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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 …

Frequently when visiting a site, I am asked to accept/decline a certificate. If I view it and accept it, I am asked where I want to put it. I don't understand this, so I just leave the default location selected. However, I would like to know more about this. Is …

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 …

I am trying in vain to download updates from Microsoft - no matter which page I access, I get "error on page" and cannot download anything. How do I go about fixing it, as I really want to get the new update for IE

I have several problems. I am assuming, hoping that maybe they are all related. I am using an upgraded version of Windows ME, upgraded from Windows 98. I get an error message when windows first opens. It says: Error loading 2ndsrch.dll. An attempt was made to load a program with …

I recently added a extra harddrive to my win 2000 pc, after I installed it booted fine. after I formatted it now it trys to boot to that drive. I found a boot.ini file, it shows both drives in there one is 0 and the other is 1 so I …

When opening Internet Explorer I get the cannot find server page. When I then type in another url, I get a error box appear saying "Internet Explorer could not open the start page" I could have caused the problem myself by uninstalling something important. I got some spy/ad ware that …

The message i keep getting is 16 bit window subsystem error C:Windows\system32\autoexec.nt program not suitable so far ive tried to edit the registry VDD key and ive tried to install a anti virus program......

every cd i write ends up like this: [IMG]http://img26.exs.cx/img26/9446/error9.gif[/IMG] why ?!?!?

i have an asus a8v deluxe motherboard, my problem is that when i enter bios my hard disk is not shown thus i cannot format windows any help would be greatly appreciated

Ever since I downloaded the XP security patch about a month ago, my IE has been crashing consistently. It's strange- I can use IE, but I have to open up 2 IE windows and use the second one because the first consistently shuts itself down. I took my computer in …

hi, iam having problems getting rid of coolwebsearch(who is'nt) i have tried to add Cws to my restricted sites list in internrt options. i am told that this site exists elsewere (i.e. in trusted sites) when i go to trusted sites the "sites" tab is greyed out not letting me …

[font=Verdana][size=2][color=Black]Is it possible to create AN EXCLUSIVE USER ACCOUNT IN WINDOWS 2000 PRO? What I mean is:None of the other users,including the Administrator,should be able to see and access my installed applications and of course my data.How do you install applications only for the current user,when the program installer doesn't …

MS are at it again. I'm to the point that I may not even buy the next Xbox (name pending) that is how much I hate MS. Are they EVER going to stop stomping on the little man? Don't they have enough already to last them throughout several generations to …

Ok, here's the deal.... I recently bought a run of the mill Microsoft Optical mouse. Ever since I installed it, it seems to have a mind of it's own. It's a USB mouse, and at first I ran it through an adapter in the PS/2 port. Then, I changed to …

I just installed XP Pros Svc Pk2 on my machine, a beautiful thing. One problem I've encountered is that the images do not show in Outlook Express. I know this is a simple thing, but not having encountered it before I'm not sure how to correct this. Can someone lend …

im posting from mozilla firefox right now. :evil:

Hi, I am running window 98 on a slow computer. I had this same problem last year but it went away all on it's own. My problem is when I try to shut down or restart, my computer locks up completely on the "Windows 98 Shutting Down Please Wait" screen. …