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I've got a 40gig Western Digital secondary HDD. Recently, the cursor's been acting strangely when accessing files on that drive. When I open an image stored on there, the image of the cursor (the arrow) will freeze after a few seconds and won't restore itself until I reboot. It's weird …

hello, i tried to back up a dvd the other day and i noticed that my computer had restarted itself. i tried it again and i believe it did it again. so i turned off the computer and figured i'd try it again. well when i turned on the computer …

I was playing with my windows registry .. and what I did is place daniweb shortcut on my start menu. Does anyone know how to do it ??

I play an MMORPG called World of Warcraft and occasionally my system freezes while playing. The only thing I can do is restart, and the speakers on my PC make a buzzing noise when this happens. THe screen freezes on the game. When I look at my Event Viewer it …

How do I fix this problem? I can't find the drivers for this... [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/loopah/driver.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/loopah/driver1.jpg[/IMG]

hey i noticed a few weeks ago that my windows xp is taking 5-15 minutes to load to the login page.. if i try going into safe mode it just freezes and wont load.. any help on this would be great i also hav removed some unnesisary files from my …

All was well until I installed updates. The computer goes on, message: Windows Explorer has encountered a problem & needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Task Manager works & it looks like all my programs still work, including wireless DSL. All I get on the screen is …

I am new to this tech "stuff" and computers in general. Could someone please tell me how to go about transferring a "words" document to a CD-RW? Thanks! :sad:

hey, i am having trouble with my laptop. im trying to reinstall windows. i had xp and i wanna go to 98. i used delpart to erase the harddrive and then i ran fdisk to create a partition. and now i am stuck. i cant get the format command to …

Hi, Does anybody know why the AT programmed tasks do not "see" the network mapped drives?? The issue is I launch a BAT file by double-clicking its icon and it works fine, but if a schedule an automatic launch (by using AT)... what the f(...) do Microsoft people with their …

hey guys, i cant login to some secure sites, i have no clue why. i try to get on nexopia,afterdawn forums and stuff but i cant logon, ive recently had that damn winfixer, maybe its that, sum1 plz help, THANKS!

Hi Guys need your help I have a computer which i bought it from someone . Its not allowing me to download any of theservice pack . It keeps on giving me error saying illegal key ...Please let me know if there is a way around it thanks

hey, if anyone can help me, i would greatly greatly appreciate it. let me explain my plorblem to you all. when i start up my laptop running xp, before it does anything else, it gives me the error... "windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: …

ok i can't view any of the music videos at yahoo and i can't view this one video someone posted here's the screenshots. i've tried reinstalling windows 10 like tons of times with no hope if someone can help me i'd be one lucky man here's the errors

[font=Tahoma]Okay... I'm fixing a computer for my father's co-worker. The XP box started rebooting for no reason at all when he was running some programs a couple weeks ago. He approached me at work a few times to try to get some tips on what to do. Apparently, from the …

Hi, I have 1.25 gig of ram and svchost.exe starts hogging my ram sometimes utilizing up to 98% of cpu. I dont have any viruses or worms, etc that I know of. I run Adware, SDspybot, Spyware Blaster, MS Antispyware, and Mcafee regularly... Below is my hijackthis log.... Please Help!!! …

Hi, I'm having some problems with cachecachekit. I've formatted my pc 4 times, but the norton window keeps alerting that the virus is still in my pc. How can I finally kill it??? Please, help me. I use win xp sp1 Thank you very much indeed. Here is my logfile …

Ok i have been getting a BSOD after a fresh clean install of windows XP the error says it was caused by the file nv4_disp. Now i reserched the error to find that it ussally has somthing to do with the video card. And MS support said to disable hardware …

Hey everyone. My exact problem is that when i use my computer everything is fine, if i use it for hours on end its fine. But when i leave it alone for about 4 to 5 hours or something without doing anything(being afk) then it will freeze but i can …

I just turned off the computer and when I restarted it the whole screen is really small. The settings is 1024 X 786, I tried changing it but it didn't look like before. win xp home Radeon 9250 256 MB

Hi, I am under a ethernet router, which in turn has a static ip and my pc's ip is 192.168.1.221 and external ip is as usuall of the router, but now i want to host a site from my home on my pc, how can i configure it to work, …

I have always searched the web by typing in a general subject title in the Address tool bar (without "www" or ".com" included), then the search engin would list the most common web sites that contained that subject. As of a couple of days ago this stopped working. When trying …

I'm confused about the different Mozilla flavors. I understand that FireFox is the browser and Thunderbird is an e-mail client ... If I were to download the Mozilla suite, would that include both, or is the Mozlla browser (that is part of the Mozilla suite) somewhat different from the FireFox …

I have 10 system with same configuration. Intel P-IV 3 GHz, 512 mb ram, 40 gb hdd, i have installed windows xp in one system and all other softwares, which took me 2 hours to completed, i dont wanna spend 2 hours on each system now, is there any way …

I have p-4 system with 40 gb hdd intel original board and 512 mb of ram. It had 4 parititions, Win 2000 professional was loaded in with norton antivirus 2004. The OS was totally corrupted so i had to format C: and reinstall everything, now the problem was i completed …

windows service pack 2 installation - unique problem please help me........!!!! Respected techs and dear forum members, I have installed a fresh copy of windows xp (without having sp 2 onto it) on my hard disk. After that i tried to update windows through tools>windows update. It took so so …

