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I am running Windows XP with Outlook Express 6. I have noticed over the last few monthes that my Spelling option in Outlook Express has been grayed out. I am unsure as to why this is happening, but I have been dealing with it so far. I have AVG's latest …

Since Upgrading From Me To Xp My Pc Doesn't Auto Shutoff When I Shut Down. Anyone Know A Fix?

What does SMC.exe mean when you first boot up and are on the icon page? Is it a problem with a screen saver or somthing more serious?. Should I run a reg cleaner or not?

Hi I'm asking this a bit prematuraly but a friend at work (more a co-worker hehe) asked me to solve a PC problem for him, he's a real novice and his problem seems simple, but I don't know the answer. He tells me he has Windows 2000 and has forgotten …

ok now seems like when i go to add/remove programs in control panel it will not let me remove any program at all???? i am very confused ..its a xp computer

After numerous emails with supposed fixes from Hotmail I still cannot turn on the Rich Text Editor in the Tools Menu . It is always showing as Off . I am unable to create new messages or reply and forward old ones . I created a new account with them …

I have a problem in IE 6.0 with SV2 I want to Quote this on your Site, but i was not able to find out the correct path. Please assist on the same. Or else following is my issue. I have a Web based project going on. For my users …

hey all! sometimes when im playing games windows does something kinda freaky. A blue screen with white text appers and has a title BAD_POOL_HEADER . It tells me that windows need to shutdown. It says something about hardware and BIOS and then a line of Tech Info. What does this …

"We are sorry for the inconvience, but Windows did not start succsesfully, a recent hardware/software change may have caused this" I was always afraid to installed SP2, and this is exactly why. Earlier today I decided to install all the windows updates, and get them going. I installed SP1, and …

I have am IBM thinkpad 365xd, It is basically my first project. the laptop came to me reformatted. BUT it did not come with a floppy drive but it did come with an internal cd-rom drive. I am tryng to install windows XP but I hve no Idea on how …

I've been trying to play this internet game (Bejeweled 2, found at [url]http://www.addictinggames.com/bejeweled2.html)[/url], but the game won't load in my Firefox browser. So I checked the Firefox settings, and Java was enabled and everything, and then I made sure I put the .dll files into the Firefox plugin folder, so …

Okay heres the situation, when the screen gets to the main screen, the only thing that shows is my background. My desktop is blank, theres no icons, no start menu, no task bars, and i cant right-click. If I alt + ctrl + del, i can open explorer.exe but its …

hi I have not been able to download MP3's. Whenever i click on a link that says "download song", instead of a dialog box opening asking me what i wud like to do with the file i.e Open, save or cancel, it directly launches windows media player and the song …

I get this error everytime I reboot: Error loading powrprof.dll A device attached to the system is not functioning. I am running Windows ME 384Ram I dont know what else to tell you. I had a bout with some spyware and have cleaned that up (I Hope). Do you think …

Ok, recently had a serious problem with windows, it was all screwed up. After awhile of trying to fix it, I decided to just reinstall windows(didnt format the disk either, just reinstalled the OS) Well, that did the trick....except for one thing. My video and sound were just......gone. I was …

I keep getting the error "Stmgr has caused an error in MSVCRT.DLL. Stmgr will now close" a few seconds after WinMe has booted to the Desktop. Rebooting does no good...that error still comes up every time. I read in another forum that renaming all msvcrt.dll's except for the one in …

Ok heres my problem, i get stuck at the boot screen before loading windows. It wont load up because it sais that hal.dll is missing or corrupted. I can get on my computer and use that hard-drive, by booting up on this old 8GB Quantum i have with XP installed. …

when my computer comes of standby my bradband internet doesnt work but after bout 10 mins it starts working and thids happens when it comes off stand by..does any 1 no whats wrong? plz help? i have compaq presario xp sp2 home editition telewest braodband internet

Hello :) My problem is not about Internet Explorer, but about two others. I am using Netscape Navigator as my default browser since several years, currently version 7.1. However now i wish to try out the much-hyped Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail program. I downloaded both. However when i click …

This situation might seem a little odd. Alot of questions deal with trying to get rid of that log on box when accessing a network share, where me, I need it to come back. I got a 15 user workgroup network at a church/school office. All computers are Win 2000/XP …

I'm getting an error message after start up that reads "The drive or network connection that the shortcut 'Apple Reg.ink' refers to is unavailable. Make sure that the disk is properly inserted or the network resource is available and try again." I don't know what this means. How can I …

When I browse I have a tendancy to use "open link in new window" often and let the new page load while clicking on the page in the background. Normally as soon as I click on the page, the new window is hidden behind the current page I'm on, but …

I just bought an mp3 player which requires windows 98SE (which I have) to use. But when I start the installation for the software that comes with the mp3 player, a box appears saying that windows 98SE is required. I don't know why it won't recognize it as Second Edition. …

Please help! I Have IE 6.0 and Windows XP I can only open one IE window at a time, when i try and open another one it automatically closes the 1st one and it is getting reay anoying! Thanks alot

Hello :) I hope someone here can help me... i been reminded of my membership here by someone answering to a thread i posted a year ago :) The situation: I had (and still have) Netscape 7.1 on my machine (XP pro SP2), beside the usual IE 6. Now since …

Hello everyone. Does anybody have any knowledge of WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER they could help me out with? I'm having a little problem getting "mini mode" to work right. It's not important but it's driving me crazy...been trying tocorrect for two days. If anybody can help, I'd appreciate hearing from you …

I have a couple questions, the first being somewhat trivial... 1. my toolbars on internet explorer seem to be somewhat mixed up. i use netzero as my internet provider, and it comes with a toolbar installed for internet explorer. when i try to deactivate the netzero toolbar, my norton toolbar …

