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Got another one for you guys:) Sorry if this seems like a silly/simple question to ask but I have a SATA Hard Drive plugged in to my windows 7 Pro and I'm unable to view it in "My Computer" as a drive. when I look on Disk Management it shows …

i have never done this before. i have a laptop computer running windows 7 ultimate that i have recently taken to my brothers house and used his internet to download some files. i have no internet at my house and i need to transfer these files to my desktop computer …

. Windows-7 - 32-bit upgrade to 64-bit - I have 32-bit Win-7 Home premium. Is there an UpGrade to Win-7 64-bit Home Premium or PRO - **without starting over and paying the full cost** to MicroSoft? . "Branded" versions of Win-7 PRO - these are sold at a much lower …

ok my situations is when i turn my pc it goes thru the normal procedure of starting up. all the way till you see the windows xp logo then it just goes away and the monitor is blank (a black screen). i tried the repair and that did not fix …

Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone knows "What is validity" in terms of Sharepoint? Thanks

Hello all members i forget the password of my excel file which have very imp data. i must have to recover the file. kindly help me out to do so. PLEASE NOTE THAT! The password i usually use is up to 12 characters which includes * and capitalization of characters. …

I instaled Adobe reader 10 in my Laptop and the next thing I saw ia that it took over all my desktop icons ,any thing that I click it try to open with Adobe reader and ask me to associate Adobe reader with a programe before it can work, even …

Hello All, Sorry I am not a GEEK. I am kinda embarrassed to be here cos I know so little about pc and tech. 1. I like to ask the community for a favor - ie. If you have a copy of MP190 Canon Printer software, can you kindly burn …

Hi, I want to install Windows 8, Windows XP sp3 and Linux Mint14 in my PC. Is it possible to install 3 Operating systems in one PC ?. If so is it possible in virtual machine ?.If 3 OSs are not allowed in a PC, then please tell me how …

After installing Windows XP Professional SP3 version 2002 on a Dell Inspiron 1011 mini (2GB RAM 500GB HDD), I am not able to see the entire screen. I started having this problem after I upgraded the RAM (When I had Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on it). Is the problem caused by …

I have a hotmail e-mail account and I cannot recieve from Yahoo. I set up a yahoo account and tried to send myself an email to my hotmail account and it did not work. I can send and recieve emails with my hotmail account. Does anyone know if/how you can …

Just looking at my entries in my Process Explorer and I noticed the JAVA updater was in there. I turned that off. So I went back to the JAVA console and indeed it was on. I turned it off and it gave me a warning and again I chose to …

Hi there, I have win xp sp3 and Linux mint14 in my PC. Now i want to uninstall xp and install Windows 8. Do i need to uninstall Linux mint for installing windows 8 ?. I don't want to uninstall Linux Mint. Please help.

I have just set up a server at a local youth club, im fairly new to networking, although i do know alot considering i only started in july. I have set up ADDS on a windows Server 2008 R1 (vista) machine, i have loaded so far, 5 client PC's to …

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Hi took ages to access the message field. Still my problem is my pictures are fine having full contrast and colour. My videos are aweful. They are washed out - lacking in both colour and contrast. I am running XP Pro and also have another PC running XP pro which …

Hi.. I have an application developed and deployed using sccm 2007. Now, we are to migrate the entire application to SCCM 2012, leading to some issues with the system database. eg : SMS_R_System in SCCM 2007 becomes VSMS_R_System for SCCM 2012. I need to map other such table changes. Can …

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Hi All! So, I have a shared windows host with IIS 7 with godaddy, so that I can use MSSQL/TSQL (which, as I understand it, is not available with Linux). However, my server configuration education was with Linux, and focused on the wonderful all encompassing .htaccess file to configure environment …

All the browsers including Chrome, Firefox and IE8 are not working. When I open them, it keeps loading the page but does open the website. Internet Connectivity is there because utorrent is working. I reinstalled chrome but that did't work. I cleaned up the browsers hisotry, also did "ipconfig/renew", "ipconfig/flushdns" …

This is a list of my startup programs. The 2 files circled come up as not found when I boot up and I have to click OK to get the computer to continue the boot. I have unchecked them but the configuration window will come up during the boot process …

Hey, I'm trying to get a VAIO with 1.83 GHz Intel Atom N470 and 1 GB RAM to run more smoothly. It's using Windows 7 Starter. It's using most of it's RAM just being idle. Right now, it's running taskmanager and msconfig.exe and according to taskmanager, it's using 70% of …

