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I am only able to access drive "D" as read only. As far as I know, no multiple user permissions have been set up on this PC, and I've no idea how to change them. Could this possibly be spyware? If so, how would I go about removing it? Once …

I found an ancient OEM version of Age of empires II and its expansion pack on a windows ME cd yesterday. Does anyone still play it? wanna have some mp matches?

Somehow internet explorer got corrupted (long story) and I can't right click anywhere and the toolbar is missing (with the favorites, home button, etc). Internet explorer opens and I can connect to websites, but that is it. I tried to uninstall it, but it won't let me. I am assuming …

Is there a way to make It so the safely remove hardware icon won't appear on the taskbar??? I'm tired of looking at it :!:

Ok I opened IE7 like ten minutes ago and on the tabs It will show an icon ya know,that's normal, but when I go to AOL.com the icon Is different along with a couple others like [URL="http://www.wdisneyw.com/forums"]www.wdisneyw.com/forums[/URL] has a little stick figure Instead of UOGFORUMS :!: ,someone please help me …

hi guys, my toshiba laptop was working fine until it got a virus & i formatted it. i used a Windows XP Corp ed. CD (cuz i forgot to make a recovery CD out of the pre-installed XP). thats when all the problems began. i'd just format it, install a …

hello folks, Gracie here :) I have been given a poorly laptop to sort out. Owner went out for a short while leaving machine on, when he came back it had shut down and he cannot get it to boot up again but keeps getting a 21A stop message, which …

Did you know NT 3.51 was supported until December 31 2001? Ive got it on floppies, anyone want it?

[COLOR=DarkOrange]Hello, again... The other day, got a -new- to me Micron PC via the Goodwill here.[/COLOR] The system is a Millennium Mme with Intel mobo (w/ Yamaha integrated audio chips) The system dates to 1996 or 97 prior to Win98 with 4GB HDD included. Should I and can I upgrade …

Hi, A couple of days back, my computer became unstable and I had to upgrade the OS. I am running Windows XP Prof on a Celeron 2.0 GHz with 512 MB of RAM. My Pc is running smoothly now, but a new problem has come up. I was using IE …

Hi everybody, Ok so my problem is this. I have just installed my windows yesterday just because it needed it no reason. I usually had a problem... when I started my PC sometimes (no every time) the process stopped at the moment when the logo of the Windows appears and …

I dug my old PC out of the closet for my kids, it currently running Win95 and can’t be updated because of the OS. Are there any recommendations for Spy ware removal and blocker?

Hi, I have found a thread (43284) that is the identical problem that I am having with Windows XP and NETGEAR USB 2.0 Adapter WG111. However having reread the thread a few times and searched with all the keywords I can think of!!! I do not know how to uninstall …

I keep getting the error message below when I try to send an email and the message stays in the outbox. Task 'Berta Hotmail - Sending' reported error (0x80004005) : 'The operation failed.' I NEED HELP DESPERATELY!! i TRIED UNINSTALLING and reinstalling both Outlook and the whole Microsoft Office:sad: thanks

Hi all, Yesterday I turned on my PC and completely out the the blue I recieve this error: [B][I]Windows/System32/Config/System - Missing or Corrupt...[/I][/B] [B][/B] My system won't boot at all into windows, so I have been browsing the net for a solution to cure this error, although every website I've …

It started a while ago, around when I got this game called OBLIVION. I had to upgrade my video card driver to play it, and every now and then the graphics would screw up a bit. It was fine then, but then it started happening on other games, and anything …

Hi there over the last couple of days when i start my computer up a window appears " application launcher " then below in the same window beside a big explantion mark this message appears " unable to load configuration "? I have no idea what this is or how …

I am new here. My problem is when I open windows media player, a message saying "an internal application error has occured" . Could anybody help me to fix this problem please? thanks very much Here is the logfile from HijackThis: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 11:30:44 AM, …

Hi, I check my hotmail every day and for the last 2 days i haven't been able to get into my hotmail, The message "This page cannot be displayed" comes up every time I try. Other people using the same computer and connection are still able to access their hotmail …

I've gotten myself into a pickle here and really am at a loss as to how to get out of it without re-formatting and re-installing which is most undesirable. It's a Gateway laptop with an 850 MHz processor. There are no manuals no anything that will give me a clue. …

Hallo i have downloaded some dll for microsoft word to be able to check a foreign language spelling. i have downloaded the dll on the desktop but i don't know in which folder should i copy so microsoft Word can "see" them? thanks

I have tried putting the Windows ME disk in and booting the computer from it. After I followed the steps on the screen and my computer was done. It didn't reformat. All it did was reinstall windows me. Can anyone help. I don't want to keep anything thats on my …

hi does anyone knw which window is tha latest(i mean after xp are there any other windows), if yes are they any good and are they available on net. thanx

Not sure if this is the right forum for such a question, but hopefully someone has an answer or can direct me to the right place. I have several folders on my hard drive with thousands of files within them. I would like to copy the names of these files …

Greetings to all. I have Win XP, Internet Explorer 6 and regularily use (and update)AVC AntiVirus, Ewido Antispyware and Ad-Aware SE Personal. My pc is updated regularily from Windows Update, but not automatically so I can choose what I want to update. I have not downloaded any programs recently. When …

My computer keeps crashing to the blue screen. This is the error message I get "kernel_stack_inpage_error" and then lower down "0x00000077" and then in parentheses (0xC000000E, 0xC000000E, 0x00000000, 0x014F2000). When it happens I hear a click coming from the computer and then it works for maybe 15 seconds. I then …

I've been having some problems with my Outlook Express, it started with receiving mail, but now I can't send mail. Every time I try to send an email I get the following message: The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The …

