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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 .

I tried to restrict users from editing the local group policy in my computer just for security but not knowing... that doing that locally (computer not in a domain) will affect all the users who logs in in that certain PC even the Administrator account. What I did is I …

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 …

Has anyone else had a problem with Java running on Firefox using windows Vista. I have installed java and it works on internet exploreer but i wont work on firefox when i tryed to install i get a a installation has failed doenst tell me why or anything just want …

My daughter got on computer ,and now I can't access anything without giving each special permission to allow me to access.I cannot get to users in control panel ,won't let me access.I cant even use start menu.I keep getting popup saying "Windows cannot access specified device path ,or file.You may …

I have 6 users all experiencing the same issue. They have items listed in there calendar and the remiders are being generated but they are not popping-up to alert them. Does anyone know what this could be? Its MS Outlook 2003 SP2.

I noticed some errors a few weeks ago and was unable to run chkdsk c: as it would not blue screen, but reboot at one point in the process. This was running chkdsk in windows with no /f or /r parameter. I was able to copy my data from the …

I came back from break and my friend's computer was cycle booting. I told him to get his repair discs, which he did... But now, when he tries to setup the repair, it goes straight to the Windows Desktop Blue screen and that's it. Nothing else. It's a Sony Vaio …

Yesterday opened msconfig and when I went to make a change, something I've done previously with no problems, a box came up saying access was denied and I needed administrator privileges or something to that effect. It did, however, make the changes I requested, despite the access denied message. I …

Okay, before I tell you what the problem is, let me provide a little backround information to maybe help diagnose the problem. Recently, my HD encountered alot of problems and it got to the point where I couldn't even boot without getting a blue error screen. The HD is a …

I have this exact problem: [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post171392.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post171392.html[/URL] However the solution didn't work because I messed with the registry :-( I couldn't install Windows installer 3.1, so I couldn't update my repaired version of windows (which was working AWESOME, btw!) I set restore points and stuff "just in case" after messing with …

I'm trying to install Windows XP Pro to a system with a Mach Speed MK8-939A mobo, AMD Athlon64 3200+ CPU @ 2.0 GHz, and 512 MB of RAM. I've tried this on three different HDDs now, with the same results on all three. The install itself goes fine. First boot …

I am having a little issue with one of Microsoft Office 2007 Application. Visio 2007, no matter what i do i cannot install this application. I tried the trial version, the full version everything, i keep getting an error " Microsoft Office Visio professional 2007 encountered an error during setup". …

Hello.. I just purchased a HP - Pavilion TK-57 Laptop (Model dv6704nr). Of course it is running the Windows Vista Operating System. Can someone help me to delete all of the unnecessory progams from the laptop? The system also seems to start up a bit slow so Im sure there …

The solution to the cmicnfg problem was posted in another thread: "You simply delete the Cmaudio key under Run from the registry. To do this: open regedit->HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->Microsoft->Windows->CurrentVersion->Run. Now, in this folder you should see CMAudio. Delete it. This takes care of the problem. This will not hurt your computer in …

Hi(First post) I hope im not in the wrong section, if I am sorry about that. I hope you guys and gals can help me with this problem/question I have regarding acronis true image. I work for a small business which has a wired lan network, we have a 250GB …