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Hello, I am having trouble with my sound card on a windows XP machine. It is not any specific manufacturer (It was a machine put together by a local computer shop) When I go into my system information to see my sound device it is comug up blank, also, in …

i have an: hp psc 1210xi all-in-one if i printed a black square as big as will fit on the page, it will be about 4 mm from the top, about half a centimeter on the sides (one side is larger though) and about 1 1/2 cm from the bottom, …

Hi Guys/Gals, What could be the problem, my internet keeps cutting off, maybe couple of times per hour, only for 20-30 seconds, but all apps quit running and have to reconnect. I have windows 7, AT&T U-verse DSL 18 mb (never get more than 10)wireless from modem in the next …

Hi anyone that can help, I have read through past post and have found some help, but the information seems to still be diffrent to what I need. My problem is as follows, I just have a normal modem from the ISP with a data cable connection to my computer, …

hi guys..i formatted my laptop and reinstalled a WIN7 ultimate,however i noticed im missing a network controller driver which i cant find online!(yet).a network device and driver is already installed( realtek ) but this damn network controller is the problem.my laptop is a toshiba satellite l505.help needed pls

Hi everyone. I was given a computer today(Acer Desktop, 1 GB Ram, 160 HD) and was told it would not connect to the internet. After verifying the network card worked fine, I did a scan for spyware(malwarebytes) and viruses(AVG). Neither program found any problems but now the computer will not …

Hi all, I'm starting a new job soon and I'm going to be using my laptop there for a while until they get me my own system. I've set up a new user account called "Work" on my machine, but I'm not very well-versed with configuring user settings. What I'd …

please dont laugh at me. i was recently tidying up my pc and i unchecked some start up boxes. One of them i know now was to do with nvidia and hence my pc wont show anything on the screen. I can F8 but cant do any of the options, …

hello. about 3 days ago, IE couldn't load up myspace, imageshack, deviantart and a handful of other sites but i urgently needed to retrieve a picture that i left on my friend's myspace so i used a proxy to try to get it. i did but then because proxies block …

I tried to search DaniWeb for something on this that may have been addressed already, but did not find it. I have XP Pro 32-bit running now. I upgraded MB and CPU/RAM. I have bought Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and want to dual boot it with XP. I know there …

I read a blog post this morning on the Mini-Microsoft blog called [URL="http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2009/07/microsoft-has-turned-corner.html"]Microsoft Has Turned the Corner[/URL] and it got me wondering if they really have, or if it was merely wishful thinking on the part of the author. Then I saw that Microsoft had released [URL="http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/"]Office 2010 videos[/URL] and …

[ATTACH=RIGHT]16331[/ATTACH]A [URL="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383530439838568.html?"]Wall Street Journal report today[/URL] suggests that for Microsoft, customer concerns about privacy came a distant second behind ad revenue when designing browser software Internet Explorer. When Microsoft initially planned the Internet Explorer 8.0 browser, they intended to offer users functionality that would allow them to avoid being tracked …

Hi all. When I try to run games on my computer, the window is in fullscreen mode, but the view doesn't cover the whole screen; as to say there are black bars on the left and right. I changed the ingame settings, but I can't get it back to where …

Hi, I have Windows 7 Professional 64 bit edition. After booting up and logging in I sometimes get BSoD. then the system reboots and I can log in normally. It doesn't happen too often, but it does occur often enough for me to notice there's a problem. Windows asks to …

I recently almost dropped my laptop (which was working fine till that point). When I restarted my laptop, it wouldn't start. It would go start, and blank out after the boot screen and this would basically form an infinite loop. I put in the installation CD, and went for windows …

Hi, I have an old NEC Japanese laptop Lavie C PC-LC6000J34DR a P3 with just 256MG (2 Chips) of RAM The CD ROM dose not work and it has a problem with the CMOS. On boot up I get the message at the post screen that the hibernation file is …

I have recently installed windows 7 on an older compaq presario and now I don't have any sound or internet. The ethernet driver is missing and the sound drivers are missing. I've checked on the compaq site, and they have drivers for windows xp that I've downloaded and tried to …

m using windows 7 home edition n m having problem whenevr i tries to make bakup of files actually this stared like this..i losses my pervious backup disk(1st backup ) and whn tries to make new ,widos star asking for the perious disk ., [B]so can anyone tell how could …

Hi all, I have had for the last 5 years a PC that I had built for me by a friend with a computer shop. It has 200gb Sata drive, 3ghz pentium processor, 1gb ram, decent 250mb graphics card. Only issues I have ever had is the power supply has …

Okay, so I bought my computer (OS:Windows764bit) 4 days ago, I had it running but then I had to pull the electricity out because of the weather. WHen I started it again it gave me the two usual options, "startup repair recommended" (I think it is, my computer is in …

Client machine using XP Pro OEM. Desktop PC has never been part of a domain. The computer was manufactured and installed as an isolated stand alone pc. Up to a few days ago the system was working properly. Even when we attempt to login safe mode, the unit only allows …

I've been trying to defrag my local disk C, however it only shows the D drive. Even when I right click on C and get to the defrag via properties it shows D only. Any suggestions?

