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Hi there I am having a problem with reinstalling windows XP. I followed Stein's instructions on formatting and reinstalling XP. I followed all the instructions and everything was going good until it started installing devices. The bar started filling up showing it was doing something then suddenly the monitor went …

Hey all, Having a little trouble starting windows as of last night. I came to turn on the computer and the usual screens came up, until i got to the windows loadscreen (blue load bar) which just remained as though loading....forever. Anyway, came to it again this morning and the …

this is the 4th site i have tried,when i switch on my pc(windows xp)or reboot the "system 32 file" is displayed,ok i can close it down but why does it do this?

Anyone here using above vcard on vista? What driver did you use for it. I use v100.65 and whenever I run a game, a box appears saying NVidia graphics card stopped responding.

Been awhile since I've been on DanWeb. Anyway, I wont to move a music license from my computer to another. I have acquired the license from [URL="http://www.directsong.com/"]http://www.directsong.com[/URL] and I was wondering where the license is located on my drive. I would rather not use another license from this product, as …

Hey, I just wanted to know if there are any [B]GOOD[/B] and[B] SAFE[/B] programs that can be bought or downloaded that help with the security of your PC. I had [B]Norton AntiVirus[/B], however its been out of date for a long while, and only recently has my computer deteced a …

i have genuine win xp pro ed sp2 installed in my system. Earlier whenever i used to connect to the internet, windows updates got downloaded automatically but now no updates are being downloaded. I have ckecked my firewall (zonealarm) settings and it seems to be fine. i also have another …

i have win xp pro ed sp2 installed in my system. my pc got infected by Backdoor.Win32.Hupigon.adi and Worm.Fujack.k. my antivirus(active virus shield *powered by kaspersky) found all the infected files and nuteralized(cleaned) them. now whenever i click on any of my localdisks icon in my computer i get a …

I get a messege saying I may not have access to files, to check with administrator for permission. I set up both desktop and laptop, both set to same workgroup. Each comp is recognized by the other, bt I cannot logg onto the Desktop from laptop.. please help. I checked …

I was playing a game when it froze. I powered down the computer and restarted. It began to loop from the POST messages all the way to the XP splash screen, over and over. After a few times, I got a message saying : "Pri Slave Hard Disk: S.M.A.R.T. Command …

I generally us MSN but other user tend to use the Internet Explorer.. When in use the pop ups out number and out time the mouse clks.. virus or what the crap is going on? I run Macaffee and spybot and disc defrag. empty all files and even try to …

A friend had a computer that had windows 98se on it, and he changed monitors. Now it does not start in windows what can I do? I tried putting the cd into the cd rom and it says invalid system disk. Now I have to use a public computer to …

Ok, So I'm a photographer, and I need my photoshop to survive. One day I open photoshop and it says 'Problem with your Serial #/ user name/ affiliation' or something like that and it randomly shuts down.. Which is very odd, because it's worked perfectly fine since I got it, …

[color=blue]Can you map a drive between a WinXP VMware host and Win98 guest? If so - how?? I have VMware Workstation 4 installed on a WinXP Dell PC host. I have Win98SE installed as a VM guest on this PC. [i]Can I map a drive between the 2 OS'es and …

Hi there, I'm not sure if this is the right forum since I don't know what's going on, but if I'm in the wrong place, I apologize ahead of time. My CD drive does not recognize game discs at all; they go in, spin around, and that's that. No autoplay, …

I want to create a bootable recovery CD in case my operating system ever fails again. What files do I need and in what folders do I find them? I am new at this so please reply in laymans' terms. Any help is appreciated, Tim

I am using XP SP2, My internet from LAN via a router stops after 30 mins. All downloads, pings etc stop. Only option is to restart... output of netstat -an is below Active Connections Proto Local Address Foreign Address State TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:23445 …

I have an older Sony Vaio laptop (PCG-FX215) that I have watched many movies on, it will no longer playback DVDs. The Interactual player does not find a DVD player - DVD Decoder missing. I do not know what has happened. I do not remember downloading or deleting anything that …

All of my desktop icons have that really annoying little arrow in the corner. Is there any way to get rid of them? And also one of my icons used to be an eBay icon but now it's just an internet explorer symbol in front of a piece of paper. …

I have a fujitsu siemens V3505 windows vista basic is used in. yesterday my notebook couldnt start. I tried the recovery dvd, the choises like start normally, start safety mode, start etc.., but it doesnt work. ıt says it has media test failure. I dont know what the problem is, …

ok, i just bought a new 2.6ghz acer computer, everything is fine except for 2 things really. 1. when i start diablo 2 it takes about a bit under a minute to start up for some reason, no other program has this issue. (this isn't that much of a problem …

Hi Every1 My system is config is Windows XP with AMD Athlon (1Ghz) and 512 MB RAM... My CPU usage is always 100 %.. I found out that the process SVC HOST Network Services is the cause of it.There are around 2 SVC HOST Network Services Process and a number …

When I install it, an error message comes up saying ''Service Pack 2 Setup Error The core system file (kernel) used to start this computer is not a Microsoft Windows file. The Service Pack will not be installed. For more information, see the Knowledge Base article at [URL]http://support.microsoft.com.''[/URL] Is there …

So a while ago I checked my computer to get its Windows experience index base score. It was 2.5 because of the graphics being the lowest at 2.5 I checked it again just now and this time everything stayed the same except for the graphics which went DOWN to 2.4 …

