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hey everyone i got a problem here .The problem had occured to me before this also but i got it removed somehow by using a patch released by Microsoft ...i suppose.But here it is creeping up with its ugly face again!! It seems no less than those irritating commercial breaks …

After installing Adobe Photoshop, the program associated all of my JPG and GIF files with it, and I like it this way. My JPG and GIF icons now have a Photoshop icon, and clicking on them opens Photoshop. However, I've since installed Macromedia Studio MX. Since doing that, Macromedia Fireworks …

Example of a game like pac man,tetris,pool ect.when i play a flash game for too long it will go into a blue screen i have no idea y. It says try to disable your catch or shadowing in the bios to try and solve the proplem could some 1 tell …

can you obtain MAC addresses in the network using DHCP in windows 2003? if yes, how?

I have an older sony vaio and the hard drive crashed. I got an empty hard drive but i no longer have the windows 98 se cd that came with the computer. I need win98se because some hardware im using is not compatible with anything else, dont ask me why. …

Hey All!! Im having trouble signing into Hotmail and Msn Messenger. I have Windows XP Home Edition. When and i try and sign into Msn Messenger it displays this message: "We were not able to sign you in. There may be a problem with our service or your internet connection. …

I have been having problems shutting down M.E. , I recently downloaded Kodak easyshare program, and the latest M/S security notice, I dont know if this will help solve my problems? Before I stated to experience trouble a OUTBREAK WARNING SETTINGS flashed up for a while. whats going on???????

Hello good People I am new to these forums.Hope you are all well and happy. I have a problem with windows media player9 after a virus attatched itself to certain files which saw said files going to AVG virus vault as they could not be deleted. I am now left …

got a promblem with signin into msn

I have this problem on several XP systems on my network...does anyone know what might be causing this...when you go to log off it does nothing...but if you go back and do it again it does it...same with restarting or shutting down...I would be greatly appreciative if someone knows a …

Memory Loss? Not always a problem Have you ever wondered why after spending some time working on your computer, that the more programs you open and close, the less available resources you have? You'd think that closing a program would free up any resources it takes up when running right? …

Hopefully someone can help me. I recently bought a linksys wireless router for my Dell laptop 1100. Everything works fine in the a.m. but in the afternoon and evening I cannot connect to ebay and any other secure site. I don't understand why I can in the a.m but not …

Hey all. Just want to know wether or not it is possible to extract sounds from a windows executable (.exe)? If so how do i do it? The reason i ask is because i have a cool little game with mad sounds and i would really like to put some …

I would like the exact wording to copy the entire contents of my c: hard drive to my new d: hard drive. Thankyou

Hi. I run Windows 2000. For the past week I have had a problem shutting down my system. I get the box that says end program-rundll32.exe. It starts it's countdown where I can hit any button and end now or let the countdown go and it will do it on …

I prefer to update my computer by myself, without automatic updates bugging me all the time. In SP1, I was able to turn them off, but now it's very difficult. Whenever I manage to turn it off, I get nagged to turn them back on. Eventually, it just turns them …

i tried to install internet explorer on my computer, but the ie6setup always says that a newer version of internet explorer is found on the computer and the setup will stop. i searched the computer again and again and did not find any internet explorer files. what is the messup? …

Let me just say that I don't know very much about computers. With that said, on some pages when I try to click a link my computer pauses for about 3 seconds and I get the internet explorer/windows error message with an option to send the error to microsoft...anyways, the …

My computer lately started to make the sound like it was turning off and on by itself, I could hear it clicking and winding up and down as if going throuhgh the shutdown and start up procedure. Only thing was that the images on the screen would only freeze temporarily …

I didnt Put this in spyware, or viruses because i dont think it is. I run a hand ful of different scans each night. Latly its been picking this up, saying to delete it but the thing is it wont let me. So i over looked my active process's, but …

:sad: hi all :sad: my prolem started like this.. :-| i formatted my laptop..before 5 weeks ... after that i tried to reinstall the modem because it wasn't working..so i did.. :!: .then i restarted my computer.. :cry: and here my problem began... :!: this error appears every time i …

I just reinstalled xp pro for the 3rd time in the last couple of weeks because of some problems but now the activation is nutty. It let me install xp and used the activation code but then when I went in after doing some updates it now won't let me …

I have a 40gig HD, 3.0 ghz pent 4 processor (800mhz 1mb cache), 512 DDR ram (400mhz), Geforce FX 5200 (256mb) 420 watt power supply... So far ive tryed a lot, 3 different monitors, 3 different video cards. I have NO DISPLAY AT ALL, screen is blank, says its in …

hi when i first got this pc i bought a cheap digtial camera i tried removeing as ive updated to a better camera but i cant find photomvp/videomap/arcsoft products any place to delete this what shall i do as its takeiong up space i could use else where also do …

Please help I am also having this problem. My D:\ works perfectly fine for regular CD's but when I put in a blank CD-R in it gives the error " D:\ is not accessible - A device attatched to the system is not functioning". Also if its relevent, Im trying …

I have Win98 with an HP CD-Writer Plus 8100 series. I am trying to copy files to a blank cd-rw 700mb and I keep getting this darn error mssg: D:\ is not accessible - A device attatched to the system is not functioning. I can't figure out what "device" is …

X The procedure entry point CoInternetGetSession could not be located in the dynamic link library urlmon.dll. this is the exact error I receive when installing Ie6 and Sp1. aston shell, coolmon, mirc were the last few programs i installed System Microsoft Windows XP Proffesional Version 2002 Running Intel pentium 3 …

I am having major explorer error messages on this IBM 6564 and one message in particular that pops up and hangs up the entire computer. It reads ESCAN_05C7FDBC-A2CA-44ec-A1A2-2098B7DE92B8 and then the computer stops responding. I have to manually turn it off, let it run scandisk and reboot into windows. I …

Hi! Im quite used with installing windows xp and all the other version.. and actually I work at a computer store where I've to do it like 10 times a day or more... I've already seen somewhere that you can automate all the setup ( IE. keyboard layout.. timezone.. cd …

well I can see 21 non system processes on the task manager. So what are all these going? some are obvious like Ybrowser.exe or aim.exe, but what the hell are things like OSD.exe?

