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I was googling for "apt-get broke" [my machine] using the google toolbar in ie7 and now the desktop shortcut reads apt-get broke which is reallly wierd. How can i change it back? screenshots availbale if u dont believe it. Reackon i should tel the beta people?

When I boot up my laptop I get the following error: [hr]Windows could not boot up because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\System32\SYSTEM\SYSTEM.CONF Insert the Windows installation CD and press "r" at the main screen.[/hr] I have done all of this, but still, it boots with the same …

Hey gang whats up? Here's my problem. Ever since i loaded win xp i have not had any audio through my speakers. i checked the driver in my sound and audio devices and it was installed but not working properly. So i uninstalled it, and downloaded again from the c-media …

Hi, I am running a Windows XP Prof SP2 on a Celeron 2.0 with 640 MB of DDR RAM. I have a S3 Graphics ProSavage DDR built in video card with 32 MB of video ram. I recently migrated to IE 7. I like the many new features which have …

I recently screwed up my registry, and went to MSDN for help & i found out how to fix my problem, which was realy easy, but anyways, now when i startup a box pops up before the desktop or shell starts(the logonui part of the startup) which i dont really …

hi everyone. i'm having a problem i've never run into before. i'm running microsoft windows xp home sp 2. my girlfriends computer running the same thing crashed, and i'm trying to move her important files (my documents) onto my hard drive to back up. her hard drive is in my …

I Know i post alot about problems but most of my problems are curred now. but know i have a new problem. Here goes- I reinstalled windows xp professional but it wont let me connect to my local area connection (my clearwire(broadband)). Ive tried to set it up manually but …

I have just reformatted my hard drive, however i now come to installing itunes which is fine then once i try and install the latest version it comes up with an error saying quicktime is not installed properly and itunes needs quicktime to run. i have tried un-installing and re-installing …

Can't get into windows after i click close on the error message ,have run ewido and ccleaner and nortons to no avail still get error message .even extracted new dll with SFC . EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module SHELL32.DLL at 017f:7fcc2479. Registers: EAX=00439cd1 CS=017f EIP=7fcc2479 EFLGS=00010246 EBX=00002025 …

help!. I screwed up one day when i denied everything, inluding my system to the registry key 'CLSID' in red edit with the 'permissions' option, now when i try to start up my system doesnt get past the logonui part, because of the permissions crap i set. So does anyone …

Okies, So between my boyfriend and I we consider ourselves more computer savvy then the average joe. We have a friend whose computer had been sitting for 3+ years and we are trying to get it up and running again. Atm, we are trying to install windows on a brand …

Ive gotten a couple of trojans before, and i deleted them myself, and realized that most of them were located in the registry key 'CLSID' so one day i set permissions in regedit and denied everything to this class and now every time i log on, the system cant acess …

Hi when I start up my pc the display is normal (Windows XP) however once it switches over to users or the desktop the display flips onto its side. The background picture, icons and taskbar are lying on its side and dragging the taskbar doesn't help either. Turning the monitor …

Hi all , i have abnormal problem i cannot re appear my quick launch toolbar.... i put tick to Show Quick Launch option but nothing is happening what i must do pls help me ! :(

Ok, i have a friend that has come to me for help with her comp and i have no idea how to solve this one. When she starts her computer (laptop w/ Windows XP) a dos-looking screen comes up after a short wait and says that the file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system" is …

I need help installing Windows XP Professional on a computer because every time I go to install it, it says that I have no hard drives installed. So could someone help me! Need many solutions!

What i am going to do if i will start my computer and it says " Inser system diskette and press enter to continue" I dont know about system diskette.... pls help

I haven't used my PowerPoint in forever, but when I tried to modify an old presentation today I could not use the mouse to drag objects. Then I tried clicking on the file menu and found I couldn't unless I right-clicked somewhere on the screen first. Any time I click …

[COLOR=#000000]ok here is my deal du-jour.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]My HP laptop won’t connect to the internet. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]It won’t acknowledge the Wireless connection or the LAN (both are there as indicated my the netgear router). [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I have also totally shut down and restarted both the dls modem and the wireless router …

:sad: I am trying to upgrade to Microsoft Office 2003. I am currently using Microsoft 2000 Premium. It instals so far and then I get a message ' Error 1335 - Cabinet File CS561404, CAB is corrupt and cannot be used.' I have tried it three times and still get …

I installed a new video card today and when I went to restart computer I recieved a message saying "Reboot and select proper boot device", and says about inserting media if boot device is correct or something...Can someone please help me with this!!

I lost all of my icons on my desktop because I accidently hit the hide icons button on the arrange icons by tab and now I can not right click again on my desktop or do anything in my desktop. If anyone knows anything please help me out thanks!!!

