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I just got a new computer about three months ago and I seem to have messed up the font size setting. The font size appears fine on this website and others however on some websites and when using AIM it is nearly impossible to read the font. I have changed …

Hello, I get this error when I go to some websites.I have looked and the disable script debugging is checked display a notification about every script error is not checked. here is the HJT log. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 6:16:35 PM, on 5/11/2006 Platform: Windows XP (WinNT …

I am running WIN98 SE and IE 6.0.2800. I can't get Flash to install. When I go to the flash page and click on the "INSTALL NOW" icon, it doesn't do anything. I was able to install Shockwave and that works fine. I have reinstalled IE and SP1. I have …

Evening Everyone, I'm having a spot of bother with my new printer and my network... Perviously I had a cheapie Epson C40 attached to my main machine (running XP - SP2), shared accross the network and all was good and everyone was happy. The dark clouds crossed the sky and …

old drive crashed installed new drive (Seagate 160GB 7200rpm) have XP Home Edition installation CD (includes SP2) get error message that windows cannot start because <windows root>\system32\hal.dll is missing or corrupt, reinstall the file How do I do that from a new drive???! I've deleted everything on the drive and …

Have XP When trying to access MSN I get message"Your gateway appears to be offline" Other sites I get " Invalid syntax error" or "cannot find server" My original problem was on another thread: [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?&p=210082#post210082"]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?&p=210082#post210082[/URL] Did all as advised except downloading SP2 as I cannot back up date at this …

Need some help....Reloaded windows XP home edition on Dell 2400 PC. All seems to be working great except under Device Manager, (Other Devices) I have a Yellow question mark by Ethernet Controller "which I disabled" and a yellow ? by SM Bus Controller which I do not have an idea …

I am trying to install NTL Home Broadband Installer on my machine that is running Windows XP. During the installation the program crashed and I had to Restart the machine. Now every time I restart I am asked for the Installation CD to be inserted into the machine. Then the …

I have a game casper activity center. It runs on Windows 3.1/95, 486 DX 66 MHz, 16 MB RAM, 10 MB hard disk space, 2X CD-ROM, 640X480 256 color, 8-bit sound card. It works for some people on windows XP, but not me. I right clicked and tried windows compatability …

ok so basically the title says it all, but i'll tell u what happened so i was trying to delete this file and kept getting access denied so i changed the name and it still wouldn't work, then i keep hitting the delete button and then i change how to …

There are to people who can log onto my computer,both have full privliges.oN the no 2 log in desk top is a file I wish to delete,when I try to do this I get the folloing error message(Access is denied.Make sure the disk is not full or write protected and …

About a week ago my computer just started randomly rebooting itself. I play an online game and noticed at one point that sometimes it wasn't actually rebooting, but the video was just going out. I figured that there might be a problem with the vid card so I took it …

I have a pc that I desperately trying to get booted. All it seems to want to do is go into a boot loop of 2 different screens, the first a black one with little information (NVidia etc) - the second one from Phoenix Technologies, award BIOS stating the Processor …

I picked up a hp pavilion 360n desktop about 5 years old. It was running very poorley,couldn't quite make it to the desktop. Was running XP. Went into bois and everything checked out. I don't have the original restore discs which came with this system new. Tried to install my …

Hi All Can someone give me some insite on why my computer keeps restarting im running windows 2000 pro i,v reformaterd it hoping it would have fixed the problem but it hasnt it dosent seem to do it when i'm connected to the internet i'v done virus scans its not …

Hello. I have been trying to trouble shoot my brother's computer for some time now. One day, the javascript on his computer disabled or deleted itself. He can't open new web page links, or anything with javascript, his search is disabled because the javascript is not working, and programs like …

Could I get help as trying to download Windows XP service pack 2o replace service pack 1 but it gets so far and then I get the message access denied. I done what Microsoft support states to do but I can not find the registry key that I need to …

When I try to download music to my mp3 player using "Windows Media Player" my computer freezes and crashes a few seconds into the download. Also, when connected to my pc, the mp3 display constantly flashes the word "busy". Can anyone help?

This should be an easy one for all you experts out there. I downloaded the google toolbar, and now the main internet search bar is gone. Now when I go to a site, I can't even tell what the http is. There's no where for it to appear. Can someone …

Any suggestions why Outlook 2003 won't "send" my messages? Receives all, but some are not in HTML.

hi can anyone tell me what egdaccess_1056.dll pertains to? or where i can get a copy of this file? having trouble finding info on this one for some reason. thanks all>

Hey, ive been trying to [B]clear my drop down bar on IE [/B] for some time now but havent had any luck. I followed a thing off of google and it didnt work(it was the one where you go into the registry) I mean it worked but there was nothing …

I did a remove on Microsoft Office XP by accident. Now I don't have Outlook anymore. Is there a way to restore Outlook? I have Norton Go-Back but don't know what to do with it. I need help ASAP please!!!!

hello, yeah im having the same problem, my win xp wont show D drive in my computer, and even after i put a cd in, it spins but it wont read it. I'm sorry im replying on the same threat, when u just asked some1 else to make a new …

Right I have this problem bought a packard bell and everything was fine untill about three months ago when the hard drive decided to pack up. So I rang up support and got a new hard drive and now its all working fine apart from the fact it dosn't post …

