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I was thinking about upgrading to XP Pro. If I get an upgrade disk can I upgrade it like that from Windows 2000 Pro SP. 4, or do I have to buy the full edition and do a fresh install? If someone could please help me that would be great. …

Ok Here Goes, I Am Trying To Fix A Messed Up Computer. I Had Done A Fdisk And Format On C. It Is Now Saying That I Have A Missing Operating Stsyem, Please Help!!!!!, I Cannot Get A Prompt Of Any Kind, Need Help......thanks

hi all i removed the cmos battery after some advice given to me, now the desktop pc is completely dead :-| if i remove the battery wait a minute then re fit the power light flashes on then straight off again. any ideas?

Maybe it is just the fact that i am not old enough to remeber anything about previous releases of Windows or wether it is just that i did not care much for operating system bugs and faults but it seems to me like there are alot of security problems being …

load needed dlls for kernel. This error came up after my computer froze up while I was trying to to do a cd recovery and it froze. Since nothing will open,is there any way to fix the computer? I had a set recovery cds but when I put them in …

Hi ive just purchased a new dell dimension 9200 running vista and have literally just unpacked it, so have added no addition hardware. I have made a connection to my router via rj45 and gone to bbc.co.uk and searched the entireity of their website without any issues. However when i …

I'm running on a custom built computer with an Intel Celeron CPU(2.53GHz) with 512(it says 504 because I rerouted more RAM into playing WoW) MB RAM and Windows XP Service Pack 2, and a few months ago I installed Photoshop CS2. It worked fine then, but then my mother and …

hi everybody, just needed to ask this: I have an older pc with a newer agp graphics card. It plays games relatively fast. I got a new computer for christmas and it has a pci-e card slot with an onboard(256 mb nvidia geforce 6100) that dosent run anywhere near 256mb. …

Hello. I am having a problem with Outlook 2003's archiving funktion. What I wan't to do, is to be able to manually archive all folders, contacts etc. older than 1 year and at the same time deleting the archived folders from my current Outlook folders. Isn't that possible? Please describe …

Pc keeps shutting down randomly but it does not go the the normal shut down procedure, instead it just crashes like someone switches off the power or something. sometimes aftter 10 min of booting sometimes 2 hrs later I get the Error report dialog the next time i reboot after …

I have a custom pc with a AMD Duron 1.80GHz 512 MB of RAM 20GB HDD with 8 GB free and a second HDD of 10GB with 5GB free. Win XP Home with SP2 runs ok. what do you think i would be better doing: 1.) Buy a vista upgrade. …

I have already downloaded the patch from Microsoft, but itys still hangs up. What else can I do?

Hi I am running windows XP. I own a Acer PC. For past month, my DVD-Rom is not reading any CDs or DVDs. Icon in My Computer is also missing. When I put in a CD, the light on it will flash for a few seconds then it stops. and …

So the title pretty much says what I'm trying to do. Not sure how to accomplish. I know there are programs out there (norton ghost, etc) but what I can't figure out is if they are made for doing what I am trying to do. Do I need something like, …

Ok well every 45 min or so i get an error when ever i try to open up something and it says "Insufficient system resources exists to complate the requested servise" I click ok then i try to go on the internet it doesnt work.i try to get on msn …

[i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Easily Disable Messenger [/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=2]Go into: C:/Program Files/Messenger. Rename the Messenger folder to "MessengerOFF". This does not slow down Outlook Express or hinder system performance.[/size][/font]

ok, :cool: my wife went to one of her sites & wanted to save it to desktop item. instead doing that :o she accidently r. clicked on a an image on her site & r. clicked & selected set as background, & now its on desktop as a small in …

hello I have a problem with a laptop running xp. Its my nephews so i cant give a detailed version of what happened. when the laptop started i think there may have been a scandisk going on, but my nephew panicked and switched off the laptop from the power button. …

Is Windows x64 Edition faster running then a regular Windows xp???

Lost My Xp Disk Still Have The Reg Number Where Can I Get One

I am trying to format and reload windows on a dell Inspiron 1000 laptop. When it is reformatting it shuts off at 16%. I have tried different power sources with the same result 3 times. I just added 256 MB of ram from crucial. The machine was not shutting off …

I have no problems opening contacts, but when I use the search tool in Outlook 2003 it will find the contact and then tell me "cannot open this item". Any ideas.

Soo my computer totally shut off on me.. like I unpluged it or just shut off the main switch.. only I didn't lol.. Anyway... when I boot it up I get a message saying.... something about missing or corrupt file \windows\system32\config\system so I add my XP disk in and reboot... …

Hello, my boss gets very upset when he is replying to an email and when he clicks on send button, all of the sudden he sees "the operation failed" error . (This was a regular email, with no attachments) So outlook basically was not functioning. Every email that I was …

I am trying to re-install win xp pro and the cd key on the yellow lable that came with the disk will not work. When I get to the screen that asks for the cd key i enter it but It is not accepted. Have not called MS yet but …

Basic Info: I have a .bat file that gets executed by Windows Scheduled Tasks (on Win 2003 Server). The .bat file calls a .vbs script. The .vbs script moves a text file (which has its data already comma delimited - no quotes) from a drive on the server to a …

