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My computer, a Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2. It's manufactured and supplied by Packard Bell Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.06GHz, 512 MB of RAM. Basically, it does this and its annoying. Its a surprise that i managed to write this message without it freezing …

ok i basically have 2 different types of freezing on my comp. first my computer freezes while im playing games like ,battleships forever, elder scrolls morrowind, and stick online. when it freezes on these games the only thing i can do is move my mouse around then after a while …

elo guys, my pc doesn't turn on anymore, i don't know what is the cause... last week it was working properly. I try to turn on my pc there is no respond on the monitor, i has no error beeps also. there are only lights on the front panel of …

Hiya I am seriously considering changing my career path. I currently am in sales but am looking to go into IT. I have a fairly good knowledge of pc's and networking and it has been recommended to me that i take the MCSE course which apparently is 7 exams. My …

when i am typing regedit in run dialog box it is giving a problem like your administrator disabled the registry editingand some times my taskmanager and run is disabling please give me a good solution

Hello, A few days ago I read a guide and disabled a lot of services to make my comptuer run faster (which did not work). I made a restore point a quarter-way-through because I forgot to before starting. My problem is that I cannot play any video with any type …

Hey guys, I'm having a problem with a laptop I just received a few days ago. The model is a Dell Latitude LS (P3/400 mHz/256M RAM/Win2000Pro) and to my surprise had Windows XP/SP2 installed running quite smoothly. I planned on simply using this machine to run older games/emulators so I …

Can anyone give me any idea what i can do as my outlook express is not working. I click on the desktop icon and it starts to load then all of a sudden it will freeze and i will have to reboot my pc. I do have MSN Messenger which …

I don't know how, but it started unexpectedly and suddenly. Tried everything from my side but nothing works. I have Windows XP Professional Version 2002(i mean no service pack) Well the problem is that whenever I press CTRL + ALT + DEL a error message is displayed with this content: …

I am trying to reinstall xp. I have an OEM XP disc. I boot into the disc and get a blue screen with white text that simply says Windows Setup. I left the computer on this screen for an hour and nothing happened. What should I do?

Hey, Recently I've been getting messages saying that iTunes cannot play music files, and when I try to open the Volume Control, it says that "no mixer devices are installed." It then tells me to install new hardware...but I HAVE a mixer device attached, so why? Any help on this …

Hi All, I have just reformatted this computer to the manufacturer defaults - IBM NetVista. Kind of old but we are going to use it here in the mill. My problem is that every time I plug in a USB be device, wither it be a USB Mouse or Memory …

All of a sudden my xp home will not restart using the Turn Off Computer, Restart function. It shuts down properly, the blue power light stays on, but the screen remains black and it won't reboot until I power off and press the power button to restart. If I start …

Hi I am new here and am not sure where to post this but anywayz i hope one of you can help me with this. I have made a site on my own server and since my ISP has blocked port 80 i had to forward the port but now …

How to set a image in to my computer-> properties window on the free space and logon screen. I am using win xp professional service pack 2. help me to fix this.

Hello folks!!! I just installed windows xp sp3; but i was wondering has anyone else has done so too. If anyone has installed it, can you tell me of some of the major difference that you have notice.

Using avast to scan my windows xp media centre laptop it tells me the system volume information on both C: (main) and D: drives is password protected. Anyone know why? Or if it matters? And the two files listed on the screen dump are corrupted. Any takers on explaining? Do …

I bought a new pavillion -and love it and have no real problems with vista (**cough**yet) but I'm wondering what is making it boot so slowly? Any ideas? I disabled Norton and am running AVG. :D

Windows 98SE At shutdown when Restart in MS-DOS mode is selected; when the computer enters DOS the following command is displayed: C:\>LH C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\MOUSE\mouse.exe Microsoft (R) Mouse Driver Version 11.00 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1983 - 1995 all rights reserved At this point the computer is locked up with a blinking …

I'm having issues with video files only showing up as faint red and/or blue highlights. I've checked my codecs and they seem to be in order. I didn't have this problem less than a week ago and videos that worked fine in the past are now just as bad as …

I have read through past post relating to this same issue nothing there applyed to this one. first this is an win me box, 2nd I don't get and error. I can open up IE fine, but when I try to open up a 2nd one the computer freezes. I …

ok here goes! my cousin got a dell dimension 4600 from her mom. mom says it was working fine then crapped out so it was brought to the shop. shop said to reformat & reinstall windows. the system was failing to boot up completely. well, i reformatted the hard drive, …

hello i just purchased a sony vaio laptop which has 100 gb hard disk i want to make more partition of it plz can any one tell me how to make more partition without formating c cozi dnt want to loose original windows and it has many software of its …

Hi all; My system has been acting crazy since yesterday, i first got weird file named IT_LKW_SUCKS i dont know where it came from and i deleted it then just after one minute the file appeared again. Tried deleting that file but it cant be deleted. ma hard disk has …

hi, i have come accross a probelm and i was wondering Outlook 2003 could do this or would i need 3rd party mail program. Here is what i am trying to do. Ok this receptionist has her own calander wher she puts her appointment and stuff in. She then creates …

Well here is my story, and if anyone can help me find a cure I will be forever gratefull. The other day I was surfing a flash code site and had 3 viruses attack my pc. I run symantec and it caught them. then I started getting pop up advertisement …

Hi after a recent virus I ran a clean install on a computer I'm working on for a friend. I get it running beautifully SP2 fully working, AVG antivirus and Spyware running smoothly, etc. I defrag and close and within 24 hours I get a similar problem. It's not a …

