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| | Well, I have a Toshiba Laptop with a recently downloaded Windows XP(Home Edition) Service Pack 2. Problem: I can't right-click most things anymore. As soon as I click it, the computer freezes up, and then a message comes up(look below): [IMG]http://www.geocities.com/b_m_786_2000/AHH.JPG[/IMG] The computer is still frozen up, and doesn't close … |
| | Hi back from vacation.. :) I bought a network cable, and a network card for the laptop..hooked them up all is well.. how to share internet connections? how do I get the modems in synch.. I cant find anyplace to read how to do this.. I have dialup..and it can … |
| | I am running a laptop with windows xp home version... everytime i start the system within about 30 seconds the modem dials out... it is quite annoying and my wife hates it. I am running mozilla 1.6 for both internet and mail.... the system has both IE and outlook installed, … |
 | hey ya , i get some problems and hope u can help me to solve it first, i'm using Window XP , Laptop - service pack1 , uhm .... i tried to install mySQL on my computer but it didnt work ... some1 can help me to install MySQL , …  |
| | I have had this problem for about a month and a half, I have looked at so many help sites and forums, but nothing has so far helped. Hopefully someone here can. -- I cannot log into hotmail. I can get to the site, but when I put in my …  |
| | I have a PC and a laptop P2P networked, The PC is the main server and the laptop is the client, I have successfully shared the internet connection but I can't seem to get any folders to share. I have used ICS, both machines are running WinXP, I used the … |
| | Hey experts. I hope you can help with this. I have a Dell CPX laptop which keeps locking up due to the CPU usage hitting 100%. It has a pentium 3 498 MHz processor and 128 MB of RAM. Out of the 18.6GB of storage on my C drive I … |
 | Hey Guys, Great Site. Hopefully someone much smarter than I can help me. The 10gb hard drive in my toshiba 2805-s301 die. I am trying to replace it with a 20 gb model mk2018gap. I have upgraded the bios to ver 2.0 . The old drive had no jumpers so …  |
| | Hey - recently I've been having some problems with this new laptop which is running xp professional. The first thing I noticed was that internet explorer stopped running - I would double click it and absolutely nothing happened at all. I've tried checking all the settings in internet options, scanned … |
 | A female friend of mine spilled some peach juice on her dell laptop keyboard, not the entire keboard just about 20% of the board. It doesn't work anymore, but the computer is still fine. 1. what is that command to turn off key lock (when you jam on a bunch … |
| | Ok guys, i don't need help or anything....... Im just writing this to warn you about some bad things I've heard about Service Pack 2 for Win XP. One of my relatives works at Boeing and she's been asking some of the tech agents at her work about the SP. … |
| | Hey Yall. Well, Im running Win XP Pro on my laptop and i was browsing thru the Local Security Settings. I came accross one titled "ACCESS THIS COMPUTER FROM THE NETWORK" I clicked it and theres a box inside the menu that comes up to add people who can access … |
| | I am new to this forum, and I was wondering if there is a why for me to connect our desktop computer to be the main computer on a wireless network, and then I could be in our living room surfing the internet on my laptop. My laptop has a … |
| | Hi I have scoured the various articles to solve this problem but no-one else seems to have the same degree of difficulty (i.e no internet access at all). I run Win XP and currently cannot access the internet at all although my ISP tells me I am "visible" via my …  |
| | Sorry if this is in the wrong forums, but this problem has 2 parts. I have a Toshiba Laptop, Windows XP SP1(XP Home Edition) Problem #1: Well, as soon as I log-in to my windows XP account, before my desktop loads, this error comes like 5 times: [URL=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v386/Bill786/untitled.bmp]click here for … |
| | Need instructions to set up home network w/Actiontec DSL Gateway (wireless/Ethernet/USB) with three XP (1 XP Home, 1 XP Professional and one XP Home laptop) computers that can get to Internet through the Gateway now, but need to share files, printer and scanner between all computers. |
