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Hi, Recently I bought a new 640m laptop with Vista. Trying to install XP pro, but getting error, a blue screen with some information like system will shutdown... video driver is not... But I was able to Install another xp pro CD (from my friend) without any errors. Problem is …

Now it is my turn to beg, plead ignorance..:) this one has me beaten, and i am tired of googling for a solution. I recently added a second SATA hd [my boot disk is also SATA, there are no IDE drives on my sys apart from my DVD combo on …

Hi Everyone, I am running XP Pro on a P3 laptop. Everything was fine until yesterday when I was doing some work in FrontPage and my system froze (this has happened before; didn’t think much of it). I turned the system off, restarted it, and then got the error: Windows …

[B]Hi frnds iam here after a loooooooooong time :jump: how ru guys:salute: My problem is related with Autocad 2005, i will explain in detail My internet cafe has 7 systems 6 clients and 1 server all of the has 2k professional loaded with almost same application. everything was fine but …

I run Windows 98 SE because I have programs that won't run on anything else so upgradind software is not an option. I think my old motherboard is getting a bit flakey but I have been warned off upgrading to a modern motherboard explaining that Windows might not be able …

I just installed WMP 11, but I was having this same problem with WMP 10. When I attempt to burn a CD from my burn list, I get the following pop-up message: "Windows Media Player cannot find the file. If you are trying to play, burn, or sync an item …

Sys. HP running XP\SP2 My computer program stops responding on certain programs, one being formatting a hard drive or when I put in a disc in the CD writer. Replaced the orginal cd writer with a cd\dvd writer and the darn thing would read a blank disc as being full …

Does windows 2000 need floppys to install it and if it does i ant got a floppy drive could i still work windows 2000 in vmware workstation like mount the floppy image by any chance cheers bondi007

Recently, our emachines computer crashed (surprise, surprise). From what I can tell, the entire motherboard is no longer usable for whatever reason. There was some valuable information on the hard drive, so I installed it as a secondary hd in another computer. (From my previous experience, I have simply been …

I'm on a posting roll.... :) Why does Firefox [the clean mozilla versio] make my pc emit a highpitched buzz when it is loading? The noise is from the mobo, not the sys speaker [I think- anyway it does not emit from my soundsys... could it be the sys speaker?]... …

Hey...Let's say I enjoyed the old type logon screen that was present in Windows XP...how shall I turn this on? There seems to be no option in the control panel :(

I recently had a hard-drive change because my old one was getting corrupted. Unfortunately enough, all my Favorites from Mozilla Firefox have disappeared. I've been able to retrieve the ones from IExplorer, but had stopped using that web browser some time ago, and instead have been saving everything on Mozilla …

I have XP and Windows Media Player has all of a sudden stopped having sound when playing videos. I can still see the video (.avi) but there is no sound. Audio works fine with music files (.mp3) but no sound with video. I have not installed any new video or …

Has anyone else ever seen this happen? My machine has 2 hard drives with several partitions(c,e,f,g,h,i, and d for the cd rom). I booted from the winxp cd, and when it got to the point where it asked which partition I wanted to install Windows on, I noticed the drive …

Here is the problem, Hdd crashed and burned, replaced hdd, got in touch with HP for recovery disc, the ones they sent are not compatible with my machine. Was told those disc are no longer avaible(sic) so they refunded my money back, so all I have are a set of …

hi all... came home, turned my laptop on and this page came up Pheonix First BIOS notebook Pro version 2.0 copyright bla bla all rights reserved cpu = inter (r) pentium (r) m processor 1.50ghz 63k9 system rams passed... u get the point.... then it jumps to a page saying …

I just got a new Toshiba laptop for Christmas, and it came with a FREE upgrade to Windows Vista Home Premium (yay). Is Vista good enough to write over my Media Center (XP) install permanently? Or should I keep the XP Windows files? Is it possible to 100% get rid …

HI, I wonder if anyone is able to solve thhis problem. Running windows xp on startup I get error msg 'rundll error loading windows\system32\NvCpl.dll the specified module cannot be found. Lavasoft Adaware+ shows 2 registry entries modifiied each time I start the computer Value ATImode change, data ATI2MDxx.exe , new …

the other day my system got screwed up. I cannot use the installation disk to repair the installation. Basically what i want to do is simply get my things off and onto a usb thumbdrive, does anyone have advise on the best way, if i use a floppy boot-up, can …

I need to know which programs to disable at start up that I don't need. Could some please walk me through this step by step. Below is my running programs that start up: 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:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Softex\OmniPass\Omniserv.exe C:\WINDOWS\wanmpsvc.exe C:\Program …

I have restarted bios of my computer long time ago, and from than my computer just stop after some time playing some more require game... I don't know what to do... Pls help.... Sorry for my bad english....

Hey, After all the fuss of installing a new motherboard and CPU, I realized I needed to buy a new HDD. So, I went out and bought a 250 gb Western Digital HDD. I installed MCE normally and I went to see how much space is left on my HDD …

Hi I have a problem with my (optical) mouse in that it freezes during use of my computer. Itially it will be jerky in operation and if you try and move the mouse too fast or simply during careful use ithe mouse cursor will freeze. It can be "released" a …

When i try to play any video file in Windows Media Player, the video is always too dim. All of the video settings are on the default values (which is what it was on back when it played right) but no matter what i do I can't get the video …

Hi, I saw this identical problem before and never saw a solution: I have a [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?t=39736&highlight=can%27t+start+windows+xp#"]Gateway[/URL] 500 SE, with [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?t=39736&highlight=can%27t+start+windows+xp#"]Windows[/URL] XP Home Edition. My [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?t=39736&highlight=can%27t+start+windows+xp#"]computer[/URL] is froze-up/was unresponsive. I keep getting this message: [I]We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change …