Hello, Can someone shed some light on this? I just upgraded my version of "MSN Messenger" on my Win XP Pro pc. Now Outlook Exprees takes almost 1 minute to startup. Does any one have any ideas short of uninstalling msn messenger and reinstalling it? cheers mike

Hello I have a couple year old "Adobe Premiere 6.0" video editing software that I want to download on my computer, I have Win XP and when I install the cd and click download I get this error message. "16 bit windows subsystem - C:\windows\systems\autoexec.nt. The system file is not …

I'm trying to help a friend, and she's messed up the system someway. It is a Compaq Pentium II destop with a Gateway 2000 CrystalScan 17" monitor, and the system is 98SE. In Device Mgr. the monitor showing is the PCI VGA, and the problem is it will not give …

Hi all My son has a Dell Dimension 3000 pc OS Home XP Everytime he starts the pc as the windows screen appears he then gets the dreaded blue screen with STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF894E528, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) Can anybody help p.s He dosent appear to have a XP recovery disk …

When i close a window it leaves a trail as though there are loads of the same window open, i,ve had this b4 and it was a virus but i,ve done a full scan and nothing!Defrag the lot

I too have the same prob as benyam dessu had. My prob is different as in that i have 2 xp home systems and now only 1 H.D. If i follow gemini4's fix through the system Startup way how do i know which one to delete as they both are …

Hi everyone, I just replaced mobo and cpu in my girlfriends dead computer. It has xp office on hard drive. When I powered up it runs bios and then beeps and stops asking if I want to start windows norm, safe mode, safe mode with prompts and network. No matter …

recently, i unable to play my game in full screen mode. i remember that it works well before. i dont know whats happen...it is my register in regedit.exe has been change?? anyone know how to solve it?

Hi, Explorer used to remember past information I'd entered into web forms and gave me the option of autofilling when it looked like I was re-entering the same info (very useful for eBay feedback, book database author searches, etc). This facility has suddenly stopped working - is there a setting …

Hello all, Wonder if anyone has a quick answer to the following problem, no one in our IT department has any suggestions! lol :) When you click on a link to download a file in IE it prompts you to Open or Save but there's a tick box which says …

Again on my bro's computer....whenever he tries to install a legit game from a website, it downloads, but whenever he tries to click on the icon to install, it pops up with a box that reads "this application could not open because you do not have a WIN32 application." This …

I've searched all over the internet attemting to find a solution, but nothing has worked for me so far. Basically, on my main desktop computer, i have been running xp home, but i was able to purchase windows xp pro and xp pro 64 bit for $11.95 for both through …

Hi, I am having a problem where my screen freezes up in screen saver mode. It seems like my computer is still functioning though. This happens when I move the mouse to get out of screen saver mode I had a different problem with my nvida driver in the past …

I have been getting a Windows Installer message stating that Patch1.0.1.msp cannot be found and to browse, etc. This happens whenever I reboot. If I remove the message it comes back automatically while I am using IE or not. Can't shut down my Sony Vaio laptop unless I mess around …

Hi, I have 2 old machines I want to toss. I think one is Win95 and the other Win98. I want to grab certain files from the hard drives before destroying them. The Win98 won't boot and I haven't tried the 95 machine yet. Is there a relatively simple way …

Hi Guys I recently reinstalled windows on my system and like an idiot i did not keep/lost my driver disks for my graphics card and sound. Ive managed to get the graphics card drivers downloaded and working but I can't get any sound on my system. The motherboard is and …

i have internet explorer for windows XP and service pack 1.whenever i type anything in the address bar it says "Cannot find 'www.yahoo.com', make sure the path or internet address is correct" or whatever site i go to. how can i stop this?

Whenever i run this program that usses ms-dos i always get an error. The error is: (the file location then....) C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32|AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application. It then has 2 buttons, Close and Ignore, if i …

compaq running 98 2ed edition. all of a sudden when i try to use the compaq recovery disk to backup my system it shows "error 2001 fat copies are not identical". could it be from the latest updates from MS? any other ideas? thanks conrad

ok in my documents some files names are coloured blue??? y is dat????

Hi all im trying to format my windows xp lap top but im getting a error message windows cannot format this drive.quit any disc untilities or other ptograms that are using the drive,and make sure that no window is displaying the contents of the drive.then try formatting again.....as far as …

when i try and install programs i have download from the net eg. winamp, xfire (i dont have any trouble installing anything from cd). i get this error message. "NSIS Error The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete. This could be the result of a damaged …

Someone in my house apparently is extremely computer illiterate/nosey or hates me with A passion because computers in this house are constantly developing problem after problem and I know it is not being accesed remotely nor are there any spyware/malware problems. Someone keeps deleting my profile off of this computer …

You know that menu when u right click on the desktop and its named "New" and u can pick what file u want to be created, well i was wondering is there anyway that u can edit that menu so u can take delete some file choices and maybe add …

Box1 (Running Web and FTP servers, as well as various shared network folders) Windows 2000 (all current updates) 250 gig HDD 3 partitions 733 mhz CPU 384 mhz RAM NIC Box2 (Main system, requires access to the shared network folders on Box1) Windows XP (all current updates) 20 gig HDD …