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hi i have a win98SE OS. 512mb of ram. why 512 when only 256 is available i Don't know Anyway is there actually a memory manager that actually works? Tom :eek:

Help I'm using xp Eplorer 6 sp1. I have no problem when connecting using lan at work, but at my home i can not connect as the (never use a dial up connection is highligted) and i can't seem to change this, if i try too add a connection i …

I recently had to reformat my harddrive, i had some issues that had to be dealt with..so anyway, i re formatted my hard drive then reloaded my windows 98 and everything is fine..except..now my video seems messed up..i only have 16 color capability now..so even this webpage does not show …

I'm having problems with my computer booting up. I turn it on and all the fans and stuff start working and it sounds like it is booting up, but nothing shows up on the moniter, the keyboard and mouse does not light up, and CD rom wont open or respond. …

I have been having problems and Im not exactly sure if it is interent explorer or not but that is what we use to get on the internet and every time we close out explorer it stays at the bottom. the whole window disappears but not the little box that …

Hi everyone, for the past couple of days i have been unable to sign in to my hotmail account / messenger. i also cannot even access the msn homepage - i get the "page cannot be displayed " message. on the faliure to sign in to msn explorer i get …

the past few days when i use i.e. i get an error message saying explorer needs to close. it seems to always happen if there is a popup on whatever page i am looking at, but sometimes there doesn't appear to be a popup when this happens. when explorer shuts …

a guy at a local computer shop was telling me about a card he had ordered, rather expensive too. anyway it descriptions is bit likie nothing i have every heard about, but it dont mean no one has ever created one. he described a custom card that has the ATI …

hi all, this is my first post so go gentle!! when im opening some web pages im getting the following message your current security settings prohibit running active x controls on this page as a result this page may not display correctly. ive gone to control panel-internet options-security-custom level and …

Hi, I'm using windows xp proffesional, and I'm wondering what I have to do to get my settings in the way that the views allways is shown in the list mode in the windows explorer. Because now I have to change the views in every directory and it takes way …

my ie 6 goes offline when i haven't used it for a few minutes. i.e. can't load any webpages. i've tried releasing (ipconfig /release & ipconfig /renew) at the dos prompt and it works occasionally. is there a setting in the registry that may have been changed. i'm also running …

I have recently purchased a refurbished dell pc that had been wiped leaving no operating system just the initial start up, but after switching on the pc i am prompted with a c:\> which i can't get past, does anyone know how to do this so that i can install …

I am currently at college, and they require that I install a specific version of IE talored to their network... I have done this. However, when I try to get to one of the sites to register my port (otherwise it will be shut off, dont ask me why), IE …

Working on a p4 1.6 with winxp ,it had the w32 blaster work plus a lot of spyware exe's in Registry ,current version/ run ,it would just sit at the desktop ,i removed the worm,spyware from msconfig ,now it runs at the desktop but some program will run for just …

i keep getting this error message poping up on my screen when im on the web, i have reinstalled IE-6 and i still get the message, what could be the problem

my IE doesnt refresh auto when i switch pages like it usually does... anyone kno the prob?

can anyone please help, ive just upgraded to win 2000 from win 98, i had a second hard drive which i used for all my media files & i compressed it using drivespace 3, i cant access this hd without mounting it 1st but i need drivespace 3 to do …

What is the big problem with XP home seeing ANY other M$ OS shares? Server is Win2kpro, Laptop is XPhome. Server is sharing a folder that's needed by Laptop, laptop can't see 2kpro??? I'm basically here for info on possibly WHY this is happening and maybe something simple that can …

Well up until 3 weeks ago everything was fine when using IE to surf the net ,until bam one day it decided to make surfing a living hell. Everytime i try to directly enter a site address in the address bar it redirects me to some porn site, at first …

when loading a page up on IE6....the browser shuts itself down and i get a message on my desktop: An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM. Unexpected Signal : EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) occurred at PC=0x2AB53784 Function=Java_sun_awt_font_NativeFontWrapper_registerFonts+0x14C0 Library=C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2\bin\fontmanager.dll HELP PLEASE

Here is my question about using Styles or Winblind type themes mods for windows xp. Is there any more of a performance hit, over the standard XP themes, on the system?

I have a media program on five CDs which I find I cannot view. I'm running Windows XP Professional. When I run the first CD it installs several files after making changes to config.sys and win.ini files. When I click 'open' I get the message "Can't run 16 bit Windows …

I'm really having trouble transfering my mp3's from my old 80 Gig HD to my new 160 Gig HD. Everytime I try to transfer them, I get a message saying.. "Access is Denied". I really have no idea why this message comes up and doesn't let me play the file. …

I have Norton Ghost, and just finished building a computer. When I copy one hard drive to the other, does it also copy my hardware crap? I've already used it once but on the same computer, when upgrading the hard drive. It had the exact look, and the such, except …

Hi... glad to have stumbled across this great looking forum. I have a question to ask. I just started using VMWare 4, and am trying to install Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition on a Windows XP machine before an actual installation on a server. Every time I boot VMWare, it …

hello i am having problems with internet explorer 6.0. it keeps hanging, which makes trying to write e-mails redidculious (i type a full line before it is visible). i have emptied my cache and it has not helped. i have plenty of harddrive space. the interesting thing is that netscape …

I'm using IE6 SP1 with Windows XP Pro. This just started happening recently (I think when I updated some components via Windows Update but I'm not sure exactly). But now if I try to view the source of a webpage (by right clicking or from the view menu) nothing happens …

