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Hi guys, I've had this problem with my computer. Every time i play a game my whole system crashes and blue lines come down the screen, it happens about 10 - 20 minutes into the game. Thing is this happened about 6 months ago, one day when it crashed i …

hi everyone, i m not able to use the default defrag tool comes with windows..& accessing files or opening them make it PC very slow..!! So , what should i do ?? how do i perform it..!! Thanks. :)

Pls help me out,my laptop is always slow when it comes 2 playing video games like need 4 speed.Is there anything I can do 2 speed it up?

When I attempt to view using my Web Cam(AMCap) I get the following message. error 80070003 cannot start graph.But when I use the capture option in PhotoTags I have no problem. When in the AMCap mode I click on preview I see apicture of me taken by the web cam …

When I strike the ctrl alt delete keys my task panel window won't fully open? I can only see the bottom portion where it says end task, switch to and new task ? Help please

For some time now I have wondered about a file called Thumbs.db that appears in many folders on my computer. I finally decided to do a little research to find out what it is. It turned out to be pretty innocent, yet unnecessary. The thumbs.db file is generated by the …

hello i have a gateway NV52 AMD Athlon with windows 7 when i just had it was super fast now im 1 year later and my laptop is so freeking slow i want to put it back to the factory installation but im afraid i will loose windows 7 then.i …

I have a pretty good computer. While online and watching video. The PC suddenly restart. This happens once in a while. I use Win XP Pro, SP2. Have latest ZoneAlarm Pro, Norton Antivirus, SpySweeper, AdWare, AVG, Roboform. I tried to unplug unused hardware like modem and usd ports. And still …

When I first came to this forum, I was very unfamiliar with everything. As most of you already know, I had never been to a forum. I was pulled in when looking for a free Office for Windows XP. Even though I read all the Faq's and rules. :S I …

hi,why my laptop its geting so slow,its a fujitsu siemens amilo pro,windows xp profesional,2gb memory 65gb hdd,free space 32 gb,i download some programs like registry cleaner,but still not wery good,xp supouse to be much faster that vista...if is any solution....

After using Dban on a hard drive I reinstalled a fresh copy of Windows XP Pro every thing went fine and works great except it made all the slot drives cdef dvd G and the hardrive H I changed the slot C to I and tried to re assign letter …

Hi, I followed your advice as below. My problem is, when you say to "Click the checkbox beneath the microphone heading and raise the volume slider about midway," I find that the volume slider is grayed out and I cannot adjust the volume. Also, I see no checkbox available beneath …

Funny when people suggest going to this site or that and downloading this program or that when the problem some of us are having is that we can't download anything! I can't download (open OR save) any mail attachments with AOL or Yahoo, or update any programs, or download any …

When in Hotmail, I am unable to send/attach/spell check etc. On the status bar it says "error on page" I've cleared my cache (using disk cleanup) but it still doesn't work. Hoping someone could help me with this. Thanks

my browser repetidly says "ActiveX doesn't work properly withthis configuration" ,then i go to Windows update and says "administrators only" What can i do?

When I try to start my computer in Safe mode using the F8 key, I don't get the "Windows Advanced Options Menu". Instead I get a window that says "Please Select Boot Device" with the following three options: Removable Device, Hard Drive, and ATAPI CD-ROM I using WinXP SP2.

I need to urgently access Thunderbird mail on XP Machine but can't. Getting the following message: Entry Point Not Found. The procedure entry point JS FlagSystemObject could not be located in the dynamic link library js3250.dll Does anyone understand this? If so can you please help me access my email. …

hi friends plz help how to make a local disk in windows 7 and windows xp as ACCESS IS DENIED......eg i want to make D: is accessed by me only

hi, i have very slow PC..if i open any audio or video files it takes 1 min to open..sometime also show errors while opening file..like 004397425jdabrsbo00 got corrupted something like that..i m using my PC since 2008..& from then i never done anything not even defragging..i think that makes it …

so, i inserted windows xp into the drive attempting to format, and re-install... everything was running smoothly, until about half way through, it asked for the SP2 disc (i have xp pro WITH sp2 on the disc)... so obviously i didnt have the disc. restarted, and tried again, but then, …

I bought the windows xp 2004 sp2 and didn't use the second cd at all . I found some windows themes , boot screens along with the key from the second cd . I want to edit the boot.ini file from system32 but it's not there . I can only …

Hi All, I this is an age old problem and is fairly well covered in the forum and I can repair now while standing on my head, but I have system that continualy does it. After I replace the file or files missing the pc will boot fine for maybe …

I have a problem with windows XP. The biggest problem is that only it happens sometimes, but since I've installed everything new in my PC, month ago it happened 4 times. During the startup screen of windows XP, it just stalls, the blue bar stays on going from left to …

The brightness on my laptop is super dim all of a sudden. It worked fine yesterday, but then last night the brightness was gone. I've tried using the Fn key at the same time pressing F8 to increase the brightness, but nothing happens. I tried looking for any brightness option/setting …

I've been trying to schedule my computer to automatically hibernate from a scheduled task. I used this: rundll32.exe PowerProf.dll, SuspendState Hibernate It doesn't seem to work. I can hibernate it manually, so I know that it will. I use Win XP Pro. Anybody got any ideas. Thanks.

