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Recently I had a small problem to log in my computer. After getting password it just remains idle for a longer time, only showing my desktop background. I tried to repair the OS... But no bootable CD is running, so i am not able to proceed further... I don't know …

Hi there I am working on a Dell Dimension Desktop with ONLY USB for Keyboard or Mouse, NO PS2 Ports. I had to add new KB and mouse, only problem is that when it goes into Windows it tries to install a driver for them and the "do you want …

hi guys i am using window xp. i dont know what happend few days before i cant see my volume icon with the clock place. i went in the control penal and volume option. the option is selected to show the icon in bar but there is no icon. plz …

I tried searching the forum but could'nt find anything on this topic. I just got a new laptop, and the time is in 24 hour format. I cannot seem to find the option to change it to 12 hour. Im using XP (home edition) Thanks

I'm running Windows XP SP2 on a Sony VAIO 530J that came a pre-installed internal ITU V.90 56k modem.. I looked at it, it plugs into a PCI slot and it's all in there correctly as far as I know, and it had some numbers on it: 4491A-D1156A1A and Model: …

Hello all Folks, Its been a long time since I am posting something here. My problem is, when I am connecting my computer to the internet, the website of my ISP is opening. Every time I connect to the internet, this site is opening which is now really making me …

Hey, My name is Josh and my computer has a virus and i would like to reboot it or figure out a way to get rid of the virus once and for all. I purchased my computer in April and i got the virus about a month ago and i …

Recently re-installed Windows 7 to solve an older issue. After re-installing 90% of all my other apps, I notice that two programs show their icon as "generic". The applications are Mozilla Firefox and Advanced Uninstaller Pro. I contact the folks at Advanced Uninstaller Pro and they told me it was …

I would think I'm nuts for trying this, But I have a Toshiba U205-S5002 Laptop, 320GB HDDR, 3GB/4GB ready Boost, Intel Centrino Core Duo 1.6GHZ ,256mb video, SSE,SSE2,SSE3, and guess what, I feel like having Windows XP, Win 7, Mac OSX 10.6.2 Snow Leopard. This is the situation, Had win …

hi guys, does any one encounter this problem. Win vista unable to detect a dhcp ip, but if manually configure the IP settings able to connect to internet. any ideas why unable to detect dhcp ip? thank you.

hey there. first off, i hope i posted my question in the right forum. second, i thank you in advance for an answer. i have two short batch files: 1. shutdown - s - c "my message" - t 20 i expect this to shut down my computer in twenty …

A small item! well about 6 gig. I have a compaq, amd 64 used to run xp reformatted to win 7 32 then to 64. All works well. On seeing the main hard disk it still appears to have a partition of about 6 g (drive d:) with old files …

Hi all, I have a small Active Directory domain with a single Domain Controller running Server 2003 Standard. It does not host any websites on the internet through IIS, does not host email (by Exchange or anything else), and our VPN is setup through our router. I did not install …

I have a MX300 mouse on a Boxx Computer running WinXP32 that keeps freezing:confused:, if I just unplug and replug it in it will work again for a few minuter to a few hours! I have reinstalled the driver several times to no avail with the latest driver which used …

I am not sure if i am posting this in the right place but here goes... How do i ghost an image of xp so that i can use it in different system with different kind of hard disk(brand), motherboard, cpu and ram. The program i am familiar with to …

I whitched my sons account to acount administrator so we could load some software. But access was denied and when I tried to change his account back to limited and mine back to administrator I was denied both times.

Make: HP Model: dv6500 OS: Windows Vista Hello everyone. I have a Vista computer in my hands with a funky dvd drive. It's not showing up in Vista(My computer/Device Mgr) and when I try to boot off of it from the BIOS it skips it. I'm guessing the BIOS doesn't …

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit: search results window continously keeps popping for no reason, i have wiped the hdd clean and reinstalled win7 and ran trend micro house call installed symantec antivirus corp ed and did a mbr ix and i am still having the same problem. At first i …

Lately my computer has been getting slower by the day. Attached are images of the 'Processes' tab in the task mgr. Image 1: List of processes sorted by CPU Image 2: List sorted by Memory Usage If you look at image 1, the System Idle Process CPU Usage = 92%. …

Hi all I've just had a mammoth "session" getting Windows XP to install onto an HP DV5-1209ax. And it worked! Yeeha! So the reason for this post is to let you know that it is doable, even though MS and HP have made it very hard to do so. If …

:sad: I need some help/// Just purchased a used ibm t22 thinkpad at a business bankruptsy sale. got home, turned it on, and the darn thing keeps asking me for an administrator login and password. is there a work around??? I think it's XP Professional.

I have read the many posts on the site but most assume that you can get past the safe mode screen. I cannot start up in safe mode nor can I used the last known settings. I am running windows XP with SP2 on a Dell Dimension system. What are …

Hi, I am unable to burn cd's and dvd's using either nero or roxio because my vista business cant format cd's and dvd. I was able to burn until yesterday when all over a sudden it stopped. I have not installed any new program except kaspersky internet security which i …

Hi all I'm helping a friend with his PC. It was running like a sick dog, so I scanned it for viruses - it had 5 different ones! I removed those, booted into XP, then ran Spybot, MalwareBytes & Super Antispyware - deleting a large number of spyware / malware. …

I want to set up port forwarding, so I need a static IP address. When I type ipconfig /all into the command prompt I do not get the relevant info, IP address, subnet mask, default gateway etc.. Can anyone please help? By the way, I'm no expert!!

