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I'm having a real hard time finding anything relevant to this on either DaniWeb or the rest of the web. I have a WinXP Pro computer on a domain (Win2K3 server), and I want to make a folder (and more to the point, a specific program) on that computer inaccessible …

I have 26 computers XP using 2003 server and i have installed a printer in every computer. Every user can see the printer but when they try to print, it says that the rpc server is not available. I have set the spooler and rpc to start automatic in every …

Hi there, I need your help. My PC was running smoothly. I have removed ALL nVidia drivers (by mistake) using Add/Remove SW service in Control Panel (graphic, chipset, others ...). After that the Windows freezes after booting and Add New HW Wizard is on the screen. Unfortunatelly mouse and keyboard …

Does anyone know how to clean out your DNS,Caches,Temp. Int. files etc.

I'm using Windows XP Pro SP2. My primary hard drive's SMART system tipped me off that failure was near, so I bought a new Western Digital, partitioned, formated, and mirrored my old failing drive to the new one. When I swapped the drives, it brought up a boot screen with …

Hi , i Have a Flash or Jump or Stick Removable disk and i want to make installation from that disk , I want to know is anybody ever do this ? Do i need to set additional boot setting ? or not ? I never boot form Removable disk. …

Hi Group, I have a simple question I hope. Should I have 2 office 2003 software packages load on my system? When I look at the add/remove programs I see office 2003 standard and office 2003 professional. Should I remove the standard? I also see .net framework 2.0 and .net …

Hi, I hope I`m right here with my question but if not sorry, anyway here it is: The company that I'm working for, small one no IT department, want to buy an encryption software (we found on Google CompuSec, DiskProtect, DriveCrypt Plus Pack...) to fully encrypt the OS partition and …

Every so often my mouse will just become really slow. i go into control panel and printers and other hardware but it shows no mouse options. how do i fix this?

I am a new kid on the block. I sent this to another thread in another forum from someone with Win 98se. I think it should be posted here. I have Win XP-2 on a Dell Inspiron 7500 I asked Goggle and Google referred me to a site that said …

Windows Explorer seems to be missing. I found the a Short Cut in C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories and when I click on the Short Cut, it brings up My Documents. It is not visible in the Program Files, and I have configured the Folder Options to show All Hidden Files. …

So, someone pretty much gave me a laptop a while back...a dell latitude... anyway, i was using it, and on the 3rd day, the screen went white and it froze. I turned it off, and when it went to boot again, it froze at the DELL "bios" loading screen, and …

[B][/B]I have recently downloaded and installed m$ virtual pc, and installed vista premium on it. this means i have 2 vista versions on one pc! but i have a couple of problems. i have no sound, and it can only give vista 8mb of video ram, which makes the virtual …

As the title suggests, XP freezes seemingly randomly. One time it froze a few seconds after logging into my XP account. Other times its frozen with the screen saver up, and most recently it froze while web surfing with firefox. After the latest freeze when I rebooted 3 command prompt …

Hello, I am having some trouble creating a personal network at home. I don't have internet access (shocking I know) and I am unfortunately not very IT-savvy (my bad). Perhaps someone can help me... I have a macbook with OS X, a laptop with Windows Vista and a lovely pink …

...because I can't access bank a/c's, credit card logins, My eBay etc. Mostly it's the HTTPS sites, but not 100%. Have tried the solution posted May 2nd, 2005 (re HTTPS access error) about entering info (beginning - regsvr32) into DOS box. Didn't resolve the problem for me though. Have also …

I do not have sound. It just happened. There's nothing wrong with my speakers. I took a look under "Device Manager" and noticed that all my "Other Devices" have a yellow question mark with an exclamation mark. The "Other Devices" are: 1. Ethernet Controller 2. Multimedia Audio Controller 3. PCI …

hello. i am students of EE at COMSATS University, i have an assingment on memory management of Windows 2K. i need help in this concern

Basicalyy,im trying to change setings so i can get on the internet with my wii with a nintedo usb conncector.its been fine for about 2 days when suddenly something went wrong.so i found out what was wrong and tried to change it in Network connections.However when i try to edit …

I'm currently running the Enterprise edition of Vista and just yesterday after I uninstalled nod32 whenever I attempt to reboot the machine or shut it down it successfully ends (from what I can tell) all running processes but does not shutdown (except explorer.exe because my GUI still exists). It just …

Hello i have a xtreme notebook([url]http://www.xtremenotebooks.com/[/url]) computer they are custom built with windows xp. i have a replacement plan so i could send it in to get a new one but i really need to keep this one because it has all my projects on it. when i start up …

Hello, everyone - I re-installed Windows 2003 on my server at home and made it a DHCP server. I am able to ping the other machines from it, yet none of my other machines can get an address. I have a D-Link router, pretty simple setup. I had DHCP running …

I am working with XP Pro and would like to capture video clips I've viewed with microsoft media player and quicktime. Is there a way to save non-protected media? Please advise

The uninstall of Office 2007 from a Laptop with Vista, crashed before it was done completely. Trying it again, will not do anything and office 2007 does no longer open. (The person has the Office 2003 CD, but Vista will not accept it. I suspect because of remaining office 2007 …

Help...this 100% Cpu Usage and "System" (not "system idle process") at 99 is driving me nuts. I have Windows XP for home. I've checked for viruses and found nothing. I've used the "PC doctor" that came with my computer to check for problems...nothing!!! I've reformatted the hard drive three times. …

I have a machine with Vista HP and Office Pro 2007 installed. Everything seems to be fine except every time I start Excel, Windows Installer kicks in and wants to configure it again. I've uninstalled all I can find that's to do with Office and have done a complete reinstall …

Hi guys. First of all, I really didn't know where to make my thread, since I don't know what's the source of my problem, so sorry if that's not the right place. My problem is that my internet kind of dies from time to time. I have windows XP if …

hi guys, im facing a problem here with my pc, it shuts down all of a sudden when using it, for example whenever i run the Flight Simulator X, it was working fine but today it is very slow and graphics loading process is very slow, im using windows xp …

Is it possible to get a copy of MS windows Home server without having to buy the dedicated computer for it?

