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My PC sort of crashed, I reloaded it and then my speakers don't work. I looked at device manager, and it shows it in hardware but doesn't show it in the audio tab. It just shows "none" in the tab. I have tried everything short of taking a shotgun to …

Friends: My computer suffered some crashes due to overheating, which is now fixed. In the process I lost some data, pictures and emails (Outlook Express 6) because my computer went back to a time in November 2006. Can someone suggest a good freebie software to recover my data? Windows XP …

Hi , Im REAL new with VB and scripting. Im more into networking. I have about 4 departments. I want to MAP the users to their shared drives on the network, and I also want to map their My Documents folder to their shared drive on the network. How do …

hi any help would be appretiated. my mates hard drive just failed in his hp pavillion 423.uk so im helping him gettin his pc runin again. i installed a new hard drive and put on xp pro with no problem. The thing is that the computer didn't come with any …

i didnt find a 'Matlab' thread so here i am. anyway, i've been trying to code some GUI's on MATLAB and i can't seem to put pictures in the GUI. how do i put any image file in my computer on a MATLAB GUI? Please help... right now i'm just …

Hey guys, im real stuck and just needed somewhere to get some help so came here, I heard you guys know what your talking about. I bought a new Dell Dimension 9200, about 3 weeks ago and everything was fine until it suddenly started saying Windows- No Disk at start …

I can't delete a message in my Outlook Outbox with a 32Mb attachment. I accidentally sent it to one of my email addresses and tried to delete it immediately. Now it keeps trying to send repeatedly. All my efforts have failed so far in trying to remove it.....

Hi there.. this is my first *need help* post. First, actually i already read a thread like this somewhere in this forum.. but the case in that thread was caused by another thing (problem comes from running a specific program), and my problem is another case. Ok, this not happens …

Hi , Having a small o big problem i dunno. Hope you all help me out is resolving this problem. I installed windows 2003 and creating few users as soon as i created the domain. But my bad i just created just 2 users. After my first online updated from …

Unfortunatley, I am still having a lot of difficulty with the Svchost 100 % cpu problem. I have looked over ask leo but apparently can not find the solution. I have downloaded all of the security patches I can find, as well as having been to Norton. It still persists. …

I am having problems with the backgound of my computer. The backgound is blue and when I right click and click 'properties' and then 'desktop' the option always chosen is 'none' with a circle and a line through it. It blocks out the 'position' option as well. Also before this …

[SIZE=4][COLOR=Navy][FONT=Comic Sans MS] Hi, when i go to email somthing on hotmail, it says there is an error on page and it wont let me send a email.This has only happend since MSN has upgraded thier hotmail page. :confused:[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE]

I think thats what they are called, it's the -command thing you put after the exe's name, to give it a specific start up property. Anywho, here's my problem, I run a program called Blender, but it runs really slowly due to an OpenGL glitch, so I have to go …

Ok well im making my own server for an online game and i need to run 3 .bats Login.bat char.bat world.bat the login and char bats are fine its just im having a problem with the world server .bat every few hours or so i get "World server.bat has encountered …

hi, please can you help me my pc has windows xp and a friend was using it while i was out and ive come home to find it wont start, it goes through all the set up and says press any key to start windows. and other stuff about saying: …

When starting message "WE APOLOGIZE FOR INCONVENIECE, BUT WINDOWS DID NOT START SUCCESSFULLY. A RECENT HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE CHANGE MIGHT HAVE CAUSED THIS." It tells me what to do dut nothing happens goes back to same message. Don't have any software just a compaq systems recovery disc for windows xp …

I bought a 512 MB USB Jumpvault storage stick that has its software on the stick. I was able to access it as drive J: (found by accident). After installation, any attempt to run Jumpvault is met with the error: "No disk in drive! Insert disk!" or words to that …

Hi, I have a simple question. Is there any software which can enhance the voice recordings done from a mediocre digital voice recorder? Meaning that it just increases the quality a bit of the voice recorded and exclude the enviromental disturbances....Hope u know what i am talking bout. Thanks.

I remember when they had easy update with windows but now it seem like there so much spyware... programs... etc.. When you want to update something. It will take a while. Instead they should have 2 or 3 clicks update to make things more user friendly.

I removed a program and now my desktop is just the wallpaper. I also have no start menu or icons. If I hold ctrl+alt+del I can run some programs through task manager, but not internet. I get a message referring to "Normaliz.dll". Please help! Thanks

I bought a HP Pavillion notebook a few months ago. Everything was going fine, but recently it takes it about 15 minutes to start up after shutting down, not to mention that there is a major lag while running any programs on it. Also, my wireless adapter picks up signals …

I have tried to play a dvd on my lap top and got an error message saying no decoder present. I installed a dvd decoder [sonic cine player] and now each time I insert a dvd the computer hangs. I have tried with both Windows media player and real player. …

I lost my Quick Launch toolbar. When I right-click on the taskbar and click on "quick launch" I get an error message saying "cannot create toolbar." The Quick Launch file/folder seems to be gone from the computer entirely. A search for "quick launch" turns up nothing. I'm using Windows ME. …

