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I'm trying to teach my 10 yr old son to upgrade his PC. It will be handed down to his little sister soon but we wanted to make game playing a little faster (she's 4 yrs old so we're not looking for super speed). I have not done this in …

When I booted up this morning the computer gets to the welcome screen and then reboots, constantly stuck in this cycle. I can't get into safe mode. I've only just finished reinstalling everything after this happened a week or so ago. I'm fed up with XP!!!! Help please.

I don't know if this is even possible, but I have lost all of my digital pictures that I had saved on my computer. I deleted my account because it was messing up; my MSN browser wasn't working, etc. I didn't realize that it was going to delete all my …

After installing Windows 7 on my HP dv9720us Laptop the WiFi on/off that is blue when on now the switch stays amber like when it is off. Anyone find the same thing?

windows cannot connect to the internet using HTTP, HTTPS or FTP. This is probably caused by firewall settings to this computer check the firewall settings for the http port(80) https port(443) and ftp port(21) you might need to contact your internet service provider (isp) or the manufacturer of your firewall …

Hi everyone, A few days ago I decide to reload XP on an older desktop. Dell pentium 4 with 1gig ram. Backed up data and started. Went part way through with the format and power glitch??? Now I can get to the set up menu but the cd drive does …

Ok, so yesterday my computer was basically in the dump, it was crashing every 10 minutes, and i couldnt do much of anything on it. So i ran Memtest and received 54000 errors... this morning i reinstalled windows cleared the hard drive and now the computer runs better then ever, …

How do I start to find out why my new computer will not reconize the 8GB on the motherboars when the motherboard says it will accept 8 GB?

I have a connector ps2 to usb port. Can I use that usb port as a regular USB port? I know that they are for usb mouse and keyboard but can I use it for a flash driver or some other device? Are there any other types of devices that …

Hi, my PC is connected in a LAN where a static IP is given by my ISP provider. Obviously my router has given another IP address for our LAN. Now, my request is that there is a professional talk every walk and i wanted to publish over the internet by …

i have an asus x83v, it came preinstalled vista home prem, 2 partitions, one 150 gb for vista, then 150gb for data. 6 months ago shrunk the c: drive with vista about 10 gbs for Unbutu linux. Accidently formatted the unbutu partition, not windows dosnt load. black screen with blinking …

I was wondering about removing win 7. I recently recovered my hd when i dual booted unbuntu, tried to remove the unbuntu and got an MBR error onto my laptop with the help of Xlphos. here is the real bugger, what do you do after u have installed win 7 …

Hi, How can i prevent users to logon Windows domain if they don't have a network connection? (30+ users) GPO? if yes, how....? Thanks in advance !

Hi all, The company i work for is rearranging their network drives and they assigned our department the task of designing a new structure and make an inventory of the existing folders on the networkdrives. designing a new folder structure will be no problem. Making an folderlisting however is. All …

I'm running XP Home SP3. I rebooted my computer this afternoon only to be presented with an NT login screen when the machine came back up. It had my name and it lets me leave the PW blank and still logs me in (which is good, b/c I've never had …

Hi All, I run Windows XP and everything appears to work fine, I can surf the web at will, all is fast and easy EXCEPT that I cannot access ANY Mozilla sites whatsoever unless through a proxy browser. I have tried so many different methods and still have not come …

Hi i was wondering if anyone knows of a free program that checks your computer for errors and viruses and fix them for free. i have searched online but every time i find one that says its free i can only scan for free but not fix all error.

Hi guys For diagnostic reasons I think it would be really useful to be able to somehow get a log showing each file accessed when running anything in XP. The TASK MANAGER seems to go a little way towards this but I don't want to get a defined output such …

I just got internet on my windows xp and I'm trying to share a connection to my brothers computer and his computer is a windows 2000. We had interent on his comp for a little bit, but now we are not able to get it connect. I was hoping if …

Unable to uninstall Internet Explorer (8) Windows XP PRO SP3 I am unable to uninstall IE8 and go back to IE7. In control panel>Add\Remove programs Ticked Show updates> I cannot see IE8 > Instead I see IE7 (Windows internet explorer 7). NOTE: Within Internet explorer (in help>about> show IE8 version …

I have a Dell laptop (which are apparently notorious for this problem) and recently the mouse has had a mind of its own and has started moving by itself. Occasionally it will drift to the bottom or top corner of the screen and stay there and its really hard to …

Hi all, I have a problem and am hoping someone has some idea how to fix it. Earlier, I connected my SONY VAIO PCG-K25 laptop running XP Home to my monitor using a Trendnet two-port KVM. Now that it's disconnected, it acts as though the fn (function button) is being …

Hi I am unable to open pdf files in windows mail. If i save the file to say desktop they open no problem. How can i get the files to open while in windows mail. When i click on the file it comes up with following: This file does not …

I just wrote my first program using c++. now im trying to figure out how to assaign an image to the exe file... instead of the standard windows image i want the thumbnail to have a different picture... i knw this is probably a stupid question, but any help would …

I share a printer under vista and want to use it as network printer under win 2000 .But 2000 can not detect printer. (I also disable windows firewall and antivirus firewall on vista).Can anybody help me?

