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Hi, I have noticed that since applying KB2419632 on patch Tuesday (only this and MRT were applied) that I have recurring identical event id 577 security audit failures which seem to occur just prior to hibernating. Looking at the Microsoft knowledge base here ([url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831905[/url]) I see reference to a pre-XP …

Hey guys i really need your help. My laptop is an Acer Aspire 4937G model. It came with Windows vista. However i recently upgraded it to Windows 7 and there was some slight problem eg unable to read from pen drive but able to read EHDD. So i decided to …

HELP!!! Because of the work, my system must be modified frequently. I don't know when it will get a crash. Do daily Backup to system state is emergent to me!!! Is there some free backup software? I also will consider cheap ones, if it really works well. Any suggestion????

My friends computer is all f***** up and definitely needs reformatting (trust me) except, he doesn't have the quick restore disks. Is there any other way to reformat his computer? He has the windows XP disk

Does anyone have the XP fix for theme park ? if you could maybe email it to me ? i cant find a working site with it anywhere ..

compaq presario SR2010NX when power button is pressed reads cd drive hard drive powers on does no boot no pass beep no video. fans run and thats it. has anyone else had problem like this. also swapped out cables and hard drive w/ known working still nothing. wonder if reseting …

See title and screenshot. This photo came off an XP computer, was burned to a disk, and I'm attempting to copy it to a Windows 7 computer. I'm logged into an accout with Admin access. It transferred no problem onto an XP computer and transferred no problem from the CD …

Hi everyone!)) I'm pressing key down , but symbol appears only once! Guys, please tell me - where's the problem ? Big thanks in advance))

Hi I am running windows 7 and I can not clean my flash player's saved data. Flash Player doesn’t only save data in your browser’s cache but it also saves some information on your hard drive. You should also delete this information on a regular basis to ensure that you …

I would like to know if there is some way to search through all the folders on a drive to find out how my disk space is being used. I want to search my files to see what can be deleted for space or at lease to see where it …

Today I configure My Ms Outlook 2007 . but when I downloaded the email from Pop3 Server To my Ms Outlook 2007 . I Did not get my all email from Gmail .i have only get One week email Only .But I want to download my All Email from Gmail …

Hey guys. I recently bought an HP 620 notebook and i decided to partition it. I managed to partition it into 3 drives with the 4th being the recovery. However, i have not been able boot it as it can not load windows directly. When i start it it loads …

Hi all, thought I'd ask for a little help for a change. I have a tablet PC at work with a corrupted Windows XP tablet install on it. I have tried everything I can think of to recover it but nothing does the job. I have decided to reinstall it …

Hello, I am having a problem getting the Network icon to display in the system tray in the Guest Account. I also can't click to check it in Properties under System icons. It is grayed out. I know this is an issue that has been solved many times, but this …

Hi i am running Windows Vista Home Premium on my HP Media Center PC, and my computer just went through my scheduled Hardware Diagnostic tests and everything passed except the Random Seek Test for my C drive. Is this a bad thing? what do i do about it? Do i …

Description: hey all, after using my computer for awile, in particular Xnews (a newsgroup program) my internet performance just plain craps out. Loading pages is painfully slow, xnews slows to abnormaly slow speeds and downloads slow to a crawl. This is a new issue and normaly my computer runs fine. …

Hi Everyone I wondered what people's thoughts were towards Uniblue and PCPitstop. I recently picked up both PCPitStop and Uniblue's SpeedUpMyPC and RegistryBooster as I wasn't sure which one was better and I still can't tell as different people say different ones are better. What do you guys think?

Hello all, My employer wants to implement an exchange server to store emails and contacts on the server away from end user pc's. They want me to figure out if this system is feasible for our business. I do not know much about exchange server so here I am asking …

i have a samsung laptop with windows 7 and a sony camcorder that is about 5 years old that uses the mini tapes i want to upload the tapes to my computer but the computer wont reconize the camera even tho the drivers are installed so does any one no …

Over the weekend my Dell Inspiron 530 started to shut down randomly and had trouble restarting. Sometimes the discs spin up, I get to the user login screen, and windows fails to load. AVG had identified and cleaned a Confiker variant (don't recall which), and I had moved the monitor …

Can anyone tell me how to change the windows XP admin password?? What we did is we have gone through safe mode and break the password and when we restarted the system the options has gone like there was no option called remove password or enter old password.We don't want …

What is a driver? A driver is a program that controls a particular type of device that is attached to your computer. It consists of software code that allows your PC's operating system to interact with a hardware device. Every driver performs a different function due to the fact that …

ELP! Ok long story, I will try to be brief. Monday, my Ipad was stolen. I tried to change every password I have, but I knew they would still be able to see my email. At the time, I had gmail and MSN on my ipad receiving messages. I created …

How weird! I just took my PC to a technician today, and my comp shutdown after 30 mins of me using it! It's done it before so then I changed it to windows vista and it was fine. I prefer windows XP tho, but now that I have it again …

hello!!! i have got the Msn virus, how can i getrid of it, it bothers my frieds by sending out lotter, teethblaec and loads more...

