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ok so i had to reformat my windows a couple of days ago because svchost.exe got infecte and there was really no way out of it i couldnt really get onto any programs for a significant enough ammount of time. But now i have all my songs on my itunes …

Wonder if anyone could possibly help by pointing me in the right direction towards the problem that a friend of mine is experiencing while working on Microsoft Access. Firstly, he's "Account No" field with Data Type as "Number" & in the "Field Properties" at the bottom, he's Field Size set …

windows xp i've appeared to have lost the cd-rom drive, it doesnt display on my computer, i went to the device manager and found the TOSHIBA DVD ROM SD-R6112 with a yellow "!" next to it, what does this mean? i click properties and its says Windows successfully loaded the …

I have Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 and I've used it for a few months now without any problems. Today i tried to burn a cd and a program error box popped up. It said, "CREAT50.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart …

I am a kid still living with my parents. Several years ago, my parents decided that they no longer wanted to buy antivirus and firewall software for the family because our ISP started giving away a protection suite. I didn't want to switch away from Norton, but seeing as I …

ok,i was just about to upgrade my system installing a new graphics card and mobo. before upgrading i uninstalled my old graphics and motherboard drivers, then upon restart to complete uninstallation i get the blue screen with error stop: 0x0000007b (0xBACC3528, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) the only thing i have tried …

Hi, My computer has been infected with a bullseye network, cashback, and navisearch program and it recently had this nasty coulomb dialer on the computer. I tried every method to get rid of these junk, but it keeps on coming back. Does anybody know how to remove them? Thanks in …

HELP! I have been trying to fix this issue for 3 days now. I have read about every post I can find on DaniWeb that deals with my problem but none of the fixes have worked. I am by no means an expert. My problem is that I can not …

On my BK630e book PC, bought a fresh copy of XP home edition full version and a 40GB drive to install on it. At the Starting Windows prompt where if I remember, the black WinXP screen replaces the standard text on blue opening motif, the keyboard lights go out, there …

Hi guys, I have a hijackthis log and I was wondering what I should delete to help my computer stop running at 100% Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 4:57:29 PM, on 2/1/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe …

Hello,something weird happened a few minutes back.I think I turned on my pc accidentally by pressing something on the keyboard.Is this possible or it was a random event?I tried pressing a power button on my keyboard but it works only for shutdown.Any ideas? :?:

I've searched all over the internet attemting to find a solution, but nothing has worked for me so far. Basically, on my main desktop computer, i have been running xp home, but i was able to purchase windows xp pro and xp pro 64 bit for $11.95 for both through …

Every time i shutdown there's a pause and a window saying 'ccApp not responding' and 'active movie window' and gives me the option to 'end now' if i leave it it shuts down eventually. Symantec say unchech 'scan floppy on shutdown' in antivirus options but this does nothing. Any ideas …

Can some one please help me ive done everything i know of... When i log onto my windows xp name two boxes immediatly pop up. The first one says: [B]Windows cannot find 'C:windows\inet20099\winlogon.exe'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, abd then try again. To search for a file/ click …

Hi, I am having a problem where my screen freezes up in screen saver mode. It seems like my computer is still functioning though. This happens when I move the mouse to get out of screen saver mode I had a different problem with my nvida driver in the past …

I have been getting a Windows Installer message stating that Patch1.0.1.msp cannot be found and to browse, etc. This happens whenever I reboot. If I remove the message it comes back automatically while I am using IE or not. Can't shut down my Sony Vaio laptop unless I mess around …

Hi all...I'm going to install Windows XP and have a 200GB hdd, will XP recognize the total 200GB without partitioning, or will it only recognize the old 137GB limit?

For the past week everytime I close my e-mail I get this message Microsoft Visual C ++ Run time Libary Runtime error! Program:C:\ Programfiles\outlookexpress\msimn.exe r6025 -pure virtual function call OK I don't know what it mean's , why it is happening all off a sudden :confused: :confused: Any help would …

is there software that will email me my remote PC's IP address? or is there away to setup outlook to send me an email everyday with the IP address?

Hi, I have 2 old machines I want to toss. I think one is Win95 and the other Win98. I want to grab certain files from the hard drives before destroying them. The Win98 won't boot and I haven't tried the 95 machine yet. Is there a relatively simple way …

I now have two hard drives in my pc after a recent catastrophy - details here! [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread17368.html[/url] So, I now have a 160gb western digital and a 80 gb maxtor. The 160gb is my main hard drive - the 80gb drive is now empty. I have quite a lot of …

It all started last night maybe as a result of me running a program that was mislabeled by norton as a trojan on my sister's computer. now every single computer on the network, excluding mine, is without internet access. interestingly enough, you can still access google by using its IP …

Help! I got no sound on my computer. I used to have, but I had low disk space and deleted alot of programs. Now I don't have any sound. When I go to the control panel and select sound and audio devices, I can see I don't have an audio …

I was running on my machine a Seagate Serial ATA harddrive (120gb) and had data corruption of the registry (Windows XP Pro). The data on the partions was retrieved but the data that was under the administrator account on the C drive is currently being stopped by the administrator password. …

the following file is missing or corrupted c:/essolo.sys there is an error in your config.sys file on line 1 I deleted an old version of AOL and now coming up in dos mode HELP

Hi ,my Pc was always auto logging on my account but two days ago a log on screen appeared after a reboot without warning and I can't return it to its previous state.Once I found an identical thread but it was long ago and I can't locate it.It was saying …

yep...my internet is going crazy....it disconnects then i would have to do ipconfig/release and ipconfig/renew to get bak on.....i dunno wats wrong with it. sum help would be appriciated thanks, daniweb has never failed me before!! dont fail me now!!

