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I am having a problem with a SeaGate Barracuda 200 MB drive that was installed to replace a failing IBM Deskstar. The drive was installed using the SeaGate software that ghosted the old drive when the new was connected as a slave. I successfully got the new drive running with …

Wasn't sure where to post this but here it goes... Got a new computer, custom built, using a Gigabyte K8 Triton motherboard...this came with a integrated sound card....I installed all the drivers, even went online and downloaded them and installed them... I restart my computer and my sound works, then …

Hey all! Last night, I upgraded to SP2. Since then, random programs have been crashing saying "wininet.dll has performed an illegal operation". I click the okay button, restart the program, and everything continues to work fine. So far this happened to explorer.exe, msnmsgr.exe, and aim.exe all within a 10 minute …

Hi i have a partition with NTFS format.i have installed winXP on it. i have win98 too. i can not see that NTFS partition in win98. because this old OS doesn't recognize this type of FS. is there any ways or any softwares help me to see that partition in …

I'm curious as to how many people have actually tried Service Pack 2 and how many of those people have experienced problems with it.

Okay, okay, here's my problem. First, I'll tell you I'm using a Hewlett Packard... Now, Whenever I turn on my computer, it says WIndows couldn't start and gives me choices between Safe Mode (and the two other options with Safe Mode in them), Last known configuration, and Start Windows Normally. …

I tried to print a web site and got this messahe printer operation cannot continue due to lack of resources print subsystem is unavailable

After many problems I decided to reinstall windows. I wiped my drive clean and reinstalled win 98se, got everything working except my second drive letter is missing in "my computer". Upon boot up bios recognizes the drive but I can't access it. I remember having to set it up last …

Can Some One Check My Processes And Tell Me If I Have SOmethin There I Shouldnt

My neice recv'd .hmt picture files in an email and is having trouble printing them. They come out very large and distorted. Is there some way to convert thise files? She has Win XP Pro. Thank you in advance for your time and help. inphoenix

:o I can't seem to remember where to find the files, and Outlook Express shows where they are, but I've been looking and don't see them. I've opened every menu I can think of. Also, I need to find Favorites and Links. I'm about to migrate to a new hard …

I need to know how to rewrite my boot.ini file so that i can boot from my secondary harddrive, its got windows XP on it, so its got an OS. Here is the current boot.ini file if that helps [code][boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" …

:eek: I need to delete Internet Explorer so I can reload it again. It is so corrupted that I cannot go to any links either on web pages or in emails. It comes up with a fatal error message. I am running Windows 2000. Can someone please help

Ok guyz... here is the problem, whenever i tried to use IE 6 to open any page it would give me the cannot find page error... and on the bottom of everything it would say DNS ERROR... do you guyz know how to fix this??

When I start up my comp win98, P-III, HP Printer, HP-Scanner, Pinacle TV Card Attached. it says [COLOR=Sienna]windows protection error, press any key [/COLOR] to restart. whenI prss any key, it just shuts down. Then, when I turn it back on, it gives me startup options (you know, start in …

Just recently i replaced a harddrive with a new one, and well i made the stupid mistake of not taking the files i wanted off the hard drive before i removed it. well i put the new one in, got my machine all setup and stuff, but i then realized …

My husband just finished upgrading two computers using a Elitegroup L4VXA2 motherboard in each. He installed Win XP Pro on both computes but now , after all updates are applied, the computers won't power off when I choose Start/Shut Down. He installed Win 98SE first, to recover some files and …

This is not a 'signing in issue'. I get: problems with this webpage might prevent it from displaying or functioning properly etc.etc, everytime I try to "forward","reply" or "new message" in msn messenger 6.2 mail. I have configured my firewall with sp2, followed steps at jonathankay.com and support.microsoft.com. Anyone here …

HI! im new to daniweb i signed up today to find out what the hell is wrong with my computer it is causing me distress. i have aol broadband 9.0 aol may or may not be the cause of this (i use IE to browse) i cant log onto certain …

well i get these annoying sounds from my computer, i ahve reinstalled the sound card but it didint help. i hear it when anytime that a sound should be played, such as mp3's, videos, windo sounds, etc. they are repeasting sounds that jsut go on until i stop the song …

I'm sure there's a simple answer to this persistent problem and I hope that someone can enlighten me with their knowledge. Last week, my computer (running windows xp) suddenly stopped communicating with my printer (hp laserjet 4L) after I attempted to print an e-mail through netscape. The printer status line …

Hi ,XP PRO,3 users,2 have a active bar on the left side ,same as the active one in mycomputer and Windows manager window .It just appeard one day months apart on the 2 users ,can't get rid of it anyone know how!1 see attachec picture .

Hi there, Whenever windows starts up, a box apperars with the title "cannot find shell.dll" and then when I click "close", a deep blue "help" box comes up with nothing in it. Can anyone tell me what this stuff, is, and how I might remove it? I don't really understand …

:-| Every site i try to get on aol or internet explorer i cannot get onto it, i only see Connecting to site 205.188.146.146. ,and then the action canceled site and that internet explorer cannot connect to the site and that it may be temporarily unavailable. please help!!! thanks

I cannot scandisk or defrag my computer because it freezes it. I have just reinstalled win 98se over itself again due to an explorer error upon start up. That seemed to do the trick but I still cannot defrag or scan. I am just trying to get everything straight here. …

i was wondering if there is a way to put a rules wizard into a logon script so a rule created by one person can be pushed to everyone over the network. everybody is running w2k pro on their desktops, we are running w2k server on all our servers with …

I have a problem with adobe 6.0.1... I have a CD from school, and when i insert it, opens up, but after a certain page, you cannot proceed further... Tell me what info u need to know to help me.

