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The Microsoft detected my OS on my older rig that it is illegal but I still can use the pc, there is a notification message on the wallpaper that I cannot remove it says I was a victim of counterfeiting , is re-installation of XP will do? It is ok …

Please help some one :( I'm desperate (sad but true). I used to have (until yesterday) a 22" widescreen (1680x1050)monitor connected to my comp (A64 3200+, WinXP SP3, nVidia 7800GT, 2GB Ram, 2x250GB Raid 1 h/d). Then last night it broke, went off, died the death. So I connected my …

Right people Got a new laptop for christmas with windows vista home edition (32-bit) on and set it up to access the wireless internet (d-link router) it has worked fine for couple of weeks and then all of a sudden it has stopped working i have a XP PC which …

Automatic updates won't come up on the taskbar. Windows update won't load. I went to stop the automatic updates under services. *not Disable* it says that it reached and error I'm guessing I accidentally went to this site called av5scan.com that was disguised as another. it just kept prompting me …

:-/ I have this weird problem with the pics in my folder..i have them a lot,and they are all scrambled..i wanted to sort them out in the folders,but when i was looking at them (folder view was set to 'Thumbnails') thumbnails of pictures were displaying one picture,and when i opened …

Hi guys heres a goodie for you. Client aksed me to remove XP Antivirus 2008, the fraudulent download. Ran my Malwarebytes and Spybot and all was cleared, hooray we say. Before the notebook was given to me the client installed Kaspersky to clear the issue, which obviously did not work. …

My CD and DVD drives have been missing from My Computer and I'm running WinXP Home Edition. I've gone into the registry, deleted the upper and lower filters, ran various spyware programs. Now I attempted to do a Win XP Repair, went thru all the steps, but when it gets …

We have asked this question to posters here,with BSOD [Daniweb] many times !and have gotten this answer ! Did you Install any new software lately ! Answer !, no nothing yet ,its a clean/fresh install of WinXP!

Hello all, I have a driver problem, i reinstalled XP on my laptop. It's a Dell Latitude D505. Now, i need the LAN and WLAN drivers. I have downloaded the files off the dell site, but no luck. Can you guys help me??? I have no internet access on the …

Hello everybody, hopefully someone here can help as this is my last port of call before a format!!! Firstly a little background. The PC in question is my fiancee's standard HP off the shelf job with XP home. Recently it started playing up with random crashes and lenghly load periods. …

Hey all I was just wondering about something. I've read numerous times about xp product keys and how you can only use the software on one comp at a time. My specific XP recovery disk came with my computer and does not ask for a product key to be typed …

The instruction at Ox7c91b1fa referenced memory at 0x00000010. The memory could not be written.? This happens as Windows XP is booting up and then I click ok and it removes the screen but not the problem. Happens everytime. I have worked with JHolland1964 in Viruses but we are blocked or …

I am trying to follow MS advice on how to fix a 'ntfs.sys is missing or corrupted. I get into the repair console fine. I tell it the c: drive (where windows is installed) but once in there, i cannot acces the cd-rom to copy the fresh ntfs.sys file i …

Hi Ya'll! Im using a computer that has no sound. I think there may be an issue with the drivers but am unsure how to check my drivers or install new ones. The computer is a custom computer and had "Sound Max" in the system tray on the start-up. Now …

Hi guys, anyone have the idea how to solve this problem. My Win2k3 server got BSOD and it says Beep.sys got problem. any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Hi, I have had advice on another forum: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post512196-3.html[/url] that I could transfer my data from my dead XP Pro to a new PC using a powered ATA/IDE to USB 2 connector from my XP system's hard drive to the new machine. The problem is that the new machine is …

Can anyone out there help me, please. I had an e-machine with XP home installed. the machine died the death BUT I managed to salvage the hard drive. Working by studying here and other forums I have created an i386 file of the installation on CD. When I tried installing …

Hi, I am experiencing a slower and slower connection to Daniweb everytime I log on, why is this so? I have tried at several locations on many diferent machines with the same result.

I have HP and above mentioned softwares. I dont see their importance because they fail to update. I have even disabled at startup for they choke me with ----problems found....then cannot fix them due to no update. SHOULD I REMOVE THEM??

Hi I just bought the newest version of mcafee VirusScan Plus. whenever I open the security centre I just get a box which is blank inside I have attached a screenshot of what I meen. This has happened ever since I first got it a few days ago. can anyone …

So.. my computer has gradually been screwing up and now it's to the point where I want to use recovery and start from scratch. I get numerous errors with almost everything I try to do. At one point my computer wouldn't even go past the Compaq loading screen. Being the …

I have many e-books. Some of it in txt format, some in PDF, some in DjVu. Can you advise one viewer (freeware of course) for all of this books? Adobe Reader is great, but can't open DjVu, and i want use only one software for all this documents

Hey guys my laptop goes black right after the bios, it doesn't even show xp loading. I was able to recover everything on the HDD. When i put the new hdd in and tried to install xp, xp says the computer doesn't have any hdd. So i'm thinking this is …

Does anyone know of a way to disable auto restart on system failure that does not require being in Windows? I've got a laptop that will not start Windows in ANY mode (including Safe Mode) and a blue screen flashes by so quick I can't even read it. I'm wondering …

So, trying to help out my ex wife who tried downloading Adobe Air unsucessfully. Now, when she boots up, she gets this pop up window: C\Program files\Common. In it, there resides _helper.dll 4.0.0.0; helper.dll 3.0.1.5; _helper.sig SIG File 65kb and helper.sig SIG File 38KB. It won't allow any Windows functions …