I have bought a used computer from work for a family member. Have completed all updates on it and SP2 is now installed. Tried turning on firewall but it gives me a message that it cannot be turned on as it is being monitored and controlled by network.(or something like …

Hello everyone!! Here is my situation: I have 1 internet connection, 1 linksys router, and two computers - a laptop and a tower. They share the internet connection, and that works well. I put both computers on the workgroup called 'HOME' and was sharing a printer and a few files. …

Hi Guys I recently reinstalled windows on my system and like an idiot i did not keep/lost my driver disks for my graphics card and sound. Ive managed to get the graphics card drivers downloaded and working but I can't get any sound on my system. The motherboard is and …

I'm actually fine in the auto IP dept, but I wanted to look and see the set-up. When I tried to execute cmd from Run, but no deal. I got the requester that states this app is not suitable for DOS applications. I know that you can do this from …

Hi all...yeah, I know this dosen't belong here, but there dosen't appear to be a proper forum for it, so... I'm shopping for DVD+R media, and have found Ritek Ridata Branded 8X DVD+R Media 100 Pack in Cake Box Spindle for $30. plus shipping. I have two questions... 1) Is …

I have a Dell Inspiton 8600 with WinXP, using DSL for Internet. Everything was working fine until I had problems booting. Got that resolved by using my OS disk. Now, I cannot get online. First, I got the message "IP conlfict" - - - I re-configured the modem and router, …

Hello, I'm new here. I have an HP Laptop running Windows ME. I've been having so many problems with it, the CD drive and the power source....but that's a whole other thing. Right now I'm trying to Restore to my factory settings so I inserted the Recovery disk and walked …

I rather doubted (but can't ignore the possiblity) if it's a hardware problem or not & am therefore posting my thread here instead of in a any other suitable section. Friend of mine called earlier saying every time he types in any key on the keyboard, be it be alphabetical …

i have internet explorer for windows XP and service pack 1.whenever i type anything in the address bar it says "Cannot find 'www.yahoo.com', make sure the path or internet address is correct" or whatever site i go to. how can i stop this?

To avoid an old thread bump, I thought I'd just mention as a current Windows ME user (for my processor equipped eMachine, opting to stick with ME for now) I have heard if you bought the system intact on the PC, preferribly new like me, it should run effortlessly, viruses …

when i double click my C drive to open it, it alwaya pop up a search window. I notice that...when i rights click my drive the Search. option appeare at the first one then follow by open..explore. i go to the toolbar at top and select tools>folder option>file type. I …

I ran into a problem this morning when i got on my computer.. WHen turned on and windows starts a dialog box appears stating lsass.exe-system fatal error. Object name not found.. As long as i dont click ok i can work but if i do it restarts. I've got win …

OK, I have been pulling my hair out about this for hours now and I just can’t work it out. I run a 3 monitor setup. 3 screens running simultaneously on the same machine, I’m not sure if this has any relevance to the problem or not but I thought …

Windows media player won't play some "Movie Clip" files that I've downloaded. (note I say "some" - I've got other movie clips files that play ok). What happens is that I double click on the icon and Windows media player opens and then it searches for codecs: "Requesting codec server.... …

Hi, When my users login they run a bat file called login.bat. The batch file then calls three other files using the following commands. %0\..\wscript.exe %0\..\shortcut.js %0\..\wscript.exe %0\..\i5shortcut.js %0\..\wscript.exe %0\..\i5settingswim.vbs %0\..\Kix32.exe groups.scr When this is run from a W2k machine the script runs fine without any problems. However, when the …

Ok. Win XP Pro, SP2. On asking (telling, pleading with) the computer to shut down, it goes through the usual log out and saving settings screens and then restarts. Not consistently...Oh no. About 3 in 5 shutdown attempts result in this obnoxious behaviour. I HAVEN'T got "Automatically restart on error" …

If i wanna convert my pentium 3 to a pentium 4 what info do i need or basically what do i need to do.....thank you for any advice or responses... also how much you estimate would it cost

I was running Windows ME with a 20gb HDD.. decided for an upgrade and got a 60gb hd to go along with the 20gb... now i got 80gb of space but all the Defult stuff is clogging up my 20gb hd... so i got xp and a nice clean install …

Hi! I have a little problem: I work with Outlook 2003 and an Exchange 2003 Server. On an Exchange Server exists a rule limitation. For this reason I need a plug in for Outlook to sort all my emails in special folders. Or does anyone knows how I can save …

i got a simple problem with my quicktime plugin it keeps showing flash or stream objects like this: [url]http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9316/untitled16zc.png[/url] know whats up?

I have a P-4 with 512 MB Ram. I have loaded Win98 and Winxp. Winxp is working fine but the problem is with 98. When i enter into it first the Win98 logo comes up and then a blank screen comes up with a blinking small flat bar at the …

I am running Windows XP Home on my laptop and keep getting the same problem recurring,i.e., Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and has to shut down. The desktop icons then vanish and reappear but my Giant spyware app. has invariably shut down and if I want it live again, …

Ok ive had this computer that i built now for almost a year. most of that year it has been out of action with various problems. its high end - here are the specs water cooled Athlon 64 FX-55, 2 6800 ultras in SLI, 1 gb corsair (i think) RAM, …