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I have had to format our computer (eMachines W6409) and reinstall Windows XP but I can't figure out how to fix it so Standby is not grayed out. I have gone to the eMachines support website and downloaded the chipsets. One of them installed but it still is grayed out. …

Hi I used to have a problem, where if i double clicked on any hard drive in My Computer, it would be opened inside the program ACDSee, rather than just opening up in explorer. there was no way to switch it off from within ACDSee so i went to Tools->Options->File …

I have a Sony Vaio that is not working properly. It used to work properly but it would occasionally freeze and I would need to hard reset it by holding onto the power button for around 5 seconds. Yesterday, the computer froze again and I hard reset it. For some …

I purchased a barebones computer and it works great! I want to use an old steering wheel with the racing car games (old), but this is a 15 pin socket. The Motherboard has a 9 pin game socket. I installed an old sound card which has a 15 pin socket …

Hello, I have windows xp professional, cpu 2.53 GHz, 2.53 GHz, 1.24 GB ram. I am having a heck of a time trying to download music to my pc. I have several playlists on utube but I'm unable to transfer them to windows media player. I also thought I could …

hi, i'm new here n i wanna know how i cn open a mobile page on my mozilla browser

Hi my PC has no sound and the 'C-Media AC97 Audio Device' in the device manager has a yellow exclamation mark next to it. I have tried un-installing and re-installing it but this does nothing. Can anybody tell me how to fix this or how to aquire a working device …

Well un fortunately I dont have AC...My FAN runs almost constantly...What if anything can I do about this? Is it a threat to the tower? Is it normal?

I read a few similar posts on here regarding web browsers not being able to access the Microsoft website. Some of them are solved, but I have been having this same issue and after trying EVERYTHING I have been able to read on this forum and others to solve it, …

I have a pc that is shared by several people. Have decided to disable the log on password, but would still like to protect my private documents. It should be relatively simple - can anyone tell me how to set password entry on specific folders? Much appreciated

Hi recenlty i bought N5010 laptop with 320 gb hd... i wanted to create more partition because there was only one which was Os.. i successfully made one partion of 70 gb with the disk management.. but when i created another partition so it just throw an error u cant …

This is my 1st attempt at a posting. My PC has 1 HD with 3 partitions; 55 mb FAT -- Partition Magic 8.0 (works fine) 300 mb FAT -- DOS 6.22 (E:) (works fine) 37 gb NTFS -- XP Pro (C:) Have valid OEM XP Pro CD w/SP2 XP really …

How can i make my utorrent download faster !!!!!!

Hi, I bought a new desktop PC a few weeks ago, running Windows 7 and of late is has started giving STOP errors quite randomly. I've included the problem signature below. The error was stated to be associated with tcpip.sys. I've been investigating this issue for a few days now …

Hi Mates, I have a little problem on my Win2003 Server Ent.Edition, SP2. I use AD int the network and dns is located on the same server(local one). Standard setup with replication with another DCs (remote DCs). My services on another server can not start due to a logon failure …

hello frnds, i have barcode reader..i can read the barcode through that software which come along with barcode scanner..now i want to fetch that data from that software...basically i want to read data from barcode and to make database in mysql or oracle...so what should i do??what are the ways …

So what's wrong? Well a new tab tab keeps randomly opening up in the browser that I'm using. If I have no browser open then it just defaults to IE. At first the spacebar key opened a new tab. Then it would open a new tab by itself nonstop. Now …

Hi, This is me called Malik. I want someone serious help. I have given a task to make the Learning Session of a software, same as the learning softwares available in the market. Unfortunately I am unable to find the appropriate software and also stays still unable to complete the …

Hello, Which of these security software products, McAffee SecurityCenter, Norton 2011 or ZoneAlarm Extreme Security, should I buy? My subscription for SecurityCenter is almost up and I'm wondering if I should renew. SecurityCenter has been good, if a bit overzelous, in in eating nasty things, but I've heard reports that …

Hello, i have experienced a problem after installing win7. everything works well but my computer doesn´t make any sounds. I have got these audio adapters (and i´d like to assure you i don´t know what it really means) 1) Audio Adapter Analog Devices AD1986A @ Intel 82801GB ICH7 - High …

On the ‘Folder’ ribbon the ‘favorites’ section does not appear. Right clicking the ribbon and choosing ‘Customize the Ribbon…’ shows the ‘Folder’ tab as being selected and within that tab are ‘New, Actions, Clean up, Favorites, Share, IMAP, Properties’. ‘Favorites, Share and IMAP’ do not appear on the ribbon. I …

So I've set up a data connection to a table on my website and the data imports just fine, but it formats the cells wrong. Case in point: The text coming in is "May 7". First Excel auto-converts this to "5/7/2011". But then it doesn't even display that, it displays …

the software installed in my pc is windows xp.yesterday i downloaded google chrome and set it as my default browser .till then my default browser was internet explorer 6,from then onwards my system is taking longer than usual to start.. can anybody please help me in this matter ... I'm …

Hi, I am having trouble opening popular websites such as hotmail, ebay or facebook. I can open most other sites without issue. They time out and internet explorer says it can not display the web page. I am operating Windows 7. I googled the problem and it looks like its …

hi friends,when i tried to open my Ms Access 2003 file in Ms Access 2007 .i am getting the following error .Kindly let me know the idea .any help would be highly appreciated. [code] This error can appear if you try to convert an Access 97 database to a more …

