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I have problem with some icons. Recycle Bin, Programs Group icons, My Network Places... that icons were changed to some other icons. Icons are similar but not the same. That icons look like ther are form some other theme. Can anybody help?

Hi! The policy of companies that sell DRM'ed content seems to make the customers suffer! I'm iTunes subscriber and taking iTunes audio to the car audio (mp3 player, cell phone etc.) is absolutely impossible for me! :((( How do u deel with this? I've seen the guide and several progs. …

Hey people :) Something strange happened to my home PC a couple of weeks back, I have been using it for about 9 months or so and have not upgraded any hardware, not played around inside or anything. It has not been connected to the internet for months and iI …

Hi, I have contacted SBC for help and they have not been able to help me as yet. I have a new laptop. A Compaq Presario V6000. It has windows XP, 512 mb system memory, 80 Gb hard drive. I have installed SBC DSL from a disk that I used …

I get this error now when I start windows: One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency I was on MSN when I got a message from a friend saying download this pdf document when I downloaed it I saw a MOS shortcut on my desktop but I …

I have had a discussion with my CFO about this. I am not sure if it is possible and appreciate any help that can be provided. Currently both my manager and I are in posession of everyones password who logs into the network. We are working to set up every …

last days my computer slowed down.it is very slow, before two weeks everything was ok.now when i start some program like spyware remover or something else cpu usage goes to 100% and the scan is very slow.this was not happening before.i scaned for spywares bot there are not on my …

CAn anyone help???? I can't install Windows Live Messenger.. get error code 1604. Anyone know what is causing this?? As well as that prob, I can't get into my hotmail account. I log in and then get "Page cannot be displayed" Could this be an update that I'm missing? An …

i a m here to solve a problem of mine.. it is ths.. 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 …

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 iii\war3.exe Exception: 0xC0000005 (ACCESS_VIOLATION) at 001B:0306A6A8 The …

I am having an issue with some websites. I try to load the page and I am prompted with a pop-up asking me to connect my DSL connection. This happens in both Mozilla and IE. I am running on a linsys router (always connected), I am using XP and I …

Hi Everyone! This is my first post. My name is Bell, and I live in Toronto. I have an ancient Dell Latitude CPi laptop, and have been having a "fun time" trying to learn all about the functionality of my new iPod. It's not exactly User Hostile, but it can …

I have a Dell Dimension 2400 computer installed with Windows XP Home Edition. Is there a way that I can install a different version of Windows on my computer (like on a different partition)? I have a Windows 98 SE that I need to use to work with files and …

Folder Option doesn't appear in both control panel & Tools menu. I there a solution in this problem? Thanks in advance...

I just installed IE7, and the tabs toolbar doesn't show up..only the adress bar is there...the tabs options don't show up..and the toolbar, including options for home, etc. Also, plently of times, there are pages which have "done, but with errors", and some links do not work! Please help!

Hello there! Sorry to trouble you, but I have a problem with a folder in my PC. The OS is Windows XP and everything was alright (well... for a windows, it was relatively alright) when one day I tried to open a folder on my c: drive. Instead of opening …

Hi my windows xp is auto logging off right at the moment that i logg on. I got a legal version of XP Media Center and i have had no problems untill i installed IE 7.0 I have been looking all day on google and everywhere i know about. And …

Hi there, Well, I guess it's about time I do this. He won't stop playing one particular video game no matter how many times I delete it from his computer, or he agrees to stop or limit his time, so I need to control the entire computer & if I …

The game installs fine, I can load the game fine, but when the screen changes it turns black. Example: I click the NEW GAME button, it blacks out, I click the LOAD button, it blacks out, ect. ect. Anyone have any ideas?

This happens intermittently all the time, but at times like today, it just go on. This is what happens: Our website is hosted by a company in Honk Kong. No one inside our office, on either of the 2 dsl connections can open our own website on the host, but …

hey guys, ive been looking around for tips on this topic but haven't really found one. i dind't really know where to post this, so i decided to post it here. for me, i have a lot of games, and once those games are installed, they save a profile folder, …

My pc keeps restarting, it's been doing this for a while, i've recently (today) had a new power output put in (400w) as the last one blew, though its been restarting for a long while now. The specs are as follows ASrock motherboard 2.4ghz intel celeron proccessor 512mb Ram (2 …

I need help. We have a home computer with Windows 2000 on it. We let one of the kids set up their own password protected profile so that at start up you have to chose their name and enter a password to get in to their "portion" of the computer. …

Gidday guys! Been a while since I've been to DaniWeb, but again I need you blokes more than ever! I'm running XP Prof with SP2. I've been running it about 8 months now hassle free, as basic internet security measures from you guys' advice have lounged me well. Same old …

Hi everyone, My name is John and like everyone else I'm just posting on this website because I have problems with my Windows. Ok, here is the story. About a month ago, I came home and turned on the computer and thought I'd change my virus scanner to a different …

So I got a virus and had to switch drives but now when I try to access my old drive, it tells me to format it. Help me. There was some important stuff on it.

