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In the past couple of months, I have been trying to find where all my drive C disk space went and I think I have found it. I originally took my computer to a computer store for my DVD rom drive to be replaced. Then it wouldn't boot up so …

Here what happened to me "out of the blue", meaning it used to work yesterday, and I didn't (knowingly) install any software. When I double click an image file, i.e. a .jpg or .png file, on the Desktop, I see the Window Picture and Fax viewer open and instantaneously closing. …

Hello. I have a dial up account for my home use and ADSL at work. My laptop connects to the web fine from work using ADSL and equally my PC at connects fine with dial-up at home but when I try to connect at home with my laptop, which has …

Hello Gentleman and Ladies I have a note book here running XP pro. It wont boot up and as you know you that darn blue screen with the error. I'm at a lose, heres what I have done so far. Checked ram all ok In recovery console chkdsk r/ all …

I configure something wrong in windows XP through gpedit.msc and restart the computer after that 80% of services of windows are stopped I tried manually to start that services but group dependencies services error 1068 comes. Then I saw that RPC service is also stopped then I try to start …

when i start xp i get the setup option showing still, windows does not boot straight normally, i have to choose

Hey guys, I hope someone can give me some insight to this. I've tried reading everything I can find, and nothing really addresses the issue. I have Windows XP Pro, with 512Mb ram. When I boot up everything is normal, and I have very little running on the machine. The …

Hi. This is a really strange one. Sorry about the length, but there's a lot to digest. WindowsXP computer with 200Gb HDD and 2 partitions and AMD3500+ and was running well. At startup one day it suddenly started to reboot once it got to the Windows logo. Safe mode etc …

ok the problem started 2 days ago where now when ever i go into a user folder the windows explorer closes itself and will not open agin so I have to work with the task manager and its very anioying..........any help much apreceated

Hey, I'm mostly a linux user with a cisco background so windows is a mystery to me! A friend brought me a hp pavilion that had a virus that apparently made services such as the recovery manager unavailable to us and he had no recovery disks made. I told him …

Hi I installed a fresh windows xp professional sp2 , i had a little surfing on the internet . So ,when ever i restart my computer i had a 1 minuter freeze on startup . Thank you for your effort of reading .

Ive have been having some problems with my computer -once in a while the bottom bar with go to the original grey and i will lose all sound -when i am typing sometimes the letters wont appear and they will start to show up somewhere else (even while writing this …

Hi everyone, I've got a little, annoying problem that I'm stuck on. When exploring, and attempting to open folders with a double click, the search menu pops up. i don't want to search the folder, i want to open it. it lets me open if i right click and select …

hi..just want to ask guys if anybody can help me...I use XP as my OS. but there seems to be a problem when I open the command line.Everytime I open it Windows shuts down and I have to restart my PC all over again. It displays a error but I …

Hello all, I am replaceing the software and misc hardware on my main household computer.(long story) Should I stick with office pro 2003 or is it worth upgradeing to 2007. Have read some questionable reviews/comments about 07. We use it for basic household stuff, nothing really demanding. Any thoughts would …

any ideas... totally uptodate good working XP pro on a large computer with no frills except dual boot to Kubuntu. On updating via the redmond genuine etc etc SP3 installed and then completely crashed the machine and would not start beyond the blue screen of no not death stat up …

I have been working on an Outlook Problem that Microsoft was unable to help with and was hoping someone here could. Messages get stuck in the outbox, which I know is nothing new. The messages actually does send, outlook just doesn't move it to sent items, an error message pops …

Hi, When I opens a folder containing .swf file, it takes much time for file list to appear the in that folder. During that time it looks like the window is Not Responding (Some time even Not Responding comes written in Title bar), but finally it arrives with all files …

am running xp pro sp2 on my laptop. did an os reinstall last week. but am unable to download anything from the web. whenever i try download anything (movies, drivers, apps etc.), after i choose the location for saving the file and click go my system reboots automatically. even tried …

The title of the thread is my random yet hopefully simple question. I "googled" it but didn't find anything that seemed concrete, and so I'm hoping that someone on here will know. So again the question is, Is Vista based on XML, and if so, would it be correct to …

Basically, whenever I boot up XP, the explorer will not start. If I try to run it from the Task Manager, it closes again in a matter of seconds. It will then try to open itself up again... but then closes. (Every time it reloads, it un-focuses any window, making …

Hey so i think im having problems with the size of drives. my 250g drive shows as 230g and my 500g drive shows as 465g. is this normal? i know it should take of some space but really that much? and also a 4.7g dvd shows as 4.3 so i …

I am a new kid on the block. I sent this to another thread in another forum from someone with Win 98se. I think it should be posted here. I have Win XP-2 on a Dell Inspiron 7500 I asked Goggle and Google referred me to a site that said …

[B][/B]I have recently downloaded and installed m$ virtual pc, and installed vista premium on it. this means i have 2 vista versions on one pc! but i have a couple of problems. i have no sound, and it can only give vista 8mb of video ram, which makes the virtual …

...because I can't access bank a/c's, credit card logins, My eBay etc. Mostly it's the HTTPS sites, but not 100%. Have tried the solution posted May 2nd, 2005 (re HTTPS access error) about entering info (beginning - regsvr32) into DOS box. Didn't resolve the problem for me though. Have also …

I do not have sound. It just happened. There's nothing wrong with my speakers. I took a look under "Device Manager" and noticed that all my "Other Devices" have a yellow question mark with an exclamation mark. The "Other Devices" are: 1. Ethernet Controller 2. Multimedia Audio Controller 3. PCI …

