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[i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Synchronize Your Computer Clock with an Internet Time Server [/color][/size][font=Arial][size=2][color=#000000] Does your computer have the right time? If your computer is not part of a domain, you can synchronize your computer clock with an Internet …

[FONT=Georgia]I'm really going crazy here and could use some advice. Running XP Home edition, installed McAfee security suite including virus scan, firewall, spam killer etc., and consequently can't browse using My Computer or Explorer. Just receive the 'Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close' error message. Error …

Is there any good antivirus program that can run on my win 2003 server .. I downloaded Antivir but it says that it'll not run on a server. Any free one or something like that??

No, this is not a tip or tweak, but it's something I discovered while trying to use a tweak, so I decided to put it here. And a picture is worth a thousand words, so I'll make this post 1056 words long. [IMG]http://www.freephotoserver.com/files/img62638584_5729310.bmp[/IMG] Where did that Powerful PC thing come …

hello, can any one tell me if it is nescessary to have norton internet security 2005 and norton anti virus 2005 running on same computer? Is it possible one could interfere with the other? My problems have something to do with pop ups being blocked, but also my internet explorer …

I have Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 and Windows 98 Second Edition on my computer. When I start my computer up, I am asked if I want to start either "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition", or "Microsoft Windows" (Windows 98). It would make more sense to me to …

Object Moved This document may be found here ??? when displaying pages at times? This comes on a pretty frequent basis., wondering what I could change SAFELY to avoid it., also SOME pages after going from a home to sub page, I get a dns error occasionally. I have DSL., …

It's me again with this XP lunacy. Here's the history of the problem. For some long days and even longer nights I've been trying to put together: MOTHERBOARD MB ABIT® IC7-G i875/ICH5-R chipset, Socket 478, 800MHz BUS, ATX format, Intel® P4, audio, Gigbit LAN on board CPU Intel P4 - …

I'm so grateful for these forums and depend heavily upon them. This is one answer that didn't come up in my search, however. I'm working for a nice agency in helping to attach some new computers to their long-standing network. The new Dell Dimension 8400's weren't my choice, but I …

I’m now sitting in my local library and thought I would try one of these forum things, they are supposed to be helpful – so here goes people. I am having problems installing Windows “XP

Hello, I'm new to these boards, because I need some major computer help. I have normally always been good with fixing computers and I've never had to ask for assistance, but this problem I'm having is seriously becoming a nightmare. It all started three days ago. I got a new …

There is a setting that can allow someone to change the user accounts thing in the WinXP control panel back to the one that was in 2k. Anybody know of it?

hi, do I need to uninstall windows me in order to install xp? The disc does not give me the option to upgrade?

Recently, sometimes when browsing internet explorer (or any web browser such as Firefox or Maxthon) will not load up any internet pages. However, Outlook and Messenger will access the internet. To get it working again, the computer has to be restarted. Any ideas as to what is causing it?Any help …

If you have a resource marked EA000000-EA0000FF, how do you find this in debug? Does that also mean EA00:0000 or what? Also if an I/O is 9000-9007 how do you see the location in debug?

I sent a graphic file to the recycle bin but when I tried to empty bin, I got a message that "Dc6 (nothing like the original name of the file!) could not be deleted as another person or program was using it. Close any other program that might be using …

I have windows XP professional, with SP 2. What are the risks in making the firewall unblock ActiveX, or scripts? What is ActiveX?

This is my first time to post here so please bear with me.I use netzero as my dial-up ISP and here is the problem I am having. (I am using Windows XP Pro) When I click on the NetZero Desktop Icon the connect screen will come up but, before I …

Hold Alt+F4 and hit the U key to shutdown in Windows XP.

If say, you suspect you have some viral files that replaced some important window system files lurking about your computer… and regardless of what you try, you cant seem to locate them, let alone get rid of them... And there’s a good chance that it’s the root cause of your …

Hi, I was helping my brother install Norton Internet Security, part way through we got [color=red][b]"error 1327 invalid drive c:\"[/b] [color=#000000]Looking at his drives he as 1 floppy A:\[/color][/color] two cd/dvd drives G:\ and H:\ and the hard drive is I:\. Any ideas on solving this problem would be most …

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Recently installed new system board into an e machine. Windows balloon comes up and tells me I have 30 days to activate windows and when I click on the balloon it tells me windows is activated but it will not load my desk top it keeps bouncing back and forth …

What problems will I have in replacing the hard drive in an XP system That is the only hardware change but will I have to reinstall XP or can I clone it with Ghost or Partition Magic

I need help too ...Can anyone help... Can anyone please help me. I have a Packard Bell Computer and have all the books but the Windows 98 book with the authenticity code on it. I reformatted the computer and guess what?? You got it, it asked for the Authenticity code …

A relitive was told to delete his corrupt xp profile, he was not told to back up first,,, he says he can not find any of the digital pics he had saved under his old profile, so, has xp just deleted his profles association with the files or deleted the …

Sometimes my P.C just turns itself off and starts re-booting. Then a message comes up. It says: One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. Then I have to wait while it does the check. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

