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i have searched forum after forum looking for a solution to get my sound to work.where sound is to come out i get the standard beep.ive checked my sounds and my "microsoft kernel DLS sythesizer" is corrupt or missing. i recently restored my computer (which is when the problem first …

My aunt has a laptop, and she cant remember the pass, she cant log in, and gets an error about the password is wrong, please make sure the password and domain are correct. We have no floppy disk drive or cd rom drive on the laptop.. Can anyone help ?

I'm having trouble transfering songs from my window's media librairy to my memory card. I ripped a bunch of songs from my CD's to the media player librairy. I then syncronized the songs to the media card. When I go to play the memory card in a MP3 player the …

I don't use this so I don't know much about it but a friend of mine wants to send some small video of her grandaughter to her son. We have tried AIM, Live messenger etc. but it is really slow and it stops after a couple of minutes and says …

Recently I purchased a new computer with Vista Pre-Loaded on it. So far, no major problems till I tried to connect the hard drive from my old computer to the new compuuters motherboard. I poped the restrictor that would make it a master out, so the new hard drive is …

When creating a new message Outlook Express defaults to Ariel font at 10 point size. In Tools, Options, Compose I have it set for Mail and News to Times Roman at 12 points, but it still starts out with Ariel 10 points. Is there a way to force Outlook to …

every time i try and use IE it crashes every time i try to uninstall it. It crashes any help:( bondi 007

my girlfriends machine is a 1.3 pentium 3, 512 ram, xp home system it work fine and then all of a sudden the scvhost will shoot up to 99% cpu usage and cause the system to slow to a crawl. i have scanned for a virus, a trojan, both spybot …

Hi all; I have a new external hard disk of which i want to partition but the problem is when i go to disk management, its showing the disk is not initialized even after getting the "Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard" Dialog box and i followed all the steps correctly. …

I currently use Avast! Free Antivirus as my antivirus. I decided against using McAfee Security Suite 2007 on a new computer when it slowed down the computer too much. Now, I'm worried that freeware antivirus might be insecure compared to paid ones. I do have other freeware antispyware programs and …

I am trying to delete a file I downloaded on Bearshare. And i don't share any files. And i am trying to delete Mr & Mrs. Smith. avi file but they say it is in use. but it is not. Can sombody help me get around the message which says …

my cd cdrive doesnt work so could i put alcohol 120% on and put backtrack 2 on it and could i boot off it if i cant can i boot of it in vmware workstation any help bondi 007

My computer is beeping randomly. It does not do it at startup. Sometimes it beeps more often than other time, its a single beep at times every few minutes and sometimes it's a series of four beeps. I've checked my CPU's temperature and it says it is 54 degrees Celsius. …

i just bought a new Frisby illuminated multimedia keyboard & hooked up the usb/ps2 adaptor & was working fine for a day then all of a sudden it quit working. tried plugging in the usb plug & then started flashing on & off continuously. loaded the optional hotkeys drivers that …

I seem to have lost "disk cleanup" and defragmentor from my start menu. How can I restore?

I have lost defragmentor and "disk cleanup" How do i restore to System Tools?

I installed the public beta of Vista (5728) on one harddrive and later installed Win2k on another. Ever since I installed win2k i haven't been able to boot into vista. Vista isn't listed as a boot option on the boot menu and I've read its because vista doesn't use the …

Playing games is what I like to do on my system. It has never been connected to the internet until recently to play games online. After I did that I noticed svchost.exe and system was taking 100% of my cpu. What is going on? What can I do to get …

Hi, I know this has been addressed but I am unable to fix the prob. with the soln's I have read (I hope I read them all...) I have an Acer Aspire 3002wlmi laptop.. kept locking up the other day... couldn't shut it down or do anything, thought it must …

Hi guys, if some kick ass person could help me out with this I would really appreciate it. I downloaded Process Explorer, which has told me the reason my CPU usage was 5-70% while System Idle was 99% was "Hardware Interrupt". Now while I've read up on a basic definition …

Running Windows Me, the AOL versions is the latest 9.0 Security Edition, when i start up the computer, and enter windows the following programs appear on my taskbar, Waol, Aoldial, Aolservicehost, Aolhostmanager, all of these prgrams are usless but they auto start when the computer starts, and they suck my …

using Vista Home Premium. When I click a link such as [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread77212.html"]this one[/URL] by cutepinkbunnies I see the video but no audio. Anyone know how to correct that ?

