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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 …

Hi Guys, I've got a windows server 2003 on my domain that has a fax modem connect to it. It runs the fax console and any faxes coming in on that number get emailed to member of staff who sorts through it, which is working perfectly. We also have a …

Every time I try to open an office application I get the "windows is preparing to instal" message . After cancelling it the application then opens. I ran a search some time ago having the same problem and managed to find a fix by doing something along the lines of …

I tried doing a "format and recovery" on my pc. A hp pavilion 6470z running Win98. I think I made a mistake by deleting the partitions but im not sure. After deleting the partitions I continued the format and recovery process but there was an error in the process and …

Hi All; I'm currently using [B]NETSCAPE 7.2[/B] and I recently read an article stating that there will no longer be any further development for the product. However the NETSCAPE browser will still continue to function provided the underlying internet structure more or less stays the same. To this end, I’ve …

Somehow, I don't have a clue how, my Dell Cineplayer seems to've disapeared. When trying to play DVD's, Media Center attempts to, but tells me: Decoder Error The video decoder has either malfunctioned or is not installed. Please restart Media Center and/or the computer. What on earth do I need …

hi on stratup i keep geting a rundll error it say that it can not be found (kqayfdfh.dll) i can not found it in the reg system . so i take that it has been delated so how can i fix the problem i have done virus scan restalled all …

Can anyone help! I just installed windows vista ultimate on my dell dimension 3000 (with previous XP OS.) and I'm having problems with no audio on the multimedia audio controller which runs on a ADI 198x Integrated Audio Driver. I went to Dell support to down load a driver, but …

Greetings, Today I had a power failure (I usually have one every week, and it just shuts my computer down and it comes back up fine after power returns.) This time though, i was in the process of closing a program and I'm fairly sure the disk was writing data …

Hello everyone, first I'd like to say this looks like a great site and I plan to use it and pass it along as much as possible. Secondly, I started to install Win XP HOME on a pc, and when i went to format the HD it would get all …

I have bought a new pc with xp pro sp2 preinstalled every thing is networked i can map the drive open a windows and see the files but when i need to open a file the windows hangs or file shares are very slow and at times times out opening …

Hello everybody! I'm from Germany, so please excuse my language mistakes. My problem refers to the use of Aol Mail. I can access this site and even read my mails, but when I log out, I get a message that says: "Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this …

i dropped my laptop and broke the lcd screen. i want to hook my laptop up to my tv so that i can still use the computer. the laptop has a connection for a monitor on it but my tv does not. so, i got a vga to dvi adapter …