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i want to send information via networking to my two computers but whenever i try to setup the wizard this comes up : The wizard detected that this computer belongs to a domain. Therefore, you cannot use this wizard to set up a network

Hi everyone, I'm a newbie with this problem on my Toshiba laptop. It will not boot past this error message, see thread title, and I do not want to re-format the drive and lose my data. Is there anything that i can do?? Thanks for any help. Kingali. :rolleyes:

How do I change the settings to automatically have programs install to drive d instead of drive c?

Hi. I'm using windows xp 2005 . The problem is , everytime I try to run a cd/vcd to watch a movie , I get an error message after about 2 minutes of starting - " There was an I/O device error " - . I have had my sound …

Hi, i resently attempted to put in a modem, and when i did the comp started uyp fine except when at windows it froze up. So i took out the modem and started the comp up, and now it wont go passed the spec screen( the screen after the very …

Please help!!! I cna not save what homepage I want to have in my IE options. It always defaults to about blank and some wierd toolbar. I have ran Macafee, and I am able to get on line...just got a strange feeling. HAs this ever happen to anyone or any …

I just purchased a new 160 gig hard drive. What is the best way to configure the hard drive. A friend of mine suggested the following: 20 gig - Drive C Windows operating system only 5 gig swapfile Remainder for files and applications I'm no expert, but here is my …

I am using a laptop t41 with xp. My mouse keeps drifting to the left side of the screen. This is a major annoyance. It appears to be happening randomly, but alot. Any help would be appreciated.

please help when i start the window it got this message "Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage.." and then, "The feature you are trying to use is on a cd rom or other removeable disk that is no available and then ask yu insert the …

Hello folks. My problems began a few months ago when I got infected with spyware. Out of panic, I thought a quick fix might be to disable IE, so I wouldn't get bombarded with internet ads. I went into the IE folder and deleted a bunch of files. My spyware …

I can find only 5 programs in the Add/Remove list. But I have 50 or more applications installed. Is this becoz I have 2 administrator accounts in my PC. (Win XP)

hi i'd like to know what is the ebst progarm to keep the pc running in good shape,,a progarm that fix the registry for example,speed up pc,etc. actually i'm running diskeeper9.0 for defrag and is great,really great let me know please,thanks

Ive tried to burn a disk of mp3s thru Nero, it starts but then stops. It says a few things, "scsi command aborted", "drive not ready", "could not perform endtrack", and "invalid write state". Ive tried burning at diff speeds, that doesnt help. Im using a sony dvd+/- cd-rw and …

Hi! I'm trying to setup a shell script to startup a number of programs when I run it, but I've got some issues with variables that is causing it not to work... The bunch of lines at fault is this: if /I "%INST%" == "OID" ( set NAME=9iAS_INF set HOME=D:\oracle\%NAME% …

Something is completly wrong with my computer. I can only run internet exploer. Not a singal other application on my computer will run. example, ms paint, Notepad, Windows Messanger. Since i cant take a screenie as i have no applications working ill tell you. Every time i try to run …

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Ok, sometimes when I'm in windows explorer for whatever reason, this randomly happens: On the left side, under "My Computer", everything disappears, and is replaced by around 10 blank folders (see screenshot)... I'm using windows 98se... It happened on my really old computer (same OS though) too. Does anyone know …

I Cannot Do A Recovery On My Compaq Presario To Get On Windows The Computer Has No Floppy Drive And I Have The Recovery Cds But Am Getting Many Error Messages Such As Format User Partition I Tried To Get On The Partition Command But Donot Know What Partition To …

I got WinZip (from their site) and it came infected with an adware that I have not been able to get rid of no matter how much advice I follow. Therefore, when I got wind of this site, where one can download stuff to try it out, I decided to …

I have an issue with an old Highlights Puzzlemania kids game. When the game is started it automaticaly adjusts the system volume so that it's way too loud. The game was designed for Win 95/98 and works fine whether in compatibility mode or not. No other games on the pc …

I have read a few of the other posts regarding not being able to reply in their hotmail accounts after "the change" that happed around November-December...and I had that same problem: the problem was "blank"messages were being sent even though the "text box" had a message in it. That problem …

This is going to sound silly but i am really struggling to delete my internet history and search history. As others use my pc i do not want people to know what i have been searching for but it automatically comes on the drop down menu when the type a …

Ive always been used to a couple of folders under the documents and settings folder. Recently I went to just check it out and for some reason I have 9 different folders in it now. I only have one user account so I figured I should only have that folder …

I have a Dell Latitude Laptop using 2000 O/S and I forgot my password, how can I reset the password