Stop: 0x0000009c (0x00000002, 0x8054D370, 0xF6002000, 0x0000017A) This is the error I've been getting at the blue screens every time my computer locks up. =\ I've been trying to install World of Warcraft (I know this forum isn't for such things) and it isn't going too well. I've had this lock …

My system: Dell Desktop: Dimension 9150 Intel Pentium D 830, 3 GHz 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz Windows XP Home Edition GomPlayer, Media Player 10, Sonic Digital Media LE v7 CCleaner, CWShredder, SpyBot, SpySweeper, Ad-Aware ZoneLabs Firewall Problem Reading DVD’s A friend sent some dvd’s with .avi and mp3 …

Anyone here have any idea how many problems can cause a "Little or no connectivity" situation in trying to access the Internet through the browser. It would be great if we could line it out and make a list of the most common problems, thus making it easier to trouble …

I'm trying to reformat my friends laptop (massive amounts of spyware, viruses, and missing files.. it's a wreck), but I first need to carry the files over to my computer so I can transfer them back to her after the format. Her laptop is hooked up to my wired, non-passworded …

Hello to all the geniuses and tech wizzes out there. I just reformatted my computer (knowing only a little about after visiting some sites with instructions on reformatting). I had XP pro installed on my main partition when I did RF and I had installed XP pro on the same …

Pentium D 945 (3.4Ghz) ECS P4M800 PRO-M Corsair 512 MB DDR2 128MB ATI Radeon 9200 PCI WIndows XP Professional SP2 First thank you for reading my post. My problem is simple and very complex :rolleyes: I have recently built the above mentioned system, this is a PC for my wife …

I clicked on "close all tabs" in IE7 as that is all it would do. Now my IE7 Desktop Icon is gone. How do i get it back? I can do a search and click on the shortcut file but still no Desktop Icon. I reinstalled IE7 but still no …

Hello. :rolleyes: I am having a real problem with the unwanted programs running in my Ctrl+Alt-Del - End Task Window. I am not able to upgrade to an XP Version of Windows yet and am still using the ME version of Windows. :?:Can some one tell me how to delete …

I try to use Windows explorer and the template appears but I get no connection to any website. The ball in the upper right just keeps spinning. I need to contact Microsoft and my working Firefox is not excepted. Any ideas how to get this browser to work?

I will start off with computer spec/hardware Athlon 4000 w/ Epox NF4 Mobo 2 gigs of mem 1 7200 200gig hard drive Has SLI but not using it. I have 1 7800 Geforce card. Ok, It all started when the sound would work then after leaving the computer on for …

Hi! My computer went just fine two days ago, it was normal. Yesterday I have tryied evrything I know to fix the problem. I started my computer yeterday and it had changed primary and slave in the BIOS. So it started good but afterwards it came up: "Press Ctrl + …

hello everybody can you please help me anyone! please read this thread ,otherwise your not gona understand! And does anybody know if[B] Catweazel[/B] still comes on as to this is a very old thread! [URL]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread11791.html[/URL] iv also quoted on there i need to find out the ID of my motherboard!Iv …

I have Windows XP VGN-A190 laptop and my local Drive C keeps saying I have NO space left. I have deleted eveything I can and moved other things but to no avail. Is my only option now to have it formatted? I have an external drive where I am keeping …

Hello This is my first post so please bare with me if it's not up to scratch. I recently dropped and broke my laptop. I have replaced the laptop and connected the old working hard drive to the new laptop. I am trying to get some files from my old …

I got a blue screen that told me basically that the problem was: driver_irq_not_less_or_equal with the technical information: STOP: 0x000000D1 (0XF7E62FFC, 0x00000002, 0x00000001,0xB9433431) tm_cfw.sys - Address B9433431 base at B941F000, Datestamp 438e69d4 The Microsoft website told me it was an unkown device driver that did it, but I don't know …

Ok i am using win98se and when i log on the MS Reg checker pops on and says its fixing a " System.dat Error " but the problem is it never stays fixed and i get the same message every time i turn the pc on ! So whats this …

Up until a few days ago, everything was fine but now I cannot open any link on Yahoo,(news or anything). I cannot access my email either. Other web pages, MSN, etc, works fine but nothing with Yahoo. It's almost like some settings have changed but used system restore and Yahoo …

I just downloaded vista rc1, but i have a problem. I dont have a dvd burner. does any one know if it's possible to boot the iso image off my hard drive as if it were on a dvd, and how? THANX

Hi I'm desperately need a cure for my external hard drive. I have a 250gb Seagate hard drive inside a Multimedia Maddog external enclosure. Both the hard drive and the enclosure manufacturers doesn't provide any drivers. After I plugged the USB 2.0 enclosure cable into my front Dell Dimension 4550 …

hello folks. I have a laptop given to me which came with a grand quota of nasties, and though I think I have probably dealt with most of the problems now, I can't remember how to get the antivirus and spyware software re-enabled. It is probably a registry value I …

against orders i am posting a question... my system has some probelm.. hen i start a gam it shuts down after the intro movie.. its not the problem of the graphics card has it worked in a worse syste than mine . the error log is... FATAL ERROR! Program: f:\warcraft …

I have a radeon 9550 and Windos Xp, when i run dxdiag this appear: [B]DxDiag Notes Display Tab 1: No problems found. Direct3D functionality not available. You should verify that the driver is a final version from the hardware manufacturer. Display Tab 2: No problems found. Direct3D functionality not available. …

I have a Dell inspiron 9100with Windows xp professional. I'm having trouble with slow performance. my task manager shows that I have 53 processes running in the background. generally my computer CPU usage is around 85%. I'm not sure how to solve the problem. I have defraged and completed disk …