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Hi, I have a Toshiba NB300 laptop running win7, and I'm trying to run some software that requires a screen res of at least 1024x700. Unfortunately, the max res of this laptop is 1024x600. I have searched the web looking for a solution for this, people with similar issues had …

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I'm trying to help a friend with a problem. Vista machine. Upon exiting any site a dialog box appears stating that I.E. has a problem and will have to close and restart. Then it restarts and opens on the homepage. Of course closing the homepage starts the cycle again. Only …

Is there a way to have multiple conditions using some sort of "or" so that I don't have to nest so many if statements? I currently have cells like this: [code=Excel Formula] =IF(E2 = "District1","North",IF(E2 = "District2","North",IF(E2 = "District3","North",IF(E2 = "District4","North","Not North")))) [/code] I have tried using OR in two …

I am trying to install Windows7 Home Premium on a Dell XPS 400 desktop computer. I have installed a brand new hard drive which is recognized in BIOS. I get a message that says "No boot device detected". The DVD device is running with a blinking light and the boot …

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Anybody knows if this trial is still available for download somewhere ? I need to test something on an older XP installation, and the 2008 trial needs 2003 server to run.

For the life of me, I can't find the service or program that keeps installing itself after deletion from Windows XP (Pro, w/ svc pack 3) registry... Does anyone here know of software called "Rabia" (that's the local machine key), with 2 sub-keys, "CodV4Q==", and "DYNV4Q==" containing binary data? My …

Does anybody know how to tell if email from outside my network made it to my exchange 2003 server? I have a user that can't receive email from anyone on the outside unless it's a reply message from one the user sent. Thanks

When I reformatted and reinstalled all of Windows XP (last year or so), I feel I might have screwed up and somehow kept the other version on it. The reason I think this is because now, whenever I start up, it comes up with a black screen that asks which …

Hello Anyone can tell me the purpose of i386 folder which I found on my Drive C? I found this on my office PC running XP while at home there is no such folder :-/

Hi I am after reinstalling windows xp and it has SP1 and i am trying to update it so that i can use itunes and quicktime and ie8 but every time i go to windows update it says that it is checking if it can update windows but when i …

I have a Toshiba laptop, running Vista Home Premium SP2 with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor, 1 gb ram & 150 gb HDD. I just shrunk the c: drive down to 92 gb to free up 43.5 gb so as to load the Fedora Linux OS into this free …

Hi, I want to be able to start Windows Apps (such as Outlook, Excel, Firefox) from a cmd shell script so that the Windows app starts and the shell script carries on. I've tried a few things like Start, but no joy. If I can't do it in cmd script, …

A friend of mine had a computer go down and needed the info off the hard drive so he tried installing it as a slave in another computer. That would not take so he installed it as the master and the other one as the slave and it worked. He …

Can someone advise me please how to unlock the icons in a folder in Win 7 so they can be moved around instead of being locked to a grid all the time? This was the default option in XP but I can't find out how to do it in Win …

Hi guys, I've had this problem with my computer. Every time i play a game my whole system crashes and blue lines come down the screen, it happens about 10 - 20 minutes into the game. Thing is this happened about 6 months ago, one day when it crashed i …

When I attempt to view using my Web Cam(AMCap) I get the following message. error 80070003 cannot start graph.But when I use the capture option in PhotoTags I have no problem. When in the AMCap mode I click on preview I see apicture of me taken by the web cam …

When I strike the ctrl alt delete keys my task panel window won't fully open? I can only see the bottom portion where it says end task, switch to and new task ? Help please

hi,why my laptop its geting so slow,its a fujitsu siemens amilo pro,windows xp profesional,2gb memory 65gb hdd,free space 32 gb,i download some programs like registry cleaner,but still not wery good,xp supouse to be much faster that vista...if is any solution....

When in Hotmail, I am unable to send/attach/spell check etc. On the status bar it says "error on page" I've cleared my cache (using disk cleanup) but it still doesn't work. Hoping someone could help me with this. Thanks

my browser repetidly says "ActiveX doesn't work properly withthis configuration" ,then i go to Windows update and says "administrators only" What can i do?

When I try to start my computer in Safe mode using the F8 key, I don't get the "Windows Advanced Options Menu". Instead I get a window that says "Please Select Boot Device" with the following three options: Removable Device, Hard Drive, and ATAPI CD-ROM I using WinXP SP2.

I need to urgently access Thunderbird mail on XP Machine but can't. Getting the following message: Entry Point Not Found. The procedure entry point JS FlagSystemObject could not be located in the dynamic link library js3250.dll Does anyone understand this? If so can you please help me access my email. …

The brightness on my laptop is super dim all of a sudden. It worked fine yesterday, but then last night the brightness was gone. I've tried using the Fn key at the same time pressing F8 to increase the brightness, but nothing happens. I tried looking for any brightness option/setting …

I've been trying to schedule my computer to automatically hibernate from a scheduled task. I used this: rundll32.exe PowerProf.dll, SuspendState Hibernate It doesn't seem to work. I can hibernate it manually, so I know that it will. I use Win XP Pro. Anybody got any ideas. Thanks.

