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Okay, simple answer only needed! Point one. your hard drive has died. Replace it. Point two: If you take a Windows XP installed hard drive from one computer, and bung it in another computer, it almost certainly won't boot to Windows. The copyright protection of Windows Product Activation will stop …

AVG free edition is perfectly adequate for home or single PC installation and use.

If that's an IBM system or motherboard then the continous beep means: No power Loose card or... Short If it's an Award BIOS, then it could mean a RAM problem, as you suspect. Alternatively, it could simply be an alarm related to a processor fan not functioning. (Remove the RAM, …

[QUOTE=server_crash]But the problem is how do you obtain the ip legally?[b] I mean, isn't it legal to download illegal goods but illegal to share those goods?[/b] I know that's weird but I thought that's how it went. In that case what if the user didn't share? You could only obtain …

What processor does your system use? If you have an Athlon XP processor then don't bother abour dual channel memory because it won't do anything for your system. You do NOT need to have special modules for dual channel configuration. It would be advisable, however, to have the second module …

[QUOTE=Chainsaw]Ok, I installed the spyware beta, and did a full scan. It's a cool program, by the way, that gives you unprecedented abilities to control startup processes and the like! The scan found two things that looked pretty non-invasive, but I quarentined them anyway (hee hee one was the Windows …

Detailed instructions can be provided. There are quite a few very good 'Help yourself' articles published on the Web. But to enable the best advice/links to be given, please supply: What is your Windows version? Is your PC a 'Name Brand' one or a locally assembled PC? Have you backed …

What Web Browser do you use, if I might ask. I have a suspicion that you might have a variation of Netscape there. That product has a horrendous history of hijacked associations and stuffed up images. .jpe is simply a variant of .jpg, by the way, and renaming the files …

Is it 'popping up' when you first strat the system, or is it 'popping up' at random times when you are using it? If it is 'popping up' during regular use, what specifically are you doing on your system when this happens? Is this 'service pack' the result of an …

Yep! You've done it now! You obviously have used a Windows 98 or similar 'Startup diskette' to 'fdisk' (remove the old partitions and create new ones) and to 'format' (prepare the drive for file storage). You now need to use the startup diskette to bott to a dos prompt, and …

All gone now! Those things don't last long, do they? What's the biggest attraction people find for wanting them? Is it the novelty value, do you think, or the 'prestige' of having one?

Agree with caperjack. Write down the CD key code, and underneath write down codes using any and all combinations of codes which would eventuate from a mistaken character. These could include 8 and B 0 and O 6 and G amongst others. Try all possible combinations before giving up ;)

Hi nik, If you use the 'Search' function to look for topics about 'svchost.exe' I'm sure you'll find quite a number of discussions that may prove relevent to you. Please read them and if you still have not found a solution then start a separate thread for your problem. Pigy-backing …

Reinstall the motherboard chipset drivers, check to ensure that Windows updates are loaded, then reinstall any necessary USB 2.0 drivers or patches from the motherboard website. It sounds like a problem which relates to their installation withing Windows rather than a hardware problem. If they are front panel connectors, however, …

Is that $199 [i]after[/i] the rebate or before? If the effective price for the bundle is $120, then I doubt you'd get a better value option for the purposes mentioned.

moral, please start a new topic for separate questions.

You will only experience a performance increase in circumstances where you are accessing data on the drive. Games will not benefit other than with quicker load times. Applications such as rendering will only benefit if the data files being worked on (and the resultant calculations) are too large to be …

If securing your PC while you're away from it is the goal, then you're approaching the problem from the wrong direction. In display properties - screensaver you can set a password so that the PC can't be used by anyone else but the person who knows the password once the …

err...... nanosani? [url]http://www.pcuser.com.au/pcuser/hs2.nsf/web/E6D96526AF2C872BCA256DD700280269[/url] That's how to install 98 after XP is already installed. Just running the 98 install from CD as normal will cause problems.

ALL computers need regular internal cleaning. If you have a laptop, and are not sufficiently equipped with 'handyman' skills to periodically open it up and clean the internals, then you should periodically drop it in to a technician to be opened up and properly cleaned. I'd suggest that simply sucking …

It's because you have a bus SPEED and a bus CLOCK which are serately describable things. The bus CLOCK of the two chips are 200MHz and 133 MHz respectively, and the architectures of the two chips mean that 4 'bits' of data and 2 'bits' of data are concurrently handled …

If those boards have Phoenix BIOS on them the 1-3-3 beep code indicates a motherboard problem. If it has AMI BIOS the 1-3-3 indicates a memory problem. it could be memory that's not seated properly in the slot or memory that is not compatible with the motherboard.