Hi Friends, I am vikas from india , i have just now joined the community and i am very happy to find all technical gurus in the community , i am pursuing engneering in electronics and communication (4 year cource). i have some problem and i hope here i will …

i cant install adobe photoshop CS5 Extended .. it gives error like this Exit Code: 6 -------------------------------------- Summary -------------------------------------- - 0 fatal error(s), 43 error(s), 41 warning(s) WARNING: The payload: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Core {7DFEBBA4-81E1-425B-BBAA-06E9E5BBD97E} requires a UI parent with following specification: Family: Photoshop ProductName: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Core_x64 This …

I have an Acer Aspire one, ZG5 laptop. It was given to me because someone tried to flash the BIOS and now the laptop will not boot to the hard drive. After the Acer page shows,it shows a blank page after a currsor blinks 3 time in the upper left …

C:\windows\system32\umxsbxexw.dll is either not designed to runon windows or it contains an error. try installing the original program again using the originalinstallation media or contact your system administrator or software vendor for support. How do i post a thread and where do i post it everytime i come into your …

I have a Toshiba p205d that is over 3 years old. My computer went into hibernation overnight and when I tried to "wake it up" the screen remained black. I turned it off and back on got a quick flash showing the toshiba start up page and then black. I …

i want to increase internal hdd and ram for my vista os in my laptop is it possible or i have to buy a external hdd and also tell the name of company whose hdd is best and of reasonable prices

I have Windows xp professional celeron cpu 2.53 Ghz and 1.24 GB ram and whenever I start up I get the attached error message. (I don't know if the attachment worked) but basically it reads: DriverCure failed to start, please reinstall the application. But I can't find the program in …

is it possible to do the following: is there a way to prevent and/or alert whenever a user on my exchange 2007 server reaches a maximum send limit for the day. say i limit then to 150 outgoing messages a day, if it exceeds this number alert administrator to the …

Hi, hopefully someone can help me with this, since there seems to be dozens of threads similar to my situation yet unintelligible to me. So I recently did a fresh install of Windows 7 Professional x64, and in the process decided I would install Ubuntu to dual boot on the …

Hi... can anyone tell me if you can make a Windows XP Laptop a Targetted Disk Like you can on an Apple Mac (holding the T key)... and then attach using USB to retrieve files before doing a clean install... a friends laptop has the dreaded blue screen and wont …

I installed a few programs that looked like they might be good but did not like them or they played up ion installation so I deleted them. Now when I start windows I get popup with "can nor find "then two little squares" please check spelling and retype. and another …

Greetings, I have just noticed that after I shut down my PC i goes through the process of the normal shutdown and then the screen loses signal as normal but now the PC continues to run for about another 1 minute with the HD light flashing as if very busy. …

Having been confirmed in my suspicion that my IT support bloke is not as knowledgeable as claimed, I now desperately need to find out what's going on with my bootup. WinXP Home, SP3. On bootup every morning, just when I think it's ready, it cycles back to bootup and then …

I have internet access but i cant display any web pages... i have an acer x3200 with vista i tried disabling all fire walls with out any luck... if some can help me i would really appreciate it

Question coming from total ignorance, with apologies. Of my two HDDs the c: drive started cycling during bootup and running Chkdsk. It was taken away, both drives ghosted, D: formatted and partitioned and contents of both drives put back into partitions. Result is worse problems on bootup than ever before, …

hello Any information on removing this is welcomed i have tried so many things so many antivirus spybots and many things that i don't even want to name it i have even erased some files from the registry and nothing happens if anybody can give me a little help with …

[COLOR="Red"]help![/COLOR] i am now installing Windows XP on VM virtualbox,and i am now about to finish my installation until i get to midst on giving the product key. unfortunately, i lost the copy of my product key...huhuhuhuhuhu :'(:'( guys i need your suggestions..[COLOR="red"][QUOTE]is it okay if i close the running …

I am a programmer and i use 64-bit windows 7 as my OS and i need a free localhost server i can work on my PHP and perl on. I also need it to have MySQL PHPmyAdmin. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Thanks :D

not sure how to title this question... we run an exchange server with around 80 internal users, all outgoing mail is relayed off a smart host (ISP smtp server) so nothing is actually sent to the world via our server. i wanted to check the server, locally i can telnet …

Hi! can any one tell me the file extension of items which are in sites like WeeWorld.com. I want to create dummy and wear it dresses.When i click on a certain dress it must appear in that dummy. And also any idea of doing this. thanks

Hi, My school's computers (WinXP Pro SP3) have a strict group restriction policy which doesn't allow a user to run .exe and .bat files (unless they were installed by the system admin). I need to know if there's any way I can bypass this restriction and be able to execute …

Hi all, Im wanting to restore my PC to factory standard. Ive backed up all the files i need to keep, removed all periferals. Got the book out that came with my PC it says to press F11 key until system recovery starts then advanced options etc but it wont …

I am giving my HP Deskjet 3740 to neighbor with a really old Windows ME. It is up to date as far as Windows took Millenium. HP's site only has support for 2000 on up, not ME anymore, and I cannot find my old CD which did have 98 and …

I just got this compaq laptop a few months ago. It was reading all disks just fine when i got it. Now when you insert a disk all you here is a little whir sound, and the laser moving. After that nothing.:confused: Please help.

I have a fresh installed w7 64bit(previously 32bit) for my laptop. At first I can download any files for both firefox 3.6.13 and ie 8. However, with a couple of w7 updates I was unable to download any files from both browsers. What I did is go to system restore …