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I recently tried to install a second hard drive to my system running Windows XP Professional. I am studying IT and wanted to play around with partitioning, permissions, etc. The first hard drive is a 250 G WD SATA-300 with NTFS. The second hard drive is a Seagate 250 G …

When I click on my At&t internet icon on the desktop, it says, "Choose the program you want to use to open this file". I can scroll down and choose Internet Explorer, but I'd hate to have to do that every time. I tried to uninstall Internet Explorer 7 from …

yehhh...i am tired i was looking ysterday all day how to delete whose words...i hoped to get some answers from windows live search,but all i got is more adwertisment of there product...please help ,because i am shearing this computer,no do i wanna see what others search,no do i want to …

anyone can help me, every time i run ny XP Cd to format my pc, set up will run and restart every time the set up turn into Wimdows NT. How can i format my pc...anyone help me please..thanks

Hello everyone. I am new here and have a issue with my USB ports. Earlier, my USB ports stopped recognizing anything plugged into them. I’ve tried a USB mouse, USB unpowered external hard drives and multiple flash drives, all of which works on another computer. I tested them on all …

I tried to chat online with HP customer support to talk about my all-in-one, but when it tried to connect to the technician, I recieved this error. validation of viewstate MAC failed .. If this app is hosted by a web farm or cluster ensure that <machinekey> config specifies the …

the computer i have is custom built, its been working fine and recently i upgraded my mobo, ram, and cpu mobo is lanPartyDK 790FX series ram is 2 gigs of g.skill ddr2 800 cpu is an amd athlon 64 x2 dual-core processor ive been troubleshooting for a few days but …

How do i get rid of outlook express 6 and use another for defaut please help

I turned off pc to gain access to power point, switched pc on again and since then my browser hangs for between 1 & 2 minutes then go'es live and works well untill either you close down and restart browser or open a new browser with the same effects. Running …

One of our users has reported that he cannot get web pages through internet explorer. On first inspection I could not see any faults, it has full internet connection, it can ping the website he is trying to view and he can retrieve emails through Outlook express. I ran CCleaner, …

I was doing a simple ftp and look what I found! Look at the attachment!

I have a weird key logger that was somehow installed... And now im unable to remove it. i tried using HIjackthis but it was never able to complete the scan. It won't show up on the ctrl+alt+delete menu and it starts up automatically i don't know how to selective startup …

I have a new pc with windows vista and am unable to send emails, I can recieve them ok. I have contacted isp and they have checked everything and cant do anymore for me. I am running new pc with vista and another pc with xp professional through a D-Link …

I am the only user on my pc running vista. When I try to change anything (install, uninstall) I get the message that I need to log in as administrator. As I said there is only the one user set up and that is me as administrator? Bob

Not reaaly sure in which forum this should be in (read on and you will see) but I am sure It wil be moved if necessary. OK here goes but 1st a few specs Tosi laptop 3.2 GHZ CPU 60G HD 512MB RAM I was attempting to intsall xubuntu 8.04 …

I have Windows XP home edition, and Internet Explorer 6. This happened before but I did something to fix it, and I don't remember what. What happens is whenever I click on a javascript link, it doesn't do anything, or just sits there and has the loading cursor forever. Any …

When i start up xp i get a message saying: RUNDLL: Error loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\hwasgsne.dll The specified module could not be found. Im not sure what has started this but any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I have a 40 GB hard drive loaded with windows xp home that has been converted to an external hard drive and an old emachines 333i loaded with windows 98 that crashed. I'm wondering if I bring the 32 bit DDRam up to minimum system requirements for xp if I …

Is there an IE6 SP2 patch for windows 2003. I know there is a SP2 patch for IE6 rolled up in the windows xp sp2 patch. Thanks

I wish to use the Windows backup tool to perform a backup of folders on my PC to an external hard drive that is attached to another PC on my home network. I have installed the backup utility on my PC by following the instructions given in the computer's Help …

Forgive me for elaborating but this is very weird I recently installed nero 7 and it was working fine and i turned my computer off for the night. I turned it on the next morning and it said "Installing windows update (1 of 1)" and then something like "saving settings …

This is the first time I've seen this happened on anybody's computer. My computer suddenly without opening anything of downloading/installing something, started make the enter key command rapidly repeat itself. It will press it so fast that I can't even type my password to log onto the computer. Does anybody …

After downloading & installing the latest recommended Windows updates, most relating to MS office 2007 security updates, my pc displays an error box upon startup as follows: Box title: SRV #001 Contents: CLED Error with an "OK" option. While this box is displayed, no mouse movements are able. If I …

I just turned on my laptop now and everything i had in there isn't there anymore..Its an IBM R50E thinkpad. I don't know where to start from to get all my docunments back..SOMEONE please help me outtttttttttt..Pleaseeee

Hello all! This is a weird problem I'm facing. I'm running Mint/XP/Ubuntu triple boot. Booted into Windows after like 2 weeks, and now I cannot access the internet from windows.:'( It Works just fine in Linux, so definitely no problem on my ISP's side. Maybe I need to reconfigure something …

