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 | Hi guys! I just installed a new windows vista on my newly bough hard drive. i tried to deploy my web application to the local IIS server but the default web site appears to be stopped which prevents any site from being accessible over the LAN and when i try … |
 | hey, this code I wrote wont work. The 2nd and 3rd buttons wont show up in the program. [CODE] #include <windows.h> /* Declare Windows procedure */ LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProcedure (HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM); /* Make the class name into a global variable */ char szClassName[ ] = "WindowsApp"; int WINAPI … |
| | After experiencing loss of 2 hard drives, i realize its time to set up raid. First off, I have 2 via 6421 cards that havent been touched in a while. I was looking at the specs and they are "150 mbps" per sata. Is this fast enough? Or slower than … |
| | 3 days ago I plugged in my external into a USB hub to connect it to my laptop and be able to use a USB mouse and keyboard at the same time. I was running music off it (My iTunes library is on my external) when I heard it make … |
| | Hi! I am soon having my first go at building my own computer (don't worry about that, I've got a friend to help!). I've just got a question. Can Windows 7 be installed on a machine if it is homemade and overclocking (overclocking is my main concern because I saw …  |
| | I am soon going to build a computer. My components: Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz (overclocking @ 4.60GHz) Sandybridge CPU Asus P8P67 DELUXE Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard RAM: Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Corsair A50 CPU Cooler OcUK GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express … |
| | I am working on a friends Dell Latitude D610 that suddenly lost all video. [U]Failure mode was described as:[/U] using the computer on lap, it got very hot all of a sudden, video started to go fuzzy so the computer was shutdown. Once the computer cooled down for a while … |
 | Trying to burn copy of a home DVD/video of amateur show (about 1 and half hours long, transferred professionaly to DVD originally off VHS!!) using Nero 7. All seems well until the actual burn when about about half way through when Nero says ' Aborted' and ejects the DVD. Have …  |
| | I just got a new laptop with windows 7 and of course compatibility issues with some of my older games. I was wondering if it would be possible to install windows XP onto a partition with the recovery discs that came with my old laptop? Or on a external hard … |
| | I was playing a game on my (~2 yr old) computer a while ago when it locked up on me, and then crashed. Since then, when attempting to power on the system, one of 3 things will happen: 1) It will successfully POST, and then give me an "DISK BOOT … |
| | Hi, I was hoping to create an application where the user can open a file from their hard drive (using the askopenfile dialogue from tkFileDialog) and it would display information such as file name / size. I managed to get everything working correctly except for displaying the information. I tried …  |
 | [B]I'm extremely confused using external graphics sources such as OpenGL or DirectX or even Windows API to do such simple tasks. I want to be able to take a step forward and learn how to draw a bitmap or such on to a window. Thing is I have not a … |
| | Hello all--my first post in the forums Anyway, I have a Maxtor One Touch II 200GB USB external hard drive as a backup. I had problems with my system, so I reloaded everything from scratch on my main HDD. I made an attempt to get my data from my Maxtor, … |
| | I'm currently running on a Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 1 and my CD-Drive doesn't seem to close itself. It will open on it's own, most of the time, but when it does do that it won't close itself. But that's not my main concern. My …  |
| | Hi, I run a Lenovo PC with Windows XP. Lately, it's been doing some funky things. It's hard to define, so I will give a couple of examples. When clicking on bookmarks, I usually have to click and hold the mouse to get it to get to the bookmark. Or … |
| | Hi all, I have a problematic Dell Dimension 4600i and I'm not sure what the source of my problem is. I decided to do a clean install of XP on it and ran into a problem. The installation took forever, maybe five times as long as it should normally have … |
| | I have a Gateway P-6860FX laptop that is not booting. I previously had a blue screen hardware error the night previous while gaming (Screen glitched up with horizontal lines, went to blue screen). The next morning I attempted to boot it, but it went to start-up repair. There the screen … |
| | Im currently wanting to open a file on my Hard Drive, and be able to scan it's contents to see if it has any bytes that match a specific pattern of bytes which i have stored in a byte array. Im curious as to how i can do this? will … |
| | hi im new here.. can anybody help me on how to save a disk space on my hard disk? because i dont know which program i must to delete to save at least 10% of my disk space.. im using windows vista and my hard drive is 120GB it is … |
| | I got this blemish t23 IBM Thinkpad Laptop that did not come with a hard drive, a hard drive caddy, RAM, RAM cover, and some other things. I got all the stuff for it and installed WinXP on it. I got all the needed updates and Anti-Virus and everything. It …  |
| | Hi everyone, I wonder if you can help me out . A few days ago when my PC was shutting down and the power was switched off corrupting some file and giving me this blue startup screen "Unmountable_Boot_Volume". I tried many suggestions about using the recovery console to fix this, … |
| | Hi, I'm running two 1 TB Western Digital drives, and in Windows 7, the secondary one is slow to access. I have it mounted as M:, and Windows Explorer shows a green progress bar at the top when it loads the root directory. Here's the weird part. It's VERY fast … |
| | :eek: I'm hoping someone can help me with this... One of the pins in the cable that connects my monitor to my cpu broke off inside the female connector in the back of the cpu. Hence, I can't connect a monitor to my cpu anymore. Here's the problem - I …  |
| | I just replaced a fried hard drive, I don't know much about computers, but this is what happened. With the old drive a got a fatel error blue screen, replaced the hard drive, and now it's a black screen that reads Primary drive 0 or 1 not found. Hit F1 … |
| | Hi, I'm writing a scientific application that has to store a large (1GB to 500GB+) amount of data on a hard drive, and then, once written, read it back sequentially to process it. The amount of data for a particular experiment is known in advance, exact to the byte. When … |
