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[B]I recently formatted my hard drive and re-installed an old version of win 98se as I did not have win me which was on there. Since doing this I have managed to find some of the drivers for the hardware (graphics amongst others) but have been unable to get the …

I get an error message saying windows installer is trying to configure microsoft office 2000 and asks me to put the cd. The problem is office 2000 was preloaded for me when I bought the computer. How do I find out if the whole product was loaded? Hope you can …

Hi everyone, I have a DVD Ram that was formated with Window NT 4.0 (in fat16) and i need to read this DVD in Windows XP but i cannot see anything. Someone told me once that it's possible to read fat16 with XP probably by modifying something in the registry. …

I have discovered that svchost is using 100% cpu while I am on the net and that is why the machine is locking, so what is svchost? and how can I sort the problem?

help!!! whenever i try to disconnect from net my pc locks up! any ideas? (please) Dsl connection 1Mb onboard sound & graphics 512 memory 2.6 intel processor

I use Windows 98 and have tried and tried to upgrade an old version of Internet Explorer 4 to version 6. I went to the Windows Update web page and discovered that I needed to download 24 critical updates. The download was going fine. considering my slow dial-up connection speed. …

I want others opinion on this. Norton/Symantec Ghost is the best there is to backup your system and other discs. The disc image backup can be restored to any disc if your system crashes. I use Windows XP Backup utility, making ASR with diskette boot, Total and Incremental backups, and …

hey. i have a problem concerning windows xp service pack2. i reinstalled windows xp few months back because i had a hard disk failure. after installation, eveytime, when i plugged in my external DVD-R or external hard disk to the usb port, an error will pop up on the taskbar. …

I recently reformatted a computer for a friend. Everything worked fine when I was running it at my house hooked up to my monitor. When bringing the computer back there is a limit on what is displayed. The bios boot starts to display, but then cuts off earlier then normal. …

Verizon DSL...ON SENDING., its VERY slow almost like sending via dial up., my messages DO sent but they send SLOW., Callled the ISP and they mentioned Uninstalling & Reinstalling Outlook Express 6.0.....? Anyone have any thoughts on this & if you Uninstall & re install any instructions on doing so>?????

Within the past week or so I have been working with large file in Photoshop... My computer has been running slow anyways that this wasn't helping. I started recieving low memory dialog boxes before my computer would lock up, but now, when trying to open a file in photoshop or …

I have a pc that I desperately trying to get booted. All it seems to want to do is go into a boot loop of 2 different screens, the first a black one with little information (NVidia etc) - the second one from Phoenix Technologies, award BIOS stating the Processor …

I recently inherited a newer eMachine that basically looks to me like the victim of a virus that disabled the HDD and caused damage to the main system board as well as powersupply. It is a T2482 and looking that up, noted some user problems somewhat similar...but as I swapped …

when ever I highlite some pictures in my pictures folder, in order to copy them into another folder, I get duplications of those pics. in my pictures folder. Today I downloaded some music files and were stored in shared folder and when I highlited several of them to move to …

Hi everyone, I need to ask a very general question about windows. You see if i use a cd writer and burn some files to a CD on a windows pc will i be able to access the same data on the CD on a Mac or Linux box? I …

Iv'e been using IE for some time. Just recently when I start to download a file from the internet, the file download box reads, gathering file information, which is neverending. It doesn't prompt me to save the file like it normally would. It's almost inpossible to download anything. Any help …

I picked up a hp pavilion 360n desktop about 5 years old. It was running very poorley,couldn't quite make it to the desktop. Was running XP. Went into bois and everything checked out. I don't have the original restore discs which came with this system new. Tried to install my …

I've been trying to access epguides.com. When I get to their main page and try to click on any of their catagories, I get a page that reads "Not authorized to view". I also see it is a 401.1 error. I've been accessing this page for months. Why would I …

Hey there, I don't know if I have what you would consider a problem, but I am having some dificulty trying to reinstall XP on my computer! I recently ordered the recovery CDs for the computer which I am told have the OS and drivers on them. All I want …

Hi All Can someone give me some insite on why my computer keeps restarting im running windows 2000 pro i,v reformaterd it hoping it would have fixed the problem but it hasnt it dosent seem to do it when i'm connected to the internet i'v done virus scans its not …

Hello. I have been trying to trouble shoot my brother's computer for some time now. One day, the javascript on his computer disabled or deleted itself. He can't open new web page links, or anything with javascript, his search is disabled because the javascript is not working, and programs like …

Hi I am having trouble logging in to Hotmail and this problem is manifested in both IE and firefox which I have recently just installed - so have eliminated at a pure IE based problem. It was working fine up until a few days ago. I use XP pro SP2 …

the place i'm working for is currently getting teir old p2 266 and 300mhz to the landfill but i try to scavenge one or 2, the main problem is that its research center computer and they have put windows 2000, i cannot go trough the logon page as i dont …

Hi all, I will begin by saing I have very limited knowldege on computers and I do understand that this website was designed for IT professionals and problems/issues for them. However, I really have come to the end...I have no idea where to turn to for help!. I have looked …

[COLOR=Blue]I've been running SP1 of XP Professional since i got this computer in July. I did a System Restore yesterday to clear some problems, and i turned on downloading updates, but so that i still had the option to install them myself. This morning it tells me i could install …

I am having a startup problem with my computer. After completing a printer software download windows asked me to restart my computer. When I did my computer would hang up on a blank screen and a message comes up saying ‘Out of Frequency’. Win ME is only letting me into …

Well,what happens is I'm using my computer,not running many processes or anything,and I do something with Windows Explorer,like right-click -> New,which freezes and it crashes explorer.Also,the taskbar at the bottom disappears,and when I try to close explorer or open a new one,it doesn't work.Any ideas?

