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This morning, I turned on the PC (windows ME) and I discovered that I have no sound, then in the afternoon when I went to Start, Settings, Control Panel, Sounds and Multimedia and then clicked the Audio tab, under Prefered Device, it says I have No Playback Devices.

Recently, my computer screen has been going black during both startup and while in use. The tower remains on, but "freezes" up so that the power button doesn't react - forcinging me to turn the tower off from the switch in the back. Sometimes, a single restart will get my …

For some reason I can't click on most links in internet explorer. It would be apprerciated if you could help me.

Hey, everytime I close it IE, a damn error pops up saying it has to close the program.. but I just closed it! Is gets very annoying and it's giving me a headache. I can't find any help anywhere on the web! Can you please help me? In event Viewer …

HI, I am not sure if I am at right place for this. Installed 98 and then when starting up computer, this is the message that I get every time, MSVCR70.DLL was not found. How can I fix that? Not sure where to look for to get it fixed. Thanks!

I have a Compaq5300. It had windows 98SE. Had to remove EVERYTHING and now I have an empty HD. On this notebook, the floppy and the CDrom have to be changed manually. I need to reload windows and cannot figure out how to do it. It boots with the floppy …

Hi, We've been away from out home for 4 months and the computer has been shut off. My wife went back to the house and tried turning on the computer, and she cannot get it to get pass the "Welcome " blue screen..It keeps saying what is your windows password. …

hey guys ihave run into a dilemma , i have a usb memory stick with 16 mb of space on it and i dont know how to access it . im running windows nt ,, any help is appreciated

:( well when i try to install game it says 16 bit windows subsystem and the message it says is a file called AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications.Choose 'close' to terminate the application. the there are 2 buttons at the bottom …

Hello, My MSN Messenger and IE are not able to connect as if I am not connected to the Internet. The error code in MSN Messenger is: 0x81000370 I downloaded HijackThis but I am not sure what is bad and what is good. This is the log. Logfile of HijackThis …

When I attempt to open System Restore I get an Error message as follows: AppName: rundll32.exe AppVer: 5.1.2600.2180 ModName: srrstr.dll ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 000099b2 --------------- Another thread with an identical problem had the following message: "However, running the sr.inf:install solved the problem. Had to browse around, a bit, to find …

hi i have 2 hardrives on my computer but when i start up it show 4 drives and then sayes low disc space runnin xp pro sp2 how can i resolve this back to two hardrives

After loading RegAnalizer I deleted something under software and now Windows 98 is messed up and will not respond or load. Display messed up it wants to check for new hardware but then it stops working. Help me please.

Hello All, I used 98lite to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 98se and all is well. The only thing that does not work is Hijackthis... Is Hijackthis dependent on IE ? I run both Opera and Firefox behind a ZoneAlarm Firewall with Spybot and Adaware_se. Thanks for listening...

Yes me again :/ Just dug out an old computer....thought it could do for Linux :o Anyway I don't know much about this computer seeing as it was my dads until now, so I boot it up, the boot screen comes up and starts detecting hardware. It finds one item: …

Please ,plaese help me!! I have talked to internet provider,service provider and manufacturer and no one knows what is going on. I have had this xp computer for a little oevr a yr and never had any probs with it. I have my site, my churchs site and a project …

My himem.sys has been corrupted or missing. I've tried to resolve this by entering at command line extract / a / y / e / l c: \ windows base4.cab himem.sys, only to be cofronted with cannot open file :a. Any suggestions? Thanks Mark.

I just noticed today that I cannot access my System Restore applet. I've never had a problem before, and I don't recall installing (or doing) anything which would affect it. When I try to access it, I get a 'send an error report' alert, saying "Run a DLL as an …

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2 Hewlett-Packard Pavilion Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1300MHz 1.30 GHz, 512 MB of RAM hp pavilion 502n ----------- When I turn on my computer and either let it sit for a while, or I start opening programs - games, Word, my Wireless …

when i start my computer instead of the normal welcome screen coming up the classic mode type login comes up (similiar to windows 2000). I tried to change it by going to the control panel selecting user accounts and selecting change the way users logon and logoff. when i do …

When i start up my computer i click on my user name, type my password and then it says 'logging on' then there is a quick flash of my user account wallpaper then it says 'logging off' and 'saivng your settings' then it goes back to the user log on …

I opened the add/remove programs window in the control panel of Windows ME, and I look and everything on the Add/Remove Programs list is gone! What happened to my list and is this a result of spyware, virus, or trojans?

Several weeks / months (who's counting) I read a article in either PCWorld or PCMag. It gave several tips for tweaking XPPro. One of them was how to change the looks of I.E. Changing the bitmaps and revolving on-line logo. It was accessed by typing a command in the run …

Ok, I had this question a while ago, and didn't get much results: Hey everyone. Just noticed a little problem. The computer at my desk is running XP Pro. and my computer in my office is running XP Home. Well, to run a remote shutdown on my XP Pro. computer, …

Ok here goes - My ex girlfriend got me banned from my favourite game website by slyly logging in (user name and password was preset for ease!!!!) and once in she heartily abused the moderator till he banned her (under my user name) and she logged out without leaving a …

running a win 2kpro machine ... can get to windows update site ... can scan for updates ... can review and select updates for download ... i hit install and the download box pops up but never transmits anything ... has worked before ... another pc on the same network …

