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Please somebody help. I have COMPAQ Computer running Windows xp which untill today was okay. Now what happend is that. Today when i booted my computer i got a STOP ERROR c0021a{Fatat System Error}. The session Manager Initialization System process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000022(0x00000000 0x00000000) The system …

My home page has been hijacked by Incredifind and often when I am searching in Google this Incredifind pops up again. I have run Adaware and Spybot but it's still there. Any help would be appreciated. Tez

I can't boot Windows 2000 due to a kmode exception error (see earlier thread) so I wondered about the possibility of doing a fresh install but in a seperate directory. The computer has a C drive (FAT32) and a D drive (NTFS) and I wondered if it would be possible …

Hi I recently installed a 160GB Hitachi ata hard drive in my HP. The master drive is a maxtor 80GB. I have already moved a lot of my pictures, videos, and other miscellaneous files to my 160GB slave drive. However, I would like to move all of my installed programs …

I have a problem, need a know-how on ishue which DVD files must I download on abc torrent so I could burn some movies in DVD format. My brother has a Panasonic SC-HT500 DVD (home cinema) player, I won't to burn some movies for him, but I just don't know …

Is it possible to move IE to something other than c:\program files\internet explorer? I want to use that space to put a Firefox installation so that applications trying to open IE will open Firefox instead. How about renaming the old directory? It says its in use when I try.

previously my computer with windows xp was performing a sound when i was selecting anything on the screen but now it does not. It does not make any sound even when a new message arrive to msn

Almost all my mail on my hotmail address is going direct to the TRASH CAN. not to junk mail but to the TRASH CAN. Any ideas?? It is not all spam so I would like to read some of it first.. Despite many attempts to get help from M.S. I …

Hello All Im Running A Pentium 3 1gb Ibm Tower Everytime I Go On The Internet It Freezes When I Open Some Programs It Freezes Ive Tried Getting Rid Of Spyware Ive Tried Reformatting The Computer I Cant Figure It Out And Im About To Give Up Someone Pleasssse Help …

Hi I need some help with my IE, not sure if this is the right place. Seems like when ever I am going to a site a extra window opens (minimized and will not allow me to maximize it, I have to use Task Manager to Maximize it but its …

Hey, I just got a new laptop and formatted my computer. I'm running windows xp home, 60 gig hdd, 512 mb ddr ram, 1.8 gig amd cpu. My explorer.exe is slow at times and then it would just freeze and restart. It happens when I try to do a bunch …

My computer starts fine but once you get to the welcome screen and type in password it shows desktop for a few seconds then logs off and shows register screen again. This problem only started a few days ago.

Does anyone know if Windows Longhorn will be able to read FAT16 partitions like Windows XP, or is it too early to tell?

ok i just moved and got my DSL set up here but i am having a major problem that i or my DSL provider can not figure out..ok its windows XP if you go in to control panel network connections there is lan and high speed connection under that has …

Whenever i hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE my task manager pops up, then befor i can do anything it crashes and i have no clue why. Microsoft.com wasn't anyhelp, and my help topics on my computer didn't eather :mad: What to do?? :?:

HP Officejet R 80 printer/fax/scanner worked just fine until I upgraded to XP SP2. Printer works, but scanner does not...saw some info indicating that the drivers were not SP2 compatible. Searched quite a bit and cannot locate SP2 drivers for scanner. Anyone? Thanks, Carrie

Ok, I've had it, SP2 causes more problems than it fixes. Although, im not [i]quite[/i] sure how to uninstall it. My guess is I just go to add/remove progs and select Servie Pack 2 yada yada but i have a terrible vision of it uninstalling more than just SP2...

I have re-installed Win 2000 Pro on my daughters PC after she loaded something onto the system by accident. 2000 kept asking fot a Paperport 8 disc even though this program was removed. We removed all Paperport files and documents and re-loaded again. Now when re booting the PC comes …

Hey guys, everytime that the monitor goes off or the screensaver goes off, xp hangs. if the monitor is off, it will turn on and bring up the desktop and i can move the mouse, but i cant click anything and CTRL+ALT+DEL doesn't work. i have to turn it off …

Well I have looked through the boards and have seen similar problems, but most of the "fixes" have linked to the Service Pack 2 for XP. So that won't work for me since I am running Windows 98. When I am surfing the internet, and I click a link that …

my friend has a really crappy computer that he has messed up even more so yesterday i said i would help him reinstall everything. The problem was he didn't have the discs all he had was this crappy hp tools program that does a system recovery. I did that and …

Disk Cleanup has a lot of options when its opened from the command prompt Click start --> Run and type in cmd type in chkdsk.exe plus one of the following switches. In the command prompt you will type in something like chkdsk.exe /X to run the desired operation. /C Will …

XP automatically searches your network for any network shares (Printers and Files). While it's looking for this information you're sitting there waiting for your stuff to be displayed. If you'd like to speed this up then here's your instructions. Open My Computer Click Tools --> Folder Options Select the View …

Did a clean install yesterday of XP as computer kept freezing. After the install my slave drive (F:) is not showing. Instead it is showing on my computer as removable disk. How do I get it back as my slave hard drive?

