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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

if i have a regular copy of windows xp professional installed on my computer, and i want to buy a new copy and change the cd key, will an OEM cd-key work without reinstalling?

I am running windows XP and would like to reformat my computer but I have never done this before,how do you go about doing it?Any tips or help would be great!!! My system is older here is the specks. Microsoft windows XP Home edition service pack 1 AMD Athlon Xp …

this keep comming up and I dont know why is there a way to stop it. thanks

How do i edit my BIOS settings? Do i press DEL when my computer is starting up? Because when i dot hat theres BIOS SETTINGS UTILITY. I have to change my boot order to CD-ROM. THere is no "Boot Order" tab anywhere or CD-ROM. Theres boot settings priority, but i …

can anyone help, i am running ME i have put all my internet settings on to my laptop after downloading them from my desktop computer all the info is the same and i will only connect one comp at a time i have tried to get on the internet but …

Hello, I have recently received a portable word processor (dreamwriter 400) as a sort of castoff. It works, and I would like to use it, but I have no manual to guide me. I can figure out the processor itself, but it is supposed to be able to communicate with …

I long time ago when I used IE, I had the address bar toolbar on my taskbar. I found it very helpful for getting to pages quickly. Eventually, I got rid of it because even in 1280 x 1024, it took up too much of my taskbar space, and there …

Im having a problem with a computer that appears to randomly lock up at various times and there is no way to shut down the computer unless I turnoff the swith on the supply. I have replaced the RAM and ran diagnostic on the machine and it still freezes. Is …

I am runnning Windows XP Pro, with SP2 recently installed. Before I installed SP2, I could run DOS-based programs OK. Tell the system to run the program, and it would pop up the Command Prompt and run it. After I installed SP2, when I try to run most DOS-based programs, …

I am running windows XP and would like to do a system restore to try to fix a problem I am having with my computer,but when I go into Sytem Restore it will not let me choose anything but a date from January and I would like to go back …

[FONT=Verdana]Hi, I was just wondering when anybody knew when the new O.S. from Microsoft: [B]Microsoft Windows [I]Longhorn[/I][/B] would be coming out and any information that anyone should know about it? Ohh and could you add :o where you can download it for free or get it from someone that you …

My brother just built my Mom a new computer, and I am in charge of setting up the software for it, as my Mom wants to duel-boot 98SE and XP. XP and 98 are both installed at this point, and I'm trying to get the drivers working for 98. Unfortunatly, …

hi i am havin a problem wid my windows xp pro every time i do a format i have 2 put all of my drivers bk on and when i put my anti-virus on my com askes 2 restart then it goes mad it gets to the loading screen of …

HELP! REcently gone from dial up account with aol (9.0) to a broadband account with a different isp. I have kept aol on the machine as a backup for dial up. The problem is that when i receive an email with a hyperlink and click it, instead of opening up …

Hello, this is my first post so thanks for any help you can provide. At work, I had about 350 Contacts in Outlook 2003. A coworker tried to sync his blackberry with the contacts and instead of taking them from the computer, he did the opposite, he managed to take …

Ok, slipstreamed xp pro installation with sp2, Clean Install, inspects hardware config, asks me to press F6 if i want to install SCSI or RAID Drivers. then to press F2 for ASR, and then nothing, the screen hangs, cd and hard drives go idle and after a short while the …

I have an 80gb hard drive which I wish to partition. On one partition I would like to install Windows 98, mostly in order to play older games. One the larger partition, I would like to install XP, for anything else I need to do. I understand that Windows 98 …

I use msn for my internet provider. I at one time was able to erase the address line by going into control panel and clearing the history. This no longer works!! Im not sure if its MSN or my computer that is the problem. I am unable to get any …

hi i am havin a problem installing windows xp on my computer and i get to the setup is starting wwindos with a blue background and then it freezes and does not do ne thing ne help email male me pls (bravo206@hotmail.com or reply)

Hi folks, A while back you helped me with spyware, so now I am hoping you can help again. I am attempting to load some new software but when i do it comes up file error "cannot find shell.dll" I did a search and it is in there. I also …

In any Office 97 application if you go to exit after you have made file changes a pop-up says "Do you want to save the changes" followed by three buttons: "Yes" "No" "Cancel". Since installing SP4 on windows 2000 my three buttons say "Cancel" "Yes" "OK" but the functionality of …

Ok here is my problem: Yesterday I rebooted my computer, it began to start back up. Then after showing the XP loading page the screen went black for about 5 seconds. If flashed blue for no more then a second and then began to restart again. I left it on …

Does anybody know what services are safe to disable or set to manual? Also, what recommendations to use as far as turning off themes, using a screen saver, power setting options, i want to get the best optimization possible. Thanks in advance