| | My operating system in Windows XP. I have a Jetbook laptop. I recently installed most of the recommended anti-malware programs recommended by this forum including; AVG anti-virus, Anti-Vir (AVPE), Stinger, Trogan Remover, Spybot, Spyware Gaurd, and Zone Alarm firewall. I also downloaded Opera and set it as my default browser, … |
| | I need help finding the easiest way to transfer files from a desktop computer running XP to a laptop running XP. I have tried connecting the computers directly sing an ethernet cable, but I can't get the Files and Settings transfer wizard to work. |
 | Not so recently, my mothers Sony Laptop (among being riddled with other countless flaws and errors) Internet Explorer refuses to open up or run. An error box pops up with the following text message every time [b]Explorer has caused in error in SHELLEXT.DLL Explorer will now close. [/b] Now I … |
| | Ok, on my laptop, im running xp pro. I have remote desktoping enabled and i've used it before with my office computer, which is on xp home. Well, the only thing is, i have to type the WHOLE ip address of my laptop in order to connect to it. Now … |
| | I’ve been trying to connect my M t720 to my laptop, for using it as a modem with the Motorola Data connectivity solution SW. But after installing the driver, the cell still isn’t recognized by the machine. I search trough Motorola FAQ but didn’t give me an appropriated answer. They … |
| | ok...i am new at using forums but i hope to fine an answer as to why my hp laptop(using xp) with a dvd/cdrw will playback dvd-r disc and not dvd+r dics......?  |
| | I recently post a thread asking if IIS can run on XP Home Edition. The answer that I got is NO. I recently upgrade my laptop to Windows XP Professional. I really want to start learning ASP. Can I now just start writing ASP codes or do I now have … |
| | Problem: My laptop on the network cannot access any information from the desktop due to an error message that indicates that there is not enough memory and a suggestion to reduce the number of programs. The hardwire network has a desktop OS XP sp1 connected to a Linksys BEFSR41 and … |
| | Got this laptop with MS Windows 2000 5.0 SP 4 in it. Now I am just a user assigned to this laptop. Dont have administrator rights. Cant download anything on this laptop.....dont even have winzip installed in this & can download it. The person who setup this laptop is unavailable. … |
| | im having a problem connecting my laptop to the internet.. i have my modem plugged in and i try dialing up .. an Error appears telling me that there is no dial tone and to check if the modem is attached properly.. it happended to me before but the problem … |
| | Well, I ran Adaware Professional edition and Spybot S&D and they both found quite a few things which I removed...I'm not sure however if the infections were completely removed or not, could someone please tell me if there's anything I need to fix with the following HijackThis Log I've created …  |
| | machine: hp ze5375us laptop 2.4/40ghd cd rw/dvdr 3 1/2 floppy OS: win xp home sp1 and latest updates downloaded Problem: floppy drive stopped reading disks. says disk needs to be formatted and then that disk cannot be formatted. at command prompt says can't read 0 track or invalid media. worked … |
| | I get the following error message when starting my laptop. "Error Loading Explorer.exe. You must reinstall Windows" What should I do?  |
| | I am having a problem (Posted about it in security too) IE related? OS 2K on a Toshiba laptop...the problem has been on going now for about 4 days....grrrrr! When I try to open "My Computer" folder, it says "explorer.exe has gererated errors and will be closed by windows" This … |
| | I buy the electronics for a college bookstore. Kids look at me like I know everything. I don't but I'm learning. A girl came in today telling me her router says it can't configure the network card in her 3 yr. old laptop. The lights on it come on. The … |
| | Hello and thanks for being here so I may get some help! I have a Toshiba laptop running windows 2000. The problem is, I cannot access programs. When I click on "My Computer" I get a "Explorer has gennerated errors" error window. This happens with all of the programs. I'm … |
| | I just bought a new Compaq laptop (running windows XP home) from where I worked that I knew was having this problem before, and was supposedly fixed. It seems that just a single left click of the mouse on any desktop icon causes windows to think I clicked on it … |
| | My new laptop operates on windows XP. It does not comes with office. Can anyone help me? :sad: |