Hi please can you help, just recently when i go into a web site and it opens up another site for eg registering or something, it freezes my system, i have to con/alt/del please help Cheers

Article from: [url=http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2003/Feb/1006046.html]securitytracker.com[/url] To view working sample, go to: [url]http://sec.drorshalev.com/dev/luck/default.asp[/url] Microsoft Internet Explorer showHelp() Domain Security Flaw Lets Remote Users Execute Commands SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1006046 CVE Reference: CAN-2003-1328 (Links to External Site) Date: Feb 5 2003 Impact: Disclosure of system information, Disclosure of user information, Execution of arbitrary code …

Yes i had to reformat my PC and i was wondering how to get my audio driver and such back cause i have had no audio for the past week, it didnt install when i reinstalled windows 98plus! , if you guys/girls could help i would like to thank you.

My computer froze up after a defrag. The when I tried to reboot, it went through the normal process until my wallpaper was visible. At this point, usually, my icons appear and off I go. Now, a small title bar with "Explorer" blinks for a fraction of a second and …

Arg. I've posted to other forums but to no avail. People seem interested in helping out at the beginning and then the problem seems to serious or something so they drop off! :) Ok. Here's the lowdown. I'm running Windows 2000 on an old beater Sony Vaio. I'm networked to …

I'm running IE 6 on XP and for some strange reasons, when I'm logged onto Yahoo mail, every once in a while I get a message telling me I need to upgrade my browser to IE 5. It also tells me I need to enable my javascript. My javascript is …

How do you remove the text (and just have the icons) for the Right Column in the Windows XP Startbar? Whenever I look at Windows XP Themes, they are turned off. Here is a sample: [url="http://users.skynet.be/bk265512/BlueCurve/Screenshots/BlueCurveSS.jpg"]http://users.skynet.be/bk265512/BlueCurve/Screenshots/BlueCurveSS.jpg[/url] Also, featured in the above image, the desktop icons are larger then normal size. …

A lot of times when I start my computer I get a blue screen and keep getting it when I reboot. Other times when I'm on the internet it freezes and I have to reboot. The only time I don't get the blue screen is is the computer is off …

I have a document that needs to be filled out. To help the user input all the correct information that goes on the form, I built a user form. On enter, the information gets transferred to the form. To accomplish this I use this statements like the ones below: ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("NAME").range.InsertBefore …

Using Windows XP Pro, when you move a hard drive from one computer to another, it will often refuse to boot and give the blue screen of death with a stop error. i really don't feel like reinstalling windows so i was wondering if there was a way to say …

well at it agian. once agian i have had to tell people why i cant fix it. here is the storym my brother bought a game for his new computer. game hs modest, to low end, system requirements. basicaly a 3d card, 128Mb ram, 8 meg video card and a …

Ok....from some reason i can't view source on my Internet Explorer...i know some sites have blocked that feature such as right click but the sites that let me right click to view source won't let me view source...how can i fix this problem....????

Recently everytime I open the IE it takes 10-20 secs to open, before the problem apear it opened in a sec, what can I do to fix it?

my browser, and i mean all of them... opera, netscape, msn explorer or IE, all do the same exact thing.. they continue to tell me that i need the flash player plugin to view flash content.. i have dl the plugin 6 times in the last 3 days.. i am …

Ok, here's the deal: I'm currently running Windows 2000 on my master (c:) drive 30GB, dual booting with Windows ME. Running slave is my new 60GB HD, with ALL of my media files, important files, etc. C:\ has been throwing me warning signs for a while now, and I don't …

I have VMware WS4 running on a Dell GX60 P4 2 ghz w/ 256MB RAM WinXP Pro host. I have a Win98SE installed, running fine as a guest. I've installed the VMware tools. All VMware video & NIC drivers are loaded successfully. I have a need to AUTOMATE a file …

Help, while trying to clean up my computer, (Windows ME, HP Pavilion XL946)I think I have accidentally deleted the file that runs my sound. (And, yes, I emptied all the trash.) I don't want to restore the entire computer, nor do I want to restore to a certain date, because …

I came to Europe, on vacation to my uncle's house.. He has a computer and I've been on it many times.. when I check out sites their HTML coding, etc.. comes out weird.. like every site i've visited is only neon green in color for the links.. Their HTML coding …

i am having trouble all of a sudden with internet explorer.. everytime i type an address into the location bar, it refuses to load and in the status bar it names an unrelated PHP url that as far as i can tell from the name is some porn site, that …

Hi there, Ive got two pc's running in our apt. One is running win200pro and the other winXPpro. I bought a Linksys 4 port router, and both computers are able to share my cable internet. What I want to do is have them share files aswell...Im tired of burning disks... …

Basially the situation is I have 4 computers here and 2 printers. The 2 printers are hooked up to one computer-1 is USB and 1 is Parallel. They print fine when they are first connected but if I reboot the computers without attached printers then they say "Unable to Connect/Access …

First of all hello :) Found this forum whilst browsing around, looks friendly enough 8) I run XP Pro, Ie6 (SP1). FOr about a week i cannot access web bsed email accounts and certain pages wont laod properly, in yahoo for instance the inbox loads but try and open a …

I'm having a problem with IE version 6.0 and my inability to open links on any website. When I click on a link, I get a new window that is blank. (solid white). I'm running Windows 2000 Pro. I've checked my security levels, and restored all my internet settings to …