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I have tried to refresh my windows but when i put the windows xp disc in it wont let me cont. . Is there a way to refresh my computer from dos? If so please help me with how to do this. thanks.

i recently got the gmail hard drive thingy that lets you store upto a gb on your gmail account as if it was a hard drive. no i know this is probably impossible to do but could you somehow combine the space from all your gmail accounts (i have 51 …

Hello. I have installed Norton FireWall on antoher Compaq computer (norton firewall came with the computer). It all seemed to install well, and when I restarted the computer, we hit problems. The computer boots, and loads the desktop image, and then stops. IE. It doesnt load the desktop, just the …

I have windows xp home and everytime i shut down the computer or restart, programs(such as aim or kazaa)have to be re-registered.*Example*when i log on kazaa wants me to create a user name and certify my connection speed and copy shared files to a new location, thats ok but when …

need help here I am not very smart with computers so please be kind Files that are required for Windows to run properly has been replaced by unrecongnized versions. To maintain system stability windows must restore the original verson of these files. The network location from which the file should …

:confused: When I click "shut down" computer, My computer just restarts

New to forum. I have several computers in my house online with my cable company as ISP, via a Belkin router. No problems getting online with any of the PC's, either hardwired or by wireless connection, except one PC which happens to be via an ethernet cable. Cannot get online …

I'm running XP Pro SP2 on and AMD 1.7 gig. My question is, is it logical to run a firewall in addition to the one built into SP2, or will things get screwed up. I also have a firewall built into the router I'm using. Any thoughts on this appreciated. …

I have a Hewlett Packard 656c printer and having problems with my usb. It will not detect it. I have downloaded my software. When i insert my usb cord to my printer it wont work. Im using Windows 98. Please help!!

When I check the properties of my C drive I see I have used roughly 11.0 Gig. However when I open the drive and 'add up' the sizes of the files there (from windows to my documents etc) I only get 4.0 Gig in use. The other 7.0 is apparently …

My boot.ini file is corrupt and windows are loading from c:/windows. Is it ok or should i restore boot.ini file? If so how? :o

Though I'm not a newbie, this really is a newbie question - forgive my humble lack of knowledge of what I should know! I am away from home at the moment using a laptop with XP SP1. (56k connexion). On my home PC, when I need to fill in text …

Hey! Am I able to uninstall just IE itself and still be able to run my Outlook Express, and download the windows updates without conflict? Will this uninstall on any level affect the performance of the pc negatively? I also just took out Media Player 9.0. On my other system …

Hello there, I am in desperate need of some help. I cannot seem to access anything that takes Java. A radio programme, diagram for booking airline seats, and now I can get into a btinternet e-mail account but am unable to read the e-mails. I did post this problem some …

Hi all My brother has a laptop with windows XP. He right clicks on a picture and chooses: send to -> mail recipient. He then tries to shrink the picture. Windows Explorer encounters an error and shuts down. Any suggestions?

my computer is window xp and on it is ad-aware se Personal. I have read about microsoft antispyware beta. can I have both of these in my computer. advice Please? Thank-you

Anybody else see this? I frequent a site that has a link to another HTTPS site on it. When I click on the HTTPS link, the pop up window doesn't appear. It just locks IE. Task manager shows two instances of IE Explorer running and if I close both I …

I was getting a "dwwin.exe failed to initialize" message on shutdown until I disabled it, but now I am getting a "drwtsn32.exe DLL failed to initialize" message on shut down. Although it is not causing any harm, any ideas how deal with it please?

Using windows XP, i map a drive on another computer & it displays it my computer & i can connect to it fine & all but when i reboot or even if i log off & log back on the mapped network drive is not displayed in my computer & …

My wireless connection was working fine. All the sudden it stopped working. I can connect directly to the cable modem, so I know my IE has not been hijacked. My Device Manager does not show any problems. My icon on the Task Bar shows I have a connection. Yet when …

Hi -- Without warning, my copy of XP stopped responding, giving me only a blue screen with the mouse pointer at the center. Tried Windows Repair console, repairing the boot record, etc., even reinstalling Windows on top of the original version, nothing worked. So I installed XP in a new …

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Hmm Tell me what else I can check, I use Dial Up at work with above listed software & machine. Upon start up, it takes time to bring up the desktop ???? Then on the net, pages are slow, quite frequent disconnects...Tied into my companies server????? People tell me its …

i don't have my display like i used too ,,,the colors are like,,,,well i don't have colors and i can't change them through control panel when i try to change to 16 bits high it says to restart my computer and when it finshed to restart everything's the same, big …

We have a wireless router to enable internet sharing (we are all students so we went wireless). The internet connection works, but me and my friend have often wanted to transfer information across the network or play games against each other. How do we go about this across a network? …