Hi, I use: WINXP SP2 P3 866 1GB SDRAM 20GB ide HD 5400 rpm Windows choose to make the pagefile 1.5 times the Ram In my case 1.5GB I usually use the machine for web browsing and office applications. My question is whether it is really necessary to use this …

After my computer finishes the memory test it shows ablue screen with the mesage: ERROR 0x00000CE Driver_unloded_without_cancelling_pending_operations Cdr4-2k.Sys What is wrong and how can I fix it? My system is Pentium 2 Windows 2000 Pro (RAM 320) Thank you

Hey Guys, I am new to this forum only because I have only just come across it. It looks very active and am excited to try it out so here goes: I restarted my confuser box 2 days ago to get "Windows could not start successfully" I was given the …

I did a disk cleanup on my computer and now I cant find anything in my documents or in my pictures. How can I get them back?

Hi, I logged into [URL]http://bf2s.com[/URL] twice on Sunday morning 14.01.07 to look at my game stats for Battlefield 2. They were still being updated so I tried agin in the afternoon but then got the message that IE cannot display the webpage. I phone a friend and while still on …

Why would someone say to defrag in safe mode vs REGULAR MODE? The issue stemmed from an APPICIATON error which I MAY not have have now What function key do I hit to do this???????? SAFE mode??? Whats the difference in the two, what does safe do that the other …

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have this problem..error message after opening a program i just installed access violation at address 0055E531 in module '1xxxxx' read of address 460CC7BE does anybody know what's going wrong with it and how it can be fixed.. thanks in advance

:-| I upgraded from a working 40 gig to an 80 gig HDD using Ghost 2002. When I tried to boot the drive, the boot sector apparently was messed up. My version of Win XP Pro SP2 is an oem and the repair has been dissabled. I ran chkdsk/f and …

Ok people lets battle It out! Which Is better , firefox or IE?? My opinion Is firefox lets here yours.

Hello I am having a problem with my Medion MD-1704. (serial# 41704023301917) i just recently purchased a JVC dv-camcorder (model no. GR-D30U) and was excited to be able to rip these files directly into my computer - so i bought the firewire that would allow me to do so... .. …

I am working with a client who brought her computer home for the holidays, and now the sound won't work properly. When the user tries to play a sound file in any media player (i tried WMP and creative media jukebox) an alert comes up saying that the audio device …

Hello. I have a little problem. I recently formated my hard drive and planned on dual booting XP and linux (probably Debian), however my XP will not connect to the internet. Everything worked great before the format. I know it's not the ISP, NIC, or cabling because if I install …

Need help with windows xp please. Windows will not start up. Get the following message Checking file system on c: The type of file system is FAT32 One of your diss needs to be checked for consistency You may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended that you …

I cant get any of my sounds to work help

I am having a problem that I have been trying to solve for hours now but i'm completly perplexed. I am using Win XP Pro btw. Let me explain my situation. My non usb keyboard completly stopped working because the thing used to connect it to the computer is broken. …

[COLOR=#000000]My computer was running really slow so I ran Spy Sweeper and it found this Trojan: trojan-backdoor-progdav. Spy sweeper quarantined it. Just to double check I ran Spy Sweeper again and the Trojan was there again. Spy Sweeper and Norton just don’t get rid of it for some reason. The …

I know there are probably already threads based on this problem but I have a time restriction and am trying to get answers pretty quickly. My computer won't start up because there is a missing system file "windows/system32/config/sytem" the usual missing file problem. I don't think I've ever done a …

HI Im trying to macht Sokectes, Slots to their corresponding processor. any idea? Thanks in advance!

Hi! I'm in a bit of a bizarre situation and wonder if anyone could help. I realise this is a common post but I could not find a solution to my problem in any of them. Not too long ago I purchased 2 copies of Win XP Home for my …

Hi, I am trying to access IPCONFIG, so I go to Run and enter IPCONFIG and press OK but the IPCONFIG black box will just flash for a second and then disappear! Does anybody know how I can make it appear on screen for more than a second? Cheers, Daniel.

How can I get winXP to remember what was on the screen when I hit shutdown? And then restore those windows when I boot it back up. So if I have my documents open, it opens my documents again when I restart. Thanks everyone.

Hi there! With the death of my old pc, I decided to try and make my new one. I have win2k (with SP2) which I have used a number of times on my old pc with success. It installed alright the first time around, but because it seemed to be …

Hello I have backed up some files and my e mails to an external drive. I have re installed xp on my computer. I backed up my emails with a program called email saver xe. Problem is that when i try to access the files on my external driive i …

Hello everyone I'm using Windows Server 2003 and would like to force all my users (XP Pro) to be logged off after logon hours expire. The problem is that after logon hours have expired, logged on users remain logged on. They will not be logged off automatically by the system, …

can you tell me the best way to clean the registry in my windows xp Thank-you

Hi. I'm new here and I joined to see if I can get help with the following question. If you guys have any answers for me on which I should do, please try to be really detailed and not be extremely technical with your answers, because I'm not a big …