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Greetings, We have Active Directory 2003 with Dynamic DNS. We used to host our website on a server at our site (with the same site name as the domain name) We have since moved the site to be hosted out of house. Now, when people on Windows XP try to …

Hi, I am working on BizTalk 2006. In BizTalk we always create a web-port to access a webservice and we integrate it to our application at the time of Orchestration development. What I want to do is to create web-port at runtime that is after deployment and execution based on …

Well for some reason firefox, v2.0 is running very slowly for me at the moment, when viewing websites and when on other stuff like Options. Don't know what it is, but I have ran Adaware, and Norton but both got nothing. So ran hijackthis and got this: Logfile of Trend …

Yesterday night, microsoft released a public beta of vista. Once downloaded, it will give you 2 licenses which are good for up to 10 computers each. The licences will last for one year. They have a high demand right now and are bogged down, but you can try later at …

In the process of trying to update my Win 98 to XP, XP told me that if I proceeded it would erase some 500+ files from my trash bin. My trash bin is empty. So they must have been stored some where after they were deleted from the trash bin …

WMP 10--A video will show up and says playing but nothing happens. I'm not sure if one of my kids screwed something up because recently he downloaded something so he could transfer videos to his PSP. Also, I see a program called Windows Media Connect(not sure where it came from) …

Hi All, This is the issue facing me..Machine specs 1) OS Win2003 Server 2) HD1 ==C drive, D drive (150GB Each). I need to increase the size of D drive for the software i am running, so i ghosted the entire HD1(300gb) onto a slave drive(HD2).then replaced the Original master …

Hello all, About 2-3 days ago my computer hasn't been able to access the internet. I have Bellsouth Dsl and currently running Windows 2000. I called my ISP and they told me that my modem may have not been working properly and they sent me another one. But I keep …

My son has a Dell Dimensions comp w/ Windows XP system He was online & then all of a sudden a million pop ups came up & could not be stopped. So he turned off the computer & now Windows will no longer load but brings us to a page …

Ok, it started today and it has been giving me a great deal of trouble. My computer is just shutting off randomly. Like when my brother is playing a game on the computer, it just shuts off the computer after about 10 minutes. Now I was just recently downloading something …

I just bought a samsung 206bw, and when I run my machine using Win XP Pro some text doesn't appear to be crisp. And I can't get the max resolution out of the monitor. (When I run it using Linux everything is fine though). I installed the latest drivers for …

Hello, I need some help please =) Yesterday I was streaming a video online and all of a sudden my audio quit working. I thought maybe it was the video, so I played another video and still no audio. I closed out Internet Explorer and tested my audio by playing …

I have a couple of machines that have a Netlogon error that can be corrected by removing it from and then reconnecting it to the Domain. I have already done this once and successfully resolved the problem. However, the side effect of this was that the profile of the user …

Need help... Windows won't start even in safe mode. I get a blue screen with the message IRQL_not_less_or_equal with the following at the bottom of the blue screen. *** Stop: 0x0000000A (0X00000010,0X00000002,0X00000000,0X804D7256) I am running XP Pro and recently installed (about a month ago) a PCI SATA card and a …

Hello , I'm looking for a good subtitle site that supports greek ones.I'm especially looking these days for Suspect 0 subtitles. Any suggestions?

This is happening w/ Windows Media, RealPlayer, and Winamp: The problem is, I just got this video file of a show, and I would like to fast foward past the characters I don't like to focus on certain scenes, however... I can't fast foward or rewind the video at all. …

Hi, I am getting error when i am installing Sql Express 2005 on Vista Machine. I am getting error message like this "Microsoft Express service Can not be started.Installation Aborted." Even i have checked the Log file on "d:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\LOG\summery.txt" in that also it has given the …

About 5 weeks ago i decided the time was right to go out and build the pc ive been longing for, so i did.... The problem is now that it is all up and partly runnin im having major problems with system crashes and freeze ups.... ive tried every forum …

Hi folks! I want my users to have signatures. We are using Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003. Currently we have a complete chaos. Everybody signs his messages like we wants… complete pell-mell. Heads are pressing me. They want users to standardize the signature. Can anybody help me?

I've been trying to use the Computer Backup Utility that comes with Vista, and every single time it crashes the computer. I am running the one that does the full system (C:\) and settings so you can restore from a harddrive failure or whatnot. It estimates the size at about …

Dear all, I encountered problem while trying to use the "save taget as". I tried to save a link into my hard drive but after clicking the "save target as", the whole internet window closed down! Anyone out there has a solution or explaination to this problem? Thanks!

Hello all! First post...and I'm looking for help (naturally!). Currently, I have one hard drive in my system--while trying to ahem "fix" my comp, I accidentally installed another Windows XP operating system into the second partition. Master drive is C: and H:. I would now like to remove/uninstall the extra …

receiveing a BSOD whenever i try to shut down my computer wondering if anyone could tell me what driver is causing it (its an IRQL not less or equal error) here's the minidump:

my computer had been activated for the past 3-4 years. i was working properly, now its asking to activate windows xp. There something wrong there; but still i said yes when it asked if i wanted to activate windows. still more problems, it does not detect my internet connection. I …

I am unable to change the home page of IE even after making changes in the General tab of Internet options menu. IE always opens with microsoft.com as the home page. Any solutions?

