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Hi there super tech people. You've been recommended to me. I cannot access mostly (but not entirely) HTTPS sites with IE or Firefox. This happened Feb 14th. Took 6 days to realise these sites can be accessed via a lesser known browser called "Opera". So all good now. Can you …

Downgrading a preinstalled vista pc to xp is the worst thing you could ever do to a pc! A vista preinstalled pc includes all the drivers to run vista smoothly. If you downgrade, the brand's special features, quick launch buttons, and webcam/microphone won't work. Sound, video, networking, and bios will …

Again, Microsoft is being accused of stifiling competition by releasing IE with it's OS. Maybe I'm turning over two pages at once, but wouldn't it more stifiling to not release it? How am I supposed to download an alternate browser if I don't have a browser already?

I have a similar problem to Jahan's. Sometimes my Internet Explorer will not connect. I get the error "Page cannot be displayed". This might last for a few days, then all of a sudden it comes back to life and connects. I am running XP Professional version 2002, Service Pack …

ok, forgive me if at any point i appear to be utterly computer illiterate this is most likely to have been caused by the fact that i am in fact, mostly computer illiterate My problem is this: i recently bought a sony net md walkman model number mz-nf610. With this …

I upgraded to Windows XP and now there is no CD-ROM drive in my computer-- how do I get it to work? Thanks, michelle

I'm trying to repair this XP installation, where i think, the svchost.exe file was corrupted (maybe because of improper shutdown) i tried to run the ipconfig utility in cmd, but the only response i get is: Windows IP Configuration Then it goes back to C:\> without displaying the pc's network …

I've got four desktop computers in a LAN. Three are running XPPro, one is running Vista Ultimate. All of the XP machines can fully share with each other and the Vista pc can grab stuff from the XPs. But I just CANNOT get the Vista pc to share files with …

ok well heres the scoop: I got a new 120 gig hard drive that im adding to my computer. I plugged it in, got it up and working as a Slave. Win XP sees it and everything, under the Device Manager, but i cant seem to get to assigning it …

Have you ever had AOL 'break' and move so slow that it's just useless? Most of us probably don't use it, but for the helpless masses who know and understand nothing else, there's a problem latley in AOL 9.0 The only solution is one that AOL won't publicly share. I …

Can anybody guide me how can I recover some of my deleted files. I have also emptied it from my Recycle Bin. Otherwise I could have restore it from the recycle bin. Please give me a cost effective solution and easy way to recover the files as I am not …

:mrgreen: OK - my first post - took 12 hours but tenacity and refusal to"reformat an re-install" (per dell support) wins. I hope this saves someone a lot of pain and frustration. I figured there are a million posts on the problem - why not start a new post with …

Hi Every1 When I switch on my computer after my desktop appears on screen i get a msg sayin "Temp2.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. Sorry for the inconvinence". why is this comin and how i can solve this?

OK.... so i was i was having unrelated problems with my laptop so i was in the process of restoreing it to stock by useing the default programs disks when i was finished everything was good the computer asked me about some of the display settings and i was'nt paying …

Has anyone successfully installed Acrobat Reader? It downloads ok, uncompresses, then gives the error message "The Temp folder is on a drive that is full or is inaccessible. ...". I used command prompt to display the values of all environment variables and the TEMP is in d:\users\<full path here>. Anyone …

[i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Stop Getting Tricked into Running Viruses[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]Stop getting tricked into running viruses because you don't see the file extension of an attachment.[/size] [list] [*][size=2]Click Start, click My Computer, and on the Tools menu, click Folder …

i am having a lot of trouble with win xp.. first of all, my comp freezes for reasons i cannot deduce.. it happens when i try to load anything from any of the cdrom drives, but not everytime.. it only happens some of the time.. and NOW, i tried to …

does anyone know where i can download vista? because i tried and tried and they have either had the max or i just cant get to it, i already have the serial code so all i need is the download!!!!! Thanks Kyle

Hi, I have Vista and XP set as dual boot on my machine with no problems. HOWEVER, I have noticed that on most of the forums I'm a member of that people are having a LOT of issues surrouding the install of Vista on their existing machines and some are …

I have windows XP on an Dell INspiron 1100. I have gotton a Primary Disk Drive not found error message for a few days and just now got into Windows. I believe something is wrong with my hard drive b/c it makes a lot of clicking noises before giving me …

When attempting a system restore, I get a message "restore unsuccessful" with a note to pick an earlier restore point. I've attempted a restore at least a dozen times, and selected the oldest restore date the last time I tried. Any ideas??? :rolleyes:

Hi.. Iv'e got this realy annoying error,, as soon as I start up mij PC it says Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! Program: C:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/SPOPSETU.EXE This program has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Pleas contact .. blablabla I don't know what it means :-| …

I am not a novice w/ the computer, but not knowledgeable enough to know the fix. I get an illegal operation message upon booting up-at the desktop. "Access violation" fault in module DW.EXE at 015F:0043122C. All suggestions areappreciated. ???

