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I am really in a sort of hell here. I cannot get my 3 month old Toshiba notebook to shutdown/restart normally, and I have lost almost all functionality. It hung up on the process DLACTRLW.EXE which has to do with writing to the optical drive. I cannot get this "process" …

I found another program like Skype that offers FREE CALLS to us&canada!!!! [url]http://www.icall.com[/url] I havent tried it yet,but im very tempted too!! Anyone ever heard of them?

Hi All, I bought a new system with the following configurations Pentium D 2.66 Ghz Intel D102 GGC2 250 GB HD(segate). DDR2 512 MB RAM I try to install Windows XP with SP2.....I did the partion and it copies the files after that the system Restarted and it shows the …

Hello all, recently I stopped automatic updates because I was trying to fix a slow boot problem. I still wanted updates so thought I had better do it manually, but when I clicked on Internet Explorer, all I got was the browser window but no activity, no home page, no …

How do you do 90 cents divided by .70 to give a mark up on a spread sheet. Thanks in advance

hi there guys and girls, Just clearing some stuff off my hard drive and was checking how much free space I had. It was saying I used 20g as you can see from the pic. (first picture) However I couldn't think where this 20g had gone so I went in …

I'm new to this so I don't know where to post this or anything. My computer started lagging one day then my virus scanner wouldn't load. I have tried many virus scanners, but they all give me an error. The one I have now is saying On Access scanner failed …

I have a Sony Vaio with a 120 gig C/D drive. The C drive only has 13 gigs for programs, etc. D is full but I can move stuff over to a 300 gig Maxtor external. The problem is, there's nothing to delete on C and I'm at times under …

Hi. I correctly uninstalled Norton Anti-virus and restarted my computer but am encountering problems. Whenever I open a word document or any MS office document Windows trys to reinstall Norton and gives error messages saying it cannot be completed. I can close about 4-5 error messages and only then will …

:cry: hi i just bought a brand new compaq presario sr1850nx. here are the specs: amd athlon 64 3700+ 1 gb of RAM 250 GB HDD Windows XP MCE 2005/SP2 D-Link dwl-g132 wireless usb adapter smc wireless g router so i plugged in the usb adapter for the wireless...followed the …

Hey does anyone know how to install this eval copy (iso image) of serer 2003?? I am having the hardest time running this. It says app not supported by win32 :mad:

I am having wuite a problem with Windows 2000 laptop. I reinstalled Windows 2000 after another unfixable error, and now its stable and good... but i dont know why the DVD decoder is not on my computer. It played DVD's perfectly fine before, and after the reinstallation... there is nothing. …

I was trying to "clean" up an old emachine. It has Windows ME. I was deleting stuff and obviously went too far. It shut down. When I start up again it gives me the desktop with my regular background and picture, but nothing else. Is there a way to type …

When i open a video of something and it is a .wmv file or the video is opened in Windows media player the colours are different to what they should be. i cant get a pic to show but the colours are brighter and more faded than they should be. …

I've ben googling this question for some time now and your website keeps poping up so I'll ask the question and I hope someone can help... My computer is not allowing me to open links how can I disable this? I try to open a link to say target and …

I'm having some of the same problems as other people have been posting re; hotmail. I downloaded MessengerBeta a few weeks ago and it worked fine. Then yesterday it told me that there was a newer version to download, so I did. Well ever since then I cannot access my …

I have encountered a problem booting up in Safe Mode. Trying to delete some pesky spyware .dlls, I tried booting up in Safe Mode. The computer booted up no problem, but after the 'Windows is starting up' screen, it went black, with a red rectangle from my LCD screen's interface …

I want to know how you can get the web page font larger? I know I go to view and increase but how do I get it to stay larger. My wife doesn't see very well and doesn't want to have to keep changing it every time she goes to …

Everything is working fine, with one annoying exception. My IE home page is NYTimes.com, and it opens correctly as home page or when accessed from address line by URL. Home page has many links, and when I click on these links, I get following message: "Microsoft Internet Explorer has encountered …

:mad: Okay, MY system was working fine up until about 4 days ago. I shut her down before heading to work just for a random shut down. And when I got home and powered it up I got a blue screen on boot up and then it took me to …

when installing windows 98 on my newly built pc I get to the searching of plug-ins and it then hangs, this has happened multiple times so please could anyone give me some suggestions:confused: I have a XFX geforce 6600gt and soundcard already plugged in is this likely to be causing …

Hey everyone, I'm still trying to get DNS setup correctly. I decided to pretty much start from scratch and use Microsoft's article 5171. I'm using MyCompany.com as our Domain and I put that in for the DNS as well. All of the other AD folders show up in my Forward …

when we boot the system in safe mode what are the files shown before booting the system?? ( a list of files is shown) i have some files in my startup list & when we boot using safe mode will those files be executed?? will drivers be loaded when v …

I am very interested in running AIM Pro, which according to the aim.com website, is Windows XP x64 Edition compatible. However, the setup program throws back an error saying invalid operating system. Anyone have any ideas?

