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I'm hoping for help from gemini4 as he was so good with Benyam Dessu and dougiedickson. But help is welcome from anyone. I have a similar problem to dougiedickson but in my case there are two installations of Windows XP Professional. I tried gemini4's solution for dougiedickson - to look …

Dell dimension XP pro. Yrs ago on another computer and op.sys and ISP (peoplepc) I had apparently registered for outlook express. I moved some of my stuff to my new pc when I got it. That event haunts me today on my dell dimension XP and I can't get rid …

ok so i have recently just repaired my installation of xp because it was acting up ! but while it is installing it just randomly disconnects the mouse and i cannot click next or ok so im stuck. i have disconnected the mouse and reconnected it and still no luck. …

For some reason I'm not sure when it started but whenever i try to watch videos in the .avi and .mp4 format i can hear the sounds but i can not see the video. i've tried reinstalling the players and using different players but the same result. My computer is …

I have a Dell Laptop 1525 Inspiron purchased about 4 months ago. I installed Yahoo messenger and MSN messenger. VIsta would not let me use Yahoo messenger. The screen went black as I was typing a message and the computer shut down. When I hit the on button it is …

[ATTACH]10915[/ATTACH] When I start computer, POST screen looks like scatered characters and bios is as shown on picture. Windows even don't want to start. Only in Safe mode everything is normal. Some ideas? Thanks.

I just switched out my old hard drive and ram from my laptop for an upgrade but now my screen is black. When I power it up the power light comes on and you can hear the drive starting to spin but that as far as it goes. When I …

Hi, I'm actually new to this site and haven't posted here before, so I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right area, but I have a problem that I have been trying to fix for awhile. I have an 500GB SimpleTech PininFarina external hard drive and whenever I try …

I use a windows vista home premium in my core-2 duo laptop as a single user. when i open d folders, i find a lot of folder icons with a blue curved arrow on folders like My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, etc. When I double click on one of …

what's the trick to making sure you utilize all your RAM and your L2 cache, are there settings or parameters i need to set to allow for that?

I have a Dell Laptop M1330, all of sudden the wifi stopped working, so ran all kind of aniviruses, cleaned 5 viruses, good, now I can´t connect via wifi, but can connect via Lan; so I figured that after deleting those viruse, I was left with corrupted files. I uninstalled …

My pc will shut off suddenly. A few days ago I had received an email with a .rar attachment of a chart of pictures of colors. My AV said it was safe so I opened and saved to my harddrive. When I opened it from there my pc immediately shut …

Hello :) ..i am new to this site, (been a member for less than 1h) at work i have a couple of XP machines an 4 Server 2003 machines, my problem :-O is that 2 of the 4 Server 2003 machines CANNOT connect to any Microsoft web site, The two …

I have created a windows forms in which on certain button click i show FolderBrowserDialog. After the user selects a folder and click on Ok button of FolderBrowserDialog i have done some work in the Ok click part of FolderBrowserDialog. For example [code=C#] if (folderBrowserDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { generateFiles(); } …

I am working on Windows XP and I select the hidden properties for some of my folders on my desktop and i can't view them even trying to show hidden files and folder options.... please can someone help me out with this... thanks a million in advace..

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Does anyone know how to get a Hitachi Deskstar 160 Gig HD to recognize more that 32.8 Gigs. Is there 3rd party software that will allow this? Or does anyone know which jumper setting I have to remove? Thanks

I bought this laptop from a friend of a friend about six month ago, it was runnig good, but some how got corrupted and I thought that by formating the hard drive would help. My friend gave me the system password and the hard drive password but forgot to give …

For the past year I've been putting up with this really annoying problem where the process 'iexplore.exe' opens up in the background. It does not cause any slow downs in my computer but is extremely frustrating when I'm in the middle of playing a game and it opens, minimizing to …

i have a new hp pavillion laptop intel centrino 2 core two duo 2.26 ghz 64 bit cpu. i have a cisco 32 bit vpn software which i cant run on this machine. how can i get it to run?

are the processors in my USB network adapter card useful at all? do they help out the CPU in any way or not really?

Hi guys, am running xp pro and having problems with pc going into sleep mode when i open microsoft office outlook, sometimes it will open but as soon as i try and open a folder it shuts down and the only thing i see is a small window saying attention …

Hi, while investigating a problem folder i enable the hidden files to be viewed in all folders a while back. well recently i had noticed these weird files that were exact duplicates of files in most of my folders except that they had a "._" prefix. i have been deleting …

I am using Windows XP SP3. My Norton subscription ran out. So I downloaded the free McAfee software from Comcast. I had to adjust the settings as I wasn't able to receive ANY email to MS Outlook. Annoying, but fine. Since then, I have not been able to perform any …

I have Windows Vista I recently upgraded my Windows Internet Explorer. Now everytime I get on the internet this about blank keeps poping up and it says internet stopped working and then I get a dll error. I now have 24 about blank pages with erros in about 2 minutes. …

I'm formatting and setting up the partitions in a 500GB harddrive. Its not really going to be partitioned but I believe I need to leave a certain amount for the logical part of the harddrive? what sizes are best to use in this case? i'll be running windows xp pro …

My PC now has winXP Pro. If I also wanted to have win98 installed for whatever reason, would that work? How would I install win98 separate from XP? Then how do I use one op sys at a time>? Is this an unusual situation? Am I being unreasonable? Thanks

Hi, I am an XP user and trying to find out which service or process uses which file. Is there any cmd command or other way to learn this.

