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I am upgrading from 98 to 2K. I put the disk in and it runs. When I go to delete the partition that has the old 98, I can not create another partition for the Win2K nor can I go in and manually create it. Ideas?

I am having the EXACT same problem! I have spent 6 hours trying to fix this, and the only other thing I found online about my probably other then this post is a post at this forum: [url="http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9340245~mode=flat"]http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9340245~mode=flat[/url] PLEASE HELP ME! I have treid everything, even system restore. I have …

I have been hijacked!! Ihave run Adaware, hijack this, coolweb shreader, but everytime I reboot the same thing returns. Nothing seems to get rid of it. The result of the Hijack this scan is below. Does anyone know how to remove it I am not very computerb literate so please …

:o While at work I like to surf when the load is low and slow. How ever there's a techno geek peeking at my computer activities after I leave. I just Know it!:mrgreen:

Location: school wide OS: Win 98 --> Win 2k I was told to upgrade all of the old computers with 98 on them to 2K. Well, I am having a few problems. One: when they want me to do this upgrade, they want me to do a new install, not …

I TRIED to do a clean install using XP, it froze at 15% during the formatting process, and I havent been able to continue instal or even boot the old tecra 8100:sad: HHHHHHHHHHHHHHELP PLEASE Tbeckstr

Hi to you good folks..firstly can I say I'm not very technically minded so if anyone can help will you please keep it simple..thankyou...... running XP pro. just put a second hard drive in as a slave for storage...went to disk management..storage and tried to make a single partition (fat32) …

[size=2]Have a HP pavilion comp., Windows 98, 466 mhz processor, 319 Ram, and the CD-rom stopped working. Got an external CD-rewritter backpack. Downloaded the driver from their site. Hooked up the cd-rewriter. It assigned the D letter to it. Restarted. Everything looked great, worked fine. Then installed my son's CD. …

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I have been trying to run scan disk and degrag the computer and it says that theres something running and i click ctrl alt delete and theres a few things there but only what needs to be, theres nothing up and running. what do i do?/ someone please help me.

Hi, Urgently help required. I am working on Windows 2000 network as a Adminstrator. As we don;t have any option like "Maximum Password length" (Under the Security Settings->Account Policies->Password Policy. <?xml version="1.0"?> <s:Schema xmlns:s="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-data" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" > <s:AttributeType name="userID" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" dt:type="string" /> <s:AttributeType name="password" dt:type="string" dt:minLength="6" dt:maxLength="8"/> <s:ElementType name="LoginInfo" > <s:attribute …

Hi! When I bought my computer off ebay 6 months ago the heatsink and fan had fallen off in transit and I had to reattach it (with thermal grease etc) myself. Since then it's been crashing alot. At first it happened every 30 mins and the guy who sold it …

I keep getting the blue screen of death. :sad: I am running win 2000 sp4 256meg ram ,1.7 pentium 4 maxtor diamondmax 120 gig aopen AX4BS-V I thought it might be the hard drive, so I put a new WD120gig in. I started to format for the install of win …

I get Windows Me half way loaded and then get an error message that says error code 06:0028:00000002 press any key to continue or controll, alter, delete to restart computer. I did install an Iomega zip drive external 650 and all the sofeware that came with it. Everythings works fine, …

anyone know where i can get a completely free rm converter? not the one that boilsoft makes because that is only a trial version or do you know where i can get a working patch for boilsoft's converter?

I have windows XP home on 2 machines in my house, and I was wondering if there was a way to add the 'Remote Desktop Server' like there is in xp pro/2k3 so that I can remote desktop into my home machine. I've searched microsofts website and haven't found much …

Hi all, i have an xp system that i just installed like a week ago, but for some reason the amount of processes that are running(when i check) sum up to around 50 something...wut can i do, and some of the processes have wierd names....like y9LEy.exe....plz inform!!!

I just built a computer, an ASUS board P4S800, Pentium 4 2.8gHz, WD80gb HD,512mb RAM, Lite on Combo drive, Antec Case, ATI Radeon 9600, 56k modem. Ok the computer works great with one glitch, from a cold start it goes through post and looks like it will start up but …

Hi I am running windows XP service pack 1 on a Dell Dimension 8300 that is approx 1 year old. My kids downloaded a virus, W32.HLLW.Gaobot.gen; we downloaded the virus removal tool from Symantec and were able to remove the virus. But to run the removal tool we needed to …

If I've got lots of short video clips on windows media player how can I combine them to form one long cip and hence save the whole thing as one big file... cheers if anyone can help

I have windows 98/second edition. I'm on cable. For some reason lately when I send e-mail via outlook express the person doesn't receive it for 5-10hours ????? A couple of times they didn't get my mail for between 1-2 days. It's not all the time but does anyone know or …

If I were to do a back up of my C: drive on to an external hard drive and then for some reason my computers hard drives are erased or get a virus, would I be able to put the back up back on my computer and have all of …

I lost my Quick Launch toolbar when I deleted a NISTime file I had been trying to download. When I right-click on the taskbar and click on "quick launch" I get an error message saying "can't create toolbar." The Quick Launch file/folder seems to be gone from the computer entirely. …

To make a very long story sort of short, I messed up big-time! :( I just installed a new 200 GB hard drive as master (the comp. recognized it as F drive) and used my old 80 GB drive as slave (recognized as C drive) and everything was going fine …

