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Hallo, I have a computer that now runs windows xp. I had windows 7 ultimate X32 but I'm went back, because i had 4 till 5 BSOD every day on windows 7. Now I'm a few weeks back to xp and the computer is very slow with the logon, he's …
hi friends my runs slow when i started to use mozilla firefox. i am using USB Modem as my internet connection. please i want somebody to help me. thanks
Hi I have been experiencing a problem with my HP HDX 16 Laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium. I have had it connected to a Samsung HDTV as an extended monitor using an HDMI connection and up until a couple months ago everything was running fine. What has been happening …
Hi All, I am a website developer. I need to take demo video of my website without sound for representing it to the client. I also want to add text callout or help notes along with screen capture(e.g. 'click on submit button','Fill username'..etc like snagIt). I am looking for such …
Hi, I have a problem with my friends dekstop. He said he can't login windows and all he get was a total black screen so he gave it to me for checking... Initially, after windows 7 splash screen, it should prompt to login window, but it didn't. Instead, it just …
Hello, Im having a problem with my OE6 first, When I download emails it stops receiving at one out-of #s? Sometimes I do receive emails from Outlook but most of the I can't receive one. What I did is to removed emails from the server and back to normal then …
Running XP SP3 Dell Dimension 4700 The computer was acting a bit weird for a short part of the day, the monitor kept blanking out and sometime it would flash. We tried a reboot and ended up with a BSOD stop: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005,0x804D9092,0xF78DDF88,0xF78DDC84) [img]http://fototime.com/9178CAB72707663/orig.jpg[/img] For a while I had access …
New PC build. One new HD. Also Old drive. Windows 7 Home Premium. 32bit installed on new drive. Booted first time all OK. Cleaned out old drive of all files. (Was XP Pro) Used PC for a week, decided to upgrade Windows to 64bit. No problems or errors loading. On …
Here is the problem: Computer starts fine. Passes bios control. Starts loading windows. Right after the win loading and before the password login page the screen turns black and no signal is displayed. I believe the problem has occured from an abnormal shut-down the previous day. How can i fix …
Hi, when ever i login to my system it prompt me to activate my XP sp3 pack. But my administrator is already activated it. when ever i login into administrator account it ask weather to activate it or not(yes or no) when i press yes it is not responding. so …
[B]Windows XP[/B] is installed into [COLOR="Red"]C [/COLOR]drive. later i installed [B]Windows Server 2003[/B] in [COLOR="Red"]D[/COLOR] drive. While installing some S/W into Server 2003 it is corrupted.So i tried to overwrite or upgrade the same Server 2003 on D drive. But it is showing error as can't upgrade. I can't format …
Hello, I have the Win7 task scheduler set to run an exe application at a certain time every day. At that time, the program opens up and begins. It runs into trouble when it needs to download data over the internet. The data never gets downloaded and after about a …
OK at first glance eveything is in english, File Edit View etc (along the top) but when i right click or a dialogue box appears, or somethin is loading, the loader bar is german and so are the dialogue boxes etc I dont know how it got this way or …
My friend had the Yankees game streaming and was working on something else online, when the screen went blank. I restarted the laptop, but now I have only the wallpaper and the message error with explorer.exe. I had just allowed Norton to expire and was in the process of buying …
Heyyyy I went on my copmputer the other days and tried to get on internet eplorer. But it wouldnt load up i pressed diagnose problem but no problem came up Just before i went on to my programs and internet explorer did not appear so i dont now if i …
Hello, I am an agent in booking cruises for my passengers. I'm wondering if there is any decent software out there that I can use? Thanks in advance for your advice!
How do i get past this limitation in ie8. Microsoft confirms the limitation in the following sites: [url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533583%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[/url] [url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533581%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[/url] I saw this forum post, but i still could not solve the issue: [url]http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/iewebdevelopment/thread/a11758ab-66fe-4bea-adcc-9c50fe2d443b/[/url] Can somebody edit this sample html to get a table larger than 1000 columns work in ie8 …
Alright, I'm having a problem with a scheduled task not running. At first it wouldn't run the vbs, so I created a bat to run it and then it would work, but only when the user is logged in. I went into the local security policy and made sure my …
Hi all I'm looking to do what as far as I know is a straight forward enough task in excel...............just can't think the best way of doing it!! I am taking registrations for a course and I have two columns (K&L) for paid and fee Column L is the fee …
No its not number locked.... So recently i'v been having a on and off problem with my keyboard acting up. I'm leaning towards a virus, but can't find any other similar problems. This issue.... Okay, so i'm trying to play "World of Warcraft".. and i can type/talk normally. But when …
I have 2 laptops A and B, both running windows 7. I can access A from B, but can't access B from A. Strange thing is, if I go through network, I cant even access A from A. This is the error message that I get. A (or B) is …
I would like some help with getting free virus and spy ware software to protect my desk top pc I run windows 7 could someone please send some links and recommed the best free software used but dont want any trials would like full versions thanks much!
