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Hi Ive been using hotmail for years without any problems whatsoever. Today MSN messenger signed in as usual and popped up with 6 new e-mails, i clicked to read (go to my hotmail inbox) and it loads for about 2 minutes then comes up with 'page cannot be displayed'. Ive …

I was just wondering if someone could tell me the best way to check to see what kind off graphics card i have in my system. thanks Ally :D

Greetings I purchase a program containing a digital repair manual for my car. (1983 - 2002. It came on two CDs and appears by the quality of presentation to be a genuine product. However when I run the setup program I get the following box: Title Box in blue background …

Hey guys, I am on XP pro, my computer starts up fine, loads in to xp fine, I select my user, and then it loads my desktop, now this is where i have some problems. My desktop shows up, just all my programs that normally start up, dont start except …

Hey guys 'n' girls my Aunt has a problemo with her computer. Its XP. It came up with this error: /windows/system32/system could not be found or is corrupt and then windows won't load up. She has reformated her hard drive, re-installed windows and then after a month or so it …

There is probably a post somewhere out there about this, but what is the general rule on OEM software? I know you don't get the packaging and printed manuals, but are software updates, such as Microsoft updating Windows XP, still available? Any insight that anyone has would be greatly appreciated. …

I recently lost my main drive and had to reload WIN2K. Since then I reinstalled Winamp and each time I switch radio stations or select a file to play the browser opens and provides me with details of my selection. Does anyone know how or what might be causing this …

Whilst I am burning a DVD project on Nero Startsmart containing video files .avi and .mpg, (what I'm about to explain can happen at different times while burning project onto a disc) a message pops up telling me: "Unable to prepare data for recording; Transcoding of Videos Failed" I have …

I don't have a Windows 2000 computer, but allow me to explain why I would want information on upgrading one. Vista has been the source of a great deal of worry for me over the past few months. I have a laptop that currently has Windows XP Home Edition. It's …

Hi everyone, does anyone here know if it possible to set the computer to use a different language for everything, including keyboard layouts, and everything on screen to be that foreign language too. I run and english UK version of windows XP. I have tried adding more languages using the …

Hi, I'm running WINXP Home Edition. Recently, I attempted to print from Outlook Express and received a script error. I haven't seen this before. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks for your help. Glenn.

I am reasonably compitent with computers, but this is stumping me. My PC is custom built with AMD Athlon XP2400+ and set up with a dual boot configuration which has been running fine for over a year without a glitch, until now. Now it won't boot either configuration, even in …

hi all i have installed and uninstallled no of softwares on that comp. and from few days my floppy drive is been continuously buzzed up and some software is trying to read something from floppy drive its not comming up with any error message not even that no floppy found …

I've a file that I'm trying to remove in the add/remove console,but it just blinks and is still there,I would like to know if there is anything that I can do to remove this.By the way it is John Madden 2006 :mad:

I installed Firefox a few months ago but have continued to use IE for the most part. Today IE immediately shuts down saying it's encountered an error. It won't allow me to update my AVG or run any online scans using Firefox so I'm not sure what else to check. …

OK... A few weeks ago I started my computer and got the following error message about halfway through the boot up... The MSVCRT.DLL file is linked to missing export NTDLL.DLLgetVersionNumbers.. or something very close to that. It said something about explorer.exe will not load and that I have to reinstall …

:-| My nephew has Windows 98SE and has recently installed a 2nd Drive 'E'. It is working fine for copying data to etc but it will not play CDs. Can anyone help as I don't know enough about it to advise him. Many thanks BH99MH (Scotland)

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Hi, I have the dreaded trojan vundo (C:\Windows\sys32.jkkjk.dll). Unfortunately i also have another big problem. While following the symantec removal instructions, I unchecked system restore, disabled norton and the firewall and booted up into safe mode and instead of the usual F8 method I decided to do run - msconfig …

Hi, My son just called me and said he's been trying to start his computer(windows xp), and when it starts up it goes into the black and white safe mode choice screen, flickers, thjen goes to blue screen which says somethng like: "windows shut down to prevent damage to computer......uninstall …

I have a PC, win2k, a bit dated I went to upgrade the graphics card from a ATI rage 128 pro agp to something else. Opened add/remove programs clicked to remove the ATI drivers and got a pop up message: RUNDLL Error in C:\WINNT\system32\atiiiexx.dll missing entry:InfEngUnInstallINFFile-RUNDLL Now, I tried copying …

I need to reformat the hard drive on a computer running windows 98 se (the computer never had internet access, so none of the windows updates were installed) using the bootdisk, when I try to format drive c:, I cannot because it is compressed, so it reccomends I use the …

hi i hope you can help me, for the past week or so my computer wont allow me to use ctrl+alt+del, when i press it nothing happens at all. Also if i go to the start menu and try to restart my computer or shutdown or so on after pressing …

I have a internet plan which gives me 1GB free usage. I wanna know if there is any tool to check exactly how much data haspassed thru my PC

when i try to double click on any file for it to play in windows media player all that loads is the player itself can anyone help me please :)

Hi, since updating Firefox all my Bookmarks have disappeared, anyone know how to get them back? Thanks, John.

