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This version of Windows cannot be installed on this machine. Does this simply mean my system isn't powerful enough to handle the software? Thanks, BuddyB

does using the recovery console erase everything on the hard drive? i got pictures on a laptop that will not load windows will using the recovery console help recover the system and keep those pics on it?

I have windows XP on about a 2 year old computer, i left it on for about 6 hours then shut it down , the next day i tried to start it up and now im getting a black screen with blinking white thing in the top left corner (I …

Hi, i need some help I have have windows 2000 loaded with both firefox and IE. Both of these will not load any web pages exept for mysoace ( doesnt load fully) and google (doesnt load any of the links though). All over pages it doesnt load Ebay, petergabriel.com play.com …

I just downloaded the latest version of AIM, making the switch from Trillian. I like it enough where I am going to keep using it but it does something really annoying and that is it opens all links in IE when I click them in an IM window. How do …

i recently did a windows xp update and after it restarts and gives me the boot menus options to run safe mode, safe mode w/ networking, safe mode w/ command prompt, last known configuartion, and normally start. i tried to do each one but it gives me the same thing …

Hi everybody...I am having a very strange problem and hope some of you can help me as soon as posible. I am workin in a small LAN with a XP PC and a W2000 PC. I have an aplication developed in Visual basic, in the XP PC, for making a …

I am at a loss. I have a 2 months old desktop PC (CPU AMD Sempron 3100+, Asrock board) with XP Pro SP 2 installed. It has been running perfectly, but a couple of days ago my wife got ahold of it and ever since it has been EXTREMELY slow. …

Can I clone the partition containing the recovery software on an HP computer with a bad hard drive to a new hard drive and then use it to install the original software on the new hard drive? The old HD suddenly developed several bad sectors and the BIOS reports that …

I cannot logoff or shutdown using the Start> shutdown or Start> logoff, nor by using CRTL_ALT_DEL. Neither by using the offered shutdown and restart option having made some change that the system detects needs a shutdown to activate. Neither by using the logoff utility in the Windows 2000 Resource Kit. …

I'm getting red X's instead of images only on Amazon's website. The ads show up fine on Amazon but the product photos and buttons don't load. The only other website I have trouble with is Target. Everything else works fine. Images don't load when I get junk mail from Amazon, …

Does anyone know an effective opensource tool to restore Outlook mail and address book without the .pst? Yesterday, I turned on my computer and my .pst was 0 bytes - it was just wiped out, apparently. I know why this happened, but I need to try to recover the emails. …

Found Daniweb when I was searching Google to try solve stange new happenings on Microsoft Outlook email. Hope I am posting this at the right place. . I have noticed recently that when I access my mail to read, Outlook indicates that it is sending a message even though there …

Is it possible to insert a list of addresses into the exchange servers "Address Lists" (like the GAL) for all outlook users to see. This list is for a batch of e-mails addresses everyone here needs to access but these addresses are not from our domain

Hi. I just bought a new laptop and when I tried to connect it to the internet, it said it was connected but I was unable to access any sites. The comp is an HP with Vista Home Premium. When I bought it, I had TrendMicro antivirus and Webroot Spy …

Greetings, friends. I'm trying to get my new build to work. After getting it to POST and show up in the BIOS, I popped in my WINXP disc to get the OS installed. After I get the blue set up screen for WINXP to set up, I hit ENTER to …

Hi, I uninstalled Mcafee Viirusscan and Security Center and have since been beset by a number of problems. Among them... User accounts program comes up but the window is blank (no objects showing) Internet Explorer does not work when I try to log into any secure site The search assistant …

I Recently Had An Error Come Up On Shutdown. I Beleive It Has To Do With The Office Program 2003. I Had To Reinstall The Software For Office And I Also Installed The Office 2003 Program On A New Machine. Both Machines Have Now Come Up With This Error On …

[b][/b] I Am In Desperate Need Of Help. I Bought This Computer From A Friend Of Mine. It's Windows Xp Professional. I Don't Have Any Boot Disk Or A Operating Cd. It Was Running Slow So I Downloaded Something Called Windows Advanced Personal Care. I Did A Restore Point And …

Hi All, I've got a machine running XP Pro that can't print. When you go File > Print (in both Office 2003 and Notepad, possibly others), the program freezes and is "Not Responding". Printers and Faxes doesn't open. Nothing freezes, but it doesn't open and gives no indication that it's …

I am getting an error message while installing Widows XP. This is the message i get 'An unexpected error (768) occurred at line 5118 in <drive letter>\xpclient\base\boot\setup\setup.c Press any key to continue." Once you press any key, the system then starts to load Windows, after which the following message comes: …

Hey there. 2 Days ago I suddenly received a warning popup from my nod32 antivirus asking me if I want to stop the threat, quarantine etc. I clicked stop the threat and the pc shut down. Ever since, I can only successfully start it in safe mode (using it right …

OK........here is one for you wizards. I am sure it is not a big deal to fix....but I am a homebuilder not a computer wizard. My laptop has windows xp-I am clicking away- and it totally freezes up, until I turn it off and then back on.....then it works fine …

Hello, I got a brand new laptop for my birthday and I cannot connect it to the web. I get this message: DRIVER IS BLOCKED DUE TO INCOMPATIBILITY ISSUES Driver: Sonic Solutions Publisher: Sonic Solutions Location: Not Available I have tried to search my computer for this driver but I …

