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I recently had to send my Toshiba laptop in for repair to a warranty center. They had to replace my hard drive. I sent my restore disks to reinstall Windows 7 that I made and they came back all scratched. They were not scratched when I sent them in. I …
Hi, I am working on a testing tool and the testing tool asks the user to insert the user certificate in cert format like test.cert format and sends an encrypted attached file to my email id. Once I have received the file I want to download that file and decrypt …
I have recently configured my online outlook account with my gmail id. All my configuration were done. But after configuration outlook is downloading all my previous mails. I want to stop the unnecesary download of old mails. I want to configure it such that it should only download/sync today's mail …
Heya. I brought a desktop almost two weeks ago sortof for entertainment purposes and have loaded FS2004, The Sims 2 inc. expansion packs Apartment Life + Bon Voyage and also Simcity4, and everytime I try to play the games, within the first few minutes, it crashes. i.e screeching noise followed …
Hi there, Would appreciate any help you can give. I am trying to copy my music collection from this windows 7 machine: Toshiba Satellite C660-17E Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit Service pack 1 Intel Celeron Dual Core T3500 @2.10ghz 4gb Ram Toshiba MK6465GSXN 650gb Hard Drive 5400rpm Intel graphics …
it has been downloaded by my laptop "rundll32".it is some sort of app,but i do not know what it is and what it do.it is 54kb the size and for a moment it have taken 98% of my cpu power.anybody knows what it is?i'm a bit worry. thanks in advance.
Hi everyone! I just got a brand new windows 7 desktop computer on Friday and all I did was download sims games that I own, avg virus software (the free version), and ccleaner. Saturday night windows did an automatic update of over 123 updates. The next day it said they …
I receive an error message when i install an Office Software or open an Office program or document.
Plz someone help. I have a sony vaio and has stopped loading and every time i go to repair it. it dosent load and when it does it just searches for promblems and other else it stays like that for hours. i have even tryed to start it in all …
xp desktop new ssd bios sees it xp device manager sees it and reports it is working properly. File manager fails to see it, fails to assign a letter to it. HOW TO FORMAT IT?
I have a HP HDX Premium Series laptop with windows vista home and my ie browser keeps saying cannot connect to webpage. I have tried several different things I AM connected to the internet but it still won't let me browse.
Hi, and in advance, thank you! I have an old PC which worked fine as a DVD player before I moved house. I have now set it up and it is replacing the text with (at best) random characters. I am able to get to the options for running: Safe …
Is it possible to download X-Code on a windows 8 laptop? I am not seeing it being possible so far...
I bought a few games recently and I have installed them on my external HDD. However when I play them I encounter random freezing for about 3 seconds but then its fine for 10 seconds and it just keeps repeating this. The PC tempuratures are fine all below 50 degrees. …
what's the best diagram for this environment: - The main router will route between three networks: A DMZ, a “client” network and the Internet. On the DMZ, traffic should be authorized only to and form published services (see servers section). The DMZ should be able to initiate dialog with machines …
Hello guys, i've been experiencing some troubles with my laptop for a while now. Sometimes randomly, when hours goes by, or sometimes minutes, my computer stops navigating in any browser, My connection info seems fine, but i can't navigate, can't play online games, skype won't connect, nothing works. YET! I …
hey guys am using window 7 with avg 2013, i recently updated my pc and have stored my explicit,hardcore material in a folder hider, so after updating i tried to open the folder hider only to find the folder corrupted, after scanning the pc i got the massage that i …
I'll attempt to make this as simple as I possibly can so that I am able to obtain the details and positive results I have been seeking all week long. It would be too difficult to explain how my Dell XPS L702X got to it's current condition and to be …
XP would not load so used spare HD to boot desktop. Machine booted fine but cannot connect to internet to down load the drivers needed to connect to the internet! Am presently using XP Files and Settings Transfer Wizard to collect all files and settings from my old C: drive …
GPO Problem So I’m having an issue configuring a password complexity group policy in my company’s network environment and I’m hoping someone with some solid experience with GPOs can help me out. We came in a while ago as salary workers to replace an out sourced IT department. I’m guessing …
I'm trying to use two Outlook 2010 accounts and profiles on two computers and two servers by storing all outlook files on an external hard drive. The problem is that one one server is an Exchange server, the other is an IMAP server. Since Exchange creates an ost file that …
I have a laptop operating Windows 7 and am the only user and the Administrator. I have been using Serif Page Plus 6 for graphics work for years with no problems but have just upgraded to Page Plus 7. On attempting to insert an image from My Documents into a …
My Windows 7 computer is almost completely frozen. I can run it in safe mode, but as soon as I do all the maintenance (virus search, glary utilities, CC Clean) in safe mode and go back to regular, it freezes or goes very very slow (10 minutes to shut down). …
I changed the screen on a "Asus EEE PC 1005 PE B10" notebook. Windows 7 does not start any more, It worked briefly after I changed the screen. It goes to this message "setup is starting services". After about 30 seconds a message window opens stating: "The computer restarted unexpectedly …
i don`t known how to delete windows xp from my computer?i had just format my computer the day before yesterday and it shows the two windows option whenever start.
