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win 2000 locks up after you put in the password. I can boot to safe mode and everything is fine, then I try to reboot and same thing.

Hi guys, I am hoping somebody out here can help me. I think I downloaded some sort of virus and it has corrupted my windows. I can't boot up into windows anymore and I can't access my documents. :sad: I am going to reinstall windows, but I want to back …

i finished playing Bf2 today and after that i seemed to have some mouse trouble...it semms that it doesnt reconize what i click..it is fully plugged in...like when i try to highlight text it doesnt...ne suggeustions

When I attempt to boot Windows 98SE, it says "Starting Windows 98" and then it quickly flashes the boot screen and complains about a missing COMMAND.COM. When I use a boot disk, it says unreadible disk(unsure of exact wording, check tomorrow). I would appreciate help, and find a way to …

Hi all, For the last couple of weeks my comp has been acting weird with my call waiting. It was fine and had no probs till then. Out of nowhere my comp would disconnect or web pages started lagging real bad or not be displayed. My first thought was its …

Hello all. I'm actually trying to get a resolution for my buddy in teh Army because well, his windows wont start. It started today. Okk, He was downloading some songs last night and they finished. BTW, he did not DL any driver updates or software updates. Nothing like that. Whe …

I have no idea why, but after I leave my computer for about 15 or 20 minutes, the screen freezes. The screen goes black with 3 groups of skinny, close-together vertical white lines. The lights on my computer are still green and not orange, so it hasn't shut itself down. …

I don't know why I have a little red X inside an empty box where an image should be. I right click and there's no choice to show the image. Sometimes it's in my e-mails and other times on web pages. How do I get the images to load? Thanks, …

[QUOTE]The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x1000008e (0xc0000005, 0x80581e21, 0xba318bd8, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini080804-01.dmp. [/QUOTE] I also have that same stop code, but I dont have an audigy card, I use the original nForce chipset sound. I ran the RAM test that was …

First off, hello. To start, I am an avid Photoshop user, and have been for the pst 4-5 months. A couple of weeks ago, I deleted alot of my games etc on my computer to save space and such. 2 Days ago, when I tried to open photoshop, it says …

My computer turns on and most of the time it makes a weird beep/clicking noise while starting up, then I get an error message saying " primary hard disk 1 not found" and it asks me to retry boot...sometimes I start it up and it works just fine but then …

Hi. My problem is: Can't open system properties in control panel, as long as connections and windows firewall properties. Also, can't run itunes, i click on it and nothing happens, can't run system restore (only through safe mode), when i shut down pc, i get a message saying that in …

windows xp home ntfs. Dell machine, no matter how many files we delete, empty recycle bin, it refuses to download even the smallest file saying the disk is full. The logical disk manager and My computer both say there is zero disk space available on the 70 gig drive. There …

My place of employment would like me to block the windows games from people’s computers due to them playing while there are calls waiting to be answered. I have tried setting the group policy for their group using "Do not run specified windows applications" and adding the appropriate information. But …

Is there a way to map a [B]subdirectory[/B] of a local drive to a share on a file server? Ideally, I'd like to have something like: D:\ACCOUNTING map to //server/accounting D:\PROJECTS map to //server/projects D:\UTILITY map to //server/utility Is there such a thing as .DIR file that has the UNC …

i just got this error messege while installing win xp

Hi all. I've been having a problem that no one seems to be able to help out with. When resume from locking my computer I have about a 40-60 second hang before my icons/windows open up. I can see my background while this hang is happening and can move my …

Hello People, I am having a real strange problem. I have been working on a P-IV machine with Windows XP Professional for quite some time now. No, that’s not a problem. The problem is that since today morning, once windows has loaded, I just can’t start any application. Though the …

I have an hp pavilion ze5185 laptop that wouldn't shut down. My operating system is Windows XP. When I go to 'start' to shut the computer down, I get the message "windows is saving your settings". Then I get the message "windows is shutting down". The problem is that the …

What is the best virus protection i can download? I don't have aol. :-|

I am having problems opening up internet explorer I click on the icon and about 5 minutes later I get them to open up, If I click it 10X then 10 of them will open 5 minutes later. I am also having pop-ups etc. I have run Ad-aware 6.1 and …

URGENT HELP NEEDED - critically important...!!! Respected geeks, Coming straight, here goes the problem: Background: Hardware: HDD SATA SEAGATE 160 GB RAM: DDR RAM 1.5 GB Dual Processor P4 3.2 Ghz Operating System: Windows Advanced server 2000 Application: SAP (an ERP PACKAGE) Database: Oracle 9i Note: Same single desktop computer …

computer spooned, decided it was time to reformat, deleted partition, started install, blue screen comes up saying about an error... gonna try a different cd later but any early ideas?

ok now i'm not sure whats goin on with my msn messenger. It was working fine up until I installed SP2. I have read that the firewall messes it up, and that you have to put it on the safe list, so that it can run. So I did that, …

I'm not sure if you would consider this a tech support question but I have an old dlink dmp-100 mp3 player and the original install cd dosent support windows xp. I went to the dlink website but the drivers they have for win xp are really for win2k and wont …

I just bought a new Dell Inspirion 9300 w/Win XP Media Center Edition. One of the peripherals that I bought was an Angel USB T.V. Tuner. I am trying to hook up an X-Box to the tuner, and I am having difficulty. This is very important since I am taking …

Now movies won't play on my computer right :( Darn things are WAAAAAAAY too bright. Help? Please?

