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hello, can nybody tell me what is this error code mean [B]BCCode : 100000ea BCP1 : 81B16A98 BCP2 : 820A5C78 BCP3 : F8971CBC[/B] i get this at every startup. Also my comp is acting wierd, for instance, the first time i start my comp in the morning i have to …

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intermittently getting this error on an XP box w/ 2GB memory, Microsoft has some resolutions listed but it is all for servers--> 2147024882 not enough storage to complete this operation any ideas??????

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Hi all, Have a slight annoyance with outlook 2003 shared calenders. Permissions are set for a particular user to view around 4 calenders and edit etc however when she goes to view the calender she can do so but it doesnt put the persons name onto the calender when viewing …

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In the past couple of months, I have been trying to find where all my drive C disk space went and I think I have found it. I originally took my computer to a computer store for my DVD rom drive to be replaced. Then it wouldn't boot up so …

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okay i don't know anything about computers, but i would get a blue screen all the time and it was driving me crazy, and i ran CHKDSK /F and it deleted 2 orphan files (i dont know what they are) it was fine for a while, and then it started …

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Hi, folks! I'm trying hard to find at Internet a program or some way to output the informations from column details in Windows Explorer to a file (or to clipboard), cause I use different columns beside the normal information like filename, size, date, depending of the content of my folders. …

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"The procedure entry point RichEdit10ANSIWindProc could not be found in the dynamic link library RICHED20.dll" This is the message that I get when the installation of my Verizon USB720 usb modem software fails. Trying to install on XP SP2 desktop; when I search for RICHED20.dll, I find it in the …

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[font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff][i][size=2][color=black][font=Verdana][color=black][i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i][/color][/font] [/color][/size][/i][/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Add Favorites with One Keystroke[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]You can quickly add a Web page to your Favorites folder with a single keystroke. The page is automatically added to your Favorites list without any further input from you.[/size] …

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I get the defrag window, but when I click on "Defragment' or even on 'Analyze', nothing happens. Any advice please? Christiaan.

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I have a Sierra 595U USB modem connected to my laptop. Internet access is working fine. I set up an ADHOC Wifi link from another laptop. I now want the other laptop(client) to access Internet thru the USB modem that is connected to the host laptop. I set up ICS …

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I have a user on Word 2000. She regularly inserts jpeg files into Word. This has worked fine in the past. Today, it would not insert the image. Instead it would just insert the image file name in place of the acutal image. I've tried inserting/copy, paste from the camera …

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Hello. I have a dial up account for my home use and ADSL at work. My laptop connects to the web fine from work using ADSL and equally my PC at connects fine with dial-up at home but when I try to connect at home with my laptop, which has …

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With no floppy drive to use DOS to format the drive and get rid of Home Basic could you tell me what to use? Would the new install just overwrite the old OS? One more thing, can McAfee be backed up and reloaded or must I download a new program …

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So I've spent the last day or so wondering about how we can protect ourselves from virus-encrypted songs. Is there a certain program(s) we can download to protect our computer from going completely awry? Because, after all, who would want to lose all their downloaded music? Which brings me to …

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Everytime I reboot in Vista I get the same 3 errors . AirGCFG.exe-Entry Point Not Found WZCSLDR2.exe D-Link Wireless Lan Monitor has stopped working. Anyone know why this happens and how to correct this??? Vista Home Premium Thank you

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It seems everytime a my nextdoor neighbours wireless network comes on line mine keeps disconnecting. Its getting rather annoying can anyone help me please

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I have been using Win XP for a couple of months now, having returned to PCs after 4 years of using an Apple Mac! When I click on a folder to open it, it opens in a new window. Any folders in that one also open in a new window. …

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I've ran norton, Ad-Aware, and Spybot. Cleaned a lot of crap out, but still can't seem to get IE to work properly. It will shutdown as soon as I click a favorite or a link on a page (must click twice). Also, it seem to be at the same time, …

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my little sister had encrypt file on my laptop using acer encypt system. anyone have brilliant idea how i'm going to hack that file without asking her a permission? please that is very important to me. thank. god bless you all. p/s ; it will nice if you guy can …

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Any help out there needed. Heres my problem. While living in a college dorm i was connected to their network. About 10 minutes after connecting to it i started to get these strange blue screen errors that i have never seen before. A computer tech told me that i had …

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Dear all, Can anyone here help me to connect my server 2003 to the internet. After a fresh installation, I was be able to connect windows server 2003 to internet initially, but later, I don't know what I did, it couldn't connect to the intenet at all. Everytime when I …

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hey guys and gals, i can't afford nero at the moment but i need to burn some dvd videos so they can play back in a dvd player. can anyone help me out here. help would be much appreciated.

