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Hi all. I seem to have a problem with my Floppy disk drive. No power seems to be getting to it althought all the cables seem to be plugged in and working fine. For a start if any1 can help with this problem thatd be great. However, if you cant, …

I recently got a new hard drive and 512meg of ram (making a total of 1 gig). I decided to reformat my main hard drive and reinstall winXP pro. After I reinstalled, I started putting my old programs on and after a couple hours, suddenly my computer would hang up …

Well I'm assuming it's SP2 anyway. I have a Pentium 4 2.8 running windows XP. I installed service pack 2 without any hitches but upon restarting the computer freezes during the boot screen. The little progress bar thingy (I believe 'thingy' is the technical term) runs through twice before freezing. …

Hello people, can anyone help me? Recently my PC has been crashing when I have been playing games, online and offline. Half way through the game the pc will either just freeze up or reboot itself. Is there anything I can do? Any help would be much appreciated. Rgds, CN …

i ran scandisk on my 2nd drive (raw) which i didnt know u couldnt run scandisk on the raw drive.. now that windows reboots/boots up it comes up with the checking e drive for errors, cant check its a raw drive.. how can i get rid of that screen, i …

:-| I ve a problem in my Home desktop. This is Emachine. see ive two desktop in my house. Both happen to be E machine. Ive a High speed internet connection which I loop thro Comcast Modem cable (Motorolo), in turn the same is hooked to a Netgear Wireless Router. …

Don't know if this is the right forum. Anyways, a freind of mine hosted a scan from an article for me to read but it was too small for me to read and others at the forum so I figured I'd save it to "My Pictures" and then upload it …

Every time at start up, I'm prompted to run [i]their[/i] firewall, and [i]their[/i] (MS's) anti virus :cry: Can I get rid of this prompt without getting rid of the entire service pack update for XP?

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Hey. My name is Emery, and I'm having a problem with my CD Rom drives. I have a Sony DRU-510A and an old Toshiba CR-RW (it's like 4 years old). The problem is that windows XP is telling me that my drivers are either missing or corrupted. I've only ever …

Folks, A problem here-new us robotics modem installation(pci slot) -pc is amd 400mhz,mobo ? installed after a lexmark multi fax/printer with several memory slots,and a digitial camera on usb and GPS navigator on serial. Have reinstalled and uninstalled modem several times-the modem will not pick up on Com 3 or …

Hey. Today i had a spark of brilliance (well i think it was). I though 2 things that would be really cool, but im not sure how to do them (they might not be possible, but i think both should work somehow). The first: Hookup more keyboard to my PC …

I want to change the registry to enable user to save in a different folder, for all software that defaults to my documents, my music, my photos I know word has this option but I need to change it for all time thanks for any help Regards Bob

Hey experts. I hope you can help with this. I have a Dell CPX laptop which keeps locking up due to the CPU usage hitting 100%. It has a pentium 3 498 MHz processor and 128 MB of RAM. Out of the 18.6GB of storage on my C drive I …

Hey Guys I recently bought a new Dell XPS laptop and i was moving my files from the pc that i own to the laptop. When it came to a couple of games that i own, i was told that could just copy the game directory over and it would …

I know there are programs out there to turn scanners into fax machines. But has anyone used any? I need a good program that will help me do this for free or **cough~cheap**. Nothing serious, I just need something I can use to fax weekly paystubs to Pittsburgh. I have …

I need help!!! When I turn on my computer it runs through the bios/setup after it detects the ram, keyboard, mouse, etc. it beeps then flashes and goes to a black screen with a blinking line and stops. How do I fix this? I tried putting in a boot cd …

Hello to all, I'm new here. When I boot my PC initially as well as with any reboot, I recieve an error message saying that "explorer has encountered a problem and must close" When I click OK my entire desktop disappears except for the background, all shortcut icons and the …

Ok, this might be a bit lengthy so sorry in the long-run! I figured if I told you exactly the ins and outs of this problem, it would let you help me a little better... I hope. My WindowsXP was custom built by a Computer company not far from where …

Help! Recently downloaded XP SP2 and am having serious problems with my computer. I am unable to use my 'search', 'help and support' or 'system restore' functions. Clicking on these just brings up an empty window. I've uninstalled SP2 but still have these problems. I also now get an error …

WinXP SP1, Dell PC; it happened before, and everything started acting strange; I did a system restore, and it seemed ok; then it happened again two days later; I did a system restore again, and it seems ok so far; this error occurred while looking at a web page that …

What is a .ttf file used for? Can it be used in photoshop? :rolleyes:

Hi it's not really important because the problem seemed to solve itself but I just felt like knowing the reason.Yesterday night I couldn't browse anything to sign into msn for some reason.I couldn't ping with my isp either.When the normal error message popped up from msn messenger,I saw the hexadecimal …

Ok whenever my PC boots up I have a choice of using XP or 2000, from a partition. I installed both accidentally while making the partition, rather than deleting the other. How do I get rid of 2000, which is taking up disk space, without losing and having to reinstall …

whenever I try to open a file straight from the net, i get this error. It can't access the temp folder or something. And why it says content.IE5\ I don't know, since I have IE6. [img]http://www.dannywartnaby.co.uk/rgt/attachments/error_ohjoy.jpg[/img][url="http://www.dannywartnaby.co.uk/rgt/attachments/error_ohjoy.jpg"][/url]

well this is sort of a wierd question that doesnt really affect my computer at all, i just am curious about a fix if anyone knows basically after I installed my NOMAD jukebox Zen Xtra drivers, whenever i open up DOS, rather than the first line being C:> or soemthing …

