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 | You might try doing this: Remove the battery and press the power button on the laptop, hold it down for a few moments. Than pop the battery back in. Sometimes a laptop will get stuck in standby mode. Note: Of course remove the AC adapter from the laptop too when … |
 | I've 6 computers that used to be a combination of Windows 7 and XP. I've upgraded them all to Windows 8 and I have to say I have not been sorry not even one day for upgrading to the latest Windows OS. Windows 8 has maded life a lot easy. …  |
 | You said you disabled the startup programs. Did you use msconfig to do that? If not, use it and disable the programs and services that don't need to run on startup. Also, try updating your video driver too.  |
| | Go to your Device Manager in Control Panel and check to see if you have a listing for it and if so, is there a yellow exclamation mark next to it? If there is than you have the wrong driver more than likely installed. Go back out to the web … |
| | I have seen this problem when installing another firewall like Mcafee or Norton. Sometimes McAffee has been known to block when it should not. If you have McAfee installed trying turning off the block function. If you have Norton you might try uninstalling it and re installing it. |
| | If it will not post the odds are that your motherboard is toasted. Your hard drive should be OK. Time for repair shop or new laptop. |
| | Do you have the NVIDIA GeForce 6100 video card? When you right click on your desktop|properies|settings|advance|adapter|adapter type... does it show your NVIDA video or a generic one? If it shows generic adapter than you need to again install your latest video drivers. Sorry to ask if you already have done … |
| | I have found in the past that by either re-installing my sound card drivers or updating them from my vendor my media player problems get corrected. |
| | Sounds like your mother board may have died on you. The CMOS battery has probably failed and if your system was working OK before this happen than your CMOS battery might need to be replaced first before totally prononcing your motherboard as dead. |
| | Re: laptop problems I believe that the Dell Inspiron 1000 came on the market in 2004. If this is the original battery with the laptop than it is time to replace it. I believe that the Dell Inspiron 1000 came with a 8-cell NiMH battery in it's cheapest configuration. This cheap battery type … |
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| | If that started to happen to me I would first look at the video driver or the video card. It almost sounds like they are loading but they are just not being processed through the video driver or card properly. Maybe even a video driver mem issue. I would update … |
| | I like and use Windows Washer by Webroot. It does harddrive Bleaching of files. You can wash file slack space to remove parts of old files. That is the files and data that gets left behind after Windows does its deleting process. It uses military grade bleaching and no one …  |
| | I would bootup in safe mode and de install the wireless networking from the os. Than boot in normal mode and re install the wireless networking. |
 | Have you tried to re install the NIC driver or an updated one? Also have you checked the event log for any network related errors? |
| | Re: Rebooting Did you maybe miss something during the recovery process? Here is a link to some recovery instructions. [url]http://www.ehow.com/how_4856777_use-acer-aspire-recovery-cd.html[/url] |
| | Control Panel/ Sounds/ Mic settings....check to make sure it is not muted. |
 | This looks interesting with a free trial. Have not try it yet but am thinking about it tho.[url]http://www.bomgar.com/remotedesktopaccess/macremoteaccess2.aspx?GID=4017&gclid=CLHLs7mOwJsCFQJvswodh2rKBA[/url] |
| | Yes you will need a dialup modem for dial internet access. Lucky for you your Dell 610 should already have a modem installed.....look for a RJ-11 port on the side of your laptop. Just plug the phone line into this port and configured your modem software for phone number...etc |
| | Are you sure you do not have some other program running that clears tempory IE and Windows logs and history? Like for me I run a windows washer program that will clear my history every so often. Also have you checked this: Internet options | general tab | click on … |
| | Re: Mouse problem Perhaps it is time to be looking for a new mouse if your center scroll wheel is not working properly or is stuck. |
| | For me I rather have faster CPU speed at a lower cost. Most apps just do not use 4 cpu's and those that do or will will be limited and specialized. But if you have the bucks than go for the quad they are the wave of the future of … |
| | Re: dead beep Sounds like you fried the memory or worse shorted out the mother board. Bad thing to do....memory very senitive to anything. |
| | Bummer. They mention this issue over at the AVG forum, here is the link: [url]http://freeforum.avg.com/read.php?2,83459,83463[/url] Hope this helps you out. |
| | Pop your case open and reseat your video card. If that has no good results then go for a new video card. If you have another PC than you might switch video cards to confirm that it is bad. |
| | Re: Windows Vista Window Vista Business is good and solid. I am using it now on the Laptop I'm using to write this reply. It does require a need to have more memory...min of 4gb because of the Aero and file indexing. You can not really compare it to XP..two different beasts. Just … |
 | Re: Lost RAM? I would not worry about. Total memory readings can be miss leading. Depends on the apps and os what they are doing with it. If you have 3gb and are only seeing 2.9gb....no big deal. |
