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[font=Times New Roman][size=3]I recently ran ‘scanreg /restore’ to resolve a problem I was having getting Outlook Express to run. It runs now but is extremely slow staring up. It takes over a minute. Anyone have suggestions on how to speed things up again?[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]I’m running WIN98SE on a …

I have a problem that seems to be common, but apparently the solutions vary depending on the exact error report. Trouble is, I get "Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close" every time I close an IE window. Here's the exact error report: AppName: iexplore.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.2180 …

I recently purchased a used Dell Latitude LS laptop with 128 megs of ram. The operating system is Windows98 SE. It did not come with a floppy drive or a cdrom drive. I seem to be caught in a "Catch 22" situation. In order to install some external devices, such …

I installed a new hard disk in my notebook as my older one got a failure.There is windows xp professional in the new one.The dilemma is that it is taking too much time to get started,almost 15 minutes.And also,after getting started,my notebook is working very slowly.Task manager is showing 100% …

When i go into my computer it used 2 have 4 folders now it only has 3 the shared and 2 other users one is missing but it is still on the c drive what do i need 2 do

I have an older computer, Compaq Presario 4770 with a Pentium 200 processor, 32 MB RAM, running Windows 98. I am looking for FREE firewall and antivirus programs that will run on my system. I have tried Avast, AVG, and Zone Alarm, but they all require a faster processor and …

Hi all, My client is running a Win 2003 SP1 Server with many users accessing it through Terminal Services. Every night I have some scripts to run that only run correctly if all users are logged off from Terminal Services. I am wondering if it is possible to script the …

Whenever I open my IO.SYS file, I cant read it. It's a bunch of symbols. I was thinking that I dont have a particular font installed from adobe but I cant figure it out. Any suggestions? :(

I have a dual boot system. I have 2 IDE Hard Drives and can go into the BIOS and choose to boot to a Windows XP Installation on the C Drive (40 GB Seagate) , and a Windows XP Installation on the D Drive (120 GB Maxtor). I normally boot …

Ever since I changed from dial up to broadband a few days ago MSN messenger 7.5 will not sign in. Oddly Windows messenger will sign me in. Does anyone know why this is and what I can do about it? Cheers Kris

Hi, I recently had my hard drive replaced on my gateway desktop computer, and now instead of being drive C: it is now the I: drive. I was just curious if it possible to rename the I drive back to C, it is the only hard drive and partition on …

hey i just got a new-old computer (new to me) and i did a system restore. well now i am having problems with dl'ing stuff on my computer. When Winamp loads up, I get a "the ordinal 422 could not be located in the dynamic link library PX.dll" message, but …

Hello I have a couple year old "Adobe Premiere 6.0" video editing software that I want to download on my computer, I have Win XP and when I install the cd and click download I get this error message. "16 bit windows subsystem - C:\windows\systems\autoexec.nt. The system file is not …

Hi all... I have a problem here... I have 2 Compaq PentiumIII (model ia P450). I have image CD's created using norton Ghost and I am supposed to format the computer using those images. The problem is after I finished running the images I restart the computer and it starts …

[COLOR=Orange]help.. im new to this site. In order to sign into my msn i first have to change my password. I change my password and then sign in, im on for like 5 mins and it says ive signed onto another computer. I know what your all thinking " well …

Hi, I wanted to format a hard drive and re-install the operating system ( Windows 98). It only had a primary partition, in which I deleted and I went to format it and... I get Not Ready Format Terminated It does this when it reaches around 9%. It is a …

Hey everyone . . Who knows what th CVm.exe file is? isn't it a Windows System file? I seem to be missing this file in my System32 folder. I get a "CVm.exe Application Failed" at bootoff. I see this file in my registry . . and when i attempt to …

Ok, im in need of some help...i am trying to find if Windows XP Pro stores the history of everything you do. i am in a predicament where i need to show someone the history of a particular folder, what i want to do is show them all the times …

i have a cable intenet connection but any time i go to download anything it has a 30-40kbs download time. what can i do to fix this? :?:

hi everyone, great forum you got here. not sure if ive posted this in the right section, but please help me out if you can. on my other desktop pc, i have got a 200gb hard drive, its about 180 gb full of my own music recordings that i have …

i am having a very serious problem indeed, i am a novice so i can just describe my nightmare i installed a dbmanager software to view a mysql file, the next thing after installing and rebooting, was all file extensions in my taskbar and startmenu were replaced by .lnk of …

well i decided to remove linux from my laptop. so i booted up a freedos floppy and removed the linux partitons. however i also had win2000 installed and wanted to give it the space the linux was useing. here is my problem. grub was the boot loader and now it …

Please could someone help me with this problem. Here is the topic from the other secion that I started. [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread39668.html[/url] Thank you for any help. Atky

I'm trying to help a friend, and she's messed up the system someway. It is a Compaq Pentium II destop with a Gateway 2000 CrystalScan 17" monitor, and the system is 98SE. In Device Mgr. the monitor showing is the PCI VGA, and the problem is it will not give …

Every weekend, i will turn off my computer, and the next week (every day until Sunday) i will put it into Hibernation. After coming out from hibernation (twice now) my password won't work. I had to use my password reset disk both times, and it still resets itself. Help please?

