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I have had a problem with my internet conection for a while now. IE7 and yahoo will not connect to the internet. However Mozila will. IE7 was first to go and had to have a friend send me Mozila thru Yahoo messenger. A while later Yahoo messenger stops working as …

hello i'm running a rather old pc its a HP pavilion purchased at wal-mart, pc was bought in 2001. OS : Windows ME name of motherboard is "Tortuga" when i boot up it gives me the following error "The driver file that displays items correctly on your screen isnt working. …

Hi, just tried installing an external caddy hard drive, it wouldn't complete the installation so i went through the trouble-shoot. I restarted my puter, unplugged then plugged in the device, then got told to restart to complete installation. (Strange I thought for a caddy drive) Any way, won't restart, my …

I was on the net when i got infected with spyware as indicated by an icon in the taskbar. I used adaware to recify this and now every time i connect to the internet i get a "Generic Host Process for Win32 Sevices has encountered a problem and needs to …

I am so impressed looking around at the vast knowlegde you guys have. I have chosen you as I am certain you know more than alot of the other forum users. Machine - Vaio VGN FE31Z Intel core duo, 2gb ddr,200gb hd,1.83 Intel speedstep, Proc t5600 Soft - Itunes, MSN …

Why does everyone say aol is so harmful to your computer?? And If It Is harmful, how??? I just don't understand.

Hi , I had some problems with Windows and decided to make repair using my installation disc with SP1 ( hum, hum ) ( I have a Linux ( Ubuntu ) partition on the second HD and using grub to choose which OS to start ) Using installation disc with …

Hie everybody, My computer just shows a blue bank screen forever. This happened after installing windows xp professional sp2. The CD I used is a DELL cd and my computer is a proline computer. could there be some crashes with hardware of the machine? Help me out! Regards, George.

How can I record a skype conversation? Is there any FREE utilities out there that will let me do that? Notice I said FREE.

Hey guys, I looked everywhere for a solution but found none. Here is my problem and the solution I have tried. I am using an HP laptop, AMD Turion 64, 2 Gig of Ram, and dial up connection. Problem: When I first connected to the internet, I was able to …

I have a desktop computer and a laptop both running Windows XP. recently i was running a program called hamachi on my desktop when it asked me if i would like to update the program. i said yes and as soon as it finished my internet stopped working. I have …

Hi, I'm using a Sony VAIO with XP on it but I've been recently having issues with the Task Manager. When I press Alt+Ctrl+Del I get the usual Windows Security window with the 6 buttons so I press the "Task Manager" button expecting to see the list of things that …

thsi si my 2nd psot and yet again is another askin for help .(thou this oen isnt as un-serious as the former one) but yeah this problem as bene happening for what 6 months? but basically its this..: everytime the computer boots up form being turned of or restart w/e..it …

Last time my window was not genuine, so i used a program to make it genuine....Then when i restart my laptop, problems occur. Everytime when i move down a very long page, it not normal as there is something like waves shape. It make me really really headache...I dont know …

Recently, I am unable to go to load the web pages for Macys or Kmart. When I try to access them, I either receive a message stating that Internet Explorer Cannot Display the Web Page or I am sent to the search display menu where the website is listed and …

How can i suppress a user prompt while running a batch file in windows 2000 machine?? thanks in advance. Abhishek

I am having a problem where my computer will not get past the Windows XP home edition screen. I have tried to start in safe mode but the same thing happens. I am using a compaq presario s4030nx It is running windows xp service pack 2 This computer has also …

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Hi Every1 I had a 256MB DDR ram. Now i added another 256MB SD Ram and a SonyDVD Writer,but now when i switch on my computer before the windowsXP loading screen appears I get the following error msg CMOS Checksum Error- Defaults Loaded Press F1 to continue or DEL to …

I have Pentium 4 computer running Windows XP Home Edition, which is up to date. I recently purchased a 16-foot USB 2.0 cable with repeater to accommodate an increased computer-to-printer distance in my new office. The cable came with no drivers, no instructions--implying to me that all I had to …

hey, I recently got a new motherboard (Gigabyte 8I865GME-775GH). I installed all the drivers, but my sound still doesn't work. Anyone know what the problem could be?

Hey guys how is every1 doing? Listen, here's my story we have a small network, we are using small bussiness server 2003 with exchange server 2003 the thing is... everytime i fix a signature for a user in outlook 2003, suddenly after a few days (sometimes more, sometimes less)... the …

Oh this has me tearing my hair out! For no reason I can see except I must have done something it did not like, now when I try to boot Win98, the boot starts, the Win98 logo appears, screen, booting with antivirus starts, goes to black screen then resets...over and …

Hi, When I connect the LAN wire (from router or directly the cable modem) the connection keeps toggling between Connected and Disconnected. I have a Dell Inspiron 6000. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Abhishek.