| | Have you taken a look at the SG4-C1800 from Sonnet Technologies. I believe that it might meet your bill. It is suppose to be a all in one solution. However, I have only look at in the past and did not persude gettting one. But it does look interesting. |
| | Most newer motherboards either take PCIE or AGP. Older system mother boards took PCI. CPUID is the greatest. I use it all the time. Good suggestion capperjack. |
| | It could be one application that conflicts when hybernation is engaged. Two apps that caused it not to work right for me was Roxie and I believe the other one on a different laptop was McAfee. You might want to disable some apps that are running in the background that … |
| | First: I would make sure that both sticks of 256 are the same brand, same speed and same everything. Second: Normally a windows 32 driver error is caused by you guest it a driver. A problem driver to be more precise. I would put the old memory back in. Boot … |
 | Try physically removing the modem from the computer. If you have a network card installed try removing that also. Turn off the computer, reboot. Now install just the modem. Power up. and let windows try to recognize the installation and find/install drivers for it. If it does not find the … |
| | Sounds more like a short in the mother board or power supply. I doubt if a new battery would help you out. If it is doing the same thing with the AC adapter plugged into it.  |
| | To resolve this issue, you need to disable the Agp440.sys service. It should be alright to use any install Windows install disk as long as it is the right OS. So if you have one from one of the other laptops it should work. This is from a MS problem … |
| | I second TrueCrypt! Best open source encrypt program for flash drives out there. I have it being used on all 8 of my drives. |
| | 1) The mouse might be bad. Try a friends mouse. 2) If it is a USB mouse...you may have a USB port conflict. Try unplugging other USB devices and see if your mouse problem clears up. 3) If you are running wireless mouse. Again the mouse may be bad or … |
| | Copy your files to a folder and scan the folder for viruses and malware. Nice free program to use for malware is Malwarebytes (do a search for it) it is slow but does a great job. You should be fine. I personally stay away from torrent sites just for that … |
 | Re: No sound. Go into your Device Manager and check to see if there are any yellow exclamation marks/flags for your onboard sound card. If there is right click and delete/uninstall them. Reboot system. Install your realtek drivers again. |
| | Sounds like a OS reload is needed, like it or not. I do a OS reload about twice a year because the unexpected does happen. But I learned the hard way...to do backups weekly. The thing is that the problems you mention are only the issues you know about. The … |
| | Most of the time when I have ran into this issue it has been only a few things. One: my firewall was blocking the ipconfig renew from being sent through the cable modem/router. Check your firewall to make sure it is not blocking that port. or shut down your firewall … |
| | You might want to uninstall any new software that you have recently installed. It could also be causing your system to have a resource issue. Also you should run a good anti virus scan on your system also. Some viruses have been known to cause a 100 cpu usage. |
 | Hi Suspishio, Micrsoft lets you change the default color scheme in Office 2007. Here is how to do it. Access Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Access Options at the bottom of the window. Click Popular, and then click the Color scheme that you want. Top of Page …  |
| | I am sure if you put csrss.exe in a internet search engine you will be able to download it and place it where it needs to be on your system....in the \windows\config folder. By the way, the complete name is actually Client Server Runtime Subsystem. Also...be sure to check the …  |
| | Re: Windows Vista You might want to take a look at this MS article about running a install/uninstall cleanup utility. The error has to do with UAC and you not having admin rights or rather the program is trying to do something it has no rights to do. If you could provide more … |
| | Hi Thinka, Those yellow triangles are telling you about a device's current status and normally means that there is a system resource conflict or issue going on between several devices. I do not believe that a virus scan or spyware scan will help you here. You need to uninstall those … |
| | This solution from Microsoft might help you out. Here is the link: [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060[/url] |
| | First: I would go to Dell website and see if I could find some up to date drivers for the operating system and hardware. Also see if they have a newer BIOS for you. You might want to consider flashing your BIOS to a newer one if they have one. … |
| | It could be cause by any of these things: Software program Device Driver Operating system update CPU/Case Fan not working..overheating Hardware malfuction...hd, cd...etc Could even be a serious issue with Win OS Really need more details to give a more precise anwser. Have you installed any new hardware or software … |
| | If you are login as a user and admin disabled it...the answer is no.  |
| | From the sound of it the program Logmein did not completely uninstall all of it's files from your system. Other than going through the system registery and manually removing any left over files from the bad uninstall...Your only choice is really to continue to see if you can contact Logmein.com. …  |
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