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when i bought my Acer 5610 laptop, i made 2 dvd's for recovery (part 1 and 2). Well now i go to use them, part 1 is blank and part to has the info it should (80megs worth). Don't ask what happened to the first one i don't know! (same …

I have a windows xp computer, when i go to put a cd in the cd drive it will not register and say please insert disk. why would this be happening? what can u do to fix it?

Im pretty sure i have the blue screen of death and i also have a problem where my computer does system automatic shutdown. I have tried to go into safe mode and last good configuration but the screen still comes up for a fraction of a second and my computer …

in windows xp i only get 248mb when i have 256mb but if i was to upgrade to windows vista that requires 512mb and i get 512mb of ram would it read below 512mb so it wouldnt be compatible please help i want to get vista cheers bondi 007

Hi, I recently bought a used Compaq Presario 1200-xl 106 notebook, and it originally had Windows 98 installed as the operating system. My desktop computer is also a Compaq Presario, and it came with 3 discs to install Windows Me. I attempted to use these discs to intall Me onto …

"scheduled events"(mstask) - Where they are stored I have searched EVERYWHERE, but NOONE(and I really MEAN - NO ONE) seem to have noticed what I have - that scheduled events doesn't show up ANYWHERE in the registry, or in ANY of the files in the C: drive! I have run …

Recently, I've been having quite a few problems with my computer keyboard. If I hitthe shift key a "*" appears. Press "e" an 8 appears ollowed by an "e". The 7 key brings up a "u" with it and my backspace key doesn't backspace anything. I've tried a couple of …

[COLOR=Navy][FONT=Century Gothic]Hi, For the past couple of days I have been experiencing a very annoying problem and I hope you can help. I have Windowns XP and what happens is the internet page freezes that I was using but I can still activate the start button and log off. When …

OK. So I read all the other posts about mouse hesitation and the like. But none seem to answer my problem. Randomly, my mouse will hesitate, and if I try to play music or something it stops and starts. What is causing this hesitation? Please help - it's slowly killing …

is their a unix application on ms aside with cygwin..

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I'm trying to make a shared folder available offline. When I right-click on the file or folder I want to share there is no "Make Available Offline" option. Why is this and how can I fix it/is there another way to make the files available offline? I have Windows XP …

Hey all. I'm trying to install Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional. My computer has a small partition for the default disk (where the system files are). It only left something like not more than 200MB and I've cleaned up, compressed, and tried to uninstall things. But I got other extended …

Hi there, Could anyone tell me what is 28c0d.msi file for? It is lying in c:\windows\installer folder taking up space of around 340 MB. Is it safe to delete it ? Can anyone give me more info about windows install cleap up utitlity? is it safe ? thanks a ton …

hey nothing urgent more of just a minor annoyance i was just wondering if theres any way to remove entries off the add remove programs list without actually removing the program itself, mainly in cases where the program does not exist anymore. I'm somewhat obsessive when it comes to keeping …

Anyone know how to stop svchost.exe from using 100% CPU?

Hi All, My beloved 98SE HD suffered a mechanical failure- I'm trying to reset up 98SE with a new drive- everything is fine- except the system doesn't see the ethernet stuff- this is the same PC- just a different HD. I've got to get a 98SE back up and working- …

Hello Daniweb forum, Last night my brother sent me an email with an attachment (about a megabyte in size) and it downloaded fine but with the following message: The server responded with an error. Account: 'pop.nuvox.net', Server: 'pop.nuvox.net', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR Client timeout. Exiting without update.', Port: 110, …

Hey, This may belong elsewhere, but I thought that I would try it here. Two weeks ago I picked up a Smitfraud virus that I thought I took care of using norton and spybot. However, a day later my computer completely lost it, and ended up crashing. It got to …

Hi, this is a problem that has only just recently begun. My computer is about 1.5 years old (bought Jan 06). Ive been getting crashes to a blue screen and have managed to track down that the stop error shown: STOP: 0x0000008E (0x0000005, variations of numerics and letters follow but …

What the hell. This started yesterday. I boot up into regular or safe mode, and my taskbar is COMPLETELY frozen. Tray and start button in all. I can use the desktop, and can CTRL+ALT+DEL and start any task I want. After 10 minutes... It's fine. HELP ME! -- Alx

hi everyone one day i had a powercut wen i wasw on ma pc when the power came back i turned my pc on and it says a load of stuff and it sais f1 to ignore or deleat to change something i press f1 and a white line apperes …