I'm trying to delete a .avi file that I have on an external hard drive in the limewire incomplete downloads folder. I've tried every option I know of and everytime I try to delete it says it's being used by a different program. I've tried restarting, shutting down, closing programs …

problem is i cannot access some websites i used to, i can on mozilla firefox but not on internet explorer or packard bell companion?? ive cleaned my cookies, reset my internet settings to default, allowed all cookies, turned off my firewalls, done everything i can think off please help...thank you

hiya all.The problem is this i have created this Form1.exe in visiual basic.But I can't seem to be able to erase it.I tried everything.First I tried shift+del then i went like to safe mode from admin than from my normal user name but each time i try to erase it …

I had to power off as it would not shutdown. Now when I turn it on, it goes through POST fine, starts to boot and then just a blank screen. No curser, no HD activity. Nothing. I am building XP onto a new HD just to ensure hardware is OK. …

Somebody keeps jumping on my wireless connection. I have a mac filter on now. but before i had it on, 3 or 4 times they've bummed off of me Im sharing files and everything with the network computers. I have thier MAC adress and they're computer name. I also think …

[font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff][i][size=2][color=black][font=Verdana][color=black][i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i][/color][/font] [/color][/size][/i][/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Remove Icons for USB Devices from Notification Area[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]If you have an USB device attached to your system, you will notice an icon in the notification area. When you click this icon, you're given the …

Whenver I boot or restart my computer I get the following message: nwiz.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Error Signature: AppName: nwiz.exe AppVer: 6.13.10.3190 ModName: nview.dll ModVer: 6.13.10.3190 Offset: 00002429 Files included in this error report: C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\1e58_appcompat.txt Does anyone know how …

Windows 98SE Compaq Presario 7478 ESS Allegro PCI Audio (WDM) When I try to play anything in WMP the window opens and it acts like it will play. The title of song and the length of the song are displayed. It thinks, and thinks, and thinks, and things,e tc. Sometimes, …

:o I have a "Cordless Mouseman Optical" and "Logitech Cordless Keyboard". Both work fine under Linux (and indeed in GRUB/DOS/BIOS) - I'm posting this from Ubuntu. But under WinXP, the keyboard no longer works - tried removing drivers, reinslling CD, downloading new drivers, leaving bateries out, connect button many times, …

It appears for the most part after say you pull up a web page & then go to a SUB page with in ...I do have GOOGLE toolbar, but I dont think that is the issue, the setion which indicates checked, I think I am ok on that....I have no …

OK, it may not be the floppy drive itself, but... Every time I boot Windows (doesn't happen in Linux) my floppy drive light comes on and starts buzzing. It happens about 2-3 times before it finally stops. I'm thinking it's virus-related, but is it a virus trying to infect it …

Hello everyone. I have a pretty simple question. I was wondering if there was a way to disable access to the command prompt for users on a machine while still allowing administrators full access. Any ideas? :?:

This has been happening for a few months now and i have not been able to figure out the solution. Whenever i open up Windows Media Player, a message comes up saying " A internal application error has occured". I have tried to download WMP v.10 and the same thing …

I replaced my hdd and got back on line three days ago, and I keep getting these pop-up messages with a header which reads "Messenger Service", and proceeds to leave messages like "STOP! CRITICAL ERROR DETECTED, and want me to go to their web site ([url]www.win-fix.com)[/url]. I have Zone Alarm, …

I had this problem once before, and don't remember what I did to correct the situation. I'm running XP SP 2. When I installed FireFox the fonts changed in IE for whatever reason. They're now large, and when I look at the same project in FireFox the fonts are smaller. …

We have McAfee VirusScan on our computer, and it keeps telling me there is a PUP found. The file C:\ProgramFiles\MyWaySA\SrchAsDe\1.bin\deSrcAs.dll is popping up as potentially dangerous and has been blocked from running on the computer. I checked out the file, and it won't tell me anything about what it's for. …

Hi everyone. I haven't had much luck finding articles addressing this issue so I thought I'd post my question here. First off, I'm a pretty serious video editor. I've been looking into the PowerMac G5's and wanted to know the pros/cons between a PowerMac G5 and a high-end pc running …

Lets start facing the truth. I ve been using Linux for the past 2 years, since i started my Electrical Engineering and Computer Science studies in the Univercity. Every next day, i find more and more disadvantages in windows... Please add your comments about different OS and which one you …

I saw similar thread but none were identical to my problem. here goes my stats: IBM thinkpad a20m (older model) MS Windows XP SP2 192 MB 6 GB Hard drive I recently installed panda anti-virus and noticed hard drive space was low (around 1 gig free before installation) heres what …

windows\systems32\ntoskrnl.exe. file is corrupt and needs re-installing can anyone tell how to remove the corrupted file and replace with the one on the installation disc. thanks johno :sad:

Hello I just swapped out the 256MB DDR SDRAM chip on my HP PAvilion A705w twith a 512 MB RAM chip I purchased.... Wow it works! The machine has two slots.... Can I put the old 256MB chip into slot 2 and reboot to get a net 788MB or does …

I ran into a very peculiar, very frustrating problem, maybe one of you guys can figure this one out. We're starting to dabble with wireless here in our office so the staff could easily gain access to the domain via their laptops. Our engineer, who is definitely not an IT …

Hello - I had to re-install Windows (98SE) the other day, and since then, I've been unable to access any secure pages such as checkout pages on shopping sites. Also, my son is unable to open his Hotmail email or MSN message board. I've re-installed IE version 6, but still …