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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 …

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. …