[B][COLOR=Navy]I have noticed with some Linksys Network cards mainly the NC100v2. Windows XP original version has native drivers for that card. And they work great until you upgrade to WinXP SP1 or SP2. Then every time you restart your system it will not get a DHCP IP address, or if …

I run Windows 98 on Compaq Deskpro Computer. My Cd Drive is connected to a primary IDE Controller. Now the problem is that everytime i want to read any information from any CD i my systems tels me that access denied the disc is not accessible. I went to Device …

Trying to go into my banking details and other similar areas I was getting diverted to a spy-ware search-page, so I ran AdAware and Spybot which removed this but now when I try to access banking info I get the message 'Page cannot be displayed'. Has perhaps a cookie been …

Anybody got a good media software for this set up -XP home (I know it is my first problem) -LAN with 1tb of storage -2.7intel -1536 mb ram -2x200 hard drives -128 mb ATI video w/s-video out, VGA, and DVI -Tv tuner ATI -15'' LCD touch screen (VGA) -20.1'' LCD …

Hi! I am preparing to install Norton AntiVirus 2005. The instructions indicated I need to manually unconfigure my email (Outlook Express 6) or once I install the new Norton I won't be able to read my email. The file that explains how to unconfigure requires notepad but I receive an …

Hi, Is there a way to access hyperlinks that comes with e-mails? My outlook does not allow me to do so. Even double-clicking on the hyperlink does not work. Is there a feature in Microsoft Outlook that can enable me to click on e-mails with hyperlinks? Thanks! :eek:

OK, I HAVE LIKE, EVERY pop up blocker protection you could think of..... google pop up protection, yahoo popup protection, and windows sp2 pop up blocker............ doesn't seem to stop one in particular. I cought a glimpse of the address of the pop up before the actual add displayed....... seems …

When I Boot My Comp I Get A Message On My Desktop Note Pad That Reads: Localizedresourcename=@%\systemroot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21787......what Does This Mean

i just recently updated from win98 to win2k. The router setup has stayed the same yet now msn signs in for about 60secs then signs out. Also the other computers on the network using msn also have problems but only when im trying to use msn, if my comps off …

hey guys, i am having some issue with printing some pdf documents, actually, 2 types: faxes that come into office over email and get converted to pdfs automatically (using GFI faxmaker) and colored photos that get scanned into our system with canon document scanners and converted to pdf during the …

A good while ago (maybe 7 months), I discovered Linux. I was very happy with it, and I liked all of its features, but in the end, I could not get programs to install. Every program I compiled gave me errors. When asking on a Linux forum for help, I …

I did not know where to post this question but here it is: Where would I find a copy of Windows 3.1? I just would like to mess around with it!

Is the ThinkPad t22 compatible with windows XP pro? I seem to be having issues with it. My sound is horrible. I know it's not my speakers because I have hooked headphones and external speakers up and they all sound scratchy and fade at times if I open or minimize …

hi , i am karanth. i am having problems to log on to msn passport, hence unable to log on to messenger as well as hotmail. hotmail just doesnt open so as soem websites such as nature.com expedia. i even unable to log on to my library webite , library.qmul.ac.uk. …

:rolleyes: For some reason my Windows XP Picture and Fax viewer decided to disappear. I've reset it as my default, but the program will not start up, and doesn't even give some sort of error. Any ideas?

HI there, I'm hoping someone here can help me. My computer does not recognise my hard drive as being larger than 2 gig anymore. I recently formatted my machine as I had a new graphics card ( actually an old graphics card which used to be in it, due to …

I bought a PC second hand, well it has this duel boot thing it asks me if i want to load XP or ME. All I want to do is remove it and run XP. Then format and repartition my HD. Seems simple enough for some. But me well I've …

I have been getting SOME messages on Hotmail that looks like this. +ADw-div+AD4- +ADw-div class+AD0-Section1+AD4- +ADw-p class+AD0-MsoNormal+AD4APA-font size+AD0-2 color+AD0-navy face+AD0-Arial+AD4APA-span style+AD0AIg-font-size:10.0pt+ADs-color:navy+ACIAPg It is with the other message text but takes longer to open up than the usual messages. I saw in Google that at least 2 other people are getting …

[size=2]I need some help to get the drivers for the followsing products: MITSUMI CR-4804TE (CD rewritable) SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SDR-430 LEXMARK Injet Printer model 2050 I use Windows 2000. Your reply will be much appreciated. NOTE: The CD burner or DVD is not detecting any disk on the drive. That's why …

I don't remember configuring the user accounts but whenever I startup my pc, I now need to click on the username to login to the operating system. I do not need to enter any password since I did not assign one. How do you disable the login (clicking on admin …