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Greetings I have a celeron 1800hz with 256k of ram running xp with service pack 2 installed. This is a shared computer with two other users (my two sons) as well as myself I have AVG antivirus, zone alarm for firewall and regularly run ad-aware for spy ware etc. All …

I know firefox is probably a better browser, but I am still so used to internet explorer I cant change. Anyways, when Im browsing and I want to go back, I have to click the "back" button like 3 times before it actually goes back. Does anybody have any idea …

it wil be delivered on Monday, I ordered the windows xp 2pk. Does anyone know if I will have to download this or will it already be installed on my mother board. Thanks in advance Buff

I am new at this, so if this is in the wrong spot, please forgive me. I need help solving the following: I have to reboot my computer everytime I need to use it because if I leave it on to hibernate I cannot connect to my dial up provider. …

Hey! All right. I have tried sharing a folder over the network to about 38 computers using a windows XP Pro computer. What I found out was that there is a "user limt" to about 10 over the network. Now I have gotten around that by logging of the user …

I've been editing large WAV files for a cd I'm remixing. Everytime I save the .wav file after making an adjustment, I lose hard space on my drive. If the .wav file is 85 megs, you would think that 85 megs would just stay after you save over the edited …

[url="http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3499286"]http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3499286[/url] [b][color=blue]Microsoft will Virtualize Linux[/color][/b] [QUOTE] Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company would make serious investments in, and open up, its Virtual Server 2005 product to run on non-Windows machines [/QUOTE] [url="http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,101214,00.html"]http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,101214,00.html[/url] [b][color=blue]Windows Thin Client[/color][/b] [QUOTE] - Microsoft Corp. is working on two thin-client versions of Windows XP to …

A friend of mine has a problem and I don't know what caused it.We scanned some text pages with my scanner and opened them with Word 2003 to see if they are ok.No problem so far.But when he opened them on his laptop (using an older version of office) word …

I everyone stumble across this website/forum..after many hours using mozilla due to 3 facts..and boy if you guy could help me i'd be much obliged. Msn 7.0 and below all have problems: they are as soon as i sign in it closes the program down. but not windows messenger, that …

I've been having probs w/IE6. Was informed of this by using aol tech support. When I try to install or run the new DL of Ie 6, I get a message that states: The previous installation has pending work requiring a reboot. You need to restart yopu PC to complete …

I am in need of some help quickly in the recovery of the filing cabinet files for AOL. During uninstallation of 8.0 (which would be upgraded to 9.0) it should have created a folder on the desktop, but it did not. I took much care to ensure this would not …

Hi, is it possible to upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro without loosing settings and having to reinstall applications? Is a complete reinstall of the OS the only answer?

If this is the wrong forum for posting this I am sorry. Everytime I open IE the window is very small sized?? Is there anyway to change the actual window size because some sites I go to do not allow you to maximize?? any help would be appreciated!! Thanks, Heidi

First, I'm using windows xp sp2 and a LAN connection I have this problem with my windows XP firewall.. when i right click on my connection icon in the tray and click on configure internet connection firewall, i get this: "Windows cannot display Internet connection firewall settings because the associated …

Is there any way to use Windows XP and set up a domain over the network. I know there is a way on Windows Server 2003 but we do not have that kind of money! Help!

Everytime i go to Windows Update it downloads Kb828026. i've tried downloading it from Windows Catalog with the same results. Update says it was installed successfully but wants to download the next time i go there. i did a search here with no results. i tried advice from the Langalist …

it says that my hardrive has been locked by a disk utility.whats wrong and how can i fix it?i boot up in safe mode and no help,i closed all apps running in the background and still.diskeeper says there is an error and it cant run either.please help thanx so much

Hello forum, I am no longer able to boot into Windows XP Home sp1 without the error message "<windows root>\system32\hal.dll, can not find this file, please reinstall it". But whenever I boot into the XP recovery disk and change into the system32 directory and use the copy command - copy …

a friend of mine was given a comp with windows xp on it and then they installed windows xp upgrade. how do I remove the upgrade or do I need to wipe the whole C drive clean as it is taking up a lot of memory and a lot of …

I went to download a free media player of whom we won't mention (winamp) and received a message telling me that I either had a corrutped installer, or a problem with my hard drive. I had tried to down load to my C drive the first time, so I tried …

A couple days ago I lost all my programs that are listed on my start menu. I can find them in Explore, but when I bring up Word or Excel ALL of my old documents are gone. I went to Help and Support Center, then to system restore, but the …

:cry: please haelp, just had the good old service pack 2 installed and a majority of the time "the document contains no data" box comes up? also i have been trying to download macromedia flash and it wont let me do that? any ideas please. :confused:

Hello, I am getting a CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) error when I try to copy files within a Hard Driver or from a Hard Drive to another Drive. I have been buying Maxtor drives only, and for each one I get, a CRC error occurs in the next few months …

cpu usage is typically 2 to 6% except exactly every 2 min it spikes to 50% for 5 or 6 sec. This has severe effects on my aces high on line flying game such as i hit the ground or overshoot a target before it unfreezes. system gigabyte ga-81915p-duo pro …

Hi People, I have installed a new 2003 RIS server but i'm having a problem with a HP 510 which has an Intel Pro 100 adapter in it. It finds the server and you can select the image but when it starts to install just before it formats the disk …

so what are the main things that make graphics run smoothly and look amazing? i mean i know a lot of it is down to the the graphics card so i bought the radeon 9800 pro and i have to say its does make a difference. however my games do …