This seemed like the best place for this question, so if it isn't please let me know. I am looking at buying a new computer and I have narrowed it down to two from Dell. Both are customizable but neither have all the features I want. The Specifications are listed …

Hello all.. Where is the network certificate kept / stored in Windows XP... i have Windows SP3 Pro.... I hope you get what i mean, if not, i can provide more information. Thanks, Cohen

I have lost my product key. I am using a windows 98 PC, and it has office 2000 pro installed. I have tried several programs to recover my serial key #, but some just give me the Productl ID #, some don't give me anything. Is there a good program …

I have a doubt in my system I installed operating system XP professional2 after installed OS when I installed drivers it shows one popup message like this operating system doesn’t support Drivers so I Installed manually audio, video and LAN driver through browsing Drivers CD My problem is that when …

Hi guys. I have a big problem. I can't access any resources on the network nor can share my folders because the server service is stopped and I can't make it start. I also can't install any new programs or start messenger or skype. Also when I try to access …

Hi, I'm currently using Vista Ultimate version. I have two questions. I want to know which software is good and best for working with partition. And which is good for tweaking system with Vista ? Right now I'm using Advance Vista Optimizer 2008, is this a good one ? I …

A friend asked me to reinstall windows for him, so i did, but it appears that neither nForce audio drivers (4.62), neither realtek ac97 drivers work fine (tested old version in manufacturers site and new WDM_A406). Only when i set maximum volume on pc and speakers i can hear some …

Hey guys i was dual booting XP and Vista, then decided to delete the Vista Partition to get rid of it. Boot when i boot my PC the boot record is still giving me the Vista Option. When i click on vista it says it's missing. My question is, how …

I have a Vista Laptop with a dead motherboard. I want to pull all the files off the hard drive. When I connect the hard drive to an XP computer, I cannot access all the folders in the Users Folder (which is where all the data should be). I have …

My computer was infected with this spyware.Ispynow files this morning at 10:00 am and has this pop up from my security center saying that I have a harmfull program. It gives me the options of unblock, keep block, or enable protection. It only gives me the enable protection, but that …

Hi to my family at Daniweb !! I have a Compaq DeskPro EX with Windows 2000 on it. The sound wouldn't sound right . All the sound comming out of the speakers was fast and sounded like all the music and words came from a Chipmonks cd. So, I looked …

hi there, i have to add .NET Framework version 3.0 Object in object list . i am using install shield 2008.I have downloaded that redistributable from redistributable downloader in tools option but where it got install on my system i dont know. And how to import it in my project …

I use windows xp home sp3. When I insert a cd into the drive it crashes and the screen says that it has protected the computer and I have to reboot. I look at the event viewer and it shows nothing. The device manager shows okay. My pc shows no …

Cleaning up my computer from some virus "invasions" seems to have messed up my operating copy of Microsoft Office Outlook. [My OS is xp Pro, sp2, Office Pro 2003 enterprise edition with Hebrew multilanguage content] The program no longer receives nor sends emails and, though I can easily access saved …

Is there anyone out there that can either help or has encountered this problem ? The latest upgrade from Apple has prevented my iPod from talking to my laptop, I have tried to uninstall iTunes but have been prevented from doing so even though I have administrators privileges from the …

i tried to change my desktop wallpaper today and i keep getting this message: "[COLOR=Red]internet explorer cannot find the active desktop html file. this file is needed for your active desktop. -to turn off active desktop, click OK[/COLOR]" - so i went on google and did a search for the …

Hi everyone I have a tough problem, and it seems that I can not resolve this one at all. The speaker icon that is situated near the clock on the task bar, disappeared from there. It is only gone from the task bar, and I can do what ever I …

HP DV6045NR (dv6000) XP SP3 version 2002 Just wiped my drive yesterday and installed sp3. Been loading all the drivers and such and can't seem to get my sound working. I downloaded and installed Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) Bus Driver for High Definition Audio (sp33867). My quick launch buttons …

Hello, everybody! I am a newbie, so my question will probably sound silly to you. I have one task that I don’t know how to carry out – I need to check one web page from time to time (preferably every 20 minutes) and record (=copy) its HTML code every …

Ok friend just cam over to my house, but his drivers for his DVD drive are corrupted, so it does not read anything. Tech support suggests to insert the recovery disks, but the drive can't read it. Help?

hi, I used to download with 150 kb/s , but when ı reinstalled my Windows XP , the max speed ı could reach is 30 kb/s for like a month. What may be the reason of this and any suggestions to solve this issue?

Hi, we're running SBS2003 with Exchange handling mail and outlook 2003 on all clients. I have access to all client mailboxes to cover for people when they're away from the office. My Md deleted some items yesterday but then noticed that there were a lot more items in his deleted …

I reformatted my old Maxtor Hard drive (53073U6 - 30gb) with XP following some issues. All of the important data I needed was backed up to a Seagate Barracuda 7200 (120gb). Previously both hard drives were accessible - the Maxtor jumpers set to Master, the Seagate with no jumpers set …

I have two dimmed files on my Desktop for couple of years and tried everything to remove them without any success. I attached file circled two I cannot remove and on top is message I have when tried to delete. Any help, please.

OK...I'm having a problem...I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 I have Avira Anti-virus, free version...Spybot S&D...CCleaner...Ad-Aware SE...and recently got Kaspersky Internet Security 8...free trial...than I downloaded AVG Anti-virus and installed it..after that I started getting problems...when I opened MY COMPUTER...CONTROL PANEL...or anything that uses WINDOWS EXPLORER...it works fine after …