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On my windows live mail email client, i can receive messages, but get this error (in the snip below) when i send an email. i can send fine with mozillla thunderbird.

My wife in the spirit of being helpful scanned a 1700X2300 picture and attempted to install it as background. She was successful however it was really distorted as it was too large. I attempted to remove it with no success. In fact control panel+display+desktop shows browse grayed out or essentially …

Help? I have a Dell Dimension 9100. I replaced the hard drive now it wont bootup! PC lights come on drive lights come on But no screen! Monitor Power light blinks off and on. like if its not connected but it is! Can some one help me to get a …

hai everyone.. is it vista supporting microsoft visual studio 2005? and which service packs that i should install??please guide..i'm still new in vista.. thank you..

I have a 2nd HD that I would like to install along with my existing one. Do I need to install an OS on it also? If so..should I unplug the working one first. Or can I leave it in and plug the 2nd one in without causing any distress …

I am running Vista Home Premium on a Acer 7520 Turion 64x2. At home wired lan connection to a netgear router out of office using a vodafone 3g/UMTS mobile data card. Lan : Can connect to the internet , can run a number of application (financial market data) that connect …

I'm going to build a new computer soon, and I want to keep the contents of my master hard drive as is. (With all programs, settings, and etc..in working order) Do I have to do anything special for the hard drive swap to the new motherboard? I've read I have …

When asking the computer to do more than one task the CPU usage jumps up to 100% & slows down everything. This is particularly annoying when playing music or a video in Winamp or Media Player & then, for example, connecting to the net or even opening a 1KB document, …

[i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Turn Off Indexing to Speed Up XP [/color][/size][size=2]Windows XP keeps a record of all files on the hard disk so when you do a search on the hard drive it is faster. There is a …

Hi to all!I have a Windows XP Home SP1 OEM genuine installation and I tried to install Service Pack 2.The first time, after downloading the Service Pack, installation began but at some point gave me an error message ("Can not create a file list,a directory list" or sth like that) …

while I have 4 gb installed. Previously I had 3 gb available but now for some reason only 2 gb. I understand the 3gb limit with Vista, but how do I get the OS to recognize the 3rd gb? The BIOS of my ASUS p5b MB reports the 4gb.

I Recently Purchased A Refurbished Notebook Computer. It Had Been Updated With A Windows Server 2000 On It. Recently When I Restarted The Computer, It Stop Loading And The Icons Will Not Load Onto The The Desktop. I Am Not Able To Locate The Icons On The Screen, Nor Will …

I have two Pcs , both have LAN card but My device ( Huwaii Router / Switch) can only support one LAN connection and one phone connetion. these both LAN and phone wires are connected to my one Pc . But i also want to connect my other pc with …

My question is, Do I need to have a paging file, System Managed or custom size, and what are the advantages and dis advantages? I play alot of Quake2 on line, and I am still shooting for speed, does this affect any of this? Tower CASECOOLERMASMaster MotherBoard ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe …

Hello, I've always avoided formatting marks, because I've never needed them, but I think that they might come in handy sometimes. Does any one know of a complete list of what they mean? I've searched and searched and what people call a "complete" list is usually just what a space …

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to print through a local printer from a Windows 2003 server enviroment? The printer I am trying to add is installed on a local machine and shared on the local network but it is not a network printer (e.g it does not …

MSI K8MM3 MB AMD Sempron 2600 512 mb mem 20gig HD (OS) Master 250gig HD (storage) Slave Sony DVDRW Single Hauppauge 150 PVR MCE PNY Gforce 5200 System works great, plays DVD's w/ Power DVD Network, MP3 playback, Divx playback.. all works outside of Media Center. In Media Center, DVD …

Please can you help me. I have window xp with m.s.n messenger 6.2 and skype, the question is I can speak and hear people on skype but when I am useing m.s.n messenger I cannot hear or be heard. Thank-you Peter?

Hi Everyone Hope this is the right forum for my problem, if not perhaps you could redirect me? Whenever I attempt to burn a CD my computer totally freezes, failing to respond to CTRL+ALT+DLT, so I have to turn power off. I'm using iTunes, but have tried Windows Media Player …

Hello, I am only 15, and I want to get into server 2003, I have created a domain with DNS and I have created users, and when the server is turned of I can still log in, so when I asked my freind he said turn of the interactive login: …

I'm supporting a user who is having a weird issue. When he opens Windows explorer, the left hand side, which usually displays the folder view, is gone. If you're having a hard time visualizing it, I've attached a screen shot of the problem. When I clicked on View>Explorer Bar, the …

White label 1.4GHz Duron, 2x256MB SDR (PC133) mem, XP SP2, IE7. About 3-4 days ago things went to hell. Various indications led me to overheating or memory problems. After vacuum/blowing, general cleaning, and swapping some memory around, I was able to somewhat stabilize the system enough to run the repair …

I want to instal Atomic Clock Sync, I had the previous bersion and had no problem. The new vwersion I can run but cannot install. I have tried saving fist but no sign of installation wizard. I have XP Home

I am running out of disk space and want to know if there is a way to use a partition software like powerquest partition magic to remove the hp recovery partition and transfer the space to my real hard drive

Can anybody suggest me software name with link that could Block Porn sites ?