HI there. im doing a home study course in pc repair and upgrading and i am stuck on one particular part of my course, entitled 'hard drive theory and practice. :sad: i have looked in the text book and i cant find the answers in there. i've even tried looking …

Hello, Whenever I play movies in WMP, or Quick Time, or Real Player, after a few minutes, the screen that the movie is playing in starts flashing green very fast. Then the programs starts running slow and I have to turn it off, then open it back up to stop …

Can any of you tell me the way to clean ALL temp files? If I do it on TOOLS, Internet Options, clear temp files..Is that enough OR is there a better way like on windows 98 explorer, look for drive c, Temp files & clear the file folder.. Can someone …

Well, my Photoshop 7 is acting up, like whenever i load it to start, it loads fine, but then when it is about to open, it just shuts down. This has been going on for about 3 days, and ive tried every thing. Ive restarted\reinstalled like 5 times and stuff …

When attempting to print from IE I get "An error has occurred in the script on this page/ line 228/ Char 1/ error Incompatible version of RPC Stub/ Code 0/ URL res://c:\windows\system\SHDOCLC/perview.dlg/" In all other respects the PC is running well and prints mormally from other programs. I operate with …

Any and all buttons, OK and Cancel among others, will do a weird rapid switching like something is clicking them really fast. It even happens in Safe Mode. Other weird things like windows opening and shutting, or not wanting to shut are happening also. I scanned with AdAware SE, Spybot …

I uninstalled Java on my new Dell laptop. I realized I needed it back and did a system restore but now it is not working. Whenever I click on anything java, it causes IE to crash bringing up my desktop. Help!

Ok, I have pro versions of all the software that i paid for and i enjoyed each in there own way...but here is a review of the spyware software that I have used.. Adaware SE Professional - For me running Win XP home it was buggy from jump street.. first …

Recently I have been getting various error messages when booting up Windows ME. Usually, I get to the desk top, but as the sys tray is loading programs it crashes and I get a blue screen with error codes. This usually happens at about the same point in the boot …

A friend just brought me their pc. It has XP home and they wanted XP pro. They tried to do the upgrade and it bombed. They bought a new copy of XP Pro... It just hangs at the setup screen... I put in a fresh drive with a single partition, …

My grandfather was using his computer and he said it restarted on him, and when it came up it was in a different language, almost like Wingdings, and is not sure how to get it back, i tried going through the regional language settings to see if that was it, …

Hi. My brother recently got cable internet for his old computer. It is an Inteva with Windows 98 Standard Edition. I believe this computer is 8 years old or so. It is a Pentium 2 , 300mhz, 196 MB of RAM computer. I call this ancient. I had to install …

I am running Windows XP Home on this computer, and using the default CD burning software that came with it (I think it's Roxio?) I wanted to back up some files from the 'F' drive; about 900 MB, so I was going to use two CD's. Before I started, there …

So i have a personal computer that sits behind a NAT that my apartment complex manages. Is there any way i can remote into that computer from work. I dont care how its done really, just so i can get to it. Any one have any ideas? Oh and running …

Since I logged on to my computer 3 days ago, it showed that a registry file had been recovered successfully, but now Javascript has disappeares. I have tried a lot of the tips on here, but nothing works. What I really want to do is download the Microsoft Script thing, …

I don't know if this is the right forum or not as i am not running Windows NT. I see that KB891711 is back at the Windows Update site. Want to know if it is safe to download yet?

Hi, It's time I sought some assistance from the more technically minded of you. I have a small (big?) problem I'm trying to resolve. The situation is this: For Windows 98, the system can be backed up, using MSBackup, and restored by using PCRESTOR.BAT, which resides in the TOOLS folder …

[COLOR=Purple]I have recently purchased a program called Registry Repair. I ran the program and there was a list of tasks. The task that I was interested in was "scan registry for problems." Yep...............I scanned. There was a list of 367 problems in my registry! SO.................I deleted them and thought that …

Following up on something I saw on this forum, I rightclicked on the Taskbar then on Toolbars, and found all the options were greyed out. I don't know when it could have got like this, I haven't accessed this for a long long time. Any help would be greatly appreciated. …

Yeah, I'm the same guy whose burner still won't burn (see related thread) but my other problem, which may be related, is that I have the same problem as the other person who could not ScanDisk. I get the error message saying "ScanDisk has restarted 10 times because Windows or …

There are two Programs on my xp computer ad-aware SE Personal and Microsoft antispyware, do you think it is a good to have a third like spybot. Thank-you.

i have tried everything short of formatting. i can not run any of my programs nor can i run regedit or msconfig. repair and reinstalling did not help. upon reinstalling i received a message that windows could not open rundll32.exe search web for appropriate program with no luck. is there …

OK, i am trying to run a program for WEST at home and every time i try to download the viewer a security warning pops up. it say -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [B]Windows has found a problem with this file.[/B] Name: hostexpress.cab Publisher: Unknown Publisher This file was blocked because it does not …

It's a long line of frustration and just when I've about got it licked, this. First, the "about blank" hijack thing forces me to opt for a Windows 98 reinstall. (Understand that, for the most part, I have no idea what I'm doing and am relying on forums like this …