Hi When Win2000 has not shut down properly, when it is restarted I get a screen whidh starts off: "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is FAT32" Followed by a nine second countdown before the drive check begins, during which time I can cancel the …

Hi there! Basically I had bittorent, emule, a virus check going and I was browsing the internet and all was well! Then i opened an additional tab in my browser and the desktop disappeared along with the task bar! I rebooted and the only thing to pop up was msn! …

The system: Alienware Area-51 M5790 Laptop - Vista Ultimate Intel Core Duo T7400 @ 2.16GHz 2046 MB RAM Office 2007 Professional The scenario: On boot up the system is using about 45% of the RAM. Open Excel, open a spreadsheet (72 KB file size) that was created in Excel 2007 …

The Internet explorer 7 that iam currently using When i am in using it i can be surfing the web fine and then for no reason it will switch to pffline without warning Any Ideas

When I run the installer for Safari 3 (Vista), it gives me an error (screenshot). Anyone wanna help?

hello, i changed something in BioS and then when i rebooted the computer ... the monitor was blank and computer was still running...and this is happening all the time. now i don't know what to do :'( PLEASE HELP!!!

I get an error when I start up my WINXP as follows " Error loading C:\PROGRA~1\MYWEBS~1\bar\2.bin\MWSBAR.DLL. can anyone help? thanks

Hi, I formatted my HD and reinstalled WIN 98. I'm OK with that part but when it came to answering the question about all the devices it found, there were no drivers that they could use from the system. I've spent much time going around the 'Net downloading all kinds …

Hi, I've been trying to install Halo 2 pc for some time now without any luck. I've read that if you enable secondary logon it might help. I've looked in the services.msc and didn't find it in there, how would I turn this on? A pic of the services.msc in …

my machine has XP installed and i want to get rid of it and use win98. how do i do it without losing my data

i have a problem.. a big one for some reason my uninstall feature went away for all my applications i dont know why but they are poof gone just look at the screen shot [URL=http://img526.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uninstalliv6.jpg][img]http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/3783/uninstalliv6.th.jpg[/img][/URL] I need to run photoshop i have the legit version i bought it student price.. …

I just reformatted the hard drive (Windows XP Pro both before and after), and I get that message to Please select an operating system. The thing is, I don't think I have any partitions (when I reformatted, it looked like there was a second partition with 8 MB on it, …

Hello, my name is Gregg. I enjoy troubleshooting computers cause it's like a treasure hunt. But sometimes I can use a map -- hopefully someone can be my map. I fix computers here and there for friends, though I'm no expert. It's amazing how many more laptops I get to …

just need help if anyone know's how they do that... im a college student now. and in our computer lab when i save a file or install something and the computer restart all the file that i save even what i stall are being deleted.... when i ask about that …

Hi i recently had the Teekids virus on one of the computers i manage. I used the laster stinger.exe to clear the virus and cleared system restore. However i have just notice that there is a TeeKids.exe-0403291C.pf file in the prefetch directory. I have read up on the prefetch directory …

hello one and all, i am in need of some serious help. heres the problem.after installing windows home edition on my pc and it start up before it goes into desktop i get a user envirioment message saying windows couldnt load your setting so loaded the default settings. also says …

I have a client who is getting errors when he tries to install a DVD game from his DVD drives, the main error is "This is not a valid win32 app." I can see all the files from win explorer and I even copied all the game files to his …

Hi guys, thanks or having me at this forum hopefully i'll be able to help someone else one day but unfortunately its me who needs help atm. Every time I try to play a higher end game (Command and conquer 3 / half life 2 / area 51) the games …

I'm trying to install NT on IBM Thinkpad 600E with a 60 gb hd for a friend. I keep getting message saying " setup cannot format the partion. C: New (Unformatted) 57217 MB on 8063 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus ) on atapi because it is too …

Hey, I'm looking for some help on setting up a win2k3 server. I'll be living in a frat. house next year and me and friend wanna hook up wireless and a server for files to share over the internal network in the house. I have an old windows box with …

Hi, I have windows XP installed on my office computer. I have created a seperate logon account coz I do not want my colleagues to use my login info to access the computer. So my question is how do I assign roles to this new user? I want to disable …

Using Windows XP, video adaptor type VIA/S3G KM400, directX 9.0, Athlon AMD computer, memory 224MB. Tearing my hair out on this one. Internet is [B]fast[/B], opening office files is [B]fast[/B], playing music is [B]ok[/B], but................... When playing video, every 3 seconds, it freezes then skips (catches up) yet the sound …

I see that the favorite browser of the Apple Mac fanboy, Safari, has arrived for Windows users according to [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1495.html"]this DaniWeb blog entry. [/URL] I have just downloaded it and will be giving it a whirl myself, and will be interested to see how the claims of being the fastest …

When I insert a cd/dvd into my dvd+rw drive I get this message. Your version of DLA can read files on this disc but you will not be able to edit or add to them. My question is what could be causing this problem, does this mean that the app …

Hi, I'm a bit out of my depth guys.... any help you can give would be appreciated. I recently purchased a new lap top with Vista. The ide was to use this machine to complement my existing desktop set up. I'm just not getting my pcs to work together. I'm …

Hi, I am running a desktop pc (XP) on a wireless network. I have just purchased a laptop (Vista). I use outlook express as my email on the desktop, this is where I store my emails. I also store docuiments on the desktop. My problem is I cant use the …