I upgraded windows XP home ed to professional and want to uninstall it and return back to the regular home edition. I've tried by going to control panel and uninstalling the program, but it's not there. I've tried to restore the system with the disks that came with my notebook …

hi there, i recently started my computer and the scandisk started automatically, saying that one of my disk drives may have developed bad sectors. the scandisk would not finish running. it stopped, saying: a logical assertion has failed. Expression: Get_cStart (&de, dr) ==cSource Source: line 1732 of scan.c also, none …

is it possible to share a epson scanner over a network? it is a USB scanner. Both computers are running win 2000

I was using my computer the other day for regualar internet usage... when i kept on getting the Dont Send or Send error report.... so i decied i would restart my computer. When it was loging on to windows... a error comes up saying Service.exe has caused an error hit …

Ok, heres my setup. I've got to restrict a computer in the office that I work at to only perticular sites...but I really can't think of a program that does that. So could someone recommend to me a prog that does that the best please? Thanks:cheesy:

Hello.......within the past three weeks I have switched from dial-up to DSL and have since encountered several problems. The most annoying has been trying to find the right solution when faced with the "page cannot be displayed" message. This occurs when I am fully connected....and I have gone through the …

Oh woe is me! This problem is just going on and on and nothing I do can solve it! Everytime I boot up, explorer.exe has a fit and has an error, and/or I get a message popping up saying that "The instruction at "xxxxxxxxxxx" referenced memory at "xxxxxxxxx". The memory …

When I power up my HP Pavilion ze5300 laptop, I get the Welcome Screen "without" any user names to select. I "have not" recently loaded any new software from the internet or otherwise. I am running Windows XP Home which was installed by the manufacturer (HP). I have used the …

I was wondering if a company goes out of business and leaves old software in there space, is it legal to use the software with the cd key on the package?

when i try to install microsoft visual studion 2k3 it always asks me to insert the prerequesites disk for visual studion.net.

lately my pc has been giving me loads of trouble even though i can fix these its still annoying, yet theres 2 problems i cannot solve. 1. whenever i try to boot in safe mode, even without networking my computer will restart after i have chosen the user, it works …

I am working on my dads computer he is running windows 98se. After downloading an update for internet explorer6 he has had a problem getting on some websites. He can not get on windows update he gets an error that say "explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close". …

if i am going to format my harddrive how can i back up some software that i dont want to lose (because ive lost the cd for it). cheers

Hey I finally finished my new system. The specs are in my signature. I have Windows XP pro on a 40GB partion of a 60GB Maxtor SATA drive. I also have a 160GB Hitachi ATA drive divided into two partitions, 120GB (for storage and programs) and 40GB(for music only). First …

Hi there! This is my first post in this forum. I hope you could help me in my problem. The problem is: I have a friend who needs to restart her computer everytime she is disconnected from the internet. What could be the problem? This has happened to her since …

I've downloaded Sims 2 however I get a message when trying to launch it saying: Do not have compatible graphics adapters. Please help me, my daughter is very upset, she wants to play her new game. Thanks, mindspew

Hello everyone, I've been running into trouble when trying to open some links (i.e. the media preferences popup window in Gamespot, ringtone quicktime play for previewing ringtones). When I click on the link, there is no response from Internet Explorer, whatsoever. When I open the link in a new window, …

Hi, new to this forum and it looks good. My prob is i deleted internet explorer!? I know it was a stupid thing to do but it's done now. I restored my pc to a earlier date and seem to have it back. The only thing is I can't use …

I did a virus scan on my computer a few days ago and discovered I had multiple trojan horses, which I had to delete for obvious reasons. Since then I cant sign into MSN messenger, hotmail or access outlook express. Also I have no history, which I had previously, and …

I need to change my boot.ini file. everytime my computer boots it goes to the wrong one. I want to make the second choice first.here is my boot.ini [boot loader] timeout=15 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000 Hacked Logo" /fastdetect /kernel=kernel02.exe multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

Hi all - Brand new to the site- I am a video production company owner - and I have a great program for streaming my video on the web- Great... Now I want to be able to allow my clients to view thier videos offline by placing the files on …

I bought my daughter a Ministry of Sound MP035 1.5 GB Jukebox, but am stumped as how to download her music files on to it from CD or Windows Media Player. On WMP i thought i would have to go on "copy" and select the device in the drop-down menu, …

I would like someones help. Ive been trying to access my hotmail..andit accepts my username and password but when the page loads all it shows is a blank page and the words DONE written at the bottom. I was wondering if neone knew how to fix that problem Thanks Neeta

plz how to resolve this error.every time i wanna install anything from the web it givs me this error beside the download is not yet completed and it states that it has been completed and after that if i install it t givs me this eroe that invalid file/package size??? …

I Just put a new computer together, well really my dad did all the work, so now I'm trying to install Windows XP Pro. The hard drive already has exsisting files and OS on it so I'm trying to wipe everything and install the new OS (I don't know if …

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