SYSTEM RESTORE, WILL NOT WORK., ...I cant restore., how do you fix this????? IDEAS?

When i click on a program in add/remove on Win XP the add/remove screen closes. we have ran and remove a number of programmes to rid spyware and am fairly confident it has gone but not 100% sure. It just seems that somewhere along the way i may have disabled …

Yet another problem from my computer :mad: ! Heres what happend this time. about three days ago....I shut of my computer. And I got this blue screen saying "Diver_icql_not_less_or_equal beguining to dump phisical memory" Or something like that. But anyway...I've like goten that a ton of times before...I always thought …

Hello there! I think I have a very simple problem (for the comunity here). I want to recover lost data from a HDD. This has worked quite well until now but now I´m searching for a file type my recovery software does´nt know. So I have to enter this as …

i am trying to instll the driver for the ATI radeon 7500M in a Dell 5100. however it gives me a sor of paradox. on install an error pops up saying something about being unable to find the display driver inf file. well duh cause i havent installed one. it …

my folders are opening behind each other. I just reinstalled my OS and now when I click on a folder inside "my documents" the folder opens behind and you dont't see it. Its real bad when the print preview does it. My wife tried printing the same thing 20 times …

Hi all My son has a Dell Dimension 3000 pc OS Home XP Everytime he starts the pc as the windows screen appears he then gets the dreaded blue screen with STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF894E528, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) Can anybody help p.s He dosent appear to have a XP recovery disk …

When i close a window it leaves a trail as though there are loads of the same window open, i,ve had this b4 and it was a virus but i,ve done a full scan and nothing!Defrag the lot

Hello, I installed Norton Internet Security and I also uninstalled because of all the problems that it caused to my system. There are a number of problems: 1. I cannot logon to my hotmail account. I have made all the changes that have been suggested by different sources on the …

All this week, I have been getting "Page cannot be displayed" type errors in both Firefox and IE. This happens randomly every 5-20 minutes and lasts 5-20 seconds, during which I cannot access ANY website at all. When its over, all the sites work normally. We have 3 computers in …

originally i have a windows ME with 16mb ATI Rage Ultra video card. now i upgraded the sys with an upgrade cd of windows xp cd, now i had a problem with the sys because its running slow. now i tried to reformat the hard drive by installing the windows …

help me please!!!! I am having problems with my windows system 32 folder always opening up when ever I sign on to my computer. I don't remembe having this problem until I downloaded my aol security system check. Is there ayway I can stop my system 32 from opening everytime …

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I have a relatively new (Aug '05) Sony Vaio S460 that has a nasty habit of crashing. It follows a relatively predictable pattern in that it will crash soon after powering up, displaying a blue screen for a split second, before restarting. Afterwards, it is stable for days. There is …

I had 2@256MB Dual Channel on my WXP SP1. Removed the two memory chips replaced by single channel 1 GB memory chip The system at startup recognized the 1024 Memory BUT WXP w'not BOOT. Any suggestions. or explanations. Do I have to reinstall WXP because I upgraded memory!!!!!!

i'm urgent to get any help i can get. my photos were in a file listed by dates (altogether 15 days, that is to say, 15 subfiles there). they were in Drive c and i tried to 'move' this whole file to Drive D. i clicked 'move' and it began …

I have just did a clean install xphome everything has gone well considering it was my first. I did all the stuff from the optimize xp linkhttp://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html#Tweaks I am trying to do a few things and getting nowhere, get to the point right. trying to load the drivers from creative …

Dell 8300 xp home sp2 I was just tweaking and stuff, reading all your great info trying to speed it up. Well I installed a program that filters the start up's and running processes since I'm not to bright and didn't want to shut off the wrong stuff. I removed …

Hello there! I´m not exactly shure if I´m right on this page cause I´m not a Computer prof. but I´ve got a serious problem wich I can´t solve, so I hope you can maybe help me (also my english isn´t the best and I have to translate into English but …

Im not sure if I am under the right Thread! Im new so please excuse if i have some probs that are already on here. :o My computer is a complete disaster. I have did a complete system recovery on it. That didnt work. I could of done it wrong. …

Is it possible to reformat a hard drive and install Windows XP using a windows startup disk (floppy)? And if so, how? Note: I cannot get the PC to boot from CD and thats why I was wondering if this is possible. Ive been trying to reforamt a troublesome PC …

I have a CD-ROM drive. All of a sudden the icon for the CD-ROM drive does not appear in My Computer and using the find linlk I cannot find any othere disc frive except for drive C. How can I get my PC to show my CD-ROM drive? Before this …

Outlook Express wont send/receive messages sometimes. When i send a message window comes up and says 'Some errors occurred while processing the requested tasks. please review the list of errors below for more details' Then it says 'Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server …

bought a new 7800gs...tried it in my pc and could not get it to work..was told it was faulty..so i sent it back. When i recieve the new one i was getting the same problem. Bios and POST will show..but when it comes time to load the windows screen, the …

Hello everyone. My name is Anthony and I have a Sony VAIO, with Windows XP Home Edition. This morning I woke up and my computer had froze-up/was unresponsive. I had a peer-to-peer running and the numbers (speed I was receiving the files) was changing but I couldn't do anything. I …