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the software installed in my pc is windows xp.yesterday i downloaded google chrome and set it as my default browser .till then my default browser was internet explorer 6,from then onwards my system is taking longer than usual to start.. can anybody please help me in this matter ... I'm …

I have had to format our computer (eMachines W6409) and reinstall Windows XP but I cannot find the correct audio driver. I have gone to the eMachines support website and used their program to detect the driver on the computer. I downloaded the one they said but it did not …

Hi! I could play 18 Wheels of Steel: Haulin, and then I've deleted it. After a while I've installed it but I can't play it. I click on the icon but nothing happens. Can somebody help me? Thanks a lot!

I need to uninstall and reinstall MP12 due to massive duplication of music files (my fault). I can't find a way to reinstall save for this: [URL="http://www.thewindowsplanet.com/869/how-to-uninstall-reinstall-windows-media-player-12-windows-7.htm"]http://www.thewindowsplanet.com/869/how-to-uninstall-reinstall-windows-media-player-12-windows-7.htm[/URL] Is it that easy?

i have formated a friends laptop by instaling a new windows 7 in a different partition but i do not know how to remove the old windows from the other partition, the computer keeps saying unable to perform format when i format the partition containig the old windows please help.

I forgot administrator password so i am not able to access my pc.:(PLEASE suggest something.

I have Windows XP Professional. I understand that one should have just one anti-virus program. I have discovered 2 very good (free) programs, SUPER Antispyware and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware which have detected and removed/quarantined spyware and malware on my computer. Can I leave them on or will they conflict with my …

I have Desktop Comp. when i logged in Guest account my pc works fine and my internet connection also works good. but when i logged in Using Admin account my pc suddenly slows down and internet connection also not work properly, continuously i refresh my connection. i m not getting …

Hello again anyone can recommend some useful tools (free if any), which can help find out for example when an application is being run in Windows, how much CPU, RAM and other resources are being used (i know the task manager provides something like this but want something with more …

Hello, This all started yesterday when I tried opening Photoshop CS4, which I've been running for years. First it began to load OK but very quickly sent my display into 640x480 which nothing except a reboot seemed to fix. I tried again, and exactly the same problem occured - no …

Hello Everybody! I came to discuss a strange behavior of my WSUS. I started some days ago and I could not find any solution yet. I hope you might be able to give me one. The problem is the following. When I start the WSUS the "add-snap in to console" …

I have a Dell Dimension XPS. the ABCD lights are all green but I consistently get a blue screen and hard stop while booting. I booted to the diagnostic CD (F12)and tried to run the full 32 bit diagnostics. I immediately get an error message "No line mapping found. Hit …

I am trying to install the audio driver on an HP Pavilion a820n and keep getting the error message "Can't find match Realtek HdAudio inf file". The file I downloaded is Realtek High Definition Audio Driver Update sp26552.exe from the hp website. I had problems with this computer before and …

When booting one our laptops, it boots up to C drive which turned out to be the recovery partition. Running ERD found the windows partition. Does anyone know how the active partition could of been changed inadvertantly? Anyone seen this before? System was running XP SP3.

Well, recently I got pissed off with Avira pushing me into installing update in order for me to allow ask.com toolbar to be installed. I hate toolbar because it eat up the browser page and bog down processing speed. And afterwards, I switched to Avast! which most people recommend it …

Hi guys, if i had set a the delegation for a particular user to manage an OU, how do i give access to the user if i just want him to connect remotely to the server and manage the OU remotely? do i need to install some software on user …

When I get an e-mail with an attach picture, I double click on the attachment and get the following error message "This application has failed to start because UXCore.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem." Then I click OK and get "Error loading C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Photo …

Hi, I am having duplicate 'boot line' options in my boot-up window. The first gets me into my machine, the second takes me to: "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware." I …

When I open my machine I get the message "Windows cannot find E:\Inkli-10Reminder.exe" To remove this message I'm told to remove this iformation from the register. I don't know how to even access the registry. This probably has something to so with installing Quicken over an already installed application, but …

Guys,i'm facing to a massive problem in these days.Because my Windows 7 OS gets about 2 to 3 hours to installing updates during its' shutting down.But sometimes it gets more than that.It's a really horrible thing.So I'm doing is removing the battery.I know that is a harmful thing to my …

I've searched Mozilla's site and the web for help on this problem, but without success: although Mozilla Firefox is normally set to open with only two homepages on my computer, in the last month or so it's been opening with 8 pages that happened to represent one web session I …

Please disregard this post - I just found the answer. Sorry for the needless post! I'm trying to change the boot order in the BIOS but there's no way to move things around. It's shows how to highlight the items but no way to actually move them around. Boot Device …

I am using the EXAMPLE Code in the attached code example to copy a CSV file into a 2d array. The Code came with a CSV Data Example with the Filename of "Test.CSV". As the code indicates the Dimensions are handled by the Ubound parameter and the ReDim option. The …

I recently installed the updated Dell Support Center (DSC) onto my Inspiron 1520 with Win XP(SP3) and ran the included PC Checkup (PCC) powered by PC-Doctor. Everything went smoothly; however, a little later, I started to notice a random .wav sound (a click followed by a "bubbling" sound like someone …

When I installed Chrome, it asked if I wanted to import my bookmarks from other browsers. Despite saying I wanted the Firefox ones, the new item in the menu says 'Imported from IE'. Which means if I want to access one of those I've got to go: Other Bookmarks / …