Hi All, I searched for this error on Daniweb, but I didn't find anything here, so I thought I would post the fix. It seems that the above Microsoft Security Update (KB953838) breaks something in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Microsoft documents this update as a "Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer …

I was wondering if anyone could suggest things. I recently got an malware and removed it using malwarebytes and it seems that after this i cannot use both chrome and IE8 which says they are not connected to the internet yet i can still use firefox does anyone know of …

Error message appears saying your computer is over run with malicious software or something. Memory Processes Infected: (No malicious items detected) Memory Modules Infected: (No malicious items detected) Registry Keys Infected: (No malicious items detected) Registry Values Infected: (No malicious items detected) Registry Data Items Infected: (No malicious items detected) …

Dear daniweb users. I am having a problem and im struggling for some days now. I have a server at home and i wanted to install an IIS7 FTP server. It went all fine untill i wanted to add user isolation to make it more secure. i followed this guide: …

On another thread that has been marked as solved, the suggestion was given, "Create a folder on your desktop called "Office.en-us". Find the same folder on the CD and copy "OfficeMUISet" to the folder on your desktop. Re-insert the CD so that the setup starts again. When it tells you …

Hello Apart from portableapps.com, are there other websites which can allow the creation of a portable application installer, like allow me to add googlechrome, firefox, openoffice etc to a single installer, but given a list to choose from, instead of predefined lists like on portableapps.com site?

I'm being told to use the RAID system in Windows, however I've heard bad reviews. Looking for a little more info and opinions.

I have a folder A with files 001.jpg, 002.jpg, etc I also have a folder B with different files but with the same names; 001.jpg, 002.jpg, etc I want to put all the files in the same directory - is there something that will automatically rename them or something so …

I am servicing a customer's laptop, a Toshiba Satellite L305-S5885, running Vista Home Premium x86 SP2, with malware infections and internet connection issues. I have gotten rid of all her 251 infections, and now am addressing her connectivity problem. I am unable to achieve internet connectivity on either her ethernet, …

Hi, Our company is in the middle of relocating to a new building the next town over. We have already begun moving servers over during the weekends, and this weekend we plan to move over the Exchange Server. As you may know, the Exchange Server is probably the biggest move …

Hello Last year I tried Ubuntu on a live CD on my mother's laptop that had Windows Vista. She didn't like it, so we didn't install it. For some time we had been thinking about upgrading to Windows 7, and yesterday we did. So her laptop has Windows 7 now, …

hi all, i am new here and would greatly appreciate advice you can offer. i am using xp pro with sp2 i have my pictures stored an a hard drive. there are about 100 folders. within this "photo folder". i do not regulkarly look throuigh it. i noticed about three …

I am attempting to start/stop services via a script. The command is sc stop "service name" It is failing with this error {SC} OpenService FAILED 123: Any assistance would be appreciated.

hi I'm new to this so please bare with me, i recently installed w7 ultimate on desktop with 1gig ram and 200 gig hdd. mother board is ABIT UL8 all ok till restart now all i get to is a screen that says do i want to boot up alternative …

hello all, the company i am working for (quite a small company) are looking to host our web applications suite on our internal server running windows server 2003 and IIS 6 and allow external access to it. We have a static IP from our ISP and currently can access the …

so I worked on an older hp for this lady, i did full backup with a dvd set, but nasty viruses and trojans screwed up the back up set. She did not have an xp install disk with media center, so I installed xp with a random xp disk. I …

This is a first post, and I hope that it is in the right place. My Toshiba XP Laptop no longer lights up. Info is there and is working, but almost impossible to see. Got it working a few times by quickly opening and shutting the lid, but no longer …

I have been given a HP Compaq DC7100 with the SFF case. This PC is fitted with a SATA hard disk drive. The previous owner installed Fedora Linux and the PC boots and works just fine. My problem is that I want to run Windows XP on it. I have …

I am running XP Prof SP3 and Office 2003 In Outlook mail, I am plagued with commands hanging with egg timer icon showing. If I leave it sometimes for up to 4-5 minutes it will complete, but on the next command it hangs again. Eventually if left for some time, …

You guys were so kind in helping me resolve my database connection problem, my web page is up and running with connections to the database working just great. Thank you all. Now I am just having a problem getting the Search to work. My web search requests return the following: …

i am currently downloading a file on the torrent aplication Vuze, and it is just over 10GB in size. I am currently downloading it at around 30-40KB/s, but i've read in forums that people have been able to download at speeds well over 100KB/s. My question is, is this really …

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My dad got a new Dell lap-top with Windows Vista less than a year ago. Yesterday all the sudden it's wireless network adapters quit working. I went to investigation and found that it wasn't finding any networks, further investigation found that it was turned off. Now on this computer there …

Hi, I have 2 notebooks, one using vista and one using 7. I just set up the ad-hoc (win 7) and connected sucessfully using other notebook (vista) I set up the IP for wireless in win-7using 192.168.0.1 subnet 255.255.255.0 and the client(vista) using 192.168.0.2 subnet 255.255.255.0. The win7 is connected …