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Just a few notes on xp. Make sure xp is kept up to date. Run anti-virus and spy-ware programs. There are some killer free ones out there. Get rid of Norton's. Ive seen countless issues with that product!! Run a 3rd party utility. I suggest system mechanic 5 or fix …

:sad: hi all, wen trying to re-install xp on a blank harddrive, my cd would not automatically staryt with my comp, does anybody know of this happening, and can ppl tell me why it might b happening? thanks for reading and any help u may be able to give ::)

I've been having problems with my monitor lately, and now that I have it working again, the color on the screen turned is a light blue color. I've been pushing the buttons infront of my monitor (contrast, brightness, etc.) and nothing seems to be working. Any suggestions??

I have a hidden icon/program that appears on my desktop toolbar. Whenever I select it, it reads,"Cannot find 'C:/Program Files/Instant Access/Center/Icons." I am not sure but i feel it is the reason i cannot view certain images on the internet. I cannot search on yahoo, it says the browser has …

All: A friend was recently hijacked and with the help of the folks from that forum was able to get everythng cleaned off. At this point the pc is clean as a whistle - well it can't actually whistle, but I digress. In any event, when I start IE, I …

First of all, Happy new year, an hi to every one. I`m new here. I run XP proffesional SP2 . 2.0 GHZ cpu and 512MB ram. I also use the latest Zonealarm pro. I`m not sure when the problem occured, but I can not find anything wrong with internet explorer. …

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Hi all, My computer has found itself fit to restart itself whenever it wants to. This problem just started 4 or 5 days ago. I have ran adware, spybot, and Norton all showing no viruses. Does anybody have an answer or any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Hi, I have downloaded a legal copy of Windows XP Pro from the MSDN Academic Alliance Software program. The file is an ISO so I burned to a CD. I am in the process of building a new PC, will this disc let me install XP or do I need …

There are tons of programs out there that claim to tweak either xp or your dsl,modem,cable connections. I believe others will agree there is no magic tweak that will make xp that much faster or your internet. In fact xp is tweaked pretty sweet for dsl. No idea how it …

Hi all, I hope everyone had a great New Year ! Ok, ever since I upgraded my computer a bit, I've been having problems with OE where it gets errors that have nothing to do with my server or ISP. It seems when there are too many e-mail windows open, …

There used to be an icon in the toolbar of IE 6 that said "Multimedia". I noticed that when I installed XP-SP2, that icon went away. I used this for viewing vidoes. Now, when I want to view any, I have to go to another program. Does anybody know how …

I have red tags almost daily with event 7000 & 7009 it is causing a black screen for second, what can be done to correct ?

My 4yr. old played with my old pc. (win 98) During start-up I get the Windows logo, everything seems to be going fine, then the screen appears black with iterference lines. I'm sure he must have done something to the display properties, however without being able to see, I am …

Given a bigger file, is there any free program that may split a music file down so that I can break it onto 2 seperate CDs? Thanks

I and a few of my friends all have laptops (with the exception of one, who has a really really old desktop). Our computers work for us, but we require a lot of hard drive space for the mass amount of work/files we accumulate. So, I got a cheep dell …

I have an emachine running xphome with windows sp2 installed. I use mozilla as the browser of choice over IE but also installed mozilla firefox {Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9}. My problem is that when I click a link in my mail program eudora, IE …

I am on a Dell D600 and it does not seem to have a DVD decoder. I thought XP was supposed to be ultra multi-media friendly... How do I get it to play DVD's... Not looking to rip them vust play them.

I'm having some trouble opening links on my machine at work. This is happening in Outlook, and also I batch file that I wrote for tracking packages online. In outlook, when you click on the link, IE opens, but the URL of the link isn't there, and IE just hangs. …

Does anybody know the steps to setting up super web cam? It seems that when I turn on the web cam, the bandwidth goes to zero and my frame rate goes to less than 1 per second. This is not what I wanted when I purchased the webcam. I have …

Hi, I suffer from this problem quite long After I turn the computer on and every thind is downloaded, and at the task manager there are after windows startup: Explorer Ctfmon Ccapp Zlclient Rnaapp Monwow Systray Hidserv the resources are: System resources 60% User resources 60% GDI resources 78% After …

I have a game on CD. It's the third installment of the Elder Scrolls series by Bethesda Softworks, Inc. I am trying to install the game onto my Laptop. My Laptop is 3 times more everything than the minnium requirements of the game. Everything all of the time works just …

I know how to delete the history and cookies and temp files by going under tools>internet options>general tab>delete cookies...etc. after i do that i type something into the address bar like [url]www.a[/url].... and some sites appear. how do i delete these sites? i need an answer [B]today[/B]...

