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Hello everyone, i don't know what happened to my windows. Having message "registry disabled" accessing regedit. Need help. Regards,

Hi, I have a 32-bit operating system of Vista Home Premium, with 3 GB of RAM, and a processor running at 2 GHz. I have passed the system requirements from Windows Upgrade Advisor. I want to upgrade to Windows 7 Professional, but I'm having a difficult time deciding which OS …

Hi, This has been bugging me for a few days now, I keep getting an error in the cmd promt window. when I open the command promt (OS=vista) I get C:\Users\Name> ,everything I type after this I recieve the following error [B]'****' is not recognized as an external or internal …

Hi Folks My computer keeps popping up random warning about microsoft office outlook "MAPI32.DLL is corrupt," and randomly opening up an unknown file in Windows media player. This happens whether or not I am running explorer, firefox, or neither. Kaspersky cannot detect any issues, even after I upgraded to the …

I am going to be burning DVD's that contain education modules for teachers. The file folders have to be in a specific order, and I can't arrange them as I need them to be seen. Every time I arrange them by topic, the move to another arrangement such as by …

I am trying to get cygwin and nachos working on my computer which runs vista for my operating systems class. The site I am following to try and get it to run is "http://www.mcs.utulsa.edu/~papama/cs3053/nachos_in_windows.htm" I have cygwin installed in what i think is my home directory named USer. Then I …

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Hi I am having one HP desktop (config.- core2duo, 2 GB RAM, 16GB HDD) . windows server 2003 was running on this PC for last 3 years. One day suddenly hard disk crashed & i bought new hard disk of 160 GB. Now I started fresh installation, created partition c …

Hi, One of my users computers, a laptop running windows XP, began acting up over the weekend. The system will boot into safe mode only. It will not boot into safe mode with command prompt, last known good config, etc. Whenever i boot into safe mode it gives obvious windows …

I have a bat script that if i run it on cmd it is working fine. However, if I right click and run as admin it broke. Has anyone seen this behavior?

My friend has two HP desktop computers running Windows XP (SP3) in his living room and entertains many, many guests daily. Guests who do not usually carry laptop/netbook with them are allowed access to these computers and their internet connections without much supervision. Most of said users are very respectful …

I have spent days reading different threads and trying lots of stuff, but nothing has helped my problem. My setup is a home network with one desktop PC wired to an ActionTec router-modem on ATT DSL and 2 PC laptops on wireless. Everything works on the two laptops, but I …

Ok I just bought a new Nvidia GT 240 made by PNY, and I can't get it to display anything on my screen with hdmi or dvi. I get no signal with it at all. The fan runs on the graphics card when I turn my computer on and I …

how can i block users from changing a software options, like soundforge for example?

If I've already got Postini what value add would installing GroupShield for Exchange provide??? More specifically internal emails within the co. (10K employees) are not scanned but all nodes on the network should have McAfee VSE On-Access Scanning enabled and current (about 95% compliant). So if a threat attempted to …

3 questions please if I may. 1. Why do I get security certifcate errors? I lately keep getting them with sites I use all the time, like craigslist, godaddy, others? 2. Why do sometimes I start my computer and all my icons are all mixed up on the desk top? …

Hi, I have a router through which I set up RDP connections. There are only XP machines and when I connect to one of them I can see the normal blue RDP window and after a few seconds the session disconnects and if I try connecting immediately there is an …

Hey... Not very experienced with computers here and I seem to have done something very wrong. I found a C++ beginner book and decided to give it a go. It came with Visual C++ 2005 express edition. I went online, found out there is a 2010 version and installed that …

[COLOR=RoyalBlue] :rolleyes: hi i have been playing counterstrike source on some fast servers and have seen that my lantecy/ping is higher then most, most of the gamers are around 60 - 80 where as i am about 130+ i was wondering if there tweaks i could do to improve this …

I have done a sweeping search on my PC to find all files with an mp3 extension on one drive only. I want to copy these files into a folder on either my desktop or onto an external hard drive but it won't let me do either. It just comes …

Hi experts! :) I'd be very glad if someone could help me out with this one ... I am experiencing some trouble for a couple of days, now. I used to use an external sound card for some one and a half years, but suddenly above mentioned error code appears …

:rolleyes: when I click on "azerus" in <start><all programs> and when I click on it in <Start><control panel><add or remove...>I get the same error message,so I can't use it or delete it??? Thank You

Every time I power on my laptop it restarts before it boots all the way. It shows the screen with the bios version on it and begins booting XP. The bar on the bottom does move, so i know it is not frozen. About 15 seconds after starting the computer, …

I recently got an entirely new DIY PC kit. It had no OS installed so I used my existing hard drive (IDE) to load the OS on, since it already had it. And have a brand new larger hard drive (SATA) I will use for storage. Would not start up …

Hello,my question is: Is there any way i can make my current account to have admin rigths? I search on google but instead of give my current account admin priviliges it created a new Administrator account. I am using win 7

I have reinstalled Windows XP Pro, now can't access my disc drives (2).In hardware they are shown with an exclaimation mark on a yellow background.

i have a dell c400 and i set a password on it but then i forgot it i cant get into my computer and i need help to get into it anyone know?

i've a software and i want to know if there's any other software that does the same job,is there any website that finds it for me?

