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I've just upgraded to Windows 7 (Ultimate 32 bit) from XP Home SP3, and I've found that my nice clock screen saver doesn't work at all. I've tried a variety of other clock screen savers and none of them do either. I've downloaded other screen savers and they behave correctly. …

Hi All, Not been here for a while so not too sure if this is in the right place or not? I am having a nightmare of an issue and I cant work out where the problem lies, I have a specific piece of bespoke software that calculates some technical …

Hello to all, Yesterday, I booted up my machine, it checked the memory, detected the Hardrives and then shut itself down. It always shuts down at the same point in the boot sequence. I am running a Pentium D something with Windows XP. I had the machine upgraded about 4 …

I have a friend use Window Xp and he backup all his files due to virus? But after the backup he noticed all his picture files are in *.nco extension. Does anyone know how to convert them all back to *.jpg formates Thanks

I am running Xp Prof SP3 with Office 2003 on an HP laptop nx8220. After screensaver(any version) kicks in, it soon starts moving in a slow jerking motion accross the screen and then sometimes freezes. It is then difficult to get it to come out of screensaver back to desktop …

Originally I had my laptop set up to automatically log on to the router. After we moved,we lost our security key, but our laptops still connected. Recently, my sister got a laptop and cant use it here until we get the security key. So I went and got my default …

in the folder option when i click in show all files and apply it again it shows that it is again check on do not show hidden files..

Every time I close Internet Explorer, I get an error message stating the the system had to close IE to protect my computer. This happens every time. What may be causing this?

The PC has a Gigabyte GAMA-790X-DS4 mobo and an AMD 8650 Triple core processor with 4 GB of RAM. I am using a PC Power and Cooling 750 watt PSU , 2 Raptors running RAID 0 with 2 Seagate 1TB Harddrives. I have a Samsung SuperWriter DVD, LG Blu-ray Disc …

XP not being very nice when trying to install on SATA Can hear windows start up (bing) but then goes to black screen, no lockup Any ideas as to what could be causing this?

Anybody out there know of a matx motherboard for windows server 2008. Recently purchased an Asus P5E-VM only to be informed by Asus they do not support any windows servers. Intel site claims none of their mainstream motherboards support windows server 2003, no mention of server 2008.

windows shut down in the installing windows phase of setup

Everytime i tried to install my nancy drew game, the installshield wizard keeps showing up and i can't play my game. Is there something i can do or change so i can play my games?

hi everyone, I find when I have several tabs open, my computer gets deadly slow response, slow mouse movements, etc..&..can someone tell me ...wat should i do for this..??

I have an extremely strange network issue occurring when my computer returns from sleep mode. Every day I leave for work, I lock my station and walk out the door. When I return the next morning, I find my computer has gone into sleep mode (which is fine to save …

Is there any software out there for the PC that would play audio books (or MP3s) and let me resume them when I stop playing them from the point I stopped? Could Windows Media Player, WinAmp or RealPlayer do this?

Hi, I am new-one in this forum.I am making a program for that purpose i want to know some information about windows please help me by providing this information. My question is 1)I want to know the technical name of utility that run on boot time before login in xp. …

I can access any site except att.yahoo.net or [url]www.att.net[/url]. I have Verizon DSL. AT&T claims it is my firewall/DSL provider blocking my access. I installed nothing new on my PC and all of a sudden I can't get to those two sites. I ran a trace route from my router …

I want to resurrect my old eMachines - the hard drive was bad so I dropped in a "new" one. I can boot from the restore CD to a DOS prompt. Ran FDISK on the 8 gig drive, then performed a format of the drive. No messages about bad sectors. …

Hi guys, I'm running Outlook 2003 on my XP sp2 laptop. I use my yahoo email address. I have been having a few problems in the last week. Everything was working fine for a few weeks following the installation. At some point a couple of extra emails seem to have …

i have a compaq presario v3019 and it wont turn on, it will stay like for hours then later when i push the power button again, the screen is still black but the power button is on, the wireless light is on, all the lights are on, I can even …

So i'm trying to set up a network but my computer doesn't have the driver for the ethernet controller and was wondering how or where I would be able to find the driver to install. LIke I said its on Windows XP using a dell 2350.

i have an application that won't even start up because of a kernel32.dll error. is this the type of file i can move to a different location, download a later copy of, put the later copy of in my system32 file and then reboot and it won't screw up my …

Help! When I right click my screen to change the properties for screen saver or I go to my start, click on control panel and try to get into anything on the panel it says this: "Windows can not find 'C:\WINDOWS\rundll32.exe'. You may have typed the name incorrectly n the …

Hi - I'm trying to format and reinstall Windows XP on a Dell 4300 for a friend. When I booted the computer up - A trial version of Windows XP Pro SP2 disk was in the drive and in the middle of set up. Problem is - I don't have …