Hey guys, I just got a HP Pavilion dv6000 a few weeks ago with Vista Home Premium already installed on it. Im having some trouble getting my wireless connection to work. It worked once for a few hours but then just decided to stop. When I plug in my ethernet …

Hi... I have been trying to fix a Acer aspire 1 ZA3 (mini laptop) for some hours, but the operating system is missing. have any 1 got a clue how to repair it? I have tryed to take the FN/ESC and power button and several other things, but im not …

I have a Dell Desktop running Vista. My son installed Sound Blaster Live sound card recently. I didn't care much for the onboard Realtek. My sound plays fine, however, now my recording software program will not record anything. Worked fine before. I even tried a different recording program and that …

I have a Sony Vaio E series premium laptop and after upgrading to windows 8 I got the "IOLORGDF32 Program not found skip autocheck" problem that seems to be pretty common when upgrading on a Vaio. So I found this tutorial on how to get rid of it and tried …

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Hi guys. Im want to install server Apache 2.0 on my laptop windows 7 but apparently the configuration failed. I watched few tutorials/guides on the internet saying that i must test the configuration using cmd> cd \Apache\bin then httpd -t. But i cant see that the command works. Im confuse …

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I have an Inspiron 1520 that I got from my parents. I went an started uninstalling a whole bunch of crap that they added. I think I may or may not have messed up my sound cards. In browser, no sound. In Steam (Gaming platform), no sound. In one game, …

Well my computer is a couple of years old and takes forever to startup. It will get to the welcome screen in good time, but once I login first it sits there for about 2 minutes just showing by desktop backround with no taskbar, icons or anything. I cannot do …

Had a bad uninstall of Java and now when trying to reinstall 7u10 I end up with the following dialogue: "This software has already been installed on your computer. Would you like to reinstall it?" "Yes." "This action is only valid for products that are currently installed." /end Repeat, ad …

I'm trying to associate VBS files with WScript.exe, when I think it is associated it isn't, I tried numerous times to associate the file type wit the program. Anyone know if this registry file would work on Windows8 ? Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.VBS] @="VBSFile" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.VBS\PersistentHandler] @="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VBScript] @="VB …

Hello , I have recently installed Windows 8 on my PC on F drive and i already have Windows 7 installed on my C drive, now i found myself comfortable with Windows 8 and now i want to remove Windows 7 which was on C drive (System Drive) and use …

Remember when you had to use a whole host of 'utility downloads' just to keep your PC running smoothly? Windows has had optimization tools built in for ages now, so surely the days of PC optimization suites are long over? Not so according to iolo, which has just released System …

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I am using 'MYSQL' datasource in ODBC' for my project. My deployment is failing with the error "Error 1 An attempt has been made to use a data extension 'ODBC' that is either not registered for this report server or is not supported in this edition of Reporting Services. 0 …

hello, i am currently facing a problem with my windows 7 pro, when i click on one specific lan computer under the "network" treelist in the left pane, i get a formerly shared folder on that computer which appears, while it is no longer shared and the currently shared ones …

I'm running Win XP (SP3) and I've noticed an irritating glitch in the last few months which I've finally solved, so I thought I would pass it on. It's pretty trivial, which is probably why I could find nothing for it. I've always set Explorer to open a folder in …

Hi I once went for an interview before my previous job it was a practical interview and I was asked to determine and fix a number of problems and I cant for the life of me remember what was the fixes so was wondering if you guys could help: **the …

Hello fellows, I have some files which consists a setup program worth 11.1 gb in size. I want to burn these files into multiple dvds. For example, 3 dvds having size of 4.7gb OR 2 dvds one can be 8.5gb in size and another one can be 4.7gb in size. …

All of a sudden, every time I hit a button on my keyboard, both the mouse and the keyboard freeze up. In the device manager, it gave me "this device cannot start Code 10". After doing some digging up (I hit the resources tab), I figured out what the problem …

So this morning I tried to turn on my computer and it did but the screen is pitch black. The fan is running and it is charging. When I press caps lock and num lock the lights don't turn on. I've had this laptop for about 1 or 2 years. …

Audio Delay when Playing windows media player in Windows 7 os compared to windows xp . How to Overcome the delay.

Hie all I am trying to setup Ldap over SSL using the Windows Ldp utility on a Windows 2008 R2 domain controller which is also the Enterprise root CA. When I try to bind securely using the IP address(192.168.0.2) I get the following error:"The certificate received from the remote server …