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Hi I am running Windows 7 on my hp laptop and had recently setup a dual boot with Ubuntu. I wanted to get rid of the ubuntu partition so i went into the disk management utility and deleted the volume i had created and installed Ubuntu on and restarted my …

Running Windows XP, been having multiple problems, resulting in a complete reboot a few months ago... Now suddenly I cannot install anything. I didn't change anything, update anything... as a matter of fact, there is an update that for some reason WON'T install... Cannot get WindowsXP CD to even run …

[B]My Windows XP can't load my local profile what should i do.[/B] My Laptop started hanging, then i forcefully turned it off from the power button, and then restart it, while booting the OS complained that it can not load my locally stored profile reason either insufficient access right or …

I'm running Windows XP Professional on my desktop computer. When I try to boot Normally, it appears to work fine until it gets to the Windows XP screen with the horizontal moving dots. The dots continue to move for awhile and then stop. This is as far as it goes. …

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.

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 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 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 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 …

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 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 …

Can someone tell me whether I can customize this highlighted part in the attachment ( using Windows 7 )

When logging on to internet I get the message "The connection was reset The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." with the following details. * The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. * If you are unable …

hi My environment is windows xp professional and internet exploror7. i am having problem during surfing internet, my web page automatically changes to another site, its happened if I pause for some time to surf net. Looking for your help thanks

Hi I am having trouble installing Windows XP on a new hard drive while connected to a computer i have and was wondering if there were a way to install it using a usb storage adapter for an IDE hard drive? The computer is a dell optiplex sx260 (workstation computer) …

hello can you help me please, my windows media player there is no sound anymore after i change the visual style and theme look like windows 7, can you help me with my windows media player to get back the sound....hoping for your positive responds....thank you in advance...

I've noticed some inconsistencies in the way different Outlook version handle the file creation and modification timestamps for saved attachments. Whenever my coworker (running Outlook 2007 SP2 on Windows XP) saves an attachment, it is timestamped using the moment that the attachment was saved to the file system. However, whenever …

The W3C validator site is not working right for me. A few other sites (but not many) also say the file I sent is blank. Other sites are working with no troubles, and receive uploads normally. The facts: - Two different computers are doing the same thing. - Both computers …

I got a computer to repair that would not turn on and boot up. After manually connecting the hard drive and removing the viruses the computer now works. But, after another virus scan more viruses where found and removed now it seems the computer is working faster and better but …

unable to play certain movies on my media player its saying i need a decoder, seems i have to buy this decoder, could some please help me to find a decoder free for my media player 11 tvvm :)

I have just been curious if anyone else has had this problem or anyone would have ANY possible idea to a solution... Okay, the problem is, when i go to Google and submit a search it will take me to a results page, and if after i go through a …

[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/forum1.html"][/URL] I have a laptop that I dropped and my hard drive started making noises. I ended up having to buy a new HD. I loaded windows xp home. I loaded all my software and updates from windows update. I have done this 3 times now and when I visit …

When My comp starts up the commit charge sits around 300 however when i go to use any prgrams it increases alot. Im thinking it may be RAM because i got 256 mbs of it *in the process of upgrading* but when i use firefox it uses about 60,000 mem …

My wife's laptop running Windows Vista suddenly can't connect to the internet through the LAN cable by which she is attached to our wireless router (she doesn't have wireless facility in her computer). I've tried several cables and know they are working, the router is working since I'm getting a …

Well basically my problem is that when i use the built in defragmenter it takes a few hours to defragment, i don't know if thats normal but it seems very slow. So i was wondering if there is any other defragmenter that is definately faster. Thanks in advance. Packard bell …

So here's the scoop: The company where I work has a few GUI-based Java programs that runs crazy fast in Windows XP. Upon upgrading 6 machines to Windows 7 (and yes, we definitely exceed the requirements to run Windows 7 on our machines), these Java programs run significantly slower (For …

Hi friends, Increasing frequency of BSOD with video players including WMP,cowan ,vlan,now even youtube. windows xp sp3 up to date.negative virus scans.chkdsk ok.nvidia geforce ok.temp guage usually ok but sometimes high. bluescreen view shows 0x0000007a bug check code caused by ftdisk.sys+a642 and 0x00000077 caused by ntoskrnl.exe+22f43 what next? thanks for …

Hi there. wonder if anyone can shed a little light on this for me I have been trying to write some files to a brand new completely blank cd but to no avail:sad: the cd writing wizard appears to start ok and gets through scanning the disk image ok. it …