I have visited a site (which I see), but am unable to go to other sites within that site. I get a little box to the left hand corner of the screen where the picture should be. Can anyone help with this?

[URL]http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/7682/clipboard01si3.png[/URL] Every time i play a video online, I get this little fault in the video. Any ideas?

I'm running Windows XP with to users configured. When windows boots up and my Logon screen appears for me to click my logon picture to logon, how do I change the sound that plays? Thanks,

Hi, I'm new to this forum and hope someone can assist me. I purchased a new laptop last week (Toshiba Satellite M115-S3144), and twice now, I've had Internet Explorer 6.0 launch 50 new windows (opening up with default home page). This happened once yesterday when I was switching between three …

When I start my computer I get an error message and it will no longer let me get online. The message says: AOL.EXE - Bad Image The application dll c:\WINNT\System32\ATL.DLL is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette. Not being able to get online, I …

I just recently got a new computer from ibuypower. I also bought a windows XP installation with it. After turning on the computer, the installation auto ran and goes through the process, I clicked f8 enter enter and it brings me to the part where you choose where or which …

Hello First time user. I am using a friends old computer running 98se. Everytime i try to access the internet on dial up it connects,the two screens show up in the right hand corner of the monitor but i am always gettinmg the error message microsoft internet explorer has encountered …

I have the same problem when I upgraded to XP. I do not have volume controls on key board and another sound card on board... any possible fixes..thanx

My PC running Windows XP has been telling me it's been recovering from srious errors on startup for a few weeks now. I couldn't repair anything because it didn't tell me what was wrong. Now my PC won't start. I get a black screen with white text telling me i …

I was wondering is there any way to turn off complete test at startup:?:

i have xp home with ubuntu n kubuntu on dual boot. i also have 2 users, mine and my dads. even though he never ever uses his account. it wont logon. it logson and then loggs straight back off again. My user does not have that problem. So I tried …

Currently trying to install the Rome total war Gold edition but it says there is an earlier version installed already and i must uninstall it. Problem arises is i deleted by mistake and didn't uninstall it. The program file is only 45 MB and wont go. I lost my original …

Hello all. I have Read around the interent looking up this problem i have with my Computer Randomly Rebooting. Most Topics or articles have given me little to no help, so i hope someone can figure this out. This Random Restarting has been going on for about the last couple …

I have XP installed on my primary sata hard drive and have Vista installed on my second sata hard drive. When I boot the computer it doesnt give me a boot menu it automatically boots into XP. I can only get it to boot into Vista when I have the …

:( here is a problem alot of us cannot figure out ,,after upgrading to xp pro the sound level bar goes down even if you move it all the way up , it still goes slowly back to low, i have a compaq presario 5020 and the driver is ess1869, …

ok... i'm not so familiar with the technical aspects of computers... :confused: my computer restarts on it's own. it seems like it does it when i run multiple applications, or one app with a lot of info to load (sims, for example). it's quite frustrating. all i can tell you …

I apologize if this isn't the correct forum for this issue. I found your site while Googling for similar issues and ended up here. The advice looks very promising so I'm hoping you can help me! I received the following error on a BSOD after burning a data DVD last …

Hi all, I hope you can help... I've made a big mistake and let my brother try and fix my laptop becasue I didnt have the time to do it myself... Now its even worse... The original problem was whenever I opened a website that played a video using WMP, …

Hey everyone I have installed a firewall at work to keep people from using the computer at night for bad thing's but they are going into msconfig and disabeling it and restarting the computer so it doesn't start up right away , so i was wondering if there is a …

Is there any way that I can freeze my desktop, or block it somehow, so that my little brother can't change the background and/or screensaver? I'm sure there's software out there. Running xp, by the way.

I hope I'm in the right forum 1st of all and thanks to all of you. Since this morning when I have turned on my PC it boots as normal and then gets stuck on the 1st page (before windows would open) Mercury with the website address,(which I'm guessing is …

ok this is my condery i am trying to engage the game tiger woods 2007 and this little birdy shows itself on the bottom of the bar it is called document viewer and i cannot or dont have the inttellegence to remove can you please explain to me some options …

I'm an Avant Browser user on both my PC and my laptop so only loaded IE7 to get latest version to compare with AB. For a few days it seemed to work OK but then when I loaded it on my PC I got the "IE has encountered a problem …

just reinstalled windows xp; all working well; all CD based installations work well attempted to install downloaded version of Norton Utilities (from old download; it worked well in XP before); keep getting error message; "go to control panel to install and configure" Again; this program did install previously without any …