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hi der... erm.. i got a prob here.. my audio devices couldnt be detected n i found a yellow exclaimation mark beside my ac97 audio devices.. its say dat code(10), 'this device cannot be started' can anyone please kindly help me?? thanks a bunch~

HELLLLP! :( my pc recently owont start because it says that the file vgaoem.fon is missing or corrupt and i dont know what to do it says u can repair the file if you have the orignal windows disc which i dont have..?? so if anyone can help me that …

Hope I am in the correct place for this message! Ever since I changed to broadband and AOL I seem to have lost Internet Explorer. IE is not listed as being on my computer at all. I am OK with using computers but as soon as anything goes wrong, I …

So i ran into a problem with my XP home on my maxtor 80gb HD. I had a new copy of XP pro laying around, so i decided to go ahead and install it on my other harddrive, a 160gb hitachi. Unfortunately that drive is not partitioned, and i believe …

I hope that someone can help me with my latest problem. My system was working fine before last night. I recently purchased an additional 256mb RAM. Last night I installed it, plugged everything back in and turn it on. I received the “blue HP INVENT

when i try to burn music i keep getting an error message (c00d11cd) i have not installed any other music or vidoe exceot the wmp 10 itself from an update , the wmp 9 worked jus fine but when i try to delete wmp 10 and try to install wmp …

am new here, but i came cuz of the same problem ... AGRSMMSG.exe but i think it has something to do with SPOOLSV.exe too cuz everytime i close that process my puter goes faster... but i keeps re-running by itself ... i dunno.. well i've read about asking a PRO …

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i've got a problem. i'm running windows xp pro with my c drive as boot (40g) and have an f drive as a data drive (160g sata) which is the source of my problem. f drive says that there is only 2g of free space which is perplexing. if i …

ok so heres one of my problems: Whenever i save an animation that i may have found on a webpage i save it to a regular folder, but when i try to open it again, it's not animated anymore. So with my brilliant thinking, i decided that i should change …

Hi again.. It appears that I am cursed... I just gotmy XP pro machine back and running on a fresh install and reinstalled all my software and it was running perfectly... then i went to upgrade from a Nvidia FX 5200 card to an ATI all in wonder 2006 edition …

I saw PC Bug Doctor on download.com and I was wondering if any here has used it or if it does what it says it does? Fixing problems that often require a system restore or reinstall and registry problems and things. Any of this true? Is it worth doing a …

Small network, single W2K domain controller...I want to get rid of the old DC server (old hardware) and replace with a new W2K DC server. What is the process to swap on the old server?

I have been trying to boot my PC for the last two days after a while of not using it. The mashine starts and sounds fine but from there nothing appears on the monitor screen. I have checked the monitor with another mashine and it is fine. I have noticed …

okay so i have multiple copies of xp home and pro, and on the computer i am currently building i have been running into a major problem, every time i install xp home edition sp2 it goes through the whole instalation process smoothly, and then with the final reboot it …

hi! please help me ! i can't get rid of these items...everytime ad-aware deletes them, they come right back up again! here is my hijack log : Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 1:25:31 PM, on 6/23/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) …

I had problems wit xp on my desktop and now problems with windows 2k advanced server. I'd migrate back to me (sooo much better), but no network printing, and no iis which makes it a no no. Two problems: 1. WHEN I TRY TO OPEN UP MY STUPID D PARTITION... …

Hi folks, hope someone can help me with a very strange problem I've been having for some time now... Windows XP on this PC "freezes" at random. The weird thing is, when the computer "freezes" the behaviour is very strange: - any application that is open at the time keeps …

Hey. My dvd drive isn't showing up in my My Computer section. It opens up and everything, so it isn't the power cable. When I put a disk in, it doesn't auto-run or anything, so I think the computer just thinks it's wierd. It's not like I just added it …

I already posted this in the windows forum before realizing there was a forum for precisely this. Anybody who can help, please do. ::::: Alright, this is fairly urgent, so if any of you could help me out, I would be very grateful. As of yesterday evening when my mother …

Is there a way i can make it so that someone has to enter a password before they can access my external harddrive?? if you know a way...please give instructions....i'll try all the ideas i get and pick the one that works the best. Thankx :-)

I just finished downloading Adobe 7.0, which also included their photo ablbum 2.0 much to my surprise. What I'm about to ask may be a dumb question, but this download took two and a half hours and I just want to make sure I don't do something that I'm going …

I’ve been experiencing a severe problem with Windows XP not loading. I found some instructions on doing a Repair / Recovery Console by using the original Win XP disk. I did a boot by cd-rom and then press F-7 to install the storage drivers. I am then taken to the …

I have 2 computers both running WinXP Pro and i wanna transfer some files from one computer to another. both pc are hooked up to the internet. any help would be great......the items are 2 video files about 1.5 GB in total.

