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When I start my pc it makes loud ticking noises that comes from the internal speaker. It then goes to a Boot Menu that shows Hard Drive, CDROM and LAN. When I choose Hard drive it shows the two hard drives to select. I select the SATA drive where Windows …

I have a sandisc pendrive(CRUZE MICRO) of 1 GB capacity. when I am putting it to USB port of my system it is showing that its not recognized. What should I do?? I have windows 7 as my OS.

Hi Guys, Wondering if you could help out at all, i am getting random DNS errors while browsing the internet in I.E, i am yet to try another browser. The problems is on my main PC, my Laptop and games consoles don't recieve any problems. I will try another browser …

Can someone help? My computer got turned off at the wall by mistake and when I turned it on again the usual message came up: 'We apologize for the inconvence etc... choose an option... Safe Mode Safe mode iwth networking Safe mode with command prompt LAst known good configiration start …

My PC is ten years old running Win 98 SE, and several years back I bought a CPU from Oregon to increase the speed, and this still works fine. Unfortunately, the PCI Ethernet Controller is bad and I keep getting a message on start up, "needs new drivers for PCI …

I (a next to computer-illterate Norwegian) operate MSOffice2003 on Windows XP; in Word2003 I, too, experience the obviously well known problem: in trying to save a document to any other file than the one proposed by the system, the system hangs and suddenly shows 100% system resources occupied. I (no …

My problem is that when I turn on my computer it seems to boot up fine until the Windows XP Logo appears and then it reboots itself and does it over and over again. I have installed a new motherboard and graphics card but can not seem to find the …

how can i give a password in to a cd/dvd.

I have a problem with the display....It used to run on 256 colors but now that I ran a windows 98 update SE the only two options that I have now are 16 colors and 2 colors.. This is really anoying because every think looks like crap!! Does anyone know …

I have a Toshiba Satellite X205-SLi2 with Vista Home Premium. Ya, I know. I should be shot for it. I tried to put XP pro on it and finally took it in and they said Toshiba didn't write some dll that can run XP Pro on this laptop. Gates is …

***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 …

my pc has slowed down to a crawl and im getting a lot of pop-ups as well. i am not a computer geek so dont know much about msconfig :scared: and how to use it. can someone help out a noob here? Thanks in advance :)

Setup: PC desktop GT5656 Windows vista home premium 3gb ddr2 dual channel 500 gb hard disk AMD athlon 64x2 6000+ Hello, I turn my computer on and it gives me the "Launch System Repair" and "log into windows vista menu" When I choose either option the computer shuts down. When …

hello all at my office USB ARE dissable and i want to enable it while plug pen drive into it it shows removable disc in my computer and while double click it opens also and when i copy something and trying to pest into it it shows "Access is Deniel …

Hi - I wonder if I should be here! What happened is that I have a new (3 wk old) Compaq Presario laptop with Windows 7 and it's worked fine so far (and is working now) but a couple of times it has refused to boot up, first from Shutdown, …

i recently found out i had the virus called RECYCLER, and that it had infected my usb and hard drive. So the first thing i did was end the process called ctfmon.exe, as i read it was part of the virus. I also ran a program called combofix with a …

I have a Toshiba laptop running on Windows 7.Everything seems to be fine including the sound drivers. But the Media player can not run. I have to play all media files with jet audio or win dvd plyr.I cant play Blu ray too Please advice.. fourty

Hey people, first all let me apologise if this in the wrong section I couldnt find a seciton for office or just excel. So i figured windows software was my second safest bet, he hopes lol. I'm having a problem with excel. I'm trying to write a function that will …

Alright, to start... My pc was working fine... then I got the av security virus... and, I got rid of it. I had to restart a few times, but i got that fixed. So, I turned my pc off, the next morning, It won't boot into windows. I've tried literally …

I jsut ran the SLAX live linux CD. And when i exited out windows will no longer boot. It gets to verufuyng data pool, then shows me abunch of/ 010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101 010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101 010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101 010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101 010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101 I can boot into the windoows CD shouldd i run FixBoot from the recovory console to …

My computer will not get past the boot from cd: screen. It freezes there. Do I have to run the recovery cd? My tower was rebuilt about a year ago. My hard drive with my windows xp and internet information and everything else was saved. I did not have to …

Ok, so I have an old Dell Dimension C300. It originally came with 128mb of RAM. I purchased 512mb x2, and made sure that it was "PC133U-333-542", and 133mhz - Just like the 128mb module that came with it. I installed the new RAM, and the computer turns on, but …

G'Day, My USB printer is not recognized, and also a pen drive in the same USB port. But when I put a usb to serial adapter, Windows recognizes it OK. Of course the pen drive and printer works ok on my other laptop. Are there any diagnostics that can point …