Hi guys. I am having a problem where by microsoft Excel will not allow one of my users to overwrite a file that is within her share in the server. We get the error "Document not saved" when trying to overwrite but are able to save a new document. I …
Hello folks. i am into online fashion business which i started with my friends 2 years back in a partnership. we are 6 people, however domain is owned by just one 1 partner whose activites have become highly suspicious these days. so i want to ask you guys if its …
Dell inspirions windows 8, I am not able to open Web pages on Desk top, I have to go to Bing APP to get on Web of any kind, Because when I click on an Desk top icon, if Im lucky the page will load, or try to load, some …
Trying to restrict some share access on a simple network I made a syntax error or two, and googled net share and hidden share. This sort of thing came up many times: "to create a hidden share enter... net share concfg*C:\ /GRANT:username, FULL " ...and was touted as a hack! …
Guys and Gals, I am going to replace a 40GB hard Drive with a 160GB. I want to allocate certain amounts of space (Partitions) for different things, I:E Windows XP, Data, Pictures, Documents etc. Can anyone that has done this shed any light as what to avoid or what to …
We are operating a Gateway computer with XP. When we boot the computer up, a black screen pops up stating American Megatrends 3rd Master Hard Disk: S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, Backup and Replace. Press F2 to Resume. Once you press F2, it takes you to a Blue screen stating CMOS Setup …
While copying a big batch of files to a DVD this msj appeared: "This DVD-ROM drive is read only. You can copy files to this writable DVD but you must insert it into a writable drive". It *is* a writable drive. It has written happily to DVDs before and since. …
I accidently lost everything in my computer after I did a data safe backup and re set my computer to factory setting....NOW when my computer goes to sleep I can't wiggle my mouse and get it back! Windows doesn't seem to want to re load unless I re boot the …
Hi I purchased a Huawei E355 Mobile wifi dongle (usb plug and play) but for some reason, it is not self installing on my xp, sp3 machine. When I insert it into a usb port, nothing happens. I know the usb port works, because other usb plug and plays installs …
Hi, I have a few programs that startup automatically when I logged into standard account. The startup programs require Administration password, but boot into Standard Account. I've tried a few techniques so it would boot into standard account, without prompting administration password, they all failed. I'm looking for a program …
Hi guys, can anyone help me in excel. Is there any option for hyperlink worksheet to particular text....? Thanks
I've had this problem come and go and have tried everything to resolve it. Program icons don't load and instead are blank. "My Computer" doesn't load anything, it appears to be loading, but nothing ever appears. Context menus (on files and folders) do not load and usually crash the current …
Hey, i need some help. Does anyone know a way to remove qvo6 toolbar??
for last one month my laptop(fujitsu) heats up and shuts down when i watch videos on youth tube or when on skype video call. before it was working fine. what could be the probleme.
I have a window XP , when i open Command Promopt then it will disappear after 2-3 seconds. What is the alternative of Command Prompt in Window XP.
Hi, My os is win7 ultimate, as administrator i tried to delete a folder in c drive, it said "you require administrator permissions to delete this folder", But when i tried to change the permissions i get "access is denied", how can i change the permissions now? Thanks in advance
Hello guys, Recently I reinstalled my Windows XP SP3, now suddenly whenever I start my system it shows a black/blank screen after the Windows XP load screen. I installed the latest video drivers too (ATI Radeon) but it's of no help. I can go into safe mode without any issues …
I am trying to use following command to map a drive in persistent mode, and I don't want it to ask login credentials everytime I reboot the machine: net use P: \\server\folder Password123 /user:user123 /savecred /persistent:yes But I am getting folowing error: A command was used with conflicting switches. More …
Folks, Today, the Google home page was taken over by a fake Flash update. Although the cursor was in the search field and a search string could be typed and searched for, this malware seemed to have converted the entire page into a button for itself. Clicking anywhere on the …
"Error 720" Error Message When i Try to Establish a Dial-Up Connection to the Internet. i m using window 8...plz help me\
Hey guys, The company I work for is going through a Cross Forest Exchange (both Exch 2010) and AD migration (2003 to 2008 R2). Some users in the TARGET domain were receiving NDRs (Non Delivery Report) in Outlook when responding to old emails from users still located in the SOURCE …
hi guys i use hp g7 1310us, which i run windows 8 on. i dual boot the machine with windows server 2008 R2 it installed succesfully but cant use it for it purpose because i cant get the NETWORK ADAPTOR for it. pleas can someone show me or direct me …
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