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Hi. I am having trouble loading xp after an update to sp2. Several weeks ago, I did a system recovery to a pre sp2 state. My hard is partitioned with a recovery program. I had updated sucessfully before to sp2 and kept it updated for some time. Now when install …

HI everybody! I have an almost brand new HP with dc and it has slowed down quite a bit during a month ago. It was very swift in the beginning, but as I installed more and more new software it became "sluggish". Slow booting goes always with W, but could …

A couple of days ago I turned my laptop on but turned it off as it was still loading things up at the start. Since then when I turn it on it comes straight up with the screen which lets me choose safe mode etc. I have tryed safe mode, …

I recently used the Computer Management tool to create a new account of my computer and after creating it I deleted my previous one. But now in windows text does not appear in certain places in programs, see the image below. As well certain text in flash files on the …

Hi there, Iv been working on computers for a few years now and i really wish i would have found this website alot sooner, anyways heres my Problem. I have a older dell Dimension 4500S, Windows xp Professional SP2. That version of windows has been on this computer for 3 …

Hi everyone, Just wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of software that can play RENTAL DVDs because the ones I have (RealPlayer and VLC Media Player) aren't doing it. They playe non-rental (bought) DVDs fine though. And whilst I'm at it, my WMP doesn't play any DVDs …

Hi, Few days back I had been infected with a Virus [COLOR=red]w32.Fujacks.K[/COLOR]...Thereafter it has changed my FolderOptions->Show All files options. Even if I change it from Do not show hidden files to Show all files and click apply the System is stubborn to revert it back. Could anybody help me …

Hi all, Most of u must have used Microsoft Office Communicator. Earlier the conferencing options on the top of any conversation used to be missing in my window. No matter whatever I tried, editing security policies etc...nothing worked even unistalling/reinstaling didn't. Finally I unistalled it and then manually removed all …

When I tried to start up my laptop, it showed a message saying <windows root>/system32/hal.dll I searched around the web and saw that people with dell laptops aren't using the windows xp disc to fix the problem. I have the windows xp disc and want to know if it's possible …

people i am having the weirdest case ever the computer that i am using currently when i open a document word or excel or any sort of ms office it seems to crash down after the product splash screen??!!!:S

Hey guys, I was recently running a program on my pc when it suddenly crashed. When I started my pc back up an error msg popped up saying that it could not detect the hard drive. When i restrted my pc again it still wont go to windows. It gets …

I've got a windows xp home edition laptop and i went to install a game yesterday but quickly realized my windows wasn't seeing the cdrom. First, I restarted hoping to fix it, nothing. Then I did some research and found a thread on daniweb from 2004 and tried all their …

Hi There All Im having a problem connecting to the internet on my other computer through IE..my weather bug has no problem accessing the internet but when i click on a add thats on the weather bug that wont access the internet..Also i cannot access internet options from control panel..the …

[B]hey! i was wondering if maybe anybody knew of a good website tHat could help watermark pictures..? tHers alotta fakes on mySpace and people tHat try 2 steal our pics and i was wondering if anybody knew how 2 make it so you can write your name or [watermark] pictures?..tHankz …

I'm running internet explorer and i can open multiple windows and click on links just fine, but if i close one window or one opened link window, the rest of my windows immediately close with it. This even extends to my email program where after i click the send button, …

I finaly got all my programs back on my computer and then I download IE 7 and the explorer icon at the top of the start menu, up with outlook express, has no icon. I have tried uninstalling and then reinstalling but that didnt help. I would like this to …

im running xp not sp2 and i have wmp 10 recently when i play video in wmp10 there is a stuck black pixel in the upper left part of the screen i have a tv as a second screen and it does not show up on it only my monitor …

i`m running win xp pro and i cant open more than one window if i try to open it gives an error message ie has encountered a problem and needs to close.i have norton and i have scanned and there is no virus.by the way my ie is 6 version …

This technique works on: Windows XP (only one I've tested it on.) This technique is for: Computers which have an ide cable with only one drive on it. When XP boots it automatically searches all your ide cables for new hard drives. If you know that you've only got one, …

Hello there, knowledgeable computerfolk from the land of the internet. I am buying a computer in the next few days. It has Windows Vista pre-installed on it. I'd rather have Windows 2000 on it. I don't like all the fancy-schmancy special effects and bonus features. Win2k, or even XP with …

I borrowed a friends office xp cd to load it on my computer. I need to reformat my hard drive to get rid of a partition but dont want to lose office xp. How can I back this up. I have everything else I need saved or backed up on …

Hello there [COLOR=#434343]Recently i bought o.s windows vista,i had on my computer XP home ,my computer hardware is compatible to the requirements of Microsoft.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#434343]But when installing the o.s vista in the final stage is getting stuck, or when I succeed finishing the installation it doesn't load.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#434343]Can you please …

Hi, At my office we have 3 Windows PC's running XP Pro sp2 and Office Pro 2003. Most of the office uses Macs so that is what I am used to supporting. Our email is on a POP3/IMAP Linux server. We do not use Exchange or AD or push out …

I am thinking about password protecting my laptop. A few questions. I am the administrator of my laptop. How do I set up the password. And after I set it up can I remove it so I don't need to type in a password at all. How would I do …

Hi there. I am new to this community. I am just wondering if there is any way at all to disable the force shut down feature (you know, when you press on the power button for 5 secs+ the computer will shut down by itself without closing any active programs). …