Error 1706 No Valid Source Could Be Found... hi i need your help guys..my pc was working ok,,since today when i turn on i get this error message "ERROR 1706 NO VALID SOURCE COULD BE FOUND FOR PRODUCT UPDATE MANAGER.THE WINDOWS INSTALLER CAN NOT CONTINUE SOURCE=1" so please if somebody …

Hi, I need to use a automatic driver updating application to update all my drivers. I have searched on google there are many applications which one to select please help

Hello after xp boots up the desk top just blinks every few seconds. It will show the desk top for a few seconds then it just gives a blank screen then shows desktop for a second then blank screen? Any Ideas?

the error 1303 occured when installing sony ericsson pc suit in my laptop which has the Windows vista ultimate

Hi, just recently playing mmos on my pc, namely 'fusionfall', graphically it is a good game but it is very slow. So i was wondering if there are any other browser based mmos you could recommend? i dont want to download anything as my computer is slow enough already! Not …

I have a problem with my speakers as they don't work because there is "no mixer devices available" and system restore and downloading new hardware doesn't seem to make a difference because system restore hasn't saved any earlier dates apart from 2 days ago.. I have also tried going onto …

i have been given a dell dimension 9100 to work on by my boss after he wiped the hard drive and im now trying to install windows xp home with sp3. when i turn the computer on it starts to boot from the cd, but gets stuck at the blue …

defrag disk will not start,please help

I have two issues. 1- when I use the forward mail option the screen stes up for a blank new message and the way I get round it is to copy the message onto a new mail but it is frustrating especially as I have to open, savve and reattach …

I live in a very remote area, naturally there are lots of power cuts and I've become very adapt at resurrecting my computer;) . Trying to be smart I use an external drive to save all my stuff. I use sync-toy as my backup program. Synchronizing, after the newest re-install …

I am being restricted from operating my computer using Windows 7. It tells me that I need to see the system administrator. Help.

have windows xp. tried playing cds but wont read cdrom. says windows sucessfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device(code 41). have windows media player11. know its reading the disc. just want to listen to cds. is it hardware problem? or can i just …

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I recently re-installed XP home on my old laptop and everything seemed to install ok but now I cannot connect to my internet wirelessly.In my system tray it shows that my network name and conection rate as excellent but it will not actually connect. When I do "ipconfig /all" I …

Hi, this morning i installed a windows update and than it prompted me to restart. After my computer came back on the screen was stuck at [B]4 bit colour and 640 x 480 pixels.[/B] I've tried to change it back in the display properties but it won't. I've also tried …

I am trying to update the driver on an old laptop. I checked the device manager and all the information that I can siphon out of it is the following: Cisco Systems PCI Wireless LAN Adapter Driver date: 4/2/2002 Driver version: 3.4.9.0 I have checked cisco's website but I dont …

every time i try and log on to my computer it tries and then immediatly logs off. what to do???

I have a bad, or corrupt driver in windows some where, I had it before my last reinstall of win xp pro, and still have it after reinstalling and putting all my nessary drivers back on. from time to time windows will crash to reboot, and tell me it was …

Hi All Recently, my laptop has started showing an error while loading the desktop. The error box is intitled RunDLL and the message says "Error loading winpjj32.com. The specified module could not be found". Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any help Ben

:cheesy: :cheesy: I can not believe I finally found it. Went through google and searched until :eek: . This is what you need to do it works!!!! [B]Program Won’t Run – Gives Director Player Requires 3MB of Virtual Memory Error[/B]ID: 13Category: Error MessagesStatus: ResolvedViews: 6628 [B]Question:[/B] Title is self explanatory. …

Title remind you of anything? Ok,a couple of days ago I lost sound on my system. It is an old Dimension 3000 running XP with SP3. I have run every Malware/Spyware/Anti-Virus known to man, (ok not all of them but close) I have removed the sound card, rebooted and now..........My …

hi friends, pls help me by posting windows detailed memory map(protected mode) thank u

the shortcut it self shows and is still click-able but the icon image doesn't show up and its annoying because sometimes i click on the wrong icon sometimes.. also the recycle bin icon wont show.. here is a image of my desktop [url]http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d181/toto_mimi_89/wontshow.jpg[/url]

We have a few PC running XP sp3 have some network problem, if the pc has not been use for some times, it will locked, when user unlocked it, all the network loset, IE FF, outlook, thunderbird, all the windows base program lost the network, but I can ping and …

hey please help me! i cant able to delete a registry entry in my startup [HKLM/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run]. this results to an error which pops up during the startup of my windows. when i delete it, it will gone and when i press F5, it will still be there. the registry entry …

I am planning on upgrading server 03 with exchange 03 to exchange 07 and server 08 software. i have never done so before, so i have a few questions. i did not set up the current exchange server, so i have no idea what package was purchased. i know that …

i need help to fix my active dekstop recovery, whenever i open my computer i the active dekstop recovery stuff. and i can't open anything when i try to open system restore this dialog pops up and says "choose the program you want open this file". nothing works can someone …