Microsoft Windows Forum

I can not open any links in mu outlook, it was working fine a few days ago. I get a error message that says "" The operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator." I search on here and the link …

my laptop is HP Pavilion tx1220us (GA647UA#ABA) about a month ago after starting my computer i raelised that it didnt connect to my home wireless connecetion i checked and found out that there is no "manage wireless connections" or "connect to a network" in network and sharing center ...and it …

With The New Software To Prevent Piracy It Is Taking A Machine Fingerprint Whe Acticating The Programs I Have One Program From Scan Soft Asking Me For The Machine Fingerprint Does Anyone Know Where It Is On The Computer.my Operating System Is Xp Pro

When I went to start up my computer this morning, it went to a black screen and said, ''Windows did not start up successfully", then gives me 5 options; but I tried them all and it just loops back to the same error screen message. I have no discs or …

I've had Vista installed for a few weeks now, really regretting the decision, as I even got a BSOD during installation a few times!, but recently it has been asking for third party drivers for EVERYTHING I plug into the USB, including my optical mouse! I just seems to me …

I just don't know what happened? My Pc was running fine, then all of a sudden my soundcard started playing up, it wouldn't play anything but distorted sounds. I turned my Pc Off, and all that happens now is the windows XP screen starts to load and I see the …

I have vista ultimate edition and I can't watch movies in either IE7 or Firefox using media player 11, and I am wondering if there are any fixes to these problems. Thanks

When I pull up My Computer to access the different drives and folders all the icons on my screen blink. I don't what caused it. It started about a week ago. Any help will be appreciated. If you need additiaonal info please let me know. Cobrarr2003 :cry:

Hi, I have recently installed windows 7 build 7201 and i cant find windows 7 dockbar anywhere i always see it in screenshots of windows 7 , Can anyone tell me how to find or get it ?? Thanks in advanced

This is my first post. I apologize if it is in the wrong area. I have a Windows XP Pro laptop that I am trying to partition and install Knoppix Linux. I have installed Norton PartitionMagic and BootMagic (both vers. 8.0) to partition the C: drive. BootMagic had to be …

hey guys, I am on a local area network (LAN) and I have a netgear Firewall model WGT624. The problem is that when I go on some websites, it says that, "This website has been blocked by NETGEAR firewall." I am not the administrator, but i have full access to …

My laptop takes way too long to startup, what can i do to speed it up? Attached is my Hijackthis log.

When Windows XP tries to load, I get the following message: "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this." My options are: Start in safe mode. Safe mode with networking. Safe mode with command prompt. Last known …

Well I don't understand why Microsoft still supports Windows NT 4.0 it's such a bad useless operating system, when they cut off support for the windows 9x series even when the earliest version of windows 95 is a much better windows than NT 4.0, NT 4 doesn't even support Fat32 …

I am not sure if i am posting this in the right place but here goes... How do i ghost an image of xp so that i can use it in different system with different kind of hard disk(brand), motherboard, cpu and ram. The program i am familiar with to …

everytime i try to start my laptop computer, i get this message on a blue screen (although, it does not look like a traditional Blue Screen of Death)...i've tried reseting to the last settings that worked, but i end up at this same screen: -------------------- STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} …

I purchased a Stereo-Link 1200 USB DAC (Digital-to-analog converter) to improve my digital music from my computer a couple of years ago, and using Windows XP Home Premium, I never had a problem with this operating system recognizing the USB DAC unit as my default audio source whenever I turned …

I didn't know where else to post this, so if it is in the wrong forum, please move it to the correct one. Anyway, I need wireless connection for my laptop, but I want it to work internationally, as I need to use it in both Europe or Asia (mostly …

I'm creating a Christmas PowerPoint slide show of my family,can someone tell me where I can download free Christmas templates for my presentation? And I want to put this PowerPoint slideshow on Youtube to share with all my relatives and friends. I tried to upload an.PPT file to Youtube but …

I have a problem. I was playing NBA 2k10 in my PC. At first it is smooth then after minutes or so it became slow and choppy, i cant play good it's annoying me,but after sometimes it comes back to being smooth then slow then smooth then slow its freaking …

Hopefully you can help i have an acer aspire 1710 with xp pro and sp2 installed. i have a WLAN 802.11g mini-PCI Module for wireless connectivity. i was using my wireless connetion the other day, until my notebook froze( it often gets hot and freezes) and i had to restart. …

Antivirus is V important as a safety guard,unfortunately it has side effects one of them is attacking your active Trusted programs.One might try an exeptional option but even this utility is diabled in some antiviruses ,and if it was enabled the anti virus also attack your beloved program although it …

I installed some additional memory last week because the desktop computer moved slowly. Now, the monitor shows black. I've hooked the computer to two different monitors and get the same result. It is an emachines computer, and I have taken the new memory out, but the monitor still doesn't work. …

I have been having problems with my computer freezing up. It usually happens about 1 minute after turning on the computer....it doesn't matter where it's at in the loading process. It can happen before or after Windows has started. A little about the computer....it is a PENTIUM 4 2.4GHz system. …

My friend deleted all her media on pc, after thinking she'd backed it up (but it didn't work) and emptied the recyle bin. I know there's programs out there to recover files in this instance but can someone suggest a reliable/safe one please? she's running windows XP service pack 1. …

I have searched through and read several sites in vain while trying to correct a recent problem: I downloaded AIM for chats and despite the fact that I unchecked the "Make AIM my default search engine" in the installation, AIM still went ahead and took over my searches. Even after …

I have an emachine that will not boot to windows because it is froze on the BIOS page. It will not respond to the rebootable disc. It doesn't respond to control + alt + del. It doesn't respond to F8 or F2. It doesn't respond to the esc key or …

I have this weird issue where my IDE/ATAPI controller drivers keep reverting to PIO mode instead of staying in ultra DMA 6 mode. What can I do to stop this from happening?

