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hello, whats wrong with my drive, if i will delete the file or folder, the windows responded that "Cannot find the specific path, Make sure you specify the correct path"? can you help me? thank you

What causes this error? And how can I fix it?? Thanks.

:!: Ok....Windows XP SP2 ....when you try to open a folder it immediately goes to the search for files window. It doesn't matter how you go about it...same result. What could cause it and how do you fix it?

I can't get the Tabs at the top of the taskmanager box to come they just disapeared. I went to use alt+ctrl+del and they weren't there. can someone tell why this happened and how to get them back? I'm running windows 2000 pro

Hi all...I am running 2 os's Win xp pro and winxp home. I would like to remove win xp pro because I no longer have the disk and it has never worked correctly. Can someone walk me through the process? Thanks

My computer won't let me on to Windows XP for shit. Everytime it boots up it goes to that black screen with the options (Boot in Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Network Prompting; etc) and nothing will work. So I go into the BIOS and set the CDROM to boot …

Whenever I try to forward an email from Hotmail my attachments don't forward. The text of the email forwards but any pictures, photos, etc. in the body of the email won't forward. I emailed MSN and they gave me instructions to follow but it is a lot of work when …

my problem is that literally every minute i get a pop-up in the bottom right hand corner of my screen saying 'an intrusion attempt has been blocked.' So i click it to find out more and i click 'show details' and it says the intruder is 255.255.255.255 and under source …

Hey I am running windows ME and I have nero burning 5. I need to know how to format a cd. I see the icon in the taskbar for formatting but when i put a blank cd in and then i get to about the third step and it tells …

When I try to shut a remote computer on the network with the "Shutdown -i" command I get "Access Denied". The PC is running Windows XP and I have turned off the Windows firewall, checked to make sure it is not the AV causing a problem. I have tried it …

Hi all, I'm a new user....Having trouble with outlook express freezing on me after going from my inbox to my sent folder........Never had this problem before. Check for viruses daily and check for adware daily....nothing there.... Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.[FONT=Arial Black]undefined[/FONT]

I bought the SIMS2 game as soon as it came out. I uploaded it on to my computer last year while I was here at school. (I am in college.) I since then hae gone home and returned. Upon returning it no longer works, everytime I try to launch it, …

Windows XP P4 3.4GHz 1GB RAM My PC locked up about 5 times yesterday, and now about 4-5 times again today. In the event viewer, this same error shows up at the time of every crash: [quote]Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7000 …

i have an ATI RADEON 9200 that is in desprate need of updating. yet when i go on the ATI site, my laptop is not supported, nor is the 9200 version. where do i update if i cant get it from their own site? when i do get it, how …

i recntly posted on here abou my ATI Radeon 9200, well i updated the omega driver (which i was told to do on here) and my computer went haywire...the screen was waving back and forth and eveything ran encredably slow...well i did a system restore and (after a lot of …

My mainboard is a micro-star model MS-6382, I've installed the driver for this...but have no sound...when I check in sound/audio it says the sound card is a mpu-401. Where do I get a driver for this?? Cheers ;-)

I had found out the driver for my sound card, its 'intel 82801dbm ich4-m ac97 audio controller'. but i have no clue where to download it. plz help me find it and give me the site! thnx a lot

My system configuration is AMD athlon 2400,256 MB ram,Two operating systems Win 98SE on C-drive and Win Xp on D drive.Recently my computer started showing problems with 98Se registry.When ever I boot in to Win 98 se computer checks registry and fixes problems in the registry with a message "windows …

The details...Windows XP (all the SP's), Internet Explorer 6., Norton Internet Security & AV, WinPatrol, TrojanHunter, etc....Problem: Internet Explorer has become excruciatingly slow to load pages. Windows Firewall is off. I've run Ad-Aware & SPybot so much I can actually read most of the names of the files as they …

Hi When i click Command Prompt (windows XP), the window opens and closes immediately. How can i arrange this please?

The details...Windows XP (all the SP's), Internet Explorer 6., Norton Internet Security & AV, WinPatrol, TrojanHunter, etc....Problem: Internet Explorer has become excruciatingly slow to load pages. Windows Firewall is off. I've run Ad-Aware & SPybot so much I can actually read most of the names of the files as they …

Had to reinstall windows pro 2000 on a dell machine. Now I cannot adjust my screen resouluation in the display window. Before the problem, I had a choice of color schemes and view sizes. Now I have only 16 million and 800x600 VGA. What do I need to get or …

I am unable to use my HP laptop to print. I have a HP printer which is directly connected to my Dell desktop using a Linksys wireless router. I used to be able to print from my laptop but cannot now. I made sure "printer sharing" was enabled but still …

I really do not want to reformat because my burner is acting up and I can't backup anything.I have a PIII@600MHZ w/256 pc133 sdram,40Gig HDD. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Hi, I'm running W98SE & I've got sound problems. The strange thing is that the soundcard & speakers work, because I can play a CD through the CD-ROM and get the sound ok. But anything running under Windows (MediaPlayer for example) doesn't work. I don't even get the POST sound, …

This is pretty wierd. For some reason when I try to open Msconfig through "Run", I get an error message saying that it wasn't able to open it and that I should search for it. When I searched for it, I found several files of Msconfig, and I was able …

