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| | I'm using Windows 7 RC Ultimate which was installed on a brand new 1GB hard drive. As I've been installing various programmes and utilities I've kept my Anti virus and Firewall (Bullguard) updated. I keep running a full scan but cannot solve my problem. I also run various malware, spyware, … |
| | hey...i have an Inspiron 2200 laptop that wont boot. when you press the power button, the 3 lock leds stay solid for a few seconds before the laptop turns off again. The Hd Led does not turn on. it happens that when i squeeze the area below the mousepad (above … |
| | I use my external hard drive to store and share movies, TV series and music with my friends. Lately, however,I have been unable to access folders on my external hard disc when I use it on another computer other than where the folders were created. It says "Access is Denied". …  |
 | I've recently built a new PC and decided... what the hell, I'll get an OS that causes baldness... Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit. So far it has locked up two times for no reason and restarted my PC completely (I want to catch the problem before it could possibly get … |
| | As other members have had issues with this same problem, and to not hijack their threads...I am starting a new one of my own. This pop up just started with AOL, and I can't seem to figure out how to get rid of it. I have run the ATF Cleaner, …  |
 | hello i dont know where to start i need to make a small html site so that i can see everythink that is on my hard drive like a tree and have the option to download it... i dont know html so i have no code to show i just … |
| | I’m not sure whether this is the right forum. But my wife’s laptop opens with the message “operating system not found.” If left off for a while I can sometimes get it to boot to Windows 2000 Professional. But then, unexpectedly, it will blue screen with “physical memory being dumped” … |
| | I’m not sure whether this is the right forum. But my wife’s laptop opens with the message “operating system not found.” If left off for a while I can sometimes get it to boot to Windows 2000 Professional. But then, unexpectedly, it will blue screen with “physical memory being dumped” … |
| | These devices are not detected in the BIOS & actually do not work (cannot open cd writer tray). But when i remove the IDE cables from these devices leaving only the power cable connected then they work. Any solutions? |
| | HI EVERYONE :D!! This is my first thread. Well today was my birthday! And I got my first computer! I have always wanted one and I have always wanted to start programming! I got a Microsoft Windows XP and a extra external hard drive!! Not the best computer ever but … |
| | My computer was on, working fine last night playing music, when suddenly the music stops. I walk up to it, try to see whats wrong, thing's frozen. I can move the mouse around, but I can't click on anything. Ctrl+Alt+Del raises no response, i wait for about 15 mintues trying … |
| | hi there.. i have a few question about my pc.. ..i have bought a AMD athlon processor and SMI motherboard K9N6PGM2..RAM 2gig.. (sata system), ..i bought this item to replace it to my older pc which is IDE system, ..i replace the older processor,motherboard, and ram with the new, .. … |
| | I recently purchased a new hard drive after mine crashed. (I have a Dell from a few years back; got a "Missing or Corrupt System 32" message). I have confirmed the hard drive was installed correctly (shows model number as master in bios). I was running windows 2000. Made the … |
| | Help! I am trying to get my computer clean, as I think I have a hijacked browser. I am not sure how or why, nor how dangerour this is. I have tried to run spybot, and uniblue registrybooster, but can't get them to complete the job. now when I boot … |
| | Hello, I am very new to Win32 Shell Programming. I am doing a simple project which needs me to select a folder from the hard-drive. The following is small parts of the program: 1 : This is the "Brows For folders" calling part. [CODE=cpp] case IDC_BROWSE: { char buf[MAX_PATH]; BrowseFolders(hDlg, … |
| | I´m trying to install vista but I always run into a big freeze. I install on a clean hard drive and I go through the installation process with installing windows, installing features, installing updates, completing installation and reboot. Now one of two things happens. There will be a black screen … |
| | I know that, in python, to start a file with it's associated application that is located on my hard drive I can simply use os.startfile. However, I want to be able to start a file with it's associated application that is located on an ftp site. Does anyone know how … |
| | Hi Family ! I have a Western Digital , external hard drive. The model number is WD25001032-001. It was dropped last week and now shows signs of problems. After plugging it in, it loads up ok. Sometimes now, it freezes up while opening up files and trying to add or … |
| | I have a Seagate Internal HD where i have "windows xp" installed that isn't working properly due to shock however i can still turn it on but it only shows up a blank black screen and doesn't go no where. So i had to put it in an external enclosure … |
| | Just read the closed thread "Hard drive recovery and cryogenics..." and wondering if freezing might help recover a camera 2GB Lexar Flash drive. I successfully took and stored several hundred pictures on a Kodak digital camera in .jpg format. Replaced batteries after getting "Battery Exhausted" alert, and when I turned … |
| | I have a Dell Optiplex GX 520 PC. After downloading an antivirus my computer went to the blue screen, when I tried to reinstall Windows XP, my hard drive could not be found. For some reason I no longer have a hard drive, any idea why? |
| | Trying to format a Samsung 120 GB IDE hard drive FAT32. Want one partition of 120GB. All utilities, even Swissknife will only format to 31.4 GB leaving the other 90 GB unformatted. How format beyond the famous 32 GB barrier??? Drive must be formatted FAT32 since it will then be … |
| | A customer brought a Dell Latitude C840 to me saying he could not get into it. I booted it up only to come across a screen that said that hard drive had a password on it. When I told him about it he said he had gotten it used. The … |
| | Hello, I recently reinstalled windows on my computer due to a series of crashed and the win32 virus, i used my factiry CD. I use the Windows XP Media Center Edition, my machine is an eMachines W3507 At the begginning, i had the all famous NTLDR is compressed message, so …  |