I run a computer that is at least 5 years old and has Windows 2000 Pro. Their are some programs that I wish to install or that have already been installed, that will not run on my computer. When I try to run them, a window titled 16 bit Windows …

Well, I have a Toshiba Laptop with a recently downloaded Windows XP(Home Edition) Service Pack 2. Problem: I can't right-click most things anymore. As soon as I click it, the computer freezes up, and then a message comes up(look below): [IMG]http://www.geocities.com/b_m_786_2000/AHH.JPG[/IMG] The computer is still frozen up, and doesn't close …

I am using Windows 98SE. This doesn't happen everytime I cut on the computer, but every once in a while a box comes up that says Registry Shaver, with some things listed...like my digital camera, my printer, etc. Some of the things listed, I think four of them, have the …

Ok I know I've done this before without a hitch but I can't seem to remember how to do it now. I just redid my system - switching from Win2k to WinME (because 2k won't support my $1000 piece of video capture hardware and there's NO way I'm buying an …

Hi, I need help with a problem I'm having. Sometimes I turn on my computer and it say "Operating System not found" and it wont turn on for a whole day. I can't do anything when it says that. It's just a black screen with those 4 words. When I …

I am running a laptop with windows xp home version... everytime i start the system within about 30 seconds the modem dials out... it is quite annoying and my wife hates it. I am running mozilla 1.6 for both internet and mail.... the system has both IE and outlook installed, …

hey ya , i get some problems and hope u can help me to solve it first, i'm using Window XP , Laptop - service pack1 , uhm .... i tried to install mySQL on my computer but it didnt work ... some1 can help me to install MySQL , …

When i open this program it's come out this . Anyone Can Help me? AppName: wffm.exe AppVer: 5.13.1.2003 ModName: unknown ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 00000000 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?> <DATABASE> <EXE NAME="WFFM.exe" FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_PRIVACY"> <MATCHING_FILE NAME="cMPG1V.dll" SIZE="176128" CHECKSUM="0xA83E5C53" BIN_FILE_VERSION="3.0.0.2229" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="3.0.0.2229" PRODUCT_VERSION="3.0.2229 " FILE_DESCRIPTION="cMPG1V" COMPANY_NAME="LeadTek Research Inc." PRODUCT_NAME="WinFast TV" FILE_VERSION="3.0.2229 " ORIGINAL_FILENAME="cMPG1V.dll" INTERNAL_NAME="cMPG1V" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="The …

I have had this problem for about a month and a half, I have looked at so many help sites and forums, but nothing has so far helped. Hopefully someone here can. -- I cannot log into hotmail. I can get to the site, but when I put in my …

I don't know where to go from here but this is what is happening on my pc. I have a compaq (yeah I know but it was given to me) and it had windows 98 installed on it. As soon as I got it I added 128 megs of RAM, …

I ran Spybot today and casually clicked on Fix Problems when they told me they had found six things. I guess one of those 6 was critical, because after rebooting I was able to sign in and then not much else. My wallpaper came up and the mouse arrow and …

I have this pc i dont know what it has but i wanna keep it runing smooth it freeze when i use photoshop.is there away i can see what i have i am a noob at this so if please anyone can get back up to me. Thanks in Advance

i'm currently runng xp pro with sp2 and for some reason i can't change my msstyle. it locks up on the please wait screen. i slipstreamed the uxtheme.dll with sp2 on a cd and installed from there. all worked great until today. i haven't installed any new programs too which …

I'm not exactly what information I need to give you guys, but I use the task manager often, and one day about a month ago it just started to gray itself out when I Ctrl+Alt+Del'ed. I do have administrative privledges on my account, and I've checked on the Admin account …

i have a nvidia geforce fx 5500 with overclocking capability my graphics card is not living up to its full potential. is there a way to optimize your graphics card without updating hardware.

Im having some problems with my video card. I just installed a ATI 9800 PRO. After I did this, Diablo II is running with the top inch of the screen at the bottom. The game is working properly. This also happened when i tried to play starcraft. I never had …

he recommended telnet, at freeshell.org, and sign up for a free account. then i was in there, but then he told me i need to know MS-DOS commands, which i dont, were can i learn these. I google it, but google well he dont like me! lol

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Greetings. I'd like to know if there is any way that I could know a series of reports about dialup attempts and their respective dates? I know that I can do this in the ISP's website by logging into my account, but is there any ways to check that out …

I went to unstall a windows file to replace midway through when i was redownloading it i had a power failure. now i cant boot up my windows xp. i treid putting in the xp disk to redo it but the disk wont come up. is there some way and …

When i right click on any icon on the desktop i get this error Explorer.exe application error the instruction at 0x0146415b referenced memory at 0x00000000 the memory could not be written It only happens after i install SP2 for Windows XP pro, when i uninstall it back to SP1 it …

Does anybody know why my system restore is "unable to create a restore point" (or do anything for that matter) ?

Hi, I am having a problem with a couple of my icons on my desktop. The text has turned into square blocks. And after some searching, and couple more files within my system have this problem as well. I am running XP Pro and the only thing I have done …

Hi there, I was transferring photo's from a dig-camera to the pc, which frooze a short time after I disconnected the camera. When I rebooted, all exe shortcuts were replaced by a standard icon. Now, some execs are linked to WinWord (so they open in Word ...), while others need …