I bought a HP p6644y desktop last week running Windows 7...hooked everything up and it works fine. Connected my Lexmark X5470 printer to it, drivers were automatically downloaded and installed. For a couple of days, the printer worked normally. Yesterday, however, I attempted tp print a Word document, and the …

Just installed XP pro. Installation procedure all good, no trouble. I begin to log onto the internet and do other things when I receive the following message. SHUTDOWN WAS INITIATED BY NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEMS message: Windows must now restart because the RPC (Remote Procedure Call)service terminated unexpectedly. A countdown of 1 …

hi i've been having a problem on my gateway laptop it blue screens when i try to start windows vista, i've tried using the vista recovery cd but that didn't help eventually i was able to boot into safe mode using the bootrec command, i ran malwarebytes antimalware while in …

I re-formatted my computer today and upgraded from Windows XP 32-Bit to Windows 7 64-Bit. Using Firefox as my default internet application I am unable to connect to various different websites, mainly ones that I need to access to download vital software. This problem is not new to me as …

this is the data i got from the ipconfig /all Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Darkrai Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . …

Hi all - I have a Macbook Pro and Im happy enough with the Mac OS but Im interested in installing Windows onto my Macbook - think of it as being best of both worlds. I have read many reviews on "Mac or PC" but am still in two minds …

I have been trying to install the Adobe Flash application. I have it but its not working so I tried to uninstall and reinstall, however, it goes through each part of the application and comes back with a "close window messenger". I don't have anything open and it quits the …

Hello, Is it possible for me to connect two headsets (A USB and an Analog type) in one computer? If Im going to use "Splitter", does the sound quality will be degraded? Any helps, suggestions, comments will be much appreciated. Thank you guys

Please help, this is urgent. I have a machine running Server 2008 R2 with Terminal Services installed. The software we use for our business is attache. On first run after reboot, it works fine, but any time after that, it crashes with this message: [code] Problem signature: Problem Event Name: …

I'm having problems getting a file to associate its self with it's program. I've tried all the methods that you would typically follow to fix this and it doesn't work. I found a method with edits the registry, that didn't work either. I hope someone can help me fix this …

Anyone know how to set the "no browser options" on the hkey_local_machine? Do you just add the text on the command line? I have a couple of students that are able to just uncheck the proxy server option to get around our filter, and I was hoping for a solution …

Got a problem with after upgrading excel from 2007 to 2010, and after the upgrade, when double clicking an excel doc to open it, excel does not open, however, you can open a blank excel doc and then open it from file menu..

Hi iam fixing a computer for a friend and the problem is that windows xp pro wont start. I turn it on and it goes through all the stuff at the start you know looking for the primary drive and stuff and than it comes up with a black screen …

I am having a problem installing the driver for Windows 7 from Mustek for my scanner. Hardware and Software I Use Mustek ScanExpress A3 USB 1200 Pro Large Format Scanner Windows 7 Pro 64bit HP Pavilion Elite e9280t PC i7 HP Photosmart Premium Fax AIO C309a - Wireless I downloaded …

I'm a coder that doesn't know much about hardware, but I have a question that's been bugging me for a long, long time. If I took a pretty new and fast machine (and I'm mostly interested in laptops) such as a recent XP or Win 7 and tried to put …

Hello, Thank you for reading. I generally spend time with the C# forum but today have an admin issue... I have a two virtual servers; SQL1, WEB1. A web site on WEB1 is using Windows authentication. This appears to work correctly - querying the active directory on SQL1 (domain is …

Ok, this juss started happening yesterday and whenever I turn on my PC, my "Common" folder opens on the startup. Any ideas of why this is happening and how to stop it? Thanks in advance.

Just bought a HP y6644p with Windows 7. DVD drive worked fine for a week, and then today it disappeared. I put in a CD and it wouldn't play. When I clicked on My Computer, the E drive was missing. I've run FixIt, Recovery Manager, and done numerous searches on …

I have a computer with a hard disk that contains two partitions. One partitition was FAT32( C drive) on which windows 98 was installed and the other partition was NTFS on which windows xp was installed. Things were working fine until windows 98 was affected with a virus. After removing …

[B][U]Short version:[/U][/B] Windows 7 appears to be losing changes made to text files if the PC loses power, even if the changes have been saved. Why would it be doing this and how can I make the changes stick? I need the changes to be persistent even if there is …

i was just wondering how to make windows XP shut down my computor automaticaly

I can make a program fire up at start up by dragging it to the start-menu->programs->startup-folder. This program needs one of the windows services to be able to function correctly. Occasionally, at boot, this program experiences a problem that is somewhat specific to that required service (which is set to …