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I run XP home edition SP3, browsers firefox google chrome and IE7, printer, scanner, have all MS updates. The trouble when I place a cd or dvd in the drive it crashes the pc. I noticed it when using OpenOffice and trying to burn a slideshow. Openoffice would crash sometimes …

Hi everyone! I would like to create the image of my windows XP. The image should have all the software which I have installed in it, and all the settings, like limited account and other domain settings. I want to write the image to my CD or DVD and give …

Windows Explorer on XP SP3 is behaving oddly. In the Folders two-pane view, I am accustomed to browsing through the contents of my folders by highlighting a folder in the left pane, then using the cursor-down key in the left pane to move to the next folder, and the next …

hi, i have just finished building my pc, it has a GF8100VM-M5 motherboard, AMD Phenom 8450 x3 processor and a geforce 9800gt xxx edition graphics card, i have a few problems the first one is i always have to turn my pc on and off a few times before i …

I would like to build a batchfile on my desktop to tune the access to my HDDs. There is a command to start within cmd: "fsutil.exe fsinfo statistics c:" Does anybody know the structure of an appropriate batchfile?

hi, I've got a game in this file format(.cdd ,.sub,.img) i dont know how to use these... please can someone direct me on how to end up playing this game... thank you for your help....

I have windows XP and fedora 8 installed in my laptop. For some days evreything is ok, but suddenly when I try to open windows XP It shows the windows loading screen and then it showsit shows the error AUTOCHK.EXE PROGRAM NOT FOUND SKIPPING AUTOCHEK and then restarts. I checked …

this is a very basic command prompt question (sorry if i posted it in the wrong place) is there a command for cmd to sleep/wait for say 5 seconds? like say i have a .cmd file that says "start www.google.com" but i want it to wait 5 seconds before opening …

Hi all my daughter has a Asus x8ol laptop and started to do a system recovery with the disc provided with the laptop, she followed the instructions and now has a white screen with the word ERROR (in red) accross it and in the top corner is says error 23 …

Hi everybody, I'm planning to upgrade my Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit to either Windows 7 Ultimate beta or Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. I ain't quite sure if I could upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit. Can anyone help me out here? Anything I need to know before I go …

When I boot up my computer, everything loads up fine; all my start-up programs; everything. But everytime I click on iTunes, Computer, My Documents, anything, it loads but windows explorer suddenly won't respond. I don't know what to do. Will anyone please help?

Hi....whenever I try top open a .exe file....this is the error that I get:- The file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the folder options in control menu. I tried to add a new extension as exe in file types …

a friend gave me a recovery disc for xp but not the product code numbers how can i get round this to use the disc on my computer any help gratefully appreciated

I am lost some one please help I have a dell dimension 2300 that will not reboot or shut down I am running XP I went to event viewer & here is what I saw...warning 3/30/09 12:03:17pm user32 event 1073 system rroompc....then open window to read....The attempt to power off …

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Hey, so randomly the right side of my screen will be cut off... like i can see my desktop but the windows wont go past it... im on win7 x64 (i had the same problem in vista) with a raedon x1550 rebooting fixes it, mi not sure what causes it. …

guys i want to uninstall a program but i cant, so i want to remove it from registry manually, how can i do that?

Hi I am running Windows Vista Home Premium on my current HP computer, and i am using the keyboard that came with it. On it there are a series of shortcut keys that can be programmed to open s web browser, email client, search window etc. and they had been …

I'm working on a Vista Home Premium machine for someone. Its a new Toshiba laptop and works well except for retrieval of some attachments, most notably PPS (PowerPointShow) files. Her ISP is MSN and she accesses email through that interface as installed by the QWest DSL group. While these new …

I tried the 'add/remove' pgm in windows XP Limewire was deleted from the list, went to desktop and clicked on the icon on the desktop and the pgm still ran. I rebooted and the Limewire still can be run from the desktop icon. The only diff is it does not …

hello I on my keyboard the @ and " keys are opposite, could you please help me with this? thanks Steve

Does anyone know how to set the time and date from the registry. My computer sits on a domain and the time and dateis synchronised from the network. I changed the time and date but forgot to change back and now I cannot log onto the PC. I log on …

Hi guys, Have helped a friend set up bigpond wireless gateway and found her pc is not wireless enabled so we used the netgear wireless adapter supplied but this would not work either, finally we had to use the ethernet cable to get connection. Is anyone able to tell me …

Hey every1, this is my first post on this forum and I hope it turns up good results! Im experiencing some problems with a few versions of windows! I have 3 installed currently(ive been testing to see which one to stick with). I currently have Windows Xp Dark Edition V2 …

