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Today I was trying to install a new codec. when i clicked on it. The computer restarted immediately. I know this is not good. After the boot up a message appears. "Your system has recovered from a serious error." I Tried to install the codec again with the same results. …

so recently my computer has somehow been stacking up its virus' and spyware and all kinds of problems. i've cleaned up what i can and what not and let mcafee do what it can. there are several virus' that mcafee will not take care of. vundo.dll being one of them. …

For several months now I've been having an audio problem. The problem PC is an older Jetway V266b running XP SP2. The O/S keeps identifying the embedded audio as a C-media product, which it isn't, its VIA/Avance using the VIA 8233A chip in VIA's K266A chipset. I know thw audio …

Hello, I'm running on Windows XP SP2 and have been getting BSODs quite frequently lately. The problem seems to occur randomly, sometimes even right after i get into windows, but I've noticed that it seems to occur the most when I'm running more than one type of program at once. …

In Vista, SystemRestore is set to delete restore points after roughly 136years ... yeah, let that sink... Normally Windows uses up to 15 percent of a drive’s available space to save restore points. In XP, the option to change this figure was configurable from the System Restore tab of the …

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Recently my Floppy, CD-RW and DVD drive disappeared from under the MY COMPUTER folder. I checked under device manager and it doesnt appear there either. everything is plugged in correctly and wont show up. if i put a disk or floppy in its respected drive, nothing happens. PLease help!!

Recently I had my computers registry become massively, well we will just say bad. I went to use the DELL Symantec restore ( The control+ f11 deal ) and it says I have unsupported changes to my master bootrecord. Thats fine and I will have to find a different fix …

I would like to schedule certain pcs to shutdown at set times of the day. I have created a batch file with the text "shutdown -s -f" however as im running it through a limited user account it fails saying i dont have the appropriate permissions. Is there a string …

OK, I just want to know if certain upgrades will be compatible on my PC. So far, I have had some yay's and nay's so I just want to be sure. Right now, I have a eMachines T3506. My system specs are below. I already have a 2gb of RAM …

I'm having trouble opening a certain page, [url]www.tcfbank.com[/url] , it happens to be my bank site and its very frustrating plz help Heres my HJT log... Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware 2007\aawservice.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe C:\Documents …

[COLOR=green]Hello? i just want to ask how to get rid of the [COLOR=green]highlights/background of the labels of the desktop icons[/COLOR]? I can change the color of the labels in the desktop properties but i cannot make the labels transparent. Before i can change it but after getting my computer infected …

Hi all , please help me ..... i tried to open my windows xp but it was just cannot get through the windows . i turned on the pc , appear the log-on screen but once i click anyone of the icon(user account) it just loading ..... and then appearing …

Hi, I am running Win XP SP2 on a Pentium 3.0 with 512MB RAM. My PC was infected with virus as my anti virus license had expired and I did not renew it in time. I am using Avast Home Edition. I have renewed the license and scanned the entire …

I really need some help. yesterday I shut down my computer , then i turned it on this mornng and i needed a password to log on . I bought the computer form a friend. The computer is set as compaq armada administrator. I have no idea and neither does …

Very strange ... suddenly, for no known reason, if I call up Task Manager to monitor processes and memory ... it appears without its function buttons - i.e. minimize, restore, close. Also all the other tabs are gone. So I've got this box - which I can resize and which …

Hello, as you will see I am new, and I would like to be honest with you all and say have joined this forum for the express purppose of getting some help as I am desperate - BUT - if anyone is kind enough to help me out please be …

Hey there. I have XP Pro on my system with SP2. When I go ctrl + alt + del, you should get a window with tabs, showing processor activity, files and programs in use, and network options. Now though, I only get a blank window showing programs in use, similar …

Hi Every1 I'm Havin problem with drag and drop option. I minimize a window to the taskbar and now when i select any file from another window and drag it to the minimized window it doesn't pop out, so am not able to drop items in that window. However if …

[COLOR=black]This is driving me nuts. It began abour 8 days ago. I had downloaded some Torrent sites (bittorrent and utorrent). Since then I have deleted all torrent stuff including registers.[/COLOR] [COLOR=black][/COLOR] [COLOR=black]Internet Explorer and other search engines have 20 Second delay when searching for a list of sites, and when …

HI to all!!! i would like to ask everybody how to open an email attachment that is in the .dat extensions. i used ms outlook 2002. i already tried notepad, wordpad, excel, and word but they dont work... how can we solve this prob? thanks to all....

Yesterday, my computer was working just fine; I was playing a game of Warcraft 3 and all of a sudden, my monitor goes black and says "No Input Signal". I check the connection, and the cable is just fine. Afterwards, I decide to reboot my computer, but this did not …

I typed in a password by mistake and now can not get into my computer because it appears I have a bad mother board when I type in a letter it types in two letters. How do I recover and get into my computer?:sad:

Hi I'm a newbie here and hoping someone can help with a highly annoying problem. Yesterday morning, internetexplorer was running perfectly. Left the computer for about half an hour to go and do something. When I came back, no pages will load. I still have an internet connection. Outlook express …

i am registered with an internet banking website which calls up a pop up for password login(its an onscreen keyboard where u input ur passwrd via mouse). now my problem is when ever i want to enter my password that essential pop up is being blocked. i have tried to …