Hello, I was having a problem with my IBM Netvista 2284 Windows ME: it used to lock within 5mn when I start working. I tried to recover the initial environment using a boot floppy disk + recovery CD, but now after booting, they are some errors when I insert the …

right i had a wikedpc running theni installed sonys sonic stage then it said restart so i did.when i restarted it wouldnt load up n it gave me like four options.safe mode safe mode with network last used successfull settings and start normally.iv tried all of them but then the …

Hi, I am hoping you can help me with my problem Since i've installed XPsp2, if have a problem with a website continually refreshing every 2 to 5 seconds.....this didn't happen before the XPsp2 update, nor does it happen to every website. So far it is only happening to one …

Please can someone help me, I have XP Home, OE6 and am receiving 12 copies of each email I receive, and although I am receving emails those sending them are receiving an undelivered message. I have gounf pop3uidl.dbx and renamed and started OE again , and then Ihave deleted it …

Question: I lost the registration number to my computer. I need to know how I can obtain a new microsoft registration key number. [email]horizons2020@yahoo.com[/email]

I have been using IE 5.5 xxx for 2 years - no probs, recently I had problems accessing a site because the JIT compiler radio butt. was clicked in Advanced, when I went to change it - it had gone, (the tab that is!). tabs finish at Program. I have …

Whenever I surf the Internet, a box will pop up, saying that IE has experienced an error, and needs to shut down. It will ask whether I want to restart IE, and whether I want to send an error report. Anyone knows what is the problem, and can I stop …

My C drive thinks it is called C:\Documents and Settings\Mike Swindlehurst> can anyone tell me why?

Hi If i right click on my c drive in my computer and select format, does this format absolutely everything from my computer, or does the operating system remain? I have windows xp sp1 Thanks

Sorry it's me again so soon. On the computer I use to download music, surf the web, and post on forums (the one I'm doing right now) I recently got rid of an extremely harmful combo of viruses, spyware, malware, adware, browser helper objects, and much more... I learned my …

windows isn't loading for me. need help. it says....... [COLOR=Navy]a device file that is specified in the system.ini file is damaged. it may be needed to run windows. you may need to run the windows setup program again. if the file is included in another software package, you may need …

I am running an Internet Cafe of 20 PC's and I've a BT Broad Band Connection with D-Link ADSL Router. Every thing is working fine but one of my WinXP Professional PC not getting an IP Address Automatically from my ADSL Router as it has a built in DHCP Service. …

Hi, One of my friend has a Compaq Presario 5340. Has about 340 something MB, recently installed 160 GB harddrive from 7 gb HD. 400 MHZ. After he installed Win Xp, He said that his CPU usage went up 100% and he ran updated Spybot and Adaware and found a …

I use GAIM and have no use for Windows Messenger. I have managed to make it hidden so that it at least does not clutter up my system tray, but it still runs in the background, which annoys me to no end. Is there anyway I can completly remove it? …

i install the via 97 realtek audio driver after restarting , my computer hangs and when i use safe mode options i received the error message (C0000221 unknown hard error \systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll) i try everthing fom disabling the hardware which is onboard from the bios but nothing happens i do not …

It's a fresh install of XP Pro Srvc Pck 2. Of course IE is the latest version. Anytime I try to read the source and click it in the menu nothing happens. Any ideas as to why? It wouldn't be the pop-up killer in SP 2 would it. If so, …

I cannot run .exe files or .lnk files directly, I have to right click and 'open with' the select the program itself. I also get [B]Registry modification detected Root:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Key:Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Value:RunDLL Data: New Data:rundll32.exe "C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\bridge.dll",Load Attempt to alter the autostart section (Blocked)[/B] from Adaware. I can't access regedit …

i bought a ati radeon 9600xt 128mb awhile ago and it worked fine for a week or so then it started to freeze and restart my computer and it normally does this when im in a game or someone walks near the tower. my computer specs are: win/xp home sp1 …

I am running Win XP and IE 6.0. When running IE, I select Tools, Internet Options, Settings from the General Tab, most times nothing happens when I press View Files or View Objects. Occasionally I get Microsoft telling me I have encountered a problem. If your solution means re-installing IE, …

I am running windows 98se and needed to load frontpage. A kind hearted friend had a copy on office 2003 with frontpage included and said give it a try (for evaluation purposes only of course)!. It started to load up the program but eventually caused the system to crash with …

Hi guys, A very annoying problem. Hope you can help, I will try to explain how this problem occured so that you have a better idea about whats wrong: 1. I am running XP-Pro with SP2, P4 2.66, 1GB RAM, 40Gb HDD. 2. One day out of the blue every …

Hi. I got a winner problem I was running xp disk cleaner, and the computer re booted.. Now it rebooted before, but seems like it wont let me run the disk cleanup program in windows. when the computer turned back on, it said the computer recovered from a serious error. …

Does anyone know anything about Lameme.exe? I found this exe on my sons PC and, I suspect it may be related to PORN (It's not the first time I've caught him). If so, can anyone instruct me how to get rid of it?? Wallace.

Please can someone help! My friend is stranded 1500 miles from home, and has recieved an error message that prevents her opening windows explorer, or anything at all now. The error is "win32shock.dll", and neither she nor I knows what it means or how to fix it. I am a …