Hi All, I searched for this error on Daniweb, but I didn't find anything here, so I thought I would post the fix. It seems that the above Microsoft Security Update (KB953838) breaks something in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Microsoft documents this update as a "Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer …

I was wondering if anyone could suggest things. I recently got an malware and removed it using malwarebytes and it seems that after this i cannot use both chrome and IE8 which says they are not connected to the internet yet i can still use firefox does anyone know of …

Is it okay to apply patch even if the Conficker Virus was not remove? I tried scanning using MSRT v3.9 but nothing was found yet still have the problem on visiting a websites. When view my "Network Connection" there is a new connection "Internet Connection" appeared. I tried disabling it …

hi all I'am new to daniweb but i hope to help me in my problem i have problem in my internet connection when i connect to my wireless network it show to me i connect with limited access but its connect when i plug cable and when i tried to …

When I have my Firefox open I sometimes get this message: "A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete. Script: chrome://global/content/bindings/browser.xml:0" The message has two buttons: Stop …

Hi, I am about to format my pc and need to recover some of my passwords from Opera. I have searched the internet and found a viable solution OperaPassView. The application works and recovered my passwords fine (I have no master password), however passwords that are network related, eg. Proxy …

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i recently had a computer with some heavy virus damage, i removed the viruses, then restarted and xp just loads... and loads.. and loads, i remember getting a svchost error when i could get in, so i think hte virus has labeled its process as a critical system service, and …

hi every body i need help is there any prolem if i add anew ram with bus speed 800 and i have ram bus speed 667 please can any one answer me thanks

Error message appears saying your computer is over run with malicious software or something. Memory Processes Infected: (No malicious items detected) Memory Modules Infected: (No malicious items detected) Registry Keys Infected: (No malicious items detected) Registry Values Infected: (No malicious items detected) Registry Data Items Infected: (No malicious items detected) …

Dear daniweb users. I am having a problem and im struggling for some days now. I have a server at home and i wanted to install an IIS7 FTP server. It went all fine untill i wanted to add user isolation to make it more secure. i followed this guide: …

I'll spare you the details that led to this. In the end all that matters is that I got frustrated and formatted my c: drive. I did this by booting from the the Windows XP Disk in my CD-ROM drive however once it finished reformating the drive I received a …

I have an inspiron 1501 dell laptop. norton anti virus. and have tried to use system restore, it didn't work. I logged on this morning and my taskbar, start button and desktop icons have disappeared. I can use task manager to get on the internet but that's about it =/ …

hi i was using xp and then i installed win 7 , the installation went fine, but when it got completed, the xp option is not coming at the startup and the win 7 is running by default , although win 7 was installed on different drive

I have a emachine T6216 when I start it up and it goes to windows it shuts down. Sometimes at the start of windows sometimes 20 mins later. When I restart it the temp is 40 degrees centergrade (144 degrees F). If I go to set up I can stay …

Ok this is how the problems developed. OS: Windows XP pro service pack 3 IE6 originally I installed Eusing registry cleaners. Mallerware and AVG 9 Scanned and cleaned a lot of stuff off. Then the IE (6) Icon changed and looked like an "unknown file" but only in the start …

Hello People, I will like to know how to permanently turn my num lock on even when i press the key to turn it off. Reason; it does my head in! There are some programs I use and they turn it off which is very annoying. Is there a way …

i wanted to record a karaoke song with my voice.I have the software called Cool Edit Pro to record.But my microphone did work, and i tried to buy to new one but the neew one doesn't work either. Even chat voice my friend couldn't hear what i said. So what …

On another thread that has been marked as solved, the suggestion was given, "Create a folder on your desktop called "Office.en-us". Find the same folder on the CD and copy "OfficeMUISet" to the folder on your desktop. Re-insert the CD so that the setup starts again. When it tells you …

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hi... my hard drive.. is not working? how can i do?? beacause window... start... and come again in settings.... this posibillity a virs..???

Hello Apart from portableapps.com, are there other websites which can allow the creation of a portable application installer, like allow me to add googlechrome, firefox, openoffice etc to a single installer, but given a list to choose from, instead of predefined lists like on portableapps.com site?

Hi, I have a Toshiba Satellite A215-S5837 laptop and Windows Vista Home which is about 3 months old. It unfortunately fell from my desk and initally work but then it restarted by itself and now when it tries to reboot I get the following PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable …

Hey everybody, ("Hello doctor Nick...")..anyways getting back to business. I got a seriously annoying problem, I've been running WinXP on a P4-2.4G 512MB-RAM for about 2 years now, with of course the occasional formating and cleaning and upgrading... Well now my Microsoft Internet Explorer is starting to act up, whenever …

Hi, I plan to install an SFTP server on one of our domain servers, but beforehand I wanted to setup a dummy server on one of my local workstations. I used [U]OpenSSH [/U]to setup a home location with the folder named [B]SSHTestBed[/B], full path: C:\SSHTestBed I also created a new …