Hi Guys! My Computer is rather stable, but when I go away and the computer is idle it freezes after about 20 or 30 minutes. I ve disabled the screensaver, and watched the task manager until the computer freezes. I saw that a svchost.exe process suddenly takes more and more …

I know this has been spoken about in numerous posts , and i have read them but none have been of any new help. Svchost runs at 100% and have tracked this problem down to when internet explorer hangs then crashes. Plus sometimes explorer won't display internet sites using .asp …

Hi there, Oh geeze, I'm having problems with Thunderbird & I need to set my computer back a few hours ONLY b/c I lost all my folders on Local Folders (HELP!!) I'm on XP, can someone tell me how to do it in a safe way. Thanks Michelle

I want to be able to start these offline, so others don't see the automatic *x has signed in* messages and then I can choose whether or not I go on-line, or block or whatever. This would be useful at home on MSN6.1 but even more useful in work Windows …

still not sure i m posting at right place. but my cp usage peaks on many (2-3) prosses each time i open or move or click, even hover sometimes, on anything!? i know there's a lot of possibility out there so i ll just shoot with what i ve got! …

Hey everyone, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! Listen, we have OUTLOOK 2003, and Word/Excel '97. This is the way the company needed to have it because of the server application. Anyway, I was running smoothly until Word and Excel were giving me problems. I tried reinstalling wrod and excel '97. They run good …

networking - How to share printer - please help...!!! Respected Tech Gurus, Please help me with following: There are two computers A and B (say).(They are in two adjacent rooms) A has windows advanced server 2000 OS. B has windows XP professional OS. HP laserjet 3015 is connected to computer …

Is there a free partition tool?

I am not very clued on about computers. I got this problem, I was reinstalling the Windows XP, from the boot sequence and upon set-up and formating the partioned drive there was a power failure. Now every time I switch on the computer and try and install Windows XP I …

A user is trying to send an email as another user ( they are a delegate with the correct permissions). When they select "TO" they want to be able to view the contact list of the other user. They can view the other users contacts but cannot view them from …

My new Acer laptop just got infected by spyware, and the only way to repair it is to delete the hardrive and completely reinstall windows XP, the problem is the installation disk that comes with the computer got misplaced, and CompUSA says they cannot even restore it without the disk …

I am trying to run ChkDsk on my D: Drive and when i try to run it it goes thru the first 2 steps fine it is just when it gets to the Recovering Orphaned Files part i get a error that says An Unspecified Error Occurred. What can i …

Hello all. I am using Windows XP Home Edition and I have a password set for my profile which is a Computer Administrator. I have a 15 year old son who I do not want to log in under my user profile or his (for the problems he has been …

Imagine someone living under a rock on Mars for the past 10 years,well that be me. My apology in advance if this has already bin done,but my eyes are to [I]b[/I]l[I]u[/I]r[I]r[/I]e[I]d [/I]to search further. Prob:Thought I'd fix my slow noisey HD.Purchased a SATA HD. Ok,wrong one,I hve ide connections........... (can't …

Hi Everyone I have a notebook running Vista and want to change what happens when I depress a particular key on the keyboard. More specifically, I want to change the 'arrow up' key to 'think' it's a 'shift' key. Is this posible? If so, how do I go about 'reprogramming' …

Hello everyone, While trying to get to read up on and get to know more about P2P networks I downloaded 3 programs which I have scanned for viruses (with negative results) and have NOT YET installed. The programs are: UTorrent, Port Forwarder (from portforward.com) and Lime Wire (basic). I was …

Hi, I just purchased a computer from a place that sells refurbished PCs and laptops. The computer, however, does not appear to work. When I turn this computer on, I get a message right after the Dell blue screen at start up that reads as follows: "strike F1 to retry …

Hi everyone, my PC keeps on shuttng down everytime after 1 minute to 3 minute after starting up. Sometimes the window start up ok then shut down itself. Even if I go to the BIOS setup, it does not give me enough time to reset to default settings. I unplug …

Hi, I am using windwos xp pro with sp2 and norton internet security protection tool. but my pc shuts down within 10 seconds of starting without any valid reason and then it restarts itself. It does not shut down completely, but this cycle of starting and then restarting continues to …

Anyone know any good software that can be used to analyze log files from iis. Or create their own log files? Example... You got a web server running on iis and you want to know how many megs you transferred in a day or whatever. Or you want to know …

Dear Anyone. Computer crashed due to a very large and nasty virus, so I reformatted the hard drive, deleted all partitions to force the Windows install disk to repartition (that way the virus couldn't be hiding in the partitions!) and Windows reinstalled. That was fine. Went to Control Panel, couldn't …

[B][COLOR=royalblue]I don't know what else I can do?! My computer kept freezing up so my brother in law deleted everything off my computer and reinstalled Microsoft XP hoping to fix the problem. It didn't fix it! It still freezes up on me, when I am in the middle of doing …

its a small problem but im pretty new to this. i dont seem to have a few sound drivers an i an unable to find them any place. its a new build asus p5nsli. the prob is with the onboard sound... there is non at all...with winXP Pro when i …