I'm currently running the Enterprise edition of Vista and just yesterday after I uninstalled nod32 whenever I attempt to reboot the machine or shut it down it successfully ends (from what I can tell) all running processes but does not shutdown (except explorer.exe because my GUI still exists). It just …

Hello i have a xtreme notebook([url]http://www.xtremenotebooks.com/[/url]) computer they are custom built with windows xp. i have a replacement plan so i could send it in to get a new one but i really need to keep this one because it has all my projects on it. when i start up …

Hello, everyone - I re-installed Windows 2003 on my server at home and made it a DHCP server. I am able to ping the other machines from it, yet none of my other machines can get an address. I have a D-Link router, pretty simple setup. I had DHCP running …

My girlfriend was moving files around on her computer, nothing big, just images. She then got the Blue Screen Of Death, and so she restarted the computer. When it restarted, it gave her the windows splash screen and then went to black and sat there. I restarted it with last …

Hi all, I'm new here, and a newbie to techie stuff as well. I found many topics on similar problems in this forums, but none of those solutions or suggestions could help me. My operating system is windows xp pro. I use both IE7 and Firefox to browse. I use …

eMachine T3418 on board 10/100 ethernet. Went into control panel (win xp home), network connections, properties. Checked the box to: show icon in notification area when connected, and the network connection was lost. Device manager showed yellow exclaimation next to Device Unknown - nVidia network controller. Uninstalled the driver then …

My problem is that my windows xp even though i have installed the drivers of my Sapphire ATI Radeon X1650 pro (vpu) graphics card, start with the lowest resolution.. I have tried a lot of things..like reinstalling drivers , windows xp problem resolution.. This happens to me for the first …

Hello All, I have an hp photosmart m7183c desktop at home (it's my brother's) and it's been running a lot slower than usual and the temps have been high (54C idle as of today) and it's driving me crazy!! Even two system recoveries in a row have not helped!! I …

If anyone can shed light on this, I will appreciate it! I get this error when I try to set up a printer for a user on my network; "a policy is in effect on your computer which prevents you from connecting to this print queue" I checked the user …

I have a major issue, I had aquired a PC at no cost, but it had programs and info from the prior owner, and I was deleting programs and user accounts, in doing so, I had messed with the user log in, after restarting, so on the boot up screen, …

Yesterday I was on my computer for much of the day and it worked gloriously, now not so much. When I turn it on the usual BIOS post comes up except it shows less info then usual. And it doesn't appear to recognize my keyboard as I press F12 to …

My friend says his mouse is hijacked, I haven't gone to see this yet but he says he has to keep changing USB ports in order to keep running. Anyone ever heard of this?

Does anybody use Uniblue's registry cleaning tools at all? I ran a registry scan using their trial version as I have a number of scvhost.exe apps running in my processes tab of the Task Manager and it said it found over 700 errors but the trial version can only fix …

I reinstalled Windows XP with SP2 and everything works perfect, except I can not get Print Shop 20 Deluxe to install correct. I had this program installed on this computer before and did not have a problem. I installed it on my other computer to make sure the disc was …

I don't know what happened, but a couple of days ago everytime I try to open a new floder in IE or Outlook Express the folder only opens in the top half of the screen. I have no clue what is happening. Any help will be appreciated.

Hope somebody can help me. I installed MS Office 2007 Home and Student edition on both a new acer laptop running vista home edition and an older Dell laptop running XP Pro. As soon as I did so both computers will no longer recognize my shared printer on my wireless …

okay, so i change my font to Sylfaen at 8pt on both Options...>Choose Font option and the Font button on the conversation window but it goes back to Sylfaen at 10pt and i really do not want that. ANY help?

How can I find out how long someone was on a particular website from my browser history? And can I find our a specific date and time? Not just generalized by weeks.

Have Win XP SP3 and Office 2003 with upgrade to allow it to read or save in Office 2007 format (.xml). Worked fine for awhile and shortcuts to files would open file in correct app, i.e. a word processing file would open in Word, and a spreadsheet would open in …

Hey fellas I need help, I have a Toshiba Laptop running a pentium 4 3.0 chip, 60 hard drive, and 512 of ram, running Windows XP home sp2. It won't boot up to windowns. It will only boot up to the dark screen that reads safe mode, safe mode with …

I have everything working but sound, after formatting. I downloaded the Audio Realtek driver from Intel's [URL="http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Filter_Results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=1673&OSFullName=Windows*+XP+Home+Edition&lang=eng&strOSs=45&submit=Go%21"]download center[/URL], but that didn't help. Hopefully this pic helps: [url=http://img116.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bahgetvx8.png][img=http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/5761/bahgetvx8.th.png][/url] Thanks for any help.

my Compaq 2700us has been giving me fits... i decided to use the quickrestore cd to wipe and reinstall XP (just to 'clean house'). I had no Stop errors prior to this. The QuickRestore CDs copy all the image file to the HDD, then when rebooting i recieve the following …

hey guys. PLEASE help me :( ive spent ALL day on this... below is my system details. Operating System System Model Windows Vista Business (build 6000) DIXONSXP MS-7046 Enclosure Type: Desktop Processor a Main Circuit Board b 3.00 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 16 kilobyte primary memory cache 2048 kilobyte secondary …

Hi Is it possible to distribute some of the columns in a table evenly or do I have to select all? The message I get is 'you must select multiple columns' When I do this the table toolbar greys out the option!