| | Well, after my res:// problem finished, I have got more problems in which I need help. I have Windows XP Service Pack 1, and a Toshiba Laptop. Problem: Well, after I used the 2 online virus scanners(trenmicro and panada virus scanner), norton anti-virus scan, ad-aware, spy-bot, about buster, and CWSheredder … |
| | I tryed and tryed and tryed but theres no freaken way to get into the bios with my laptop! its a COMPAQ Armada 1750 (I have Windows XP pro) Theres a COMPAQ screen, at that screen I tryed F1,F2,F3,F4,F5,F6... all [F] I even tryed ALT+CTRL+DELETE Plain nothing. There so way … |
| | Please note I'm an intermediate user, at best. My Dell Inspiron 5000e laptop has somewhat suddenly become excessively slow to open its Windows 2000 Pro desktop. It takes several minutes. It has never been quick (Celeron chip) but it has slowed dramatically. Also recently, there were errors on IE and … |
| | I have after much thought decded to install a wireless network and also move to a broadband adsl internet connection ( at the moment I have a ISDN internet connection). I have been looking at several different hardware options but a few things remain unclear. At the moment I have … |
| | I am running windows xp on my laptop and all of a sudden it is hanging. i noticed that my cpu usage is at 100% and 99% or so of this is from explorer.exe...has anyone else experienced this problem? any help on how i can get my laptop running again … |
| | hello all .... i need help ... and you guys seem to know what your talking about. i want to buy an ibook ... and network it to my laptop which runs xp ... which will have a printer attached ..... which i want to use from both the mac … |
 | I have a PII 450 webserver with windows xp on it. long story short I volunteered at a local computer camp and another volunteer showed me how to set up my webserver. Unfortunatly it was on my laptop. It worked at the university campus but when I brought it home … |
| | Laptop, pentium III, 256, purchased from a business bankruptcy sale. has both xp professional and home os on it. After running fine for approx 3 months, thanks to the support on this site, It gave me a blue screen stating master_ boot_ volume_ error. Not knowing what to do, I … |
| | My new laptop is little weird. I can use wireless when I just bought it, but afterwards I couldn't use because Local Area Connection is shown unpluged unless DSL line is connected. Does anyone here know the problem is? I just feel Local Area Connection is annoying, but should we … |
| | I have a tecra 8100 laptop that will not boot. When you try and power it up you get absolutely nothing. Sometimes you will get a constant beeping, but it doesn't happen each time. The green indicator light for the power comes on but the hard drive will not spin … |
| | hello, I am trying to help Jennifer who uses Access. The MS office is XP/2002. When she keys in the information she needs it bring up all the data and not just the data she is asking for, so it's not filtering. When she views SQL an astericks * shows … |
| | I know it sounds weird, but here is my story. Well, I have Windows XP Service Pack 1, and I have a Toshiba Laptop. My weird story: Well, it all began with the res:// problem. I did everything, but I foundout how to fix it. I just had to UPDATE … |
| | Hey everyone, Im sorry, yesterday I made a post saying that my internet browsers were lagging, this is incorrect. After using my computer a little more I discovered that dragging windows also lags, so its not an internet related problem. Anyways onto the problem. Im using a dell laptop, running … |
| | I've had this laptop for about two years now, and its never given me any problems up until recently. Its a Dell Inspiron 8200... P4/2.2GHz... 512MB RAM... Runnin WinXP Home Edition SP1. Lately, I've started experiencing several problems. First, I got hit hard with the w32.pinfi virus. I'm not sure … |
| | For the last few weeks I have noticed that my Internet Explorer runs very slow. I am using Windows XP. It seems to run even slower late at night (early am) for no apparaent reason. I have been using Spybot and Ad-aware 6.0for several weeks (before the problem started). I … |
| | Hi, I'm upgrading my notebook memory, adding another 512MB. My laptop is a TOSHIBA 2410 (Pentium IV). Which memory should I use? Is it DDR RAM or SDRAM? Will a no-brand/generic memory work with my laptop? Otherwise I'd have to buy like Kingston memory which is more expensive. Thanks in …  |
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