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I let my friend borrow my computer for a few months. Bad freaking idea, dont do it. Well when i got it back from my vacation and tried to boot it up it goes pass the dell logo screen and then right after that it says error loading operating system. …

Hey all. Just chucked in my XP pro disc to format my drive and reinstall XP, but i came across a REALLY strange error. IT boots up off the disc, then when i go to press enter to reinstall it says that it cant find any HDD's!!! wat the heck...ive …

I cannot open IE. I continue to get a pop up that says; Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Buffer Overrun Detected C:\program files\internet explorer\Iexplorer.exe. I can get on line through AOL, but the window come up periodically. I have ran a deep scan with my anti-virus program, scanned with Ad-aware, …

I figured this would be the place to find a solution. PROBLEM 1: I can't download the AIM installer from aim.com . it doesn't give me an error message or anything, but when it brings up the download prompt, which kinda looks like this Would you like to open this …

Here is what is happening. My PC was acting rather sluggish, so I restarted it. It started booting, then went to the XP loading page. After which, the screen went black for a second and the system restarted and repeated. I tried to boot in Safe Mode. The Safe Mode …

Have windows XP, mp3 player is not detected by computer. Mp3 player works on other computers. Ipod will download music from same usb port, but will not recharge the battery. Device manager says usb ports are fine. Help!

why does my computer keep freeezing i have just reformated it and its still doing it mozilla goes to 100% ive tried other browsers and it still does it when i try to download help files it wont allow it whats going on with it

I am having troubles figuring out if my computer running WIndows XP SP2 has USB 2 Its a older P3 800mhz system. I have everest but cannot seem to find results. I need this for my ipod but havnt got it yet to try. Our photo scanner is powerd buy …

i recently hooked my old comp (dell dimension L1000R) with windows me back up and when i go to start it seems like it is going to boot but stops at a black screen with a blinking - in the upper left corner....no clue even where to begin. i do …

I need help uninstalling windows me. I can't uninstall it for some reason. I want to install windows xp but it won't let me unless i uninstall me. please help :sad:

After cleaning a spyware using Ad Aware,my program files is blank.I can see using Start>run>browse... But opening Start>Programs>Accessories>Windows Explorer,My Computer,HD,Program Files,seems empty.I just see at the bottom : 109 objects. How can I fix this?Ok,I have to edit the registry,but i don´t know how to get started Thanks for any …

I have tried to upgrade my Ad-Aware 6.0 edition to the newest available, but I cant get past the uninstall of previous versions step. I get the message "Could not open the Install.log file". What can I do to remove this old version of Ad-Aware?? Thank you Stefan

Hello all, Ive been building music PC's for friends for a while now and have been getting busier. I was wondering what is the best way to make a recovery CD... I know Norton Ghost is brilliant but i didn't want to use it for two reasons...1) I want to …

Friend's Dell Dimension 4600 (piece of over-priced junk) what to sh*t and so now I'm trying to fix it. The recovery discs that Dell provides only work within Windows. (defeats the purpose if you ask me) On bootup, it gives me an error about accessing the System folder, on safe …

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Hi all! Hope you can help. I was tiring to clean out my friends system that was running slow after a year of Internet. He had Norton 2003 on his system and like many people, didn't realize that he needed to subscribe to keep his machine protected. With that, I …

After shutting my computer off while it was booting, it now won't boot at all. I'm running a window xp professional P4. When I turn it on, it starts to boot but goes into choices of booting. I've tried all of the different choices; safe, command prompt, safe with networking, …

I need some help, I am running into a conflict with winfax pro, I send a fax and I cannot get meditech to work properly. I recieve the message cts-time out 04E0h what can I do?

I am trying to set up my computer so that I can have both Redhat and Win XP on the same harddrive. I already had winxp on my computer when I decided to do this. Here is what I did: -I used Partition Magic to create a partition after the …

Hello there! As of yesterday, my computer's been giving me alot of trouble. I'm not quite sure where to start, because I have no idea what's wrong. I have a year-old MDG computer with Windows XP Home edition. Basically, my computer froze yesterday. I thought it was because I was …

I have a software program on a cd. It must have a copyright, Nero won't copy it to my hard drive so I can make an extra copy of it. Is there any ripping programs out there I can use? I am running XP. This is for my personal use …

Hai I tried to view help.sap.com. and if I click any of the tabs in it, it has an option to select English or German. Whichever I click, a blank page opens. But at the end, the IE screen says "Done". I told some of my friends to open in …

Does anyone know how to connect two XP systems with 1394? I thought I would have to go into the properties drill down (of the 1394 connection) and manually set the IP address, yet I cannot do this on the second PC as the 1394 does not show in the …

Im trying to get some old files off of a hard drive onto a different computer. The old Hard drive contains data that I need. The system im trying to attach it to is a Win2000 Pro machine. When I add the drive on and assign it a partition letter …