Hi, I need to make these changes within the registry, can anybody tell me how and where i can locate the correct keys etc? Download signed ActiveX controls -- Prompt Download unsigned ActiveX controls -- Disable Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe -- Disable Run ActiveX controls …

I accidentally deleted several photos from my camera card while uploading. I have scanned the card using "recover my files." The files are there and in good condition. Unfortunately, I don't have $70 bucks to blow on the program right now. I would like to use DOS commands to recover …

I started using mozilla quite a while ago because my dad made me :rolleyes: and i like it but some things dont work with mozilla firefox and when i try to go onto internet explorer it says The page cannot be displayed The page you are looking for is currently …

Hi i was wondering if someone could tell me how to delete email addresses from when i log on to msn messenger. I have a big list and me x boyfriends email address is on there and i dont really want it on there anymore so could some one help …

Hello All, I have both VS 6.0 and VS .Net 2003 available to me. I am just starting to learn programming and wanted to know the difference and which one would be the best to start with. My company has a site liscence for both and I could install both …

Hi, I've not had to use the command prompt in Windows XP Pro too much so I'm not too familiar with how to deal with things such as spaces in the names of directories and files. I'm looking to run an executable in a directory but the path contains several …

I'm getting a series of artifacts in my text, especially within Explorer and IE. It happens in other apps too, but strangly, the problem doesnt' seem to affect Mozilla. It's too hard to explain what I'm talking about, so here's a screenshot. The upper left paragraph shows it really well. …

Hi, this is my new problem. this computer is compaq presario. i got this when windows 98 first came out. it has 64 memory and 8gb of harddrive space.i was struggling when i was installin windows xp pro on that comp. finally i got it done. now the problem is, …

hi guys, i just got dell inspiron 6000. i reinstalled windows xp pro. and when i was scrolling pages its goin slow. i asked and know cause i dont have a graphic card. i went to dell.com and downloaded harddrive graphic card, but wasnt successful during the installation. where can …

Hi All! I found that my automatic updates feature was activated and to my surprise SP2 was installed on my Win XP machine. I have heard all kinds of horror stories from users warning not to update, so I was waiting until the dust settled. Unfortunately, someone turned the auto …

I've been having this issue (at two separate clients) where all of the volume labels for the network drives that a user is connecting to get renamed as "Disconnected Network Drive." The icon shows that the drive is connected, and if you can access files on the network drive with …

ok this is going to be a long post but please, you're my only hope. read on :) originally, on saturday I got an error message invalid boot.ini file / booting from c:/windows then what I've ended up with is a complete system failure, the comp is caught up in …

I've been having this problem since about....yesterday. Whenevr I open a link in a new window using either the right click-->open in new window or ctrl+shift, or when I open a new window anyway, I find that the window opens, with the white background (and the toolbar is seethrough, like …

Hello, I am carrying out computationalsi intensive calculations. Is it possible to have 100% of the processor power dedicated to this task. Normally, system idle process will take 15% - 20% of processor power which normally means the computation takes 1 hour longer. It is very easy to set the …

I get a "windows script host" error msg when booting. i am not using scripts. this is one of the lines in the error msg displayed: could not create object named "wscript.shell" any ideas on how to fix this??

Hello; is anybody able to help with this problem. My disc drives C & D work mechanically with all lights flashing but my computer does not read the files. My hard disc is fine. I believe the cause of the problem is this error message which pops up every time …

[FONT=Garamond]I am getting an error message each time I access my Microsoft word program. I am specifically needing help when I want to create a pdf file out of a document I created in my word program.[/FONT][B]The add-in template is not valid. (C:\Program Files\...\~FMaker.dot[/B] is the error and it will …

I know you guys have been getting a lot of hotmail threads lately. I looked over them, and none of them seemed to have the information I'm looking for. I'm very sorry if I completely missed one solving my exact problem. My problem is: I have been using hotmail AND …

i need help.i installed tweak ui and arranged it so i cant see my account in the welcome screen. i have another account which i am using, but it is only guest privileges. so i cant put it back to normal.help please!

Hi, My puter won't boot up at all. Nothing, not even the power light will come on, I've changed the power cords, checked inside puter to make sure no lose connection anywhere and everything is fine in that area. But it won't boot, it's dead. Anyone have any suggestion on …

hoe can i set upload limit for strongdc++ from gpedit.msc? thanx

First of all, please forgive this long post. I want to give details of my dilema, in hopes of getting an accurate response from someone who might be able to help. I use normal and fairly decent surfing habbits, using Firefox as my browser, along with AdAware and Spybot for …

Hi, this is an emergency. my cousin had an old computer. his harddrive storages is only 8000mb. he had windows98 when he first got it. now he wants to install windows xp on that pc. but it got lots errors. finally i got to the point where its installin. but …