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Hi my name is barbara. i had broadband installed a few weeks ago and i am beginning to wish i hadn't. Since getting it i cannot access some sites that were available with my dial-up service. i can't through to my banking web site nor can my children access their …

so it is recommended that we download this windows sp3 preview pack or just wait until it comes out?

Hi everyone! Well, I don't know if i'm in the right forum category or not... so sorry in advance. I have a Dell Dimension XPS Gen 4 and it is making a really SUPER annoying high pitched sound from the back. I have no clue what the sound is coming …

Hi Whevever i try and open My Computer, My Documents or Control Panel or anything to do with windows The screen goes blank for a few seconds the toolbar disapears for a few seconds then comes back on but still no My Computer etc. Please Help

hi there, i am a complete noob in this forum, so please dont take it harsh if i do anything wrong. well my problem is, a few days ago my internet went all wacko so i didnt take action cuz i thought it was just temporary. The problem is that …

[QUOTE=ladeecache]Ok, kids (yeah, kids ... I'm over 50). I've been running/using personal computers since CPM days, so I'm guessing I've got a few of you beat in the "I've been using these for a long time" game. I even used to tech early DOS PCs. Tralalala. Here's what I know. …

Good Day, Im having a problem with my computer, when i turn it on it always shows a error message: "Invalid Setting in MSDOS.SYS : SYS" can somebody help me with my problem...

I'm working in a fairly small office of about 25 - 30 workstations and I've been slowly setting up the managers with remote desktop access so they can logon to their office machines from home over Cisco VPN software. This has gone rather smoothly until I realized one of the …

Hey when I go to read japanese text all that appears are boxes, what do I need to download to read japanese text on web sites and where do I go to download it?

gateway desktop xp home,svc pack 2, all tasks can take quite a while startup, shutdown, opening programs, browsing. pc has a 700 mhz intel processor,128 mb memory. I apreciate any help, thanks ederd60

I am usinh windows XP on a P-IV. From the past few days I am facing a strange type of a problem. Many times it has happened that when I am working suddenly some tune starts playing and my mouse pointer cant move. the only option i am left with …

I am trying to fix a laptop that is having a few problems. This is a Dell Inspiron 8500 from 2003. One 80 gig HD and a DVD/CD-rw drive. I have fixed some of the problems , but for some reason, whenever you click the "My Computer" icon, it sits …

Please help, for some reason its like explorer keeps restarting itself.. I was infected with a virus but I got rid of it.. It was a Trojan Dropper, I had read that it is a backdoor.. I didnt want to post in the virus/hardware forum because I don't know if …

Hi there, Im haveing a problem with the PCtools Program called Spyware Doctor This is the error i get when clicking on the icon.. [IMG]http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7613/error1mt.png[/IMG] Computer Info.. [url]http://www.2hot2cool.com/11/bowdown/Report.txt[/url] (used EVEREST v2.20.405) Anyone know how i can correct this problem?

Hi Everyone, I am having a big problem with a computer i was just given that had windows 98 on it. When I turn the computer on, it starts to boot up, it checks for the: Primary Master: Maxtor Primart Slave: none Secondary Master: none Secondary Slave: none Then it …

Hello....nothing serious, just a question. I just got a new computer w/ Windows XP Home. Everything is great about it. Last night, I was fooling around with downloading some wallpaper and screensavers. I got some wallpaper that seemed to make the computer act funny, so I wanted to get rid …

i dont know if im posting in the right place or not but what do most of you feel about this is there any safe way in doing this that wont harm your computer? are programs such as windows blinds and etc safe? what are your suggestions, etc? post your …

hi all can any one help me out in setting up the windows xp home installation with the features of kickstart. i meen to say that i need to install many desktop in my lab so i wanted to install from network without having any intraction with the computer just …

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm making a internal website for my company that will run a program and preform an inventory of that computer. i have it all set up with the iis and its up and running if you type in the its location, now what i'm wondering is this, is there …

After playing a game for a whlie my system will crash. i get the whol send error report. this is the error signiture BCCode : 100000ea BCP1 : 8620FB88 BCP2 : 85731170 BCP3 : F72C2CB4 BCP4 : 00000001 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 768_1 i have the …

When I view a video on WMP or any other video viewing screen, the video always come out in negative color. (At least I think, because the colors are very weird and reversed) So I have to adjust the hue and brightness all the time through video setting, which is …

Can anyone help me out? I have probbly gotten onto a wrong site when off to download Anti-Virus programs for my new computer, this one. As a result i got infected by over 50 virusses. Now most of them were trojans, so after completely reinstalling Windows with boot floppys (immediately …

how do i delete numerous user names in the window everytime i prepair to login username & password on my laptops & desktops? i get numerous usernames from my other site login sites, that popup when i click on the username line. alot of my links i have windows remember …

What people use to track size of growing folders?

