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Ok I am about to install Windows XP 64 on my pc, to see how it runs, anything I should know before I do this? and will my games still run at 32-bit even tho the OS is 64-bit?

I am having problems reinstalling an ATI Radeon 1400's driver into my Dell Inspiron E1505 running windows XP, SP2. When I try to install the driver from dell, it goes through installation, but then says it cannot continue because DirectX8 is not installed. I then installed Direct X 9.0, because …

MY USB PORT OF MY TOSHIBA SATELLITE NOTEBOOK APPEARS TO SAY TO NOT RECOGNIZE MY KEYBOARD. Before this incident, i was working on my MSConfiguration; "stopping" unesasary services that were running on my computer to speed up my system. I did write down which of the services i STOPPED: Services …

I have a new pc with windows vista and am unable to send emails, I can recieve them ok. I have contacted isp and they have checked everything and cant do anymore for me. I am running new pc with vista and another pc with xp professional through a D-Link …

This started all of a sudden with Windows XP home on a Dell 8400. When I try to open Windows explorer, Internet Explorer, Control Panel. the CPU usage goes to around 50% or more, and the programs never open. In the task panel, it shows they are running. If I …

you must forgive my complete lack of computer savvy. But Im just trying to play medieval total war and my main video driver keeps pooping out and i can't quite figure it out. I have a geforce4 card and am running on XP the error message contains nv4.dll which is …

Hi there all, I'm facing the following problem: when i'm listening to music files the pc just get stuck gives this blue page which says that some software or hardware might be corrupted and i should uninstall it and this problem happens with music files not videos how will i …

I bouth a simple laptop for a friend with Vista Home pre-installed. After linking up to the web, the IE/ ceased to function. Message I receive is: Internet Explorer has stopped working. EVENT NAME: Appcrash FAULT MODULE NAME: SmartEnhancer-1.dll etc. Can't now load IE7 at all. Visited MS website, but …

Hello can anyone help me with this problem? I installed a Xerox M15i printer on Win 98 using USB port. When I send a print job, whether a Test Page or another job it returns the error message: Data error (Cyclic Redundancy Check). I do not get the error if …

Hi guys, do you have any idea how to solve Win2k that can't boot, can't load safe mode. Every time I boot BSOD always greets me with this error "Inaccessible Boot Device" 0XFCDE4BB0 0XC00000032 0X000000000 0X000000000. Any ideas is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hello, Im not very tech savy but have a good understanding. please help a newbie. I have two local hard drives in my computer....... C drive and D drive. THE C DRIVE HAS WINDOWS XP INSTALLED ON IT WHILE THE D DRIVE HAS NOTHING INSTALLED. The c drive is the …

Hi... I want to know that there is any registry file that shows [COLOR="Red"]Bios Password is Enable or not[/COLOR] or can we create new registry that show whether [COLOR="Green"]Bios Password is Set or Not[/COLOR]

Fought with Vista -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And lost I installed a program called DosBox on my computer (Win XP) so that I could run an old favorite game of mine Duke Nukem 3D. I had no problems doing this. There is a configuration file that you can rewrite to make the program …

I am a state of distress, My computer is shutting down unexpectedly. I have spoken to many experts that have told that is could be a virus, heating, hardware. But everytime I try to run the Norton the cumputer shuts down, so I figured it might be a Norton problem. …

How Can Anyone Load Vista Having 256mb Ram?

Hey. I upgraded to Windows Vista, and recently been having some problems with it. I've come to you guys before and you have fixed problems in the past for me, so I hope you can help out this time too. The first problem is a internet connection problem. At random …

Not reaaly sure in which forum this should be in (read on and you will see) but I am sure It wil be moved if necessary. OK here goes but 1st a few specs Tosi laptop 3.2 GHZ CPU 60G HD 512MB RAM I was attempting to intsall xubuntu 8.04 …

I currently have AVG Free 8. Can I install Avira Antivir Personal Edition Classic 8 with AVG's real-time shield turned off and make it an on-demand scanner? Or can I turn off Antivir's real-time shield? Thanks..

Hi When trying to open excel files (which could previously be opened) I get the following pop up "Please wait while windows configures microsoft office xp professional with front page" I have never had this before? I am using XP home with Service Pack 2 Any advice Thanks

i were using ftp and it was working nicely in my computer, but then it stoped working. And now every when i try to access it it gives a message: (windows cannot access this folder.Make sure you typed the file name correctly and that you have permission to access the …

1.Everytime startup, after go into desktop will flash like 3-4 times then work smoothly after that. Is that o/s problem?? 2. I just bought this notebook for 1 week. the screen will turned into blue screen and restart.(This occured when im on call using skype) it happened twice. Im using …

Hi, I have a desktop running win xp and it has a hp psc1350 printer it is wired to the desktop.I have it shared .I have a dell laptop Inspiron E1505 with Windows Vista home premium edition it has a dell integrated nic . The problem is the laptop does …

windows xp pro last thing installed was animation shop transfered from another pc by mem stick after the installation computer considerably slowed down and now hours later it's inoperable okay.... currently my computer will boot up, and as soon as i log into windows everything stalls, and i get the …

In Win98 SE, I have done fdisk and format, then tried installing windows again. After I have typed in setup, and after it says copying files, it goes back to the drive prompt. I am assuming I have done fdisk wrong. Do you create a primary partition AND an ext …

I am running Windows XP Pro with SP2, I have my server setup running as a domain controller, can I access active directory from a snap in? I hate going into remote desktop! Cheers Bondi

Running Windows XP I.E.7 Recently dowloaded an upgrade version of AOL Got an error blue screen 00000024 I believe. Resolved blue screen issue with DEll Tech. Now I can not Drag and Drop, Copy and Paste. The paste is greyed out. Internet explorer wont even open, when I click on …

When i start up xp i get a message saying: RUNDLL: Error loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\hwasgsne.dll The specified module could not be found. Im not sure what has started this but any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

My problem is that when i click the right mouse then New i can see the Notepad and i real need it for now . It is in my start menu but there sometimes i dont feel comfotable. I need when i click the right Mouse. Is anyone Know how …

I have a 40 GB hard drive loaded with windows xp home that has been converted to an external hard drive and an old emachines 333i loaded with windows 98 that crashed. I'm wondering if I bring the 32 bit DDRam up to minimum system requirements for xp if I …

I have 2 concerns that I require help with. Firstly, how do you get the new windows to open at full screen? and secondly, when I try and stream certain videos on gamer and other sites, I keep getting an error that states that 'Internet Explorer cannot open the page'. …

Hello, My computer has recently developed a major problem and its driving me mad. When i start my computer and log in, the compter acts normally and begins to load windows/various other programs but then suddenly freezes and won't do anything. Nothing works - ctrl-alt-delete won't do anything and my …

somebody can help me? how to change the drive letter and paths of the boot volume. Example : i have 1 Volume HardDisk = C: NTFS (320GB) Used Space 100GB and Free Space 220GB, i want to make 2 Volume = C: NTFS (160GB) Used Space 100GB and D: NTFS(160GB) …

I have been handling a server from last 2 months.Actually this server as owner says got restart suddenly then when it started working suddenly all machine attached to it got dump error.After manually restarting the server the attached machine came back to life but server got out off order.Its getting …

I am having problems with Windows Update on my PC, it is since we had a new stick of RAM installed or seems to be, we re-connected the system only to find all sorts of things not working properly to the point where when we re-booted it CHKDSK appeared and …

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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) …