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A few weeks ago, i tried to install a 320 GB Seagate hard drive. After i installed it, my computer began to restart randomly. I decided it would be a good idea to open my computer, and yank out the hard drive. (I don't know as much about computers as …

Hey everybody! First post! I consider myself a pretty tech-savvy dude, and for the most part I'm able to solve just about any problem that has come up with my computers over the years. This one is kinda weird. It only happens when I am burning several cds in succession …

I have a dell laptop a little older version and it runs windows 98 when i turn on the lap top i recieve this error message. " This programhas performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists contact the program vendor. Explorer casued an invalid …

HI Guys I got a new laptop with Vista Home Basic on it. Specs are: [COLOR=green]AMD Turion 64 MK36/1024MB RAM/80GB HDD/128MB Graphics[/COLOR] There are certain things that I want to do but can not because of Vista compatibility issue. Now it has two partitions one 65 gb as C:/ and …

Recently when i try to play a game or listen music on windows media player i cant hear anything. The games just dont have any sound and on windows media player a small red "x" appears next the song and the following message pops up: "Windows Media Player encountered a …

" there is a file or folderon your computer called"c:\program" which could cause certain applications to not function correctly.renaming it to "c:\program2" would you like to rename it now?" it asks for renaming or to ignore this is the error i am getting when i start the system. pls guide …

Hi All, Every time I start my computer up the process 'explorer.exe' goes into overdrive taking up 99% of the CPU. I have tested for viruses, adware, malware etc. I have also defragmented the hard drive. Can anyone please help me before I throw this PC away? Regards, Peter

HELP, In Mozilla (it doesn't happen with I.E.) it opens window after window endlessly it say "Entering YahooBuildToolbar". I deleted Mozialla and reinstalled but it didn't solve the problem any help would be much appreciated. thanks Brant

hello, My question is ~Is window vista is good version of its family? As in my opinion its a very bad version of its family,as to install u need a good graphics card and lots of harddisk, lots of ram and i think that it doesn't support to MS DOS …

Hello everyone! I work IT for a small school, and I am having issues with my server. It seems as though at different intervals, my domain controller will not recognize authorized users. This has been an issue since we lost power due to an enormous ice storm. I have checked …

Well, for the past 2 weeks or so, i have been having a random problem with my internet explorer. At random, a little window pops up that sais: MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ DEBUG LIBRARY Debug assertion failed! Program: C:\Program Files\GameSpot\GameSpotDownloadManager_Win32.exe File: c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\include\list Line: 776 Expression:list erase iterator …

Hi, I have a problem where on initially it appeared that I had no start menu / desktop on Windows XP SP2. Whilst looking which at a number of threads , and performing some invistagation they eventually appeared after 5/10 mins. The system has symantec AV and is free. New …

Device managers shows duplicate processors, can this be a problem with speed?

I have an old crappy windows 98 computer, and i need to format it, im gotta put linux on it...but i cant format it the way all the google pages say ([url]http://www.bholcomb.com/formatwin98.html[/url] for example...) because the floppy drive doesnt work properlly. Using those instructions, i created the boot disk fine, …

hi my friend accidently moved setupapi.dll from the system 32 folder and cant boot up the pc properly but can run dos so can he move it from were eva it is to system32 usin dos

Our local library recently purchased five Gateway Profile 6 computers, all running Vista Business. Besides all the other glitches that came along with Vista, none of them will run Windows Update. They simply show an error # 0x80073712. In addition, when I go into Windows Features, the dialog box is …

I am running XP (home) SP2 fully patched. I have just had a situation when I wanted to remove an application and used Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs. It gave the 'waiting for the list to be populated' message and then just stayed blank for nearly 30 minutes. I have deleted …

Anyone had any problems with Vista going to sleep. My computer reboots when I go to the shutdown menu and hit "sleep". Talked to MB people and they say they don't know of any problems. Nothing in Bios seems to address this situation, and tried all the different settings in …

Hi ....the wife has a laptop that when booted gives 12 error messages such as "windows cannot access Program files \ibm thinkvantage\rescue and recovery\br_funcs.exe" and others like Reg,exe and 8 xcopy.exe messages. when I ok all of the messages all works fine ! I have downloaded Rescue and repair from …

I have heard and read that putting your page file on another hard drive will help. I have done that for several reasons but now I want to know how I can or if I can delete the left over page file that is on the c drive where it …

i was sitting on msn and got a little worse. i have had it 4 3 weeks after they changed the main card on it and now the bluetooth and the bios have trouble.. i got a message on my screen and the only thing there stod was bios error. …

Thought time ripe (cheap) to get a 17" laptop, burn dvd's, maybe even partition hard drive. Even bought a Toshiba, grabbed some of my software, and...... What? Nothing would install because it wasn't Vista (got the software just before it's release). Calls to Toshiba, MicroSoft and 2 Geek guys (took …

[U]Delivery Status Notification (Failure)[/U] [U]Returned mail: Service unavailable[/U] [U]Delivery failure[/U] I've been getting a lot of emails with the above subjects (a dozen a day at the peak), and when I look around for an reason why I would get these emails, searches say 'that it's an email delivery problem …