Hi, I have an installer project which installs my application and it's dependencies, which used to run fine on XP. This project has some Custom Actions that registers a service. I can register the service manually using elevated command line. But the custom action hangs. I have created a sample …

Sorry. I posted the following message / question in the 'introduce yourself' link. ~~~~~~~ Hello from Texas, I am new to your community but look forward to participating. >>>Question:How do I delete a .dll from c:\ ? I was having error messages with my KERNEL32.DLL (it is not .exe), so …

Hello all, recently I stopped automatic updates because I was trying to fix a slow boot problem. I still wanted updates so thought I had better do it manually, but when I clicked on Internet Explorer, all I got was the browser window but no activity, no home page, no …

How do you do 90 cents divided by .70 to give a mark up on a spread sheet. Thanks in advance

hi there guys and girls, Just clearing some stuff off my hard drive and was checking how much free space I had. It was saying I used 20g as you can see from the pic. (first picture) However I couldn't think where this 20g had gone so I went in …

I have a Sony Vaio with a 120 gig C/D drive. The C drive only has 13 gigs for programs, etc. D is full but I can move stuff over to a 300 gig Maxtor external. The problem is, there's nothing to delete on C and I'm at times under …

:cry: hi i just bought a brand new compaq presario sr1850nx. here are the specs: amd athlon 64 3700+ 1 gb of RAM 250 GB HDD Windows XP MCE 2005/SP2 D-Link dwl-g132 wireless usb adapter smc wireless g router so i plugged in the usb adapter for the wireless...followed the …

I am having wuite a problem with Windows 2000 laptop. I reinstalled Windows 2000 after another unfixable error, and now its stable and good... but i dont know why the DVD decoder is not on my computer. It played DVD's perfectly fine before, and after the reinstallation... there is nothing. …

I was trying to "clean" up an old emachine. It has Windows ME. I was deleting stuff and obviously went too far. It shut down. When I start up again it gives me the desktop with my regular background and picture, but nothing else. Is there a way to type …

Everything was working fine, until I turned my screen off and went to get groceries (with the computer still running). I came back maybe an hour later and when I turned the screen back on, everything was sideways!! Instead of reading top to bottom, it goes from right side to …

:mad: Okay, MY system was working fine up until about 4 days ago. I shut her down before heading to work just for a random shut down. And when I got home and powered it up I got a blue screen on boot up and then it took me to …

when we boot the system in safe mode what are the files shown before booting the system?? ( a list of files is shown) i have some files in my startup list & when we boot using safe mode will those files be executed?? will drivers be loaded when v …

I have just swapped over to a new computer and transferred my outlook files. I now however have two lots of personal folders when I open Outlook - any idea how to remove one of them please. I am using xp pro with office 2003. Thank you.

Hi All, Im Mummabear, Carol to my friends. Dont know if ive done this right:mrgreen: but here goes. Can anyone help...since reformatting my pc my system is doing a strange thing. When I click on my local ddrives c,d or e,the windows search box comes up instead of the contents …

I've been browsing the forum for anything that could solve my problem, but nothing I tried so far helped, so maybe someone has an answer to my specific trouble. My old computer's power source died, and we decided to just start fresh with building a new one. When hooking up …

Hi Guys, Can anyone help me please, I have two nieces both of which have iPod nano's like myself, however, we do NOT listen to the same music but they add/remove music for their iPods on my PC. I am trying to find a way to get itunes to recognise …

Okay, so after a bevy of virus issues I decided it was high time for a reformatting. So, I reformatted my hard drive a couple days ago and I'm in the process of getting everything back together. Everything seems to be fine, but when I tried to run Civs4 it …

Hey Guys, I missed Microsoft's Beta window although I do have a friend that has a copy. Does anyone know if there is a limit on the number of times a Beta version can be installed? Thanks, AJZ

hi the same problem happened to me. i trie everything but can not get rid of bearshare. if u could possibly give me alittle more details on how to get rid of it i would really appreciate it. thnx

Hi - does anyone know if I can install a second XP OS on my second hard disk such that only one disk is accessable on each boot up?

Hi All, Windows xp is playing video files in full screen mode irrespective of the different players that i using. and when it starts playing i have no control over the sytem cant even use ctr alt delte only alt and f4 to switch it off. have an acer aspire …

Windows XP Pro. Right-click on desktop and hit Properties won't bring up display properties (to adjust resolution for example). Tried that in control panel to bring up display stil doesn't do it. I click it and nothing happens. I have checked over and over again there's no graphic card problem …

I have read a topic about this, but I am not having the same problems. I suppose it is not serious, but it did happen yesterday. When I booted up, it brought me to a screen saying that Fat32 needs to be checked for consistancy. This does not happen every …

"Critical Stop" sound after XP Pro loads Everything works great on my PC, but I get the "Critical Stop" sound right at the end of everything being loaded into memory during startup. There is no problem with anything that I use working correctly. This has been happening as long as …

I'm planning on installing new RAM and another CDRW. I'm debating whether or not to re-format the hard drive and re-install XP. If I don't re-format, am I correct in assuming the XP re-activation will be painless as long as I'm connected to the internet? What about if I re-format? …

Hi, first posting here so apologies if i dont make sense/provide enough info. Will really appreciate any help anyone can provide. Since a week or so ago, (can't remember installing anything specific), i have been having an intermittant problem whereby i am using IE6 very well, all working hunky dory, …

Hi, If someone could help me that would be great. When I turn my computer on it start the normal loading and then the screen turns black and says: Windows could not start because of an error in the software. Please report this problem as: load needed DLLs for kernel. …

I recently re-installed SP2 because I wanted to try out WMP11 but didn't quite like it so I decided to uninstall WMP11 and SP2, seeing as they were not going to be needed anymore. So, I start up the unistallation from Add/Remove, and when it's about time to start Copying …