I have never been so frustrated in my life.Okay,all my problems started about 3 weeks ago.I went to click a link on the internet that should have opened a new window,but instead,my entire computer froze up.I'm still new to computers,so I've been to several different tech help websites looking for …

XP Pro, SP2. "Power2Go" CD/DVD burner Hi all, I have a CD burning project and am very shaky on this process. I have copied a few CDs on this machine and they turned out well I am going to write a long manuscript, approx 500 pages, and it will be …

I need a little help trying to setup a backup process. I cant seem to figure out the best way todo it. I was hoping if I explained my setup you might be able to give me ideas. Ok here it is: PC1) Win XP w/ 2 160 SATA drives. …

Since you guys helped me with my last problem I figured I would try you with another issue thats been bugging me for a while. Since I reinstalled windows XP on my computer (Pro) I cant seem to get any sound from my DVD drive or my DVD writer drive …

Hi, My computer has been running really weirdly lately. When I start up or reboot, it permanently slows to a crawl (and sometimes freezes). It seems like it just isn't loading properly. there are several things you should know: 1. I've run Adaware/Spybot/SymantecAV and none of these have detected anything. …

[b]I need help quickly please! I have a virus that tries to shut my computer down when I'm trying to open anything and it disable my internet protection and my Norton anti-virus protection! Please I need help immediately! :cry:[/b]

Im trying to create a batch file to remove a directory in Windows XP, obviously it asks whether you want to delete the directory yes or no, but i want it to delete automatically without it prompting me everytime for the yes/no, i have tried many switches like DEL /y …

For over 3 weeks now,everytime I try to click a link that will open a new window,my pc freezes.I have to end up going into task manager to close it.I've done all kinds of scans for virus & spyware. This is the 7th website I've been to looking for help. …

Hey guys, first post here, and this one has truly stumped me so hopefully someone has some insight. Problem: My WinXP Pro Thinkpad R32 laptop refuses to restart (start | turn off computer | restart). It gets to the "Windows is shutting down" screen and simply hangs. However, shutdown (start …

I recently formatted my laptop HD and installed a nice fresh copy of XP Pro, it was running XP Home before. However, everytime I boot it now it asks me to choose if I want to launch Home Edition or Pro. How can I stop it from asking me this …

Hi. My computer recently started acting up. I first noticed it when Firefox started spamming me with popups. I ran adaware, spybot, adaware again, and spybot again, and it didn't stop. I made sure the definitions were up to date. I even ran a virus check twice and didn't find …

Hi! I have a HPX1963. It is frezng up constantly. I will be both online and offline when my programs become Not Responding. I have also received a meessage saying that memory could not be referenced and then it will tell me my system is shutting down. I took my …

This was a problem i encountered with some days ago. My Dell Laptop started to freeze up with no reason at all. The mouse and keyboard were not working. I just ignored the problem and rebooted the computer everytime it happened. However, just yesterday, my computer started to freeze when …

My boss wants to lock down the Internet with a password so that only he can get on. Is there anyway to configure IE to request a password for connecting to the Internet via Broadban? I know that for dial-up you can allow it to not save your username and …

Help! Trying to re-load Windows 2000 Professional on my computer, but am having trouble. Have two hard drives (C and D). Was running Windows from the C drive, but started getting an error "[some file] is missing or corrupted" and sometimes blue screens. Tried to reload Windows without success...somehow, the …

Hi, My friend is having a problem where for some reason ever since yesterday, when he boots up his machine, he is asked to select a user to login, but no users are listed to click on. He is therefore stuck at that screen. I suspect it is some sort …

hi recently, my comp started to act weird again..whenever i open a file that is named in chinese characters, when it opens, the titlebar will nt show the chinese names.instead, boxes are seen.also, when i play chinese music using media player, even though i can see the chinese characters in …

My mouse keeps on freezing. What should I do?

hi this is my first post sorry if its in the wrong section... the last 2 days ive been having problems reading my emails on hotmail. it just went funny one day. i can sign in fine and use msn fine, i can see my inbox and whats there but …

When my wife tries to logon to amazon.com on our home computer, she gets the "cannot find server" error message. I tried to logon at my office and can do so successfully. Therfore the problem is my home computer. Any suggestions to correct this problem?

Quick Launch in Windows XP is a great productivity feature. The frequestly accessed application's shortcut or copy version can be placed here. Lets say if you access more 10 applications in a day quite frequestly, it make sense to have this feature utlised and it saves your time. You don't …

Hi, I'm having a problem where my emails appear to get stuck in the outbox in Outlook. However, the emails are getting sent, per the recipient. I look in the sent folder and don't see the sent email. This only happens on some emails. Very strange. Can someone help? Thanks, …

I recently reinstalled windows xp on my computer (dell dimension 2350). Everything is now working except my internet/ethernet connection. I have the cord set up properly (it worked before reinstallation), and i have tried installing the proper network driver (downloaded from dell.com) but it doesn't work. Either nothing happens, or …

I recently sent my PC to the Doctors because the Motherboard had decided to be a twat, i recieved it back and it was a lot lot better! however 2 days later a message popped up "Please activate your Windows Activation Key" Is this something he forgot to do? JK