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Hi, I am having problem with my IIS on Windows 2000 Server. I've been trying to create a virtual directory from a shared folder on another computer. After the directory was created, I see the red icon on the left of the folder. It is the error icon. But I …

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Hey, I'm having some troubles with my computer. Well of course I am, or I wouldn't be posting this. Okay. I have a Gateway computer. It was purchased around a year ago and came with 256 MBs of RAM, a 2.4 GHrz P4 Processor, a GeForce 4 MX 440 graphics …

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im on addd and remove programs and it says error when ever i try to remove it!!!! HELP edit: theres also more like smiley central its driving me insaine

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I have 2 OS. Windows 98 and XP. I cant run Visual Basic in XP which I installed in Win 98. BUt i can run other programmes which i intalled in win 98 in win xp without problems. :cry:

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My floppy drive a:\ will no longer work. As far as I know, I didn't do anything that should have caused it to quit (like installing new software or hardware). It just didn't work one day. I have tried removing the driver, removing the device, and opening the case to …

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machine: hp ze5375us laptop 2.4/40ghd cd rw/dvdr 3 1/2 floppy OS: win xp home sp1 and latest updates downloaded Problem: floppy drive stopped reading disks. says disk needs to be formatted and then that disk cannot be formatted. at command prompt says can't read 0 track or invalid media. worked …

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Ive been having a few problems with my P4 3 Gig Pent with 1 Gig Ram was fine when i got nice and fast, now the CPU seems to be working hard when nothing is running, its fine till you run something, it looks like it dosent release it after …

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The 22 icons residing in my Quick Launch Bar have become "location unstable." Regardless of how I position them, upon a restart or fresh boot the icons rearrange themselves randomly. Can any one help?

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when I open I.E. comes up with Iexplore this program has performed an illegal operation can anyone help me PLEASE

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I was trying to install a game from a CD, but later decided to uninstall it. After the uninstall was complete, Windows started to look very strange. Its never been like this before. Its like it looks has gone back in time or something, because it doesn't look normal anymore.....Check …

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I`m using win2000 and I forgot my password and i have tried everything but I can`t get the same rights as my previous login the one am using has no rights and i can`t install any thing .So If you have read this can you help.

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I get the following error message when starting my laptop. "Error Loading Explorer.exe. You must reinstall Windows" What should I do?

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Hello everyone! This is my first post. I am very frustrated and hope you can help. I am running Win 2000 on an older computer. My brother saved my previous hard drive programs to a folder within the new setup. Attempting to use some of those programs may have contributed …

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hey, thanks in advance. i've got an ugly problem. i have a seagate hard drive (80gigs) it used to have win2000 on it. i ran my xp disk from win2k but it didnt install over win2k and created a dual boot. so i set my pc to boot from the …

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Hi, Will anybody help me troubleshoot my winxp pc please? Its shutting down itself for few seconds without any error messages at all n it on itself and keeps the same routine time and again. But now i cant even on it, seems to have no power. Please Help. :cry:

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Hi, I was initially trying to partition my 40g ide hard drive to have Windows and Linux installed on it.. I used fdisk to delete the partition and then created a primary partition of 75% to install windows back onto. The problem is that when I try to install WME …

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:( How do I open large files? Aol says they can't support them so they can't or won't open them. I lose some of my emails this way. This happens when I have to downloead an email. What can I do to get it opened? Some of those emails contain …

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Hi please can you help, I am having big problems up loading photo files to a web site. I can upload but they have to be very a small file size. Is there any one out there who can please help me?????????????? Thanks Rhiannon :

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For the past 2 or 3 months on my friends computer, about every hour he gets a small pop up box saying "No modF" and when you click ok, it changes to saying "funk" ...lol when you click ok again it goes away for a while. The label for the …

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Everysince I updated my windows from the windows update program my windows media player doesnt play the videos I use to be able to watch. I use to be able to watch everything I have, not anymore. What can be the problem? Thanks

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ok i have a problem...i have windows xp and when ever i open internet explore it wont load any of the windows. and when i say wont load anything i mean it just sit there and does nothing. for instance if i type in [url]www.cnn.com[/url] all it does is say …

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Hi, My internet explorer and msn (any microsoft products) does not work with the internet even though I'm connected. As a result I have been using Netscape and Opera and ICQ which all work fine. I have tried to -reset my settings to explorer and that didn't fix the problem. …

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ok well when i boot up with windows 98 SE i get 3 errors before windows starts up. saying same thing for all .vxd files Cannot find a device or file that may be needed to run windoes or an application. The windows registry or system.ini file refers to theis …

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I just bought a new Compaq laptop (running windows XP home) from where I worked that I knew was having this problem before, and was supposedly fixed. It seems that just a single left click of the mouse on any desktop icon causes windows to think I clicked on it …

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Hi, I noticed that there is a new button among my IE6's regular buttons (back, forward, refresh, stop, home, etc). The button looks like a paw print, and when I put my mouse over it, garbled font (presumably a foreign font which I dont have loaded) appears. I don't know …

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Hi all its a silly problem but the other day i opened ie-6 i have google as my start page so i can get straight to searching and when i type something into the google search box & then either click ( google search ) or hit the enter key …

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My new laptop operates on windows XP. It does not comes with office. Can anyone help me? :sad:

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Well, after my res:// problem finished, I have got more problems in which I need help. I have Windows XP Service Pack 1, and a Toshiba Laptop. Problem: Well, after I used the 2 online virus scanners(trenmicro and panada virus scanner), norton anti-virus scan, ad-aware, spy-bot, about buster, and CWSheredder …

