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My system restore has stopped working. I think it is linked to a Javascript problem, anything requiring Javascript stopped working in internet explorer (you could click on the link as much as you liked but got nothing). I installed Mozilla Firefox and replaced iinternet explorer so that solved the problem …

ok i m13 im new here i just need some help with my comp so HI:) now i was having some problems with counter-strike a video game and it takes somthing like 70 fps but my comp cant handle it so it spazzes to 5 fps then back to 70. …

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[i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]How to Change the Length of Time That Your Computer Is Inactive Before Your Status Becomes "Away" [/color][/size][size=2]This article describes the "Away" status in Windows Messenger. This article also describes how to change the length …

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hi im new here and i had a question: i have so many viruses and junk on my computer that i just want to start fresh with none of my former files on there. i had win xp home and then i installed win xp pro and that worked but …

Kay here's the setup: Custom built about 3yrs ago XPpro (all updates and hotfixes installed) A7N8X Deluxe rev1.4 (all bios and chipset drvrs current) AMD 1.4 (never O/C'd) 512MB pc2100DDR 80gb Maxtor (Primary boot, and program files drive) 20gb W.D. (Backups drive, MP3s, photos and what-not's) Plextor 16/10/40 Delta DVDrom …

Using windows XP pro. on a 2 computer home network. Was using simple file sharing and everything was working fine for awhile. Then started getting file accesss denied with different files. clicked off simple file sharing and tried to change owner but would not let me and could not find …

Have Win XP pro, when I go to the run menu and type in a letter it brings up a url. I have deleted my cookies, history and files for IE and Netscape. Does anyone know how to get rid of it?

iam running a p4 1400 with windows xp home edition i just got acronis true image 6 to backup my harddrive it installs ok but when i try to copy my harddrive it starts and then the cd pops out and is says error cant create image may be becouse …

My company bought some new Sony laptops without floppy drives, and they want to install Win98 on them (for software compatability reasons). But the Win98 CDs are not bootable CDs. They tried to connect a USB floppy to the computer, but it only gets recognized after WinXP has loaded. My …

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I cant find any info for this withoud installing some app. I have a HUGE upgrade that I'm working on (50,000 PC's) and It would be really nice for some of the batch files to reboot the PC's automatically after they are done installing the components. Thanks.

Hi, Hope someone here can assist us. Our rip server recently crashed hard while playing an Art Bell radio show, with the audio sounding just like a cd skipping. Since that date, we have reinstalled the system in order to get it to a point where it will run and …

:!: i need help because i'm getting very frustrated with my new computer system.. i am building it myself, from scratch.. i have all of the components and they are all installed correctly.. the system has an Intel Motherboard Pentium 4 3.06 ghz 1GB of RAM a SeaGate 120GM HD …

When i start the Windows Xp download process it goes the all the steps and when it goes to the Installing Windows it just stays there, At the botton it says Setup will complete in approximatley 39 mins and it has said that for like 8 hrs i have tryed …

I just renewed my ISP Internet/TV/phone package for another two years. It includes a Rogers Xfinity outdoor camera. It automatically tags the video stream and creates clips when it detects motion. Everything is saved to the cloud. The "Easy Setup" was anything but, however, that's another story. Unfortunately it is …

I am trying to convert an 11 page Pdf document to excel and have the formatting work correctly. If anyone knows of an easy way to do this I would appreciate it. Thank you,

I thought it was straightforward, in my System Info, but don't see it there!? Thanks to advise. I think I need to upgrade it.

Hi everyone, I'm still using **Windows 10 version 1703 (OS Build 15063)** and would like to run Microsoft PowerToys. I know the latest releases require a much newer version of Windows 10, but I'm wondering if there's an older PowerToys release that's compatible with my system. Has anyone successfully installed …

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To manually migrate files from OneDrive to Google Drive, first sign in to your OneDrive account and download the files you want to move to your computer. Then, go to Google Drive, log in, and upload those files from your computer. This method is simple and free but can take …

After installing malwarebytes my laptop's performance slowed down seriously. What's up?

