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Hello Forum I have been having the nightmare of all computer nightmares for the past few months. I have been trying to compose a succint letter to paste here and get help, but my comp keeps doing its thing, and I cant finish the letter. I'm still working on explaining …

Since you guys really seem to know your way around the computer I thought I'd take a chance and see if anyone has had a similar problem and found a solution to the Microsoft problem that seems to be going around. I know I'm not the only one because I've …

Hey, I have only ever reformattted my laptop once before and it was with help. But im pretty sure that the reinstallation cd for windows Xp is NOt supposed to show up as a partition right? I guess its kind of a dumb question but im worried i may have …

Okay i been having a problem with my computer and I was wondering if anyone ever went thru this and could probably help me out I got XP and i have other users on my computer and their sound seem to be working except mines. I can listen to limewire …

I have reformated my hardrive and installed Windows XP on it. Unfortunatly I still have NO sound on my computer! My onboard audio device ([I]C-Media AC97 Audio Device[/I]) has a yellow exclamation mark next to it in Device Manager. When I look at it's 'Properties' the device status is listed …

Hello all, First post, thanks in advance for your thoughts and help. I have a Panasonic CF-TF Toughbook with XP SP2. The problem started about a week ago when I used a flash drive to transfer info at a printing store. My AVG software caught the Trojan on my flash …

I am supposed to upgrade my boss's computer from the worthless Vista Home Premium to Vista Business. He purchased the upgrade disk. Is it necessary to do a clean install? I ask because of some time constraints. (Bosses think everything can be completed over a lunch hour, and he will …

Hey, It's been a while..... Anyways...I just bought a new Hdd, 500gb, and I'm trying to install Windows XP Pro onto it, but I'm getting issues. It says that there is only 131gb on my HDD. Meanwhile in my BIOS it says my hard drive is 500Gb big. I had …

[B]Hi, I purchased a computer with vista home basic already installed. Well the system recovery got DELETED and now I am screwed!! Can anyone tell me if I purchase the home basic cd and install it will it bring my computer back?? or do I upgrade to premium?? I'm really …

Hi all, have vista HB installed here but I need to get SQL server up & running. Now I have read many articles that propose IIS7 cannot be installed on a Vista HB machine. Is there any way around this? I need IIS for SQL server to work. Many thanks.

I noticed some errors a few weeks ago and was unable to run chkdsk c: as it would not blue screen, but reboot at one point in the process. This was running chkdsk in windows with no /f or /r parameter. I was able to copy my data from the …

I have this exact problem: [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post171392.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post171392.html[/URL] However the solution didn't work because I messed with the registry :-( I couldn't install Windows installer 3.1, so I couldn't update my repaired version of windows (which was working AWESOME, btw!) I set restore points and stuff "just in case" after messing with …

I'm trying to install Windows XP Pro to a system with a Mach Speed MK8-939A mobo, AMD Athlon64 3200+ CPU @ 2.0 GHz, and 512 MB of RAM. I've tried this on three different HDDs now, with the same results on all three. The install itself goes fine. First boot …

Hi(First post) I hope im not in the wrong section, if I am sorry about that. I hope you guys and gals can help me with this problem/question I have regarding acronis true image. I work for a small business which has a wired lan network, we have a 250GB …

Hi. I have a problem in that, when the computer is first started, when any of the 3 users logs in, an error message headed "microsoft Office Excel" and stating "Microsoft Office Excel has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry ...... " etc. If you click …

I have XP pro and have a wireless network at home. I cannot get two of the four computers to recognize the printer. We all know what the normal printer icon looks like but what the heck does the bar below the printer mean? Could that be part of my …

Originally Posted on Viruses & Nasties with the title: High cpu in win explorer, task mng - HJ Log - with no response so I thought I'd try my luck here. I started having alot of virus warnings from Avast - so many so that I reinstalled via ghost. Now …

I have 3 computers that curently use xp pro. All of these were puchased used and are fully licenced to use this software. ( I have legit keys ). however I don't have a oem install disk. all I have is self made restore disks and would like to puchase …

Hi, i have [B]firefox[/B] 2.0.0.11 and IE 7.0.5112.0 installed on my WinXP sp2 System.my firefox was working properly before, but lately i have some probs. 1. it does not let me sign out after getting into my yahoo mail account. ( i have the following addons 4 firefox installed lately. …

Request for tech help. My computer uses Windows XP professional, when I use Internet Explorer 7, some web sites and pages appear blank although it appears they loaded okay as I receive a "done" at the bottom of the screen. Also I'm unable to download from nearly most all web …

i need help guys! i had this problem only recently. i started windows normally as always, but then i noticed that the icons on my desktop dont have the "shadow effect" anymore. i also noticed that the background image and the icons are a bit pixelized. ive tried everything, from …

Hey everyone ! I have a Windows XP home edition computer with 128 Ram. When Windows opens up, an error message popps up that says.... [B][U]IMVUQUALITYAGENT.EXE-application error The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002)[/U][/B] I have tried everything I know to rid this computer of this error !!! I have …

First, Hello everybody. I have an old laptop that I can not 'restore' with the WinXP cd. Seems the loaded XP is newer than the cd that came with it. Since it was almost toast I tried anyway and the product code is invalid. I want to load ubuntu (cd …

so i got my computer about 5 mounths ago,and i was instaling all these programs,and if i didnt like them, i would uninstall,but the thing is,sometimes i tried to delete them part by part,and i think them stayed there,i have parts off games and program folders left,but i dont know …