I have a D-Link Router/Switch set up and I have my desktop which connects fine at 100.0 MBps but on my other desktop with has a longer CAT-5 cable, connects fine but only at 10.0 MBps and user reports very slow, is that a Ethernet card problem, CAT-5 problem or …

Here is my problem....My sound will not work for MP3's, wmv's, or avi's in Windows Media Player or Winamp. However, WMP and WinAmp will play midi files and my mp3's will work in Quicktime. When I try to start a wmv or avi file in WMP...the movie will play but …

I'm trying to put together: MOTHERBOARD MB ABIT® IC7-G i875/ICH5-R chipset, Socket 478, 800MHz BUS, ATX format, Intel® P4, audio, Gigbit LAN on board CPU Intel P4 - 2.4 GHz 512kcache socket 478 - 800 FSB RAM DDRAM 512MB PC400 APACER® CL2.5 HD MAXTOR® DiaMaxPLUS® 160GB 8MB CACHE SERIAL ATA …

hello from a geek wannabe: I was trying to help a friend fix her computer, brought it over to my house hooked it up and everything was fine, xp started, I was able to install programs (let me back up--after someone else reinstalled xp on her computer, she got a …

Hi. I'm new here and I need help. We have an IBM computer. Because of some problems we were having my husband put windows millennium on the computer. Unfortunately, it made our problems worse. Nothing will work right and we can't uninstall because we can't find it. We want o …

I have a problem when I try to install Windows updates I keep getting this error: Ox80070424 and a message that due to an error the page requested cannot be displayed. Also I cannot enable my automatic Windows updates feature. Does anyone know what the problem might be. Any help …

Hello. I was kind of curious as to how to get my autorun on my CDROM Drive to run again. I have to go into the CD now and try to find the Setup file or whatever I need... I like having the computer do it for me :cheesy: Any …

I have recently purchased windows xp home version update. can I successfully delete the windows me files and not jepordize the new installation??...Thanks in advance!

How on earth do i get rid of the pop up [url]http://wwwadblaster2.info[/url] from my screen. Every time i do something on the computer this pop up comes on and u cannot do anything until u click yes or no to get rid of it.This is the site it come from …

I will admit that I know next to nothing about computers, so if this is a stupid question or has already been asked, so be it. The trouble is, a couple of websites that I used to visit regularly will not come up. I get the old 'Action Canceled' message …

My problem is I can't connect to any secure websites. When we type in the URL the page comes up as " Page cannot be displayed" OR it will go to a browser direct search engine. We have even searching for the site on Yahoo or Google and when we …

I'm having problems with my Dell notebook running Win XP Home (Original; came with the laptop). Not sure if it's a security problem; have run spybot S&D and turns up DSO exploit which keeps on coming back. I'm not sure if that's the reason for the problem. Anyway, IE won't …

Thank you for having a forum for us to go when in need! I d/l the new IE 6 from microsoft, I have Windows XP. When clicking on second link in many web sites I get a Microsoft window that is blank. Also, when there is an email with a …

Ive got a hp pavilion ze5000 notebook. Its got a 2.4 ghz proccessor, 512 mb memory, ati mobility radeon graphics. Problem is that when i move a window it leaves trails behind it (not permanent, about a 0.75 second delay before they go away) and when i play a visualization …

Hello everybody, It seems like Microsoft has been making a lot of new tools to make security on your computer better. One of these is the anitspyware application that removes spyware. Do you think Microsoft will be coming out with their own virus protection software? I think that would be …

Hello I keep getting waves when I scroll up or down on the screen it takes forever to to both someone help plz THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

hello all.........I'm bad about skipping the windows updates, but a couple of days ago I installed the updates, and since then I've noticed some changes. Me and my wife are the only users of this computer, so I've never set up other users. Now when I start up, I had …

Hello everyone here is my problem i upgraded my pc from WINDOW ME to WINDOW XP and now I cant watch dvd's and I tried even WINDOW MEDIA PLAYER 10 and still wont play and also since I upgraded i cant play video games and both things worked when I …

I'm not a techie person, so easy on your replies : I have Windows 98 I connect to the internet via AOL I use both IExplorer and Netscape I'm getting LOW RESOURCES msg and the computer locks up (everything). The only way to temporarily repair the problem is to reboot. …

Hello all I recently took honourship of a shiny new decent spec PC. After running IE for years I thought Id go to Firefox to see what all the fuss was about. Firefox ran great initially, then I decided to input the browse faster fix described in an earlier thread. …

:lol: Hi I need some serious help, :cry: I have a BT Voyager 105 after installing SP2 I connected to the web but I cant browse I keep getting time out that’s what I was told by BT technical support staff. If I uninstalling SP2 my I can browse with …

Dear All, I need assistance with a Win XP computer on the network. I runs MS Access database applications. While working in database mulitple applications open especially blank outlook and access window pop up and slow my computer down. Can you please, help. Thanks.

Maybe someone can help. I am having trouble re-installing Kazaa. When i try to re-install, it goes to a fix it screen. Once i hit the fix tab, it says that their is an error and the program will close. Please help