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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 …

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 …

anyone know of a linux skin for xp? (lol)

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.