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i got windows xp computer and have been having problem with windows movie maker. so a lot of time when i make a movie it stops working after a while. so i have to restore my computer to original factory condition using the recovery cd that came with the computer. …

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Beside windows, mac, and free BSD, what are other free alternative operating systems that are available?

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what size and brand for your monitor do you use?

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Any help here would be fantastic!!! I had to reinstall Windows XP on a new hard drive that I purchased, and unfortunately, I could not sit in front of the computer while it was installing, and when I went back at one point after it was setting up networks, the …

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Well here I am again, relying on this great comunity to help me! OS Name: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation System Name: DENISELEBEL System Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation System Model: Dimension 8300 System Type: X86-based PC Processor: x86 Family …

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Guys, I've had enough of the viruses in this laptop. It had disabled nearly everything... folder options, run from start menu, registry, task manager, firewall, hidden files etc. I've tried and downloaded nearly every vbs, reg, exe file that could fix them but not of them worked. In addition, it …

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How can I find out how long someone was on a particular website from my browser history? And can I find our a specific date and time? Not just generalized by weeks.

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I'm trying to upgrade windows xp sp1 to sp2. During the install process (30 min) it stops, access denied comes up, then upgrade failed and goes through revert. Anyone hear of this and how to get sp2 installed? Windows XP pro / pentium 4 / 512mb / 60gb hd

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Have Win XP SP3 and Office 2003 with upgrade to allow it to read or save in Office 2007 format (.xml). Worked fine for awhile and shortcuts to files would open file in correct app, i.e. a word processing file would open in Word, and a spreadsheet would open in …

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I have been having this odd issue. In Internet Explorer both 6 and 7, my browser will not open the portal [url]www.excite.com[/url]. I have checked all the privacy and security settings and the site is not blocked nor is anything out of the ordinary set for this site. The site …

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Hi there, I have been speaking to Serunson and he said If I had any pc problems his great pals at Daniweb would help me out My main problem is that im using IE7 and I cannot view pictires on this web site [URL="http://www.bf2stats.nl/player/97465735/"]http://www.bf2stats.nl/player/97465735/[/URL] This is the only site that …

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Hello all! I don't know if anyone here knows how to fix this but I thought I would give it a try. I have a hp pavillion a620n desktop computer has been having a lot of trouble with my internet. Recently it has been taking a long time for each …

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Hey fellas I need help, I have a Toshiba Laptop running a pentium 4 3.0 chip, 60 hard drive, and 512 of ram, running Windows XP home sp2. It won't boot up to windowns. It will only boot up to the dark screen that reads safe mode, safe mode with …

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I've got problem with my mouse. From time to time the cursor freezes and the only solution to make it work is to turn off my computer by pressing alt+F4. After that I don't have problems for some time but the problem is far from being solved because it starts …

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Hi, i cannot believe i can't find a solution to this problem, it must be affecting a load of folk. I like to go on the betting exchanges but cannot go on them with the new Internet Explorer 7. This is because of the ridiculous font. The font is a …

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Hi all, I hope I'm at the right place and I wonder if any of you can help me out. I have an HP Pavilion Notebook with Windows Vista 64 bit Home Premium. Last week my Norton Anti-Virus 2007 started up saying I had the worm. It hasn't fixed the …

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Hello Forum (if this isnt the right forum, please advise) Recently in the midst of other problems I started getting [COLOR="Red"]low disk space messages[/COLOR]. I checked my C drive, and sure [COLOR="Red"]enough 67GB/70 are used[/COLOR]! My music takes up maybe 25GB and everything else I do is probably less than …

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I am not sure how to get the laptop stop from restarting. Here what I did with my laptop to startup and the information below? Turn the laptop on to startup and you see the logo of Windows XP Home Edition on the screen for a few second then went …

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My PC will not boot into windows. I want to do a repair but have lost my admin password. Anyone got any ideas?

