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Is there an IE6 SP2 patch for windows 2003. I know there is a SP2 patch for IE6 rolled up in the windows xp sp2 patch. Thanks

I wish to use the Windows backup tool to perform a backup of folders on my PC to an external hard drive that is attached to another PC on my home network. I have installed the backup utility on my PC by following the instructions given in the computer's Help …

When trying to install the game Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath i get this error message; "Error reading setup initialization file" What does this actually refer to? After some googling i found out that the file could be corrupt, if it is corrupt, how would i un-corrupt it? This …

Forgive me for elaborating but this is very weird I recently installed nero 7 and it was working fine and i turned my computer off for the night. I turned it on the next morning and it said "Installing windows update (1 of 1)" and then something like "saving settings …

very very critical I had downloaded several pdf files from a website but whenever i try to open them i get the following message... "the files are damaged and cannot be repaired" but other friends of mine are able to open the same after downloading from the same website... plz …

This is the first time I've seen this happened on anybody's computer. My computer suddenly without opening anything of downloading/installing something, started make the enter key command rapidly repeat itself. It will press it so fast that I can't even type my password to log onto the computer. Does anybody …

I am running vista on a brand new asus laptop. It will not play any dvd, cd, mp3, etc. I have had this problem before and have reinstalled vista several times. Everything was playing fine until 2 days ago and now it won't do anything. There is no error message …

After downloading & installing the latest recommended Windows updates, most relating to MS office 2007 security updates, my pc displays an error box upon startup as follows: Box title: SRV #001 Contents: CLED Error with an "OK" option. While this box is displayed, no mouse movements are able. If I …

When I try to run the Administrative Tools in windows Vista Business from the start menu there are no items and it just shows empty. When I try and run it from the control panel I get the following error message. "C:\Program...Admin tools refers to a location that is unavailable...". …

The past couple of days I've had a frustrating Windows Media Player error manifest itself on both my work computer and home computer. When trying to burn files to CD-R at work, WMP went through the preparation phase and began burning the files to disc as normal, but abruptly stopped …

Okay, as of now this is THE PROBLEM i am having, if you read this guy's post here... [url]http://microsoft-personal-operating-systems.hostweb.com/TopicMessages/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/1989521/1/Default.aspx[/url] I am at the windows stop 0x00000006f part. now how did i get there? Well my computer used to work. But whenever i would close windows, yes, just closing windows, my …

An Excel file was saved yesterday with filters set on 4 columns. On opening it today, an error message was issued, saying that problems were encountered in the area of Autofilter. Any idea on the reason? Above all, is it possible to retrieve the data of the sheet in some …

I'm using firefox and my computer wouldn't let me go on digg.com or gmail.com because when I did, the page just stopped loading at the point of being a completely white, blank page. When I deleted cookies, it logged me out of those sites and i could get on them …

I have the latest version of WMP, but a few weeks ago, it started failing to get pass the "writing to CD" step of burning. Once all the song titles are analyzed and pending, it will try to burn the first track only to freeze midway and then finalize the …

Hello! There is a white flashing dot in the upper left corner of my screen (whilst the rest of the screen is black) It appears after going through the general bootup stuff (I have an ASUS P5K-E WiFi Motherboard) :( I am dual booting Vista & XP. (Both 64-bit editions) …

I have Windows XP Pro on my home computer, with Office 2003. Recently, the spell check on Word stopped working and the error message [B]"Cannot find proofreading tools for English(US). If you have the proofreading tools, try installing or reinstalling them..." [/B]was displayed. I tried to see if spell check …

I just turned on my laptop now and everything i had in there isn't there anymore..Its an IBM R50E thinkpad. I don't know where to start from to get all my docunments back..SOMEONE please help me outtttttttttt..Pleaseeee

I have been invaded by a false windows security screen anybody seen this one?

i wanna uninstall windows vista and put on just windows xp HOW DO I DO THIS?

Ten days ago I added a post that complained that my PC wouldn't boot and may be crashing. Last August I bought an emachines T3616 desktop PC w/AMD Sempron processor 3600+ and Windows Vista Home Basic OS. Well, I have been having on-again, off-again problems with booting. Today my PC …

I work as a tech on a college campus, and as prepartion to eventually go to Vista, we loaded up a couple of our administrators as guinea pigs to test out Vista for us. We've had issues, but the one that's really annoying is this: We have a large network, …

Hello all! This is a weird problem I'm facing. I'm running Mint/XP/Ubuntu triple boot. Booted into Windows after like 2 weeks, and now I cannot access the internet from windows.:'( It Works just fine in Linux, so definitely no problem on my ISP's side. Maybe I need to reconfigure something …

hi i installed and unistalled Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 Refresh for causing errors but then when unistalled it and it started to download again through windows update. How do i stop that and i do i remove it from windows update ? thx

I'm trying to install SQL Server on a Vista HP machine, but it will not detect IIS, which in turn prevents Reporting Services from being installed. I have seen blogs which indicate that the UAC system in HP does not properly detect IIS and that as a result NOTHING can …

I reformatted my laptop yesterday. Automatic updates are enabled, and supposed to check for updates every 3:00 am. But it hasn't download any until now. But when I try the manual update through Microsoft's web site, all updates were downloaded and installed successfully. May I ask why is my automatic …

Okay, my hp laptop worked pretty slow for a 1 year old computer but then i ran a defragmentor one night and woke up in the morining with the disk defragmented, but when i tried to access the internet it could not connect. So i shut it down and went …

