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Have you instigated the Nvidia Control Panel and adjusted the settings there? Reading your post, you didn't indicate how the digital connexion worked - I presume OK and it's only a VGA problem. Is that the case?

Can't you download the required DLLs and specify their location to the installer or whatever's requesting them?

Perhaps you would let us have the exact Dell monitor model number and your graphics card. In the meantine, in the Display Properties, are you showing only modes supported by the graphics card? Also have you tried 1920 x 1080?

Is this related to your hotmail problem or did you solve this one and run into another? As you know, laptops are the least fixable item, particularly when a number of factors are thrown into the pot (hot bottom, 100% CPU usage, application swamping memory, degraded performance a couple of …

Any DVD or one particular DVD? You see where I'm heading. If it's just one particular DVD, wash it in warm soapy water and dry it with a lint free cloth (one that doesn't shed bits).

You possibly can't rule out malware. Maybe you should look at her internet history and see if some dodgy sites have been accessed that could have deposited a corrupting trojan. I would download some antimalware software from Malwarebytes and scan the system. What Anti-Virus protection is on this laptop? And …

I don't know the difference between shutting down "properly" and shutting down "manually". More detail in your case would help diagnosis. Often, but not always, if the laptop is working properly in all other respects, the blue screen occurs (you need to tell us the number and the system file …

Is a jump drive the same as a flash/pen drive? If so, then I've got one (8GB - unbranded) that similarly misbehaves. Not quite the same, but aberrational behaviour with Explorer. What's the connexion between the jump drive and your server? One would infer from your post that the jump …

I'd like to take up Salem's last item - virus/malware. Before doing that, what happens if you get to hotmail via the Mail tab on MSN.com? If you have a malware that hijacks requests to hotmail,.com, that might be an answer. Never heard of that particular trojan, but, you never …

If you search on dv9000 you'll find this to be the most problematic laptop in terms of going dead or not booting. It's probably not what you want to hear, but you're lucky it's lasted 2 years. Others will no doubt back up this awkward (for you) statement. You'll also …

It's the Vista settings we need to see then if XP works wirelessly. Is the Vista wireless card using the same channel as the router? Have you used the repair connection function for the wireless device? Is your Vista fully up to date with service packs, etc.?

Cable? Monitor works on another PC? Any other cards in the PCI slots that don't work?

Did you try and take ownership with Explorer running as Administrator? Would you consider using Disk/File unlocking software? Can you get to the C drive, put the missing system file back, reboot on the original laptop and get the files off in a different way? Last week I did the …

I would have thought that under Acronis you could add extebnded partitions to take up the remaining capacity.

Device Manager will show monitors that were connected. So don't worry about that. At this distance, it appears you'vve got an intermittent fault on one monitor. Could be a dry joint; a dry joint on one of the VGA pins (or however it's connected). Really does sound like a monitor …

These ones are always difficult - made so by the machine shutting down. You can't rule out what nickguletski has suggested (for once!) and perhaps you should tell us what AV you use (hopefully McAfee) and confirm that you keep it up to date. Frankly I wouldn't p*ss about. I'd …

I can't do it step by step but at first glance it looks like the Belkin list of DNS servers is screwed. Try putting the 205.171.3.25 as first in the list. The forum in qwest.com might provide additional detail.

Have you tried putting UPSB.INFO into the Google search box? Worth a go.

Without history from you (and in as much detail as you can provide), we can't start anywhere with conviction.

You haven't said anything about what's on the new hard drive for booting/Windows purposes and how it got there. So I presume the disk you're inserting is a Windows DVD and you want to do a fresah install. I think we need a lot more info from you as you're …

My first thought was an IO conflict.

I agree with Jazzgirl - get the drive replaced. I'd guess that your undeletable directory might have been sites at the bad sector. I remember suggesting the use of chkdsk in another thread. Didn't that find a bad block or sector or something?

In my experience, the BSOD on startup is due to any (or all) of the following causes: 1/ Two or more devices are claiming the same memory space or addresses the wrong memory space and zaps the kernel. 2/ RAM is physically misbehaving. 3/ The drivers are wrong and are …

There is much on this topic if you search Access Denied. But, to save you the bother THIS TIME, here's the explanation. If your Explorer options allow you to show protected system files, you will see these dim folders with blue arrows. These folders are the real locations of your …

If you Google the term "open source pdf writer" you'll have a wide choice of free PDF makers.

