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I've got an HP Pavilion dv6000 with Windows Vista; and it's connected via wireless to a Netgear DG834G router. I've always had a great connection and now and again it goes down to three bars, even when I'm real close to the router. For the past weeks I've been randomly …

Hi friends, I am using XP. Recently I installed System Mechanic and after that the mouse functions went awry. Even after uninstalling the program I am unable to use cut and paste, drag and drop funcitons. I tried every trick in the internet. No help. Anybody can suggest ways and …

Hello All: I am new to this form of potential problem solving however, information never acted upon is a solution never arrived at. I have a PC on XP and one day my sounds dissappeared from my speakers (that are integral to my HP flat panel screen. Windows troubleshooting is …

Hello I have recently deleted my icon cache and recreated using some steps found from a tutorial, but I've noticed that from then on, my windows takes a long time to load completely, that it from the welcome screen to the final loading process. When I log in, it takes …

I have a dell mini inspiron 1011 running windows xp OS. I have had this for roughly 11 months (has 30 days left on the warranty). I turned my computer on the other day only to be confronted with the black screen explaining that windows has encountered a problem....etc and …

wht can i do ?..............i had inserted usb in my pc .but i cant able to eject it .pc shows the message that file has already opened ,pls close all the files otherwise you lost ur data.can any 1 me wht is d reason for this?

I need help: a message appear when I start the computer saying: "there was a problem starting winry32 the specified module could not be found" as much as it is disturbing I do not know why it appears, its effect, and how should I remove it?

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop running Vista SP1. A month or more ago it stopped being able to read any USB flash drives. They all work in my other laptops, but in this one machine the autoplay dialog box has stopped popping up, and when I click the drive …

Hello all.. I am a new user of Windows Vista (came installed on my new laptop). Which Microsoft Office Suite is the best version to run with Vista. I want to install one that does not hog all my resources and take up too much space. Also, when you install …

Hi I dont think I ever untapped the powers of Excel for advanced analytics. Thus, as Im going through these tutorial books, I do wonder what are your tips to help you analyze data quickly and efficiently. Help!

Hello Last year I tried Ubuntu on a live CD on my mother's laptop that had Windows Vista. She didn't like it, so we didn't install it. For some time we had been thinking about upgrading to Windows 7, and yesterday we did. So her laptop has Windows 7 now, …

I'm trying to get away from Windows, and maybe go to Linux...but I would like to experiment a bit, before I commit to a total change of OS's. Is it possible to run 2 different OS's on the same computer? If this is too vague, I can give you more …

Ok, this is a new one for me... One of my clients is saying that when she writes a new email in Outlook and send it, then goes to her home page (Google) that her subject line from the email shows up in the address bar of her google. She …

I am attempting to start/stop services via a script. The command is sc stop "service name" It is failing with this error {SC} OpenService FAILED 123: Any assistance would be appreciated.

I have a 2007 Sony vaio model pcg-7154l that won't let me restore it to factory default. it all started when I took it off the internet then when I tried to put it back it would freeze. When I tried to so a cold boot it took more than …

[B][I][U]Hey Guyz I am currently using :-[/U][/I][/B] 1. WINDOWS 7 32bit x86 intel 2. WINDOWS XP SP2 2002 32bit x86 intel [B][U][I] MODEM :-[/I][/U][/B] ZTE ADSL Modem Model : 531B Splitter : 4KHz [B][I][U]The Problem :-[/U][/I][/B] 1. There was no problem till today morning...I faced some problems after 12am today.. …

I've been trying to upload pictures from my C drive to various websites. Everytime I attempt to do this, I get an error message such as "file not valid". These are normal jpg. files (not huge). It's happening with every photo. I would like to attach these photos to the …

I have used Incredimail on XP for many months OK. Recently, when attaching a photo to an email, when the photo is found in My Pictures and clicked, Incredimail freezes and the following error is shown: Runtime error C:\Program files\Incredimail\Bin\Incmail.exe Abnormal Program termination It then closes Incredimail down, deleting the …

I am running Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP2. Something regarding Windows Defender happened out of the blue recently, with a System Tray Icon and Message: "Windows has blocked some startup programs" ... I fiddled around with the options presented through this icon, including opening Windows Defender Software Explorer and …

hi I'm new to this so please bare with me, i recently installed w7 ultimate on desktop with 1gig ram and 200 gig hdd. mother board is ABIT UL8 all ok till restart now all i get to is a screen that says do i want to boot up alternative …

i have a vista based system, i had recently downloaded a corel draw software with a keygen. and made the mistake of opening the keygen with internet explorer, now all my .exe files are opening with internet explorer accomnpnied with a download window, regedit is not opening and i cannot …

Hello i need help to switch one operating system to another one just by clicking the switch button . I saw that in a video long time ago where we can have a button to click to go one system to another . Can anyone guide me how i can …

hello all, the company i am working for (quite a small company) are looking to host our web applications suite on our internal server running windows server 2003 and IIS 6 and allow external access to it. We have a static IP from our ISP and currently can access the …

When under Windows 2008 Server with my C++-program (with a cicle) many directory are copiing, then the memory is increasing and remain at a high level. Waht can I do?

so I worked on an older hp for this lady, i did full backup with a dvd set, but nasty viruses and trojans screwed up the back up set. She did not have an xp install disk with media center, so I installed xp with a random xp disk. I …