Anyone know why the following message comes up when I send a message to a person. "[font='Times New Roman'][i]The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was 'XXXXX@msn.com'. Subject 'Test', Account: 'D_ e and P__a D____s', Server: 'smtp.comcast.net', …

Hi! I am new at this forum and do not know where to post questions. That's why I am placing it here. [font=Verdana, arial][size=2]How come I can use my local server for emails but the Sygate Personal firewall blocks my Outlook Express? How do I set up for incoming and …

Hi all! I have a problem I hope you can help me with. Computer Info: 500SE Special (Gateway) Intel (Nimitz) Pentium 4 - 1.8 GHz (400 MHz) mobo DDR 256 MB PC266B RAM integrated video card I was working on the PC when the screen went black, the keyboard stopped …

Recently I began getting a pop-up which indicates that it is from Windows Error Service indicating that spyware has been dettected on my system. It further states that there is a free spyware dector/remover and if you strike the ok key it attempts to take you to the following site: …

i have XP Home, and when i tried to restore my computer from a past date, it wouldn't allow me. i don't know why and would appreciate any help

My computer runs very slow after a while and it would become difficult to shut programs. I would then go to the task manager to close the program only to see that the cpu is running at 100%:sad: and it want let me do anything. AMD Anthlon 2600+ 256MB 40GB …

I currently have an EIDE drive with Windows NT 4.0 running on it and installed a SCSI ultra2 hard drive to allow for more storage. I cannot see the SCSI drive in the Windows NT environment although the BIOS has detected it. I have looked for software and drivers for …

Posted* - What should I delete? I am having problems with links and IE6 uploading second/other pages. Ad-aware was already installed.. What else can I do? Thanks! evie

Hi I'm hoping someone can help me. I have downloaded Hijack This, and this is what is in the saved log. Can I get rid of any of this stuff? and will that help my low resource problem? My resources at bootup are in the 60's and after I sign …

I'm trying to change my default browser for IE to Google. Following the instructions in the Help, it says to click the Search button on the toolbar, then 'Customize' and choose from the options displayed. But every time I click the customize button, it starts trying to go to some …

I run a Dell Inspiron 7000 on 98se, IE6, broadband. I am unable to open Outlook Express, a window comes up saying; "OE could not be started because msoeres.dll could not be started" OE may not be installed correctly. I have downloaded the latest patch, service packs and re-installed OE. …

I have a problem.On my computer is a file named WFunk dead mix.exe". And I think i got it from MEssenger Plus. Can anybody help me how to get rid of it?

Hi, One of the PC's in my office is facing this peculiar problem, the PC is running on win98/IE6. 1) The IE6 is not able to login into secured sites, whereas when i used IE4 i could atleast get the secure login screen but could not login. 2) I cannot …

I just got hit by a VERY nasty web virus. Well not exactly a virus. I clicked a web link, and the next thing I know, this program called 1on1.exe is running on my system. There is now a hidden file 1on1.exe in C:\Windows, and my network connection has been …

Hello world, I have a program created with PHP and its output is printed on screen using IE6. Now, what I'm seeing on screen I want to print on paper, but on paper in the right margin the printer prints a very bold vertical line and on top of the …

Internet Explorer doesn't open Pages sometimes. When it doesn't open page its icon keeps on revolving as if it is downloading the page but there is no activity on the net. when this situation arise I copy the address from the address bar and closes that window of IE then …

Hi! I was wadnering how do you physically acess your cookies in netscape 7.1? Like in Notepad? I just can't find it. Also is it possible somebody could tell what websites youve been on, by looking at your cookies? Thx! Jason

hi, ever since hotmail changed their format I have been unable to send mail. I recieve everything but am unable to send. it is only on my personal computer. My brother has the same computer with different virus software and it works from his. I was wondering if there is …

Flashed bios and got "Error Loading Operating System." Okay when reflashed back to previous level. I post I saw (another group?) suggested that XP should be set (before the flash) to generic ide drivers. Does that make any sense? How? No solution was found in the other thread, which was …

Can someone please help! I have just subscribed to wandoo adsl in Spain. I installed the modem but couldn't dial up the connection (I realised later that I had put in the wrong user name by missing "adsl" of the end!!) Anyway, I tried to sort it by reinstalling the …

This is a short story, but not one that I can figure out. I use MyBlueLight for dial up from home. For more than a year, I've been an Admin on a 3D animation and graphics site. Our Forum used PostNuke and right after some exploits were published on the …

My laptop up-and-died today with ~5 gigs of valuable GIS and hydrology work on it. I desperately need to recover these data. I've got the HDD in an antistatic bag next to me and I'm wondering if there isnt an adapter utility to plug the li'l SOB into a 40-pin …

it just doesn't work anymore, i go 2 open a new window, a new window opens ,but just freezes and but doesn't load, please help

When I log off, my screename for widows xp, i get 3 annoying boxes that pop up, -one of them saying, (RunDLL.exe......End Now) i forget what the other two are. Is there any way i can stop this. its very annoying. thank you

The other day my homepage started to change automatically whenever I reloaded my computer. I have tried doing a search for any file containing the homepage URL, but that was unsuccessful. I have no idea where the file that could be making the change is, as I have never been …

Everytime I want copy, cut or delete a folder/file the computer freezes all other activities(playing music,browsing) and my cursor shows its "busy" status. After a while(about 20 seconds) computer retunrs to its normal mode. I dont understand why does it halt for a while when i try to copy/cut etc …