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Hello friends I have purchased a Lenovo Thinkcentre desktop (second hand) from a friend. The "windows XP professional" CD bundled with system is lost by the former user.Now I have product key of that copy of Windows XP Pro but haven't the original CD.I want to istall WinXP on my …

HI how i can transfer all my software and data from my windows 7 to a new computer running the same operating system or 8 thanks

I am having problems with numerous unresponsive programs including Microsoft Word, WMPlayer, Web Browers, etc. Never had this before, but now it has been going on for a couple of months. Going into Resource Monitor, I can see the child causing the problem, and I suppose I can stop the …

Not a serious problem; just a bit annoying. In all prior versions of Windows that I have experienced to execute a program all I needed to do was to click or double-click on the name of the execution file or on the shortcut's icon. Now, in Windows 7, when I …

I'm sure this will be a common problem, but can anyone help? The wifi on my laptop has suddenly stopped working. 2 smart phones and a PS3 are still using the house Wifi absolutely fine, and I am online now using a wired connection on my laptop. I feel like …

Appears that my question for Vista section is wrongly formatted. Too much white space. How do I correct this?

Hello, I stupidly terminated 'Windows Logon Application' using TuneUp Process Manager. And as expected, I cannot login using any account. I already tried Startup Recovery, rebooting in safe mode. etc But still, error message appears in login screen I opened the registry files, went to ProfileList and I noticed only …

-->>Hi everyone Iam trying to use and applcaton developed in VB 6.0 with Microsoft Acess Database (.mdb) but when I run the application I get the Error code as to the thread, -->>I followed some instructions on the following links http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/zh/w7itprogeneral/thread/7aa24584-49a6-4001-8c68-a6742aacbc81 and http://www.analyrics.com/search?q=Error%20code%200x8002801c but still the problem persisted so Im …

Hello all, I have a Dell Studio XPS 8100. I was playing crysis 2 eariler today, and after an hour I quit the game. I left the computer standing for 15 mintues, and then was trying to open up google chrome. The problem was my computer was freezing, so I …

Hello masters, I've Sony VAIO Fit 15E F15218SN/B laptop with Win 8 as operating system And i want to dual boot it.So i made DVD-drive as my 1st boot up option. When i restarted,it's not showing option to boot from CD What is the solution ?

Hi I use Windows 7 Home Premium. It has had SP1 installed and as of today Windows Update advises the system is up to date. The problem I have is with an Access 2007 database. It is in a folder and I have a shortcut to it on the desktop. …

Recently when I opened Windows Search the blue are on the left of the screen, where one enters what one is searching for, is empty except the animated dog.

The DVD-drive is not showing in my computer What's the solution ?

Dear Friends, Help me to break my database password. Database in .accdb format

Planning to buy a new notebook. But which one to go Window 7 pro or Window 8. Although I like the familiar Start button in Window 7 but Window 8 seem to perform better but I am at lost in the UI. Anybody got any exprience to share?

i have ProBook 4540s laptop with 8 G RAM , when i format it and install windows 7 - 32 bit i got an 2.63 usable RAM , how i can change the usable ram to 8 G . ???

my hard disk is crashed by some resone and i want to recover a folder from it how can i recover it plz help me that folder is very imp for me

Today when I enter 'ipconfig' as a Command Prompt I get a message : 'ipconfig' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. It was OK the other day. ( This time I'm trying to check the OUI on my MAC address, since you …

I have recently configured my online outlook account with my gmail id. All my configuration were done. But after configuration outlook is downloading all my previous mails. I want to stop the unnecesary download of old mails. I want to configure it such that it should only download/sync today's mail …

Hi there, Would appreciate any help you can give. I am trying to copy my music collection from this windows 7 machine: Toshiba Satellite C660-17E Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit Service pack 1 Intel Celeron Dual Core T3500 @2.10ghz 4gb Ram Toshiba MK6465GSXN 650gb Hard Drive 5400rpm Intel graphics …

it has been downloaded by my laptop "rundll32".it is some sort of app,but i do not know what it is and what it do.it is 54kb the size and for a moment it have taken 98% of my cpu power.anybody knows what it is?i'm a bit worry. thanks in advance.

I have a HP HDX Premium Series laptop with windows vista home and my ie browser keeps saying cannot connect to webpage. I have tried several different things I AM connected to the internet but it still won't let me browse.

Is it possible to download X-Code on a windows 8 laptop? I am not seeing it being possible so far...