I don't know maybe i'll get more help here. Seems like my problem is not interesting enough for some. i'm in the process of changing to WINXP SP2 because i haven't used this Comp in a long time. i just wanted to clean my system of infections first and then …

Hie all, My computer boots into blue screen after re-installing it with windows xp professional sp2. The machine is a proline machine and the CD I used is the DELL reinstallation Cd. I tried pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL to view windows manager but this has not worked. Can somebody help me out? …

Hi Every1 This is my Computer Configuration Mainboard : Asus A7V400-MX Chipset : VIA KM400 Processor : AMD Athlon MP @ 1333 MHz Physical Memory : 512 MB (2 x 256 DDR-SDRAM ) Video Card : VT82C570 MV IDE Controller KM400 Graphics Adapter Network Card : VT82C570 MV IDE Controller …

About one month ago I accidentally deleted all the information off of my computer inculding all my microsoft software. Since then my computer has failed to start up properly almost every single time. The few times that I managed to get it to start up I was unable to access …

Hi Can u help in solving windows XP problem of IR[COLOR=black]QL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL[/COLOR] STOP:0x0000000A (0x0000000a,0X0a310031,0X0000000,0X8081c63c). I can't able to enter on XP its stops and try to change the RAM but did't worked. I change with a new HDD and installed a new copy on XP it's working fine now. But is …

I Am Wanting To Find Out What My Current Xp Sp2 Product Id Is...as I Have The Disk To Re-install It But Cannot Find Anything That Came W/the Disk...have Not Removed Everything/anything From My Os Yet....so How Do I Look That Up On My Current Running System? Thanks

ok im looking to upgrade to vista sometime in the next 12 months, and am wondering whether to take the plunge now. Most people will say wait for the service pack to iron out the kinks but what is your reaction abotu vista ? Im looking to buy the business …

Can you run most windows xp software on vista? There are some issues with this so i was wondering if there was some sort of emulation software that you could you use if you wanted to run a windows xp application

could anybody help to show me where to free down load AGv anti virus. Many thanks

In some, but not all, my strategy games that have French or German accented letters in their texts, the accented letters fail to be represented correctly on screen. Most recently this problem occurred with Silent Hunter III, a licensed copy (?) of which I bought here in Moscow and to …

First I am new here and got to this site after 2 days of googling an issue that has suddenly occurred to my notebook. Toshiba M50-MX5 satellite Pent M, 1.85 ghz, 1 gig RAM, 100 GB PATA 5400 RPM, DVD Super Multi Layer, Intel GMA 900 with 128 MB shared, …

Not sure what causes it but sometimes the computer refuses to shut down. The only way out is to physically press the Off button. I have XP Pro with SP2, Norton Antivirus and Norton Firewall, AMDI 64-bit processor with about 1Gig RAM, 30 Gig hard drive (master) and a 235Gig …

On one of my computers the media player has a slight problem. My wife loves to watch the visualizations. Almost all of them look great. When I put on one called geforce from sound spectrum it plays somewhat jerky. I thought my vid card could be having problems but I …

i just reformatted my desktop pc, once windows had finished the install, i found that i formatted the wrong drive!!!!!!! now all my photos, music, documents and other various bits of shit are now gone. is there any apps that recover files that have been fully formatted over?

Hi, I suppose this problem has been covered over and over, but here goes: I have an older machine that had Win 98 on it but bombed out. After many hours trying to get Windows to run, and since I had the original CD, I went ahead and formatted the …

Hello all. My title bar on Firefox is showing weird symbols and rectangles. How do I correct this? Thank you. :)

Hi Friends After using quick search toolbar successfully for some time with Google as my search engine, now when I enter something I get the message: [B]Forbidden - Your client does not have permission to get URL.[/B] What on earth does this mean? I have gone into [B]Tools - Options …

Today I found on this site today that a member had a problem just like mine in 2005, with IE's address bar not working properly. I am having the same problem, and have had since Nov. Every "[URL="http://www.thetechguide.com/forum/index.php?act=Msg&CODE=03&VID=sent&MSID=40794#"]tech support[/URL]" paid service I have tried can't solve my problem. I am …

My cousin is currently having problems on his Dell desktop. It seems more and more lately that when he boots his pc up, he will login to one of the user names on his pc, and as windows is loading the personal settings, it will just randomly restart then boot …

I keep getting "IE has encountered a problem and needs to close..." with "Debug" button, which doesn't seem to do anything. Tech Info: Module 1 - iexplore.exe Module 2 - ntdll.dll Module 3 - kernel32.dll I don't know what other info to put on here. I have had this problem …

Could I run applications using just the Program Files from another computer, without actually installing the program with a formal installer? Thing is, I recently had to reinstall Windows and all my applications, and am wondering what disadvantages there are to not installing the program and just using the Program …

Hi, Windows 98 SE. In the last few days cut and paste has stopped working. No software has been installed recently. The PC doesn't have Internet access. I'm thinking maybe a virus or registry corruption. Are there any other possibilities? I have to travel to access this PC so want …

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.