I have network with one router and two computers connected to it (one through wireless connection). I can create 'Remote Desktop Connection' from one computer to other but connection is broken after a few seconds. Ideas?

Anyone else have a problem with the Yahoo Chat Software and Vista? I can log into chat, but cannot hear anything in the voice conference. Nor can I use my mic. Was just curious if anyone else had encountered this problem and been able to resolve it.

The Microsoft Windows embedded product portfolio has just been given a hefty push into the limelight with the official release of Windows 7 technologies over to what Microsoft refers to as manufacturers of specialized devices. During an industry address at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston yesterday, Microsoft announced the …

I get an"Invalid Boot.ini file booting from C:\windows" message when starting up . I use WIN XP. I searched this site for suggestions and followed this one that worked for others....However not for me. "Below is how to edit your BOOT.ini: Most people cannot find BOOT.INI on their hard drive. …

Hi, I have a VB6.0 application, which is functioning in windows XP operating system, And I’m going to use the application in Windows 7 operating system. In this application I am using the following OCX controls, • Keysta32.ocx • Grid32.ocx • Threed32.ocx • Mschart.ocx The "Support Statement for Visual Basic …

Hi, I have just completed a clean install of XP Pro V2002 with SP3 and all updates on my PC but my mouse is now over sensitive. When I click on anything it may be a double or triple click. When I try to select a file it may open …

Can a 64-bit Operating System be installed on machine having a 32-bit processor??

I know you can delete the file DW20.exe to remove Microsoft Error Reporting's core executable, but is there a system command to kill it? Thanks

I see that previously others had the same problem I am having. When I click on my contacts list and "email contact" I get a javascript error message in the lower left corner. Then a page which says this site is not available. It then disappears and the screen comes …

Hello. Quite suddenly, a rather normal, albeit slow, computer decided to start posting a message box upon signing in to the computer with: Explorer.EXE-Application Error in it. It adds: The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000006). Click on OK to terminate the application. When I go to the Windows Task …

Now if you've heard of [URL="http://www.inspiredeffect.com/FoxFilter/"]FilterFox[/URL], you'll know it is an add-on for Firefox that allows the main user to block those sites they don't want any shared users to access. Now up till V6.0, one could password protect access to FilterFox, disallowing others from simply disabling filters, or even …

I am trying to burn a DVD. I have burned DVDs on my laptop for 3 years. But recently it is not letting me. 1. Explorer shows my DVD drive as a CD drive 2. Whenever I try to burn to a DVD it tells me there is no valid …

I tried searching for this topic but couldn't find anything posted about this. When I make new favorites, sometimes the site has a custom icon and is then shown in the favorites. But, they seem to disappear on me, and now I'm back to all of them being the default …

I have read other people having probs with 98SE, please help. 1. i have added a 128ram to machine PC133 which i assume is to fast as the PC only reads 68ram of it, can i get a slower 128ram. Also i added a usb pci card but in system …

hi, I've got a game in this file format(.cdd ,.sub,.img) i dont know how to use these... please can someone direct me on how to end up playing this game... thank you for your help....

Hello; Recently I restored a server from a crash, running Windows 2003 Small Business. Most of my computers are working fine on the network, but 3 of them are being a pain in the ass. Their common problem is that their outlook 2003 sporadically disconnects from the exchange server. I …

When I boot up my computer, everything loads up fine; all my start-up programs; everything. But everytime I click on iTunes, Computer, My Documents, anything, it loads but windows explorer suddenly won't respond. I don't know what to do. Will anyone please help?

Hi I am running Windows Vista Home Premium on my current HP computer, and i am using the keyboard that came with it. On it there are a series of shortcut keys that can be programmed to open s web browser, email client, search window etc. and they had been …

Hi, I am experiencing a slower and slower connection to Daniweb everytime I log on, why is this so? I have tried at several locations on many diferent machines with the same result.

How to remove 5 in 1 card reader from boot-up? I have a 5 in 1 card reader where a 3.5 floppy would normally be on my Acer PC. When I check “My Computer” it shows the 5 individual readers as removable drives. Can I set-up my PC so that …

Windows partly hangs on re-boot? After running windows for any length of time, if I am required to re-boot for any reason (software installation, etc) the PC hangs before the “Progress bar” starts to fill across the bottom of the screen. All I get after the initial “post screen” is …

Hi, I have had this problem for a while. I cannot open websites such as. [url]www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk[/url], [url]www.cwjobs.co.uk[/url], [url]www.hmsamuel.co.uk[/url] just to name a few. I have tried downloading different web browers and attempting to open up the pages in then, but suprise, suprise it doesn't work. I know that when I …