I have had to format our computer (eMachines W6409) and reinstall Windows XP but I cannot find the correct audio driver. I have gone to the eMachines support website and used their program to detect the driver on the computer. I downloaded the one they said but it did not …

I was reviewing my IIS logs and noticed a single IP accessing the same file multiple times within seconds of each other. There are other IP addresses that do the same and cannot figure out why this is happening. This is on a closed network and thought maybe it was …

[B]I have windows XP with SP3, my system configuration is pentium -4 2.8 Ghz with 2 GB of RAM, hard disk is 80GB with 3 drives of which c drive is 18.6 GB free space is 6.10, my problem is resuming after Hibernation takes atleast 5 mins, i had Celeron …

Hi! I could play 18 Wheels of Steel: Haulin, and then I've deleted it. After a while I've installed it but I can't play it. I click on the icon but nothing happens. Can somebody help me? Thanks a lot!

Currently I am running under Vista 32 bit Specs: Amd Athlon 64 X2 dual core Processor 5600+ 2.8 GHz Here's the Details to the error Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033 Additional information about the problem: BCCode: 4e BCP1: 00000099 BCP2: 0009FF0A BCP3: 00000003 …

Aloha! When I woke up this morning... Vista would not load. :icon_eek: 1. It automatically goes into the Startup Repair mode, and that has no effect. 2. The System restore does not restore back to a point earlier in time. 3. Within the System Recovery Options, there is no option …

I have been using Shared Hosting for a while. Recently, my website is getting bigger and Shared Hosting is not very reliable in term of speed. So I decided to bought a Windows Virtual Dedicated Server from GoDaddy. [B]This Virtual Dedicated Server will only be used to host one website …

I am using Windows 6.1 build 7601 Ultimate edition x64. I have tried several modems with same result in both bridge & PPPoE mode. PPPoE mode has its own problems that prob'ly can't be resolved but I hope that the bridge mode problem can be resolved. Sometimes when a link …

Hi I use IE7 on win XP sp3 From today I get this annoying msg (pic is attached) everytime I open a new tab, (It is not possible to be saved, since it finds nothing) How is it possible to get rid of that? Thanks

When I start up windows I recieve a message that says , Cannot find a device file that may be needed to run Windows or a Windows application. The Windows registry or System.ini file refers to this device file,but the file no longer exists, If you deleted this file on …

I can't change my desktop in my system(windows 7). If I change any wallpaper, there I can see only change in solid color. So, is there any way to solve this.please any answer could be appreciated.......

Clicking on the MAIL icon in the brower, I cant get mail, yet by clicking on the mail icon at the system tray BOTTOM of screen I can..How do I fix the icon in the toolbar?

I need to uninstall and reinstall MP12 due to massive duplication of music files (my fault). I can't find a way to reinstall save for this: [URL="http://www.thewindowsplanet.com/869/how-to-uninstall-reinstall-windows-media-player-12-windows-7.htm"]http://www.thewindowsplanet.com/869/how-to-uninstall-reinstall-windows-media-player-12-windows-7.htm[/URL] Is it that easy?

I get an error everytime I open my folder I keep videos in. I tried looking up how to fix the problem on google and microsoft, and all I could find was something saying to manually delete some files and reinstall active movie. After doing this, the error still occurred. …

i have formated a friends laptop by instaling a new windows 7 in a different partition but i do not know how to remove the old windows from the other partition, the computer keeps saying unable to perform format when i format the partition containig the old windows please help.

During the 3 years I have had my laptop, I found a weird glitch in the Vista OS. Sometimes when I shut down my computer the screen goes blank, and I cannot wake it up. I assume the Vista OS had shut down, but it didn't shut down the computer. …

I am currently running a test environment on a SBS 2003. I had SharePoint Service running for about couple of weeks but after a Windows update by SharePoint stopped working along with my SQL Server. I found out that all of SharePoint files are in c:\Inetpub\companyweb but the folder is …

I forgot administrator password so i am not able to access my pc.:(PLEASE suggest something.

I have Windows XP Professional. I understand that one should have just one anti-virus program. I have discovered 2 very good (free) programs, SUPER Antispyware and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware which have detected and removed/quarantined spyware and malware on my computer. Can I leave them on or will they conflict with my …

Hi, I've got a virus on my machine and have to reinstall windows 7. I bought y copy from software for students so it was downloaded. I can't really remember but I assume I must have also downloaded the product key. I usually keep all my product keys backed up …

My computer froze up while on the internet. I shut it down. When I turned it back on it will not go past the BIOS screen. I tried F2 set up and it just shows "Preparing to enter setup". Will not ever get there... So then I try F12, "Preparing …

I have Desktop Comp. when i logged in Guest account my pc works fine and my internet connection also works good. but when i logged in Using Admin account my pc suddenly slows down and internet connection also not work properly, continuously i refresh my connection. i m not getting …

Hello again anyone can recommend some useful tools (free if any), which can help find out for example when an application is being run in Windows, how much CPU, RAM and other resources are being used (i know the task manager provides something like this but want something with more …

Hello, This all started yesterday when I tried opening Photoshop CS4, which I've been running for years. First it began to load OK but very quickly sent my display into 640x480 which nothing except a reboot seemed to fix. I tried again, and exactly the same problem occured - no …

Installed Wordpress Multisite on Windows server 2008R2 and seems to be working fine EXCEPT: the update feature in WP fails or anytime when it tries to install something for you. I set up a valid / working FTP account as it sometimes asks for this, but that does not work …