Hopefully this is the right place seeing as I am running Windows Vista, rather than the Mac forums. Situation is that I have bought an iPhone 3GS and want to populate it with my existing iTunes library, on a Vista computer which syncs with my iPod. The existing iPod will …

Hi, I wonder if anyone can shed a little light on the problem I'm having. Came to start up the laptop this morning and was presented with a very strange display of lines and an attempt at the HP start up logo. The whole screen was a mess of lines …

Alright, I am running the Windows7 RC and i can't seem to get it to recognize my second SATA HDD. I have two WD Caviar Black drives, and the first one has no problem. The BIOS on the motehrboard, whcih is a Gigabyte EX58-UD3R recognizes both drives and the DVDRW, …

Every time I go to a directory, the view (tiles, icons, list etc etc) seems to be arbitrarily assigned. The problem gets even worse with plugin USB drives as it seems to descend into chaos. I keep doing "set all folders" to look like this, but does it remember - …

I recently installed Windows XP Pro (fresh installation). For about thre days my computer ran without any problems but I started receiving an error message like "[B]Generic Host for Win32 has encountered an error and needs to close... Send... Dont Send[/B]" Just after the error appears, when I try to …

Running XP and the pc began turning off suddenly, now it turns off all the time. Tried to run a virus scan but it turned off so it couldn't finish it. I also tried restoring it to an earlier time but wouldn't complete it either... can't do much now, what …

So I have a Toshiba A215-S7418. My cousin dropped it while the power cord was still attached and broke the jack inside the laptop. So I had to take apart the whole laptop to change the jack and secure it back. Then I had to get a new power adapter …

I have an IBM color flatbed scanner from '98, used with windows 98 on another PC. Now have windows XP and cant install the driver. SW requirements say win98/winNT. XP apparently cant read the disc as it says 'no disc in drive' (E). Does this mean I have to junk …

what is the windows script to add shortcuts to all users desktop? thanks

Have an HP laptop with XP. but at startup it takes a while to get going and I'm assuming there are programs starting up I really don't want nor need and would like to clear these off. No sense them taking up my space for no reason. There's nothing on …

I turn on my PC and XP trys to boot but nothing happens. Screen is black. Over the last year we were getting the odd freeze up on initial start ups but after a power off and on, it would boot. Now we are stuck and uncertain of what to …

I am being directed to the wrong page when I click on a result that is shown from a search. I'm using Internet Explorer. I did run Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (with the latest update) before coming here. Below you'll find my HijackThis log. Any help is greatly appreciated. Logfile of Trend …

Hi, I was deleting some processes as they were eating up the CPU usage when accidentally I clicked on something and lost the Menu bar to the Task Manager. Can anyone help me to get that back. The screen shot is attached. Thanks.

How does one make a batch file that can pass arguments to another command? For instance say I ran "c:\files\run.bat -a -b", this would call "c:\folders\do.exe -a -b".

I would appreciate anyone who can help me with my installation problem. Back in January 2001, I ordered a Dell desktop computer with XP Home on it. This was only a couple of months after XP was launched I believe. In any case, the installation CD had no service packs …

I have an (ancient) HP Pavilion 7840 with a Cognac Motherboard (200731). Windows Xp was installed by someone after market and has never run properly. I found where HP shows the bios should be 3.07 and what was installed was 4.06 so I set the bios to hp specs. Using …

Is there a ported version of GNU Make for windows? Is MinGW Make = GNU Make? Please help me..

can someone just give me a quick overview on the defragmenting freespace? in defraggler there is an option to leave fragmentation in free space? what does that mean, the fragmented files you leave behind will just be written over

Hi, I have two spreadsheets with the same structure and I want to find formula to be able to just open these two plus a master spreadsheet and have both sheets 1 on top of the other to make 1 big table in the master spreadsheet. I cant find a …

Can anyone help me, I am trying to play AVI files from my camera and Windows Media Player is missing the codec for it. The code given is [B]0010-8000-00AA00389B71[/B]. I could do with a safe download/install. - Thanks for any help.

Hi... I'm new to VBA in Word and need a nudge in the right direction. I've written a Word VBA Userform that adds bookmarks & sets their values on the fly with either an ASCII Chr(9) for a tab or CHr(13) for carriage return after each bookmark. However, when I've …

About two months ago I added a DVD recorder to my sister-in-law's PC. She and I copied a disc from both recorders. Now she can not read a disc. I checked in the device driver and disc management no drives showing, both are gone. Anyone that has a fix let …