Ok, I read an article on here by tcepser ........... seems he had similar problem/concern. Well, you know how Windows XP icons on the desktop have white transparent letters w/ no ugly border around them? well, mine got changed some how and was wondeirng if there is a way to …

I'm using Windows ME. When i click on My Network Places it pops up an alert box of Low Resources says "Ninety percent or more of your system resources are in use. ......" At that time i didn't have any applications on. What's wrong with it? How do I fix …

I can't run my Task Manager and I dont know why. I have several theories, but I won't preted I know much about what I'm talking about. I recently got a new computer, installed limewire and now I dont have a task manager. The reason I think this is relevant …

hello guys i just recently got a computer (gateway) and it was running win me. so i decided to upgrade it to win xp pro. it asked me if i wanted to do an upgrade or a clean install and i choose clean. everything went smoothly (copyed all the files?) …

ok I have windows ME, 256 RAM, intel celeron, Hp computer. De-frag does not work because an error screen comes up after 10 min and says there are errors on my disk, and to run scandisk to fix the problem, i go and run scan disk, an hour later i …

Ok this should be possible in the tweak ui for Xp. How do u chane the recycle bin icon? if u cant how could i safley do it

I had a computer made for me with Windows ME by a friends brother. PC has worked fine, until when I switched it on today an error message saying "Invalid System disk replace the disk and press any key" has come up as soon as I switch on my computer. …

after a bad xp download, im at the recovery consule, after fixing my set-up it now asks for the administrators password, it dosent have one. every time i just press enter, it says invalid ! ive tried none, administrator, guest, my name, blank, after 3 times i have to re-start …

Hi Recently my computer got infected with some spyware that I couldn't quite remove. It installed the program PSGuard everytime I turned on my com. I managed to disable it but it still lurked in my registry and I couldn't delete it for some reason. So I decided to format …

I'm running a WindowsNT 2000 server to several Windows XP Pro user stations. The problem I'm having is with one, and one only, user. Every few days the main F&I program we use off the server cannot be accessed with his signon/profile. Because of the nature of his job, I …

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Windows XP Prof crashes with BSOD when I play games like Call of Duty and Farcry. :( What 's the solution of this problem? :rolleyes: System: Windows XP SP2 Asus 9800 XT video with latest ATI 8.162.0.0 driver (Catalyst 5_8) (older driverversions didn't solve the problem) Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS …

my pc has crashed i am getting message \windows\system\config\system file missing or corrupt i have tried to reboot using original disk but cant get past first screen my cd reader is not reading disks?? Any one who can help please reply Thanks

Hey everyone I just recently purchased the Logitech QuickCam Orbit and having a slight problem with installation. I'm running Windows XP SP2 and have tried installing it. I follow the prompts reboot and then try running the program. The software says it needs to be reinstalled so I reinstalled it …

Ok, here is a strange problem for you guys. I just reformatted my C drive and reinstalled windows. Everything went fine. No problems there. The problem I am having is that my other drive, drive D:, is not showing up in windows now. Before the reformat it detected fine. I …

Ok, so you've seen a rash of posts from me in the last few hours. Now it's my turn to beg for help. 1st topic: My computer freezes at random times. Each time may have something in common though. So far it happens while I'm using the internet to some …

My computer was shutdown improperly due to my clusmyness and now when i go to turn it on it will not boot. Instead it gives me the following message.."Windows could not boot because the following file is missing or corrupt.....\WINDOWS\system32\config\system" Im just wondering if there is a way to repair …

We got a virus on our server this pass few days. We cought the following executables: OFFER.EXE MARK.EXE MSGFIX.EXE PORN_XXX_CRACK.EXE TGB.EXE UJM.EXE To name a few. We terminated the process of these executables and cleaned their entries from the registry. However, today our servers fell victim to another one: Systems32.exe. …

when i tried to go to get my auto updates from IE by going to tools then windows update i get this ERROR MESSAGE NO:0x8DDD0004 PLEASE HELP HOW DO I FIX IT IM USING WINDOWS XP SP2

Ok after my monitor was flickering i got a BSod with this tech Info Stop: 0x0000009c 90x00000004, 0x80545ff0, 0xb2000000, 0x00070fo(or 0 not sure cant read writing)f) Any idea i am sick of this

my pc keeps randomly freezing up, sometimes on startup but only when i have my USB ADSL modem pluged in, but thinking about it, it used to do that with a USB Bluetooth dongle as well. anyone got any ideas, ive tried a clean install of windows and drivers but …

Good day people! May I seek advice from you. I have got this toolbar on my internet explorer. That I could no remove it. Unlike a Yahoo Toolbar which has more transparency on this. When I do a search, it brings me to [url]http://searchweb2.com/[/url] How do I uninstall toolbars?? I …

hi i need help my computer is telling me that it is dumping the physical memory and the error is stop:0x0000007e(0xc0000005,0x8059231e,0xf8a32a4c,0xf8a3274c) it is a sony vaio laptop please help thanks

i just finished building a new PC. AMD 4200+ A8N-SLI Deluxe 1GB RAM (512x2) ATI x850XT 160GB SATA HD 400GB IDE HD ive seen issues like this on this forum, but i think it may be a hardware issue with mine. everytime i go to load XP it restarts on …

I recently tried to install a 6600GT video card, but got no POST, no mouse, nothin'. Here's the [URL=http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread30691.html]thread[/URL]. I RMA'd the card, but in the meantime, I read that one of the fixes for the problem I had was to reinstall Windows XP. I don't want to unless I …

when installing xp professional, all seems to be running smoothly. it formats, it copies the necessary files, but after that it says it needs to restart and setup will continue- but it doesnt. it restarts my computer and starts the process all over again