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In the web browser, whenever I type a wrong adress - it gives me results of Yahoo Search. I never used yahoo search befor and I don't want to use it now. I have no idea how did it find its way to my computer. Can you suggest me how …

anyone knows why my connection tray keeps hanging? i kept losing connection and got to restart the pc in order to be online again..

I have bought a copy of windows xp home upgrade from best buy for a friends old 333 mhz, 128 ram machine. She had 95 origionally and upgraded it to win 98 and after many problems she wants to go to windows xp like the rest of her computers. Her …

When going to certain sites, CBS, Netflix and so on I get boxes with red x's in them and no pictures. If i go to the ToolBar View and Encoding and select either Western European (Windows) or Unicode UTF-8 I then get pictures. These selections have to be made every …

Hey everyone! I am thinking off to update windows from 2000 to XP... However, I have a few questions regarding this update.. 1) Would it harmful for my computer or would I lose any data? 2) Should I update or not? I have the answer of question number two myself... …

This is what I got for a report. C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini032405-01.dmp C:\DOCUME~1\JAMESD~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER1.tmp.dir01\sysdata.xml At the time i was playing dungeon siege a computer game online, suddenly the monitor went blue, flashed bunch of normal error coding message, then the system shut itself down and restarted.

Hello - I recently reformatted my Windows XP with a disk from 2002. Within 30 seconds of hooking up my DSL modem, I'm flooded with popups, spyware, etc etc. So, I installed ZoneAlarm's 15 day free trial so I can d/l all the windows security updates with at least some …

On another one of my computers I am constantly asked to put in my windowsXP disk because some files are unreconised. I know the system is stable and dont want to reinstall any files. Is there anyway I can disable this pop up from coming up?

A girl at my work is a computer newbie,and I try to help her out as much as possible but this time I have no idea what the computers problem is,she keeps getting a message that says this..... System shutdown This system is shutting down.Please save all work in progress …

Hi everyone. I cant open my attachments in outlook express 6. When it gives me the option to open or save them I click on open and a blank box opens with the subject but no picture or text attachment. I use Norton and zonelabs so maybe these could be …

Hi all. Just bought Zone Alarm Security Suite and now my mns doesnt work :sad:! I have gone to program control -> programs and allowed everything under "MSN Messenger" & "MSN 7" but niether choose to work! does anyone have Zone Alarm working with MSN? Mine used to before i …

I may have inadvertantly removed a shell file. now my computer woun't boot. I have to keep starting it over and over then if I'm lucky it will start in safe mode then evenually shut down before I can do anything with it. It was reading a some kind of …

About 3 weeks ago I got a new video card, an Nvidia Geforce 4 ti, made by Asylum (basically an unknown brand). At the same time as I installed it, I reformatted my computer. This all happened less than a week after Nvidia released new DetonatorXP drivers. So I reformatted. …

Running a PC with two hards drives (original 10G, second one 20G) Have just bought XP Home Edition which I installed onto original drive. While doing this I (wrongly!) accepted existing files to be saved but now I cannot get rid of ME. I formatted the drive which seemed OK …

Hey everyone, just joined this site and am after a bit of urgent help! I'm running XP and have a DSL connection on my home PC, which connects fine, but I cannot visit any web pages, update my antivirus, sign in to any messenger services etc. I'm thinking there must …

Not really an Internet Explorer problem! However, I am trying to activate the out of office assistant in Outlook 2002 by going to tools, options, others, general advanced options, then going to add-in manager where the exhange extentions property server is ticked as though it is already selected as an …

[FONT=Times New Roman]undefined[/FONT] I just got a new puter today, HP Media Center/Photosmart PC. I do medical transcription and have my voice files download into a program called Express Scribe. When I try to download my voice files from a secured site, as I have always done, Windows Media Player …

what are they and if i did how could i install win pro 2000. because my computer came with xp and i dont want to format just to install it

I have bee assigned the project to create a multi boot disc for our pc's at work. We currently use symantec ghost v7.5. I am a tech that only know's what he is taught. And all i know is we are given a CD that boots up the PC's that …

OK How do I? I rec'd the following instructions: actually instead of copying the insruction i'll just copy the site: [url]http://www.winternals.com/support/d...asp?Article=474[/url] so my quesiton is, I am Using Roxio, and how do i copy a bootable Read Only CD while adding a file to it? I ONLY HAVE ONE CD …

Hello, I received a Sony USM256EV/V Micro Vault Storage Device 256MB today and have hit a brick wall. [url]http://www.sony.net/Products/Media/Microvault/usm-e.html[/url] It does get recognized on [b]Windows XP[/b] but the package did not come with a CD or floppy containing any drivers. On the manual, it is said that it should auto …

i have windows xp, sp2, although it did it on sp1. i have clicked the appropriate options in windows messanger to keep it from starting on startup, but it still does. which means that my windows messanger and MSN messanger have it out on who is going to run. am …

Hi, I'm having a strange issue: I just installed Windows XP. I also installed WinXP SP2. When I use a browers (IE or Firefox) to browse the internet, everything works fine for a while. After a while, the browsers will not access the internet anymore. I check my network usage, …

