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i bought one new system and tried to load win 2000 and winxp some error is coming and it was saying that it cannot read the files from the cd and will crash. actually for winxp when i start from cd rom it is copying some files and when it …

I received a mail from matchmaker.com yesterday telling me that they have found a match for me.I believed it because they used a very familiar name...so here is the message: " Congratulations -- You matched through SecretAdmirer.com! To find out who you matched with, and to see if your admirer …

hi im having trouble installing windows 98 my computer has windows xp how do i install windows 98

Ok, this problem may be somewhat of an odd one, but here goes nothing. A long time ago (maybe during the summer?) I downloaded this program that allows you to change the system icons of any file type. Yes, I know you can do that in Folder Options, and I …

Hi folks. Hope someone can help me with this. After a few minutes of being on Ebay I lose my internet connection. We have not had this problem with any other site only ebay.This is a fairly new occurence. We have gone to Ebay semi-regularly in the past. I've run …

HI, windows xp keeps restarting over and over again. I can not get the code off the blue screen even if i press the space bar to slow it down :( It first happend when I was installing software for pci flashcard. It had been working all year but somehow …

I recently got a virus and cleaned it up. Some files were deleted. Now windows won't load. I get an error code 35. An application can 't load because it can't find the winsrv file. Please help

ok every time i do an install or reinstall of windows xp home there is always something wrong with it usually it is the same 3 things but never on the same install. this time it isthe system info util.(msinfo32.exe).and the troubleshoot button in the properties window of any given …

Hey there, I am back with another mistery. I have a network of over 200 people. We gave them all new machines. However they are force to use word 97 and excel 97. But we are also running Outlook 2003. Problem: Every time we open a program, word, excel, paint, …

I have a Dell P4 running XP. I recently picked up a downloader.tooncom virus that is identified as an exploit in Windows Media Player. I have Norton Anti Virus Pro 2004 and Spybot and Pest Patrol, but none of them can remove this virus. Does anyone have any idea how …

When I right-click on any page the menu shows among the usual tools, "coupons" When I click on coupons a small popup appears giving me options to sellect. "about, home page,& enable/disable" When I click on any option then the popup appears to show a piece of what would be …

Last night I got a new LAN card and installed it. Booted up and Windows ran plug-and-play. I installed the drivers for the LAN from the floppy and rebooted when prompted as I've done with every other peripheral upgrade I've ever done. On reboot though, before it posted, the PC …

I get a messege from time to time that the GOJKQCGZ.DLL. has a problem and will close. What the hell is that and what can I do about it?!?

I went on extended vacations and forgot passwords for my user and Administrator. Since, I assembled this computer myself, I wont get help from any vendor. I have some important business related data on this hard disk. Is there anyway, that I can copy data from this computer's hard disk …

[url]http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html[/url] The log refernce is from the log you get when you run the hijackthis program [url]http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/[/url]

I am running Win2000 SP4 on an HP Pavilion system. I have over 300MB of RAM and over 10GB free HD space. I have Norton Anti-Virus 2001 installed and have used live update to get the latest exe and dat file updates. Recently (I cannot recall what preceded this problem) …

My computer will be perfectly fine and then for about an hour or so it will just start being all wierd. It seems to hold down shift and control, and hold down my mouse with i click. It will stop for a minute or so then just start it up …

Hi there, I have worrying problem. Whenever I power on my machine, a light blue screen appears before loading windows. It then requests scan disk within a specified period but also requests that I press any key to load without scan disk. My other machines on the network behaved this …

I'm trying to install win 95 into my laptop,which has an external floppy and no cd drive. I partioned and formated the disc and now when I install the first disc all that comes up is "this program cannot run in dos mode". Any help out there!

HI, ive been lookin at my fiancees computer, shes in some other country so i have to use remote connection to look at her computer. She has installed windows 2000 pro, and the computer can run fine many many hours or it can freeze after 1 minute.....it seems like when …

If I launch Internet Explorer from any of the different locations in Windows 98, Windows Explorer actually access the internet instead of IE. I have scaned for viruses and trojans but nothing has come up. This is very odd cause it just started to do this. I would have not …

hi i am haveing a problem with my Internet explorer. When i connecttto the internet. the internet explorer. opens and says finding yahoo but it don't open i have to push the reset and when it starts up again then i could open the internet explorer. to my home page.can …

i just bought a new computer... i followed the manual and everuthing but my computer won't start... i get the folowing message "Radeon 9200 A165SE P/N133-A16501-3D BIOS" and a never ending beep sound and when i am not getting that message i get "serial_ch0 master : No Device" and "serial_ch1 …

I need help. Since I installed Norton Antivirus/Internet Security 2004 my printer takes forever, and many other functions take so long or stall. What do I do to keep security that is necessary to protect my computer, but still have a computer that runs its other functions effectively?

We have a HP Pavillion computer with a non pavillion hard drive (our first hard drive burned and crashed). We have WinMe on it and tons of other stuff we have acquired. I want to know how to erase the hard drive and start fresh.

