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Hello!!! I am aware of the fact that unkept registry can degrade performance and sometimes even cause crashes. Which software is the best for maintaining the registry and is it safe if proper use is done.

I have read the posts regarding hotmail but none of the fixes worked. I get a messages stating "Sorry, the page you requested was not found" I tried the following fixes: [B]1. The date on your computer needs to be set properly -- double click the clock verify that the …

Hi! This is an SOS. I need urgent help with this. My mom works at home and she types in an older computer which uses Windows 95 (which is okay for what she does, when she delivers copy). On Friday, when she went to work, there was a floppy in …

Dont you just hate a program that is supposed to protect you and repeatedly tries to access the internet even after you go in and specifically deny it access. My other firewall alerted me... No wonder they tell you to disable any other firewalls first... They want their SPYWARE to …

I have an exchange server with three drives all NTFS. The OS was reloaded and now the other two drives show as unknown format. Is there a way to get back into those drives? Thank you for any help you can provide.

Heres what i need. I play FPS's like BF1942. I have no computer. So i was thinking of buying some bundle from like compaq? and putting a new vid card and upgrading the ram. Is this a good idea? I was planning on the comp bundle to be around $500-600. …

I have 3 computers 2 are administrators and the other is a user. I have 2 printers one on each of the administrator computers I want to share both printers to the users computer. I set it up with the admin account but when I switch to the users accounts …

I have an old scanmaker e3 scanner (parallel port through some sort of SCSI interface). I seem to facing a strange problem - every time the machine boots up, it finds the scanner over and over again (usually up to 6 times). I want it find it once and be …

Would you run an AV on Linux or FreeBSD or Solaris, etc? Of course not, so why run one for NT which has at least the security capabilities of those other systems? The only systems that benefit from AVs are those with poor architecture that allows random processes unmitigated access, …

I just installed XP on my computer (had win 2000, but viruses invaded so I decided to wipe it and get xp), and everything went fine when I installed it, but there is one problem. Whenever I open a window that can be scrolled (webpage), dragged around, or manipulated it …

[COLOR=DarkOrange]Someone please help me, is there any software that can fix this issue...[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]This started about 2 months ago, sometimes it works fine, sometimes it shuts down automatically every 0 - 20 minutes (this is week by week). (It usually happens as I use too much memory program.) I KNOW …

Hello! Hopefully someone can help me out here before I have to resort to paying an arm and a leg to have my computer fixed or buy a new one. I have a Dell Dimension 4300 with Windows ME installed. I had the hard drive completely cleaned out (EVERYTHING erased) …

when i try to run msconfig it keeps saying windows cannot find msconfig check spelling etc etc. can anyone please help?

First of all, sorry about talking my own problem in someone else thread. I didnt know. Now, here is as detailed as i can get with what's going on. My computer either restarts or shuts down by its self randomly anytime it feels like it. No pattern really, but it …

Hi, i'm pretty new.. I have an Nvidia GeForce 4 MX420 64 mb graphics card. I've been trying to play a game, "Wolfenstein Enemy Territory" and after a while my computer just randomly restarts. I go on the settings on the display and adjust the troubleshoot slider up and down, …

Hi, I am having troubles booting up my pc. I have tried to run in safe mode and I wait a few minutes and then finally something happens, I see a blue screen quickly with writing, I couldn't tell you what it said, and then the computer restarts itself. I …

I was reading a thread regarding a yellow exclamtion mark, and it reminded me that I have two icons on my desktop that have yellow question marks just to the right and above them, what do they indicate? One is for my printer, and the other is for microsoft XML …

I'm having a continuing problem with Home XP on my laptop. I have to reinstall my personal settings after every reboot or start up. It was fine until about a week ago. My son started using the laptop day and night to chat and blog with people from all over …

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!