When i click to open Paint some error comes up telling me that it has performed and illegal operation...... The details are the following: MSPAINT caused an invalid page fault in module MFC42.DLL at 016f:6c37f9eb. Registers: EAX=00000000 CS=016f EIP=6c37f9eb EFLGS=00010202 EBX=00680c94 SS=0177 ESP=0056f91c EBP=0056f940 ECX=00007fff DS=0177 ESI=00691330 FS=1247 EDX=000163a4 ES=0177 …

I have Windows XP SP2, Toshiba laptop. Well, after doing some scans with spybot, and ad-ware, and after restarting my computer. I noticed mostly everything is appearing italicized(all this stuff I am typing is also italicized (for me)). I really don't know what happened, all of a sudden everything is …

I got a US robotics internal modem it worked fine about a month ago. Then I tried it to day and it says no dial tone, if I unplug the phone and plug it back in I get dial tone on the phone. If I try to dial out agian …

I was having problems with my monitor so I ordered a new NEC hooked it up and restarted the computer. Than I found out that it wasn't the monitor at all had the same real grainy bad color in the screen. So I figured it was the Video adapter. So …

In windows word for windows xp service pack 2 mine starts with track changes on. This is very annoying can some one share with me on how to keep this from happening

Running Win 2K SP4. My problem is that when I click Start-Run... and type in a program name such as regedit, I get - "Cannot find the file 'regedit' (or one of its components). Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all required libraries are available." Yet …

hello when i sign into my msn it says this "WE ARE SORRY WE COULDNT SIGN YOU IN BECAUSE THE SIGN IN NAME OR PASSWORD IS INCORRECT OR DOESNT EXIST" what does this mean i know that i have the right password and sign in name. I went to sign …

[font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff][i][size=2][color=black][font=Verdana][color=black][i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i][/color][/font] [/color][/size][/i][/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Schedule Tasks in Windows XP [/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=2][color=#000000]With Scheduled Tasks, you can schedule any script, program, or document to run at a time that is most convenient for you. Scheduled Tasks starts every time that you start …

Hi there. I've been trying to access this site all day today [url]http://www.fans-of-mcleods.com/[/url] it usually works for me. But today all the images appear as those stupid "x" 's . Everyone else who I've spoken to says that the site works fine for them. I'm the only one having a …

For some reason when I try to create a new desktop icon, it appears on my acutal desktop not as an icon, but as an exe. file. None of the new icons work at all, and I can't delete any of them b/c it says that they are right protected! …

as the description says im having problems installing windows 95, im trying to install the OS on a compaq LTE 5100 with a swapable floppy and cd-rom drive, heres where it gets sticky the hard drive is already formatted so i dont have the cd rom drivers any more and …

I'm rather stuck on how to troubleshoot this issue: I'm running WinXP PRO SP1 with an 80 gig SATA HD, OCR 512MB on an NF7-S V.2 mainboard and an AMD 1.8GHz processor. I'm at a point now that in order for me to boot in Normal Mode I need to …

My Internet Explorer gives me a Can't Find Server or DNS Error message. I am using FireFox in addition, which continues to work. They both worked together for some time, but then IE stopped working. Not sure what started the problem. Here is some background info: IE 6.0 Windows 98 …

I seem to have changed language some of the buttons are in greek! the folders and icons are ok the keyboard is ok just buttons e.g. when I shut down or right click a folder I can't read all the buttons? anyone have an idea how to get it right …

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Please help! I have an AMD ATHLON 1 GHZ ADVENT PC running Windows Me, when i try to boot it up i only get to the first Athlon Screen where it should start the memory check but it just sticks there. Cd ad CD rewriter lights come on but no …

alright heres the scoop my comp is down sadly and it wont load up windows or even safe mode so i want to format my disk or reinstall xp see if that works but the disk wont showl up since i have a os installed and i cant bring it …

I installed XP on a new drive and used the wrong serial number. I then went to reinstall but didn't reformat. Now I have all these weird directories that I can't get rid of. Any ideas? Thanks, Derek

Where can I find drivers for an Intel I430VX? I have already tried the intel website, they don't have it/support it any more. I haved in numerous places, but all I can find is a BIOS flash. Anyone help me out?

Okay. First of all. Im new to the forum so i'd like to say hiya! Alrighty, Down to business now :D I am yet another person with system.ini problems. The whole thing started when i tried to format my computer. An error came up, and there was nothing i can …

When my computer starts up I get a message that say.... common name tool bar /cnbabe did not start properly then I click OK.. now when I try to use my msconfig it only pops up on the screen for about 1 sec and dissapears,I think it is because off …

When I go to msconfig and then startup,I was just wondering if there is a website or something that tells you what all the stuff means at startup....example Dumprep 0 -k %systemroot\system..... I have no idea what this is,just wondering if there is anywere I could go to find what …

my sister's computer runs very slow. it's very new and she only uses it to check her email....it uses a 56K modem so it's not high speed. Dimension 8200 Series, Pentium 4 Processor 1.7GHz "it's still running slow. It seems like there's a gazillion applications running, even right after I …