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I want to transfer my files, pictures etc. from one computer to another. I have never done anything like this before. What would be the best way to do this?

When I restart or shutdown machine stucks at "WINDOWS IS SHUTTING DOWN". any solution ???

I am not sure what is going on with 2 of my computers in my house. When you right click on file and try to move the mouse down the list to get to copy or whatever the mouse will freeze once it gets over "Send To" for a good …

Alright, im trying to reinstall windows XP on my harddrive. I have done it several times before without a problem. But now im trying to install it and it wont let me. When I boot from the Windows XP cd everything loads, setup and all that good stuff loads, then …

My ability to click on a link in an email message, and take me into a web page, has dissappeared. Instead a window pops up asking me to "locate my link browser" in my computer. I can t find it. Please help. Kind regards, Robin

I've had this problem before, but my brother fixed it, and I can't figure it out. I just had my internet connection taken off and put back on, and now every time I open internet explorer, it opens for a few seconds, and then closes. I can only access the …

hi everybody, i recently hosted one of my friends website, in the local system (ie., 192.166.0.0:80 ) when i type this ip address in the internet exp , it comes with default home page , but when i run the main website for example [url]www.yahoo.com[/url] it doesnot open the home …

Ok I have a wiered problem here. I am repairing Windows XP with the Windows XP Disk because some of my windows files got erased somehow. Anyways, the windows xp disk will start the computer fine and half way through the setup called "Installing Devices" the keyboard and mouse will …

well after hours i figured out taht the reason i cant share printers is cuz of zonealarm. (it has to be shut down to work). so i figured well ill configure it so that it will accept the ip address. well i THOUGHT i did that but apparently i didnt. …

Hi all Don't know if this belongs here, but any help would be much appreciated!! When I am surfing on the net, I use BT Yahoo Broadband, and go to open a link so that a new window opens, my computer crashes/ not responding EVERY SINGLE TIME!! The links just …

Please help!!! I am running a home built 1.8 gig, 512 ram P4 XP machine that has worked fine for two years. Now it started restarting itself after only two minutes. Not enough time to get to system restore. But wait it gets better. Now it won't even get that …

Hi all, I'm trying to understand how asite can know that I open in it 2 acounts when I connect to the internet with 2 differents IP address, but using the same computer. Are computers identified by web apps and web sites. I'm talking about identifiers other then cookies, as …

Hello everybody... I need help, I have asked my tech support and they doesn't seem to have a solution... :eek: I've bought a PC with an AMD 64 bits processor and a serial ATA hard disk, Windows XP SP1 installed. The problem is that most of the times it takes …

Hey guys. When ever i try to play a DVD on my PC the sound is really distorted and choppy :mad: It used to be good, and ive tried windows media player 10, PowerDVD and WinDVD! does anyone know how to fix this? Ive got XP SP1

Hello. I have a problem regarding Windows XP Proffesional (SP2) - with it's explorer to be more precise ("explorer.exe" program). I'm typing this message via some other computer because I don't have Internet on the computer with the problem I'm talking about at all (don't have a telephone line, but …

Hi, I have a situation with a Server Running Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition. The Problem is that when the boot process gets to the GUI, it just keeps flashing on and off, the desktop never stays on the screen, it just keeps looping. I have never seen this before, …

Well Scince I Installed This Linksys Wireless G USB Adapter,my pc freezes at random times,can anyone help,PLZ!!!

I am using Netscape 7.2 on Windows XP SP1. Very often, when I enter a new URL in the navigation bar, or click a link anywhere (including my favorites list), the new page will open in the current window, but at the same time, a new window appears over it. …

I one hdd in my pc. I have partitioned it in three parts. on first part I have installed win xp, Now I want to install win xp on other part, Can you anybody tell me how can I do this?

I just reformated my hd and reinstalled windows. but when i try to activate it it doesnt connect to the activation server. i know i have internet connection do to im on here. but no matter what i try i just cant do it.

in thereory i tell it to include the .net framework and if the userdoesnt have it install. then if it is installed they will be able to run my C# apps. is this correct :?:

Ok so i have followed some tutorial online how to do it. first i amde sure my LAN was anabled for sharing. it was. the i mad sure the printer was. it was. then i added a printer to the compueer that is going to do the sending. yes the …

Hi. I turned on my brother's computer and started up an online game. It crashed and froze and I couldn't restart it, so I forcefully shut it down (held the button and turned it off). I turned it back on and it loaded longer than usual (there was the black …

xposted Okay. Basically I've been trying to reinstall Windows XP due to much spyware finding my computer as their beloved habitat, among other things that I just can't get rid of. I've been trying to install and it hasn't been working, this has been goin on for about 2 weeks, …

Hey all I've been reaading your forums through to try and solve my problem but still to no avail. Basically when using either IE 6 or Firefox i cannot accses certain sites most notabley any microsoft website e.g msn.co.uk as such i cant check hotmail or get updates. Both browsers …

Hope someone can help me Windows xp will no longer boot in any mode. The normal mode gets the farthest but the system resets and tries over and over without succes. Now for the kicking part (myself not the machine) i didn't make a recovery disk and the machine came …

Which browser, out of these two, do you think is better, and why?

ok in theory if i remove aol from my system completley i wont have to be signed on to that to go onto the internet. i dhould just be able to click on firefox in go. does any body know if this is correct i must rid my self of …

When I click on the paper clip to attach a file and click the drop-down arrow to browse to a different location, the application stops responding and eventually closes. I have tried uninstalling and re-installing Office. Any ideas? I am running Office 2003 on Windows XP.