i have no idea what has happened to it, was working fine yesterday :confused: it turns on, goes past the bios page and then remains black with the blinking underscore. i used chkdsk on the recovery console whch did nothing and tried to repair the existing OS but when it …

I've tried a couple of "free" virus programs but they all end up the same: free 30 day trial and then you have to purchase it. Last one I had was AVG and it made my computer SOOOO slow it wasn't funny and just got the message to buy or …

good day does anybody got a presario f700 driver for xp. I found presario f700ef & presario f700em. will it work? thanks

Hello everybody! My co-worker has a laptop running Vista Business . Up until today, everything has been working fine. Today, however, a problem crept up. I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this little bug in Windows Vista. He has multiple folders of pictures, but when he goes to view …

I gather having thirty or more open windows slows the computer; but the only way I know to deal with this is to close them one at a time by "backing out " the way I got in; sort of one at a time. There must be a better way,huh?

hi! All I have the problem with Watson postmortem and windows explorer problem. Nearly for every 10 or 20 min it displaying the message "Windows has encountered a problem and need to close", and then Dr Watson postmortem problem error, and then hangs up the system. I am wondering what …

[B]Whenever i try to access a Drive (Physical Partition) by doubleclicking it i can't open it...It asks me a program using which i should open it..the only other option i have is to right-click and explore which gets quite irritating...please help[/B]

Hi All How to enable the 'recent' command in XP. In some system, when I type 'recent' in the run, it displays a window with all recent documents shortcuts. I some system its working and in some system it is not working. The error thrown states [COLOR="Red"]"Windows cannot find 'recent'. …

I have a simple program that I am having trouble debugging. It contains two different problems. 1. If I run a MessageBox in this program after the program is up and running, the program crashes. I have to call the Task Manager to shut down the program. 2. SetTimer will …

All of my browsers (firefox, IE8, Flock) go only to strangeUSA . com the address bar displays google or daniweb for example but the page displays strangeUSA dot com. HijackTHIS shows nothing at all strange. Spybot shows nothing (newest one) Nor malwarebytes Have reset my winsock and ip configuration using …

Hi I am not sure if I have posted in the right forum but I hope you can help. For the last few days I have been having issues with my PC shutting itself down whilst Im using it. I originally thought it might be the graphics card as it …

I am new to this so please be patient. I cannot opn the Control panel, it give me an error message and wants to send a reort to microsoft, it has only strated this in the last hour or soo. Please can someone help me Cheers itunsavvy (johnboyh)

I decided to have a second hard drive/disk to my PC. In the process my purposely formated my original hard disk which was running WIN98 for sometime. My new hard disk is installed with WINDOWS 2000 professional. I have configured my new hard disk has the primary and the old …

Hello, you guys have been helpful in the past and I have decided to come back with a new issue :) My internet seems to cut in and out sometimesevery ten minutes or even up to every hour. I am using a motorola modem and a Linksys WRT54G router. I …

Today I was copying a file from my laptop onto my USB external hard drive when the transfer froze and I had to cancel it. The file is still intact on my laptop but the unfinished copy created on my external hard drive does not seem to want to be …

Good morning!! Hope all are well. Please please please can someone help me. Not familiar with Pc's. I have a Compaq laptop and if shut down a while ago. Last week i took it to a shop to be fixed. They had fixed it and reinstalled more memory, nortons and …

Well it's either this, or the domain name has been removed from the routing table. Or my Firefox is just being very biased about my browsing experience!:) Go on, [URL="http://www.microsoft.com/"]try it out now[/URL] (note depending on when you're reading this, it might have come back up and so it'll just …

hello all i´m nowhere near a coputer wiz, so please bear with me. i got a hp 6734s laptop. love it. but, as of yesterday the media player, the entire laptops sound and mic do not work anymore. all volumes are on a high, i tried it with headphones too. …

Every now and then Vista comes up with a "Program Compatability Assistant" popup window (see image) when you want to run a .exe file. If you make the mistake, like I did, and agree with the Administrator option, then from hence foreward everytime you want to run this particular executable …

My computer won't let me name any files! I can name folders, but only once when I create it. If I try to rename a file it will say "If you change file name extension, the file may become unusable." I have some Japanese songs I want to change into …

guys do you know what is the difference between accesing a shared folder creating a network place and accessing them creating a network drive? which one is more beneficial when, what is the advantages or disadvantages choosing one over the other?

By accident I discovered an item entered in my History when I open Opera browser when the browser history has been cleared. I clear history, cookies, personal data, etc., check to make sure they are clear, and close the browsers. I reopen Opera and find the item there in History. …

Hi, I've just had to reinstall Windows XP (again). It all went well but under Documents and Settings I can see the previous user accounts. Is there some way I can bring them back to life? I copied all of the files from one of them to a new account …

Hi! Greetings from abroad - I apologize for the poor English ... My (son's) computer can't access the internet ... I have deactivated all IE all-on programs and also used the MS guides in Vista, but it still doesn't work I have upgraded from IE 7 to IE 8 with …

When playing music on my PC, either on the CD, WAV, or MP3 they play too fast! The system is Win 2000 v5 SP3. Does anyone know if it is possible to reduce the playback speed??