Hello all... I was wondering if anyone could help me with getting my HP laptop to... hmm how to put this... recognize the blank DVD I place in my disc drive... it's a blank DVD+R and my computer doesnt pick it up as anything being in my computer... does anyone …

Hi there. I have a ripped(correct term?) CD on my hard drive. I wanted to burn it to save space on my computer. But when I tried to burn it, Nero gave me an error saying: "Block size does not correspond to image length" It gave me two options: A) …

i dont't know how can i post my threat and where but i'm trying here about my problem ,i have trust 350fs powercam flash digital camera, my installation cd have broken so i downloaded its driver by trust website who is manufacturof thi camera but ,wndering cuse after insted it …

I have just got a new desktop computer the Dell Dimension E310 for gaming use only. When I went to download a game from the web (Gunbound) it was all fine. But when I made it to the main log in screen something was wrong. I clicked play-live and a …

I have SiteAdvisor and an update was bad, so I uninstalled and reinstalled it. After I did that I started getting this error message when the desktop loads: "Windows cannot find C:\Program Files\SiteAdvisor\5020\Siteadv.exe" (You all know the rest of it.) I went to the chat help for SiteAdvisor and explained …

Non-techie needs help! I installed SP2 yesterday and now my Windows XP is running slow as molasses. At first I thought it was just my internet connection (high speed cable modem with wireless router) which all of a sudden was slower than dial-up. But then I realized that it was …

Does anyone know how to get Nero Cover Designer to print the booklet pages front and back on the same card stock? I can print them separately, cut them out, and glue them together. There doesn't seem to be anyway to make them print in the center of the card …

OS: WinXP Pro SP1 Version: MS Outlook 2003 SP1 When using Outlook 2003 when I go into see Free/Busy in an Exchange environment I am able to see others Busy time and when I hover my pointer over somone's Busy time it brings up what they are doing during that …

Post windows shortcuts you know here ... I start with task manager shortcut --> ctrl + shift + Esc.

Does anyone know if it'll work? I found my boxed version of FL 6. I know 7 brings Vista compatibility, but I can't buy it. Thanks in advance.

I have Outlook 2003 which has been working just fine the entire time since I got it in June. I had it already in taskbar and loaded on my pc fine. Went to bed, came back to reply to an email and suddenly when I hit "reply" it hangs the …

Hi all. I'm new to this service. Happy to be here. Hope you can help me. I was cleaning up my win2k box. Disabled un-needed services. Used disk cleaner to get rid of old files. Ran Pareto Spyware and RegCure. I think that the last thing I did was defrag. …

Building new system with Abit KN9 SLI Motherboard, AMD 64 X2 6000+, 2 GB of 800 Mhz RAM...a speed demon. I've also installed four Maxtor 500 GB hard drives. The goal is to have a RAID 0+1 installed. I've got the BIOs set, but am running into two problems: 1. …

Hello I have two systems I want to network together: 1) A windows XP Home SP2 machine 2) a windows NT v4 SP6 machine - i dont know if it is server or workstation at the moment The NT machine is for AVID video editing, but I already have lots …

Sorry Mods if this is in the wrong topic (the site has changed dramaticly since I was last in here). This is actually a two-part question: I'm running XPpro. I got tired of coming home from work to a hosed desktop, I mean I don't know how my kids do …

I have spent about 7 hours on this, to no avail. Explorer.exe is using all CPU. Running XP HE SP 2. Running up-to-date NSW and auto updates from Windows. Tried ending explorer in Task Manager, and restaring from Run. Tried a System Restore. Could only get back a few days. …

I was using my camera this morning and had no problem connecting it and moving files from it... This evening when I tried to plug the camera it just refuses to recognize it. Then I did some investigation of the matter and saw that ANYTHING that is USB my windows …

Hi there, I am not able to uninstall DB2 V9.1 using windows XP 'Add or Remove Programs' feature. It's giving me the following error message : 'Error applying transforms. Verify that the specified transform paths are valid' Tried many times but no luck. :(( Please help me !!!! Thanks in …

Hi All, first, please forgive my ignorance im very new at all of this. A friend from work built me a pc, he set it up in a raid 1 configuration, I would like to reinstall windows XP. My question is, when I formatt the hard drives, do I do …

When i click on a folder this happens: [URL="http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/7604/picture1ow2.th.png"]http://img265.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1ow2.png[/URL] I can go right click => open and it works, but it takes time. Any Ideas? Running in XP :)

I have a Dell 9200 Win xp and when I start my pc toolbar and task manager disapear, the mouse works the cursor but the click buttons do nothing . I turn off pc and re start press f8 and try safe mode and get a black screen with "safe …

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[font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff][i][size=2][color=black][font=Verdana][color=black][i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i][/color][/font] [/color][/size][/i][/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Creating a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition [/color][/size][/font][size=2][color=#000000][font=Arial]This article describes how to create a Windows boot disk to access a drive with a faulty boot sequence on an Intel x86-processor-based computer. This …

friend of mine said that she has been getting a error message when she opens her email program.Her os is xp home and her email program is "outlook". she has stated that when she opens outlook she gets a message that certain "dlls" are missing or corrupt. Would a search …

I was deleting a few items when i deleted the Realtek audio, (i think thats the name of it) from my pc. I was told that its possible to download it again is this true? If not how can i go about fixing my small but frustrating problem???