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My wife's box got the dreaded about:blank hijack recently. I'm thinking this problem is a side-effect of this: You know how in 2000 you can open My Computer, and along the side of the window, there are links to My Documents and My Network Places? Hers will not open. I've …

I have a IBM Thinkpad 365X Laptop o/s win.98 PLEASE EXCUSE TYPOS: "Can not find the device file that may be need to run windows or a windows application. The windows registry or system .ini file refers to this device file but the device file no longer exsist. If you …

I guess this is the closest spot I could post this :) Anyway, I recently got a hold of an old Pentium 90, going to use it to play old games that don't work on XP and in windows... When I try to play a game that requires the game-cd, …

On my machine 2M Pro skips the screen that gives you the choice of 2M or another Win op sys, but I just installed 2M on another computer and when it gets to that screen it counts down 25 secs I believe before it loads Windows. Is there a way …

Okay. I have windows version 2000, Service pack 4. Custom built computer. Last few programs are...well Hijackthis and a spanish version of kazaalite, and then an english one, but just gave up on kazaalite...Hasn't changed... I wonder if i have to put all of that ^^^ in every thread i …

hey folks, new guy here. ok, Im running an Athlon 1.2, XP, and ZoneAlarm Pro. I can get to the msn homepage, but when I click on hotmail, to log in, all I get is a blank IE screen that says done at the bottom (status bar). if I turn …

I cannot run javascript on Windows XP Home. I've got rid of pop-up blockers and adware stuff. i've checked and re-checked settings in IE but it still will not run javascript on my machine. However, it will do this if I am surfing the web. Why won't my machine allow …

I have a IBM Thinkpad Laptop 365X with a floppy disc & no cd-rom operating system is windows 98SE. After being online about 10 minutes a message comes up "you have performed an illegal act the system will shut down." Off I go......until I restart & go back around once …

Hi, I am running Window's 98SE with all the latest updates, on an old pentium II 350. My computer stopped booting up, with the dos prompt, "Data error reading drive C. Abort, Retry, Fail? I have booted from a startup floppy and run Scandisk, scandisk stop's at checking file structure …

Recently my computer has came up eith a window sayingcannot close rundll32.exe ie it hangs and i have to end task. Can i repair this without reinstalling xp? Many thanks:rolleyes:

I was looking into my error log and noticed these various errors: Access denied attempting to launch a DCOM Server using DefaultLaunchPermssion. The server is: {00020906-0000-0000-C000- 000000000046} The user is Unavailable/Unavailable, SID=Unavailable. I have a lot of these in my error logs. I also noticed recently that i started to …

Windows XP Home SP1 I have 2 log in accounts. On one of them note pad, calculator, windows explorer etc have all gone along with everything in accessibility, communication, system tools etc. In the other log in account, notepad, calculator, explorer etc are still there but accessibility, communication, system tools …

When i sign onto Internet Explorer i am not able to click onto anything without getting the following error message: Network error - - Unable to read URL from host G.MSN.COM: connection reset by peer. I need to click onto whatever i choose anywhere between 2 and times before i …

IE 6 takes awhile to load up on my computer. It takes about 5 minutes. I dont know what the problem is. I defraged, ran adware and norton anti-virus. Even when I click on netscape navigator, it also loads slow. So I open task manager, and that also takes awhile. …

I must have been asleep at the wheel when I installed 2000 pro on this computer. I executed Fat32 instead of NTFS. How might I go back and change that, or is it too late? Thanks, BuddyB

Hi all~ I got hammered by a bad spy-adware virus. Two browser hijackers and two other things, it was ugly. I swore a LOT, in two languages. After downloading helpful programs to get rid of it all, 4 days deleting files, having it all pop up again and again, hand …

Im using windows XP home ed. at 1280 x 1024 and just ran out of space in the start menu. How can i get it all in one list, rather than 5?

For the past week or two, every time I click on a link, I get a clear window frame and the egg timer but that's all. The link won't open. I have Windows XP and have all the updates for IE 6. I am also running Pest Patrol and Norton …

Currently running windows XP with service pack 1. I had previously disabled plug and play through msconfig becuase the computer would freeze on start up with plug and play enabled. Now after I think I have finally solved the problem I go back into msconfig to re-enable it and its …

Hi again.. been running XP on a new computor. However, on the computor posting the above message is displayed and says put in original CD and try to repair as the file could not be found. No problems as reformatted and installed all systems again. Few days later after running …

After 2 years of running Windows XP Pro on my DELL desktop (PIII,996Mhz, 256mb ram) along with 2 sons and my wife, the PC is starting to screw up. Have tried some registry cleanups, I defrag every month or so and try to keep track of stuff but it's gotten …

please help... :cry: When I load up my computer, it crashes...ok, that was vague, let me explain. I boot up, and it loads but when it gets to the desktop and starts load there, the "blue" error screen and says that all my programs have crashed through a problem with …

Okay. I have windows version 2000, Service pack 4. Custom built computer. Last few programs are...well Hijackthis and a spanish version of kazaalite, and then an english one, but just gave up on kazaalite. The problem is that I have DSL and it's taking FOREVER to load pages that aren't …

When we log into the computer it lets us log in and immediately we get an error stating that we have no paging and to go to my computer to increase the paging. We can't get to My computer and when we try to boot from a boot diskette it …

I'm a very amateur computer techie - I know more than the average shmoe, but I am no where near an expert. Here's my problem. Over a year ago, I reformatted my drive and installed a new Windows 2000 installation (Win 2000 was the original installation, BTW). I believe this …

Hey everyone... just curious if anyone knows of a free online tutorial that could help me better learn adminisration tasks/commands on the Windows 2000 platform.