Hi, Im Am Relly Confused With This Orror Message Every Thing Else Is Fine With My Wmp 10 Excepth It Freezes Quite A Lot And Also When I Try To Burn Music On To A Cd I Get Error Message (c00d11cd)plzzzzz Help :!:

Viewing the folder in windows XP pro. The folder has information about the drive that is useful but I don’t know how to activate the view. Shown in the picture, how can I get this look in Windows XP pro? I upgraded from win ME to Windows XP pro. Please …

I recently tried to defragment my computer. I am running windows XP Pro on an IBM ThinkPad T40, Pentium M 1.8 ghz, 512 Ram, 80G harddrive. When it was "done" it gave me a message saying it couldn't defragment a bunch of them, and there was still a large protion …

I don't really know what category this fits into, since I don't know where the problem lies yet, but hopefully someone can help me. This is a 6 month old acer laptop, so it'll go back under warranty if it's hardware. There have been no hardware changes, and as far …

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well now im having problems with windows media player i cant uninstall it anymore cuz its not in the add/remove section...its cuz i wanted to completely take out windows media player and reinstall it cuz it wouldnt work...also i deleted its registry keys in the windows media player folder...now when …

Hi, I have a problem with my Media Player. I just wanted to play some music but instead, all I hear is this beep and nothing happens. I click on the icons and everything and it's all the same. There's no error message or anything except that one beep? Please …

I am a new computer "geek?" who is lost. I found this site somehow. I am trying to use my Media Player 10 to rip & burn, which I have done; now I want to have titles and not just unknown tracks listed.Can anyone give me "printable" help? Thanx, Deb.

Hey all. Not sure how to explain this, but you know when you get a web page and there's big gaps with a small red cross in the corner where a photo should be, and the general layout of the page is in a skeletal form as if it's in …

can anyone give me some advice on sorting outlook express it wont allow me to click any links when i try to click the link for example ebay it wont do anything please help :twisted:

My daughter is running win XP professional on a desktop Gateway P4 (about 3 years old) and after successfully cleaning up incredible amounts of spam (Look2Me- horrible!), I found that her recycle bin shows no deleted files. It doesn't even show that they are being deleted, yet they disappear. Of …

:?: Hi I bought this new computer a while ago (the one I'm using right now) and it already came with windows xp on it, It did come with a boot CD but windows was not included in it. I was wondering if there is anyway that I could extract …

Recently I've had a intermittent problem starting up, once in a while when I turn on the computer all I get is a blank screen, the PSU and CPU fans are running so I know it's powering up, but if I try to reboot it nothing happens. I usually wind …

On Win XP Pro, all of the Desktop Icons suddenly disappeared. Now I when I drag an Shortcut to the Desktop, it won't stick.

when i try to use ie6 it will not connect.i am using walmart connect its like aol.i have win me on my comp. can anyon e help me solve this please. :?:

I used to use Windows ME, but recently refomatted my hard drive and installed Windows XP Pro. I have already installed SP2 (and Norton Internet Security 2004). However I noticed that my primary hard drive, which is a 20 GB drive, is shown as only having a 7.82 GB capacity …

Some of my users are experiencing the same problem. They will be in all different applications their machines will freeze and reboot. It's happening quite often in different locations. Any ideas or reported problems??

Hey all, i have a important question. Okay so i updated my graphics card recently to a NX6600GT AGP. I install the most recent drivers, games run good, everything seems fine.... I try to open a video file and the player starts using 99% of my CPU and no video …

I have Microsoft XP SP2 and Internet Exploerer 6 and I have recently been having problems with me computer where it has been running very slow so I tried to take off some of the startup programs and services that are running in the background. After I had done this …

Hey Guys, I would appriecate any help you guys could give me! I am starting my own very small business, I have SBS2003 running with Exchange. However, due to cablevision restrictions I can't run my email through exchange. Instead I host my mail and pop it down to the exchange …

when i switch on my comp an alarm sounds for a few minutes - sometimes when i log on, sometimes before, and i cant get rid of it , i tried to go to the settings but 'rundll32exe' cannot be found so i cannot find nor remove the problem or …

I have installed SP1 available for windows xp 2003 server (already installed and working having Lan and domain settings) after SP1 installation internet sharing stops on all domain users. i tried best to solve the problem even reinstall the server and set domain again. plz tell me its solution. most …

I am using Microsoft Windows XP and I tried to view some of my text files in which I created thru notebook but I got "access denied" error. So I thought I would try to click on the notebook icon on the start menu and it change it to dos. …

Cant open internet explorer it opens for a second then disappears. My wireless conection is connecting with the AP.

Hi, Two days ago I was doing a defrag on my hard disk, but a power failure screwed the process. After the power failure the computer won't boot. It says something like: "Error, hal.dll is missing or corrupted". After that I went like crazy because the documents there are really …

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