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I want to transfer some files from my desktop (Windows XP) to my lap top (Windows 98SE). I have the correct cable (Null modem) but I am hitting a problem. When I set up a network connection for COM1 on my desktop, I can connect to my desktop from the …

Hello my hard drive crashed, I was unable to boot to pc. Tried reinstal repair of Win xp still no luck to boot. I added old hard drive C, set first hard drive D as slave and reinstalled again Now I have access to my pc however no access to …

I just want to ask how do I access other drives in my computer using the command line. For example I would like to access the files in my flash drive how do I do it? I tried to use the change directory command ( cd <drive name>) but I …

There is always a big question of having a system backup for a security purpose.System Backups is the best way to have our data even in times of memory corruption, memory loss, auto format, system crash down.All condition may make a loss of billion dollars to any banking system or …

I have my pc with dual booting of win98 and winxp.I have mcafee installed on my pc, recently i tried to run a patch of mcafee on winxp which didn't run. Then i restarted my pc and booting in winkp gave me error \WINDOWS\system32\config file missing and it said to …

I write to inquire about what one can do to prevent intrusion while navigating the internet in such a Wi Fi environment. I have XP pro with virus. antispyware, and firewall enabled. Aside from disabling file and print sharing in the windows firewall what other precautions can one take? Guidance …

Current network 2x Windows NT4 PCs (pentium 2s with 128mb ram) 2x windows 2000 pro pcs (256mb ram pentium 3s) 2x windows xp pro pcs (512 ram pentium 4s) 1x vista buisness pc (1.5gb ram, pentium 4) 1x NT4 terminal server (512 ram, pentium 3) 1x NT4 PDC/Fileserver (384 ram, …

I have a problem with my windows system following an migration to a new hard disc. To move the system I cloned the original drive using the acronis software from the seagate site, which seemed to work perfectly. When I boot the new hard drive I get an initial error …

I have a customer running Vista and IE 7.0.6000.16643 She can successfully navigate our Web site except when she comes to one of our password protected links. The moment she clicks on one, she gets a message that says: IE has stopped working. Windows will close IE... etc. We will …

By some twist of fate, I got into the BIOS and changed my boot disc sequence, disabled my floppy to eliminate a problem the startup sequence says that I have and with the XP Pro CD in my CD-RW drive...Windows Setup started. Setup went through several inspections and offered to …

When I use Thunderbird to import my address book, it does not ask where to look to import the file. Is there some special place I need to put my outlook express file for the thunderbird software to find it? In the faq of webmail ( [url]http://webmail.mozdev.org/faq.html[/url] ) they have …

I am looking for a way to set the user changes that I have made in IE 7 to be a global all users settings. I have alot of users and I don't want to tweak IE for each one of them. I have disabled the phishing filter and made …

System is a 2000Pro with a HP 7450 Printer. Hardware Device mgr clearly shows 7450 hardware and software as installed and running properly yet printer does not appear on PRINTERS PAGE-the ADD PRINTERS icon is all that shows and when that is clicked on the "OUT OF RESOURCES" "print subsystem …

Hi, I am using windows-NT workstation. i am not getting the refresh option in menu which we can get by right clicking the empty desktop.but we can refresh by pressing F5, but i want that option. The one more problem is i am not getting the tool bars on Start …

Sorry about that. Let's start over. I have a win 2k box that I can't install SP4 on. (see previous posts). Since my win2k is an upgrade, I thought I would spring for a new XP Pro and start again. I bought an OEM version with SP2 on it and …

Hi, I am having a problem with Internet Explorer 6.0. Some websites show with large fonts, and some others with small fonts. I went to tools, internet options fonts and I have selected Latin Based, Times New Roman, Courier New. Also on view I have selected Text Size Medium which …

hi guys, you very kindly gave me good advice a few week ago, and I am back again on behalf of my sister. here are her problems she has her belkin wireless modem connected directly to the xbox, she then has the belkin wireless usb plugged into main pc running …

I have looked it up and it says that when you want a clean install of Windows XP, you go into the os disk and press repair or install. i went into the os disk and it says that i can install it but when i press it, it says …

I have a PC with Windows Xp. It takes about two hours to get to the point where the destop should pop up. Just before it does, errors pop up saying that system32 files are missing and debug and sysevent and a bunch of other files are missing. That's when …

I tried to download a pdf file and got error x c:\ doc and settings\----\local settings\ temp internet files\local settings\--.pdf The application failed to start because the application configuration was incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix the problem. I downloaded adobe 8.1.2 but the installation failed because "the old adobe …

I updated the windows media player today and after i did that the sound stopped working. I need to go back to before I downloaded the updated version of windows media player and restore the settings to how they were before but I don't know how... can anyone help me???

i get this error everytime when i start my pc error loading c:\windows\system32\nhdigccf.dll the specified module could not be found i have windowsxp pro.