| | Hi All, Found your great site whilst looking for alternative ideas to fix problem that has arisen of late. I run Microsoft Outlook Pro 2003 (not exchange server) and recently I have had an increasing amount of problems with Outlook. It would appear that I have a corrupt section of …  |
 | Okay fellow geeks, I hereby implore your wisdom........ My sister wants to buy a new laptop for personal use and to start her own business with. She uses a computer at work but isn't super experienced when it comes to IT....I'm not a guru by any means but I could …  |
| | Someone gave me a computer and asked me to look at it, they told me they couldn't load Windows. I have the computer, and this is what it's doing: -HP splash screen comes up -The very next screen is the screen for Windows Safe Mode (with the only options being … |
| | I normally backup to a memory stick but from time to time I backup onto my hard drive. Recently I have got a message that the 'Backup disk is out of space' ie the C drive. As I have over 50% free it seems an unlikely message. No problem with … |
| | I've started a [URL="http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20110127025920867&board_id=1&model=P5N7A-VM&page=1&SLanguage=en-us"]thread[/URL] on the Asus forums, but thought that maybe this community could be helpful as well. First, my machine: ------------------ [INDENT][B]Motherboard:[/B] Asus P5N7A-VM [B]BIOS version:[/B] 0519 4/29/2010 [B]CPU:[/B] Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz LGA 775 95W [B]Memory installed:[/B] 4096 MB [B]Memory type:[/B] OCZ ReaperX HPC 4GB (2 … |
| | Hello all. Well.. Where to begin? just over a month ago a rougue anti-malware program named antimalware doctor began appearing on my computer. This troubled me for quite some time, and i tried many different things to get rid of it. However in the end i did a sytem restore …  |
| | I bought a new hard drive from newegg and it arrived today. My boyfriends the computer guy, and he installed it for me. However, after we turned it back on it is telling us it "is not accessible access is denied." I googled it, and I tried both going to … |
| | Hi I am writing this for my little sister who needs a bit of help with her external hard drive. The other day she took out dad's external disk from her old computer and put in her own external to copy over some images, but on her external she could … |
| | Hey guys I am still learning how to use simple java. I want to try to do this program which i found in some book, but i cant seem to get how to started. They say its a beginners program, but i found it quite difficult on how to start. … |
| | [COLOR=RoyalBlue] :rolleyes: hi i have been playing counterstrike source on some fast servers and have seen that my lantecy/ping is higher then most, most of the gamers are around 60 - 80 where as i am about 130+ i was wondering if there tweaks i could do to improve this … |
| | I am working on a friend's computer (Dell Inspiron 1525 3 yrs old) and it won't boot. I've tried reinstalling Windows Vista to no avail and it won't boot from the cd either. I am now running a DST short test on the hard drive and it has been reading … |
| | I have done a sweeping search on my PC to find all files with an mp3 extension on one drive only. I want to copy these files into a folder on either my desktop or onto an external hard drive but it won't let me do either. It just comes …  |
| | Hello can anybody help me. I loaded server 2008 on my laptop. I tried to load windows 7 on to my laptop. But it would not load. So i downloaded a free program for wipping the hard drive. Iused it and now my hard drive is locked. What shpuld i … |
| | I recently got an entirely new DIY PC kit. It had no OS installed so I used my existing hard drive (IDE) to load the OS on, since it already had it. And have a brand new larger hard drive (SATA) I will use for storage. Would not start up … |
| | How can I read/write to a file? I don't mean on the local hard drive (C:// ect) I mean as in the files on the internet (Files from FTP). Like in webs.com, you upload files or create new files. Now if I created a txt file on there, how can … |
 | I am relatively new to Python and just have a couple quick questions about using file paths in Python code. 1) As I was recently playing around with the command line, I could not get a file path to work correctly unless I used forward slashes in the path...for example: …  |
| | Another one of my friends called to come an look to see what was wrong with his computer. It is a home built computer built in July of 07. Here is the problem. I went and checked it out and this is what happened. I turned it on and just … |
| | Hi, i have been reading some post about this but it seem we need to list some information to have the respone answered. first off this problem happen because my ipod shuffle kept getting a I/o error when i plugged it in. but my computer would not read the shuffle. … |
| | Hey guys, first of all if this is the wrong category than I'm sorry but I really didn't know where to post this thread. Anyway I recently installed ubuntu on an external hard drive and it was booting up fine for a while, but later on the pc starting taking … |
| | Hi Have had a problem with the Tecra, hoping for some assistance. The screen froze whilst surfing on the internet. The only way I could switch it off to force it to shutdown by keeping my finger on the silver off switch for a few seconds. It did switch off. … |
| | compaq presario SR2010NX when power button is pressed reads cd drive hard drive powers on does no boot no pass beep no video. fans run and thats it. has anyone else had problem like this. also swapped out cables and hard drive w/ known working still nothing. wonder if reseting … |
| | Hi I am running windows 7 and I can not clean my flash player's saved data. Flash Player doesn’t only save data in your browser’s cache but it also saves some information on your hard drive. You should also delete this information on a regular basis to ensure that you … |
 | I am working on a project that stores it's data in serialized files on the hard drive in a custom file format. The server end of the application accepts TCP connections from clients and returns data to the clients based on the query, it's kinda like a light weight, custom …  |
| | Hello, I am considering buying a Dell inspiron E1505 off of craigslist that is missing a battery, hard drive and possibly ram. I was wondering if there is anything I can do while before I buy it to see if there are more serious problems with it? I have an … |
| | Hi i am running Windows Vista Home Premium on my HP Media Center PC, and my computer just went through my scheduled Hardware Diagnostic tests and everything passed except the Random Seek Test for my C drive. Is this a bad thing? what do i do about it? Do i … |
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