I just build a PC, with spec: asus p4s8x-x motherboard, Celeron 2.4GHz, 512 MB, GForce 5200, 80GB HD, DVD and CD-RW. The problem was, after loading Windows the second time, it takes almost two minutes to load Windows, and the sound is bad; it sounds like have a lot of …

My boss just bought a HP Pavilion dv9000 with Windows Vista Home Premium. I am trying to add it to the wired office network (all other computers are Dells running XP). After much difficulty and heavy drinking, I finally got the notebook to recognize the other computers. However, I am …

Hi guys! ARRRRGGGHHHHH!!! need some help, i need to clear the history from internet explorer on my work pc; it's windows xp pro sp2 - but locked down. i've found the entrys i need to get rid of (facebook & daniweb etc lol) but the delete button has no effect …

Hello, Seems a few problems have cropped up. I will list the symptoms below. I feel they are related, since they have all started concurrently. SYMPTOMS: * In Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs will start to load, then gray-out after several seconds. No error ever pops up. Only by killing the …

my computer and monitor keep shutting down and restarting on their own, even if i am on the internet or not! I used to have dsl, but i am on dial up now(netzero premium) and it never did it then. I am running windows 2000 professional. Can somebody help me …

right boys and girls, could do with some help ASAP here working on a PC and when i come to defreg the HDD through windows defragger it stops and comes up with this error 'the scan has been cancelled because an error occured on file: c:\windows\systems32\temppf.sys' does anyone have a …

Hi, I have a personal PC at home running Windows XP, 3.06 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 with 200 GB hard drive space and 512 MB RAM. I bought this a year ago from PC world. I have noticed that my PC took about 3 mins to start so I decided …

I am getting a blue screen on my computer that says if this persists contact distributor and ask them for some files that may be missing. I'm thinking about reformatting my computer to solve this; but before I do I was wondering if anyone else had a quicker solution.

ok, i've had it with this cloak and dagger stuff i have a hp pavilion xt928 with win xp on it i even wasted more money ordering the recovery disks i would like to go back to old win98se os and still be able to use the hardware on this …

I have a Sony dual-layer capable DRU-820A DVD burner and im running vista ultimate full version. my device manager is saying that the burner is installed properly. But not only does the burning not work, no CD's or DVDs are even detected by the drive when i insert one. The …

I have a challange for anyone who thinks they can help me. I have been trying for 8 months to rid my computer of the infamous NEW FOUND HARDARE WIZARD. I have tried everything i know and some of what others know and yet it still lurks on my computer. …

Hi I had trouble with my computer, and uninstalled trend micro pc-cillin 2007. The problem is that now when I want to re install it, it says its already installed. I try to uninstall from add/remove but nothing happens, i cant find any files anywhere that have been left behind. …

Help, I have been trying to load Windows Vista Ulitmate to a new Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 SATA 320gb. H/D is plugged into the SATA 1 socket and all runs ok till it starts to look for a H/D driver ?? Vista does a search and tells me it cannot find …

Heh ladies and gents wondered if someone might know the answer to this one; currently work has required us to change the address details on our autosignatures, (not a problem) anyway so changed the address for mine and other less pc loving colleagues when one college asked if he could …

I've been updating my tags in my pictures folder which makes searching for pictures very easy. However there are certain private pictures that I have set the file attributes as hidden, but when you type any of the tag names in the Vista search box it pulls up those hidden …

sir the folder option is missing in tooles menu &control pannel . so i m not see my hidden files & folder pls help me

my Add and remove programs will just sit there and says "please wait while the list is being populated." I have let it run for a long time and still nothing. any clues????

I can't download IE6, a message comes up saying I need to reboot because of a previous installation.

I'm running 2m pro, 130 megs of ram on a Compaq Dell Dimensions V400. There is an old install of McAfee that I want to get rid of and can't do it. When I go through the Install and uninstall applet not only does it not uninstall, but it freezes …

[quote]It’s official: We are now in the under-promise and over-deliver era at Microsoft. Just when Microsoft had customers, partners and competitors all believing that it was going to delay the first service pack for Vista — not releasing a first beta of it until just before year-end — the company …

I'm a newbie so bare with me. I have been getting crazy amounts of popups. I've done all kinds of spyware and virus scans, even removing a lot that were found, but still the popups won't go away. Most of the popups are antivirus/spyware related. The most frequent ones are …

Hello, about a week ago I posted a thread asking if my computer was compatibly with blank dvds, and unfortunately it wasn't. However, the nice gentlemen that helped me gave me alternative ideas. I decided to use my friends computer to burn dvd's... and it works fine. However, it takes …

Hi all, first of all copy a icon file to the root of the drive. example: c:\icon.ico then create a file called: autorun.inf in c:\autorun.inf then open that file and type the following: [autorun] icon=icon.ico save and close the file. now open my computer and refresh.. and woh! icon changed.... …

Windows XP SP 2 I have an Acer AL1912 with a Nvdia GFORCEMX440 graphic card (I think I spelled that right) I know the PC came with a built in video [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread77487.html#"]display[/URL] on the motherboard but its been bypassed in favor of this one. Unfortunately most times when I boot …

I'm having a strange problem with my laptop. some USB-based devices (Ipod, Memory Stick) work fine, wheras others (External Hard Drive, Mobile Phone transfer cable) aren't recognised. Nothing happens when I plug them in, and having been to the Disk Management screen, they don't appear there either. Can anyone help?