In the "Folder Options" of windows "Tools" Menu, after changing "view panel" to show "Hidden Files & Folders" and after clicking Apply & OK and close the window the computer still doesn't show Hidden Files & Folders. On reopening the Folder Options the Radio Button has gone back to "Do …

My daughter has a Dell desktop with XP Pro. It has been rather slow for no reason that I could find. Over the weekend it started to switch off for no apparent reason. The were no messages. Now it won't even boot into Windows. When it gets as far as …

who would think something so wonderful could be so annoying... right my problem is iv stopped a registery value (through spybot) for my btinternet wireless connection manager and it stoped working , however it would still connect to the internet. when attempting to connect to a diferent wireless network i …

hi all, my computer have a trouble now. when i played the game my computer get hang for a few times but this problem never happen before. after hang then i close the game, i got 800 x 600 screen resolution on my computer. sometimes it make me must to …

My machine crashed, after overclocking the RAM and CPU (have reset default clock settings), I am now unable to completely boot Windows (safe or normal mode), the machine locks up after the XP boot screen completes...I cannot see my home-screen. I am currently posting this thread using the same system, …

Hi Folks - Hoping someone can help me out here - please. I am having trouble with setting up a home webserver using 2003 server. I have read lots but that just seems to confuse me more. I have a server with two network cards and a netcomm nb9w router. …

Hi..Can't figure this out! My friend's computer crashed after running a virtual community. I've tried loading windows both by way of repair and clean install. Every time stop code 000000050 creeps up and when we try a fresh installation, it says there are no partitions listed to format. It says …

I am a Windows 98 user and only go online to access my email via Netscape. Nothing more. Lately my dial-up connection has been shutting off before I can finish reading my emails and I am forced to connect again. Can anyone explain the reason for this? If I can't …

Hello everyone! I work IT for a small school, and I am having issues with my server. It seems as though at different intervals, my domain controller will not recognize authorized users. This has been an issue since we lost power due to an enormous ice storm. I have checked …

Thought time ripe (cheap) to get a 17" laptop, burn dvd's, maybe even partition hard drive. Even bought a Toshiba, grabbed some of my software, and...... What? Nothing would install because it wasn't Vista (got the software just before it's release). Calls to Toshiba, MicroSoft and 2 Geek guys (took …

[U]Delivery Status Notification (Failure)[/U] [U]Returned mail: Service unavailable[/U] [U]Delivery failure[/U] I've been getting a lot of emails with the above subjects (a dozen a day at the peak), and when I look around for an reason why I would get these emails, searches say 'that it's an email delivery problem …

Hi there, Ok, we have a serious situation here. If I'll read one more thread about issues with Vista 32bit not seeing 4GM RAM I'm going to vomit. Here's issue that will get you thinking. Ok. I've got installed 2 Ram sticks. 512MB each. Acrding to BIOS I've got 1GB. …

Hi guys, I really messed it up now! Flashed BIOS. Now i can't power computer up cause it keeps on saying that "the NB tachometer fan is very slow". Now my motherboard manufacturer told me that I have to clear comms. An how do I do that? Thank you for …

You, like thousands of others, may have installed vista on a machine with a gig or less of ram, and thought you made a good choice because microsoft's total care advisor may have said it will run smoothly. Well that is just wrong!! If your pc wasn't preloaded with vista, …

Hi there, I'm currently working on a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel 2007, and need to enter a few paragraphs of text within a group of merged cells. I would like to have seperate lines of text (as I have just started a new paragraph within this post) but when I …

hello i am new here and love the site looks so far , i am in need of help. i have vundo files that i cannot delete period. the name and locale is c:\WINDOWS\system32\vtutq.dll i have investigated this thoroughly and have tried unlimited ways with no luck,,,i have tried vundofix, …

Hi Guys, I've got a windows server 2003 on my domain that has a fax modem connect to it. It runs the fax console and any faxes coming in on that number get emailed to member of staff who sorts through it, which is working perfectly. We also have a …

When I insert a bookmark in the bar at the top it inserts but when I click the button it doesn't do anything. How do I fix this?

Hello, Im new to this site so i have no idea whether im in the right section here, anyway here's my problem: I recently had to re-install windows, and because i'm not really much of an expert i found out that the Documents and Settings folder of the username i …

Hi, When I check "restore my computer to an earlier time" in system restore and click on next, I get the following message: The following calendar displays in bold all of the dates that have restore points available. The list displays the restore points that are available for the selected …

i purchased norton ghost 10 a couple of days ago. The softwares workin fine but accidently i broke the installation cd that had the recovery environment. Is there any way to create a duplicate cd of the same. Plz help me out. Regards Bharat Shivram

Hi! I would like to run Dual Monitors, i've been looking at other threads and haven't seen the answer. I have a 7300nvidia PCI express 512MB DDR2 HDTV and DVI-I (SLi , purevidieo,) I have two VGA monitors. and I have a motherboard built 6200 nvidia also that has a …

Is there a way to remove the windows xp pro 9 connection limit ?

i am having trouble if i double click on my cd drive in my computer i get a message please insert disc. i already have a disc in the drive. the drive that i had in when this started happening was a dvd-rw . i've changed the drive to a …

I've installed a new hard drive on my grandsons computer. I have an OEM XP Home to install, however, when I try to install, the install goes to the loading files for install, then indicates that the plugin.ocx file cannot be installed. If I bypass and continue I get an …

can somebody please help me. I am unable to use the xp style start menu. There is no option to use it. There is only one option and that is to use the classic style start menu. can somebody please help me i want to use my xp style start …