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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 …

i kept getting a "need to close error" whenever i tired to open WMP so i uninstalled and reinstalled WMP10 and now well basically have this this error: [IMG]http://img301.echo.cx/img301/6532/error10bl.png[/IMG] so i removed WMP from my add/remove progs. and installed it again but the thing is it says i have the …

please help| I am no longer able to hear sound when playing DVD's (Intervideo DVD) or cd's with video ie on Wndows media player. The only sound we hear is an ordinary CD in windows cd player. We do not hear sound when starting up Windows or Chimes etc. I …

I know this is a program that has got into my computer, and I cant find out how to delete the pop-up about that Microsoft tells me that it is something wrong with my Windows 2000. Please help me asap. :cry: I would be very happy :p Grete

Dear colleage, In one of the Laptops in my office, It is found a problem. The modem couldn't be functional. So I can't use a dial up connection from this Laptop I've tried to install the drive from its own CD. It gives me the message "Can't continue Hardware update …

I too have the same prob as benyam dessu had. My prob is different as in that i have 2 xp home systems and now only 1 H.D. If i follow gemini4's fix through the system Startup way how do i know which one to delete as they both are …

Hi, I'm putting together a new machine for my office work. I chose a 160GB HD and Win2000. When I go to install Windows it only sees 131070GB on the drive and only lets me partition 131062GB and reserves another 8 for partition info. I know drive capacities are rounded …

Hey, I hope someone can help me cos otherwise my next step is formatting my hard drive :cry: Right, my problem is: when i start up windows it comes up to the screen where my windows hard drive gets checked for errors and after the drive has been checked there …

Hi everyone, I just replaced mobo and cpu in my girlfriends dead computer. It has xp office on hard drive. When I powered up it runs bios and then beeps and stops asking if I want to start windows norm, safe mode, safe mode with prompts and network. No matter …

Greetings, I have an old PIII/550 that my kids use. It's overdue for a cleanup due to all their junk. I'm not having boot difficulties, just really need to speed things up with a fresh install of XP Pro. It's been a long time, however, and I guess I didn't …

A father forgot his administrator passord and needs to download security updates. Windows XP Home Edition. Any suggestions?

Dear colleage, One of my Pcs is Booted Dualiy (Dual Boot), But know I want to remove one and have single Boot. How could I remove one with out formating the drive that contains it's files. Best regards, ben.

Hi guys n gals, I get a microsoft internet explorer pop up saying 'Out of line memory at line 94' regularly when i open up my browser, any one of you experienced people know how to get rid? :mrgreen: Cheers Dougie

recently, i unable to play my game in full screen mode. i remember that it works well before. i dont know whats happen...it is my register in regedit.exe has been change?? anyone know how to solve it?

Hi. I'm running an Athlon 2400+ with 512 DDR ram with Windows XP Pro. However, I've noticed that whenever I begin to burn a CD, or simulate a burning, my CPU usage shoots up to 100%. As you can imagine, my computer becomes pretty much unusable when this happens so …

We just put together a computer for a friend of ours. Everything worked fine when we gave it to her, and she checked it out again at her parents. But when she started it back at school it went through the check disk for errors then the monitor shut off. …

I just set up a new PC and have dual monitors using extended desktop. Works really well, but one strange thing is happening that I was hoping someone here might be able to explain. When I move the cursor from one monitor to the next, the cursor shifts up or …

At my boot screen i am always prompted to choose the operating system. I use only windows xp home edition and it's listed twice. is there anyway to skip this prompt and go straight to the booting of xp?

Im having a problems with XP i installed it on two different HDD already and they are both using up 100% of the cpu... also one of them is new out of the box. Cant seem to figure out what the problem is.... I have also reconnected all the wires …

Hi guys, According to [URL=http://testdrive.mapinfo.com/TECHSUPP/MIPROD.NSF/0/9d37e38edafa743f8525708b00555906?OpenDocument]Here[/URL] I am told to update the ISScript engine on your computer by downloading the latest one from [URL=http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q108158]Here[/URL] However, I can't even install this MSI because the error message speaks : The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are …

[url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/275546/en-us[/url] describes my dilemma. The problem is that according to this solution I need the Client for Microsoft Networks :cry: I do not have it installed. I am running XP. What do you recommend?