Hello! I am having a heck of a time with this one. I cannot double click any icons on my desktop, nor can I highlight them and press enter. When I do it just sits there and stares at me blankly. I have created a new user on the same …

Hi Guys I installed some software the other day which did not work properly anyway i had a bit of trouble deleteing it anyway its gone now but ever since when i go on to sites like ebay i get the message IF YOU ARE SEEING THIS PAGE,YOUR BROWSER SETTINGS …

Everytime I go to certain web pages or go to play certain games on the web a error message pops up that says it is unable to load JIT compiler, and it has to do with the the mscorjit.dll file. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!!

Me and my friend have just got a network of two computers working. We are connected through NTL cable broadband and had to buy an ethernet switcher to get it to work. Now that it IS working... MSN 7.0 won't. Period. When it logs in, it instantly crashes and goes …

We recently bought a new computer and have put our old one in our childs room. The computer is dreadfully slow, how can we remedy it. It is an HP Pavillion, we had replaced the hard drive after a crash. It has WinMe on it along with tons of programs. …

ok i have AOL as my isp. what i want to do is use firefox as my bowser. the only problem is that i have to be signed into AOl in order for firefox to work. i want to be able to just click firefox and be ready to go. …

I searched around the boards and i couldn't find a solution to my problem. Anyways, last night i bought and installed half life 2. During that process i updated my nvidia drivers. After that happened i keep getting an error on all apps except IE and windows explorer. I get …

CAN ANYONE HELP??? Has anyone had this problem? I installed a D-Link firewire card afew years ago for use with my Sony DV camcorder - all worked fine. Then I got sn ipod 20gb this year which also uses the firewire port - this worked fine too. However, the next …

Hi, I have a Asus P4P800, P4 3.0G, 1G geil ram, pioneer DVR106, Benq CD, 1 x 130G and 1 x 32G 10Krpm sata set up, windows xp pro sr2. Almost everytime I load a DVD or CD into either of the drives the system locks up, if I boot …

I have setup a new server at my office with MS Server 2003 Small Business with MS Exchange 2003 & MS Sharepoint. All are well functioning except MS Sharepoint where I can't access company internal site ([url]http://companyweb/[/url]) from client PC. is there any setting that I'm not configure yet to …

I have a PC with windows 98 as its OS. In the last couple of days I have not been able to start it up simply because I get the above message. Can you help me please?

Many computer users are worried about their computer's performance. After spending lot of bucks, still they cannot have that charm of using PC as they had expected. Here I am going to explain some major tricks which are used by many computer users which help them to take efficient use …

Well according to Microsoft Windows NT will not be supported by Microsoft at the end of the year! yay!!!!!! Now this OS I will be kinda sad it went they should of kicked WinME but that will be next thank god!

ok so im surfing the web and BOOM!! my comp goes to a blue screen saying GATHERING_MACHINE_EXEPTION ...if this is first time restart. if not follow these instructions... check to make sure hardware and software are propelrl installed and updated if contnue disable bios memory like caching and shadowing stop: …

Please help. Every time I try to load Conquer Online (the game) I get this error. [B]The D3D8.DLL file is linked to missing export DDRAW.DLLLLLockCB[/B] Please help me. I tried reinstalling Direct X. And I still got the same problem. Thanx OS: Win98SE

Hi everyone, I've been having problems with my machine for a while now even though we upgraded about 4-6 months ago. OE keeps causing the machine to go nutso & most of the time I can get it under control & then it will do it again several hours later …

Hi!! I want to know the equivalent of msconfig command(present in Win XP) to that in Win 2000 Pro. Thanks Prakhar Prakash

Hi. I use some seriously antiquated hardware to run my picture and video servers for my site [url=www.huntsvillecarscene.com]Huntsville Car Scene.com[/url]. Each server runs Win95 osr2 with MS Personal Web Server 1.0a. One is a Pentium Pro 180 with 32MB ram. The other is a 486dx33 with 24MB ram. They work …

I have a problem with my mp3 player. My mp3 player wont let me turn it on when it is now connected to the usb lead. When it is not plugged in it shows no sign of life. It is not a problem with the battery i think because i …

I have been tasked to install a simple piece of client software on all PCs on my site. Because this can be installed without admin rights, and that it requires not user interaction, I was hoping to use a login script for the purpose. This is not a problem, as …

Sorry I wasn't sure exactly what section to post this in. I'm looking for an application that will allow me to schedule an application to start at a certain time. For example, if I wanted an MP3 or something of that nature to start playing in the morning to act …