No matter what website I go to, I get a 'cannot find server'/'page cannot be displayed' error. Also, every time I try to go to a page, it says "Connecting to site 127.0.0.1" in the status bar. Right now I have to use Mozilla. (Sorry to Mozilla fans, but I …

a few days ago i was running my computer perfectly fine.. after a few days i started noticing these lines (short horizontal lines ..multi colored-ish).. soon the problem grew worse and my whole desktop would be filled with these lines and i wouldn't be able to access any part of …

[COLOR=Magenta]undefined[/COLOR] I could not enter hotmail to see my e-mails, after I type my user and password it shift me to a blank page with nothing on it. On the other hand I can easilly access to mesenger and to yahoo mail. I really nee a hint to solve this. …

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for the past few months my computer has been restarting whenever i open certain pages and do certain things on the net. some days my computer works absolutely fine with no restarts. most of the time the restarts happen when i try and play a game on yahoo and other …

Good morning, I recently received and installed the service pack 2 on my XP OS. The system slowed dramatically; to almost a crawl. When I discovered that I couldn't install anything else after that, I had to resolve myself to uninstalling it. Whenever an additional application attempted to load, it …

I have win XP Pro. When I wish to shutdown the computer it gives me a window that says trying to shutdown rundll32 however after it tries that I get another message saying that it cannot shutdown the file because it is not responding. Kindly let me know how I …

[FONT=Verdana]For what ever reason in Windows XP Professional some of my icons seem to go from black text to blue text for no reason, mainly in directories. When there is a new icon the text is black but ones that have been there for a while are blue. This doesn't …

Hello, I have been trying to log onto MSN and I can get connected to the internet. Upon sign in MSN says that it could not detect an internet connection and I cannot sign in. I have run the regsvr32 softpub.dll and I have uninstalled MSN and its components. I …

Initally, when I installed Ghost it changed the settings for when I log on from auto logon to my having to click on my name (I am the sole user). The real problem first developed when I rebooted my computer after using Norton Ghost 9 for the first time. Anytime …

Hi everyone - new to the forums Here's my problem - it has me so confused. I recently built a new machine, new everything including the OS which is XP profession that came pre upgraded with SP2. The first weird thing I did was buy a motherboard that did not …

Have a new Compaq desktop computer running Win XP Home. Randomly, it seems to freeze up: no mouse input, no keyboard input allowed (not even control-alt-delete). Have to hard re-boot to get it to run again. Happens not only after awhile of sitting, but sometimes while doing work on it. …

It just freezes for about 2 minutes and starts working again or it hangs on me and I have to reboot.When it freezes there is a 'tap' sound that the hard disk makes and its led light stops.Today it started to show that windows has performed an illegal operation.Any ideas …

[FONT=Courier New]Hi! I'm new to this so if I don't post properly please forgive me ;) Anyway my question is, I have been having problems with my IE opening when I click on any link that would usually open my explorer, I use AOL for my ISP and the links …

Hello - I am having a really bad day! I hope someone can help. My computer has been acting strage for a couple of days. I have problems printing and sending and receiving email. My Outlook hangs and doesn't operate normally. I have a print out of what is going …

hello, I have bought a new acer laptop, with linux as platform. I want to install windows xp as the other operating system. If anybody could be a help , I would be very thankful.

Say i am using my computer for the last hour or so and decide to restart or (turn off and start again) 95% of the time the computer restart and ask me for my user name to log in, when I try to log in , it takes a while …

When trying to view a pdf file, an error comes up stating "Windows needs to install MS Windows Journal. All the other PC's in the group have the same configuration but this is the only one that is coming up with errors. Can anyone help?

I'm using Windows XP Professional, IE 6. When using Hotmail, I can't open any links within the emails. Help!

Hi i'm new to this stuff. i have a HP pervilen that takes forever to start up. i have refomatted it to original settings and it still runs slow. i was told that it was my hard drive that is bad. is this true? every thing still works on it …

when cursor is in text box text the is being written by unknown sources

I know I complain a lot but I have another problem. When I used to have Windows 98 I installed my new ProPad 6 gamepad by Interact (yeah I know its cheap, but it was a bargian gamepad). It worked just fine. The gamepads documentation only mentions it to be …

Windows XP system on Dell Insprion 600m and HP Officejet 6110. I have photos I want to print as 4"x6" I use Paint to set it up. What is the right page set-up? How do I insert the paper?

When I left mouse click on a url in outlook 2003 I get an error message that says I need to ask my administrator to help. This use to work before I installed SP2 for XP. TIA :evil:

I am having a rather bizzare problem with an HP PC. The System is running Win98. Internet works fine when connected through network card on cable modem. Moved PC to different location and installed external USR 56K V-Everything modem (yeah I know - whats a MODEM). Connect to internet works …

when im browsing my programs in the start menu. it takes a couple of seconds to view all my installed programs. how can i make it load faster. i got a suggestion to a friend that i can edit it in registry but i cant find the exact category in …