About 2 months ago I obtained a virus that redirects my IE start page to a host of various start engines. Each morning I run Spybot and Ad-aware 6.0 and they find the registry changes made by the virus, change the registry back to what it should be, but by …

do you know if you have to activeate xp pro or is there a way around the activation of it?

does any one know how to get a copy of windows xp pro coperate edition? I would like to upgrade to pro but it to requiers that i activate it. you can e-mail me at [email]alexhubbard@cox.net[/email]

More problems on my end.... Computer boots fine but it has error msg... Illegal Operation... WINHDD.. The computer will continue along just fine, but what is WINHDD? I have looked on Google and Microsoft to see if they had anything... but nothing came up. Help here?

I am trying to install a new Master HDD in my sys. Copy old drive to it and have it be the default boot drive (dual boot). But for simplicity sake, for now, just xfering over my old info and manking the new HDD0 & the old HDD1, with the …

OS: Windows 2K. New topic, but I think related to the topic I posted a few minutes ago. I need to change positions of the IDE devices. W2k & XP keep them persistent as how they were set up. I no longer want them this way. How do I do …

What are some of the things that you can do to speed up a computer? I know that you can do a disk clean, scan for viruses, clean your cache out, and do critical updates... but what else is there that I can do? Also, what can I do Hardware …

I am hestitant to use IE 6 unless it is absolutley necessary. I usually use netscape or msn explorer. In my opinion IE is just to exploited. Now, for my question.... When I visit certain sites I have noticed that certain things get changed on my computer. Usually its just …

i have been trying to access my hotmail account for days. it allows me to sign in and then it simply goes to a blank screen. it's like everything is downloaded but nothing is showing. my computer is working in all other manners. any suggestions?

[SIZE=3][B][FONT=Arial]I have recently refomatted my computer and after being on for several minutes it will freeze up. It is like there is a software conflict or something going on. It will work fine then freeze up. How can I determine the cause of this?[/font][/b][/size]

I'm using IE6 on Windows ME. When I load IE from the desktop, it launches as a full screen window but if I launch a link from a website as a new window, it launches as just the title bar. I seem to have lost the resize ability for the …

whenever i type an url(say mail.yahoo.com) without http:// preceding it, it changes its form and becomes C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\mail.yahoo.com!! recently i accedentally deleted some keys from the registry and after that this happens. can anyone help?

I restarted my computer and after i logged in, it said that it could not run "fntldr.exe", (it was missing). i think i need this for the WIN.INI file but how can i retrieve it?

ok i just got this brand new compaq persario 2.5 ghz pentium 4 pocessor and i just recently looked under the hood of the machine and it has no AGP slot yet there is a space for it on the mobo i was just wondering if one could be put …

me once more! Alright, I have a monitor that turns off automaticly. I have already checked the powersave options and it is turned off. I have it set on ALWAYS ON and nothing shuts down unless the user shuts it down. But it still turns off for some reason. The …

I've got a friend who keeps getting a link posted in his profile everytime he signs on. The text is like "Whoah look at what I found!" and it's some link to a site. He's tried deleting it and restarting, but it comes right back. Also I told him to …

Whoo! I've never been so happy to see my computer again.. 4 days ago my hard drive died / crashed with no backup since last year. needless to say I thought I lost 7gb of workd and data. I was going crazy so I looked online for some datarecovery services …

I was downloading a zip file and i accidently unticked the box that says "prompt me... for this type of file" how do i get that back?

We just updated one of our computers from Windows 98 to Windows XP Pro. The IOMEGA CD driver & software we have is not compatible with Windows XP (of course, they want us to upgrade!), so every time we start our system we get the error message "Error loading DLL, …

Whenever I try to download updates to windows xp I get error messages to the effect that my product key is invalid. What do i do ? I cannot imagine reinstalling another OS, this has allready given me enough stress.

My OS is XP and have Kingston 512k sdram pc133. I also have a gforce 420 agp video card. I purchased a stick of 512k generic pc133 sdram put it in my computer and now my computer locks up. Why? Does the ram have to be the same brand?

Hallo guys, Is there no way I can set up my own email account with a domain name without going through an ISP? e.g. ****.agtek@gci.org. I intend to use the outlook express but it keeps on giving the following message: Internet email - gci The pop3 server name you specified …

Just in case there is any other poor soul on this board that is still running Win98 like me, read this short article. [url]http://www.msnbc.com/news/1002736.asp?cp1=1[/url] :sad: I wonder if I'll be able to get those handy patches any more? "Patches?? We don't need no stinking patches!!" :rolleyes:

I run winXP Home 56k Connected at 52bps off Earthlink ISP p4 3.2 1gig ram radeon 9800 video and no clue why i constantly ping 999 in most online FPS games... i dont lag in MMORPG's just FPS games mostly "first person shooter" i didnt used to ping so high. …

I have a computer that is going weird on me. I need to get hte problem fixed. When a teacher tries to access a website, the error message pops up: [B]TOO MANY OTHER FILES ARE CURRENTLY IN USE BY 16-BIT PROGRAMS. QUIT ONE OR MORE 16-BIT PROGRAMS OR INCREASE THE …