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can anyone shed any light on this everytime i start up messenger i get a firewall warning udp packet from remote computer 64.4.12.201:7001 is trying to access your computer i blocked this and ticked always block this and this happens everytime i start messenger i have scannned for viruses using …

Can someone give me instructions to get the FASTEST BOOT TIME POSSIBLE? :)

it seems to be the activation issue. winXP loads up and after a minute it starts a cont down to shut down.

Ok, I was on a page I probably shouldn't have been on and I clicked on a link to download. The download started and I realized it wasn't what I thought it was and cancelled the download almost immediately. Then things got weird: on the bottom right of my display …

The subject line is just part of the trouble. Let me first give the symptoms. About 10 days ago, we started having trouble accessing Hotmail via IE on my home PC which is loaded with XP. We could access it 2-3 times after a reboot, then the computer would lock …

I have Windows 98. IE 6 Recently went to Yahoo DSL. On some sites, not all, I get red x's instead of images. For example: Yahooligans comes up with red x's, but when I click on a red x, I get an image. Going directly to IE, I have the …

About a week ago, through no intentional action on my part, my system decided to start up directly in MS Access. I have searched through msconfig and find no entry re: Access, only two "MS Office". If anybody has any ideas as to how to stop this, please send me …

I have recently had a reconfiguration on my computer that makes it impossible for me to visit popular websites including yahoo.com, microsoft.com etc.... I have no clue how to undo this. For instance when I type in [url]www.yahoo.com[/url] i am redirected to [url]www.www.yahoo.com.org/[/url] and i type [url]www.microsoft.com[/url] i am redirected …

Hello all When I go to the USERS portion of CONTROL PANEL, there is no option for ADVANCED to enable or disable CTRL+ALT+DELETE function at logon. I am running XP PRO with SP1. ANy help would be appreciated thank you in advance

I bought my computer just for Everquest but find myself frequently fustrated with it even trying to run StarCraft. Graphics card : e-GeForce FX 5200 Mother Board : ASUS (A7N8X Deluxe) Processor : AMD 2500+ (2.88) Modem : PCI V.92 Internal 512 DDR (2 x 128 K-byte) OS : Windows …

hey all, my dad has a Dell Dimension 8200 computer and he runs Windows XP pro. he's had it for almost a year and up until recently it was working just fine. Almost a month ago, he tried opening his picture file and he got this error message: "[color=red]The instruction …

is there a way to log ip addresses coming in to a pc running win2k?

grr I have three PC's each with a WD Cavier WD1200. I just installed win2k on one last friday and over the weekend it crashed and it says invalide boot sector insert bootable media. I checked the post screen and it doesn't find the harddrive. so than I tried to …

I installed windows xp onto a second hard drive that I had, but i removed it. When I start my computer, it would ask which windows to start. Even though i removed the hard drive with the other windows installed, the option to start the other windows appears. How would …

I also have the commonname problem. From what I hear it's big and hard to get rid of. After downloading hijackthis and doing the scan, how are you supposed to know what to delete and what to keep. An "about blank" screen always pops up on my computer also. Here …

a particular site is opening very SLOW in InternetExplorer and absolutely ok in Netscape... cannot figure out why? the site is [url="http://www.mojochicago.com"]www.mojochicago.com[/url] the site seems to be in php

Hi there I'm new to the forums so bear with me =) My friend just created his own domain. The first time I accessed it, it was just a simple "hi" message because he had no webpage up yet. Now he has a web page up, and even after deleting …

Hey all, Unfortunatly its my first post, so that means I have a problem. I just built this new system. Details: Mobo: Gigabyte GA-8KNXP CPU: 2.8 HT P4 800FSB Hard Drive: Western Digital SATA 36GB Raptor 10K Video: 9800 Pro OS: Windows XP Pro CD: LiteOn CD-RW/DVD+RW Well ever since …

About 3 years ago, I had a Windows 98 system, then upgraded it to XP. I have a Kodak DVC325 Digital Video Camera, and now it doesn't work. I downloaded the driver here: [url]http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/downloads/dln_ekn.jhtml?ekn=EKN009389[/url] and unziped it to the DVC325 file. Should it automatically work or is there something I …

Hi, I've just installed 512mb ram on my laptop, running windows xp home. I had to do this becuase it was only running 128 before aahh. Now I don't know very much about this but when I had a look at System in the control panel it tells me I'm …

Hello My first post here. My problem is with the Explorer window in Windows 98SE on an new, custom 1800 Celeron system with dual hard drives and 512 RAM. It's a problem I've not seen before on three of my own systems and two of my wife all running the …

Hello there, the other day I downloaded a program, it had two smaller programs and i double clicked one called load_me.exe and it loaded like 50 or 60 of them into the processes tab and so I immediatly restarted the computer. When my computer started back up, the 60 or …

Hi I just tried to load win XP home edition. doing a new install from scratch. the install started out fine, after the format was done it started to load. I walked away for a minute and when I came back there was a light blue screen (not the blue …

Original problem started w/error mess saying files required to run have been removed/replaced-tried doing system restore to previous date-same error message-put Win XP Home Ed cd in (inc sv pk 1) like it said to- froze in the middle of setup.Fatal error pdt catalog -signature invalid-prevents setup from continuing. Called …

OS: win2k Connection: dialup As window boots "preparing network connections" takes a long time and when it finishs everything is fine EXCEPT for the internet... it dials... it verifies u/p.... But then it TOTALLY freezes when it says registering on network and takes like 10min to do its job... found …

The loading bar is not showing, I have IE 6.0. Any help would be appreciated. thanks

Recently i have had problems with my pc freezing up during usage and or restarting itself. I heard it could be because of the dust build up and i cleaned my pc to find out that did not slove the problem. Well then i read i could have a problem …

I was always told that when u press ctrl alt delete, it should tell u that u are running programs. I was also told that at start up u should ony be running Systray and Explorer, now i am only running Systray, how can i run Explorer again????