I bought a few games recently and I have installed them on my external HDD. However when I play them I encounter random freezing for about 3 seconds but then its fine for 10 seconds and it just keeps repeating this. The PC tempuratures are fine all below 50 degrees. …

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GPO Problem So I’m having an issue configuring a password complexity group policy in my company’s network environment and I’m hoping someone with some solid experience with GPOs can help me out. We came in a while ago as salary workers to replace an out sourced IT department. I’m guessing …

I changed the screen on a "Asus EEE PC 1005 PE B10" notebook. Windows 7 does not start any more, It worked briefly after I changed the screen. It goes to this message "setup is starting services". After about 30 seconds a message window opens stating: "The computer restarted unexpectedly …

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Hi guys. I am having a problem where by microsoft Excel will not allow one of my users to overwrite a file that is within her share in the server. We get the error "Document not saved" when trying to overwrite but are able to save a new document. I …

While copying a big batch of files to a DVD this msj appeared: "This DVD-ROM drive is read only. You can copy files to this writable DVD but you must insert it into a writable drive". It *is* a writable drive. It has written happily to DVDs before and since. …

Hi I purchased a Huawei E355 Mobile wifi dongle (usb plug and play) but for some reason, it is not self installing on my xp, sp3 machine. When I insert it into a usb port, nothing happens. I know the usb port works, because other usb plug and plays installs …

I've had this problem come and go and have tried everything to resolve it. Program icons don't load and instead are blank. "My Computer" doesn't load anything, it appears to be loading, but nothing ever appears. Context menus (on files and folders) do not load and usually crash the current …

I think I have the virus "All activities of this computer has been recorded." How do I remove it when I can't get to that user account in safe mode? I can get in with Administrator but when I try to access my account it just keeps restarting. If I …

Hi, My os is win7 ultimate, as administrator i tried to delete a folder in c drive, it said "you require administrator permissions to delete this folder", But when i tried to change the permissions i get "access is denied", how can i change the permissions now? Thanks in advance

"Error 720" Error Message When i Try to Establish a Dial-Up Connection to the Internet. i m using window 8...plz help me\

I recently had to format my computer after a hard drive problem. I reinstalled windows on a different hard drive and now when I try to use Ventrilo or have my Sound panel open to the recording device tab, the sound on my system is sped up and skips a …

hi. i do really need your help. i have tried to find help on google but i do not get any help at all from there. all characters are swapped on the keyboard. when i type a m,for example, it produces an c. thanks to my programming skills i am …

Hi Guys, One of our staff PC has a problem, the scenarios: **Specs:** (Alias Names) * Windows 7 Pro, 32 Bit, 2 GB RAM * Company Name: Contoso * Staff PC under Domain Alpha * PC Name: Contoso1-PC * Local Users are: administrators and john * User profiles: - operations …

Hi all! IN MY VIRTUALBOX VIRTUAL MACHINE: I had previously installed XP Service Pack 3 and Windows 2003 Server. I configured this server as a DC and other roles such as DNS...I created users who would login to the domain from the XP client machine. I set up group policies …

i have tried to local group policy and "Run only specified Windows applications" but i forgot to include cmd.exe and gpedit.msc How to unblock and restore to normal? PLEASE HELP. THanks.

1st of all , let me mention my hardware : **HP G6 laptop with win8** : amd a4 4300M, radeon graphics : 512 MB 7420G + 1GB 7670M , 4 gb 1600 Mhz ram. **4 yr old Desktop running xp sp2** : amd athlon x2 250 , inbuilt graphics : …

When I start Internet Explorer it opens anywhere from 19-25 windows. Also even when Internet Explorer isn't open and I open Task Manager, iexplore.exe is listed multipule times and I fast as I end the Processes it lists more.

A Microsoft update this morning crashed my Vista machine. I was able to get it going again in safe mode and did a system restore back to last night - well past the problem time, which was 10.45am this morning. Unfortunately, the Vista machine remains crashed and unusable. Not sure …

Yesterday I crashed my Windows 7 when I attempted to install debian in another partition. Today I reinstalled Windows 7 by repartitioning and reformatting the hard drive. After reinstalling Chrome I noticed it retained all my previous bookmarks and settinbs. How can that be? Does Chrome keep that somewhere in …

Hi all. I have a virtual CD drive on my computer and I need to change that to the default disc-drive. Eg. The proper CD drive is letter D and the virtual CD-Drive is letter G. Can I just change the drive letters around? Thanks

Hi, I have a Windows 7 PC which is loading up to the login screen, but once the password is entered, it is not loading further, with the screen remaining blank. Where is the possible source of problem in this case?

Hello everyone, I would like to use HP's system recovery (F11 on boot menu, not the windows application) to revert my laptop to its factory state. The thing is that i have created a disk partition to keep my data which wasn't present by default. Will the recovery delete my …

Hi my Eee netbook was working fine yesturday but when i turned it on today the sound is dead... its not on mute, i have tried with headphones and without and i almost deffianatly dont need a new soundcard.. oh and my sound is set to the defoult not bluetooth …

I have Winodows 7 and 8 in dual boot. I wish to get rid of Windows 8. What should i do ?. I am aware that there are many tutorials available online. But I trust more on members of this forum. Please suggest a reliable link or steps to remove …

Hey guys, im looking to take my existing excel 2003 spreadsheets (.xlsx) and i need to convert them to (.accde) file format. ive been looking and looking and cant seem to find out how to do it. If i could possible get the steps or how to go around doing …