This is my last resort b4 I throw my computer out of the window! I am still running Millennium hoping to salvage my computer and update to XP. I will be happy to follow directions from someone who can help, I am on my own here. There are missing files …

I downloaded the trial version of Nero 7. When it expired I tried to uninstall it but got the "Shell manager database is corrupt or missing" error that is dealt with on another thread on this forum. As per instructions given on that thread I deleted all Nero references from …

i'm having a problem with the "local disk [B]C[/B]" , i had th MS office 2000 and two days ago i installed the MS Office 2007 on the "local disk D" , so my laptop just keeps telling me there's not enough space on the C... how can i solve …

I can log onto MSN messenger, it opens but: - after a few seconds it disappears from my screen or - if it stays on the screen, it disappears as soon as I click in any of my contacts. I've removed MSN messenger from my laptop, re-installed it but I …

Hello everyone ... I'm desparate!!!! Ever since I downloaded the new version of AOL and all of it's new security features I have had constant problems with my home and work computers ... I've contacted AOL several times about this and to no avail they tell me to do the …

I am looking to create a digital questionnaire which isn't web based. I need it to be a word document or PDF file (or something similar) that anyone could download to their computer and fill in on their computer (or if they choose to, print it out then fill it …

Here's my hijack.log file... Please help me in deleting any spyware!!! Thanks in advance! Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 7:38:03 PM, on 1/9/04 Platform: Windows 98 Gold (Win9x 4.10.1998) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSGSRV32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SPOOL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MPREXE.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\mmtask.tsk C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SYSTRAY.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\STIMON.EXE C:\PROGRAM FILES\GRISOFT\AVG6\AVGCC32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\QTTASK.EXE …

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Hi After a month of trying to resolve this this is my last shot!! Toshiba sattelite running vista basic. Connected fine to the internet wirelessly - changed servers to Orange Gigaset the laptop will only connect locally. I have tried all the obvious - resetting router, manually connecting, etc but …

I have tried twice over a period of 8 months to get Microsoft technical support to solve this problem only ending up with "try re-installing or running a repair install" or "sorry, we can't fix this". The problem is this. Within several different programs in which there is an imbedded …

I recently had a virus on my machine. When I purchased the machine it came with the option to rollback to XP which I did. Since then Win 7 has been released. So when I wiped my computer I installed Win 7 Ultimate, 64 bit version. My system is AMD …

I was recently given a Dell Latitude CPt which is an old m/c made for Win98 or Me. I suspect that someone has unsuccessfully tried to upgrade the OS from 98 to ME. It tries to boot Windows 2000 Professional, shows a Windows 2000 setup window, but after some time …

When I click on a song to play in iTunes it gets stuck at 0.00 for every song. In Windows Media Player I get an error message saying "Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file." It's played before. I'm thinking it stopped working after some updates I …

All proxy sites have been blocked &as i try to access them message appears "this site is in the list of url translation sites" plz give a concrete solution that really works. i already have tried 1- samair.ru 2- anonymizer.com 3- anonymizer.ru 4-indosurf.info -----------------------------------------------------and many more hope you'l give me …

When I check "restore my computer to an earlier time" in system restore and click on next, I get the following message: The following calendar displays in bold all of the dates that have restore points available. The list displays the restore points that are available for the selected date. …

The last day something unusual has started happening to my computer.. when ever i click shutdown from the start menu or shut down the computer in any way it restarts basically immediately after. The only way i have found to shutdown my computer is by unplugging the power or turning …

Hi all, my uncle handed me his laptop and asked me to clean a virus. I used Kaspersky AV Boot to clean out the virus, and I was able to restore internet connectivity once that was done. I tried to run a virus scan and it kept getting stuck in …

loaded windos xp on older Compaq Presario now when I try to enter Bios to shut off case fan the bios option isn't there. I've cycled through all the f keys and only get boot menu and the option to reset to an earlier time. (None of these helped get …

i was at an office this morning trying to remove the anti virus and install avg and security essentials as well as installing SP3. three of the six machines worked fine but the other three came up with the error message you do not have permission to install this software …

Hello there My office pc is been installed by windows vista and is been attacked by trojan horse virus. Its eating my computer day by day. Is there any good antivirus to sweep away this virus. Or should i just format all my valuable documents. any suggestions regarding this would …

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i just recently did a clean instillation of windows 7 from windows xp sp3. I downloaded the iso from the mircosoft website. i mounted the iso image and ran the installation. took a while to install then it restarted my computer and installed more and more. then when it was …

***RUNNING:windows xp sp 2 ok i ridded a computer of 1021 infected files 23 viruses and 3 droppers. after disinfection internet axcess was damaged , so i re-installed the TCP/IP to the LAN connection and deleted the WinSock and WinSock2 entries and rebooted, (automatically rewriting the entries correctly) and bam …

hey guys :) I am trying to find out if and HOW to make this work! what is going on is there are 2 computers/Monitors in this workplace..both identical in makes/hardware..yadda yadda yadda.. what needs to happen here is this: we need both computers to hook up together, not just …

Hi, I am facing a really wierd problem, i just formatted my harddrive and installed windows xp service pack 3. Now i can't access any of the google services. like gmail it get some certificate errors and not trusted site in mozilla and something like this in all other browser. …

HELP me please i cant find my folder option on my control panel...... my brother accidentally hide my folder and when i look at my folder option i cant find it on my control panel, i dont know if it is deactivated or something.. please help me with my problem.. …

I have ran my virus scan and adware and it says nothing detected, but when I open IE, and then try to open another page it give me an error saying interent exploer encounter problem and shutting down. Can some one please, please help me. Thanks.

hey i got windows vesta i rescenty got a virus name malwerebitys or something like that and i ended up haveing to format my comp and reinstal vesta before my comp was picking up wireless signals easly from all over enyway since i have formated and reinstalled it wont pick …