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I'm having trouble with the supposedly bootable XP installation CD. I have used it before successfully but on an IDE drive. THis machine has a SATA drive and I understand that this can cause some problems with a pre-SP1 installation CD. THe CD is not in perfect shape so I …

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Hello Gentleman and Ladies I have a note book here running XP pro. It wont boot up and as you know you that darn blue screen with the error. I'm at a lose, heres what I have done so far. Checked ram all ok In recovery console chkdsk r/ all …

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Okay...here it goes... Mistake #1...I bought a used computer off of ebay for my daughter for Christmas Anyway, this is a micron.pc it was running slow, but did everything it should do!! then it quit working. I got on this forum and did the FDisk thing. I even have a …

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macafee managed to lock up my computer, and outlook express. When I'd uninstalled it and finally got back into O.E., I found all my folders moved to Windows explorer, and I can't move them back, or open them. Move commands don't do anything. Any ideas? Thirdrail

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I want to connect to a network with windows xp computers and when I try and connect to a printer i get this message something about restricting nt 4 drivers I think any ideas

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I configure something wrong in windows XP through gpedit.msc and restart the computer after that 80% of services of windows are stopped I tried manually to start that services but group dependencies services error 1068 comes. Then I saw that RPC service is also stopped then I try to start …

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Hi, Im using windows XP home edition right now. Couple of weeks ago I started using torrent. When I diagnose the computer using system mechanic professional. It says "error is detected in ur hard drive". Starting from that point, my transfer speed for file (e.g. copy files, deleting files to …

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Hello all. I have a friend with an Outlook 2003 Contacts problem. Said person has a large number of contacts that she must regularly e-mail and quite enjoys using the pulldown field to select from which clients to address, as opposed to manually typing them. However, a problem has recently …

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I have a lenovo r61 and it is running pretty slow on 1gb I am upgrading to 2gb soon but I want to make it faster, if I turn off some of Windows vista's services will it make it faster? and what should i disable? Any help would be apreiciated!

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when i start xp i get the setup option showing still, windows does not boot straight normally, i have to choose

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Hey guys, I hope someone can give me some insight to this. I've tried reading everything I can find, and nothing really addresses the issue. I have Windows XP Pro, with 512Mb ram. When I boot up everything is normal, and I have very little running on the machine. The …

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I'm running Vista Home Edition on my HP laptop and over the past couple months whenever I update a program or install a new one I can no longer connect to the internet with it. I run an old version of firefox and if I update it then my internet …

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Hi. This is a really strange one. Sorry about the length, but there's a lot to digest. WindowsXP computer with 200Gb HDD and 2 partitions and AMD3500+ and was running well. At startup one day it suddenly started to reboot once it got to the Windows logo. Safe mode etc …

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Windows Media player 11 will play some audio and video fine, but then I try to play *.asx or *.wvx, I get the video but no audio. I have reinstalled codecs, WMP 11, drivers, and tried many other things, but nothing fixes this. Can someone please offer me some sugestions? …

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I try to play DVDs on my Windows Media Player 11 and I cannot get a sound. The picture is fine. Where can I get a free codec (and it should be free as the software is not doing what it says it should do) in order to get sound?

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ok the problem started 2 days ago where now when ever i go into a user folder the windows explorer closes itself and will not open agin so I have to work with the task manager and its very anioying..........any help much apreceated

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Hey, I'm mostly a linux user with a cisco background so windows is a mystery to me! A friend brought me a hp pavilion that had a virus that apparently made services such as the recovery manager unavailable to us and he had no recovery disks made. I told him …

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Using IE7, wont let me into internet options, and options in control panel has a different tab, wont let me in their either. My computer is slow and was told to delete temp files. Please help Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 21:19:19, on 08/03/2008 Platform: Windows …

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Hi all, Been googling for hours but can't find any answers!! What's the best way specifically for vista, to configure laptop IP address for 2 different networks? I want to easily switch IP address detail when at home or in work. I previously used netsh and scripts to do this …

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Help please... Was on line, suddenly not able to. Displayed limited to no access, then showed packets sent but not received, was just online like 20 minutes ago. Connected thru LAN. tried to power cycle and everything. when i plug into to my xp machine, everything is good. i dont …

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Ok heres the problem, im trying to burn some movies i downloaded onto dvds, but it keeps saying theres no disk in the drive even though ive inserted a DVD+R. I dont know what the problem is, suggestions pleassse???

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Hi I installed a fresh windows xp professional sp2 , i had a little surfing on the internet . So ,when ever i restart my computer i had a 1 minuter freeze on startup . Thank you for your effort of reading .

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I have a problem that I've determined from reading some previous threads, is a virus. I have thousands of POS Temp Files on my C drive that I cannot delete and my C drive has a red X on it. I downloaded the Hijackthis software and ran a scan. The …

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I recently aquired an old compaq that still had a windows 2000 license. It didn't come with an OS so I want to put windows on it. Is there anywhere I cant get the ISO? like Micorsoft's website? Thanks in advance.

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Ive have been having some problems with my computer -once in a while the bottom bar with go to the original grey and i will lose all sound -when i am typing sometimes the letters wont appear and they will start to show up somewhere else (even while writing this …

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I am running Windows XP and keeping quite current on the updates. I was cleaning up my system and running some spyware tools 0 Spybot, Adaware and had been trying to resolve some network issues. After I had finished I tried to start IE and could not get a window …

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Hey guys. I've got a 120 GB HDD w/ 2 equal partitinos. I have XP and all data on the C: drive. D: drive is empty. I want to install Vista on the D: drive in a dual boot scenario. I need to keep XP. I mainly want to just …

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I have to turn my labtop in to be fixed (that's another story) and the guy who's doing it is a friend of my family. Anyway, there are some websites I've been to that I'd rather he not find about, if you know what I mean. Anyway, I deleted the …

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