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Hello :) I get the BSOD and some very glitchy graphics. I was wondering if you can assist. This is the full error message: PAGE_FAULT_IN_UNPAGED_AREA nv4_disp.dll STOP: 0x000000050 (0xAD061000, 0x00000001, 0xBFC74b02, 0x00000000) nv4_disp.dll - Address BFC74B02 base at BF9D3000, Datestamp 42B0D02C System specs: P4 2.6 GZ 1 gig DDR RAM …

Hi I am hoping someone can help. I have been infected with trojens and popups ,my McAfee deletes the trojens and I just recieve a warning to scan my computer which comes back clean of viruses but has alot on Look2me thingies on there :mad: I have downloaded the Ad-Aware …

Hi guys,i just got a laptop. and i was installin windows xp pro chinese version on it. after the instalation, the wireless wasnt found. it as there when i first got it. i installed windows xp chinese pro sp1. wut can i do to have the wireless back and connect …

Computer: eMachines W2260 AMD Athlon 2200+ 1.80 GHz 256 DDR RAM Current Video Adapter: S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR. Is permanently attached to the motherboard. Attempting to Install: ATI Diamond Stealth S120 Radeon 9550 AGP Version I have installed the card and its drivers but the computer won't accept it as the …

Hi there, I just bought a bran new :D mp3 :D player and it turns out that you need Windows XP for you to load music on to it. I have tried to upgrade my computer to window XP but my computer is so cr@ppy it wont run it. Is …

Hi, I hope you can help me! I was listening to a music track using Real Rhapsody. The sound was coming out perfect. I tried to get the sound through new speakers, now I have no sound at all. The sound went out right after I changed the Control Panel's …

Ok, I'm wanting to upgrade a machine from 2000 pro to XP pro. I've never done an upgrade from 2000 before, just 98. But, I guess I'm just wanting to know if the usernames will stay intact, or will you have to create new users names? I'm pretty sure I …

Purchased a computer at a yard sale. Windows 95. The computer says "Ultra". Never heard of it before. Seemed like a decent little learning comp for my son. Issue: It came with no discs. There is an error with Internet Explorer. Need a disc to solve. Couple of other minor …

When I shutdown my computer (Windows 98 OS) it hangs on the Full Window message that say "Wait while the computer shutsdown".

Hello all! PLEASE HELP ME!!! NOTE: Dell Inspiron 5150 (XP-Home Edition Service Pack1a) ~~~Problem #1 ([url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us[/url]) I performed the windows update. I restarted and got [B]"\windows\system32\config\system"[/B] is missing or corrupt. I searched on your site how to fix the problem by using the Recovery Console. PLEASE NOTE I ONLY DID …

Hello everyone, Im just a 14 year old kid tyring to get his disk drives working so he can reinstall wolrd of warcraft. Basically what is wrong is I have two disk drives. A burner and a dvd rom. My burner drive light blinks like its reading a disk but …

I have been trying to access a website on my computer and the browser says that it is unavailable. I have gone through all the suggested help suggestions but still cannot access the page. If I try on a friends computer it works. I am not sure whether it is …

Hi Guys, I hope you can help I have Windows XP and EVERY time I close the internet explorer browser, it gives me the same error message: Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks so much in advance.

back up - a new strange novel experimentation Respected techs, geeks, nerds, and dear fellow friends, In the past i have always taken a backup of my valuable data and content on my pc by invariably writing on to a cd be it R or RE. However, the problem that …

hi! I have coded a Login Application in VB6.0. I want it to load first when Windows Xp Professional starts. How can it be done...

Ok, I'm a big computer nerd. Worked 3 years as a computer repairman. And I still can't figure this one out. Please help me be my girlfriend's hero here. She's running a wireless connection throgh a Linksys router. She sends her computer to a repair center, the run some amatuer …

I have installed a program Free Trial Program name SPSS in my computer then when the Free Trial has been Expired, I have install my newly bought Licence Version but still my software do not work, Expired message still appears when i try to open the program, can somebody help …

i'v got a very annoying problem. each time i put my Sims cd in my disk drive this message always comes up: [i]Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime library[/i] [i]Runtime error![/i] [i]program c:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\Sims.exe[/i] [i]Abnormal program termination[/i] someone please help, iv tried evrything, i havent got a clue what visual C++ …

Please help. I cleaned up some spyware etc. Everything is cleaned. But now I have a new problem. I used to open excel files with no problem. But now when I double-click an excel file, I got this message: "Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage.." …

I have 3 seperate computers I am building. All computers have the same basic equipment, the only difference is the periphials, IE. sound card and graphics card. All 3 have ASrock P4V88 MB, Intel 3.6 800 FSB Chip, and WD800JD HD. The hard drives are SATA 7200. The board supports …

So, I finally got my HDD to fire up again in my Dell 3000. Now there's a new problem. I spun it all up and it got so far as the scrolling Windows XP logo. Then, after that screen went away, I got a blank, black screen. Nothing happened. The …

Ok I have a 40GB Hard drive and I'm trying to hook up a 120GB hard drive as a slave. I had to buy a cord for the 120GB hard drive that converts it from a serial hard drive to a usb connection because my motherboard doesn't have a serial …

Unable to search from the address bar. I just installed a larger hard drive and reinstalled XP. Now when I try to search from the address bar I get the following message:"Service Unavailable - DNS failure. The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later." I …

Ok heres my problem for a long time I changed my ip address by typing in ipconfig /release but recently when I type that it say "no operation can be preformed on local area conection while it has its media disconnected" so how do I connect the media thanks

Hi!!! I am a regular user of Microsoft Office Word and have a large number of word files. Yesterday i noticed that all my word files have the extention *.doc^ in place of usual *.doc. The files still open normally but they have lost their icon and have this weird …