Hi and hello to everyone im new here and am quite a novice looking for help!!!! I recently installed Vista Ultimate over my old xp as i liked the look of vista, all is good apart from i have no sound at all. I have ttried installing drivers again updates …

The other day, I went and bought some new ram for my PC. I went to the site [url]www.crucial.com[/url] and it said that i need either a DDR PC3200 or 2700 because either should be compatible with my motherboard. So I went out and bought one and went to go …

I am getting this on start up: windows no disk exception processing message c00000135 parameters 75b6bf9c 4 75b6bf9c 75b6bf9c If I hit cancel 4 times the window closes

Hi, I am running two computers, both identical, Windows XP with service pack 2. No profiles other than administrator. I have four disks with Photo Shop training movies. On the disk is a copy of Quick Time version 5. On one computer everything works fine. On the other I get …

I did an overhaul on my computer and saved my documents on to a disk because I just sent my jump drive through the washer machine. Thinking my documents would be fine I restored the computer deleting everything on it. To my surprise all my documents were still there. A …

Sorry about posting this again, last time I posted it in the same thread of someone having the same issue. I realized that this was against the rules and apologize... So here we go again... :) ------------------------ The same thing is happening to me, it's affecting all the sites located …

Do you have a SATA disk drive in your computer ? If so, you can squeeze a little more performance out of your hard disk. This speeds up the performance of your hard disk by enhancing write caching. However, if your computer is not connected to a battery backup and …

Ok this is my problem: When I start up my computer, everything goes well until i get to the Welcome menu, it takes longer time that usual, and when it gets to the desktop, only the background picture is shown. Not the start menu or shortcuts. Few processes are running, …

When should I upgrade to Vista? My laptop can handle it, but is it really very much better than XP? If so, should I buy the Ultimate version and not even waste my money with the home version? Are there any "bugs" or "kinks" that need to be worked out?:)

Hello everyone. I am in need of serious help. Usually I am always able to eliminate and narrow down the possibilities of a problem, and therefore fix it. But this time I'm at a loss. My computer was running fine and then one day I shut it down (which is …

I have a lenovo R61i and it has windows vista on it, when I try to put the XP disk it it tries to load and when i get up to the bit where it says setup press enter I get a error that says no hard drives found. I …

----------------- Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:40:58 PM, on 3/14/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16608) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgamsvr.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgupsvc.exe C:\Program Files\CA\CA Internet Security Suite\CA Anti-Virus\ISafe.exe C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\ConfigFree\CFSvcs.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\DVDRAMSV.exe C:\Program …

I startd my computer and it reached the point when it started to load windows and it didnt load it.For sveral hours there was windows logo on the screen and the loading bar. So Itried restarding it and still nothing. Idont know what to do

Hi all, Please help me and tell me how to fix it. I'm using Internet Explorer that already include in Window Vista. Last night when I use, my computer got problem and shut down. When I open the internet explorer today, it always shows "not responding" and can't do anything. …

I have Windows XP and Internet Explorer V6...My cable modem is working fine and i can access the internet on AOL but for some reason when I try to go on any website on my internet explorer...it just says The page cannot be displayed The page you are looking for …

*******CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME???************ Just wondered could someone please help me. I have windows xp. I can be doing anything on the computer and it looses connection with the monitor and printer key pad and mouse it is like the computer is shut down but I can hear it …

Hi can anyone help? yesterday i encountered a problem with my home pc and found that a file "iottem.dll" has found it's way into my system. i have tracked it down but can't delete it all it says is " access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full …

i have experience folder option problem in win xp.i edit the registry option of folder option many times.but next restart it will goes the same condition "do not show hidden files and folders".so iam upset about this problem.i am hardware service technician in a private firm.I want solve it without …

Monday, while watching tv...my computer hit the dredded blue wall. The message appeared "Windows had to shut down in order to protect your computer" and some other mumbo jumbo, crashed, restarted...and begun to run slow. When I would open a program, I would get the blue screen again. I could …

I have a hp 4403us pc with all the reinstall disc's. Do you think that I can used the same disc's on a hp 4400us pc? I can't find the disc's that came with the 4400us. I really need to do a complete installation. Please advise!

Ive got two networked computers, i can netsend to them both, but when i try and remote shutdown by using shutdown -i and typing the name of the computer it will not work. If i click browse it says the directory service is currently unavailable. It will not work if …

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I was having trouble with my monitor, after installing a new system, I turned something off in the monitor advanced section, something like use system I disabled it, and now after restart the monitor doesnt show anything.

I have a laptop with windows Vista and my problem is when I go online and try to listen a radio live or watch a video (for example a television website to watch news) the windows media player is asking to download the Windows Media Audio Codec. If I do …

I'm using Windows XP SP2. I use First Defense ISR which means I have several snapshots or Operating Systems on my computer (4). I can connect to a certain website on two of them but not on the other two. This is true using both Internet Explorer and Netscape so …