Every time i turn on my laptop its says `operating system not found` when I put the recovery disk in the slot I can access the recovery options but it doesnt let me format the HD cuz it cant find the volumes. it doesn't even let me restore the pc …
Hi, I have a HP Pavilion dv6000 notebook. I switched over to Linux a few months ago, and have been very happy with it. (running Ubuntu 10.04) Recently I've had the need to install Windows on my laptop again. I've got Windows XP Media Centre, which came with the laptop, …
Question about Vista Home Premium SP2 ... I use Oracle VirtualBox, and saved VM snapshots are big (from 100's of MB to multiple GB at times). These are getting saved in both my username directory and in username.V2, and that's taking a lot of space. There's a lot of other …
[B]hi friends again I need some help. I'm using a broadband connection and got a problem that I'm ran out of my free data bundle every month and have to pay for the additional data.. but I'm not download much.All I need to know is is there any software for …
I have windows xp 2003, Installed the free version of avg 2011. Was told Microsoft Essentials was so much better so wanted to try it. Thought I downloaded it, but now I can't find it. To top it off, can't remove avg, keeps telling me that there is an error …
Folks, This is weird. Outlook sends the email from the Outbox but does not reduce itself numerically or add the sent mail to the Sent Items folder. Anubody know what the heck is going on. I run Exchange 2003 too. Thanks in advance.
Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron n14 Laptop, I am getting an error while writing a DVD +R DL. The DVD drive is DVD+-RW DS-8A5SH. The software used is NERO 10. Although the software Nero Infotool identifies the DVD drive to support DVD + DL for write and read both, …
I've Googled this and get every direction except the right one. We're running Win 7 Home Premium. There are a couple of programs that open up every time we reboot and I don't want them popping up on the screen. Input appreciated.
my computer is asking for a status disk and i do not have one for the cd/rom and i cant get if off of my screen what can i do to get it off please help
what is the difference bw these numbers? my hard disk is Momentus 7200.4 .. and ive seen some 500 and much more.. does it matter if i get anything besides 7200.4? for instance can I get this? Samsung Spinpoint M5 HM160HC - Hard drive - 160 GB - internal - …
I am using Windows XP on a Lenovo 3000 c100. I get a funny beeping noise that accompanies continuous backslahes in typing areas. (\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\). This will continue until I hit any key on the keyboard, but will resume when opening any window or typing area. I have removed and reseated …
Alrighty, Well first of all i appreciate you taking the time in reading this. I bought a Hp pavilion dv7 brand new from best buy couple months back. Ive never let a scratch on this. Only handled by 1 person. Never dropped nothing. Always on my office desk. However, one …
. 10-June-'11 - . Using InterNet Explores 9 - - - "ToolBarH Application" by "Conduit Ltd." keeps popping up - Repeats on every new tab or new window request - Checking "Do not show me the warning for this program Again" does no good - I have only clicked on …
Hi all, I recently configure my hard disk to a bootable usb hard disk that runs linux. However, my windows is not able to detect my hard disk anymore but when i plug in to my laptop i am still able to boot up to linux through this hard disk. …
Hey guys I'm really new to this forum, i signed up to see if anyone has any idea what could be wrong with my PC that i built, generally i'm not that inexperienced with this kind of thing but i wanted confirmation before i go out and buy new parts. …
When I switch on my computer XP I have to type in my "password". I am unable to type my password as I cannot type anything. How can I retrieve the printing process which doesn't seem to be working.? I can't get past the "Password"-Is there any way I can …
I need this to work with my Huawei modem I have Win Vista 32 bit
I have a Gateway 310, desktop computer with Windows XP home Edition on it. I put a fresh install on the computer and had already updated it thru Microsoft. I was trying to then put Cyberlink PowerDVD on the computer and thats where it all went wrong. Of the discs …
I have a icon on the desktop and when I click the START menu. How do I get this in the system tray also?
As Administrator if I make a registry change in HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop/WaitToKillAppTimeout, will that change be reflected to all accounts on the PC or do I need to make the same change to all of the user accounts? I am running XP Pro SP2. My goal is to speed up the …
Hi, I made a stupid thing. The girl send me .lnk file and told that its a picture. I said its not a picture, its a link. She didn't agree, so I didn't want to waste my time proving her and just tried to open it with irfanview. Of course …
Hello, I have problem with documents I print on my HP 1150. Most of the documents are printed from Word/Excel. When I set value of left margin to value 0.2 nothing changes because left margin is *always* set to 2.50 fixed or more and I am unable to change it. …
can anyone tell me ?.why taskmanager control button is not comming ?.kindly let me know please .any help would be highly appreciated.
I have a one and a half year old Dell computer with Windows 7. It was working fine before I moved. It was shipped to me and the speaker that I plugged into it does not work and the headphones for it do not work. What can I try to …
Hi All, I have win7 and we have some computers in LAN. Now i want to remotely access my friend's computer.We are developers and want remotely help each other without moving here and there. I know these two option.Windows remote assistance, remote desktop connection. When i connect using remote desktop …
Whenever I open in Microsoft Word (2003 & 2007) a Courier document created in a Mac program that has italicised words in it, Word converts those words into italicised Courier-Oblique font which looks very odd and I have to highlight those words and change them back to plain italicised Courier. …
hi friends ,can someone tell me ?why i am getting this error .when tried to connect on teamviwer . protocol negotiation failed teamviewer
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