Not sure if this is a hardware or software problem - Windows 7 Home Premium and Levovo Edge 14. I have tried to burn CDs using Windows Media player and also CDBurnerXP. The discs will not finalize. Both get to about 99% and gives error message. Windows Media Player gives …

Running Windows 7 6.1.7600 with Intel Core i3 M350 2.27 ghz I don't understand what AMD software is doing on my computer. I have Googled the issue and other people are looking for the answer to the same question. Undoubtedly the DaniWeb community will have the answer. Make it simple …

Hallo, I have a computer that now runs windows xp. I had windows 7 ultimate X32 but I'm went back, because i had 4 till 5 BSOD every day on windows 7. Now I'm a few weeks back to xp and the computer is very slow with the logon, he's …

Hi All, I am a website developer. I need to take demo video of my website without sound for representing it to the client. I also want to add text callout or help notes along with screen capture(e.g. 'click on submit button','Fill username'..etc like snagIt). I am looking for such …

Hi, I have a problem with my friends dekstop. He said he can't login windows and all he get was a total black screen so he gave it to me for checking... Initially, after windows 7 splash screen, it should prompt to login window, but it didn't. Instead, it just …

Hello, Im having a problem with my OE6 first, When I download emails it stops receiving at one out-of #s? Sometimes I do receive emails from Outlook but most of the I can't receive one. What I did is to removed emails from the server and back to normal then …

Running XP SP3 Dell Dimension 4700 The computer was acting a bit weird for a short part of the day, the monitor kept blanking out and sometime it would flash. We tried a reboot and ended up with a BSOD stop: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005,0x804D9092,0xF78DDF88,0xF78DDC84) [img]http://fototime.com/9178CAB72707663/orig.jpg[/img] For a while I had access …

I have windows xp 2003, Installed the free version of avg 2011. Was told Microsoft Essentials was so much better so wanted to try it. Thought I downloaded it, but now I can't find it. To top it off, can't remove avg, keeps telling me that there is an error …

I found this amazingly useful for setting PCs with SSD as boot drive and a large storage drive. [url]http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/124198-user-profiles-create-move-during-windows-7-installation.html[/url] Kudos to "Kari"

I've Googled this and get every direction except the right one. We're running Win 7 Home Premium. There are a couple of programs that open up every time we reboot and I don't want them popping up on the screen. Input appreciated.

I need this to work with my Huawei modem I have Win Vista 32 bit

I have a Gateway 310, desktop computer with Windows XP home Edition on it. I put a fresh install on the computer and had already updated it thru Microsoft. I was trying to then put Cyberlink PowerDVD on the computer and thats where it all went wrong. Of the discs …

As Administrator if I make a registry change in HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop/WaitToKillAppTimeout, will that change be reflected to all accounts on the PC or do I need to make the same change to all of the user accounts? I am running XP Pro SP2. My goal is to speed up the …

Hi, I made a stupid thing. The girl send me .lnk file and told that its a picture. I said its not a picture, its a link. She didn't agree, so I didn't want to waste my time proving her and just tried to open it with irfanview. Of course …

I have a one and a half year old Dell computer with Windows 7. It was working fine before I moved. It was shipped to me and the speaker that I plugged into it does not work and the headphones for it do not work. What can I try to …

Hi All, I have win7 and we have some computers in LAN. Now i want to remotely access my friend's computer.We are developers and want remotely help each other without moving here and there. I know these two option.Windows remote assistance, remote desktop connection. When i connect using remote desktop …

I want to download 2 large files which is better 1-downloading each file alone or 2-download both at same time please say 1 or 2 and reason

hi friends plaese help me i want to know how i can delete data permanently so that it can not be recovered from any software is there any way to do this ??

Hi, Have a Sony Vaio laptop running windows 7 that wont boot, comes up with an error message bad_windows_config then a whole heap of zeros with 74 (and other numbers but flashes too quick to see them) Specs are: Sony Vaio laptop F Series - VPCF115FG Intel Core i5-520M Processor …

I am having problems with our computer running in normal mode. It will allow you to click something once and then it takes a long time for it to respond or it might never respond. After that you cannot click on anything. The mouse moves around fine. It's just that …

[CODE][Boot Loader] Timeout=5 Default=C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT [Operating Systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows XP Professional Setup"[/CODE] This is my current boot.ini and it has some history. Once I was trying to re-install xp from desktop (while desktop is open) by clicking and running the cd. It performed necessary steps …

I have no audio but I do have video. Not sure when the audio went out but when I go into control panel and look under " SOUNDS and AUDIO DEVICES, it says " NO AUDIO DEVICE". I tried to update the audio driver and it says " THE WIZZARD …

Hey guys, I have a problem: My USB flash drive is not seen on windows 7 ultimate. i have just reinstalled the windows 7, it still won't fix. Was working about a month ago and it just stopped working 3 days ago. Please help, thanks!

When I click any of the displayed items in a list from google (or any search engine) it goes to different sites seemingly at random. Keying in the http address works fine. Any ideas please? Sorry. I think I'm in the wrong forum. Now posted in 'Virues, Spyware and other …

I have a computer that I built, it has two hard drives in it, one with Windows 7 and one with Vista. I plugged my girlfriend's hard drive into my computer to back up her data and reformat it since her's was having some issues(XP Home). However, once the reformat …