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| | Ok I am running vista home, with amd turion 64 x2 mobile tech TL-56 1.8 ghz I have 98 Gigs of open hard drive and 989 mbs of memory . I guess thats the system. Now the hard part, it all started 2 days ago with lots of lagging things … |
| | Hi all I have a problem with my IBM A31 laptop that is driving me nuts. It is a pentium M 1.6, 512 ram, 30gig hdd, Windows XP Pro SP2. Everything is up to date, Bios, Windows XP, Drivers everything. It continually Locks up or freezes randomly. I have reinstalled … |
| | Hello all. I am having a weird issue, that as always would happen to me. :) Anyhow here goes... I don't exactly know how the power/battery thing works, but for the last two months my laptop has had the battery in, and also plugged up to the wall. I guess … |
| | Hey there, ok, the other day mcafee picked up new win32 virus and i havent been able to clean or delete it. Im not sure where the virus started on my system, but now its gotten to most of programs and files, including me browser. My internet doesnt even work …  |
| | Have you ever used Quincy 2005 for writing and compiling your c++ codes? Quincy 2005 is simply an open source IDE for c/c++. It's simple. However, this application frequently gives me a headache. What I can describe from this IDE is it is unstable, clearly unstable. Recently, I worked on …  |
| | I replaced the cmos battery a few days ago, and now the laptop won't boot. The power comes on, the USB ports get power (mouse lit up), fan starts, HD starts for a few secs, then stops, screen stays blank. There are no beeps. I have an averatec 6115. I … |
 | I'm new to this web so I would like to say hi to everyone! Okay so maybe the problem with my laptop is minimal but since I'm not much of an computer expert here goes- My Dell Inspiron is a old little (Okay...not little) laptop, it's over 6 years old …  |
| | Hi everyone, I'm running WinXP SP2 on my laptop, and I have the latest versions of Mozilla and IE. Whenever I click on certain links I get java script errors, and the window I'm trying to open never opens. I know that the problem is local to my laptop, and … |
| | Hello, I was using MS Outlook 2003 with my old laptop computer. Now It's gone :sad: but I have its HardDisk. Now, thanks to an IDE to USB converter, I have access to all those old documents from another computer. I will store important files to another computer and then … |
| | I recently had this problem and came upon this websight which fixed my problem. I was only hours away from wiping the drive and giving the laptop away. Make sure you unscrew the screw in the middle near the back of the laptop. I screwed up my F3 key trying … |
| | Hi there. On my new laptop everytime i try to do anything like add/remove programmes, Powerdesk automatically starts up, and not the usual control panel, i cant do anything it seams without powerdesk starting up. My virus package is up todate - please help - i cannot find a setting … |
| | I wanna dual boot Xp media and Vista on my laptop im not sure where to start. Can someone give me some hepl with this. |
| | I've have a a laptop from HP that came with a Windows Anytime Upgrade disc. I foolishly believed that the upgrade was free so I installed (I'm assuming, emphasis on blindly) Windows Vista Home Basic (?) blindly. I didn't realize until after I tried to put in the product key … |
| | Hello everyone! I'm definitely new to this. :) I have joined 'cause I think someone might be able to help me with a problem I'm having with my laptop... I'm sure that someone will be able to help. I'm based in Canberra, Australia.  |
| | Well I got a laptop, compaq c300 presario , and I got this problem which is quite annoying after about 5 mins the screen turns black, and it doesnt seem to be the screen saver since its at 60min(60minutes needs to be past for the screensaver starts) I checked everywhere …  |
| | help me please! somehow i found that there is a password in the bios and i did never put that password and nobody touched my laptop. so i found a program to reset the password and after the reset it said that something ni the bios changed and asked if … |
| | Laptop stops during start up; Stalls at "Windows is Starting Up" screen. Help!  |
| | Hello all, I am a new to the site adn I have a few questions about setting up a network at my house for a new business. Here is the situation: I will have a windows 2003 small business server with 2 500GB hard drives. I will be having data … |
| | Hi urm....i have a NetGear Router Downstairs which is connected to the main computer in the house...upstairs i have my laptop and another computer in my brothers room..we have the fastest internet going at the moment but it goes slow for my laptop and my brothers computer upstairs but very … |
 | I am still stuck with my half dead HP laptop, that died for no apparent reason and it is under a year old and is one of the latest models... From reading the posts on this forums last weak I see in recent posts about 4- 5 people that having … |
| | It's an older laptop that died a while ago that I'm trying to revive. Basically when I turn it on the fan cycles twice and the power light is on then turns off. Screen remains black the entire time. I've opened it a few times and adjusted the fan, unplugged … |
| | sorry i've been gone for so long from this website, but my new laptop idk what happened got some sorta virus/trojan idk. I run spysweeper, nav, zonealarm. I installed spybot today from [url]www.safer-networking.org/[/url] and my pc went crazy. i dont know if its related. basically spysweeper keeps popping up messages … |
| | I have a computer with the following specs: Pentium 4, 2.6Ghz 1Gb DDR RAM 120 Gb Hard Drive Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2 I have had it for 3 years, and everything was fine. Then suddenly, there was a big thunderstorm close to where I live, and …  |
| | I have been working on a friend's [URL="http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1030305017#"]laptop[/URL] over several power issues. The first was that the AC brick died. Fortunately, his wife had a "compatible" brick. His brick that died was a 90W and his wife's was a 65W but it claimed it was charging and worked for some … |
| | Hi everyone!! I'm new here. My husband's laptop opens up all of the icons on his desktop as if he wanted to see everything at once. It may happen 1-3 times a day. He is running Windows xp with service pack 2, IE 6, not sure what else you may …  |
