and messed with some settings and I dont know what he did but, everytime I go to open a program in the start menu it opens up as Quicktime Player.. Control Panel and My Computer will open but I can't open …

Thanks for the welcome and I will read and learn. Currently my IT department has made changes to my display settings. I am running WXP Pro and when i right click on the desktop, go to properties, screen saver tab my password protect is selected with a 3 minute timeout …

Hi, I have this problem - I have to fill many various webforms every single day. That is what I am paid for, of course, but it is so dull and time consumpting! I have about five dozens values and I have to type them again and again plus any …

i have itunes and an ipod but the song 'get low' by flo rida wouldn't play properly on my ipod .. that song can be played fully on itunes but when i transfer to my ipod it wont play properly : jst a 30second preview grr i dunno why dat …

I run win xp and I keep getting the message that my virtual memory is low, could someone please tell me how to remedy this, thank you. Let me know if you need more info.

I have a HP desktop computer that I was using when our power went off and on a couple of times. Now this computer will try to start and shut down automatically after about ten seconds. Does anyone have any suggestions on what could be fried or causing me this …

Hello there, I bought a new ASPIRE 5920G series laptop with Windws, vista version. I want to partition my HDD in to more types (currently i have 2 drives). How can I do it? Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance Remo

Hie there what does adsl stand for and how deferent is it from dial up?