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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 …

HI ..I'm using windoze xp...whenever I watch any video from windose media player 9.0 , I can only watch them as really dark..for some reason , i am failing to improve the brightness of my screen . There's a way which is used to increase the colour settings of a …

Hi I have a Dell latitude D610 running Windows XP svc pk 3...recently everytime without exception when I boot my computer the black screen appears with the error message ...'apologies for the inconvenience but due to an unexpected error power failure etc etc windows did not load properly' and then …

I am using a HP laptop pavillon dv6 operating under windows 7 home premium. The problem I am facing is that when I open any windows based application and click in the menu bar to select a main menu item, the menu items under this main menu are displayed on …

i run windows xp, and Mobile Intel(R) 945RM express chipset family and am using vga cable to lcd tv ive looked on how to do this and most show that in display settings just select second option but when i go to display setting i dont have option for second …

I have an XP workstation that is not part of a domain. It is a member of a workgroup. When I try to login under one user, I get the error message, "Your account has expired. Please contact your system administrator". I have multiple users setup on the workstation, so …

i had installed 2 os in my acer aspire 4736g i had ubuntu and windows vista i deleted the partition that contain the ubuntu os... when i reboot my laptop, it comes out GRUB loading stage1.5 GRUB loading, please wait... Error 22 and it stuck there....cannot load windows i knew …

This randomly ahppened about 1-2 weeks ago. Since then ive tried everything google threw at me. Disabling the antivirus e-mail scanning, een that didnt work. Ive tested the settings, nothing. Bu strange thing is, my friend who is on the same ISP (blueyonder) is having no problems with it. The …

I'm running Windows XP SP3 and am having problems with different Windows or Office programs displaying the "Not Responding" message. Excel, Word, Outlook email, and must recently, My Computer and a 3rd party application from Cerner Corporation (Pharmacy app). Task Manager will not kill the apps and eventually taskbar and …

Hi Guys. I've scanned my computer for viruses and worms and even did a complete install from Vista x86 to Windows 7 64bit and i'm still getting this problem. It might be a problem with the keyboard itself because I'm using a laptop and I'm noticing a lot of dust …

Hello everyone, I recently got a blue screen error (bsod) on my laptop after using it for a long time. Now the problem is that I'm getting this blue screen error right after I start up windows 7. Right after the loading screen it just pops up and restarts. So …

I would love to go into the registry, and even programs and fix them, but how does one learn the various files, and what they mean, where would I start.

Ladies and gents; is there anyone here that can read and decipher dump files after BSOD? I know I can install the winsdk and symbols, but I have no concept of these things and wondered if anyone has it so they might read the files and tell me the problem. …

I am looking for a freeware/open source equivalent of FL Studio 7. Meaning something that can create music using the computer, and can save to mp3. It would need a guitar, bass, and drums kind of feature. I need a freeware one because, frankly, I can't afford the $1000 to …

Netstat display TOO brief to be useful - sorry about the spelling.... To try and find out about the times when my network card shows much activity in the absence of ME using the internet, I wanted to look at the the results from Netstat, but the first displays were …

I am running SBS 2003 SP2 and when I go to add a user using wizard, as soon as it launches, I get an error that states SBS add user wizard encountered a problem and needs to shut down. I went into the event viewer and the only error I …

I'm having a problem on how to recover my password in Folder Protect, I forgot it and I don't know to recover it, does anyone know how to recover a password?

Hey, I tried to swap a hard drive form another computer with Windows Vista Home Premium onto a Gateway dx4200-09. After hooking the hard drive up to the dx4200 it powered up and the power light flashed slowly blue. The screen/monitor didn't respond, I tried another monitor and it didn't …

I turn the computer on and the message that appears is Error loading C:\User\user\AppData\Roaming\hmcencx.dll The Specified module could not be found. Could someone help please.

My computer keeps crashing! I have Windows 7 (it was Vista but I upgraded it) It has a new motherboard, graphic card and new Ram, all changed to see if it would stop it from crashing. Been back to makers but they could not find anything wrong with it. IT …

Hi: I have a client's machine here that had microsoft xp media center edition on it. It was not working so the client tried the F10 factory install which came with the system. It is a HP Pavilion a1630n machine. After not getting the F10 key to work the client …

I'm running windows xp. I've tried scanning with avast resulting in nothing. I can access task manager and pull up programs with that. I've tried doing the msconfig thing which resulted in the icons and bar to be there for some time, but then it disappears again even when the …

AVG Antivirus moved the mfc45.dll to the virus vault because it was corrupted. Is it necessary? If so, how can I get a replacement file?

trying to update and this came up (attachment) does this mean that this new version is not compatible with with xp or is there ways around this if can give any help i greatly appreciate

I had a friend play with my laptop so that the thing would run a bit quicker. After a month or so of use, it appears i can't use it any more because it requires a product key. so i tryed the product key on the sticker on the under …

All of the sudden within the past couple of days my server running server 2003 seems to be having some dns issues or atleast I assume they are dns. I can connect to it through remote desktop, but when I open a web browser on it and try to go …

Hi all My laptop running with xp pro updated to service pack 3 decided to loop when start-up. In other words, it just keep on rebooting, up to the windows screen, and then restarts. I managed to get into safemode, and performed a chkdsk c:/r and many bad sectors and …

I am so very frustrated right now. (As I'm sure everyone on here is) Here's the problem: My D drive was working just fine. The only software I have recently installed was by SanDisk to operate a newly purchased MP3 player. All the software did (I think) was up grade …

can some one teach me how to download alive desktop background on my computer im using XP..If some one knows how can you please give me the link where i can download.......] Thanks....

How do I assign my Guest User Admin rights in XP? I have tried assigning it, but it gives system error 5. Also My Laptop does not allow to rename any file in System32, I think thats too is protected by admin rights, does not give me the priviledge. Please …

How do you get rid of "mdnsNSP.dll" and "mDNSResponder.exe"?

I've run into an Outlook problem in Windows. It is downloading 2 each of all emails, and for the life of me I cannot figure out what the problem is. Microsoft did an update and manage to screw it up a bit; got that worked out and then the double …

Greetings! My mum recently purchased a new Dell with Windows 7 on it. I have been getting it up to her standards by installing some internet security, CCleaner, iTunes, ya know, stuff like that just getting it to what her old one was like. However, I have been getting this …

I cannot boot up my computer in normal mode when I tried to it loads to a blank black screen. I cannot boot in any safe mode at all. It does the thing with all the letters trying to boot in safe mood but then he loads to a blank …

I still run Q98 and have no particular reason to change. When I got a new PC with XP I simply copied the whole Quicken Directory via a memory stick and bingo all was clean and tidy. (Old laptop was Windows 98) I am planning to get a new PC …

Hi I switched on my dell computer this morning but the power button stays orange and i cant boot up. The drive is running so are the fans but nothing happens. I dont know if its stuck in sleep mode or hibernation, but i just cant boot up. Anyone any …

In the beginning of the week I shut my home computer down normally. When I turned the computer back on in the morning my desktop is white with Active Desktop Recovery written on it. When I click Restore Active Desktop I get this error I re-booted my XP Home based …

Here's my situation... My client has a Vista Home Premium 32-bit set as a remote computer for his client in Texas to store/use the printer off-site. Everything was working fine until one day the HDD crashed. I put a new HDD in and re-installed the OS. Immediately I was told …