Hi, I was given a computer to fix and have been searching various forums on the solution, well the problem is that aparently the user clicked on a popup for a free trial on anti-virus software, after the download it scanned his HD and found a virus and told him …

I am having an interesting problem with IE 60 sp1 and Google. When I send a search with Google tool bar the Google results will come up for about 5 seconds and then IE shuts down. I don't remember exactly when this started but it seems after getting the last …

All the time if I am replacing a CD by another one or if I take it out of a CD-Rom-drive while the windows explorer is opened Windows XP Pro hangs or seems to be working. It happens also from time to time if I try to close the windows …

Hello all. Im trying to write a batch file that will install a few (3) Applications/patches at once. I want the installs to be quiet or unattended, but I cant get it to work for adobe. W2K SP4 works fine and a custom app we use (Impact) also is fine. …

Ok, internet connections have a possible tweak to make them faster, or program to make them faster. Is there anything to tweak a graphics card? and if there is, where can I get it?

hehehe....Um...well you see, I was messing around with two machines, a Windows XP pro, and a Win2k pro, and I sort of got confused. Well to make a long story short, I sort of renamed one of the user accounts...Now it's, of course, not logging in correctly. It's logging in …

Well, that is what the teacher told me. This is an old computer running Win98 and it keeps freezing. She tells me that it freezes when she submits her attendence (the program here is called Winschool) or when she checks her e-mail (Outlook) or does anything. If she has more …

XP Pro SP1 had been running fine with just the Administrator account, and one other account with administrator priviliges. When I added a new user with the wizard, limited account, XP makes it to desktop with that account and then reboots. The same happens with the guest account. Previous accounts …

Greetings, I have a computer problem. The problem started a couple of months ago when I went to log on to Google. Instead of going to that page, it redirected me to a different page that appeared to be Google but every site was a different porn or gambling listing. …

OK ... system specs... Running Windows XP Home AMD Athlon XP 2200+ ATI Radeon 9600 PRO 1 gig pos ram but works. Asus A7V266-E Mobo. Mouse Keyboard yeah im cool... ATX kase, Koolance, PC2 or what ever ... 430 watt Enermax PWR Supply, not that any of this matters... Some …

Greetings, I recently installed the Windows XP update on to my computer and have had no problems up to now. I had to re-install Norton Antivirus and after I installed the program I ran the live update. Everything was working fine until I rebooted the machine. Now EVERYTHING from the …

Hey guys new to the site so go easy on me.... My brother is a retard. I went to the bathroom and he changed my account from admin to normal and changed my password. Is there a wa to get n without deleting my stuff or reinstalling xp/

OK some weird things happened while on MSN messenger today I posted them on the IE forum but here it is: "start the application sharing feature so I could see her desktop. The app share thing took forever to start working and we were never able to connect. THEN all …

When trying to load Word, a command prompt dialog box pops up for a few seconds before disappearing. Nothing else happens. The same problem occurs with most other utilities - it won't even run something simple like a ping command. The OS is Windows XP Home (no SP installed), and …

Hi there, a generally question: What does these errors in a bluescreen means (Win XP): - IRCQL_less_or_more (or something like this) and - "this file could caused an error : VGA.... please restart...please update drivers...." the second error appeared after the setup was finished, and with every restart first "Setup …

Greetings, Whenever I attempt to save Jpegs from the web onto my hard drive it use to save them as Jpegs but all of a sudden it will only save them as .bmp files. Unfortunately when I attempt to open them, they cannot be viewed, as all of my Graphic …

Hello, I have a computer that came with windows Me installed on it. I have had nothing but problems with it. Can I downgrade to window 98SE or do I need to upgrade to Windows XP. I have some win98SE licenses but don't currently have a windows xp license that …

I saw previous messages and i dont think that solved my problem.Internet explorer runs ok at main window but when i click to a link which opens new window or any other window these dont load and when i press stop at new window it shows at adress bar this …

I have 19 gigs used on a 20 gig hard drive. I can only find about 11 gigs being used. Could it be the millenium files from installing xp (choosing to keep them for a system restore back to ME)? If possible, where are they? I want to delete them. …

I have had two emails in the past two days one from a friend of mine and another from a site I have never even heard of saying that I or my computer sent tha an infected email. My friend simply stated tha I had sent him an i-worm and …

Hi, not sure if anyone can help but I've encountered 2 problems using messenger. No problems on my side of things but 2 out of the 3 people I've tried connecting to with my webcam only get a black screen whereas it appears to be working on my end. NOTE: …

I have a PC running WIN98/SE and each time I click on the Internet Explorer icon nothing happens. My instant messaging works just fine, just not Internet Explorer. This is machine is the client in a wireless network and the other machine has no problem. I use a cable modem …