Thank you so very much for having such a great web site! Easy to register, easy to navigate....this is wonderful! Here is my problem: When I use my IE 8, I keep getting re-directed when using the search function. The websites I search for come up on the search page …

Hello I'm trying to write a batch file to clean up my pc. But I'm having a bit of trouble. I try to delete a hidden file and I don't know how to use the attributes to do so. Just for an example I try del /s /q /f /C:\Users\Phantom\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary …

Mozilla Firefox is a great browser, but one of its greatest features is one that few people bother to use - keyboard shortcuts. Spending just a few minutes learning the most common shortcuts can greatly increase the speed at which you browse web pages. To go to [url]http://www.google.com[/url], for example, …

Hi. I recently noticed ever since i got internet that when i startup the computer, the mouse and keyboard do not function. The computer starts up and goes to the desktop. to only way to restart it is to press the reset button, then when it starts up the mouse …

I was trying to avoid having to log on to anything when I start my computer and just go straight to the main screen. By mistake i changed the administrator to a limited account and now I can't change it. I tried to add a new user but it won't …

Hi I need to do a repair but find that my Toshiba Xp machine wont load the Product Recovery Disc. I have since found that it wont load any discs at all. Recently I connected my MP3 Player by USB to the machine and I am wondering if this could …

mstsc doesn't start anymore, after windows update with the message cannot find c:\windows\system32\<LANG_NAME>\mstsc.exe.mui if I restore the system with a point before 11/08/2010, it works.

I can't defrag, error message says "drive contains one or more backup copies of FAT, the copies should be identical but aren't scan disk for errors but can't fix the problem, I haven't done any backups I wouldn't know how I can't Defrag and have re-formatted my hard drive twice …

Hi All, i am getting following error in "Green Background" when i start the machine. WinXP SP2, PointSec 6.3.1 Invalid Opcode Exception Kernel Halted Press Key to Reboot Machine is not booting in any mode. Any one has any Idea, and know the root cause? Please help as Client is …

loaded xp on a Dell 170L last year, now putting it on the domain and I get this error message:" error loading C:\windows\system32\iedkcs32.dll cannot run %1 also: ordinal 654 iertutil.dll anyone recognize these? Thanks!

I am new to the DaniWeb Forums. I would like someone that knows well DELL computers and Windows XP Home to help me out. I don't know a whole lot about computers and would like someone to be able to give me individual assistance via Remote Assistance. I realize many …

Does anyone know how to permanently block the above cookies in Firefox? Livejasmin has me driven mad. It is so hard to get rid of. Why are they allowed to attach themselves to computers in Google search when the company must know where they are located and must know how …

I hope this is the right place to post this question. Hotmail is driving me crazy. The email window (reading pane?) is so small I can't read my emails. Only big enough to view one sentence at a time. I've tried to drag it, looked in options, cussed, searched hotmail …

This is a first post, and I hope that it is in the right place. My Toshiba XP Laptop no longer lights up. Info is there and is working, but almost impossible to see. Got it working a few times by quickly opening and shutting the lid, but no longer …

I am unable to ping a laptop running XP Pro SP1. I have tried everything. Verified that the built in firewall is not turned on. Other that that i have complete connectivity to the network, just no connectivity to the laptop. Any ideas anyone??

I have been given a HP Compaq DC7100 with the SFF case. This PC is fitted with a SATA hard disk drive. The previous owner installed Fedora Linux and the PC boots and works just fine. My problem is that I want to run Windows XP on it. I have …

Hello, I need help. I'm not sure what happen to my desk top PC, I did use IE 7.0, it ran fine till now, suddently I could not open IE, there is no messages at all, nothing shows up on the screen but it does have the icon at the …

Hi all, Let me first start off my saying that I've looked through this community and I think that it is one of the best I have ever seen. The people are friendly and the fixes you guys provide to many problems actually work. :cheesy: Anyways, here's my problem: I …

I have tried a good bit of things but not sure hopw to remove this ferocious beast. Symptom: Google goes to the wrong page when cl;icking on the link.. PLEASE HELP!!

I am running XP Prof SP3 and Office 2003 In Outlook mail, I am plagued with commands hanging with egg timer icon showing. If I leave it sometimes for up to 4-5 minutes it will complete, but on the next command it hangs again. Eventually if left for some time, …

Hello. When I turn on my computer, windows XP loads up and after the windows page where the computer shows the black screen with the windows logo and the bottom scanning icon the screen goes black and about 2 minutes later, the screen shows no signal and shuts off even …

Can some one help me with my Problem? Recently i powered up my laptop and I cant be able to see all my desktop icons on the screen. The screen displays my screen background but all the icons and the startup menu are not shown. Currently Im accessing my files …

You guys were so kind in helping me resolve my database connection problem, my web page is up and running with connections to the database working just great. Thank you all. Now I am just having a problem getting the Search to work. My web search requests return the following: …

hi all. I've had Windows XP installed on a computer that has had the entire c:drive wiped without a back up. Unsurprisingly, the network adapters have yellow exclamation marks next to them and i need some advice on how to do a bit of detective work to get them going …

I have downloaded a programme for which a code is required to register. I have the code but when I enter it, nothing happens. There is a note under the code box to say I must have administrative privileges to get the code to work. Mine is Windows XP home …