Is there a way where I can remove the files that are listed in the Startup tab in the System Config. Utility? I have many programs in there that are repeated 2 or 3 times.

I am hoping you can help me. I have some videos to download and was told to 'right click>>save as' to save them to my HD. When I do this, only 2kb downloads and shows as the browser icon on my desktop. When I click on the icon of course, …

:cry: Man does any one know how to reset the appearance of the windows back to default. I never claimed to be the smartest person in the world but I thought I could dress up the appearance of my displays a little bit. I'm running windows xp and I went …

Ok I just put in 2 new sticks of this 2gb memory for my computer: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820141227[/url] But when I installed it when I first booted up my computer on the bootscreen it gave me this message: "Serial Presence Detect device data missing or inconclusive. Properly programmed SPD decive is required …

i have windows Me. i am using BlackICE as my firewall. i have goten all the updates and stuff like that. every once and a while i see a red line go though the blackice icon next to my time clock (on the bottom right corner). so i click on …

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Hi, I have an issue with my Dual Booting XP Pro & Home computer. I've worked through most of the issues, but am still running into a big snag. Help is much appreciated. Situation Below: - Windows Pro HD - Windows Home HD When I select Windows Pro to boot, …

I support a small/medium size network that consists of 3 2003 Standard servers and about 20 or so workstations. We use an outside host for our email. About two weeks ago our email host switched up their mail servers and introduced better spam control software. Since they did this, a …

Hello, I have been recently been experiencing problems when loading into my computer, I type the password, and about 6 times out of 10 the computer will "hang" at the "Loading your Personal Settings" stage of the login. This causes me to have to restart (by pressing the button) and …

One of my computers has been freezing up a lot today. I checked the even log and it always happens after these five events: [quote]Event Type: Warning Event Source: Cdrom Event Category: None Event ID: 51 Date: 10/11/2005 Time: 9:14:59 PM User: N/A Computer: YOUR-W04GTXLD67 Description: An error was detected …

ok, i'm new here and all, anyways on my computer anything to do with hotmail won't work, like if i try to sign in on the hotmail page it says page can not be found, but if anyone tries on my computer it won't work, however if i try on …

[FONT=Microsoft Sans Serif]undefined[/FONT][FONT=Arial Black]undefined[/FONT][SIZE=2]undefined[/SIZE][COLOR=Black]undefined[/COLOR] :sad: windows 98se picture viewer gone. When I downloaded quicktime, it took over showing my pictures. I removed the program and MGI photosuite has now taken over display of all my pictures! Help!

The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'trymeonce', Server: 'incoming.verizon.net', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

Hello there, Windows 2000 Professional System I've just increased my Memory from 64 RAM to 194 RAM. My virtual memory is reading: Initial Size 94 MB, Maximum Size 150 MB, Current Reg 19, Maximum Reg 23, (c): space available 3894 MB. I'm sure this is what it was before. Can …

[COLOR=Purple][SIZE=4][FONT=Comic Sans MS][FONT=Comic Sans MS][FONT=Comic Sans MS]For the last few days i hav been unable to access any net password survices, such as hotmail or my messanger,or windows update or my ebay, basickly most things that u hav to sign into,if i try through the internet i jus get a …

Hi all, from "Down-under" here in Australia. I have a AMD 2600Mhz. machine running XP Pro and for the last 5-6 months it has decided to stop processing frequently although the mouse continues to operate but no navigation can be accomplished until you press Ctl+Alt+Del and bring up the Task …

Hiya, my m8 came up to me asking for help, because shes got a pretty new computer, and shes changing it to broadband soon, like at the end of the month, and her mum doesnt know about her comp not working properly. She says, that she cant get into the …

I am in a real bad way! My "D" drive just for NO reason died, it was formatted NTFS, had all my MP3s on it, and now for no reason when windows started up, it was running CHKDSK and saying all these file record segments were unreadable. Well finally I …

OK.. I got my hands on an old ibm thinkpad without a floppy drive and cd rom. Its running on windows 98 se. the modem is not working and it got no ethernet connection. It DOES have a usb port so i bought a usb ethernet controller (Billionton 10/100 fastethernet) …

hi all i m facing one problem in Windows Xp home with service pack 1. that i m unable to snable the stand by or hibernate mode on these machine. but its showing me the button to enable that feature but that feature is not enabled. can any one guide …

I came across this site and followed previous instructions from another javascript thread to no avail. So hoping you can help. IE6,XP,have Spybot, CWSShredder,Spysweeper, and just installed Spyware Doctor. Active Scripting is enabled, tried control/shift,downloaded Windows Script 5.6 I still can't get links to open that use javascripts--this started after …

Dear Sir, Listed below are few of my problems. 1) Not able to print in internet explorer. 2) Not able to print in Outlook express. 3) Search assistant not available in WIN XP 4) Help and Support not available in Win XP Below is log file Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 …

Hello, My CD drive started having a cute little problem a while back. When I pressed the button to open it, the light would blink but there would be no response. No problem, I just found a way to pry it open, so that I could put the CD in. …

I have a 40 Gig drive setup with 98se, I have partition magic so I can create another partition. Partition Magic wants to setup the new partition before my existing C because I told it I wanted to install XP. I backed out and did not create anything. Looking for …