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I have a 1-Gighz Athlon Processor with 256Mb of SDRAM and a 58GB main HD and a 9.5GB secondary HD. Both are LBA, the main at 5 and the 2nd at 4. The main is set at "Master" and the 2nd is set as "slave". I loaded Win98SE on the …

I have a Win98 machine 256 Meg 30 Gig HD ... I can get a connection to my ISP ... but I am pretty sure some trojan or spyware altered the settings for how IE communicates with the Internet... after fruitless attempts to fix it I downloaded Opera and that …

Hi, when i change Color-depth in Windows98 to 32-bit, i get a rundll32 error. I use Win98 Second Edition,Ati Radeon 9600 Pro,Ati Catalyst 4.10. My board: Asrock K7VT2 ( i know,it´s crap :o ) Please help! Greets, Vradash

I have a notebook with a bad CD reader. I have a second notebook with a good CD Reader. I swapped the Hard Drives and installed 98 just to have a basic OS on the first notebook. There are no drivers (98se) for the notebook ie: no network, modem or …

I got something on my windows XP machine a while back and I can't get it off. When I boot up, a box comes up and says "file not found - lsass.exe". If I click on OK, it reboots. If I allow it to boot and then click on the …

[COLOR=Blue]I am new here and, so far as PCs are concerned, technically illiterate!! I am a retired medical doctor living in Cornwall, SW England, UK. And I have a problem, in so far as I get no response when I right click on x to show a picture which has …

I just build my own pc i was wondering is there a way i can incrase the speed on it like if theres any tips or Tweaks i can use ill post my Specs -Windows Xp Pro With SP2 -A-Top XBlade Black Case Ultimate Gaming Machine With 450W PSU - …

I have a 4 year old PC that I am giving to a friend. I had a "profesional" clean the drive and reload the system (ME). I took it to the friend and then started installing DSL software and getting her online. I had trouble and called the service provider …

Help... I tryed to install a ATI Xtasy 9200 se video caed in my computer. XP picks it up but it gives me CODE 10 ERROR. I have disabled ans uninstalled the onboard video. I have an Emachines T2796. Thank you. PS I know this

I have Installed Window XP Pro in my computer with all the latest patches and an updated Mcafee Antivirus. When I am creating a Dialer using connection wizard, the connect using a dialup modem and connect using a broadband that requires a user name and password are disable. I've tried …

Hi I Have An Intel 82845g Graphics Card. Is There Any Way To Upgrade Its Driver From The Intel Site. I Have Had Great Trouble Finging The Exact Driver I Need.

None of the URL's (links) in any e-mail's from MSN hotmail work. [b]The "print view" and "help" buttons on the tool bars also are inactive.[/b] Everything else appears normal. From a couple of postings way back (which I read two days ago), some said it might be the firewall. I …

Hello, I have windows 98, IE 5.0, and have been trying to upgrade it for sometime. The reason for this being I can only browse websites from the browser that aol provides, and also, when I click on links inside the aol browser, they rarely open. A blank explorer page …

[FONT=Arial][/FONT][FONT=Courier New]undefined[/FONT] Hi... How can I fix a movie file? When I run the file, after more than hour the picture stalled while the sound continues... :cry:

Got a new machine from my mate, just got the Internet set up and it seems that the home page is set to "about:blank" and it keeps on changing back to this site, even if I set another page to default. Please help anyone

I'm trying to rehabilitate a machine for a luddite ;-). It has Windows 98 (not SE). All of the relevant patches have been uploaded from the Microsoft site. It has a USB printer that worked at one time and stopped. I have tested the printer with my laptop and it …

Hello, I administer 6-8 laptops for a large printing company’s electrical department; there about 30-35 users of these laptops i try to keep them as alike as possible (installed programs). We recently were forced to change operating systems to Win200 and Now XP, we were using Win98se for mainly legacy …

(I posted this last night & was told I should have posted it elsewhere - I hope this is "elsewhere".) Windows ME 4.90.3000, ie 5.50.4.807.2300 updates SP2; q834707;q867801; (at this moment) Seems to run very slowly (speed of computer probably) even though she has lots of ram. Using McAfee VirusScanOnline …

Hey, my computer has been restarting everytime i get into a major game..(Half-Life 2) (Bloodrayne 2)..and others..not exactly sure whats goin on but it only happens as soon as it loads up and i'm about to start playin..then bam restarts...please help.

could some one please tell me how to uninstall windows me i dont have the uninstall option :sad: running a ome version

i can download and install service pack 2 with no problem... after it is installed i can not get on internet explorer, when i click on the icon, explorer pops up for a second then goes away... also when i click on my norton antivirus it won't come up... i …

I was looking into my task manager ... and I got that my pc was using 120 MB as paging file while about 150 MB of my ram was still not used. I wonder why is it so? And if I want all of my ram to be utilized .. …

I can't open a new window when I'm on the website. It opens and then it closes. Right click to open new window....open and then close real fast. I don't know what to do! New one on me. Please help me!

i signed on hotmail & i got the message below, however i know that i'm already using IE6.0.... so what is the problem? thanks... [B][I]Web Browser Software Limitations Your Current Software Will Limit Your Ability to Use Hotmail You are using a web browser that Hotmail does not support. If …

When I try to download Slim Browser(my favorite), my screen was reversed for 180° and after 4 antivirus programs Sophos only detected a virus but when I rebooted PC the same problem was there,so now I'm looking at the screen with Monitor turnet for 180 degrees. HELP , HELP,HELP!!!