Hello All, I am currently running: HP 8200mn Linksys Wireless WRT54G Adapter Vista 32-bit Home Premium I receive the following error on the BSOD: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL tcpip.sys Stop: 0x000000D1 It happens every other day while the PC in use or left idle. I uninstalled the Linksys Drivers and reinstalled to no …

I'm just a new to autocad and I am quite familariar with the engineering drawings. Since in the othographic view we need to draw some view like top view, front and the side view. I came to know about the something transform of 2D figure to the 3D using more …

hi my problem is that when ever my usb mouse is plugged into my laptop the laptop will not boot. i am running microsoft vista home premium, the mouse is a trust High Precision Mini Mouse MI-2800p and the laptop is an acer aspire 5613awlmi.

my OS is xp pro cannot boot because system 32 Missing or currupt I have downloaded the six startup diskets and loaded them on the defective computer I now get the choices To start up xp now press enter To repair xp using recovery console press R To quit press …

We deleted the domain option on a 4.0 NT workstation. Our problem is we didn't set up a new user to logon without the domain. Does anyone happen to know how we can reset which domain to log into without being logged in?

SP1 for windows Vista lets you create a rescue disk using the command recdisc.exe. But when I try to run this command nothing happens. Has anyone come across this problem? Any fixes? Or am I doing something wrong?

After I turn my computer on and go into windows it lets me play around for about 1min then it just freezes up. I can move the mouse about but cant click on anything press alt+tab a few times and it just switches through blank windows and then completely freezes. …

I recently purchased a laptop on ebay, and when I went to Windows to download the latest update, Windows notified me it was an illegal copy. My question is: when I reinstall a legal copy of Windows XP, do I have to save hard drive info before I install XP?

Dear All, I have broad brand connection. I of the employee always access un-wanted site. I am unable to check it. But the Problems is that he regurarly mail every where. I copy noaccess.rat in system folder. But at present he is unable to access yahoo.mail. I already configure it …

Hello to all. I'm new here, so any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED! Just a few days ago, my computer, in the task bar, a message popped up saying "power surge in usb port". Now, the I only have 2 usb ports (there are 6 altogether). Is there a fix …

I am trying to reinstall XP on my system. This isn't the first time I have done this. I have never had a problem before. The only difference now is that I recently had Ubuntu 7.10 on my system on a separate partition. I deleted that partition and my XP …

I was attempting to reinstall windows xp. I put in the cd, formatted the hard drive, it copied the files, and then it is supposed to restart the computer so it can continue with the second part of the installation. You are supposed to take out the cd and boot …

Hi, I have faced this problem many many times and have never found a conclusive solution. I do not know, but perhaps there is probably no solution at all to this problem. Anyway I am posting this problem in the hope that I am wrong. The problem is about Windows …

HI all, I have a homegrown system that has been running flawlessly since built in Nov 07. Recently Ihave been working on a stuttering prob in Portal (game). I also updated my BIOS which seemed to run successfully. Now I am getting a BSOD on boot in XP: STOP: 0x0000007E …

I bought a new computer which has Vista and a wireless modem. It worked perfectly until 3 months ago when every 1-2 days the Internet and Email will suddenly stop working and give error message such as page cannot be displayed. But I can ping, the network and sharing centre …

Is it possible to replace a motherboard and CPU without losing data? I have Win Xp Pro installed on one of the two hard drives, the other is also defectie. I would like to transfer this hard drive, cd and dvd writers into a new box or if at all …

When I start PowerPoint at work, all of the premade slide templates are there when I start working. When I start PowerPoint at home, the image of each template takes about 15 second to appear in the task pane, so it is several minutes before they are all visible. Why …

Why are the icons in My computer all nearly alike now? All of them (except the folders) now look like little blue pieces of paper with a very tiny little picture of the icon that used to be there inside. I can't visually tell them apart now. This makes it …

Hi to all and firstly thankyou for reading my thread! Ok here is my problem when i load up my PC i log in enter password etc... and it take a long time to load everything up also explorer doesnt load too i have to CTRL+ALT+DEL then end explorer.exe and …

how effective is webroot in removing all data from a hdd?

HI, I recently purchased a dell tower from State surplus because my computers MB and PS blew up. I installed my recovery disk onto the new tower and installed an audio card, ethernet card and the old hard drive. The system is working well. However, I cannot access my Documents/default. …

I have problem to loggin on windows xp prof. where my user name and password is correct. Is there any kinds of virus which makes this type of problem

The problem is that after I use 'fast user switch' -> I see the login screen with all the 'normal' user accounts listed but if I would like to use 'Ctrl+Alt+Del' to login to other (unlisted) accounts like 'Administrator' it doesn't work - 'Ctrl+Alt+Del' does nothing. The same thing when …

Ok, trying to do a favor for a family member by installing a MAXTOR ATA133 Controller card into their computer. After I "thought" I loaded the drivers I put the Primary HD (which contains the OS, Win XP Pro) on to the controller card. After a reboot it detected the …

Hey, Im donig this for a friend. I inserted the XP cd and the setup popped up. But it wont let me click on Install windows XP (i wanted to select upgrade). So I created a new partition with 10 GB of space (by shrinking the one that has vista …

hey guys, i've recently reformatted my harddrive so obviously i had to reinstall windows, all is fine until i am asked for the product key, i enter my key found on the sticker (i've reformatted the HDD twice with this key with no trouble...) and it says its not valid.....what …

Hi all, So my very first post on here a while back, was me asking for help to solve an issue where my pc died, ending up regularly hanging with a black screen. The problem later progressed to booting up at the login screen, but no further, the desktop kicking …

All of the flash content on any web page stop working since I installed Ad-aware and ran it with the latest updates. I get a blank boxes with a small stamp in the top corner where the flash usually loads. And when I go to Marcomedia to the Flash Player …