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Remove Filterhello i am using firefox browser..and my browser do not support any indian language..i want to write email in punjabi...also in facebook or orkut..but my browser not supporting this language..plz guide me wht can i do..i found frm internet dat if i downloaded lipikar then i will be able to …
Hello Am thinking of upgrading my windows 7 home basic to another version, and would like to know if whether in doing so I will need to get a new license, and also how to proceed with the upgrade process?
[ATTACH]14834[/ATTACH] This is the temps of my computer (the green line up there is the gpu) after about five minutes of crysis at medium settings no aa res: 1024x768 , i have a nVidia GEforce gt220 and i noticed that it has no fan at all, first when i bought …
Hey Guys, I have a large music collection and was irritated by the 64GB limitation on my itouch, UNTIL I found Subsonic [url]http://www.subsonic.org[/url]. Now my ENTIRE library is available to me via the internet or my phone, with no size limitation! I will repeat NO SIZE LIMITATION, I have heard …
Hello, I run chkdsk once in a while and some times I get this message Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "") from file record segment 286. (The file record segment is random though) This only started to happen after a power outage-- my computer blue screened and wouldn't start. I …
I have been using IE for years. Just today when I go to my home page and click on an e-mail - it will appear for 2-3 seconds and then it's gone and it says IE cannot display... HELP!! This is madening... Thank YOU -
in my taskmanager, the upper window which has options like processes etc. cannot be seen. also the title bar is not visible.please help me anyone.please.you can send me a e-mail at <snip>
Hello Everyone, Actually i have customized XP setup alot my OS with nlite. But recently i have seen an other customized xp. I have also contacted its creators for further info but they haven't shown any response. Can Anyone Here tell me how to customize XP installation like this. Screenshots …
Hello Sorry if I've posted in the wrong forum, but I wanted to know if it is possible to create a new pdf document directly from Acrobat X Pro, without having to first create in MS Word or any other apps then convert to pdf? If so, then what are …
I have my girl friend's laptop which is a Acer travelmate 2420, and it's running Windows XP OS. She wants me to wipe out the hard drive and reinstall windows for her, but she doesn't have an OS install disk or a recovery disk. Is there a way for me …
My Windows 2000 computer detected a severe virus and I was afraid that my entire computer would crash so I panicked and stupidly deleted the entire administrative user account without thinking about my files nor backing them up. I was more concerned with my installed expensive software being affected. Now …
Hi there. Every so often i will be running a few programs and at some point, not every time, but quite often the both of my CPUS will max out and my fan will get loud most likely to try and cool down my comp. When this happens i close …
We have a 3 year old HP computer w/XP SP3 installed, an AMD processor, 1 gig RAM and 10 gig harddrive. We started getting the BSOD this past year every few days. It's increased to about 3 times a day. I know this has been covered before, but could someone …
I use windows 7 bt i face a problem with this.My system says turn on windows security center service when i try to do it says the windows can not be started. can any1 suggest????? :sad:
I have a 16GB Verbatim USB flash drive and each time I insert it into a USB port I get the error message; "USB device not recognised". I have tried many suggestions but none of them have worked. Unlike most other posts, my USB ports work just fine, the problem …
I need a program for making flowcharts. I used to use OpenOffice Draw, but I'm looking for something else right now, preferably a stand-alone program or one that comes with little unrelated functions. It would be better if free ones are separated from paid ones.
Windows XP SP3. blue screen system registry cannot load hive file: \systemroot\system32\config\... Microsoft says to start Windows with CD and choose R for repair console, then give chkdsk /R command.. But there was not such option...strangely. I tried to enter into the installation, the installation started and I've not stopped …
I have no one else to turn to and the community of Daniweb is always solving my problems So thanks. My Computer Is Acting Odd, I do Not Know What it is. Mobo not Reading HDD's Sometimes My Computer is about 4 years old Mobo : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 …
Hello I've seen/used online photo to cartoon generators/converters, however I want to know if more powerful tools are available to install instead on Windows XP/7? Also any 3D tools available to create 3D characters(not letters but 3D models) for images?
So I wanted to write a quick script to block people from going to Facebook in their workpalce. I already had the command to block a site in the host file, but I don't know how the remove the entrys. My goal is to have a command that will reverse …
I currently use Outlook Express for my email. I am trying to set up Microsoft Outlook. Everytime I click on it I get this: Unable to open your default email folders-could not open the item. try again. How do I set up an account. Maybe that is my problem.
This only happens when I send out my newsletter pages that I've loaded into my browser. The box says that there is a problem. Internet explorer has stopped running. When I first got this message af few weeks ago it mentioned that an add on was preventing IE to work. …
My Dell Netbook is not recognizing the wireless adapter. I want to reinstall XP to verify if this is a hardware or software issue but I don't know how. I have the Reinstallation CD I got with it, but there is no CD drive! How am I supposed to use …
When I try to run a test in help and support center I get a message, Exception in DisplayRunMap.runmap. Windows XP Home Compaq Presario.
