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okay... so yesterday randomly my laptop [toshiba a55 series] shut down on me. it just turned off. i let the computer sit for a few minutes because it was quite warm on the bottom when i did restart, my desktop was gone [the icons were missing and i couldnt right …

I'm on a laptop and for about a month now, everytime i push my L key in internet explorer it goes to full screen and back again when i push L again. However, only pushing L does it. If i hold shift and push L it does nothing. But pushing …

i had a person teaching me how to make a screenshot, but it didn't work. i think it was because my zone alarm firewall was incompatible. unfortunately i lost all the instructions i was given. i know that i need paint, which i have. i also have irfanview and flock. …

Greetings, I have problem recently whenever I go online. If I try to play music (such as Winamp) or any other applications that create sounds, my PC will immediately go to blue screen! The blue screen error message usually say something like "TRAP_UNKNOWN". I connect to the internet using dial-up …

Hi everyone, I have just found this site and was wondering if you guys could help me out. I come to turn on my laptop today and it refuses to work. I have XP home edition on it. It tries to boot windows , flashes a message( too quick to …

Hiya, hoping someone can help with this, i notice other people have has similar problems. My account on hotmail will absolutely not log in via hotmail.com on my laptop (connected via wireless). I have installed firefox and upgraded to IE7, both give the same result. Have cleared the cache, cleared …

Okay, so, a strange problem with my desktop, it doesn't show up, the icons do, but the picture I picked as my desktop doesn't. [IMG]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/[URL="http://www.imagehosting.us/index.php?action=show&ident=1697405"][IMG]http://show.imagehosting.us/show/1697405/0/nouser_1697/T0_-1_1697405.JPG[/IMG][/URL][/IMG] Now, when I enlarge the Start Taskbar, the picture shows up for some reason. And then when I put the taskbar back, it goes back …

Hi All, My XP Pro with SP2 is an upgrade from 98. I can not Right Click on the Desktop. The system just crashes. DrWatsn32.exe will generate a PostMortem and submitting to MS doesn't help. I run up TaskManager and Kill off DrWatsn32 to get Explorer to reload....... I've scanned …

About two weeks ago, we had an electrician come to our house to fix some unsafe outlets and rework the wiring a bit. I think he some how changed the wiring so that upstairs is getting more power now (my computer is downstairs). But on that same day, my mom …

Morning Folks, When RAM is removed / Added to/from a system, does it create a log in the event viewer? And if so what ID is it given? Thanks, gn0m3

Hi all. I need to know how to setup windows servers (all) to execute a logon script regardless of it being a user, local or domain, terminal server login or a service that executes the logon. Sort of default but it must not prevent the regular group policy or user …

I had a Toshiba laptop that crashed more than a year ago—it wouldn't start up, and it wouldn't even let me reformat the hard drive. I ended up just getting a new computer. A Mac. :) However, yesterday I decided to try to reformat the old PC. Amazingly, it booted …

[B]We just got my niece a new mp3 player for christmas - well I am trying to get it ready for her, but..I have no idea what to do. I put in the *driver* cd that came with it ....but all it installed was an MP3 Update for the mp3 …

I formatted and reinstalled XP but now I have two versions of XP. What to do. And I tried at Add/Remove Programs but ther's no other windows

For some reason when I double click anything it won't open. I got to right click it and hit open. I checked the folder settings and mouse setting there correct. I also scanned my computer can someone explain whats wrong.

cant seem to find website for driver..need c3000zoom driver for xp

Hey Gang, I'm running windows 98se with all the updates from MS. Here's my problem, Put a new dialup modem in my pc, loaded the drivers, everything went just fine, I can get on line, can do everything within windows. But when I try to change display resolution weather from …

I just reformatted my Win SP Pro SP2 machine and now it starts up as the administrator rather then my profile. It doesn't even give me a choice as to which user to use. How can I make it so it starts with the user I want and not the …

hey i need some help with my cp, and seeing how this is a tech forum i figure ill find it here. A little while back my computer stopped starting up. I keep getting the following message, afterwhich i clicked a option it freezes. any ideas? We apologize for the …

I copied folders/files to a back up hard drive. Now that I have reinstalled WIN XP on my primary hard drive. I can see however, I can't access all of the folders on the back up hard drive. I get "The folder 'D:\name' isn't accessible. The folder may be located …

I recentley baught a used HP Pavilion 6535, 466MHZ Celeron. for my daughter to use for doing school work. The comp was working fine I came home from work and NTLDR is missing is what I found. If she did something she not telling me what it was any way …

while installing an update for Apples Itunes-Quick time the install stopped with this message. Quick time would not install. thanks

Hi, I've an old PC with a 266 mhz CPU and just upgraded to 256MB RAM (though the motherboard can only cache 64MB RAM), running Win 2000 Pro (fully updated). I've set it up as an MP3 playing 'jukebox' connected to my stereo in the living room and have plugged …

I have windows xp pro and everytime I boot up the improperly shut down screen comes on after bois. This is a recent development from my fiddeling with a slave HD. I start in windows normally and everything works perfectly, Master and slave HD, cdrw, A: drive. I restored back …

Hi...I am a new member to this site and I am here cause I was looking for some help with my connection problem. I am not sure what is wrong cause I could connect to the internet but cannot connect to no site that requires me connecting to another server...I …