At My Computer/Tools/Folder Options General Tab the Click Items as Follows is greyed-out and limits me to Double Click. How can this be resolved to allow Single Click radio button to be used?

hi all how i can export and import active directory service from windows 2003 server.i have one old server i want to export active driectory service to my new windows 2003 server. so please help me abouyt this topic. kindly regards sanjay

i recently bought a computer at a police auction it has win 2000 on it it also has a password that i cant crack i want to install win xp but the boot sequence cant be change or something can some one help me

Hi - - am looking for some help. i am no PC expert My son's PC has died with a blue screen stop msg ox0000008E. the exception code is 0xC0000005, 0xEEBD5D03. have done a little research on this site and some guys have been really helpful, but am now struggling. …

Hello. Recently, I am having a startup problem on my Windows XP machine, and I am hoping someone can help. When I start the machine, sometimes it starts up just fine. No problems. Other times, the green POWER LED comes on, then I can see the CD-ROM access LED coming …

when I open an email,It comes this warning. "A Run time Error has occurred. Do you wish to Debug? Line:0 Error 'sp' is undefined. what should I do for this problem? pls sove my trouble.

Using "ISO Buster" toto extract files off of oem discand when I tried to install the these error messages came up. Error 2 running c:\hp\bin\hpbi Can't create output file: c:\hp\tmp\Blue|AP\HPHelp.reg What do they mean and is there thing that I can do to correct them? Sys: HP pavilion 752n OS: …

i am a begginer to windows is there any websites which can teach me from begginer to pro because i want to be a technician in a couple of years and i need to know the ins and outs cheers bondi 007

I have a Hp vs17 Monitor with a ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Graphics card. After installing Vista, everything went smoothly except my display. I am stuck with the options of just 800x600 or 1024 x 768. Yuck. I am not sure if I need to get a new driver for …

I am working on a friends laptop, (XP/SP2) setting things up, and installing various progs. and I come accross something I've never seen before. Several hours later, I still have no solution! PROBLEM: When I dbl click a folder/File the "Search" option opens instead. *Note: If I rt. click instead, …

Hi everyone. Could anyone tell me how I can enable non - admin users to run programs installed by the admin user? I installed Opera 9.1 as an admin, but I'm not sure how to allow other users to access it. Any advice appriciated. Steven.

hi...I installed windows vista and when I try to activate, it give me an error code 0x8007251d and I am unable to activate it...i have 25 days left or windows stops functionong does someone know how to fix this???

I have accidentally revoked my own access rights to a folder in my docs whilst messing around with cacls. I also am having trouble after reformatting, when booting on the new hard drive my docs gives my access denied errors, have tried using same user name.???

How long did it take you to install vista? I'm reinstalling it right now and its been at the "Expanding files (27%)" stage for about and hour.

Recently my Acer Aspire 5600 has been acting... for lack of a better word, "retarded." It has been really laggy in its functionality and music/video files play insanely messed up. The audio is really distorted and choppy. The last time I had this problem (figures this isn't the first time), …

My friends system is have hdd partitioned as C: D: and E:(FAT32) E: is having some 35gb of music files but aoutomaticcaly half of the folders have been disappered and number of unknown folders have been created which niether opens nor gets deleted most of the folder names are as …

I cannot hear audio from my DVD in my WMP for Windows Vista. I can hear the audio when i play it in Real Media Alternative. Please help?

I am trying the Roxio using auto edit with cinemagic. I load all the pictures and videos and put them all where they need to be. When I play the videos they are all miscolored and unsightly. When I play the videos in their files they play fine but when …

HI, I have installed Microsoft office 2003 on windows XP professional 64 bit OS. Also have install SP2 for XP and office 2003 as well. I can open word, Excel and power point. however when get error while configuring email client. The moment I click on check name while configuring …

Good day I have a toshiba satelitte p25 notebook and it keep crashing and I really dont know the problem but it really getting on my nerves can anyone assist me

Hi My windows xp logo has disapeared . I have a dell dimestion 4600 XP SP2 Buit in Pentuim 4 . Help me plz Thx

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 …