I have recently come into possession of 2 second hand Fujitsu RX series servers, and this issue is driving me nuts! When I got them neither had disks, so I popped some disks in and installed a Win Server 2019 hyper-v service. So both servers have entirely clean and activated …

I am having a problem printing on a home network. The printer (Epson Stylus Color D68 inkjet) is connected by USB to a desktop and is also installed as a shared printer on a laptop. The network is set up and running properly - the laptop can connect to the …

After the latest MS update (22) My bluetooth quit functioning. The icon is there and it is available in settings. The problem is it will not pair with any external bluetooth devices. It will search but never connects with anything ie; keyboards, mice, earphones. Microsoft support could not fix it. …

I've just upgraded to Windows 11 and there doesn't seem to be a way to when I right-click a file in my dropbox anymore. Has anyone figured out a solution to that? I use this feature all the time in my work, it would be terrible if that's not an …

I've contacted Microsoft support, Asus support and sony headphone support. I have sony wh-1000xm4 Bluetooth headphones when paired with zenbook up6502z the left and right audio channels are reversed, when paired to any other device the audio is correct, only on the zenbook, tried reset, drivers, headphone firmware, and everything, …

How can I add an audio to a Access database. I have a Access "greeck dicionary" and word "Relaxed with the phrase in Greek and its audio

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I worked this issue for over 10 hours yesterday and got nowhere. Maybe the braintrust here has some ideas. I have an Asus essentio desktop, with Win 7 Ultimate SP1 installed. Yesterday AM I discovered that it was completely hung,so I turned it off and turned it on. First, I …

like when press window + shift + s together and capture a screenshot. Then a window is suppose to show up on the right. But it's no longer there? How do you fix it?

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Adding a file/folder comment capability to Windows This is something I wrote a few years ago in vb.Net and just recently ported to python/wxpython. As I keep discovering, just about everything is easier in python. Windows does not have a commenting facility so I decided to write something simple. NTFS …

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I've just installed Win XP pro, clean install - the problem is the computer will not shut down. When I click Shut Down, the lights on the tower will flicker a bit, might get a hourglass which then returns to a pointer, but I do not leave the desktop. Everything …

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recently I got a CPU upgrade taking my Ryzen 3 3100x to Ryzen 5 5600x. So after I installed the CPU ran into thermal issues no problem added some thermal paste and boom my pc booted ,but it wasn't the same before I could run Elden ring on a smooth …

I just bought McAfee for a year, but I get this error at the beginning of the installation: "Something went wrong with the insatallation" Any help?

Hello, I"m trying to make a nice USB-stick, with a Windows 10 ISO file on it. But where do I get that ISO file? I'm not looking for the tool which makes your USB-stick a bootable one. I'm looking for the actual ISO file Thanks

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Hi what could be the cause that Edge most frequently is seen asthe standard app for PDF files? I've changed it in the standard app settings. I've changed in the explorer menu; r.click → open with... → choose other app → click open always with chosen app Also made changes …

Hi Team, Earlier we used IE options in Edge for opening our URL (application) with updating No-Merge option in Enterprise XML to access multiple sessions on the same server. But right now we are using Edge (pure) to use the same URL and unable to access more than one session …

Hands up if you remember Opera Software, you know the Norway-based developer of alternative web browser clients. In the days before Firefox, Opera was the client most likely to shake up Microsoft and for a while seemed to be doing pretty well in that regard. Then Firefox came along and …

Hello. Can you tell me how to disable Teams from starting up while windows starts up? Thank you

Hello I have moved Windows 10 default created folders like "Documents", "Music", "Pictures" etc. to my E partition, and would like to know whether I can safely format the C partition and reinstall Windows without losing data in these folders, or do I need to backup all these folders again …

Hello all, So last night I decided to add an older HDD into my new desktop to... well add more storage since games now-a-days are HUGE, and I was running out on my current 2 drives (main SSD with Windows 10, and an HDD). I didn't realize that the older …