I require to view four+ FULL webpages at one time. Is there a broswer that will do this or any ideas? Thanks, Regards X PS: I know you can crop by using the arrows on the corners but I cannot use that solution

I recently bought a new AMD Dualcore 6400 barebones system. Not realizing the motherboard it came with only had one IDE channel, I wound up purchasing a 500gb SATA drive to replace the 100 & 120gb drives I previously had. The issue is installing Windows XP on the 500 SATA …

I'm troubleshooting a clients email and hit a block. (Outlook 2003) Whenever I click a hyperlink in the email body, it opens the documents folder. I've searched Msft and no help there. I've looked in Folder Options/File Types for the NONE: URL relationships, and they appear to be correct. Has …

I was removing a few programs I my computer 2 days ago, (in Add/Remove) and I needed to remove a file with the word "Sound___". The problem is, I wasn't paying enough attention and accidentally removed a file by the name of "SoundN__" instead (or something along those lines). Now …

Hello i have a couple of pc's 1 of which the " and @ keys are opposite i did at one time no how to do this but have forgotten can someone help. Thanks PIKE.

Hi all, Have been working on a system, XP home editon removing a virus and now the system tray or lower task bar has gone. I have removed this same virus from other systems with no probs. I think I have deleted a file in system32 ? maybe. Any ideas …

All of a sudden my laptop keyboard stopped working properly. You have to hold the key down for 2 seconds before it will work. At first I thought that it was a bad driver, but the file has not been modified since I got the computer, according to the date …

i always wanted to know how to play halo2 on xp, bc im a HUGE fan and i love modding it =-D i know u can use halo2 on xp bc i have heard rumors of it happening.

My computer is very slow in opening documents and programs. To open a browser page or a program I have to wait for minutes. I frequently get warning that "your computer virtual memory is minimum & too low". Could anyone advice me as to how I can remedy this problem. …

Hi ALL I am Srinivasan S Saripalli. I have a VC++ doubt which I have notified below. Hope you can give me a solution. I have developed a ATL,COM 32-bit Service and in the Service I am implementing Timer functionality using either `SetWaitableTimer` or `CreateWaitableTimer`. When I compile my Service …

Yesterday all was well. So as a treat I thought I would Disc Cleanup and Disc Degrag to keep my little lap top happy. Did that and put the lap top in a drawer - of course the battery went flat during the night so Windows may not have shut …

Can someone tell me if it sounds as if my computer has crashed?? For the past two days when I turn on my computer a STARTUP REPAIR box appears, saying "Your computer was unable to start. STARTUP REPAIR is checking your system for problems." Then the words "Searching for problems" …

Does anyone here know of a reasonably priced, reliable data recovery service? I have a drive that won't boot anymore, I put it in an external USB drive bay and was able to recover only a few files. It has approximately 5GB of data on it, stuff I'd like to …

In windows XP, when I click on C: or D: drive names in 'My Computer', the system treats it like a file asking "the program you want to use to open this file." However through Windows Explorer i can open the drives. In my Folder Options View Tab, the setting …

I recently had new motherboard installed, MK33, for my trusty old but updated (as much as possible) computer. Offline use of XP pro was freezing up on me quite regularly until I changed my DSL connection from USB to Ethernet card. Now I have freeze up when I try to …

Hello I keep getting this circle/x alot it flashes in the bottom I also get a yellow triangle with( ! )in the center with pop ups that say Windows has detected an internet attack attempt sombodys trying to infest your pc...... Then If I click it. it takes me to …

I am running vista home premium on a hp pavillion with 3 browsers (cause im special) and recently my internet just started going really slow. acording to opera its about 172 bytes per second, i dont have McAffee or spybot installed. Internet explorer wont load pages nor will firefox, only …

I just recently bought a new laptop running Vista. I know very little about The Vista O.S. I have created a new primary partition, formatted it, and copied the i386 files to it. When I try to run the wnnt32.exe it will not run. I followed this exact same strategy …

Hi all, I did an online scan a while back and to try to really identify if I had a problem, I turned off some programs to help with the scan. I thought I turned them all back on again but now whenever my comp starts up and I log …

Hey Guys, This is quite an interesting problem that I am having at the moment. My sister's computer is having some problems. Whenever I go to start the machine it tells me that something has gone wrong with windows and gives me options of which mode to start in (safe, …

Alright for some reason i have been and keep getting these pop ups such as free ringtones, dating websites, and sweepstakes and others.. how the heck do i get rid of them? i have done everything and nothing is working. Can someone please tell me whats going on or how …

I currently use IE and Firefox as my browsers. However, I'm interested in eliminating IE for personal reasons, and using Firefox primarily. The only problem I have is the "tabbed" option. IE let's me set-up start up tabs (Control panel>Internet options>General tab) so that everything is how i like it …

I own a Acer Desktop Computer. Processor:Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.2GHz Memory : 3GB DVD+RW: Dual Layer Graphics : ATI Radeon HD2400 Pro Sound Card: Integrated Modem: Intergrated Ethernet: Integrated USB Ports: 2 Front 4 Rear Media Reader Slots: 9-IN-1 O/S License: Vista Home Premium Hard Drive Capacity: 500 …

Is there a way to sort folder contents in Vista like in windows XP. I normally sort almost... everything on my computer by: View -> Details. Arrange Icons By Name + Show in Groups So you have a list for "#" "A" "B" etc. But I can't seem to do …