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OS Windows 2000 First, I have Kazaa on the computer thanks to my very whinney brother and sister. I've finally convinced my family to get rid of it, but I can't. The Control Panel's Add/Remove Program tool gives me this error when trying to uninstall Kazaa: "Error in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\cd_clint.dll Missing …

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Hello everyone How do you clear some memory from C drive when using just the command prompt. I can't remember how to do it! I tried to install GNU C++ and I had to put some commands into autoexec but things went wrong and now can't bootup to windows or …

I Have Win Xp With A Radeon 128mb Ddr Video Card A 2.4gig Celeron Processor And 512mb Of Ddr Ram. Only When Playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater2 My Computer Hardboots Within The First Few Seconds Of The Game I Can Play Many Other Games Without This Problem. Activision Says Update …

Why am I receiving so many Pop-ups even while I'm offline? I can't play video games without being interrupted. It's already annoying online but now offline! Give me a break! I just keep getting all of these Microsoft IE pop-up windows. My OS is Windows XP Home Edition.

Hey Currently running Windows M.E At boot up I was told to run scanreg/fix to fix a problem I had. I did so, and the computer successfully loaded to the windows login screen However, we have 4 identities on this computer and a number of problems have now arose. 1. …

This is driving me insane and I will be infinitely grateful to anyone who can help! At some point, the ADD OR REMOVE PROGRAMS feature in my XP Home Control Panel just stopped working. The icon is there and when I double-click on it I get a split second of …

UPDATE 12/31/2003: I ran all of the programs that were recommended and for which information, I am very grateful. However the problem persisted so I contacted Norton Utilities and was informed that this was a brand new Trojan Horse that first showed up on 12/20/2003 and that a fix was …

[font=Arial][size=2]I have a primary and secondary 80GB hard drives...I had issues on my secondary hard drive but was able to Ghost it and recover the data, which has been saved to the primary drive. I would now like to run dual OS's with XP on the primary and Linux on …

it wont open and missing file and i can't open folders it go blank on ie it ack like if its going open but it don't in win xp pro ps help ... put socure thing to try

Can somebody please help me? my cd burner crashed right when i was going to burn a cd- at the bottom it says no supported cd-r/ cd-rw drive! i don't know what's going on...

Got a wierd problem with my Windows explorer and its probably a simple fix but i'm not sure how to do it.When i open a window from a window that is already open it only opens in a separate window.Every time i open another window i have another window open …

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When I need to open Internet Explorer on my Windows XP, I have to go through "My Computer" to find it. Why can't I get the normal IE icon on my desktop? Also, when I do access it through "My Computer" there is no address bar even though under Tools, …

I use Win2000 sp3 on allmost all of my computers, I'm also a little aprehensive about my PC being able to communicate with Redmond in any manner which I am not in complete control of. I know we've all heard that MS builds backdoors into its OS's and blah blah …

Recently when loading my home page it is replaced by this 'find 4 you' screen. It also lists five new titles in the favorites. Is there a way to get rid of this nuisance. I have ad aware and anti virus. Sorry I am not a very experienced user[size=1]. [/size][size=2]I …

Ok, I've followed the instructions to enable file sharing between computers on my home network. However, whenever I have dragged and dropped a file into the file sharing folder, for whatever reason it isn't available from the other computer. What am I missing here? My OS is Windows XP Home …

Can somone please explain why I should use a third party firewall instead of the one shipped with win XP. What benefits or security enhancements comes with using Norton or some other firewall, wich you therefore will miss when using the XP firewall? Isn't the XP firewall secure enough?

To start off, whenever i open up my internet browser i cannot click hyperlinks which open up new windows. This then proceeds to freeze and then finally crash. If i open up task manager it says that internet explorer is not responding. If i right click these 2 windows underneath …

I am having a problem with IE6. I may have deleted some necessary files when I did a clean up on my computer. When I go to several internet sites and want to download, the bar at the bottom of the screen immediately says "done" but nothing happened. One of …

i have an issue with win xp destop...a taskbar of sorts has showed up on the left hand side of my desktop and it has "folder tasks", "other places", and "details", it won't go away and i need someones help with this pls...if anyone has had this or knows why …

I have ME version of windows and now have the Windows PRO . I do NOT know how to get started??? How do I install the Operating Software with out loosing my Windows ME ??? Some people say to download the Windows PRO but first UNINSTALL ME windows. THE SYSTEM …

I got this message on my computer that was in a *.txt format on my desktop and I have no idea how it got there. Here is what it says: An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM. Unexpected Signal : EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) occurred at PC=0x88D7C29 …

I have a codirect USB 128MB flashdrive. Windows 2000 recognizes the drive when I connect it as I can read and write to the drive with no problems. The drive is also listed in windows explorer as the "E" drive. My problem is I cannot safely remove this drive. When …