Hello. I'd like some advice on simple Internet controls for a 16-year-old who habitually visits porn sites. I monitor him closely, but if I step out of the room even briefly, I find porn sites in the history. He gets grounded or whatever, banned from the computer, promises he won't …

I had posted a previous thread about MSN with no results. As the problem was getting worse, I decided to reformat. This I have done with no problems and re-installed all my programmes and drivers. I've now found that a little of the previous problem still exists. My computer keeps …

I've had trouble ever since renewing (downloaded, no disk) Norton Anti-Virus in Dec, but now computer won't open properly or allow me internet access (Windows Explorer; I have Dell computer, Windows 98 SE). I am using computer at work to do this. Excuse my layman language, I am not super …

Hi......both my CD drives dont work. I have a cd rom drive (D) and a cd rw drive (E). Neither of them read any type of disc, whether it be data, music, photos etc, and i have tried these disc in another pc and they work fine. I am using …

hello all, first post, be kind plz :eek: anywho, ive got this machine i built myself, running Windows XP SP2 all availible updates installed. Everytime I go to run a full screen game, (ie final fantasy XI or RollerCoaster Tycoon III) the machine will shut off and restart... but this …

My computer has been effected with many Trojans and it changed the display properties when i want to change the background of desktop. After it's been efftected it also changed the background of desktop by itself. How can i change it back to normal settings?

I have a HSP56MR modem which has ceased working since I installed W2000. I have downloaded the suggested driver from th makers web site to no avail. I have emaild them with no response. Can anybody help. OR I have a second HDD. Can anybody tell me how to put …

My wmp was playing fine until a while ago... now it says does not support file type for ALL videos! what happened? I need it for a project!

hi I have some strange problems, i was able to reapir my PC everytime something wasnt right, but this time im helpless !!! My Problem: I dont know when it started (some months ago) but my Internet explorer "freezes" after i was some time online and in Task manager is …

After ditching Gentoo on my dual booted Windows/Gentoo box, I forgot that Windows was, in fact, NOT first in the partition list. It's 180 or some odd MB away from the beginning. This must have caused this error. I tried many times to go into the recovery console, but it …

I hope this is not a stupid question? :eek: I gotta know if there's any way to protect your window files from being over writen or having any files being saved in your stsem32 folder? :o Thanks

I.E 6.0 not see my web pages. Netscape does, but does not display images. If I use a different computer, all works fine. Re-installed I.E. and windows XP. No help Run repair programs such as pc Mighty Mac & others. No help. I have tried other things but no help. …

Hi, I'm new here, but have grown up with computers all my life. I upgraded to a pentium 4 about 2 years back, and now it has decided to randomly freeze up. Sometimes its when I'm just surfing the web or even if its just sitting there and I'm not …

After some recent problems with Firefox I'm now looking at other browsers, and it seems that Avant is getting a lot more downlods at Download.com than Firefox. The total downloads as of 06/19/05 are: Avant 98,394 Firefox 66,894 Opera 17,141 Until I googled browsers I hadn't heard of Avant, but …

[B][COLOR=Red]I got a new burner & i installed the neroplayer with it ...everything was working fine before & after i installed it...but i didn't like the fact that the nero player took over all my media files & i couldn't import them into certain programs...So what i did was uninstalled …

I'm trying to sign on to my company's VPN from my home machine and having some trouble. I'm using Win2K so the VPN capability is built in. I've added the connection in Dialup Connections but when I try to connect, it instantly comes back with the error: "The connection failed …

My computer has just started crashing on start up. Yesterday it worked on the 2nd attempt, today the 3rd. It hasn't done this before and i've had my computer for 2 and a half years now. Any tips? I thought if I repaired Windows then it would work, but I …

after running fdisk on computer get error no fixed disks present... ???? then on reboot I get Missing Operating system.. Helppppp :o

Yesterday When I Turned My Lptop On The Back Screen Light Was Of Dimmed Tried All My Best But To Know Avail. Forced To Use Study Lamp To Illuminate My Screen Whilst Typing My Project. It's Microsoft Xp Laptop..what To Do Now?

to enhance the data safety and speed etc of my computer i have built about 8 partitons/logical drives on my 160GB hdd. now, the questions. you cannot move the My Documents folder from the boot partition { if you think u have, then u have only created a shortcut}. you …

[[COLOR=Navy]B]Before we begin, it is important to note that I'm a bit of a rookie in this area and that the past month of trying to problem solve this has exhausted what little patience I have with computers. I will take any and all suggestions to solve the problem below. …

I lost my product code number, how can I reinstall office? :sad:

hello all, i'm tryin to reinstall windows on a computer that had alot of virus on it. i went to the bios and changed to boot from cdrom first and put the xp pro cd in and rebooted everything came up but whe it got to(hit any key to start …

When in add/ remove programms (Win xp)when trying to select " add/remove windows components" the following error shows up: setup library msrocm.dll could not be loaded or function key ocEntry could not be found. contact your system administrator. The specific error code is 0x7e. can anyone suggest a way to …

Summary: My Win2K desktop machine boots fine, however, when it finishes booting, I am left with virtually all the file, installed application and system application program assocations gone! Even the Start>Run command prompt asks me to 'open with'. :sad: The "open with" dialog box only shows the following: - Internet …

Alright, this problem first started happening maybe a month ago. I started to notice little glitches on the desktop wallpaper. Then maybe a couple weeks ago it got to the point where windows would not even start up. Whenever I had pressed the button on the pc for bootup, it …