I used to have a really cool 3rd party tool that would repair ie6. It was free and seemed to work great!! It would register all the dlls and had some other cool features. Its the one program I forgot to back up. Any ideas on the place to find …

I had win98se and it was way too messed up so i want to delete everything off my comp and start over. I want to install either 98se again or winXP. but i need to know how to do all of this please help. :sad:

Trying to clean friends hp pavilion ze4400. After removing most of the nasties can get it to windows update but dies at "looking for latest version" dont think it had been updated (ever...)no fixes listed in add\remove. Had SP1 on disc and seemed to install, retry update same thing but …

I wish I could say this is mine. I took it from another forum and it really helped me alot with ie6 problems bigtime. Someone please correct me if I am wrong but it sure helped me out big time. Go to start. Run. Type in regsvr32 Urlmon.dll. There must …

I too am in the page cannot be displayed category. I have printed a number of replies to this problem but I want to fix the problem in the right way. I mistakenly deleted the win 32 file in the set access part of xp and I think this should …

Hi guys. Whenever i try to sign in to MSN messenger, norton shows me the following screen [IMG]http://img68.exs.cx/img68/2749/norton9tq.jpg[/IMG] How do i stop it from askin for permision, as it does it whenever i sign in, get or send a messege, and at other random times! it also causes the pc …

i just d/l a freelancer demo. Its a game btw. The file got corrupted half way and i have 2 icons still on my desktop. Everytime i delete them , i get an error saying, 'file is in use' or something like that. I cant even move them! How do …

Hi, need some help here. Once my 2000 hit by a virus, I manage to fix it, but it can not automatically power off while shut it down as usual, anyone got an idea how to fix it ? Thanks.

I'm not sure this is totally IE-related, however, here is my problem: whenever an image or video is played over IE, the graphics are discolored and distorted, i will show an example later. This problem occurs/occured with AOL, IE, SBCYahoo!, but not with Netscape (pictures are crystal clear). Also, when …

Hi my comp is running very slow and has problems with winsock, sah agent, dxsetu, ope25 and others. I've read the other threads and have downloaded the HiJackThis program so know how to delete them(sort of) but need help knowing what to and what not to delete. Any help very …

If i boot XP normally and click Start>run>cmd> and type chkdsk /f will that fix any errors or do i have to truly boot in dos mode first and run chkdsk /f. also. i created a ms-dos via right click A: format and put a check mark on create ms-dos …

I am currently using Windows XP (sp1). I have 3 user accounts. Two of the accounts have lost all desktop icons and the start button/task bar. I have been discussing this in the thread titled "windows has mysteriously vanished from my computer". I have tried so many ways to attempt …

Please help! Just recently I got a new USB MP3 player (Nomad Muvo), while inserting it into my USB port, I heard a tweeking noise and my Monitor turned off, and it said Selft Test (G), Check check you PC and Signal Cable (R), Monitor is working (B) and then …

i dont know if i have the correct drivers. I have windows 2000 installed on my compaq presario 700. everthing works but the sound card. volume control sems to work but i still get no sound. does anyone know the exact chip set of the presario 700 (version with 1.2Ghz …

I FINALLY found it!!!!!!!!! You all better show some love for this one cause I have been looking for it for over a MONTH!!! Its free. WORKS. Hope im allowed to post this link. [url]http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFIX.htm[/url]. Please pass along the info.

Hi All, Can anyone help? - I have Windows XP and my Internet Explorer keeps closing down after the error shown below: Error Signature AppName: explorer.exe AppVer: 6.0.2800.1106 ModName: shell32.dll ModVer: 6.0.2800.1106 Offset: 00044c31 Does anyone know what this means? Or how I can get sorted out? Many Thanks & …

Hey you guys, I have a 98 (not se) computer and three other xp computers (one of which is a file/printer server for the house). All of the xp computers see the network and the other computers but the 98 computer does not even see the network. i also tried …

Hey folks, bear with me, I'm new at this forum thing...my system is XP Pro, browser is IE6.0, and I leave my system on all the time, broadband net connection. For two years, I've always managed to get through the odd quirks, re-booting as a last resort. But now, out …

does anyone know of a good program to download music with besides kazaa or imesh?

The computer is a Hp pavilion 540n 1.6 Ghz pentium 4, XP operating system, 768 Mb ram, Maxtor 60 Gb harddrive/30 Gb free space. ATI Radeon 9600 XT graphic card. The problem I am having is the computer freezes/pauses about every 20 secnods, stays that way for a couple seconds …

Hi I started getting Spool 32 errors about 2 weeks ago and have been having trouble with my printer so I guess they are related. I have unhooked the cables to the printer and rehooked them. Installed a new printer driver and everything else I can think of. Now when …

Hi. One of our customers made silly things with his computer but I can't find a way to recover it. Maybe one of you has already run into the same problem. Here it is: The system installed and runnin was Windows 2000 Pro SP4. He did some "cleaning", then had …

While booting up I got the blue screen. It started off with DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Then gave the talk about going in safemode to disable cache etc. Further down on the screen it said STOP 0x000000d1 (0XFE3E5E30,0X00000002,0X00000000,0XF99DADD3) NDIS.SYS - Address F99DADD3 base at F99C4000 DATESTAMP 41107ecs Start of physical dump - Where …

hey you guys, I have a question about mac and a windows pc. say i no longer wanted to run windows on my pc, could i install macintosh on the hard drive and use that as the primary operating system? thanks much, and happy new year voodoo5 video card soundblaster …

I need a program to run in the background that will log when a specific program is started and stopped... Basically, we have a user that is abusing working hours playing a game and we need to log when she is playing that game... I would rather not run a …

I'm trying to install IE 6.0 on a machine that doesn't yet have web access. I wanted to download the full 6.0 from another machine, burn it on a CD, then install from the CD on the new machine. But on the Microsoft site it just has you download a …

Hi Friends I've posted this messege at the viruses subfolder , after a question about HJT but msaybe it belongs here at this link: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread16291.html[/url] Oopps.... But before I could do anything, my system halted Win98SE I've just reboot and... when It goes up it says: win98 enabled : Searching …