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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' - …

No ones mentioned vista tweaks so far But then again i could have easily missed huge bold letters that said NO VISTA or something even reading it twice. I thought it would be interesting to trade tips or tricks, secrets ... whatever. Anything form configuring a hard drive for better …

I don't know what happened, but whenever I start my computer, I get stuck on a black screen, after the DMI screen. I have to start in "Last good configuration" and cannot log into my account. It says something about that the profile is corrupted and gives me a temporary …

what will i do...? i've lost my licensed cd key of my microsoft xp home edition, i cant install it in my pc....how can i get another licensed cd key for it? thanks....

Hi there here are my system specifications. Pentium D dual core cpu 3.20 ghz 2.0 Ghz of ram. 512 mb video card, nvidia. Geforce 7950 GX2 Western Digital 250 gigs sata Creative soundblaster X-FI Marvell Yukon PCI-E Gigabit ethernet controller. Can't think of anything else you might need. I've been …

I am having problem opening control panel, it just doesnt opens. When i try to open it the error shown is, explorer left working and will restart. I tried to use restore function but the restore is also not able to restore the system to an older date. Please suggest …

I have a Dell Latitude (thanks for the sympathy), which is wirelessly networked via Netgear card to my DSL router. This router is hardwired to another computer which gives me no trouble. My daughter has a Toshiba laptop with its own internal wireless equipment. If I am on my laptop, …

I get this error when I boot my comp. The comp posts fine, and then I see the xp pro symbol faded out, then it focuses, the blue bar rolls, then I get a blue screen. Something about "TOP: c0000135 {couldn't locate file} WINSRV is missing. Reinstalling the application may …

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 …

leaving the following error: "Windows - Drive Not Ready Exception Processing Message c00000a3 Parameters 75b6bf7c 4 75b6f7c 75b6f7c" If I click cancel the explorer opens up again for about 3 seconds and then closes again. I'm unable to restore to an earlier point as I don't have sufficient time to …

my folder option is missing both from the tools and control pannel. so plsss could u help me how to get back the folder option.

Hi ppl!! My boss has put me a new problem :'( for me ] he wants users to browse only our [company's]official web office site and a few all other sites to be blocked. can any one tell me how to block websites through group policy in windows2003 server, and …

I'm trying to format my computer and go from vista to xp, but when I run off the xp cd it says that it can't detect my hard drive and cannot continue with the installation. What's wrong with my computer? How can I resolve this problem?

Hello, I created a workgroup with 3 computers several months ago. One computer shares a folder to the other two. The shared folder contains several subfolders. All was well. Then, today I discovered that files in some (but not all) of the subfolders of the share were not accessible via …

[COLOR="Green"]Please read the whole post, it may help you come to a conclusion as to what could help, thnx![/COLOR] [COLOR="Red"]All rules apply![/COLOR] Ok, I installed windows XP pro, anyway after the install, I noticed that it couldn't update since the key had stopped being used, I don't remember what it …

For a few weeks now an update from Firefox kept installing and failing, so I decided to do a clean uninstall and then reinstall Firefox fresh. Since this my internet browsing capability has died. I play MMOs and still connect through them, but both Firefox and IE get locked in …