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hey guys. PLEASE help me :( ive spent ALL day on this... below is my system details. Operating System System Model Windows Vista Business (build 6000) DIXONSXP MS-7046 Enclosure Type: Desktop Processor a Main Circuit Board b 3.00 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 16 kilobyte primary memory cache 2048 kilobyte secondary …

All, Your help is greatly appreciated in advance. I am having trouble packaging Oracle 10G for a batch file deployment. Everything is done except for getting the DSN created which is causing me major problems. We am working with the Oracle 10G R2 10.2.0.1.0 Client on Windows XP Professional SP2. …

Hi Is it possible to distribute some of the columns in a table evenly or do I have to select all? The message I get is 'you must select multiple columns' When I do this the table toolbar greys out the option!

Hi, Not sure whats happening, my desktop background turned white (wallpaper disappeared). When I go to the desktop property --> under Desktop tab, the "Background" option is gray/inaccessible. --> when go to Customize Desktop --> there should be 2 tabs: General & Web, however right now the Web tab is …

Hello Forum I have been having the nightmare of all computer nightmares for the past few months. I have been trying to compose a succint letter to paste here and get help, but my comp keeps doing its thing, and I cant finish the letter. I'm still working on explaining …

on xp, internet explorer is running very slow. will eventually (but not every time) open a home page but refuses almost always to link to other pages. i keep getting a message saying 'cannot connect to server' & message continues with advice that some browsers require 128 bit encryption which …

Since you guys really seem to know your way around the computer I thought I'd take a chance and see if anyone has had a similar problem and found a solution to the Microsoft problem that seems to be going around. I know I'm not the only one because I've …

Hey, I have only ever reformattted my laptop once before and it was with help. But im pretty sure that the reinstallation cd for windows Xp is NOt supposed to show up as a partition right? I guess its kind of a dumb question but im worried i may have …

I'm trying to delve into some communication protocols, and I want to watch what network requests are made in real time. I've seen mention of such a program some years back, but I don't remember what it was called. I googled around a bit, but I don't know the proper …

Okay i been having a problem with my computer and I was wondering if anyone ever went thru this and could probably help me out I got XP and i have other users on my computer and their sound seem to be working except mines. I can listen to limewire …

I have a set of 7 email with attachment of word files and photographs (.jpg) files. When I want to send to my target audience which is normally one email address and I click forward, it takes atleast 3 to 4 minutes for the message to load before I can …

Hi all, I need to know how my ISP works ,but the reason why i put in the here is that ,i want some guide for XP.

We have just setup a new exchange 2003 server in a new domain. There is an existing exchange server working within the same IP scheme but it is running on windows 2000 server and there is no room on the disk. The new server cannot send or receive even though …

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Hello all, I took over the IT duties at my company a few weeks ago. Long story short, the C: drive on one of the servers ran out of space. I had to reboot it because it locked up. Now I'm getting MBR Error 1 and MBR Error 3 when …

Heloo there...I was wondering if there is anyone to help me with this question. As you can read also in the Subject of this thread: How to Set permissions: e.g chmod 755 on FTP Program???? :lol: Sorry for this newbie question :-| I use CuteFTP for uploading files and now …

Hi All, I am running a W2k Domain and i want to know that is this possible that we can disable CD-ROM drive on all clients (member) through Group Policy in windows 2000. If yes please let me know that which option to select under MMC snap-in to implement this …

I'm trying to install some .jar & .rar applications on my laptop (XP Pro, SP2) and/or Dell Axim hand held and applications fail to launch. Any suggestions for a technical illiterate?

I have reformated my hardrive and installed Windows XP on it. Unfortunatly I still have NO sound on my computer! My onboard audio device ([I]C-Media AC97 Audio Device[/I]) has a yellow exclamation mark next to it in Device Manager. When I look at it's 'Properties' the device status is listed …

Hey all. For a while now I've been having trouble with my Dell Inspiron 600m and networking. Before I formatted it yesterday, I was running Ubuntu off an external drive because Window's networking didn't work, wireless or wired. So I finally found my XP Pro disk and reformatted the thing, …

Hello all, First post, thanks in advance for your thoughts and help. I have a Panasonic CF-TF Toughbook with XP SP2. The problem started about a week ago when I used a flash drive to transfer info at a printing store. My AVG software caught the Trojan on my flash …

Hi everyone, I would like to request assistance if ANYONE can help me. Recently, my grandpa passed away. I had taken a picture of him and my father before his death and had kept putting it off to save it to an external drive to show my father. About 3 …

Hello Again, I managed to fix my hard drive problem, but now i'm having issues with this executable file. At random times it decides that it is going to take up 99 - 100 % of my CPU. I had this issue before. So I reformatted my computer and put …

how can i use telnet command for my pcs and router. i am using winxpsp2

Hey guys and gals ... looks like i'm 'it' again. I was just getting ready to teach kids a nature program when my boss tags me and says your "it". They bought a new computer for one of the other teachers a month ago and were having problems. It connects …

when trying to upgrade from windows 98 se to xp it tells me there isnt enough room on hard drive. i have an 80 gig drive half full, i tried defragmenting and got the same problem. i dont understand whats wrong, theres almost 40 gigs left on the drive. im …