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Hey all, im kind of new and in need of some help. My computer has been really slow this past few days and also when i start the computer, it takes about 5mins to load everything up. Also, when i play music, it makes some "laggy" sounds. I will post …

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Hello, everyone. I am running Windows XP Proffesional SP2 with one password-protected user/administrator account and two non-password-protected limited user accounts. Windows boots up and runs normally, but after logging out of or switching to an account, Windows will occassionally ask for non-existant passwords on the two unprotected accounts and says …

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Hi I'm new here and I'm running a desktop with windows 2000 sp4. The problem I am having is internetexplorer.exe errors. I've cleaned my registry by hand and have several antivirus\spyware programs running with no errors being detected. The error is causing IE to close after the error. I tried …

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I have everything working but sound, after formatting. I downloaded the Audio Realtek driver from Intel's [URL="http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Filter_Results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=1673&OSFullName=Windows*+XP+Home+Edition&lang=eng&strOSs=45&submit=Go%21"]download center[/URL], but that didn't help. Hopefully this pic helps: [url=http://img116.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bahgetvx8.png][img=http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/5761/bahgetvx8.th.png][/url] Thanks for any help.

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Which one of these full tower cases would you recommend? A) thermaltake xaser VI Case B) cooler master stacker 830 Case C) Cosmos 1000 Case (I think it is cooler master, not sure) D) Silver stone TJ-07 case E) XCLIO Windtunnel Case (the one with a fan on the side …

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Hello all, I have a company that repairs computers on the side and I do some networking and server maintenance. However, I have a new account where they have a pretty big setup off of a server running 2003. I wasn't looking to take on such an account but this …

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So just I stood up pulling the power cord and knocking my computer off my desk and now it won't work. It automatically said something about shutting down because my computer might be at risk. When I try to restart it it goes to the safe mode start up screen …

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I am using Vista Home Premium. I have Flash Player 9 installed. When a program that requires the flash player tries to load I receive an error message that says I need the player. Is there a fix that works? Thans! Gary T.

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i have a toshiba satellite 1105 notebook that my friend would like to use with a projector. after everything gets hooked up and running, the mouse freezes. all that he wants to do is play his screeensaver from a disk in the notebook onto the projector so that everyone can …

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hey guys, yesterday i was surfing n browsing fine using firefox on windows xp. today nothing,n i mean nothing, i have tried using IE but it also dsnt do anything,i have uninstalled n installed firefox still nothing. when i load firefox it is taking longer than usual to load same …

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Dear all, I am trying to reset a local admin password on a win xp pro pc using the free Offline NT Password & Registry Editor available at [url]http://home.eunet.no/%7Epnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html[/url]. Lots of people have used it with no problems. When I use it I follow the instruction and blank the admin …

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Well i bought an hp dv2000 notebook in july for school, it came with vista, and i hated it. So i inevitably downgraded my OS to windows XP, and my notebook was running 10 times better. After a few weeks of running Xp however, my laptop has begun randomly shutting …

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When Windows XP tries to load, I get the following message: "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this." My options are: Start in safe mode. Safe mode with networking. Safe mode with command prompt. Last known …

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my Compaq 2700us has been giving me fits... i decided to use the quickrestore cd to wipe and reinstall XP (just to 'clean house'). I had no Stop errors prior to this. The QuickRestore CDs copy all the image file to the HDD, then when rebooting i recieve the following …

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Hello pc geeks!!! I need some advice from one of you geekheads who can tweak the crap out of vista/xp. I'm looking for something more advanced than defraging the hdd, msconfig, waittokillapptimeout, and other well known tweaks. I want some new advanced ones that can improve pc performance significantly. Thank …

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i need some help from these forum and my requirement is if we press ctrl+Alt+Del in keyboard or lock the system with either keyboard or mouse some events are generating can any one give me the event id and where it getting stored..and for unlock what is the event can …

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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 …

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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. …

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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!

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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.

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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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