Hello. I have a dell latitude D531 series Laptop and it will not boot up at all. There is a blue screen of death with the message of 'unmountable boot volume'. When I boot into windows repair mode, the operating system is not shown. I cannot boot into safe mode. …

Specs: HP dx2300 -- XP Pro SP3 -- Logitech Trackman Wheel USB mouse (wired) Problem: Applications constantly scroll up and down (intermittently will stop for a period of time then start scrolling erratically again). This happens in all applications; FireFox, Notepad, Task Manager, etc. I have not changed anything in …

Please can someone help me to stop a programe from running at startup. Farstone instant burning (part of Virtual Drive pro 11) loads on start up and clicking on the instant burning window causes an error message to appear that says DCTryShl_Rc.dll has caused an error and needs to be …

Hi, I'm hoping someone on Daniweb may be able to help me out with this problem I'm having:- Since Thursday, people have not been able to access their work computers from home over a VPN connection. Users can authenticate through the firewall and register on the network (the server gives …

Hello, I have three Hard disk drives on my laptop. The details: Hard disk C has a total 15 of GB space, Partition D has 268 GB space and E has 181 GB. All the work I do goes only to Hard disc C and space in Hard disc D …

ok this happen yesterday when i put in the win xp installation cd and it booted and the it starts to load driver and check system and the stuff it does before showing me my hard disk. After that loads it shows the screen where it is suppose to show …

I know, I know, DOS. heres what i want to do, adjunct the contents of report.txt to fullreport.txt. i was hoping it would be as simple a report.txt >> fullreport.txt, but it isn't. any special commands? Thanks! -nosreteP

Hello, I just purchased Microsoft Vista at Circuit City. When I went to install there was NO DVD and only one half of the product key. Circuit City will not reimburse me, or exchange for something else. Need the software/key legally. I’d like to find a full download and figure …

hello all, does anyone know how to shut off the auto complete (when typing in address bar or google search bar , etc...)in windows XP? any help would be appreciated. thanks!

my friends computer got infected with the Internet Security 2010 virus and when i when to try to remove it the virus put the computer into a log in\off loop once i fixed that the desktop freezes and the virus has disabled task manager. the cursor is the I beam …

I ran malwarebytes this morning and it found a few spyware programs and removed them. I do this regularly with no issues. After the computer restarted I cannot access any websites. I could before the reboot. The computer is connected to the router at 54mbps. My IP is 192.168.1.31, subnet …

I have an .exe that I want people to be able to download and run on Vista. It needs to run as admin. I have a web page with a 'Download' button. Assume I am logged in as an admin. I click the 'Download' button and IE8 asks whether to …

EU's computer boots to XP, gets to the desktop, and keyboard and mouse stop functioning. Same story Safe Mode, and Last Known Good. Tried different Keyboard/Mouse. No PS/2 connectors. Found a XP Pro disk - it wouldn't repair (couldn't see) the XP Home install, but I loaded a new windows …

I have a question, couple of years ago, I had a system failure and windows tech support help me fix it but had me do a lot of registry entries in windows recovery console. What ended up for the fix was he had me actually put the boot files on …

Windows Defender says "succeeded" but "program has potentially unwanted behavior." HKCU@S-1-5-21-2211979958-1575165067-2261642059-1HKCU@S-1-5-21-2211979958-1575165067-2261642059-1000000 some kind of H key current user registry setting, I guess, but I don't know if it was part of the Microsoft update or where it might have come from. anyone know? (I'm very limited in my knowledge -- …

i had a problem with my compaq 515. have formatted my PC and after some windows updates installation, i needed to repair my vista using the CD installation and it was blank after. i had to turn my PC off and on many times in order to reach the startup …

Hey guys, am using a Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop but today i was using Google talk when my keyboard stopped working, i tried to reboot but still not. and the lights are not lighting during POST. What could be the problem??? Pliz help!!

Windows Update in Windows 7 Ultimate Not Working. It just keeps showing "Checking for updates" msg! Please help! I need to update/install mxml and .Net files in order install new software programs. THANK YOU!

I have a Windows XP Pro, laptop. It is a IBM Thinkpad T42, one gig of RAM. The hard drive took a dump so I got another one. I took the XP Pro cd, inserted it and installed it. It worked fine and then as I was setting up everything …

A friend has an XP desktop with a single NTFS partition at his home that wouldn't boot. He tried what he knew, but sadly ended up reinstalling XP. He'd like to recover his data, and so gave me a call. I told him to A) stop using the computer, B) …

My Computer kept freezing, I just have a hard drive failure 1 week ago, so I changed to a new Hard drive Seagate barracuda 1 TB 7200 32 MB. But then problem still persist, So I thought Power Supply is wrong, because I also added 2 GB DDR2 Memory RAM …

i have a home computer, so why do i have 2 local area connections? ive never had 2 until a few hours ago, when i reformated. ive always only had 1. i have already tried to disable the second on but it wont let me, and if i disable the …

High CPU Usage despite nothing showing on Task Manager or Process Explorer. Greetings all, I hope this is the correct area to post this to, If not I apologise and could it be redirected to the correct area. Anyway, I do hope someone can help with this infuriating problem, and …

I have both Office 2003 and Office 2007 on my computer. I want Excel and Word 2003 to be the default programs to open files when I double click on them from e-mails etc. Somehow, and I don't know what I did to accomplish it, I got Word 2003 as …

does anyone have any experiance with microsoft navision / avfconsulting ?