I've got a Vista Home machine that is not playing well with my XP workgroup. I originally tried to connect to a printer shared on an XP machine. Jobs from the Vista machine would cause an error on the printer. So I connected the printer to the Vista machine and …

My boss just bought a cheap-o Dell with Vista Home for our small office. We're running a workgroup with 2 other XP Pro machines. Had a huge amount of trouble with Vista Home but now have everything working except the backup to an external drive hanging off one of the …

hi guys, do you know how to edit microsoft pocket internet explorer security settings? i need to enable activeX controls for pocket internet explorer. thanks

Hey everyone, So, my question is as follows. I'm planning on building a new rig, & I'd like to put Vistax64 on it. However, I would also like to keep my old (XPx86) PATA HDD so I can have all my music, games, files, & such. My question is, what …

When i start my computer, all i get is a blank black screen. If i open task manager i can see that explorer.exe is running but under CPU it shows 0. I have to end explorer.exe and restart it from "run" each time to get my computer to work. How …

Installed Fedora 9 recently in my laptop.... Resulting in dual boot system After a few days, hibernation seems not working. Can any one help me to solve this???

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So... I have been working on a word document project on another computer and I saved it to a flash memory. Then I went home and opend the .docx document and it didnt load. The x in the .docx I think has something to do with it.

Hello, I've been doing network administration (quite unqualified, I might add) for my company for about 7-8 months. We have an extremely strained HP Proliant (about 5-6 years old) running Small Business Server 2003 with Exchange with about 53 users. Over the past few weeks the DHCP server has been …

hi everyone? All of a sudden my Windows XP has started seeing one of my drives as not formatted. I have an 80GB HDD that i've partitioned into 4 drives. And then i have another 20Gb Hdd that i've connected as the primary slave. I've installed two operating systems Windows …

i will be thankfull to u if some one would like to tell me that how we configure the Ms OUTLOOK BOX

Hi i am trying to find a way to connect 4 cameras to one computer and view them all at the same time. The connection type is a normal video RCA input. I figured i would need some type of converting box with 4 video inputs and some sort of …

I am having Linux Fedora installed on my system. I want to remove it and install Windows Xp. But when i boot the system from the XP CD, it does all the configuration loading etc. and comes to the partition information page. There it shows "Unknown Partition type" and "No …

Hi guys, does anyone knows a software that can automatically get files on the workstation and copy to the server? or any script to do this task? any ideas is greatly appreciated... :)

Hi everybody Can any one tell me how to rename the start button. Suppose i want to name my start button as"Rahul" instead on start. Plz tell me?

Deer peepul, Just recently, I am unable to access hyperlinks from OE. Not only that, but my computer freezes up when I click a link imbedded in an email. I run XP/SP2, and OE 6. This is driving me batty.... Thanks!

I'm in WinXP on a Sony VAIO. I have cable Internet with a Linksys CM100 modem and a Linksys WRT150N router. These cooperate well enough so that I'm watching IPTV right now wirelessly. My connection is secured by WPA TKIP. However, my laptop wireless connection is broken. (I'm connected by …

Now that I am able to read the Drive's Firmware Serial Number (See previous post) is there some way to relate this physical drive with the Drive letter assigned by Windows by means other than 'digitalocksmith' suggested (i.e. hardware id's in the Details window) ?

Hello Everyone. I need a little help here trying to figure out what could be causing this. I just received a Dell Dimension XPS Desktop computer. I just did a Clean OEM install of XP Home. During the install i had the selection of NTFS(Quick) or NTFS. I choose NTFS …

hey my task manger look like something else... without the menu... Just cheak the picture... Does any one has the clue..

Hey guys, I have a brother (aged 23) who plays world of warcraft day in, day out. He plays for up to 16 hours a day, has no job and is becoming dumber by the day. The game has taken over his life and is seriously damaging his life, the …

Hi and I have installed some software called virtualbox which is a universal operating system emulator. I have XP Pro and emulated XP Home inside XP Pro but my problem is that my keyboard can only input one key stroke a second. Is it possible that it is because my …

I am asking a question which has been asked before, although the previous replies did not offer a solution in my case. How does one read the Firmware Hard Disk Serial Number in Windows (XP) by a user not willing to use C,C++,C# and other languages? The closest answer to …

Installed nero 7 as well as Kaspersky Internet Security 2009.... There's a feature of KIS 2009 placing nero 7 in low restricted group.... After that I was not able to access nero 7 since it shows C++ runtime error..... Need solution for this.... Is this the problem of KIS or …

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Hi guys I've been passed a Toshiba Satellite laptop to have a look at. On start up the number keys behave as though the shift button is pressed, so just symbols (!"£$ etc) appear. If I press the shift key symbols still appear. Also on start up the caps lock …