On this 6/8 months old Tevion Laptop athlon 2g, windows history clears itself automatically about once weekly. I cannot find any way to extend the time before it clears itself, which can be a nuisance. Could anybody help ? Thanks Angoose

both my dvd drives are not working...device manager says devices working properly but nothing happens..dvd's or cd's dont play.. below is the log.. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 9:31:45 AM, on 1/31/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe …

Hi, I am currently facing difficulties in sharing files/folder over the network in WINDOWS 2003 domain environment. PROLEM is easy to understand. I want to enable File/Folder sharing but restriction applies as one department can't access other department's shared folder. First of all i can't understand two tabs one is …

Hi, My wife's laptop started playing up and wouldn't load past the XP logo, it just keeps rebooting. I've tried all the usuals, last config etc. Now it won't even let me boot in safe mode. We got the laptop econd hand with no cd's so cannot perform a repair/recovery. …

Hi, I have got a problem on preloaded Windows vista home edition on my laptop. Actually whenever i try to burn dvd it complets the burn process sucessfully but unable to play that dvd on computer neither on dvd players. When i noitced the space of DVD actually windows vista …

I am supposed to upgrade my boss's computer from the worthless Vista Home Premium to Vista Business. He purchased the upgrade disk. Is it necessary to do a clean install? I ask because of some time constraints. (Bosses think everything can be completed over a lunch hour, and he will …

I have a question that may be dumb to some, but i will ask anyway, since i don't understand it fully. Can i install an upgrade copy of windows xp on a blank, self built machine, if i borrow a windows 98 disk from my friend as a "verification disk". …

I need a geek! I shut down one night and the next morning when I powered up, I got "Drive read error" cntl+alt+dlt to restart. It does nothing, justs goes back to that every time I restart. Can't boot into safe mode but I can get into the Bios. Booted …

Hey, It's been a while..... Anyways...I just bought a new Hdd, 500gb, and I'm trying to install Windows XP Pro onto it, but I'm getting issues. It says that there is only 131gb on my HDD. Meanwhile in my BIOS it says my hard drive is 500Gb big. I had …

Ok, so this might be funny to some people - I actually hope somebody gets amused by this: My problems started the other day while going online. I have Win ME from 2001. I had just closed out of Firefox and was attempting to open up IE (I don't know …

hi guys i recently had the harddrive in my hp laptop crash, when you boot the computer it says that it cannot find the operating system and soon after shuts down. i have found that if i tap the computer near the harddrive it will boot up 25% of the …

To start off with if i'm in the wrong forum sorry. I have been downloading mp3's and syncing them to my mp3 player with windows media. The songs play fine on the computer and on the cd's i've made also. But for some reason after a while of being on …

Hi, I need to distribute my programs in a USB disk. I want to autorun the setup program. I have the Autorun.inf file in the root of the disk. But it doesn't work in XP. In Win2K works fine. Here is my Autorun.inf: [autorun] open=setup.exe The setup.exe also is in …

Buying a new pc can be a tedious and confusing task, especially for beginners. I've got a quick checklist that beginners (and medium level users) can use to overcome this problem. First of all, there are a plethora of brands out there. You need something that will last for a …

hi i have a problem...when i start my computer it starts as normal then there is a very long pause for about 1 minute where it seems like the computer has crashed...but then it suddenly bursts into life again and works as normal. can sombody tell my what is causing …

hi i've been wanting to reformat my pc for a while and i've looked on the net fior a few days now and i can't find what i need, i dont have a windows cd or any other cd's with my pc, i've reformatted to factory default before by pressing …

[B]Hi, I purchased a computer with vista home basic already installed. Well the system recovery got DELETED and now I am screwed!! Can anyone tell me if I purchase the home basic cd and install it will it bring my computer back?? or do I upgrade to premium?? I'm really …

Hello All, I am troubleshooting a problem with a 2k3 server that has been throwing Blue Screens. I am trying to figure out how to translate the datestamp to an actual time. Does anyone know the algorithm for windows DateStamp or how to figure out what time this DateStamp is …

hi in yahoo messenger the text is not getting displayed.i tried by checking the IE internet options whether scripting is enabled or not and also reinstalled it.but getting the same problem.could anyone tell me whtz the solution for this. thank you royal

Hello everyone. I am trying to join a Windows 2003 Enterprise server to a domain wherein the domain controller is running 2000 Advanced Server. Whenever I attempt to join, I specify the Admin name/password and promptly get an error message stating "The account is not authorized to log in from …

My laptop (vaio) doesn't let me use Fn Mute or lower/up volume. It does let me use Fn lower/up screen light... Do you know what is happening?

Hi everyone i am a newbie so i hope this is in the right place eveytime i click on a desktop icon iget a explorer.exe error warning "the instruction at 0x666006041 referenced memory at 0x66006041, the memory could not be written can any one help .

Hi all, have vista HB installed here but I need to get SQL server up & running. Now I have read many articles that propose IIS7 cannot be installed on a Vista HB machine. Is there any way around this? I need IIS for SQL server to work. Many thanks.

I had to format my C:drive several days ago, actually, I didn’t want to do this. My dell pc have been affected due to the virus, and after formatted the disk, my important word files have gone too. I never aware that the lost files can be recovered by a …