[FONT=Book Antiqua]Hi there, a bit of a minor problem with a Compaq Evo N600c, Windows 98SE laptop. My '@' sign is accessed by Shift+2 even though it shows the double quotation ' " 'marks on the top of the '2' key... It's a classic case of the keys being in …

This is simply for all thoes that told me how wrong I was about security and open source browser like fire fox. So now the first of many holes has been found in fire fox. They had to advertise to the world we are way more secure. The hackers have …

is there a way to change what a error message says when it pops up?

ok guys first time poster here so ill try give you much detail as i can hopefully someone can solve this ok am trying to installing XP onto a new hard drive Maxtor 80gb 7200 8mb catche (its only for testing appz on) ok on boot up i click F8 …

Hi, i'm new to this site and know very little about computers! I use broadband at home (NTL is the service provider) and things were running fine until recently. i cannot get onto the internet and have been told by my service provider that my pc won't connect because of …

Hi all need some help please. I'm now having difficulty saving certain files displayed on websites such as gif files or jpgs when I right-click and "save target as" which is blanked out. This wasn't the case before and wondered why I'm getting this? Please help. Thanks.

Last night, while editing a picture in photoshop to print(action #1), I was also already printing to my epson printer(action #2). Like countless other times in the recent past, I also wanted to download images from my CF flash card(action #3), using my regular card reader. Upon insertion of the …

Is it possible to make the CPU use the free space in my harddrive as RAM?

what is the difference between windows xp and windows 64 bit edition. And which one is better.

Starting today every time i try and open a file from a internet link for Windows media, all of my internet windows shut down. I have tried to download the new version 10 but it shuts down everytime i try and do that also. I have scanned for viruses and …

Is there a pointer or setting that can ban all access to an ip from windows 98? This is not a network computer. It seems that a fault in Netscape has done something to keep this machine from accessing one IP that is sorely needed. access is impossible in all …

I know of two people now that have bought new Norton discs on ebay and when they install them the date says it is old. They were sealed and never used. The old norton was uninstalled like it was supposed to be but it still did not work. This worries …

After sometime on the computer, the side scroll bar starts to move up and down all by itself. I do not touch the mouse or anything else. Its does nots matter what product I am in or even if on the internet. For some reason it just starts to scroll …

Hello I have 2 partitions : C and D (one for system, the other for data). I reinstalled my win2k on C and its working but I don't understand why the boot.ini file is on the D partition. There is also a very small WINNT folder on the D partition. …

I own a Packard Bell PC Intel Celeron with 2.2 Ghz using Windows XP home. My hard disk has 60Gb capacity. It uses NTFS file system. I had only used 17 Gb up to a week or two ago when i received a balloon warning informing me that my hard …

Running Xp pro. Have spybot, ad aware and windows spyware. I cannot get into windows update page. I can get to other ms windows pages. When I go to update, I get a blank screen and done at the bottom of the browser. Have posted HJT on the nasties page, …

I was told that if i have xp SP2 my 1.1 usb ports would be upgraded to 2.0, but they wont upgrade. Is this a hardware problem, if not how can i get it to work? And there arent any ? marks or ! marks under the Device Manager.

Help !!! I am havig trouble logging in to ftp site. When I open the FTP site it ask for a user name and password. Heres the problem depending on wich machine i am using somtimes it will log me on as the correct user another machine will log me …

How exactly do they recover the files?? What would a program have to be written in to be a file recovery program?

Ok, yeah... i replied and posted the same topic on a continuous thread... but no one was replying to it... so i made a new one. PLEASE HELP!!! ::; cries ;:: :cry: First time poster... and I figured this is the best place to ask my questions Most of it …

I have a desktop computer with windows Xp Professionnal sp2. When my computer has been turned off for the night or for an hour or so, windows Xp won't boot. I see the bios and everything goes well. Then just before the windows logo is supposed to appear, it just …

Hello! I am having the following problem when my computer (Windows XP version) is starting up: I get an error message that says Windows cannot find C:\windows\inetdata\winlogon.exe. I click 'ok' and then another message comes up that says: windows could not load or run c:\windows\inetdata\winlogon.exe specified in the registry. Then …

:sad: I don't know why I did this, I clicked "reset settings for internet explorer" in the options menu Now I cannot open any web pages from aol without getting ACTION CANCELLED errors. How do I restore the settings? Is that why the pages cannot display? WHEW... I am able …

Hello i have windows xp and im doing school online now on our message boards we have people who attach files with there posts and for some reason i am the only one who can not open these attachments now if someone PMs me then i can open the attachment …

I get this msg to send problems back to Microsoft it keeps comming up and if i send or not after completed it kicks be out of what ever program i am in . How can stop this please help me. thanks