Tried installing my usb controller,but i keep getting the above file misssing,and will not proceed to install,also says (code 28) with the same message. :( Any help to find and install this file will be appreciated, :) if not on my system,and chance of a web link to the file …

Please help I have a client with Win 2000 and When you set the view option to Thumbnails nothing displays. It still shows how many items there are in this folder correctly but other then that the folder looks empty as soon as you change the viewing option. How do …

I recently received a computer from a friend. I had to put some parts in though... It was prety much a barebones pc. I installed Windows XP Professional SP2, and enabled Advanced Power Management. It gives me the option to hibernate, but when I do, when I boot the computer, …

i Had sveverel files in my temp folder,some music and some programs and they all worked fine.When i moved then into an other file or on to the desk top i got the following message "Windows cnnot access the file>You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item" …

I am conitually having to shut down Windows Xp when trying to print a word document. The error I get is a Spooling error and I can't figure out what is causing it. Can anyone help?

Hi all, Wondering if anyone could help with a problem I've got with Firefox. Love the program, but following an update a few weeks ago (I think) normal mode does not load properly, and crashes mid-way through opening the program. I can open and use firefox in its safe mode …

Hi everyone, I'm new here,but this seems to be the most helpful site I found....Please help me....Pretty desperate here. I'm not able to download at all. The download box opens but nothing starts. The internet freezes momentarily, I can run messenger programs but not all pages download properly, I have …

I know this topic has been discussed before but I havent found an exact solution to my problem. I'm running a Toshiba Satellite P25-S676 with a MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-820S. I have a problem when trying to play/copy CERTAIN cds. So far I've found 10 cds that will not play on …

Hello in my w2k box Local Area Network which is setup for dhcp, I tried many times to change from: Obtain an IP address automatically to: Use the following IP address and then used IP address: 192.168.1.104 subnet mask:255.255.255.0 Default gateway: 192.168.100 but when I hit Ok, and then go …

Well, latly i have noticed that in some programs the toolbars are messed up. See the SS. lemme no if you have any ideas :) -T And know its not just that program.

I have Windows Media Player 10 running on Windows XP with 1 Admin User and 3 Limited Users. I can play and rip from Admin, but in the Limited accounts I can only play. When I try to rip from CD I get this error: [I]"Windows Media Player encountered an …

Hi, im looking for a solution to what seems a simple question? I need to print lots of images and aply a different name in a 'field' in the same place on each print. photoshop and layes is too slow etc. Are apple scrips of any use for this, a …

Hello, I am at a freinds house. I am currently removing malware, spyware, etc. from his PC. He has VERY small icons, on his start menu, and on his desktop. Its not from the screen size, thats fine, and we like them small. But they are like very very small. …

Okay this is my situation! This has happened to me previously but somehow either I fixed it or it fixed itself.... MY msn messenger tells me that it can not sign me in because my connection is not up and or .. im sure you all know of the message. …

Okay, I can't find a site where I can Download Music Safely for no cost if you have any sites please post!!! I just got a new sound card. Installed everything, and it worked but when I Shut my computer down or I restart it or even put it in …

Hi,I'm having problems veiwing animations on my internet explorer, yet I can veiw them on my computer alone. I just restalled Java a few weeks ago. Can any help me with this problem. I make alot of animations and its hard to check it out on web pages if it …

ok, i have this poroblem I have some video type of file on my destop and i cant get rid off it.I cant delete,rename,or put into a folder,when I do I get the following message: cannot delete file:the filename you specified is invalid or too long specify a different filename. …

My Dell computer won't load anything beyond the Windows screen with icons on it. A system error comes up saying that "Avgsysmgr.exe" or "Avsysmgr.exe" can't be processed (or run---whatever). The computer just sits there and won't let you do anything. Whenever you place the mouse cursor on an icon at …

I crashed my computer hardcore, and tried to reformat it. I have a Sony Vaio and I inserted the Windows XP System recovery CD and got to the part where it began restoring drive C but then a window popped up saying "Disc Access:Sense Operation Failed". When I press OK …

Wow..2 in one day. Windows 2000...everything functions normally. The CD-Rom is hardly used. The other day a cd was inserted and the system restarted. It happens everytime the CD-Rom is in use. No viruses, spyware, etc. Tried a new CD-Rom..same thing. However! When the computer is in safe mode...it works! …

I am so hoping that someone can help me b4 i go mad i cam so close to throwing my PC It all started yesterday!!!!!! Yesterday i was fowarding emails to someone and had fowarded about 3 and then it kicked me out and to a screen where i had …

I am unable to run "all Programs" from the start menu, also when I Click "My Computer/right click disc C/properties, nothing happens for a few seconds then blue screen comes up for a second or two then reverts to desktop. Any suggestions?? Was working ok until I installed Panda 2006

This is a follow up issue after recreating my domain from this thread. [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread16249.html[/url] I was able to add all computers back into the domain by changing them to a workgroup, rebooting, changing back to the domain, rebooting... except for two computers. Oddly enough both are laptops that connect to …

well I install windowsXP and have found i really hate it. It has crashed more times than any other windows version i have ever used! and now outlook will not start anyway what programs are out there that can streamline XP for better running. I know alot of useless junk …