I have XPhome and if I power cycle my computer I have no control over my USB Logitech trackball mouse until I unplug and plug it back in then every thing works fine. If I restart windows the mouse works fine. This isn't a major problem, as I leave the …

Hi can anyone help me? i inadvertently quick formatted my hard drive, which at first has 3 partition 1 for windows the other 2 for files. but now it is 1 big ntfs partition. is all my file deleted? is there a way to recover some of my files? pls …

Background : Hi recently I took a new assembled PC with Windows XP installed on it. I wanted to install Linux on it and i did so. But after that my Windows XP os was not working fine so I uninstalled Linux. Later on I could able to work on …

I can't burn dvd's or cds. I have sent them the error messages in log files and also the info tool info. Anyone else experienced this? Is there something else out there that works better for burning cds and dvds?

I have a computer problem that is stumping me. I have a 32M flash usb memory stick that works just fine on one of my computers in the office but not on the other three. All the same model dells. The one it works on has some different soft ware …

I'm mad :@, sad :(, and badly treated ... by IE7:confused: . I thought Firefox was safe, and now boo-hoo, it's crashing too! :'( You KNOW there's a looooooooong post coming ... BUT FIRST - this related question? Does anyone know what this reg entry is, please: HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1659004503-492894223-725345543-1004\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_LOCALMACHINE_LOCKDOWN\iexplore.exe!=W=1 Only …

not long ago the headphone and speaker jacks on my PC hav a static sound constanly goin no matter wot earphones or speakers i use the normal sound still works but its hard to hear because of the sound. is there sumthing wrong wiv tha sound card :?:

Hello, I did a search several ways and didn't see this addressed and am hoping someone can help me. I have a computer that has a fresh install of windows xp on it. When I went to access a website [url]http://wcmh.weatherplus.com/wxplocal/index.html[/url] the browser locks up and will not unlock - …

I tried opening my files today on AOL and through Mozilla Firefox, and everything is jumbled up. Usually my files are in alphabetical order, but instead, they have been reassigned in Size order. It makes finding files a lot more annoying. PLEASE help me find a way to change it …

I have a problem with the display....It used to run on 256 colors but now that I ran a windows 98 update SE the only two options that I have now are 16 colors and 2 colors.. This is really anoying because every think looks like crap!! Does anyone know …

Hi guys ive recently had a problem with my CD-ROM drive. If done the regedit procedure of deleteing uper and lower filters awell and unistalling and reisntalling my cd-drive. Still no luck and it still doesnt appear on my computer. I use vista If any one can help it would …

My Computer has randomly started applying Read-Only properties to all the folders in my C:\ drive including subfolders. I am able to unapply the readonly attribute, but after i do it comes back after about 10mins. This has been very annoying because when i try to download anything and save …

I installed IIS 5.1 on a Windows XP machine with no problems. I got all the updates as of 7/31/07 5pm. I setup a virtual directory pointing to a directory in wwwroot I checked all the boxes (script access,read, write, scrpts, directory browsing, indexing etc) and I selected Execute Permissions …

I don't know what to do. I have ignored this problem for a while because I could get around it, but it seems now that there are instances where it happens 100% of the time. Freezes, locks, whatever you want to call them. Mouse locks up on screen, input is …

For the past several days I have had a situation where I have email capability and update capabilities through the internet without any problems. But any attempt to access the web through either IE6 or Mozilla fails when I am booted up in normal mode. The system indicatest that the …

I've just got a 500Gb external hard drive to use as backup on my PCs. I've formatted it as FAT32 because I want to use it on my Windows 2000 system as well as on my Windows 98SE system. When I come to copy directories from my Windows 2000 system …

Hello there, I am called Xyzyxx. Pronounce my name[SIZE=5] (zī’ zĭks)[/SIZE] Every so often my computer gives me this alert message when I start it up: [color="blue"]Files that are required for Windows to run properly have been replaced by unrecognized versions. To maintain system stability, Windows must restore the original …

I cannot restart my computer because of missing or corrupt system32 file message appears. I am asked to insert the CD ROM set up disk to and reboot from it. Unfortunately, Windows XP was already installed on the PC when I purchased it 2 years ago and it doesn't have …

I know this seems to be a popular problem on here, but I haven't seen anyone reply with something that actually worked. And I need help! This problem is driving me crazy, I need something to work..and everyone's replies were way too complicated and things I've never heard of..so any …

I'm pretty stumped here. my Win 2k machine has been running for years with two CD-RW drives, no probs. One day, after booting up, I got an error saying that config/systemd was corrupt. OK, so I did what Microsoft recommends and fixed it. After that, I got "hardware not found" …

Hello, I did a search several ways and didn't see this addressed and am hoping someone can help me. I have a computer that has a fresh install of windows xp on it. When I went to access a website [url]http://wcmh.weatherplus.com/wxplocal/index.html[/url] the browser locks up and will not unlock - …

Hey guys! In the past week, my PC has randomly shut off a few times, along with not being able to shut off once (stuck in the "signing off" process). So far Norton hasn't picked up anything, and my definitions are up to date. Anyways, here's the HijackThis log file. …

wasn't sure what this would fall under... problems viewing some webpages Built PC [BPC1] & PC1 & PC2 & laptop [LP1] OS: XPHome SP2 etrust internet security suite 2006 browser: CrazyBrowser [ crazybrowser.com ] BPC1 uses Ethernet Cable to the router PC1 & PC2 is wirelessly connected to same router. …