| | Hi everyone. ;) Got a problem that I am hoping someone can help me with. I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop that I really like. It is great machine. But last June it died on me. Long story short, I thought it had been the victim of a power … |
| | hello, how i can install back my win-vista basic after i downgrade it to win-xp. i hav no cd, no tech manual.. actually i lost my recovery during formating xp. Laptop spec - Toshiba (Satelite A135-S2336)- P/N: PSAD6U-01800DB - Processor - Intel Cent Duo - 80Gb HD - 512 RAM …  |
| | My HP Pav zv6000 won't boot up. All lights and fan comes on and the screen appears to lighten up (likes its starting to come on from black to grey) and then goes dark. I've tried the following: -- hooking up an alternative monitor; no luck, still no video -- … |
| | Alright... to start off... I have recently moved. I have a desktop with Windows XP. At my previous house I was using wireless, until that started dropping out a lot, so I switched to wired. I remember that was kind of a pain to switch. Now at my new house, …  |
| | I have recently noticed a concerning event while working at my laptop. A box (like those that open when you donwload and install a program) opened very quickly, installed something and closed as quickly as it opened. It was not something I opened or downlaoded certainly not something I've ever …  |
| | I've got a Sony VAIO laptop whose LCD screen looks brownish orange (rusty color) in the lower region (close to the base). The coloring is more pronounced as I move my head closer to the top of the screen looking downwards (ie line of sight almost parallel to screen). I … |
| | HAD: dry DSL to Actiontec modem/router, ethernet to vonage, vonage to desktop, wireless to laptop. Internet and network were working great... NOW: dry DSL to 2Wire modem/router, ethernet to vonage, ethernet to desktop, wireless to laptop. Internet is fine for both desk/lap comps but no network either direction. Lap can't … |
| | Hi, I have a panasonic pv-gs14 camcorder and I am trying to transfer video via firewire port to my laptop. My laptop is not even recognizing my camcorder and not transfering video (not recognizing dv device). It worked 1 time 2 months ago, but not ever since. I have microsoft … |
| | I have a simple, but frustrating problem. I have a laptop that I'm trying to connect to a cable modem(wired). It is telling me that I am connected at 100.0mbs although I am not receiving any packets, although I send 600-700 packets in about 5 minutes. My wireless works just … |
| | Interesting blog [URL="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1210&blogid=4&la"]here[/URL] read it. |
| | my laptops keypad doesn't work when logged onto the domain, but it works when logged on locally. it happens just after i type my username and password to enter the domain.... need assistance.. |
 | So someone tell me if this is illegal or not before I get myself in trouble. I have a little bit older computer that had it's operating system taken out of it or something like that. It used to have Windows XP on it. I have a newer laptop that … |
| | I am working on a laptop that belongs to the church I attend. It appears to have become overrun with spyware and maybe some other threats as well. I brought it home with me in hopes that someone here will be able to help me clean it up. The minister … |
| | I recently installed Linux (Slackware Linux 12) on my laptop. On Windows I used IDLE for my python development, but on Linux, IDLE looks HORRIBLE. I tried tweaking the settings but it still looks bad, and is hard to program in. Can anyone recommend a good IDE for Python that … |
| | ok i have a toshiba satellite laptop... i just over a year old... now all i have every plug into the the usb slots are my wireless mouse and at times my camera to download the pics from it... as of a few days ago i plugges the wireless mouse …  |
 | my boyfriend gave me a jused hp laptop and said that i must remove vista to juse it. i removed it and some the ram on the laptop is missing before i removed vista tere was 2gb ram and no there are only 340mb left of the ram, what can … |
| | We have a small school network. I can ping my laptop from another machine, but can't map a share on my machine from elsewhere on the network. When I try I get a strange message that there is "no network." All the other computers can see each other's shares without … |
| | Compaq Presario 900 - Athlon-M 1700+ This is the first time I have seen this issue... The laptop WILL POST, but NO fans work(hence the laptop shuts off almost immediately). When I REMOVE the CPU, the fans spin up just fine.... Has anyone seen this happen before? |
| | I am running XP Pro on both my Desktop and Laptop computers. Both have issues when using hibernation at times. The desktop will sometimes refuse to go into hibernation and show as error of not enough resources, I have 2.5GB RAM on that machine and 45 GB free on the … |
| | HP Laptop Got an email with an exe attachment....clicked on it one second before realizing what i was doing.....3 seconds later, popups galore, and then error after error after error. Restarted, got into windows, before i could do ANYTHING, errors came back, crashing windows completely Windows XP home, sp2 btw. … |
| | Hi, I have a laptop with windowsw XP on it. Does my license for windows XP extend to other computers? I want to build a PC with windows on it, but if possible I dont want to have to buy another copy of windows. Is it possible to use the … |
| | Hello, I have a Toshiba satellite laptop running XP. I was trying to get it to have access to a printer on my wifi network. I have only done this in linux and had no idea how to do it in windows so I was basically playing around with settings. … |
| | I recently purchased a microsoft natural media keyboard. As some of you might know, these keyboards only seem to come with ps/2 plugs unless you take it a step up and pay the extra 60$ (on top of the $60 some odd you are already paying!) Anyways, I made purchase … |
| | I have a net gear rangemax 240 wireless router and trying to set it up off of a hub. It shows signal on led however, laptop shows no wireless network available. I have tried a direct feed, I have switched out the hub for a switch, and for a router, … |
| | I've scoured all the articles dealing with svchost.exe and couldn't find one that quite addressed my problem. In task manager I have 6 instances of svchost.exe running. 3 instances are SYSTEM, 1 is LOCAL SERVICE, and 2 are NETWORK SERVICE. All but one of the Network Service instances run at … |
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