All of a sudden my laptop keyboard stopped working properly. You have to hold the key down for 2 seconds before it will work. At first I thought that it was a bad driver, but the file has not been modified since I got the computer, according to the date …

Hey Guys, This is quite an interesting problem that I am having at the moment. My sister's computer is having some problems. Whenever I go to start the machine it tells me that something has gone wrong with windows and gives me options of which mode to start in (safe, …

Can anyone tell me how I can remove all references to previous users on a PC? One of our users is having a spare PC. I have created a new account and then deleted the previous users account and files but everything is still registered to the old user, even …

Hey guys I have a machine thats on a network and whenever I try to log in it does the logon process but comes right back to the welcome screen.the read it gives is: "starting windows..." "logging of" I strongly believe that the problem lies within the registry since I've …

I have a Dell Dimension 9100 that wont boot. When I boot to the restore CD it goes along until it gets to the page where you could repair or reinstall windows. Up to that point the keyboard works. As soon as it gets to that page the keyboard stops …

Dear all, Can anybody help me out, My laptop is having Windows Vista operating system. When i cannot USB flash or USB printer it gives me error message "USB Device is not recognized" I had run "scan for hardware changes" from the device manager but it doesn't work. So plz …

I want to transfer some files from my desktop (Windows XP) to my lap top (Windows 98SE). I have the correct cable (Null modem) but I am hitting a problem. When I set up a network connection for COM1 on my desktop, I can connect to my desktop from the …

Sorry about that. Let's start over. I have a win 2k box that I can't install SP4 on. (see previous posts). Since my win2k is an upgrade, I thought I would spring for a new XP Pro and start again. I bought an OEM version with SP2 on it and …

so yeah.. before i reformatted the comp, it was restarting a certain time even if i wasnt using it or not.. and/or freezing up. idk what to do. and tbh, the CD that i used to reformat my comp is a burnt one.. so it's not genuine.. i was just …

(Sorry thread title should read BUG not BUT lol )Hi all, I am not sure if this is the right forum for this (so please move if not) but I was tinkering with a Toshiba notebook earlier that has a power up (user) password. Without this password it is not …

hi, I was wondering what im doing wrong, I want to make a folder on a portable hdd private (western Digital model WD1600D036) I have reformatted it to NTSF. But the tick box is still greyed out, Any ideas??

Every time I log in to my account "vs49688", I have none of my files or settings. I checked in the Documents and Settings Folder and there is a "vs49688.001" as well as a "vs49688 " folder in there. I can access the vs49688.001 folder, but I can't get in …

Hey guys, I am very new to this forum. Now I have a problem that I was trying to solve for some months now but couldn't. One day I tried to open Windows Media Player, and then this window popped up: [URL="http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb78/jaychou000/wmp.jpg"]ScreenShot 1[/URL] Clicking "Yes" directs me to this microsoft …

HELLO Nearly every time it turn me pc of for a while it always loads up with cmos checksum - defaults loaded. If i just restart the pc it all loads up fine. I have replaced the motherboards cmos battery and it still does the same. Tryed numorous different components …

please help me. i have had my computer for just over a year now and when i went to turn on my computer after school, its fans went to max rpm and only no input signal appeared. then after a few attempts to reboot, it was working again. but it's …

Hey i have this problem with video editing. i wanted to edit this small 10 min clip but whenever i tired ANY video editing software it just freezes up with the usual 'needs to close' error and Ive tired 5 programs already (video edit magic, adobe premiere, blaze media pro, …

i recently obtained a hard drive with... lets just say a lot of extraneous information from someone else that i don't ever want. A friend of mine showed me a program to wipe the entire disk with so it would be like brand new. I fully understand the workings of …

I recently hooked up my laptop to my PC to transfer some files. I'm using My Network Places, and am a newbie to this. Are there any programs that can do the same thing but easier and with more options?

My client suddenly cannot sen or receive emails with his POP email accounts. I reviewed his inbos and other folders to bad or large emails to delete but ther really isn't any. I removed both emails accounts and recreated them them one at a time but that did not fix …

I came to this website as a last resort. I am desperate and in urgent need of some advice - non-superficial advice. Just to set my status: I am a very experienced XP user and have been using it for the past 5 or 6 years. I am in no …

This is related to my other thread: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread102206.html[/url] (note, there is a second page as well) This is the new, more clear, info that I have on the possible cause. The symptoms are that my sound starts cracking slightly and that my screen flashes black for a second then comes …

can user accounts be deleted to return my computer to how it looked when it was running as administrator only (no log in). Directory is now a mess with duplicate files all over the place. Want my old look back. Scared to delete files under my name in case i …

Before I get flamed, Yes I Know/Knew this was a bad idea, but I did it anyways, now i pay the price.... Here is whats going on, Custom Built Computer (by me) Drive 0 (Seagate Barracuda 7200 IDE 200GB) Partitions 2 ("Old C" - 1 , "Old D" - 2) …

On my windows live mail email client, i can receive messages, but get this error (in the snip below) when i send an email. i can send fine with mozillla thunderbird.

I have a 2nd HD that I would like to install along with my existing one. Do I need to install an OS on it also? If so..should I unplug the working one first. Or can I leave it in and plug the 2nd one in without causing any distress …