Sometimes under no apparent reasoning certain processes will use 100% of the processor, causing it to become really hot and slowing down the overall performance of the computer. So far I have had trouble with these processes: trillian.exe, wmplayer.exe, eplorer.exe I have searched for viruses and spyware with no results. …

How do I find it. I can't remember where I saw it but they said it came directly from ms and it is just like the xp pro themes so there is no add on like some other 3rd party stuff. Anyone know where I need to look in [url="http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic43764.html#"]microsoft[/url]? …

Hello everyone, and thank you for considering this topic. I think I may just have screwed up my friend's machine. I was trying to fix some problems with drivers, and used system restore, to restore all of the origional OS, and drivers. Now the computer says on a black screen …

i would like to either disable or reduce sensitivity of the touch pad as it causes serious upset when typing: cursor jumps at the slightest touch of thumb to another place, or wipes out loads of work. help!

Just a few days ago, I am unable to launch weblinks from in my email or any website. Once I click on a link, the program freezes for about 1 minute and then releases itself. It use to always open the site in another browser window. Now I have to …

I keep getting a pop up that says: [B]Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Buffer overrun detected A buffer overun has been detected which has corrupted the programs internal state. Program cannot safely cont. execution and must terminate.[/B] It started when I tried to upgrade my AOL to the 9.0 Secutiry …

Hi Guys, I am running a virgin installation of XP with SP2 with an Athlon 750 & 512Mb RAM. Everything has been running fine after my installation a couple of weeks ago, until today. Upon reboot I am seeing "a disk read error has occurred, press ctrl-alt-del". This is an …

Every time I try and install windows xp, it freezes during the installation. I've formatted the hard drive over 10 times now and I've tried to use both FAT32 and NTSF file systems, and neither one gives me any results. The problem occurs after the computer restarts when it finished …

Hi, Explorer used to remember past information I'd entered into web forms and gave me the option of autofilling when it looked like I was re-entering the same info (very useful for eBay feedback, book database author searches, etc). This facility has suddenly stopped working - is there a setting …

Hello. Following one of your tread, I try to reformat my Pc. But it don't let mi change the "boot order". I have the feeling that I have put a pasword but whitout intention, so now I can't change anything on the Bios. Problem is that I did a instalation …

Hi, I have a quick question. Is there any possible way to get the second restoration from Microsoft to reinstall ME to a computer? It was lost in a move and we need to reinstall the computer with ME. Any help would be appreciated, thanks! I don't know what service …

I'm not sure I'd want to attempt a flash and fail, but out of all my BIOS systems, the Compaq DeskPro one is fairly limited and seems it could stand an update. My book PC uses Award's BIOS version 4 IIRC and dates to 2000, and not sure I need …

I am having a bit of regret contacting Microsoft on their Piracy email address about copies of Windows XP I bought off eBay... Mainly my XP Pro that was sold w/o the product key and was initially an OEM OS. My inquery to Microsoft was to ask whether it was …

[URL=http://www.winguides.com/registry]this[/URL] site provides tons of useful registry tweaks :) -T

My computer freeze from time to time

Hello all, Wonder if anyone has a quick answer to the following problem, no one in our IT department has any suggestions! lol :) When you click on a link to download a file in IE it prompts you to Open or Save but there's a tick box which says …

Again on my bro's computer....whenever he tries to install a legit game from a website, it downloads, but whenever he tries to click on the icon to install, it pops up with a box that reads "this application could not open because you do not have a WIN32 application." This …

you can shut down your pc from dos prompt like this : type .... shutdown -s ( it'll give you 30 secs to save your work and then it'll shutdown) for restart type shutdown -r and for logoff type shutdown -l for more options type shutdown only. I tested these …

i have no idea whats going on...i've un/reinstalled wmp w/ no luck. it use to just play what i had on the hard drive, but thats over now too. also it used to just play music and not video sound. what to do??? please help