Hi can anyone help as I am going nuts ! for three weeks I haven't been able to figure what's causing my pc to crash and as was writing this and posting this thread, the dam thing crashed again so had to start again !ARGHHH ! My CPU and memory …

I have windows XP Pro SP2, with windows media player 11 beta it hasnt given me any issues for weeks now the only thing I changed was to download a new divx 6.4 codec and xvid 1.10 codec, sounds and videos play fine in my VLC player/Real Player/Divx...etc its only …

Miniplayer mode has always worked fine on my computer, however recently it has stopped. WMP itself seems to still be working perfectly fine but when i minimize it it does not go to the MP mode. I have WMP ticked under taskbar>toolbars, but all this does is shift some space …

Hi all, Ok, somebody may have an answer to this, but personally I cannot figure it out. I turn the PC on and it seems to try to boot up but doest really seem to get there, the harddrive LED stays lit for a minute or so and then goes …

I posted this in the virus discussion too: Alright well, let me start by saying that Ive reformatted twice, and scanned for viruses/spyware every time and I found nothing. At random times during the day, I can open up my task manager and see that my CPU usage is spiking …

the name of topic says it all. when i turn on computer boot.ini file not found

[i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Place a "Run" Icon On Your Desktop[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial] [list] [*][size=2]Open the Start Menu and drag the Run option on to your desktop. [/size] [/list][size=2]You may want to rename it to get rid of the ampersand. …

I just found an old HP Pavilion in my basement that hasnt been used in a while. I thought I would set it up. I formated the HD and install a fresh copy of XP Pro with Service Pack 2. Worked great as I was setting it up, and when …

i just noticed this happening when i bootup it's slowed and when i can look at taskmanager it shows that svchost.exe using nearly 90 - 96 % of CPU. i need some help please.

Hi not sure which forum this shuold be in so dont moan at me id its in the wrong one!;) Right heres the problem.. i have lost full admin over my whole computer, i have become a poweruser. this is because i was tinkering around with the user groups ( …

I just installed Windows XP pro on my laptop, and I can't get the sound card to work. I downloaded the drivers for it from dell which is where I bought the computer from, and it gives me an error saying it can't find the device. It was working before …

I've set my SS so that it will kick in after 10 minutes of idleness and prompt for a PW before returning XP. However I've noticed whenever I leave media player open my SS will not kick in ever. Is there a way to circumvent this? Or do all apps …

When i plug my ipod into my computer it goes "HI-SPEED USB device attached to non-HI-SPEED Hub" But im pretty sure I've got USB 2.0, cause it has worked fine before, and just now im geting the message. My motherboard is SiS 651, and im using windows XP sp2. Here …

I have just recently tossed together another computer with some spare parts, but when I try to Install Win XP on my hard drive it will not format the drive for me to install on, it says my drive is corrupt. So I put the drive in my main computer …

I have been using my girlfriends computer off an on and last night I went to use it and the following message appeared: We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this." My options are: Start in safe …

For 6 monthes now my screen has been blacking out at random times, usually for about 1-2 seconds before returning to normal. Games, movies, and music in the background dont seem to skip or freeze when this happens. Also, games that I know my computer can handle without breaking a …

I have been without a computer for 3 weeks, and I still can't figure out what is wrong with it. It was completely fine one day and then the next, I turned it on and I got the error; windows/systemroot/ntoskrnl.exe file is missing or corrupt. My brother who works on …

Has anyone else had this problem: You go to Yahoo! Chat or to Pogo.com to play some games. Your OS is WIN ME. You go to these websites, but for some reason the Java refuses to work. SO you do what the instructions say: Download the current version of Java. …

Please HELP MEEEEE! I am at my wits end! I could easily dump data (usually text data) unto a printer connected to an LPT port using the following command - "print /d:LPT1: E:\tickleme.txt" but I cannot seem to do same to a printer connected to a USB (virtual port). What …

[B][COLOR=red]:lol: I purchased a Laptop from a store that had sold it previosly and the first owner had fired up Widows XP and logged his name to it ...[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=red]Now everthing goes via C:\documents and settings\Billy>[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=red]I want to change this login to another name (cos i'm not Billy )[/COLOR][/B] …

I am having browser problems. I cant get in to 3 sites i view regularly and i know the sites are not down coz my friend has been there to check. I have tried system restore and it doesnt fix the problem. Any ideas?

Yesterday while writing email to daughter, I wanted to send pic attachment, but the outlook exptress attach button would not work. To make a long story shory, a bunch of windows, "windows" kept opening on my screen. Somehow I lost the "MY Pictures" icon that I could access from my …

"Java not found or not working" This Is the message I read yesterday when I tried to play on pogo and when I cliked on a game It brought me to a page where It said that message I realized since I reinstalled windows I need to update java so …

Let's say Explorer has become corrupted. Is the best way for re-installing the client doing a limited install from the CD, then go to MS and do the upgrade to the latest version (after deleting from Add/Remove Programs)? Or should the Add/Remove Programs be attacked first deleting IE, then going …

[COLOR=#000000]I’ve seen a few other posts where people have had the same problem with both IE and Firefox. Hopefully someone can help me out. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Here’s the deal. After sitting idle, usually for a few hours, my browser won’t refresh or open new pages. I have a new …