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Ho to hide files and folders in Windows XP? (I mean not “hidden” attribute). I want no-one to see them no way.

System is a custom build. Intel d915pgn m/b Intel p4 3.4 LGA 775 OS Windows XP Pro SP2 Soundcard (have 2 same problem both) 1-SB Audigy SE 2-SB X-Fi Extreme Gamer Vid ATI 1950 Pro 512mb 600MHz HDD (have 2) 1- WD 200 Gig Main Storage) 7200 rpm 2-WD Raptor …

ok I'm not sure if this is the right thread but I have a blackberry curve and was wanting to put a windows mobile os on it but I can't figure out where to download the os Also I'm working on a way to to turn my blackberry into a …

What can I do to recover my computer? I tried booting from an external cd but it wont work

Please help! When I click my volume control, it gives me an error message that says there are no active mixer devices available. I've gone through my device manager and it says everything's fine. I can hear sounds from my programs just fine, but if I try to play a …

I have a new Compaq Presario Desktop computer that uses the Windows Vista Home Premium OS. When I finish reading my email messages (in Earthlink WebMail) I would like to play a game offline but don't know how to disconnect from the Internet to do so. From the START menu, …

Hi Guys, wonder if somone can help?? My windows versions Task bar is unhighlighted so basically useless to me. I have read a similar thread and followed the process can someone look at the log and give me some insight on what I need to do to get my taskbar …

I have a Dell Dimension E520 desktop running Windows XP SP2, I have recently got this problem in which when I turn the computer on, it does the usual dell part but after that it loads into a black screen, no sign of windows, and the keyboard becomes unresponsive though …

I have xp home version and when I click on a link within a site or another page I have to go up top right and click on restore to enlarge the page, I must have changed something in settings, how do I fix it so all pages in IE …

Hi Everyone Firstly, I hope I've posted this in the right place, ( mega apologies if I haven't ) even though Ive attached a Hijackthis log at the end because it might help arrive at my Chkdsk solution. I think I have something running which is blocking access to the …

hi, everytime i log in to my computer explorer keeps restarting...big loop. plz help. here is my log, Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 1:07:30 PM, on 7/5/2007 Platform: Windows Vista Ultimate (WinNT 6.00.1904) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16473) Running processes: C:\Windows\helppane.exe C:\Program Files\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page …

I recently followed a guide to incorporate Service Pack 1 into my Windows XP Professional installation disc, a process the guide refered to as "Slipstreaming". After doing this I wondered wether or not I could do the same thing with other programs, such as my Anti-virus and Firewall software. I've …

While I was installing windows 2000 on my laptop, installation froze. I let it set for hours and then finally turned it off and rebooted. Now it still hangs and I don't have a boot disk. Any suggestions?

Hi I recently got a new pc wich was pretty expensive but worth it i thought until i saw that after playing a game for 30 seconds it crashed it just froze over and didnt turn back only thing i could do is restart the pc the guy from the …

I am looking for software that can keep a log of what computer a user has logged on to in our companys building. we have a domain using active directoy, and i would like a way so when a user logs on it will keep track of the computer they …

Hello All My machine which has on occaision behaved itself properly has now decided to attempt to drive me out of my mind. I do not know if this aberrant behaviour occurred before or after installing SP1 for Vista, but what it now does is this. If I use the …

Hey guys I have a machine thats on a network and whenever I try to log in it does the logon process but comes right back to the welcome screen.the read it gives is: "starting windows..." "logging of" I strongly believe that the problem lies within the registry since I've …

I recently purchased windows vistro 200(Dell Desktop) which came with windows XP home installed.I wanted to install windows xp professional (32bits). I formated the hard drive(250gig) into 20 gig C drive and rest into D drive using windows XP professional disc. I tried to reinstall windows XP professional on C …

Alright I got a new computer with an 8800 geforce graphics card and I have a dual monitor setup. One is digital and the other is an old crt (I have the adaptor so I can plug it into my graphics card). Problem: The crt has a nice crisp image …

pc has slowed right down recently sometimes taking at least a minute to load a page up, i have a 2meg connection speed and am running xp, any ideas please?

I have a Dell Dimension 9100 that wont boot. When I boot to the restore CD it goes along until it gets to the page where you could repair or reinstall windows. Up to that point the keyboard works. As soon as it gets to that page the keyboard stops …

Whats happenin people, I currently picked up a new laptop and I am trying to set up my previous pc as a server so I can go into the files anywhere in the house. But I dont know how to set it up using a domain and I also need …

Hello, I've recently installed Photoshop 5.0 The problem is that it auto-installes Adobe photodownloader. I've tried shutting it off the following way: Start, Run, msconfig and denying it to boot there. The problem is that it is back on the next time I boot Windows. How can I kill it …

Guys, i installed the ThreadMentor software from cs.mtu.edu website, but i could run it . It says, "This application has failed to start because "gtk-1.3.dll" was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem". i re-installed it twice and im still getting the same message. what can i do …

I have installed XP SP2 on my pc but after installing, it seems I can't get into safe mode anymore. Does anyone encountered the same problem? Any idea how to fix this without reinstalling windows xp?

I started my laptop today to find that I none of my desktop items showed up, the background wasn't the one I had set, and I couldn't right click on my desktop. Anything I try to open in my start menu doesn't work, and it freezes. I ran my virus …

Hi, I have a 80 gig harddrive that was partitioned into three 3. The OS was giving me problems and I decided to delete it. This is what I did. I loaded a bootdisk, then I fdisk. I deleted all the partitions. I formatted c: Then I try to go …

Hey, I'm having problems with my OS. At random times - right after I press Ctrl + 'S', the system just restarts (which is annoying because whatever I just tried to save is lost). It's happened around 4 or 5 times so far, but they've all been spread apart. But …

hii im back.. with another problem. i rebooted my comp and everything.. but idk how or what to do to install an audio driver? pls help me =[ thx.

My Computer was running fine this morning. Everything worked apart from the wireless, which hasn't been working for a week. I was just using my keyboard, and the lights went of, I tried to use my mouse, at that stopped working as well. I restarted my PC, using the button …

Dear all, Can anybody help me out, My laptop is having Windows Vista operating system. When i cannot USB flash or USB printer it gives me error message "USB Device is not recognized" I had run "scan for hardware changes" from the device manager but it doesn't work. So plz …

I am having problem with my Windows Vista Home premium edition. I am logging with Administrator account but still is not giving me excess to all the right which administrator has. If I am opening my c drive it is giving error "access is denied". Also if am doing any …

I have been troubleshooting this winxp sp2 pc all day. It will not boot to XP, does the eMachines logo on boot then black screen. Tried Last Known Good Config. and Safe Mode. BIOS shows HDD fine. Thing too is that every, maybe 1 out of 10 times, it will …

Hi guys, A guy over at amdforums told me to post here about my problem. I've included an attachment on my problem, where I get red x's instead of the pictures, I know they are there as when I reload it or right click show picture it's there. I've ran …

sorry i know there is a similar topic about this but my computer never booted so I started my comp in "Last known good configuration" and now some of my files have been erased! My computer looks like it reverted to 2 years ago and some of my newer files …

My Windows XP Home Edition isnt genuine at the moment.. but i have the real validation key from the sticker on the side of my system unit. Does anyone know if i can make my windows genuine by somehow entering this validation key i have... WITHOUT having to reboot my …

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 …