Hi all i have been using microsoft access alot of late to create databases for various purposes. Normally before starting the database i will plan it out on a piece of paper what the structure of the database will look like for example what fields i am going to need …

Has anyone had any problems running the latest version of PartitionMagic on Windows XP x64 edition?

I dont know if this should belong under software or network security, but I am a little stumped at why I am missing the 'wireless networks' tab. This is a pentium machine xp pro SP1. I was trying to connect to the machine with software that will syncronize files in …

Hi there,new here so please bear with me,I have a problem in that after replacing a faulty cd rom windows will not boot up,what I get on booting is a message saying one of your drives needs checking for consistency,I let it check and the message comes back no errors …

when try to enter system restore get do not have sufficient security privileges do not know how to change it help would be appriciated

Hi I am new to this forum, and not at all knowledgable about PC stuff. I am at my wits end trying to get rid of this error message. It first happened when I installed Symantect Winfax Pro (which incidentally didn't seem to instrall properly). I have uninstalled it and …

I am trying to figure out why I can login as an admin and as a user, but when I try to login as a power user the system freezes. Any Ideas? Thanks Zero

I have just swapped over to a new computer and transferred my outlook files. I now however have two lots of personal folders when I open Outlook - any idea how to remove one of them please. I am using xp pro with office 2003. Thank you.

Hi All, Im Mummabear, Carol to my friends. Dont know if ive done this right:mrgreen: but here goes. Can anyone help...since reformatting my pc my system is doing a strange thing. When I click on my local ddrives c,d or e,the windows search box comes up instead of the contents …

I've been browsing the forum for anything that could solve my problem, but nothing I tried so far helped, so maybe someone has an answer to my specific trouble. My old computer's power source died, and we decided to just start fresh with building a new one. When hooking up …

Hi Guys, Can anyone help me please, I have two nieces both of which have iPod nano's like myself, however, we do NOT listen to the same music but they add/remove music for their iPods on my PC. I am trying to find a way to get itunes to recognise …

Operating System - XP Professional SP2 Computer - IBM ThinkPad T41 Suddenly the computer's sound device stopped working. On the control panel - Sound devices, it was saying "No Sound Device". This was strange, so I restarted the computer. After restarting the sound device was working properly when I tested …

I am in the process of removing MoviePass. The SChrock Innovations tutorial lists a bunch of .exe files, .dll files and folders where MoviePass may be listed. How do I view the .exe, .dll and folders to see if any of the listed files are there? And if there are …

Okay, so after a bevy of virus issues I decided it was high time for a reformatting. So, I reformatted my hard drive a couple days ago and I'm in the process of getting everything back together. Everything seems to be fine, but when I tried to run Civs4 it …

Hey, I have a wireless network in my house, connecting my desktops. I just bought a new laptop, and I want to conect to the network, but I dont know the network key. Is there any way to find this key on one of my already-networked desktops?

after i tried to pull file out of backup i can no longer get into drive c it says access denied i was wondering how to get in to drivec help would be helpful thanks

ok here are the specs - water cooled Athlon 64 FX-55, 2 6800 ultras in SLI, 1 gb corsair (i think) RAM, 300 gig seagate baracuda, A8N-SLI MB PCP&P SLI PS. ever since i built this bad boy i never was satisfied with the performance. i obviously built it for …

Hey Guys, I missed Microsoft's Beta window although I do have a friend that has a copy. Does anyone know if there is a limit on the number of times a Beta version can be installed? Thanks, AJZ

Here are a couple of guides designed to address the task of wiping the system clean and performing a fresh install of Windows XP. It's something we all face from time to time, and it can be a daunting task. There are plenty of guides already available, but often they …

I reinstalled Windows and I got this error a few times (I re-formated each time... :|): "Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start" I can't connect to the internet. What do I do?

Hey there. First of all, thanks in advance to anyone who tries to help out. Okay so here's the problem. I frequently use online games and download programs like uTorrent and Limewire, and all of a sudden I can't access my router through 192.168.1.1 anymore! Ports which were open seem …

I continue to have blue screens and receive Crash Analyses. Error caused by a device driver Cause: Unknown device driver To date I have used the Device Manager to search for and replace / update all drivers where possible. The problem continues. I am running Windows XP Pro with all …

I have a dell xps laptop and everytime i try to play a game online after about 15 mins or so i get the blue screen of death. Is there anyway i can fix this??

Hi, I have read all the related topics and have tried downloading CC cleaner and have bought Registery Toolkit and still have problems getting through on sites. I get as far as the home page and when asked for my log in details I get the page cannot be displayed. …

hi the same problem happened to me. i trie everything but can not get rid of bearshare. if u could possibly give me alittle more details on how to get rid of it i would really appreciate it. thnx

Hi - does anyone know if I can install a second XP OS on my second hard disk such that only one disk is accessable on each boot up?