STOP! DO NOT PROCEED UNTIL YOPU THINK THIS THROUGH! Is there important and vital information on that drive. If so, you need to recover it before going ahead. there are several ways to do so: * You could obtain a CD installation of Windows and use it to repair the …

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LOL That's not an addiction - it's an occasional pastime :D

Run the 'Upgrade Advisor' on the Windows XP CD. If it reports incompatible progrmas, uninstall them. If it reports incompatible device drivers, try for Windows 2000 ones from the product download page: [url="http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_modItemList.jsp#PublicList"]http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_modItemList.jsp#PublicList[/url] Windows 2000 drivers are always next best if Windows XP ones aren't available. Officially the product is …

The usage level of Internet Explorer has dropped below 90% for the first time in ages, and the combined usage of Mozilla or Firefox has climbed to nearly 8% recently. Keep the trend up, people. A browser without ActiveX means a much cleaner and safer system!

Twebty four some days. None at all others. But on average, my main work system runs 24/7 and I'll be at the console on and off over a 12 to 16 hour period. I write IT tech professionally, research and interact with my workplaces online, and spend time at the …

This are actually due for release on the 18th, as I understand it. Intel is 'fudging the facts' a little there, and has moved the release date forward in any case in a vain attempt to upstage AMD, which is due to release dual-core Opterons on 21st April. The 840 …

All of the above and much, much more! I dunno about 'sad person'. I suspect that people who describe others like that simply because of differing tastes in music are somewhat 'sad' themselves. I know I'm an unusual person, because there isn't a single shred of music on any of …

Dude, that's a proprietary Photoshop file format, and not everyone has Photoshop. Save it as a jpeg, eh? Then everybody gets the chance to have a look ;)

This Introductions section is for members to introduce themselves, not for technical questions to be asked and answered. As we have a forum section specifically for Perl I'll move the topic to it.

Format. Install fresh. Sorry to throw that blunt old tired cliche at you, but the path you've undertaken is a recipe for disaster, which can really only pile problem upon problem. If you have an XP 'upgrade' CD, then you can use it to perform a fresh install, and need …

Here in Australia, (as I'm sure you'll find that it is also elsewhere) the actual act of downloading illicit material is not, in itself, illegal. However having that material in your possesion IS illegal. So download all you want, as long as it's deleted from your hard drive or other …

Oh wow! I'm pleased that this matter has been tested in the judicial system. I'm pleased that it has been clearly demonstrated that it's a seriously considered thing. And I'm damn pleased that his lawyer has successfully argued that the fella should NOT actually spend any time in prison! Sure, …

So what is your question, CarbonTery? Do you want to know what to buy, or do you want to know how to build it? I'm really unclear about that from your post ;)

heh heh..... Sorta like 'Alphabet Soup' in here, isn't it, and IT-wise ole Catweazle is 'illetterate'! :) Graduated from the School of the back shed, with advanced capabilities in system construction, hardware knowledge and troubleshooting techniques, and that was enough to get me a 'Gig' as an expert contributor with …

If you mean that Windows was already installed on the HDD, then the HDD was installed in the system, then that's the wrong way around to do things. Format and install again if that's the case. Windows XP does NOT handle motherboard change at all well!

Be best to mention the specific model of Compaq PC you have, so more specific advice can be given. Compaqs do not come with a Windows CD. Windows and preinstalled software are loaded from the recovery CD or partition. There will certainly be a method of reloading your PC back …

You should be booting from the CD, and when prompted by the Windows installation routine to "Press F6 to install drivers" you should be popping the driver floppy in the drive and then pressing the function key.

Posting this topic in the Windows Software section would be a good start. I've moved it there for you :)

Another option to try is to resize your browser window to a narrower width, reload the page, and then try printing it. But Danny's suggestion of printing it in 'Landscape' orientation is the easiest method, and the one I use myself. Also, a lot of Web Pages will have a …

That's a fair question, marijana, in light of the Tip itself. If you don't see a 'Performance and Maintenance' option in Control Panel, you've obviously switched Control Panel to 'Classic View'. In the taskpane at left of the Window, select "Use Category View" and the Control panel Menu System will …

Brand name PCs offer more substantial bundled software packages and also better support services as a rule. But they also offer less for more money in terms of hardware specifications. 'White box' or locally assembled PCs are the preference of quite a lot of people for this reason. Remember, though …

Seconded. Thanks for being a helpful and pleasant member of the community here. Keep it up mate :D

Hi Bella. Does this error message appear every time you use Word? What antivirus and firewall do you have installed?

Here are a couple of guides designed to address the task of wiping the system clean and performing a fresh install of Windows XP. It's something we all face from time to time, and it can be a daunting task. There are plenty of guides already available, but often they …

Take it to a technician and get it checked. It may be that it is already damaged beyond repair - are you sure the replacement power adapter was the correct one for your laptop?

With the heightened security measures introduced with SP2, there's now even more reason to make the change. But beyond that, the 'fancy effects' go way beyond mere 'eye candy'. Before making a judgement, get yourself near a freshly installed Windows XP box (one where there hasn't already been some idiot …