I just bought a new motherboard and processor, an intel P4 2.4 (500 FSB) and ECS LV4XA2. Problem is after I installed all my hardware and software, my computer starts freezing up. It'll start booting up and after the windows XP intro. goes away, it freezes. I've tried almost everything, …

When I start IE it doesn't bring up my homepage for like 1-2 mins and when I click on a link or try to bring up a new window it takes the same amount of time. I ran an adware scanner and deleted all of it and downloads go at …

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Hello, if someone can help me, that would be GREAT! I have a network running in the house with 2 desktops and a laptop. I am connected with SBC DSL with a wireless router that it came with. I have internet running on 1 desktop and the laptop, but cant …

[size=5][font=Times New Roman]Hey hey can anyone help my, I have been using a computer with windows 98, the problem was that the C drive was full so naturally I moved some of the files to its D and E drives unfortunately being slightly retarded I inadvertently must have moved some …

my computer restricts how many boxes i can have open at a time. when im on the inernet and open sites after about 7 boxes are open the next one i open is a blank page. after that opens it wont let me open anyhting on my computer. a few …

I have win xp, sp1, and a lexmark z65 printer. I have installed all the drivers for the printer. here is the problem that I have I have reformated and reinstalled win xp in the last month or so, before I did my reinstall, I could go to print pictures, …

Every time I start up my computer I am prompted to enter my username and password. I am running windows 98 and the dialog box says it is for microsoft networking. How can I change this?

I am on a network with a Web Proxy server, my Windows 2000 PC with IE6 and latest patches cannot reach a web site on our local network. I have set all the proxy and bypass proxy settings, tried specifying the site address (as machine name/site etc) and tyrned off …

[size=3][color=navy][FONT=Times New Roman] help.....please i went to this site and it saved to my cache so naturaly i cleared it and delted my cookies and temporary files and when i hit the arrow down on the adress bar nothing shows up, but when i type in www. the sites that …

Hi guys, Today, starting up computer. Ony error appears when loading windows XP about can't access the disk. I have solved this problems by hitting F8 during boot and start XP from last stable boot. Now XP is working correctly again but each time on booting before starting XP, windows …

Hey guys, I am having this error - spooling on any printer I print on. I checked the server with all the printers and although it looks ok, I am not sure where to search for the errors. I have about 30 printers and this error is new to me. …

My windows xp wont come on all I get on the screan is Compaq. I have tryed the start up disk but it is not working is there a way to troublshoot and get the windows xp to come up?

I keepo getting my Xp computer crashing oin me and going to the blue screen. Commonestr error message is aklong the lines of IRQL_ Not_les_than_ equal-To or similar to this and often blames miscellaneuos drivers although removal of these drivers mnakes no difference and scanning of valaidity of drivers shows …

I using winxp pro .trying to use Easy video splitter,it worked once but,every other try i get this protection error message . "Debugger detected shut it down and restart " Win NT users : please note that having the winice/softice service installed means that you are running a debugger !!

I am not sure if motherboard or processor are just going. Computer has been running fine for a year since I built it. Soyo Dragon KT 400, XP 2400 Chip/ 2 Ghz. The problem started about a week ago when I noticed the fan in the power supply went (bearings …

I just replace my secondary hard drive on my 1700 Mhz computer. I also added another 512 Mb of PC 2100 DDR SDRAM. I have spent the last 2 days trying to get things to work and now XP starts to load and hangs. After checking with the Microsoft Knowledge …

My computer is windoes xp, the Processor is AMD Athlon 2000+, 40GB Hard-drive, 512 memory, 40xCDRW and a DVD. I only use it for sufing the net and the odd file. do you think I need to update Thank-you Peter.

I have a Compaq Bundle unit, 5103CL. Came with ME installed, no cd. Got the upgrade to XP cd from MS. Used it. Reformatted the 40 GIG hard drive to acquire the additional space. This eliminated all the FAT32 info....as in everything ME! Now I want to copy everything to …

Hello, Is there any way to change or erase the date last accessed info on a file? Thanks, Joe

This is a rather strange problem. For some reason, none of my HTML files have the internet explorer icon any more, since installing Windows XP Pro. If I double click them, they do open in IE (6 by the way) but the icon is just the default Windows one when …

Need help using win me had virus,cleaned virus now on startup files missing and cannot open programs.Can I restor files by reloading me or can I get files from some where. Need to fix whithout loosing any drivers or data because cannot openj programs to backup data.

I have xp professional installed on computer (HP). It looks like it is booting a corrupted video dll file or something as the windows xp professional logo comes on during boot, then the screen goes haywire. I can see the desktop load but it is shows about 20 desktops with …

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I am having a frustrating problem. Anytime there is a window open for any program and I try to open a second one, both open windows shut down. So therefore anything I do can only involve one open window. Does any body know what's going on and how I can …

Besides my startpage problems (See other thread) I also have a problem with a message popping up on random web pages - including this one! Please take a look at the attachments elsewhere... I would be gratefull with some help on how to get rid of that or a link …