[B]Do you think your computer is safe and performing well just answer the questions and think wether your computer is safe or not 1.is your system is virus protected 2.is your system is performing to its configuration 3.is your operating system is oiginal, just check it and think it how …

Hello, I have a Windows 2000 Laptop. My computer is Windows XP. My laptop has a wireless card build in and it if turned on. If I turn it off it says Network Cable unplugged. (turned it back on) If I go into the settings from Control Panel to look …

I have been using this PC for a few years now and have never had any problems, now from one day to the next it will not boot. I get the typical start-up sounds, fan, beeps, etc. Then the red screen pops up that has always popped up showing (this …

I found out my laptop is Fujitsu P series model: P1120 I go into Device Manger. and I find that SoftwareModem As a big yellow question mark. I try to install it right then and there, but it says it can't. I tried to connect my laptop with a wire …

I've been running Vista since it first released. Since day one, I've been able to share the root of a drive (share the entire drive, not just a folder in a drive). I recently added a new drive, shared it, and have had problems with it the whole time (file …

With The New Software To Prevent Piracy It Is Taking A Machine Fingerprint Whe Acticating The Programs I Have One Program From Scan Soft Asking Me For The Machine Fingerprint Does Anyone Know Where It Is On The Computer.my Operating System Is Xp Pro

Hi Everyone: I am using dual monitors in Win XP Pro. I am using the ATI AIW 9600 128 with two Samsung 193v LCD's. How do I configure the set up to show my XP taskbar across both screens? Any help would be appreicated. Thanks.

When booting a Win98 PC it hangs on the Windows 98 screen while booting. I cannot even get into Safe Mode. This happened a few years ago and I had to replace an inexpensive part (maybe a fan) but cannot remember which one. It was a safety feature of Win98 …

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Help please, I had to have a new hard disc installed. I reloaded windowsXP home and all my old software including Roxio easy DVD creator 6. now Roxio will not recognise the presence of my NEC ND2500A writer. This reads fine but will not write. The driver file details says …

Hi, my laptop is an Acer Aspire 5101AWLMi AMD MK36 2GHz, 1GB DDR2 with Windows XP Media Centre Edition SP2. I installed Nokia software for my phone. To cut a long story short it went wrong and I did a system restore. itunes and quicktime stopped working. I tried uninstalling …

Does anyone know if its possible to force windows to log all the way on to a password-protected account without stopping at the Log In screen, but still prompt the user for a password before allowing access to the account? What I want to achieve is an automatic log-on, thus …

My computer keeps circling on and off at start up. It worked fine before i went to school but when i got home it was circling on and off. Please help!

hi i can connect the internet on one computer and not the other. i have tried quite alot of stuff previous to this post to no avail. i am using windows [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread75306.html#"]xp[/URL] home sp2 (both) and a wireless modem router (d link dsl-g624t) with a wireless adapter (d link dwl …

Hi, I have the Vista setup in my XP folder, what I want to do is to burn it into a CD or DVD. But before doing this, I'm wondering if it's possible to burn the Vista image into a number of empty CDs? If that's not possible to do, …

Can anyone tell me how to log back on as administrator now that the computer has been set to start without a password? It just keeps automatically logging on under a user name but this denies me access into the administrator tools etc. I have been told to control -alt …

I have an Intel Pentium 166MHz w/ MMX computer and use Windows 98SE. Recently I installed Earthlink's WebMail for sending/receiving email after my Netscape 7 email program malfunctioned. However, I have not uninstalled Netscape and now I have two email programs that seem to be competing with one another. I …

Hey, I acnt acess my control panel. not even through Administrator. a pop up says "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator" Here is my hijackthis log Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 4:30:57 PM, on 11/22/2007 Platform: …

Hello all, I have a generic mp3 player that I have had now for years. I formerly ran Windows 2000 on my pc and never had any issues with the mp3 player. Windows 2000 automatically recognized the connection through USB and would show the mp3 player as an additional drive …

I'm not even sure I can explain all of this but: First off, I'm 25 miles from the computer in question, I can run it remotely using logmein. The computer in question is a Dell 9100 with Windows XP Media Center Addition. I had originally purchased the computer for the …

I have ASUS a7n8x motherboard initially with 2500 xp chip. Upgraded to 3200 cpu and flashed new bios. The computer runs fine except locking up rarely. Every thing else is identical. Also it will not warm boot. The bios sees the SATA drives, but it will not boot. If I …

I have a big problem. I've got a work laptop which is not booting up telling me it needs the file c:\windows\system32\bcmlogon.dll. I can't boot into safe mode as it needs the networking element to log in, and starting in safe mode with networking throws up the error. does anyone …

[FONT=Times New Roman]I´m running XP Home Edition (german) on a Gericom notebook (Webshox 1720E DVD), and have been plagued for the last 3 months or so by a freeze effect when I dial into the Internet using its 56k modem (either AOL or Arcor access). Access via a home network …

Ok...I've read everything about XP's compatibility mode, but I don't even have a chance to try it because XP won't even register that any files exist on my older CD's. Software that ran fine on Win 98. How do I fix this? Can it be fixed?

I must apologize, as always, to any people having fielded a thousand of similar problems to this one before. I wouldn't be starting the new thread if I'd not read at least 90% of those posts, and been continually unable to find an applicable solution. My recycle bin is missing …

I'm trying to repair a computer for a friend, and have hit a snag. The computer is running WinXP Media Center, and I think it has a virus. When booted, it gets to the screen with the Windows logo and the "scrolling bar", and goes no further. The bar just …