how to arrange my playlist using the file name. my audio software ordering by considering the artist name too.how to delete the artist name
[COLOR="Green"][/COLOR] compaq cq40 laptop when power light is on but dipla was not coming & nums lock ,caps lock key lights are blinking 4 times repeatedly........please telme if u guess the problem
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit with 4 GB RAM... My Intel Core Duo 1.73 GHz doesn't support 64 bit. I have been looking into a Intel Core 2 Duo, but don't know if my computer's motherboard is compatible. I have a Toshiba P105-s6177. [URL="http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=27232,33099,"]http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=27232,33099,[/URL] Here are the …
First, it takes forever to start up now... second I use outlook express and whenever I go to the first folder inside it, it works fun but takes a while, when I click on another folder (for example, going from INBOX to Deleted Items) it would freeze up on me …
Windows 7 Enterprise x64 Windows Media Player 12.0.7600.16667 I use Windows Media Player to stream videos to my PS3, and in order to do so I have to add videos to the Videos library in Windows Media Player. This works fine most of the time, but sometimes the video I …
Hey everyone, I having trying to build a pxe server using Windows XP based PC. One thing that is required on PXE server is DHCP hosting service. However, this PXE server need to access the internet through already existing gateway with DHCP server already running. I know that it is …
Hi Friends Found this icon on the desktop - Wgtvsdzmkk.tmp - I delete it and it appears again when I next start PC. Is this something to worry about? Any commentsappreciated. PC is on good old XP. Thanks all, Tez
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Steve Ballmer dropped a bomb shell in a speech the other day at the University of Washington, letting it be known that the desktop software company was basically betting it all on the cloud. In a report on the speech [URL="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-ballmer-microsoft-betting-our-company-on-the-cloud/"]on PaidContent.org[/URL], Ballmer reportedly said the company was committing as …
I want to create a batch file that opens an executable(.exe) file . Actually when we open that .exe file it asks us select or browse a file then we need to select the file. After selecting the file we need to remove the file in the second textbox by …
I have a [B]Windows XP Pro[/B] machine with [B]Outlook Express 6[/B] on it. I want to transfer it ([B]Account settings, Contacts, Calendar, Messages[/B]) to: a [B]Windows 7 Pro[/B] machine with [B]Microsoft Office 2007[/B] on it. I do not want to use the Windows Mail or Windows Live Mail. I want …
I'm using IE8 and keep getting pages come up with the little warning sign bottom left corner and usually the message error on page. Double clicking the message gets a message box saying 'Errors on this webpage might cause it to work incorrectly' which often proves correct. The most common …
Hi I have an XP Pro PC with SP3. I have all the latest drivers. And everything in Bios and windows itself is setup correctly. ACPI is in S3 mode. When I want to shutdown the PC, I press the Sleep key, which I have done for ages, and the …
Why i am getting the following error .when i tried to send email using Smtp Server???.Kindly let me know the idea. any help would be highly appreciated !!!. [Code] Task 'Pop.gmail.com - Sending' reported error (0x800CCC7D) : 'Your outgoing (SMTP) server does not support SSL-secured connections. If SSL-secured connections have …
I downloaded the software for my Canon printer which is networked with my cptr and my wife's. The printer software loaded and installed, but the printer driver fails to install. I've tried installing driver before software and software before driver, but the driver install fails each time. Any ideas as …
I am soon going to build a computer. My components: Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz (overclocking @ 4.60GHz) Sandybridge CPU Asus P8P67 DELUXE Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard RAM: Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Corsair A50 CPU Cooler OcUK GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express …
Hello I recently have some BSOD's wich lead in reinstalling windows completly, They when i shutdown my computer, shutting down the computer takes ages, wich lead in BSOD with i think this mssg, the computer didn't make a minidump but did create the folder. When the computer restarts i can …
i am trying to download an application i got in an email from my friend, but i keep getting: "Windows found this file to be potentially harmful. To help protect your computer, windows has blocked access to this file." i tried turning off my firewall but that didnt seem to …
Good evening, I have the blasted 'We apologize for the inconvenience...' screen. There are 3 safe mode options, 1 'last known working' option, and 1 'start normally' option. None of these work. The whole laptop freezes. The laptop did not come with a start up disk, which might make things …
Trying to burn copy of a home DVD/video of amateur show (about 1 and half hours long, transferred professionaly to DVD originally off VHS!!) using Nero 7. All seems well until the actual burn when about about half way through when Nero says ' Aborted' and ejects the DVD. Have …
I just got a new laptop with windows 7 and of course compatibility issues with some of my older games. I was wondering if it would be possible to install windows XP onto a partition with the recovery discs that came with my old laptop? Or on a external hard …
I accidently ( means I didn't know what I was doing) deleted stuff yesterday, and now am unable to boot up system.Whenever I try, it goes to safemode, which then tells me" registration/configuration error- Run SCANREG to correct". But then nothing happens and all I have is a gray screen …
I can't do it through the normal way because it's been locked out by administration (I'm at school). I'm just trying to add the Python installation.
Can anybody advise on the way to set up an ODBC connector for a desktop MS Access MDB Front End to connect to an MS Access MDB Backend on a remote (internet) location? Thanks Max
Hey, so i was wondering if anyone knows of a program that will take the audio in from the mic but only start recording (saving the file to the computer) when sound is present, like the VOR feature on a lot of digital recorders. Thanks.
I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 desktop machine, built in 2001. User upgraded to Vista SP2 some time ago. The machine is a Pentium 4 running at 2.4ghz; 1GB RAM. Problem is, when it starts up normally, it will load the desktop and run for about 1 minute...then I get …
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