[b]Can anyone please tell me what is wrong? Access keeps trying to tell me that I must install Microsoft Jet 4.0 Service Pack 8 so I downloaded the file and started to install it and suddenly the installer says that I already have a newer version than the one that …

Trying to get my home network running, i ran Network id wizard. After restarting and not being able to login i realized it disconnected me from my previous domain, and now it wont accept the user password. Anyway you can change the domain during login or any other tip to …

User gets a message stating: [b]Unable to open your default e-mail folders. The path specified for the file [/b][i]path to PST file[/i][b] is not valid. [/b] This article covers one fix for this issue, if the user does not know where their .PST file is located. Sometimes, the user can …

I'll be telling you a collection of tips to improve your system performance ... (it did improve my system performance to about 200 %) 1)CHANGING THE CACHE SIZE: Go to start --> Run --> System.ini Write these to the system.ini file [vcache] MaxFileCache=8192 MinFileCache=2048 ChunkSize=512 These cache settings are for …

when i try to install any program i have downloaded i get a NSIS Error. this is wat it says: "NSIS Error The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete This could be the result of a damaged disk, a failed download or a virus it may …

I got tired of the porblems with zone alarm and uninstalled it, and downloaded sygate. After I rebooted I received the following message- Smc. exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created. When I get …

So I turn on my laptop and within 5 minutes the fans turn on high and the thing is smoking hot. When I tried to use alt + cntrl + del to see if anything was running and using up the processor and ram to make it do that, the …

I´ve just gotten an XP notebook from work that I´m using on my home network. If I´m not using it for awhile, I come back and it´s sitting there waiting for me to sign in and logon again. A real pain...especially as it loses the wireless connection every time. I´m …

I have been using this wireless adapter for over a year now and in last few months it started freezing up my windows 2000 at any given time, sometimes I'm online for 6 hours and it will freeze, sometimes I'll turn the computer on (without even going online) and it …

I was cleaning up some softwares in my laptop, and i must have deleted something wrong, coz after restarting the laptop, the sound system went haywire, and my music/video files all sounded rather synthethized and the playback speed was faster than usual. Can anyone out here kindly advise me? Thanks! …

Have you ever received emails for cheap software? Are they legal?

I know everyone seems to have this problem but I am not sure how to solve it. I have windows 2000 professional as my system and internet explorer(not sure which version) but it will not allow me to see my hotmail inbox. I have tried the login fixer file and …

On my other computer (Windows ME; not connected to the internet), I get the "Restore Active Desktop" wallpaper almost every time I start up. This has been going on for a long time and goes back to normal when I click "Restore Active Desktop". Recently, my CD-ROM drive does not …

I am trying to do a system restore, but it keeps telling me it was unsuccessful. Why is it doing this? How can I get it to restore? :cry:

This is not such a big deal but lately when someone is accessing IE on one of the computers on our home net, double windows come up. IE is set for google as a home page and one of the iterations shows google. The other doesn´t show anything at all, …

:( My business manager came to me yesterday with a problem. She clicks onto the shortcut for Internet Explorer and gets the error message above, with no new information on how to rectify the problem. Tech info - IE6 +SP2; Win2000 OS, Dell Dimension; LAN connected, 512MB DDR2100, Pentium 4 …

I thought this might be useful for others encountering a similar problem that I encountered yesterday. A friend called and said their computer wouldn't start (Windows XP & SP2). I went over and it was in a continuous loop. It always went to the optional startup screen. It wouldn't start …

Hi there. Firstly sorry if this is long winded - im no good at computer speak! I have just gone on to broadband with Tiscali. When it first loaded up all was fine. I could go onto websites and the view was great. However I have since removed my copy …

I believe that this may be a relatively NEW bug/problem after checking several tech support forums and finding nothing related. After surfing I picked up some sort of problem. This first started out by replacing my desktop screen with a warning that I may have been infected with spyware. After …

how do i add the unplug/eject hardware option to my toolbar?

Mozilla has released Firefox 1.0.1! This is new right it just poped up when I was browsing.

I have windows xp home edition on both of my computers, and they do have a remote desktop program, but ive found out that windows xp pro actually has a better version of it that will actually work. I cant get the windows xp home version of it to work. …

Running XP Pro on a pretty fast machine. Outlook express opens very slow. Even changing accounts while Outlook is open takes a very long time. Has anyone had this problem? I'm looking for an answer here before installing Windows Messenger and enabling Messenger Services to contact live support. I hate …

This is my first time posting here, so be gentle. I have one computer loaded with XP Pro, SP 2. I had one 60GB HD, and added another 60 GB as a slave. I have an old DOS-based game I wanted to run (Stonekeep). It runs best in DOS, but …

There are some website that I can never get. I always get a browser timed out message when I try to get these sites on one specific pc. Other than in the Windows firewall (which I have turned off) are there places in Windows that I should check to see …

I bought a video capture card a couple of months ago with the intention of creating high quolity images with it. Unfortuantly at the time I didn't riles that I need a fast hardrive to be able to copy with the DV quolity. I would be happy with half DV …

I accidentally changed the default browser on my Mom's Windows 98 second edition computer to Firefox when she didn't want it that way. How do I change it back to IE?