I would like to know how to get rid of the Quicktime question mark that keeps coming up on both Firefox, IE7 and MSN 7. I don't know where to begin correcting this issue. I have checked my security settings, tried defaulting windows media player, real player and quicktime to …

Most webpages wont load on my computer. It was fine last night and no settings have been manually changed but just overnight its stopped working. It comes up with "page cannot be displayed". it's not only the webpages either though. I haven't been able to connect to World of Warcraft …

I need help! My computer is acting funny. I've ran virus scan and spyware scan and came up with nothing on those. What's happening is when I click on a link in an email or on a webpage it opens it in that window instead of another window. Also when …

Have a Dell Demension 3100. PC. It is a windows xp media center sp2. These computer dont come with floopy drive, so i am trying to install a floopy, but to no avail.It wont recognize the hardware. I have attached a data cable , since none was provided with the …

Hey there! I heard that this site was really helpful and as of right now I really need the help. Recently I updated my macafee. After that nothing seemed to work. So i UNINSTALLED it. Thinking that everything would be okay... macafee was somehow still there. Now I was arrogant …

So basically I was typing my research paper, then Word froze so I restarded. Now all of my files are gone. Before it went to log on a little window popped up sayin something along the lines "Enviroment profile cannot open. It will open temporary enviroment..." I searched about this …

So I deleted some files that are on a drive mapping of remote computer. Where do they get put? I looked in both recycle bins, and there is nothing. Anyone know?

Hi every1 I installed DirectX 9.0C on my computer recently but when i go to Run->dxdiag, i'm shown tat only DirectX 9.0b is installed...... I'm not able to play any games because most of the games need the latest version of DirectX and i get a error msg sayin "Unable …

Hi Ive read numerous posts like these and couldnt find a answer for these circumstances, i recently foolishly turned off my xp laptop off by the mains button not knowing what could happen, everytime i start the laptop it says along the lines of " windows could not start properly" …

:?: can anyone help me here?? As soon as i enter the window internet icon. this strange message appear which had never appeared before. it says viz: " WINDOWS INSTALLER " PREPARING TO INSTALL, a MINUTE OR TWO IT DISAPPEAR. Can anyone tell me what went wrong here ? and …

Hi!I came home one day and I found a new account on the login screen {I use XP and Internet Explorer, btw}:(My Name)(My Roommate's Name)[B]Admin[U]e[/U]strator[/B]Somehow, someone hacked into my computer with a new admin account {I do have the default Admin account in Safe Mode, though.} So I assumed my …

Hello! I am new to the forum. I found your site thru a Google search. I am somewhat skilled in dealing with computer issues, so I am helping my Dad who is clueless. The downside of this is that I don't have the computer right in front of me, but …

Its called microsoft windows Xp Home edition with this can i delete my regular Windows me and install Xp with it ...XP was done preloaded witht he new computer we jus got but i'm wantin to fix the old'n up and i dont wana delete it if i cant install …

My OS had been giving me some problems. So I tried to repair/reinstall it. but when i tried to boot from the cd and tried to repair it it took me to the recovery console and their asked me to enter Administrator paasword. I had never set an Administrator pass. …

Hello people i need a little help please.... something really messy happen with my PC this morning her is my story i shutdown my pc normaly lastnight everything was fine i turn it on the next day i wirte my pass and everything on my destktop was gone i couldn't …

I have really hard times with my winxp recently. Time to time (sometimes, immediatelly after start) exporer stucks. Main syndrome is that, only thing which is working is ctrl+alt+del, which brings up task manager, but you cannot click anything. Next thing whis is working are windows shortcus eg. WIN+D will …

i installed windows xp with out uninstalling me first and niw i cant connect to the internet. i have a netgear wireless router and when i try to connect to the network it says i need to install the hardware for it, but one of my freinds said that the …

[COLOR=Cyan]Hello. [COLOR=Black] My Compac win98 was running Ok. but now when I start it show the window logo, and then then this message came: ' VMM32.VXD is required to run windows. if this file is not in your PATH, you may need to reinstall windows. I don't have disk for …

Hi Guys I discovered that my partner had tried to install spyware on the computer we share at home .. Anyway to cut a long story short he is the administrator and he has access to all of my folders and my profile which I dont mind however I want …

Good Day, I bought my japanese laptop last April 7, 2007 here in Yokohama Japan after that together with my friend we convert it to English OS, everything is in good condition except the DVD. I try to insert a DVD Movie but it appears, your Windows cannot view DVD …

Hi Guys, I saw that this problem has been done before but after reading the details I was still unable to solve my problem, Perhaps some light could be shed. Generic host process for win32 services........ C:\DOCUME~1\MARKD~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER4.tmp.dir00\svchost.exe.mdmp C:\DOCUME~1\MARKD~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER4.tmp.dir00\appcompat.txt szAppName : szAppVer : 0.0.0.0 szModName : unknown szModVer : 0.0.0.0 offset …

The other day a formated my PC. I managed to get the WMP tool bar on the start bar, but i can't get it anymore. Can you help? Thanks

Hey there, this is kind of a long story but i wanted to make sure i got all of the facts in there even if im not sure they are relevant so i am running windows xp pro sp2. recently i was prompted to install windows media player 11 and …

Well, i used to have a 1.6gigahertz pentium 4 with a 4G4A Motherboard and geforce 4 mx440 graphics card; a budget pc basically. That PC died spontaneously after the screen went black, i restarted, and the PC decided to make repetitive siren noise like deedawdeedaw (overheating? my CPU was only …

Hi I am having problems with my computers startup speeds. It takes too long to load and will freeze at anytime once it has loaded. I am running on windows xp with SP2. Thanks in advance.