Well, the back up is there on my external hard drive - check. My wife, the IT professional, wants to stay clear of any computer issues at home - cant blame her, really - so, she wants to "see" the files in the back up - now, that'd be nice. …

We have a six year old Sony Vaio running Windows XP Media Center. The computer is dog slow. Id figure a virus, but if there is one, Norton 360, Malwarebytes, and another program cant find it. Bottom line, my wife wants it rebuilt. So, before I do so, and risk …

I am having one heck of a time trying to login in to my hotmail account, facebook account, and my school e-mail account. I can login in to any other websites except for these three. I have ran Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, RegCure and nothing is working, considering my school e-mail …

hi guys, can anyone point a link to download a software to clone a hard disk or ghost a hard drive.a freeware should be the best. Thanks :)

Hello Is it possible to install a windows XP 32 bit on a computer where the motherboard is 64 bits?? If yes what to do? thanks pilo14

Help.....Working on a friends PC. The computer reaches the splash screen and then starts over (reboot). I have tried to enter the safe mode and I will get the safe mode screen "Advanced Options Menu" and by selecting any of the menu items and enter it will go back into …

EventType : InPageError P1 : c000009c P2 : 00000003 C:\DOCUME~1\Love\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERaf72.dir00\explorer.exe.mdmp C:\DOCUME~1\Love\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERaf72.dir00\appcompat.txt what to do ? please help.

I am getting 2 errors on startup. This is what it says in each: [QUOTE]Error loading C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\Local\Tempt\mLEtTKaY.dll The specified module could not be found.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Error loading C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\Local\Tempt\khfhaynf.dll The specified module could not be found.[/QUOTE] How can i fix this?

hi newly i bought a dell inspiron 5010n, now always i start system i get a messagw " caution: this hard disk may be infected by virus" hdd sata 500 toshiba mk5065gsx support raid i can not open exe and any other kind of executive file,can not open regedit,can not …

I have full access to User Accounts in XP. I can add, delete, change, add pic, etc. I created an limited account for my wife. I can see it in the USER ACCOUNT box, along with my admin account and a guest account (turned off). The problem is when I …

Help! I've forgotten my password to log onto my ancient Toshiba Satellite 1550CDS Is there a way to by pass this so i can reconfigure system? Also, I can't load XP over it "insufficient memory" appears Cheers Spyder777

I am using DELL vostro 1015 Microsoft Windows XP but when I pays the music the sound is too less is there any solution for it???

Please help how to make participation I am having 250GB hard disk.

(This is a repeat post from C# section since I just found this section and thought it might apply.) Hi guys, First I want to apologize for such a lengthy post. I'm attempting to give as much information as I can, and I'm sure I'm leaving something important out anyway. …

A couple of weeks ago, our Dell computer went blank. After going through all of the F8 menu options, I finally got the following error message, "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\AppPatch\drvmain.sdb" It follows: "You can repair the file by starting windows setup …

Hi everyone, i have Intel p- 4 , Vista Ultimate.. When I started my computer it works fine but as i works it upto 10 min ..its performance slowing down continuously...as i checked in Windows Task manager process what's going in it.. I've killed those application which running on high …

Hey guys, I can't install gpmc because it says some .NET framework is required....

My outlook reminders are not showing when you set them. when the time comes for them to pop up, a message shows instead: ie; there was a problem in one of the reminders and might not show. Some one please help.

I can home tonight and touched ,my mouse to load PC, next thing I know everything freezes, a big blue screen comes up and says to turn the system down ASAP if I dont wanna loose anything, so I did that....Well low and behold when I restarted it won't do …

My computer is an HP Pavilion Media Center Edition 2005; Windows XP. Upon starting it, I get the message: Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk And Press Enter. What can I do to get my computer to work??? F8 doesn't work. And on the F1 Setup page, there's only One …

Hello, recently i found one of my old USB devices but when i plugged it in and tried to delete a file it told me it was write protected. Now i have decided to format it but it doesnt let me because it is write protected. It doesnt have a …

Attached is a picture of the setup error and the log file I get when trying to re-install Windows XP. Windows will not let me go any further in the setup process but I don't know how to get rid of this "existing software" error. The message below says a …

After cleaning up a 9 year old Dell Dimension 8100 running XP sp3, I defragmented and then closed thinking all was well. When I opened today all the printing is in symbols rather than letters. Can't read any menus or buttons, so I don't know what to do. Tried safe …

I am running Win7 pro and the Microsoft Virtual XP. The virtual machine uses a separate VHD for it's user generated data, a small 1 Gig fixed size virtual harddisk. I attach this VHD in read-only mode to the host [B]while the Virtual XP is running[/B] for backup purposes. This …

i am using win-7....i got problem with ma desktop icons....its showing unknown program icon for all other programs....what should i do now?????