Basically i was cleaning house and tweaking settings. I was in the windows user profiles section of the control pannel and noticed 2 profiles. Mine and a backup of mine. Well since i was cleaning house and it was 450 megs, i deleated my backup. Well, it turned out that …

Ok, here we go… I am working on a friends system with some virus and adware issues. I resolved all but one, so I proceeded to update him to sp2 and yep you guessed it, the dreaded C000021a {Fatal System Error} message appeared. The windows logon process system process terminated …

SO I was having some issues with my computer. some kind of virus crap or spyware. i ran norton and bulletproof and they seemed to clean alot of it, but it still wasnt working quite right. I decided to just reformat and reinstall. When I went to the install everything …

Hi i'm new here, and I hope this is the right place to post this, if not move it to hwere it belongs. Anyways, I have a problem with my Internet Explorer. Ok, the other morning i got on and IE was working fine, then that evening, it wont open …

Could I get help as trying to download Windows XP service pack 2o replace service pack 1 but it gets so far and then I get the message access denied. I done what Microsoft support states to do but I can not find the registry key that I need to …

Can anyone help? My internet is working fine, and I can pull up every page, but when I type in my login and password to hotmail and click continue it IMMEDIATELY sends me to the blank page saying "Page Not Found". My Norton AntiVirus is out of date and I'm …

I recently bought Windows XP Professional with Service Pack2 but a can not install it every time you try it tells you that there has been a data error or a cyclic redundancy check when installing i have tried another copy and the same message comes up any suggtions

I'm on Windows XP Pro Whenever I shutdown the system, I get what appears to be a Dr Watson type error (I'm guessing). The message says that dwwin.exe failed because the system is shutting down. I don't have to do anything though, the error goes away without having to be …

When turning on my PC, computer starts, windows XP logo appears then message that it cannot start. It gives options including start in safe mode, start in most recent config and start windows normally i try all of them and the computer restart and go back to the options all …

:confused: :confused: I am Having a problem with the computer at work , you see there are a few manager's that like to use it for chatting and surfing for things that they really don't need to be looking at , we do not have a firewall and we are …

I used to be able to attach Word 2003 documents to my yahoo.com or sbc.com email account. Now I get the following: Invalid file specified. Please try again. If I copy the same file to my local drive, it attaches fine. The strange thing... if I use my hotmail account, …

System Event Log [B]Type Date Time Source[/B] ............. Information 25/3/2006 12.08:55 IPSec Information 25/3/2006 12.08:26 Tcpip Information 25/3/2006 12.08:25 Tcpip Information 25/3/2006 12.08:19 IPSec [COLOR=Red]Information 25/3/2006 12.08:28 Eventlog Information 25/3/2006 12.08:28 Eventlog[/COLOR] Information 25/3/2006 12.09:43 Service Control Manager Information 25/3/2006 12.09:42 Service Control Manager Information 25/3/2006 12.09:41 Service Control Manager …

I have XP Home SP2 installed as my master harddrive and it now refuses to even start up (it refers to a dump line x). I've tried to change it to slave, and just install another XP based drive as master, but my PC cannot figure it out. - Or …

I have an interesting situation... I have a laptop with windows XP. I want to reinstall XP but the CD ROM is not available to me. The laptop has a working network port. How can I uninstall and reinstall under these circumstances? I have some knowledge and have heard of …

I have a Dell Dimension 2400. The other day I turned it on and received the following error: [B]c:windows/system32/config/system is corrupted[/B] Does anyone know the best way to fix this without re-installing? Any help is appreciated.

I have windows xp installed on my master harddrive and tried to install another operating system on my other harddrive and the installation didnt work right. Now when I boot up my computer it asks me what operating system do I want to run. I want to put back my …

I used this a long time ago because I found it helpful. I've decided to use it again, but it won't start up. Could this be the fault of service pack 2? Is there anything I can do to get it to work. Edit: What it does is show the …

I am posting this thread in the one of Network groups as well.... I have a triple homed system (a Dell GX270 w/512MB RAM running Windows 2000 Pro SP4 fully patched): the built-in (onboard) NIC is connected to our production network, the second NIC (a 3C900B combo RJ45/BNC card) is …

When I try to download music to my mp3 player using "Windows Media Player" my computer freezes and crashes a few seconds into the download. Also, when connected to my pc, the mp3 display constantly flashes the word "busy". Can anyone help?

My PC is using the wrong resolution when booting, i.e. when showing brand logo and windows load screen. At least i think it's the wrong resolution. Anyway, i think it happened because i switched monitors and the display configurations got messed up. I reinstalled the drivers but that didn't seem …

I'm not sure if this is a problem, but my laptop has on average 70 running processes and it is at 100% usage like always... I have noticed a big lag on my computer, so what should I do?

The media player will move and the visualizations work, but no sound emerges. This happens off and on for no apparent reason. I can play (and hear) the same files with MusicMatch Jukebox, RealPlayer, etc. I have not installed any new sound cards or done anything differently. I checked to …

Hi, i have a problem with saving images, when i try to save any image it only allows me to save it in bitmap, so any animated images stop moving once i saved them, how do i fix this? i tried converting them into jpg, gif once they're saved but …