Hi guys, recently I installed a sound recorder program, and tried to record the sound during a game. However, the volume of the sound is very very soft, to the extent that I have to max all of my volume controls and my speaker too.. I have tried other sound …

Hey everyone, i have asked and searched everyone i know who is a little more computer savy than i am, and still i have no answer to my problem. Here is the problem, over the years i have saved pictures and videos to my computer and on cd's. I bought …

[B]Need Help[/B] hey guys i dont no wats wrong wit my comp..but this blue screen always appear its say STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005 , 0xBF817098,0xBA37E486,0x00000000) Win32k.sys - Address BF817098 base at BF800000, DateStamp 45f01f6 and the other one is STOP :0x0000007E (0xC0000005,0x80503EE4,0xF79F6748,0xF79F6444) and my comp spec is NVIDIA GEFORCE 6600 GT …

Hello Everyone, When I turn on my computer it goes thru all the standard start up procedures until I get this screen that says that Windows was not shut down properly and it gives me several options to try to boot up...but to no avail... I tried to start in …

Hey all, I have an HP laptop. Just as of late, my mute button doesn't work sometimes. Now, you may think this because of I hit the laptop or something, but I find weird is that the mute button will work when Firefox is open or itunes, but for aim …

I had my hard drive removed because the mother board doesn't work anymore. It's now in an external housing case. I pluged it in to this computer and tried to access my files. All other folders and files are accessable, but when I go to Document and Settings - wizard …

im the administrator and im blocked out of regedit ctrl alt del system restore i can install norton to see if its a virus or anything i even tried it on admin in safe mode please help bondi 007

Hello all, i changed all my icons a few days ago but for some reason the Desktop and Open/Closed Folders aren't changed in the "Browse..." pop-up windows, but are changed when i open them in the normal windows (see screenshot link). I'm on Windows Home SP2 and i used CandyXP …

hi all, i just reinstalled xp and sp2. my problem is xp wont recognize my second hard drive (300gb) which has 3 partitions and all my data. it does recognize the full drive but with 1 partition and keeps telling me i need to format to use. i have reinstalled …

I currently installed windows xp home onto my laptop, and every time I start windows, after i log in and the desktop, the ALL USERS folder shows up. Anyone have any idea how to disable this? Thanks!

Hi! I'm using a high desktop resolution of 1680x1050 on my widescreen notebook, so I changed the system font size to "large" under "Control panel\Display properties\Appearance\Font size" (I hope that's correct, I don't use English Windows). Everything's fine, the font size is perfect until I restart the computer and the …

I have a program that I want to run, but it will only run in the adminstrator account, is there a way I can create a shortcut by entering the admin password into it somehow to run? This is what I've tried and it didn't work: I created a regular …

[i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]You Can Bypass the Recycle Bin On the Fly.[/color][/size][/font][size=2][color=#000000] [font=Arial]To bypass the Recycle Bin on a one-time basis, when you are deleting a file (or a group of selected files):[/font][/color][/size] [list] [*][font=Arial][size=2][color=#000000]Press and hold down …

ok so i boot and it always comes up with two os's but now i want one of them deleted. one version of xp i have installed has only service pack 1 and the other has service pack 2. i use the one with 2. i would like to delete …

I have been reading around Vista being even more restrictive with all its DRM. While I tried to ignore most of them, I argued against it on this one to prove my point: [url]https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7401549597294341409&postID=4939383374645829893[/url] But it seems like they have proven a point... I don't know... is there anything that …

This post may be a little long but bear with me as it is a very strange problem. OK. I actually think I had the exact same problem... [b][Moderator's edit- Just for reference, this was split from the following thread: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/post81871.html#post81871][/url][/b] my system stats: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ Gigabyte GA7VAXP …

Has anyone here used nLites program? If so I've a few questions about it. Like, could it be usede to get rite of the computer id placed on oem recovery disc?

I have Windows XP SP2 and I can't open Outlook Express. I keep getting an error message - (0x800C012E,5) Outlook could not start because MSOE.DLL could not initialize. Can someone please tell me what I need to do for Outlook to open?

Does anyone have the procedure for creating Desktop Icons for “Computer Shutdown

My internet is working fine. Except that I can't sign into any .net passport related site. I can sign into MSN explorer and check my emails but when I try to sign into MSN Messenger it sais the service is temporarily unavailable. At first I could not sign into MSN …

Hi, you helped me a while back - now I'm back. I did an automatic update recently and now get the message internet explorer cannot display the webpage 9 times out of 10. I've restored to before the update but its still happening. Also internet is generally much slower than …

I am using Windows XP Home Edition SP2 and have been attempting to download the Vista upgrade advisor. My computer will not open an .msi file, and I can't find a download to fix the problem for my version of Windows, because apparently I shouldn't have a problem. Can anyone …

Browsed these forums often and now I have a post of my own. Let me start off with the specs of my machine. Compaq Presario V2000 Turion 64 ML-34 1.8ghz 895mb RAM Radeon Xpress 200M 80gb harddrive etc WEll my problem started a week ago when my computer started taking …

[i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Turn Off System Restore to Save Space [/color][/size][size=2]By default, Windows XP keeps a backup of system files in the System Volume Information folder. This can eat up valuable space on your hard drive. If you …

Hi All, I had to re-install Windows XP and now when i shutdown it doesn;t do it automatically. It shuts down and says its safe to turn off your computer. How can i get it to switch it off its self when i click shutdown. Thank you misschillout