Everything working fine, including all links, EXCEPT email links in Outlook Express on my Desktop PC running MS 2000 professional edition. When I click on any link in a received email, the URL of the link appears above the systray line, but the computer does not go to that address. …

I have some computers given to me by the previous tenant in my office. They are Dell Computers running XP pro. I don't know the passwords. I have reset the Administrator password however, when I reach the login screen the administrator account is not listed for login. There is only …

Has anybody come across a solution to 1085 errors and 1001 errors across a domain get the error's logged every 5 minutes on clients.

I do simple computer services for a senior community. Yesterday, a client's machine had a c: drive sized at 222GB. Only 4.95 GB of available space. Under Users, the public folder has a size of 173GB. The computer is new, and the client doesn't know how all that space got …

When I try to open up IE (or even windows explorer/control panel/search etc.) it gives me that message. Currently, I'm using Realplayer to surf the net for answers. This problem started occuring yesterday when my dad's friend downloaded iTunes and Windows Spyware. Today, my dad uninstalled iTunes and found that …

Hi, I made the mistake of Installing Google Desktop, I uninstalled It as It let It some 200 tracking cookies which I found via Spywarebot. It uninstalled succesfully, I open firefox and there's a big rectangle from where the Google thing used to be, over on the right, about an …

Hi I have a problem with on of my computers, it started today to use 100% cpu, and I cant find what is wrong. There is no process that is using it all, I have run a complet scan with F-secure and it finds nothing. I have run HiJackThis the …

Hi I am a tech so i should be able to work this out but i am having trouble and just wondering if any one has had this problem. I am working on a customers computer which wont browse the internet using Internet explorer 7 oulook express works fine. Here …

Hi All, While running a batch file. If ever any program crashes. A windows error message prompts and stops the process until the OK button is not clicked.:( Is there any way where I can capture the crashes without stopping the running process or I can put in some more …

Hi all, Was wandering if someone could help me out. Whenever i'm trying to remote into my PC at work form outside the network i get the Server login screen instead my PC. When i'm remoting into another computer at work everything seems to be working and i can successfully …

:?: I want to reformat my pc but it seems my own computer does not want me to. It always gives out a stop error message saying something like this: >>Your windows had been shut down to avoid damage. 1.Please scan your PC for viruses. 2.Scan hard drives so it …

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So, my computer is no working properly, I was on it when the internet cut out, I checked my modem, called my internet provider and even took apart my computer. I took it in and got them to checked it out, and it turns out i had 46 viruses...i have …

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hey all, this is my first time using this forum so go easy on me. I have the common 100% cpu useage thing with the svchost.exe process. As I am sure many of you know this is a system required to run the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread75971.html#"]computer[/URL]... I can shut it down and …

Hi Ok heres my question. Iam using outlook 2003 and iam able to have a cotomized template for new messages but is there a way to have a costomized template for reply and forward. Thx

Does XP have a list of allowable file extensions? Is there a way to add do the list?:-O

Hi, I run a dos data base system under XP. Most of the programs run fine but when using some of them XP renames my file extensions. EG under dos when I sort AFILE.DAT the output file is AFILE.DAT Under windows Sort AFILE.DAT the output file is AFILE.1X I would …

i installed windows xp successfully. turned it off then turned it back on again it gets to the screen where it says something vdmi pool update successful then gives me the options to run safe mode, safe mode networking, safe mode with command prompt, load last config that worked or …

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[B][COLOR=blue]OK, HERE WE GO, I HAVE BEEN BATTLING WITH HP FOR OVER A MONTH BECAUSE I GOT AN ERROR AT THE BEGINNING OF APRIL AND IT WAS THE HUNGAPP ERROR ABOUT THE INTERNET. SO I TRIED TO CALL TECH SUPPORT, BUT GAVE UP AND EMAILED INSTEAD. THEIR RESPONSE TO THE …

IS there a way to speed up your internet?? Hopefully quick easy and simple??? I never knew if there was a way to speed up your internet....well i heard of them but I never really understood them

ok, i do not understand all the different programs : AVG, TREND MICRO, NORTON GHOST, do i need all of these. my d drive shows 3 files: c_drive001 4,970,368 kb, & c_drive001-i004 730,496 kb & d718zwbi recovery 2 kb, could this be part of my problem, my computer is less …

Hi , I have a usb flash and I want to make it's folders have different appearance than the classic. I choose a folder , go to properties and choose an icon so as the folder has the icon's appearrance. BUT this doesn't works very well, I suppose it's because …

Here is what happened: I ran chkdsk and after it finished and restarted the computer (windows loaded up fine) I got a message saying "windows has recovered from a serious error." I have tried running chkdsk before in the past, and got the same message. Could someone please tell me …