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Hi, Having just put my Windows 2000 drive onto a new motherboard and found it didn't work - and being unable to find any way to get it to do so, as it mysteriously wouldn't work any more on the old motherboard (it claimed a missing OS) - I am …

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Hi guys XP Pro SP 1 : Toshiba Sattelite 1.8 Ghz 256 RAM When I changed the settings to take away the log on password, the process created a new adminstrator (my wife's user account was the administrator) and on startup the computer start up on the new "blank" administrator …

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I tryed and tryed and tryed but theres no freaken way to get into the bios with my laptop! its a COMPAQ Armada 1750 (I have Windows XP pro) Theres a COMPAQ screen, at that screen I tryed F1,F2,F3,F4,F5,F6... all [F] I even tryed ALT+CTRL+DELETE Plain nothing. There so way …

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I have a Dell Latitude C840 (P4 1.6 with 1Gb RAM and 60+GB hdd) I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, but I didn't see anything similar to my issue. Here goes: A user at my company has a word document. The size of the document is 754k. …

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whe i just try to view any hd s system volume infomation i get error "system volume info not accessible access denied System restore is monitoring all drives Ive never seen this problem before does anyone know whats going on everything on on default settings nothing changed c:\over 12gig free …

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I am using WIN2000 Pro. At one time, when I would open my WINDOWS explorer, I could select to view thumbnails, and it worked fine, even if I wanted to open a photo with Photoshop or ACDC. But now, for some reason, I cannot view thumbnails in WINDOWS explorer, except …

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Please note I'm an intermediate user, at best. My Dell Inspiron 5000e laptop has somewhat suddenly become excessively slow to open its Windows 2000 Pro desktop. It takes several minutes. It has never been quick (Celeron chip) but it has slowed dramatically. Also recently, there were errors on IE and …

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I'm having the same problem as jheft (see below). Any ideas? I'm pulling my hair out. Thanks! Phas [QUOTE=jheft]i tried all the registry commands and they all went successfully except [b]regsvr32 Shell32.dll[/b] when i entered this command i got the message: shell32.dll was loaded, but the dllRegisterServer entry point was …

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[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]Obtain Remote Assistance by Sending an E-mail Message in Windows XP [/color][/size][/font][size=2][font=Arial][color=#000000]This article describes how to obtain help by using the Remote Assistance feature in Microsoft Windows XP. Remote Assistance allows a remote connection to …

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As of yesterday afternoon my Internet explorer will not function. I can still send and recieve e-mails through Outlook express so it is not my connection, but IE will not open any pages. I spent 2 hours on the phone with Dell support trying many different options including uninstalling and …

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I'm running Windows XP on my main HD and due to a trojan/virus, I have ended up with bridge.dll missing during Windows startup. I have tried my damn'dest to fix this problem but I haven't been able to. I have tried 3 times to reinstall Windows on that drive and …

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I just installed a 2.8 prescott chip, running windows 2k pro. Windows says I have a acpi multiprocessor system. And task manager shows 2 cpu usage boxes. Any ideas why?

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I have been having problems all summer with my computer, I have Windows 2000 Professional. When I access the internet the computer will start acting up. It will freeze up, it will also bump me back to my desktop, I don't lose the connection but I have a hard time …

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Ok this is my first post on this forum , bear with me please. This is for my parents computer it is an older model of toshiba, satelllite ... something 5-6 yrs old. Windows 98 se. Nothing wrong with their computer until I installed a Microsoft Optical wheel mouse and …

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hey guys, need some major help here, we have a 10 server farm, each running windows 2000 server. We have 1 pdc that went down and we still have a fully functional bdc. the pdc went down a couple weeks ago and just this week one of our member servers(only …

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And not a minute later. Hello I have crappy system. Windows 98 in a E-machine ( remember them, lets not go there), Pentium Celeron 600m computer. I have had this for years and do not have a cd burner and my A drive floppy doesnt work. I have a lot …

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I am running windows xp on my laptop and all of a sudden it is hanging. i noticed that my cpu usage is at 100% and 99% or so of this is from explorer.exe...has anyone else experienced this problem? any help on how i can get my laptop running again …

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When I click on the 'delete' button on a file/folder then it takes about 5 minutes for the delete dialog confirmation to show up (and while it's waiting, the window is frozen.) I can't see what's going on; CPU isn't being used, and neither is much RAM; any ideas?

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First, I am a complete novice so please be gentle. My browser is IE. Operating System XP. ISP BTBroadband Last week for some reason I was unable to access my hotmail account and messenger. Also I am unable to get into my bank accounts and access my freeserve account - …

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Can someone tell me whether MSN Messenger can only be used with Internet Explorer or can you use another browser, say Opera? I have IE and Opera on my pc (Opera is set as default) but am unable to use MSN Messenger. Am running XP v5.1 Serv. Pk 1. I …

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[COLOR=Navy][B][FONT=Courier New] aug 4th 2004 ref: I E 6 - "file/save as" menu does not save pages correctly on my local disk on last May I was obliged to reformat the HD and reinstall everything ; since then I noticed that I cannot save correctly the web pages on my …

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Where is a utility that identifies running programs? When one presses ctrl-alt-del a list of running programs comes up. Most of the listings are difficult to identify. I would like to keep my old machine as lean and clean as possible. If I can identify unneccessary programs I can stop …

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