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Dont spam misscole. That post has been flagged for deletion. Cuteek, try adjusting the screen resolution (check help, in xp you right click on the desktop, choose properties then the settings tab but I dont know where it is under vista)

why change it when it worked ? as the old saying goes "if it aint broke dont fix it"

Welcome to Daniweb! I ditched my windows system a long time ago so I can help you with any linux problems you enocunter :)

Welcome shirly! I know many Dutch people. They are all very nice :) (even if a bit strange ;) ) I hope you enjoy daniweb !

Yeah dell, cheap, cheerful and fairly sturdy acer, hp or toshiba otherwise

For ASP.NET ? Use Visual Web Developer Express (free download from microsoft's site) This site doesnt use ASP.NET by the way i dont think....

does your pc have sata? does it have an addin graphics card, or is it built into the motherboard?

Is this a windows media player licence? If so somewhere in its menus there is an option to backup your licences

There is a known issue where the drop down boxes will have the search box showing through them etc.... This is an IE6 bug.

AVG AntiVirus Free edition (Not the antispyware, that costs money) . Uses much less memory than norton and in my expeience is just as good. Has caught many viruses for me. Free for non-commercial use. Right now the best commercial antiviruses are Mcafee (but its slow like norton) and Nod32

i like Paint.NET (freeware, may be open source but dont know) Not quite as flexible as the Gimp but easy to use - works well as a general purpouse editor when you cant be bothered waiting for photoshop to load

windows update has also largely been replaced by microsoft update, which does office etc.... as well you can switch to MS update + update manually here: [URL]http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us[/URL]

go into run and type sfc /scannow

the site doesnt load at all. is it down?

there are about 300 different linuxes. some are easy to use, some are hard, and some are very specialised A good, general purpouse linux "distribution" for beginners is Ubuntu. You will need 256 (preferably 512) ram and a Pentium 3 or above to use it properley (if it runs xp …

Easyuninstall seems to have corrupted your installer database. Is this XP or Vista?

rm -rf i think? that either does it, or deletes recursively. i cant remember. Google it. Be very careful if it is the latter

I just got an preowned (original) black Xbox with 1 controller, BLACK (the game) and a one year warranty. - All for £55 (thats $100) Wow. Blacks graphics is better than that of my pc And ripping music to HDD and using it in games is excellent! Also the preowned …

dont bump threads. and are you sure you have plugged in a working ps2 keyboard and that its in the right socket (not the mouse one!)

There supposed to have the arrow, it means they are a shortcut. The only ones that shouldnt have it are my computer and recycle bin etc.....

Yeah, dont run 2 antiviruses at once. Bad idea. Looks clean to me. By the way, a few bacic HJT tips: 1)Never EVER select everything listed and delete it. Many newbies do this and break thier system 2)Rename hijackthis to something else before running. Some malwares try to block it. …

Welcome! care to tell me the name of that other forum?

No, RAM is backward compatible. It will just run at the lowest speed e.g if you use PC133 and you put in some PC1024 it will work, just at the slower speed.

Get the 20 quid one and if it doesnt work then you havent lost that much cash

[quote=TT4Titans;376592]The new AMD's stay cooler than the P4's.[/quote] But the old AMDs had major heat issues

I play my dads bass (shergold - the one that peels) and his yamaha pacifica electirc too. [img][URL]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6d/Shergold_modulator_guitar.jpg/180px-Shergold_modulator_guitar.jpg[/URL][/img] [img][URL]http://fgm-musicandinstruments.co.uk/catalog/images/Pacifica112J.jpg[/URL][/img] i can play the bassline to some metal and the lead to some blues, thats about it. im a beginner

go to run and type: sfc /scannow you will need to reboot once its done. It wont tell you if it is sucessful or not. You may need your windows cd.

If smoke came out and you smelt burning it means shes cooked the CPU. Your PC is dead.

lets find some qbasic tutorials for him (who teaches qbasic anyway? its a crappy language and hes perfectlty right to hate it...)

What version of vista do you have? Are you logged in as an adminsitrator? Try downloading safari again. Maybe it is damaged. Also try installing in xp compatibility mode

I have been "learning" for 6 years lol

I think he changed his bios setiings and now it is using the onboard video insstead of the addin one or vice versa

Yes , look at Ubuntu (there is two, you want version [B]7.04 DESKTOP[/B] ). Its designed for beginners Its a "live cd" which means that you can put it in and run it to check that your hardware is detected and that you like it, before installing. Its also only …

[quote=cscgal;387824]avoid targeting the teenage / gamer type, [/quote] well, that has kinda failed ;) as me, joshsch, christina,serunson and all the rest of the "myspace generation" are all using this forum

Hit F12 as soon as the laptop boots up and choose Removable Device as a boot option. I have this on my PIII 128mb ram, winNT4 thinkpad R30

Do you want to compile regular applications? or do you want to compile linux applications for windows ? (thats what cygiwin is for)

Halo2 only runs on vista i think

I am a student (17). I learnt nearly all my VB.NET from the book "Visual Basic Step By Step" By Microsoft Press. It goes from "hello world" to web/database apps and the whole book and all the code is on the cd. Would higly recommend this book - it doesnt …

It shoule be black. Normal PCI slots are usually white

Welcome! I am called James too and also like heavy metal

Welcome!

Are you logged in as an administrator? Make a new account with administrator priviliges and see if you are able to it from that account. Sometimes if the registry gets corrupted, it can make you lose your admin rights for certain tasks e.g removing software

mmm i may try antix. Before i used DSL but its too basic.

good i hate how people do that. i make CSS templates, and i offer them for free. The only things that I ask for my email to be at the bottom or that i otherwise get some mention, yet there are always people who blatantly steal my layouts and sell …

Dlink routers are crappy. this is a common issue

Please show me a screenhot of your add/remove programs window

I have 6 and i have a system with no stuff other than office on it. it also has only the minimal number of services enabled. 12 sounds fairly normal for a standard users PC

also make a new user account, transfer all your stuff across then delete the old one. I had a similar problem, turned out that my user profile was corrupted as i didnt shut down properley

This is a common error. Either it means PHP is not installed properley or that you are using the wrong tags <? and ?> are called short tags <?php and ?> are called long tags. Certain versions of apache support ONLY long tags. Try this and see if it works. …

Dells are picky about RAM. go for the dell supplied stuff.