Hi there, Ok, we have a serious situation here. If I'll read one more thread about issues with Vista 32bit not seeing 4GM RAM I'm going to vomit. Here's issue that will get you thinking. Ok. I've got installed 2 Ram sticks. 512MB each. Acrding to BIOS I've got 1GB. …

Hi guys, I really messed it up now! Flashed BIOS. Now i can't power computer up cause it keeps on saying that "the NB tachometer fan is very slow". Now my motherboard manufacturer told me that I have to clear comms. An how do I do that? Thank you for …

First off hello to everyone. I'm having issues with both my scanner and video camera and for both of them I'm receiving an error code 19 (for registry). Here are my problems. I have a sony digital video recorder and I can play video off the sony chip but the …

You, like thousands of others, may have installed vista on a machine with a gig or less of ram, and thought you made a good choice because microsoft's total care advisor may have said it will run smoothly. Well that is just wrong!! If your pc wasn't preloaded with vista, …

Hi there, I'm currently working on a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel 2007, and need to enter a few paragraphs of text within a group of merged cells. I would like to have seperate lines of text (as I have just started a new paragraph within this post) but when I …

Hi, i want to tell my view of going back from a 150.00 vista home premiumback to xp mce sp2. It all started when i got a thought in my head that said "upgrade that xp machine via the vista os" not knowing the mischief waiting for any moment to …

hello i am new here and love the site looks so far , i am in need of help. i have vundo files that i cannot delete period. the name and locale is c:\WINDOWS\system32\vtutq.dll i have investigated this thoroughly and have tried unlimited ways with no luck,,,i have tried vundofix, …

I'm in great trouble.Both of my administrator accounts in Windows(safe mode,normal etc.) are password protected and my problem is that I've forgotten d password.Is there any way I can regain access to my system's contents?

Hi everybody, when I try loading up Diablo 2 on my computer, it says this error has accured [I]AppName: game.exe AppVer: 1.0.3.0 ModName: unknown ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 00000000[/I] Im running XP Pro with 850mhz, 320ram, and ATI Radeon 9600SE. Btw, im using the real cd, and not a copy

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Hi, First, I apologize if I am in the wrong site, I am not an IT professional, just a slub trying to get something fixed. If I should go to a different site, I will be happy to go there if someone knows where to send me. My problem. I …

I was wondering if anyone else has had a problem with vista eating batter really fast. I had XP on my laptop when i got it well i got a free copy of vista from my school do i put it on my laptop now i only get about a …

how can i get vista to boot on my 2gig and 5400rpm notebook in under 20secs, as its current boot time is 50-65 secs.

Okay, my sister and I have been trying for the past two days to put XP home on her computer. Because somehow her OS got messed up. I don't know how, I really don't want to know. But we got the XP home CD and tried it out -- Here's …

I am want to know the difference of window xp vs. vista.Please discuss of the difference of window xp vs vista . About the difference of register,algorithm,data structure,skeduler and a good or bad of each windown.Thank u for detail.

My computer crashed in the middle of a defragmentation run, corrupting just about everthing that was running at the time (so, don't have anything else running when you do a defrag!). After recovering most of the corrupted stuff, I was left with a problem with Outlook Express, in that it …

Dear members, Please help me decide on buying a new PC since i dont know much about computers. I already have a 6 year old toshiba laptop and which is still works fine but has fairly old features (256 mb, usb 1.1, 30 GB, old graphic card, etc). These are …

Hello my name is Nikkole. I just got a new labtop couple months ago everything was running good. I got cable internet and hooked it up but with one issue. My wireless does not work now :) And, I can't work on any projects in high school that I need …

Hello, I have a microsoft 2003 office disc small business edition upgrade and I am wondering if i can install it in more than one pc (hopefully legally). My friend installed his copy on 12 pcs and they're running fine! please let me know

Hi all i'm new here and only have a basic to average knowledge of pc's, hope you can help??? I have searched many other post's with simillar symptoms all over the net but fail to get any result's sony cdrwcrx230e generally use memorex cd-r's with great success! I have used …

I have tried (2) dell m90 and (1) dell m6300 laptops at home. As soon as I ask the laptop to connect it shuts down my wireless network; It shows the network is available - I ask it to connect - it then shows the wireless network as running but …

Hi All, I am having a problem while trying to boot & repair my windows XP installation. i have both linux and windows xp running on my pc. a few days back i switched off the power to the pc before it was compeletly shutdown. later when i tried to …

I have been having this problem recently. My friend says this is because of my driver update, but I'm not too sure. So the problem is this, I start downloading a torrent, I usually leave it over night. In the morning when I check on it, my computer screen shows …

there isn't a file named "WINNT.sif" in my XP installation CD so now i can not install XP.

I am getting ready to implement a new Server 2003 (with upgrade to 2007/08) and want to have the Server or some software monitor odd activity. Such as an employee copying an entire jobs directory (3GB directory and contains everything about any particular job). This would hint to working on …

hello, Current scenario: When user downloads file from web browser having extension .zip or .rar the user is prompted with save dialog. Requirement: When user downloads file having .zip or .rar extension the we browser should not prompt for the save dialog but rather open the file directly in winzip …

Each time I close Firefox and restart it, the setting for excepting cookies is "unchecked". On the Privacy tab in the Options menu, I have selected "accept cookies from sites", "until the expire". When I restart the browser, the 'accept cookies from sites" is unchecked. I have uninstalled and reinstalled …