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I get this error for script each time I go on line. One is error # 15; one is #41. Also I am getting a RunTime error 429,active x component can't create object. I'm a novice at computers so would greatly appreciate any help. MLMB329

Ok, after a week of trying to install Linux I gave up. Now, after the millions of times I've partitioned the hard disk, the hard drive doesnt boot automaticly at startup because, technicly, there isnt really anything there. Anyway I got my hands on a friend's XP install disk and …

I have a Compaq Presario S5180AP and recently I replaced the motherboard to a MSI 865GM2-LS. I also added a Radeon 9600 Pro to my system But now there is always typing lag. When I type it takes 2 seconds for each character to appear on the screen and if …

My sister forwarded this email for a friend to see if I knew what was wrong. And I have no idea, And since you all helped me fix my computer. I thought I would post his email on here to see if anyone knew what might be going on. Here …

I just installed XP Ro with Srvc Pk 2. I'm running an Asus board with an AMD 1.92 Gig processor and I'm sporting 512 megs of DDR Ram. Everything is working great with (two exceptions, to be addressed in another thread) one exception. The computer's Bios sees the drive, and …

I reinstalled Windows 98 SE in a second computer and have not been able to get sound or 256 color anymore. I still get it in the original computer.

I'm running an Asus motherboard with a 1.92 gig AMD processor with 512 megs of DDR Ram. I have Win XP Pro, Srvc Pk 2 installed. I absolutely love it, faster'n a greased bunny running from Coyote Ugly :). Of course, I understand there are faster processors, but I just …

Everytime my mother tried to log in to her account on ebay and some other pages, she gets this message. Can anyone please help? We are on Windows 2000

I've made inumerable errors. I installed XP on a harddrive that had 2000 Pro on it, without creating a partition. I need to reformat and start alll over again, but can't seem to find a way to reformat. I try and get an error message that something else is in …

I would like to know how can i change my nickname's fonts in MSN Messenger.. i wanna change from Arial Bold to Chinese fonts........... Thank you

Please help me. i downloaded this thing called ringtone-composer of of a website([url]http://www.ringophone.com[/url]) i tried to open it and got this error message: 'A device ID has been used that is out of range for your system' . can anyone please help me? if u do ill give u good …

On my son's Dell desktop, I have been trying to run "Setup" from a CD and from a floppy. The program starts but then disapears before doing anything. Is there a setting that may have been changed?

Ok i have installed a slave drive on the family computer. Now to save space. I want to install all my kids games only on the salve drive. How can I ensure the auto install only installs to the slave drive?

Hi!!! Whenever I Connect To Internet , My Floppy Drive Starts Making A Noise , As If Some Program Is Trying To Access It. Please Help!!! I Can See No Program Which Can Do This And My Spybot Scan Is Clean

Starting just a little while ago when I click on outlook express the window starts to load then freezes. I tried restarting computer a couple time without helping. I logged onto the other user and outlook express works just fine there. I tried going to add/remove programs and tried getting …

[COLOR=DarkOrange]I have got a .bat file to update some folders and programs etc into Windows NT stations' START MENU. It works actually BUT noted sometimes I NEED to do a PC logoff and relogin before I can see the START MENU being updated with my changes. Doing a refresh doesn't …

I am unable to log on to Hotmail. Message says "Connection was refused when attempting to contact login.passport.com. Also when doing transactions on the internet the page comes "Cannot find server". It takes me up to that point and then the error message appears.Does anyone know what the problem might …

Because as of a few days ago my computer got hack into!They got my isp address & was using my email to send out spam! I let my internet provider no & change'd my password & all that good stuff!But ever since every now & then! I'll try to go …

I've just been given a computer with windows ME installed all is ok except on the control panel or c: drive no icons appear. The amount of items is shown in bottom left corner (indicating that there are some) but I can't click on anything (or even see them) and …

I am working on a Vaio PII 450 192mb 40gb Laptop, I have tried installing winxp pro, win2000, win98, but the vidoe does not seem to display correctly, what i mean the graphics are not clean, or crisp it as if the drivers is not enough. The drivers are self …

Dear friends , this is my first post here and i come with a problem hoping you can solve it for me, the problem is : I have win 2000 prof installed on drive D:\ and after sometimes i wanted to install win XP so i did on drive C:\ …

Hello, I am using Windows XP Home edition and my mouse does not work in safe mode, otherwise, it works without any problems. The keyboard works in safe mode. Will you please tell me how I can get my mouse to work in safe mode? I've searched the internet and …

Hell is this a virus, my mouse pointer binds up and everything else sometimes. I cannot even ctrl,alt,delete........nothing

I am trying to do a fdisk and format on IBM thinkpad 600. I think the hard drive is going (computer has crashed 3 times in less than a month) but thought possibly we could reformat one more time...I have performed this procedure twice without any problems but now this …

System: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2 The Make and Model: Dell Computer Corporation Dell DIMENSION DIM4600 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz 2.39GHz, 256 MB of RAM How you got to your problem (what did you do to create the problem?) *Not sure how the problem …

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Hi, I'm a *nix guy who hasn't used Windows since Win95, but being the 'tech' guy in the family, I'm called upon to fix problems (I'm sure we all know how that goes ;), so please bear with me on this. My sister's computer (custom built, specs can be provided …

:?: Getting a faint signal of radio through my computer speakers, any way to stop this?

Hi complete newbie here.... When I click on a link that is coded to open a new browser window, the new window opens but always displays "Page cannot be displayed". Trying refresh or copying the address over doesn't work either. I've tried clearing all my temp and cookies files and …

I can only seem to open in Safe mode. (any and all safe modes), however once every ten tries, it opens normally. There doesn't seem to be a pattern. At first I though it was the DVD drive, because when I disabled it (Physically unplugegd IT), the machine loaded fine. …

[B]recently when i check my task manager because my comp was running kinda laggin, it shows one of svchost.exe using lots of mem. the most i seen was around 150,000k. People told me that it might be a virus, i scanned with mcafee and housecall...nothing. There are 5 svchost.exe running …

Hi there, My computer has suddenly started not doing a number of odd things. I have not loaded new software or changed any settings recently that i can think of. I have Windows XP Home. IE6. The original Service Pack 1 that came with the laptop. I have run the …

Hi- I am running Windows xp pro on a 2.0gig processor and recently bought a computer from a 'friend'. The computer he sold me has some serious issues with the video. Is not the cable or the video card-is somewhere in the motherboard. I am trying to put the hard …

I just recently moved my hardware to a new case/power supply (Antec Sonata case w/ 380 Truepower ps). I have also recently reinstalled windows and SP2 (this was before the case swap). Ever since then, If I leave my computer on and not doing anything, after about (I'm guessing 15-30 …

Hi all, Sometime ago I started up my computer as normal and one of the windows explorer bars was attached to the left side of my desktop and I can't seem to make it go away. The explorer bar actually works like it would in explorer, except that clicking on …

I have had the following problem for over 2 years now and would love some new suggestions :- When starting my IE6 Sp1, browsing via dialup sessions, or lately ADSL, works perfectly for about 5 minutes, but then my IE 'freezes' for about 1 minute, during which I cannot do …

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??