I have been trying to install numerous sound cards on my XP system and I continue to receive a message stating that the Data is Invalid. I know that the sound cards work so what seems to be the problem if anyone can help I will appreciate. Thanks

i thought that if i could go into safe mode for windows xp home and just delete the file then it would be gone but now as you may have guessed i have lost three programs due to doing that and i was windering if there is a way for …

iv had help from this website before this is like the same thread. im getting errors after i go to fdisk after i go through all the questions. after it restarts there is an A:> i forgot what drive to type in i tried format C , D, E, F …

Just recently I noticed that my internet explorer was running VERY SLOW. It's not the speed that websites load but it's the speed that I try to browse them at. When I scroll down it takes AGES for the display to update and can take up to 15seconds or more …

Hello guys, I am trying out this CD: super WinPE Plus 2004 WinPE+.ERDC.PQRE. All in One CD I am testing it out to ghos some PC's. I am particularly interested in ghosting (backing up) a Dell 280 desktop. When the PC boots with the bootable cd i choose the XP …

Hi, As the title suggests,I've fdisked and formatted the drive of a toshiba 1800-814 laptop and in the process of installing XP Pro - genuine copy. It gets to 9 minutes to go on the GUI setup but then shuts down to standby mode. Now I cleaned the disk, tried …

Hi, I'm new to this site and need help! I cannot access some desktop icons (my computer, my documents, control panel etc) - I get an error message saying 'Windows Explorer has experienced a problem and needs to close down'. I can access the internet and all other office packages …

Any help on this will be greatly appreciated. My computer is acting up recently, it will out of nowhere suddenly power down, even when I am not using it! Furthermore, on a few ocassions when it did an auto restart, it starts making beeping sound even before anything appears on …

I have a custom build PC with Windows XP and SP2. The computer was working fine for about a week until one day I switched it on and it bleeped three times. After checking the manual I think that it was a Memory problem. I switched it on again and …

Something like that shows up on SHUTDOWN, is that normal, whats this about, should it be disabled????

So this is my first post, I had stubbled here trying to find a cure for the virus that I had gotten infected with. I quickly found out how to beat it, all of it except for one minor portion. The thread that helped me solve it is [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?t=16204[/url] The …

it seems as if i am really getting older: i just can't remember 2 of my passwords for my email accounts anymore (hotmail and yahoo). is there any way to retrieve them? if yes, how? i used to log in automatically, so maybe they are stored eg. via cookies or …

When I try to search from the address bar I get the following message: "Service Unavailable. The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later." I ran every AVG, TREND MICRO, SWAT IT, BIT DEFENDER, AdAware, nothing finds anything. I Am positive this is a virus …

Im recieving this homepage at startuphttp://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Internet+Explorer&fr=ieas Ive tried adaware, spybot and still no luck. Im using Internet explorer 6. Windows 98 se.

<<Sorry originally posted in the wrong forum!>> Hi, can anyone help <this is a little difficult as its my parents computer thats having problems and I've got them to do various things over the phone! but here goes...> <Running XP home sp1, 256mb ram, zone alarm, advast antivirus> 2 problems …

Hi, recently my sound was working fine but a wanted to watch a video and i didnt have the required codecs so i downloaded the Nimo codec pack and installed a standard package. the video still didnt work so i uninstalled it and my computer later froze from a problem …

I usually use Firefox but IE has to open with certain stuff, like when I check my emails with MSN. But since a couple of days IE stopped working. It opens but the page stays blank, its trying to load but takes forever and never actually opens. I tried reinstalling …

Hi, Ive just installed xp on to my other pc which was running W98, When i connect through dial up to go online the modem says no dial tone ive checked this out and the lines ok, but when i pick the phone up the line is engaged or no …

i have a problem to stop programes open by themself when i start my computer other program start togather that makes the compputer to slow .. i see all the icon of the program which is started at right lower corner . to stop them i have to close them …

Hi, here is my problem. My kid loaded a program which also installed QuickTime and Quickviewer. Quick Viewer made itself the default viewer for all my photos. I was able to remove QuickTime and Quickviewer, removed all registry traces left with regcleaner and restored the file association with my photo …

Hi, I NEED A QUICK ANSWER PLEASE! I wish to buy a Hp laptop, the ZD 8000 customized. I went to Best Buy today and they had a lower end ZD 8000 for sale. A sales clerk informed me they could order a customized ZD 8000. Before this I had …

I started taking CISCO classes last year, and last week I got to take home a legacy PC to fiddle with since our school was making room for some new machines. When I used it at the school, it worked fine. :mrgreen: When I got it home I realized that …

I don't see much mention of Netscape as a substitution for IE. I am running windows XP. What are best/better options: Netscape, Opera, or FireFox? Thanks for input.

I looked at my desktop and i say a note pad shortcut with the following An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM. Unexpected Signal : EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION occurred at PC=0x7D535AAE Function name=(N/A) Library=C:\WINNT\System32\mshtml.dll NOTE: We are unable to locate the function name symbol for the error …

Hi folks I want to partition my hard drive in my Dell machine to get an ext3 partions - I want to dual boot in linux. I will be using partition magic to do this as I have used this previously. However the last time I undertook any partitioning was …

This came up on the screen after being on the net yesterday. Does anyone know what it means? An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM. Unexpected Signal : EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) occurred at PC=0x6D312033 Function=[Unknown.] Library=C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2\bin\jpiexp32.dll NOTE: We are unable to locate the function name …

Hello, a couple of weeks ago I asked how to remove Kazaa. You very kindly sent me to a website where I could do this. Firstly though, I had to install Lspfix. When I try to, I get box with some words down the left column and under a column …