I don't agree that XP Pro 64 is crap. Sure there's poorly written (but I concede useful) stuff that won't work in XP-64; it's as often as not the installer that's the problem, I've found. As for drivers, I've got stacks of hardware attached and 64 bit drivers are readuily …

I.m begginning to fear that in trying to solve your undeletable folder problem, you could have messed up your system. Kaninelupus is correct in the advice provided to you. Do you have a Windows Vista DVD? If so you could at least get it to repair Windows. If you suspect …

I haven't got the clearest picture of what's talking to what. But - I think you're using commercial software to talk to third party servers. Is it possible that the servers are throttled and won't deliver at 20Mbits/sec? Each port could be throttled to, say, 2 Mb/s. Sure the software …

I think nobody else likes answering BSOD questions. They are really horrible and this is one of the worst because, as you've no doubt read, it could be anything that causes the Kernel to bust; and that can be caused by anything. Possible culprit is a power glitch hosing something, …

You need to give us your PC specs and the games you want to play. $150 won't get you into high performance zone and to make modern games work well you might even have to downgrade DX10 to run in DX7 mode.

Have a look at your IE security settings level and see if there's a custom setting that might cause the alert you are receiving. As I'm sure you know, Outlook is closely aligned to Internet Explorer. On the Data Files business, I have the same problem which I can't solve. …

Idiot.

Which 5 trojans?

I doubt that you are clean. Torrent-anything is well known for being a trojan source. You should take the measures described in the Virus forum and clean your system out with the right tools. I could be wrong, but I doubt it just looking at the name of the suspect …

The Theist got that wrong too: Time Travel; Klingons; Ferengi; the Delta Quadrant, etc.! Anyway, to your problem. What would I do? I think the same as you. 1/ I would use Storage Manager in Admin Tools to look at the partitions; 2/ If Explorer didn't see the files, I'd …

The XP install obviously failed on a driver problem since its origin was a different system. The Vista install was correctly executed so far as I could see, especially because you reformatted the HDD. So what is incompatible and causes the install fail? 1/ I take it that there is …

have you googled "Windows has stopped working"? There's rather a lot there to help you including fixes.

The Keyboard problem is usually du to your region/language/Keyboard settings. Sho you should be able to resolve this from Control Panel. You appear to be running with the US keyboard settings. I hope you don't have one of those awful French keyboards which totally turns the world upside down and …

You've got no replies because nobody can set out such intricate step by step instructions - never mind the time it takes to write this out. Simply, I feel you're asking too much from us. Just take the m,achine in to a repair shop and have it done by a …

If shorting the CMOS to clear it fails, then it's your motherboard. I had this once and there had been a mains glitch that damaged a number of mobo items and got the same message.

Being a laptop, there's not much YOU can do to repair it. When they go, they go and yours appears to have gone. I know it's not what you want to hear but what you've described is the end for your laptop. The disk data can be rescued by attaching …

What would I do if faced with this? I'd suspect hardware - although it could be anything that causes intermittent failure. So, I would keep a written log of everything I do and the results of booting/running, probably in the following sequence if the previous step produced no result: 1/ …

It's a bit drastic to say uninstall IE8. I had IE7 crashing occasionally and moved to IE8 because it was offered. No problems since then - but it'll crash at some stage when there is a conflict between my settings and Active X type controls that a site might want …

I recommend that as a first step, you clean your registry with one of the available tools. If you can't boot into Safe Mode to do this, try booting from the Windows CD/DVD in Repair mode. Please let us know.

In IE8 you should find the menu bar that has Favorites on it. There is a function called Tools on that menu bar. The drop down menu for Tools has a Toolbars setting on it and within that you can select Menu Bar and your tools will appear at the …

I just checked mine - 69%. Coincidence, I'm sure - also 4GB system. Anyway, it's not 100% usage - so that's OK. Vista uses spare RAM as a cache, but that's not in the 69%. I unloaded Acrobat 9 - it went down to 63%. I unloaded Outlook 2007, it …

What would I do if I heard a pop from the mobo? I would assume that this is now an ex-mobo. A pop means that an electrical function has died - maybe a capacitor or even a transistor and mobo functions will be incorrect. Maybe I'm wrong in your case, …

What upgrade are you performing (I assume the installation is an upgrade)? Have you Googled 0x0000000A, because there's a Microsoft KB article on this.

If your browser has been hijacked your AV might not pick it up. You should tell us the max, including which site you are most often being re-directed to and which AV you've got. main thing, is to head over to the Virus forum, read the sticky post, download the …

What DPI scaling setting do you have? If it's not the standard 96dpi perhaps you could try that setting. Also, if you turn Aero off does the phenomenon go away?