My girlfriend was moving files around on her computer, nothing big, just images. She then got the Blue Screen Of Death, and so she restarted the computer. When it restarted, it gave her the windows splash screen and then went to black and sat there. I restarted it with last …

W/32Trats C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\etfmon.exe.tmp I've been trying to deleted the above for several days. I've run several scans with McAfee and after the scan it says to "rescan after restart". I've tried that and it just repeats "rescan after restart". I've also tried AdAware programs but nothing seems to work. It's slowing …

I am new to this site and apologize if this question has come up before. We have a Coordinate Measuring Machine that has software that only works using Windows NT. We can upgrade the software for a cool $6k. Or we can use the proven system available to us. The …

hi, i have a sony laptop witch is working on windows xp and i think i have a spyware infection or sumthing because i will start it up and i would click on the software i want and then it will load up then it will restart it self, if …

I was just wanting to get someone elses input before I went and spent more money on something that might not be the problem. For awhile now my computer has been giving me the "blue screen of death" ever so often. Most of the time when it happens it is …

My Compaq S3000NX desktop runs XP Home 2002 + SP2 w/ a wired keyboard. At boot up, the keyboard comes up dead about 30percent of the time. I have to reboot, sometimes twice more, to get a live keyboard. Is this a hardware or software problem? Is there a microswitch …

Hi all, I'm new here, and a newbie to techie stuff as well. I found many topics on similar problems in this forums, but none of those solutions or suggestions could help me. My operating system is windows xp pro. I use both IE7 and Firefox to browse. I use …

Hello! Thanks in advance for any help you can offer...I don't know too much about this stuff :) Last night, my computer starting randomly playing a broadcast even though nothing was open to play it on - it was just audio playing by itself.... The computer was also lagging a …

I just recently purchased a Dell computer and have been getting this error message from day 1 when I shut down. Explorer.exe - application error the instruction at "0x00109e60" referenced memeory at "0x00109e60". The memory could not be written. The message indicates that it will run a debug if I …

When you install some program, then uninstall it and then install it again it shows that it remembered that it was already installed on your computer. Obviously it stored some information regarding its history on your computer. The question is where and in what form? (my first guess is that …

You know how large manufacturers like hp and toshiba, as well as others have a fast and simple recovery partition built in, that can reinstall windows and drivers, as well as built in software in 20 minutes or less? How can i do that on a build your own pc, …

eMachine T3418 on board 10/100 ethernet. Went into control panel (win xp home), network connections, properties. Checked the box to: show icon in notification area when connected, and the network connection was lost. Device manager showed yellow exclaimation next to Device Unknown - nVidia network controller. Uninstalled the driver then …

I recently put together this new computer Specs: AMD Athlon 2000+ XP 512 MB DDR RAM WD 80gb 7200 RPM HDD ATI Radeon 9200 128mb Video card Windows XP Pro SP1 Just the other day, I restarted my computer, and it booted (as normally does) in about 10 seconds. Then, …

Recently bought viao desktop all in one. Vista home installed. The keyboard is a viao, and the drivers show microsoft, but all 'working properly'. The keyboard switches on and shows connectivity. BUT none of the keys will type on the screen. Is this because it needs another driver. I have …

I'm sure that Microsoft in their infinite wisdom had a reason for making my computer beep when I move the Volume Slider in the full window that you get by double-clicking on the volume icon in the lower right. It's annoying. I usually have WAVE at 100 percent so anytime …

Hi, I just registered to have a little help on this. im on asia and took some photos on my N90 mobile phone, and i transfered them to my laptop. the company im working ruined my ADMINISTRATOR user, and created a new one. The photos and the desktop organization disappeared. …

Hi, When I launch Explorer and do a file search, the files are correctly located. Therefater, the file type drop-down is populated with the first option in the drop down list (happens to be 3GPP). I cannot disable this entry so Explorer narrows it's search to 3GPP files. I have …

My problem is that my windows xp even though i have installed the drivers of my Sapphire ATI Radeon X1650 pro (vpu) graphics card, start with the lowest resolution.. I have tried a lot of things..like reinstalling drivers , windows xp problem resolution.. This happens to me for the first …

Hello All, I have an hp photosmart m7183c desktop at home (it's my brother's) and it's been running a lot slower than usual and the temps have been high (54C idle as of today) and it's driving me crazy!! Even two system recoveries in a row have not helped!! I …

Hello Folks, I listed this problem before but was never answered. I have new info though. Ok, building a P4 2.8GHz CPU with a asus board P4S800D, 80gb hd, 512mb RAM, Radeon 9600SE vid card, CDRW dvd lite on, antec case with 350 watt power supply. Ok, When I use …

we have two computers in our data center (windows server 2003, running outlook 2003) that customers can log into to access their email from anywhere, and we've been receiving complaints that whenever they try to attach a file, they receive an error message that says "this operation has been canceled …