| | 1) On wiping the hard drive clean, is XP any different than Windows 98 ? Someone told me one cannot wipe out the info just by putting in the disk & doing it the same as 98? Could someone explain? 2) On System restore, why is it that if I … |
| | I just finished putting together a video using Windows Movie Maker. It was saved to my hard drive as a WMV file and is 11.5 MB. It's basically a slide show with music underneath. When I play it back on my computer, it looks great. The transitions are smooth, and … |
| | hi, i'm new here but found a lot of information about everything. anyway, my problem is that i have a vintage PC on which the hard drive crashed. i bought a new drive (IDE) and tried to install XP but my PC can't see the CD drive and the hard … |
| | hello everyone!! about two days ago i was on my laptop and i had gotten into a big argument with my brother so i set my laptop on the sofa and continued the argument a bit physically...now, none of us remember touching the laptop. but one moment i turn to …  |
| | Hi folks, I have a Client (A Till) and a server which I am developing in C#. I wish to implement some sort of network queuing system. So basically, when a method wants to send some data to the server, it will try first and if it fails, then add … |
| | hi, i need to search the text file for lines repeatedly. so i want to read the text file into memory and iterate through lines. i am able to iterate as follows but, for the next search i need to iterate from the beginning which will require data transfer between … |
| | i have a slight problem here. basically my wife got a nasty virus and i bought norton to remove it. norton got rid of it just fine. so i went to setup a new hard drive for her as hers was too small and running out of room anyway. got … |
| | I've skimmed though the "must have downloads" and their is A LOT in there. I have a not so small problem that is mostly due to my fire and forget habit. I have a 80G hard-drive and now over year or so neglect I'm trying to clean it out ( … |
| | I have a Hp Pavilion that will not boot and i cannot access the BIOS. It loads to the HP logo screen and then stalls. Steps I have tried: 1. Pressing F10 - result: "Loading setup appears on the logo screen, this should bring up the BIOS however nothing occurs … |
| | Hi, I have an iBook G4 14" 740 mhz. The computer was freezing up constantly and giving my the occassional flashing question mark when I restarted it, so my brother reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled all my programs. It worked for a couple of days, then it would freeze … |
| | Hi guys, A few months ago i installed a version (5.0 i believe) of MySQL on my machine with no problems at all. Two weeks ago i had to format my hard drive and reinstall my OS. I have successfully installed Visual Studio 2005 and tried to install MySQL last …  |
| | Okay so here it goes. I was working on a CMS earlier and I got pissed off with my text editor. So I downloaded a new one. Little to my knowledge it was a bogus. It installed and during the installation my PC got really slow. PC Wizard did not … |
| | I have a HP Pavillion 2 Gb laptop . Its only 14 months old and 4 months ago the hard drive died . Got that replaced , however last week my lovely wifey asked me to put Net nanny on the laptop to keep an eye on our sneaky boy … |
| | i want change boot menu from hard drive to cd rom,so that i can format my computer but it freezes at the bios setup so can you help me, is there any other way i can do it |
| | I’ve had my computer for over 6 Months now, built it piece by piece over a couple weeks. Windows XP Professional Pentium 4 2.8Ghz 1GB DDR PC32000 80GB Western Digital HD nVidia GeForce 6800GT 400W Power Supply It’s a tragic computer.... Spent about $1900 maybe more, and ever since the …  |
| | Hi to all !! I have a Compaq Presario SR1602HM. Windows XP Home. I think the hard drive has went bad. When the computer is booting up, the Compaq screen shows up , then the Windows XP screen shows up but thats all. After that , its all black. I … |
| | Hi My PC has an issue at the moment with crashing repeatedly on start up - it cycles through start up, splash screen, reboot, start up and so on I've pressed F8 to interupt the start up and disabled auto restart and got the following message code 0x00000024 (0x00190203, 0x8293B820, …  |
| | I have a dell Studio 15 with the following specifications: - ProcessorsIntel® Core™ 2 Duo T6400 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache) - Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1, 64-Bit - DVD+RW Drive8X Slot Load Super Multi (DL DVD+/-R Drive + RAM support) - 4GB4 Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 800MHz - … |
| | Hi, My name is Jim. I am a Medical Lab tech. I found this site looking for help formatting a hard drive. 53 years old and married 35 years, no kids, one dog. |
| | Hi, Can someone please help me? I am having problems with my laptop, it is about 4 months old. Never had any problems with it before and for some reason now it wont start ujp properly. It also wont start in F8 safe mode! If I start up normally it …  |
| | Hi I have a boot problem on an Acer 630 laptop which is driving me insane. The machine is newly set up running Windows 2000 installed from a copy I have successfully used on other machines (tsck, tsch) I cannot use the XP disk image version that came with the … |
| | I'm trying to teach my 10 yr old son to upgrade his PC. It will be handed down to his little sister soon but we wanted to make game playing a little faster (she's 4 yrs old so we're not looking for super speed). I have not done this in … |
| | Hi, I created a group of macros in Word 2003 and they have been working fine. Recently a client upgrade to Office 2007. I went in and changed all the Application.FileSearch commands that I had in my macros, knowing that that command was no longer supported. But when I try … |
 | My parent's computer has stopped booting. It will post the blue HP logo screen and then bring up the "Windows has not shut down properly" screen with the usual choices, safe mode, etc. When clicking on any of these it flashes a black screen and then returns to the blue … |
| | Hi, We have an office of over 150 employees on several occasions i have had to reinstall windows XP Pro on PC's, Due to an infinity boot loop - we use AVG as our antivirus and today after updating AVG to 8.5 it began to run a virus scan - … |
| | Hi everyone, A few days ago I decide to reload XP on an older desktop. Dell pentium 4 with 1gig ram. Backed up data and started. Went part way through with the format and power glitch??? Now I can get to the set up menu but the cd drive does … |
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