i running win xp pro w/ SP1 and i'm having trouble uninstalling a certain program. when i attempt to uninstall, it hangs on the "gathering information" screen (about half way). i let it sit over night in case it needed time but it was at the same place in the …

I downloaded Directx 9.0c, started to install. The files got Extracted. When it started copying the files, Windows Logo Program said it wasn't registered, blah blah blah, This software will not be installed. Contact your system Administrator. I clicked Ok, then an error came up saying Directx could not copy …

I've seen people here recommended using msconfig to disable services, but in a class I took, the instructor said that Selective Startup should only be used to help resolve issues -- as a diagonstic tool; other then that, Windows should be set to Normal Startup. This is why I always …

There is this computer that gives illegal operation with details like "invalid page vault in module inetcomm.dll"i.e when I try to send mails using outlook, outlook express doesn't open- it says it cant load msoe.dll.Also when I open some web pages it tells me exproler caused some page vaults ,some …

i tried to reinstall windows xp onto my computer but there was a problem, in the middle of installing it, it says that it didnt copy the right files onto the computer and theres incorrect parameters with the ASMS or something. and now when i reboot it doesnt say press …

Hi! I just bought a Win XP Professional. After using it for some time I started to notice the following problem: After finishing the starting up process normally, when I click on the broadband desktop icon I have to wait for about 20/30 seconds for the proper window to appear …

I wanted to clean up one of my drives (partition "f"), so I moved everything I wanted to keep to another partition ("h"), and deleted what I didn't want. I then tried to format the drive but got a message saying it couldn't be done (screenshots attached). I've done this …

I can log on to the internet but am unable to open the browser or pull up any web sites. I have no idea what the problem is... I have already ran the internet explorer repair tool and already determined that there are no proxy settings...are there any other suggestions? …

I have a windows Me. i downloaded and installed NPF(Norton Personal Firewall) 2004 and then i tried to go on the internet and it wouldn't work. so i had to uninstall it. does anyone know why this would happen?

Hi. I have a Compaq Presario 1625 laptop computer running at 266M with Win98 4.10.1998. I am trying to set it up to work wireless to the internet. I have a PC card that works successfully to another laptop with my Router setup . But, cannot get it to work …

Hello all, I have been surfing all over the web to try to find the answer to this question but cant seem to find it: Does Norton's cleansweep delete all the temporary files and recycle bin for all users on an XP/win2k machine or only the user that is logged …

im having trouble reinstalling windows xp, ive done it plenty of times before and have had no problems. this time i reinstalled it and after it cleared my hd and started installing windows xp, it said it copied some files wrong and it has incorrect parameters. so now everytime i …

Ok well i finnaly got it and installed everything, I can run NFSU2 on full setings max EVERYTHING and i mean EVERYTHING with not slow down AT ALL. my fps on cs:s went from 20 to 90-120 with just a cpu and ram upgrade! now I have a few questions …

Ok, I am really dumb when it comes to this sort of stuff, so please help. Here is the problem. I have DSL with a 2wire network. One computer is hooked up directly to the router, and then my computer is hooked up through a wireless usb adapter. I recently …

Since September, my computer has been having problems. After numerous failed repair attempts, my friend fixed it for me. It worked for about a week, and then two days ago, I decided to try and get the whole thing working. When I got the computer up and running again, I …

i like it ,Slim Browser ,its so much like IE ,Im starting to wonder if it is a alternitive to IE, or IE skinnie sister !LOL [url]http://www.flashpeak.com/[/url]

I picked up the intel bundel and receieved win xp pro with SP2. im no fan of SP2. Im not happy with alot of the "new" features that take away my access to the system and how intrusive it is. i havent installed the disk yet, becauase ive been trying …

All I know is that microsoft is it scheduled for release in the first quarter of 05 jan. -mar. anyone have an exact date on it tho? xp is good and all but I really wanna to see what XP 64 can do.

Please post ONLY verified tips and tricks for making better use of a Windows PC. This means only those procedures which have been tested and verified. Please do NOT post tips that a 'friend' has told you about, unless you are absolutely certain that they are correct. Please do NOT …

Hi, I've been having a problem with my PC, for some reason it keeps eating space by itself, It's not a Virus nor any Spyware Adware, I was thinking maybe the Page File? But then again its suppose to give back space after you reboot, and it doesnt do that. …

Hello all, I am in desperate need for help. I have search both Microsoft and Apples web sites for help and have not found anything. My problem is I no longer can play Quicktime movies in a web browser or just play them period. All I get is a nice …

When clicking a link that starts a new browser window the window is always minimized and I have to click the maximize icon to enlarge it - or use alt.space.x. Is there some registry or other setting that I can change to avoid the need to enlarge each new window. …

Hi I am getting this error The device, \Device\Scsi\cpqfcalm1, is not ready for access yet. Looks like this error cause server to hang. After reboot everything is okey Any help will be greatly appreciated

First lmust explain I am very ignorant on computers/software. Having trouble with Windows Explorer 6 and Outlook - many links will not work, making many websites, eg. Microsoft Support unusable. Eg. if click on web addresses in e-mails don't work- have to cut and paste. Worse is buttons don't work …

[font=Century Gothic]Hello, this is firecat, I'm kinda new to this, and I have a question to anyone who could possibly help me. The problem is that I am getting red x's on my home page and other sites(not all of them) where pictures or graphics should be. I've run every …