Howdy yal, Ok I now this is a basic question but humor me. I am trying to use a factory system restore cd for xp pro. Other people use this computer nad the thing is a all funked up with adware, spyware yada yada...So I want to reinstall the operating …

My system clock used to be fine, but nowadays it is losing up to 4 minutes per hour. I freqently synchronize it, but it still seases to work. How can i stop this? cheers

I start my New computer and every time it says boot ini failure before i get to the password screen. I have searched for the bios in hidden files on c. It shows a file but it cannot be opened.(it looks like it's going to show a black box but …

we just recently moved, and since moving and getting back online we've had a problem with msn explorer. i have repeatedly tried goint to msn explorer and going through the "add a new user" thing, but when it gets to the part where i type in my email account and …

Hi, I'm new here so please excuse my mistakes here ! I am an internet-aholic you might say, but I'm also one of those people who just want to turn my computer on and it work, never having to do anything than maybe install a new program or two every …

I've recently been having problems with IE (v. 5.5) loading some of the websites I frequently visit. Sometimes it'll work fine, but half the time they'll take me to another website, namesdirect.com. As if the website I was trying to visit didn't exist. Also, when trying to access Google.com, I …

I have no problem surfing the internet in general. However, I cannot access certain websites, including both secure and nonsecure zones. My initial reaction was to check whether there were any associations with the HOSTS file, but no trace of their IP is there to be seen. Since then I've …

when puter is turned on it starts to load like it always did, but now it stops and says PRI MASTER HARD DISK: S.M.A.R.T. COMMAND FAILED will not go any farther. went to bios and turned off still won't run. my o/s is ME, my puter is a no name. …

Hi there, my first post so hope you can help me, :o I'm getting a HP Pavilion Notebook with intel - Celeron processor 2.8GHz. I'm only going to have it a few days before running off to the Uk for Vacation to see my folks, Question is, I have cable …

I am currently running windows ME on my home Compaq PC. After many many hours of grief I finally purchased windows XP home to use instead. I want to completely rid my computer of ME first and then put on XP as the new operating system. I know this has …

i have a linksys BEFSR41 etherfast dsl router and i am having trouble setuping up the network. I had intsalled on my computer but then explorer.exe messed up and i had to restore the system. I can get to the last step where the computer and the modem are both …

Hey all, A friend of mine's kid got a bad load of malware and viruses into his network. I cleared everything out as far as I can tell and repaired one machine, but I think one of the nasties stomped on the TCP/IP stack of the other box pretty hard. …

Here is what happened to me in sequence, any help would be appreciated (Dell Deminsion 8100, XP - SP2, 1.5ghz p4, 384 mgs ram, Nvidia 5900 video card.) 1) was removing old video and sound driver remnants with Driver Cleaner in safe mode 2) rebooted, for a few mins everthing …

OK, my initial problem is in another thread, but now I am preparing to just completely reformat/reinstall. My PC, not this one, the one at home I can no longer boot up is running XP SP 2. I am thinking I would like to go back to Windows 2000 Pro …

First of all, great forums. I found it when I was searching for computer help. The problem im facing is strange because its unclear whether it is a hardware or software fault. OS: Windows 2000 SP2 Machine: Custom Progs: Audiomulch, SynthEdit, Antares Filter, Antares Kantos, Simplefont 1.2 Trial, HijackThis A …

[FONT=Lucida Console]undefined[/FONT][SIZE=3]undefined[/SIZE] Yesterday when my virsus scan updated and windows updated, I rebooted and when I got back on my quick launch toolbar had disappeared. I did a search for Quick Launch and found the folder- so it was there- sent it to the desktop and dragged it down. When …

Hi, I recently brought windows 98se to replace windows 98nt because bt braodband requires this for some reason (something to do with digital signatures). Anyway, When the cd loads I can't install windows 98se because the computer says "Your computer already has a operating system installed, which can not be …

Hi All, I stumbled across these forums in my attempt to gain some information on a few issues I am having with my PC so hopefully someone can help me out. [U]Issue 1:[/U] Currently running Windows XP Home Edition(SP1). Today when I started my computer I firstly had an error …

I'll try to be as brief as possible but the problems I'm having are so vast and numerous that it's probably going to end up being a very huge post. [b][u]Computer Info:[/u][/b] [u]System[/u]: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 [u]Computer[/u]: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 995 MHz 512 MB of RAM …

This is a Dell 400 with 128 megs of RAM running on WinPro 2000. I went to Macromedia's site, as Shockwave Player was needed for a game my friend wants to play. When she gets there and attempts a download, it does, but hangs at one percent. Tried, retried, rebooted, …

Hello, this would be my second posted question today. Anyways, I wanted to scan my hard drive using Norton Disk Doctor (from Norton Systemworks 2002). But when I check/click the "fix errors" button, and press the "Diagnose" button to scan my disk, a window pops up saying: "The Operating System, …

Hey, On my other computer I have win 98se. I am going to install windows server 2003 (enterprise edition), I want to partition the drive so win 98 can have half and windows server the other half. I've never dealt with partitioning b4, so I'm not sure where to start. …

i cannot use properly a usb memory device on my fujitsu-siemens amilo D8830 and i have try almost everything with drivers and bios updates. Does anyone knows how to fix this problem? Thanks

No, this is not an advertisement for the website, this is an errormessage that comes up everytime I boot up the open computer on my network. (I have an extra to keep on the network) When it boots up it says that it is labled in the win.ini file, but …