Hi everyone, I have a Toshiba laptop Satellite A65-S1062 System Unit Model #PSA60U-01W015. It came pre-loaded with Windows XP Home Edition. The other evening I shut it off. The next day I tried to boot up and the first window says Windows XP with that bar that indicates it is …

I am looking for a good Microsoft Office/Offices. I just had my computer upgraded, but they didn't leave any of my offices. I have Microsoft Windows XP with the 3 pack. I have a CD but it is only for a trial. Since I had a developers data was craming …

Hi...My PC is running extremely slow.. There are no viruses,no registry problems and i have also defragmented my windows drive.. Firefox or any other browser takes 15 sec to start System startup takes 3 minutes Games or any other programs take long time to start.. I have even tried that …

Hey all, I'm working a spreadsheet in excel. Basically, it looks like this: In Column A there's a 4-digit number. Column B, there's 2 things one cell with an entry like this A0000000, for example, and right under that, a 4-digit number. Column C is a person's name. what I …

I tried to send an email into a fake domain (e.g. [email]fakedomain@abcdefghi.fake[/email]) and it sent. It goes to my sent items of OE6. [B]Why does OE6 allowed that email sent into a fake domain? and it doesn't tell that domain name is invalid, and it doesn't bounce back to me …

When I try to run this command. This command finds a line of code that contains 213 and put it into a variable. [CODE]for /f "delims=" %a in ('findstr /R /I 213 N:\****\*****\DateMod_SBDM.txt') do @set sbdmcurdate=%a[/CODE] In a .bat file it says. [QUOTE]\****\*****\DateMod_SBDM.txt') was unexpected at this time.[/QUOTE] However it …

im not sure if i am in the correct area - I am not technical -- I am having a problem in MSN hotmail with forwarding emails. Whenever i forward a perfectly clear email each line start with > and if the eamil is forwarded more than once it will …

It seems that you cannot really hibernate in Win 7 Pro 64 Desktop. It simply sleeps and if the desk shakes it wakes up. I have gone through various procedures that I seen on he web as PowerCfg -h on Disabled Sleep Hibernate There is a Hibernate file. Hibernate shows …

Every time I run Skype on my Windows 7 Desktop PC, it says that it wants to install an update. When I allow this ... it fails. It says that I must uninstall the older version first. Now I know that it [I]shouldn't[/I] say this. The Skype on line help …

ive tried enabling telnet on windows 7 by doing the following: 1.Open control panel. 2.Then go into programs. 3.Then in programs and features there should be a part that says ‘turn windows features on or off ‘ . 4.Click ‘turn windows features on or off ‘ then on the list …

Hello, I'm an intermediate web designer and i've recently put up a site for my business but for some reason i can't figure, IE won't display images that other browsers will... [url]http://www.19grams.co.uk/Pub/pub.html[/url] Any ideas?

Hello, im running windows XP home edition, and i dont have much IT knowledge, but recently, whenever i log into my computer, whatever the user - in this case it has administrative rights or whtever - i get 2 error messages, 'error loading C:\WINDOWS\kbdmsy.dll', and 'error loading C:\WINDOWS\aralaquv.dll', for both …

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How do I make it so a script will auto-select a users profile name? ex... C:\users\ ME \other\stuff where "ME" is a wildcard that would work in any profile.

hi i am having problem with my windows xp if i connect my modem it keeps telling that modem in use by another program or not configured properly i have checked to make sure that my connection is correct. please i need your help

I'm stuck in situation. I was trying to transfer files & settings from my wifes old computer that has xp to her win 7 laptop. I think she put the cord in too early or something because the computer froze. Now all it does it gives me the screen with …

How do I uninstall windows xp and install windows 98SE? I know,why would I want to do that? Well, its on an HP Pavilion Intel celeron 366MHZ 48mb sdram. I know,it can't be done. O yes it can, because I did it with some help from someone else. So now …

I hope my title says it all. I can't show you the jpg error, because the size is too large to upload (3 MB). The mix of Firefox, Windows 7, Zonealarm. I am researching Firefox in a Firefox forum. All I know is the Combo of the same Firefox, no …

hello, can you help me or advise me if i am doing the right thing...i edited the boot.ini in msconfig,in order to boot faster that's what i know.. i change the timeout=30 to timeout=0 am i doing safe?please help me hoping for your positive responds...thank you in advance

I just reinstalled windows XP Home on my old laptop, and for some reason I can't access the internet-through LAN or wireless. Before I reinstalled the OS I could access the internet just fine, so is there maybe some driver I'm missing?