Our Microsoft Windows forum encompasses Q&A based support forums geared towards the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems.

19,665 Archived Topics

Remove Filter
Member Avatar for
Member Avatar for rowteemee

hello everyone, i am new to this site and i know surely someone would come to my rescue. I have been trying to get into my hotmail account for a week or two now but everytime i try it keeps telling me my passowrd is been changed. it asked me …

Member Avatar for DMR
0
111
Member Avatar for jaishankar

ntfds.exe, winrbd32.exe, mwupdate32.exe Can any one tell me wat are these, these files were not in the running process before connecting to internet, i just install win2000 with service pack 4 and IE6, and connected to net and wat i saw is these programs were running and consuming huge amount …

Member Avatar for DMR
0
139
Member Avatar for Lubo1974

Heeeellllp !!! Since my Nortons expired I cannot access or login to any https sites eg ebay, bank etc...Ive got IE6 Ive tried the msn help which resulted in an update error code 0x80072EFD The step by step guide diddnt work neither did installing / uninstalling firewalls, virus checkers etc.. …

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for nanosani
0
164
Member Avatar for cbk

Two troublshoots please 1. When I click on "explorer icon" it opens up at bottom task bar and not full screen. 2. When I click "turn-off" through windows xp I have to disconnect online before it shuts down or it takes a really long time. Thanks cbk

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for chrisbliss18
0
185
Member Avatar for clasher097

i was fooling around with my video settings and all of a suden the icons went to a box with the blue bar on the top of it. how do you fix this?

Member Avatar for nanosani
0
131
Member Avatar for jaishankar

i have a P IV 2.6Ghz 512 mb 80GB and Gigabyte motherboard system, with windows 2000 installed. It worked fine for 2 months, 2day when i switched on my system during the booting process a message came, winnt/system32/config file not found, i tried to repair it but in vain. I …

Member Avatar for nanosani
0
125
Member Avatar for rga2k5

I have a Medion PC with Windows XP running on it. Recently the machine would bootup, show the WINDOWS logo screen then start Windows. However when it starts it simply shows a black screen with the mouse cursor. I can move the cursor left and right and up and down …

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for jaishankar
0
217
Member Avatar for grandavidg

i went into windows update and it said i needed 32 updates, downloaded all of them and after restarting the computer it just goes to the loading xp screen and restarts itself again, and does it forever until i shut down the computer, cant get into it anymore, any ideas …

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for jaishankar
0
160
Member Avatar for dedBOYriot

My DVD player doesn't work on my XP machine. When I try to play a DVD, whatever software I use says it needs to update. When I go to update it, it says my DVD players driver doesn't work. I lost my Driver disk. So I went to the manufacturers …

Member Avatar for MartyMcFly
0
113
Member Avatar for vodooclown

Here's the problem and it's really annoying, I have a laptop it is a dell latitude c600 running windows xp professional, it was running fine until about a week ago it locked up so i had to reboot it, well when it started to load windows i noticed it was …

Member Avatar for DMR
0
128
Member Avatar for presmmbb

Hi, I am a problem with streaming audio... I cant hear it using any program... The problem started a week ago ( I have been listening to the same station for about 6 months) and i have tried everything, ie. updating sound card driver, reloading WMP, downloading new codecs... I …

Member Avatar for presmmbb
0
171
Member Avatar for Dougie

I have been using Outlook Express 6 for my email client with Windows 98. I am building a completely new computer and will be upgrading to WinXP. I would like to know how the best way would be to back up all my Outlook Express inbox files so I can …

Microsoft Windows email microsoft:windows
Member Avatar for Dougie
0
109
Member Avatar for dedBOYriot

i have fixed up a dell running windows xp standard for my girlfriend as a christmas gift. she is in school and i am sure she will need some of the windows office tools. But i am broke :o , and i was wondering if there is a good free …

Microsoft Windows office-suite
Member Avatar for dedBOYriot
0
142
Member Avatar for telepwn

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 …

Member Avatar for telepwn
0
135
Member Avatar for MUGGS4

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 …

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for MUGGS4
0
138
Member Avatar for nanosani

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 ??

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for tayspen
0
412
Member Avatar for Loopah

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 …

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for chrisbliss18
0
187
Member Avatar for Loopah

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]

Member Avatar for chrisbliss18
0
158
Member Avatar for megadeth_666_

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 …

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for Lightninghawk
0
207
Member Avatar for TCB

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 …

Member Avatar for marlbrook
0
285
Member Avatar for Maine_iac Gal

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:

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for chrisbliss18
0
172
Member Avatar for runswit2guns

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 …

Member Avatar for tayspen
0
206
Member Avatar for chol

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 …

Member Avatar for chol
0
172
Member Avatar for flipboi15

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!

Member Avatar for DMR
0
205
Member Avatar for johnabraham747

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

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for kc0arf
0
220
Member Avatar for runswit2guns

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: …

Member Avatar for runswit2guns
0
343
Member Avatar for doug2k9

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

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-10-11 video
Member Avatar for pmccray
0
171
Member Avatar for MugenHAN

[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 …

Member Avatar for MugenHAN
0
319
Member Avatar for presmmbb

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!!! …

Member Avatar for presmmbb
0
642
Member Avatar for Pepper

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 …

Microsoft Windows microsoft virus-malware
Member Avatar for Dani
0
131
Member Avatar for MpG

These days I'm using Word many hours per day because of university projects and I tried to change the backround colour because I feel that white tires my eyes after a while.The only option I found was the one that makes backround blue and letters white.Is there any way to …

Microsoft Windows office-suite
Member Avatar for Rueful Rogue
0
117
Member Avatar for tayspen

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 …

Member Avatar for tayspen
0
270
Member Avatar for dragonx117

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 …

Member Avatar for dragonx117
0
187
Member Avatar for mastercheif

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

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for chrisbliss18
0
100
Member Avatar for acitsym

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, …

Member Avatar for acitsym
0
192
Member Avatar for rjf64

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 …

Member Avatar for rjf64
0
144
Member Avatar for Dani

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 …

Microsoft Windows mac-software:macos web-browser
Member Avatar for Dani
0
189
Member Avatar for jaishankar

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 …

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for jaishankar
0
159
Member Avatar for jaishankar

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 …

Member Avatar for jaishankar
0
151
Member Avatar for sunandoghosh

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 …

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for MartyMcFly
0
142
Member Avatar for olly

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 …

Member Avatar for olly
0
354
Member Avatar for omar786

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 …

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for tayspen
0
151
Member Avatar for nikkisboricua

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, …

Member Avatar for nikkisboricua
0
159
Member Avatar for dp600

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" …

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for tayspen
0
183
Member Avatar for Gadywompus

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?

Member Avatar for nanosani
0
114
Member Avatar for ear4aak

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 …

Member Avatar for ear4aak
0
224
Member Avatar for bia2222

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 …

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for chrisbliss18
0
161
Member Avatar for birdfeed25

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 …

Member Avatar for birdfeed25
0
139
Member Avatar for samj

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 …

Member Avatar for MartyMcFly
0
188
Member Avatar for tayspen

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.

Microsoft Windows microsoft:windows-nt-2000-xp
Member Avatar for nanosani
0
140

The End.