[FONT=Book Antiqua]book antigua[/FONT] can someone please help me when i go to turn off pc from start button me pc wont turn off have done avg check scan and search and destroy and nothing, everything else on my pc works so can someone help me with my problem

OpSys: Win 98SE (installed by Dell), Ver. 4.10.2222A, Update Q890175 Machine: Dell Dimension 4100 P3 / 866mHz / 512mB RAM, SB Live, GeForce FX5200, USR modem, USB hub, dual CD-RW. Key software: MS Office 2000 Pro, IE, Visio, CompuPic, SB audio, ZoneAlarm, Norton Anti-virus and System Works, Roxio and too …

Help please! For some reason, although the dial up modem connects (to NTL) fine, IE keeps coming up with the DNS error screen when you try to access any website. If you try and log into Messenger it trys for ages then says "cannot log you in, try later". Really …

I have a HP Pavilion 6535 and I cannot get windows to start. I do not have a restore disk. If you know another way to restore or get into windows please reply. This computer had windows 98 but windows xp was downloaded on it. I do not care if …

I'm using Windows ME. It happens everytime when i tried to open a document. Even if i create a new document it shows a blank page but when i type in something it closes itself. [B]What caused it? [/B] I think it's the Trojan that effected it. I couldn't remove …

Hi all. A rather annoying problem has developed on bootup. Occasionally, the system freezes just before the AVG icon ususally appears in the system tray. I'm running Windows 98. Could anyone help with simple straightforward instructions? ta

hi i am using windows 98. i dont know what happened but from a few days back.whenever i start the system.i get a dialog boxasking for user name and password.which i can remove by pressing the "esc" buton. is there any way by which i can stop this dialog box …

Some websites that I've visited no later than two days ago just dont work now, I assumed it was because of a trojan that happened its way on to my computer while downloading someting off of a website, but i ran avast and got rid of two, still doesnt work. …

Microsoft Outlook XP 2002 or 2003 user? There's a program called [b]Outsource-XP[/b] which is great to backup all of your Outlook information. It backs up your emails, settings, email accounts, templates, address book, etc. - just about everything you would use Outlook for! It's a really cool program if you …

Recently got a new PC which came with Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 Version 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633 installed. Internet Explorer displays all web pages with a totally white background and erratic font sizes - generally larger than they should be, sometimes very much larger. E.g., Windows Update comes out in a …

Hello, Today when I got on my brothers laptop the screen was black... so i hard rebooted it and I got this message. "Ntfs.sys has been corrupted or is missing. You can insert the Windows Setup CD to fix the file". So, I inserted the first recovery disc and went …

I have an 80gb drive that has screwed up and will not go into the log in screen for users. If I put this drive into another machine I can access all the files except those that were under my log in (administrator) as they were password protected. I know …

I installed a new Windows Server 2003 SP1 box, and added Media Streaming and IIS (as well as Darwin, but I'll leave that out for now). I can't seem to get Windows Media Streaming to work with IIS installed, even if the service is stopped. Once I uninstall IIS, it …

Hello, I am real new to this but I am looking for help with a constant error that keeps popping up everytime I boot up my computer. THe error reads C:\WINDOWS\system32\msiefr40.dll Mode error I understand that it may have something to do with Adware/Spyware which my kids ran a McAFee …

Hi all. I have Windows XP and when i try and run the liveupdate of Norton i recieve an error sating it cannot connect to host and i should check my connection. I am connected using broadband and the internet is working perfectly. Any ideas with this? Sorry if this …

i am trying to install windows xp pro but the error message "winnt.sif is corrupt or missing. please can someone help. also "windows explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close" comes up and i cant open windows :cry:

hey guys. well let's cut the small talk. i'm trying to access a free lineage 2 server and the directions state that i have to edit my host file. i did my reading on it and found that it should just assign an ip to a host name and the …

I haven't upgraded yet but I was wondering if anyone encountered any major issues when doing this. More specifically, I'm afraid if I upgrade, I'll lose FrontPage, Publisher and MapPoint and it will slow my computer down. Just looking for opinions/answers. Thanks! Valerie

[size=4][font=Verdana]:lol:Hi, are ther any websites that have good info on Windows 2000 tweaks and tips? For example what Windows 2000 services I need and don't need. If there are services I don't need and don't want them running in the background. Thanks Joe L.[/font][/size]

defragment shows 4% and again comes back to 0% for nearly half an hour. Scandisk runs ok. Any solutions ???

Hello and thank you very much in advance for the help: I am running Windows ME and just had to get it re-installed through Gateway tech support. Now my icons are large and everything seems perferated. A friend mentioned it could be the drivers associated with the video card or …

I have bought a HP computer sometimes ago, it is P-IV-, 1.3MHz and 256 RAM and few days ago i dont know what happened but as soon as i started "activiation code" window poped up.. i go no internet connection nor any kind of activated code and i dont know …

Hi, I've just upgraded & bought a new tower consisting of; AMD 3500+ CPU GA-K8NF-9 Mother Board 1gig Kingmax DDR400 RAM Winfast PX6600GT TDH Extreme Version Graphics Card 200gig Seagate SATA hard disk CD Rom etc etc I've kept my old Honeywell (FCC ID:AQ6-92K15) keyboard & MX1000 Logitech Mouse. I …

I just made a P4 2.533 GHz on an ASUS P4S8X mother board and have not been able to see my DVD drive it does show my CD drive which is attached to the master (Black Connector) of the same cable. Any ideas what to do? Thanks in advance?

Hi I upgraded from w2k to XP Pro, now my pc freezes for a few seconds at a time or worst, it automatically shuts down and restarts. I've tried everything a novice like me could but nothing seems to work. Microsoft support has been successful either. In desperation I have …