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| | Portable Laptop Travel Speaker - value for money.! Hi friends and tech experts Its after a very very long time that I am posting a query. It has been truly quite a while and i have been caught up with my job and work. I need one suggestion / help … |
| | I am new to this site but can see that this is the place to get help. Very briefly, recently I have been unable to access my HotMail, Windows Update sites, etc. This seemed to coincide with having run some Spyware removal software. I also had the problem where I … |
| | Hi, The problem occured roughly 3 days ago, where the Wireless Network Connection speed will go from 11mbps straight down to 1kps then back up to 11 again and back down... constantly, 1 second apart. I'm with BT broadband and so am using the Bthomehub router, and have been for …  |
| | I am dealing with a Gateway 6518GZ with a 1.7 GHz Pentium M Processor, 512 Mb of PC2700, Intel Extreme Graphics, running Windows XP, primarily. The problem: 15.4" WXGA laptop LCD with an optimal resolution of 1280 x 800 has a black bar on the right side, and on the … |
| | I am hoping someone can help with my network. I have 3 computors using a 54g Linksys wireless router. 2 are desktops hardwired and 1 is a wireless laptop. The network was working fine until recently, all computer could use the network and see and exchange files and printer. The … |
| | Hello! I have just purchased a Abit Airpace wireless internet card. It works fine, and it gets the internet realy well, but it has RUBBISH download speeds. I use Steam to play my games ([url]www.steampowered.com)[/url], such as Counterstrike Source and Half Life 2, and it is downloading at under 20kb/s! … |
| | Hiya I have got a brand new pavilon dv6000 with vista already instaled but it is all problems when you want to go on the internet. so here i go if anyone can help. I already have 2 pc's both on internet which 1 is wireless which i didnt have … |
 | I recently start to have problem with my internet connection. Called ISP and they told me to run few tests when there is a problem. One of them is [B]tracert[/B]. The last test result was as follow and is confusing [CODE]Tracing route to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx over a maximum of 30 hops … |
 | Hi, I'm a bit out of my depth guys.... any help you can give would be appreciated. I recently purchased a new lap top with Vista. The ide was to use this machine to complement my existing desktop set up. I'm just not getting my pcs to work together. I'm … |
| | Hi, I am running a desktop pc (XP) on a wireless network. I have just purchased a laptop (Vista). I use outlook express as my email on the desktop, this is where I store my emails. I also store docuiments on the desktop. My problem is I cant use the … |
| | I work for a nonprofit in Niamey, Niger, and I'm working with a new laptop that is the only VISTA machine in my office (including the server). Although a simple ethernet cord plug-in connects every other computer (all XP) to the internet and local network, I can only gain local …  |
| | Hi, Another post... I'm getting access denied messages for everything I try to do on my desktop via the laptop. desktop is running XP sp2, laptop is Vista. I need to share my printer. The help on HPs website was taken from Microsoft. I have added my comments at each … |
| | Hi When i start up my laptop i get the following mesg no bootable cd in atapi cd-rom Can anyone help with this ? have tried the f2 option and the f8 option to boot harddrive and get same mesg when reboot on f2 option and a black screen when … |
 | Below are the thoughts from a computer professional who has spent the last 10 years supporting Mac, Windows, and Linux computers in a variety of network applications. By no means will this general tips section be exhaustive -- that is what a good book is all about. I am also … |
| | I have a Toshiba Satellite, about 2 years old. I often poke around in its innards while optimizing (e.g. boosting RAM, new HD, changing DVD drives etc.), so I thought I would try an experiment. I wanted to see if there was any vestigial amount of "inherent" RAM on the … |
 | when i bought my Acer 5610 laptop, i made 2 dvd's for recovery (part 1 and 2). Well now i go to use them, part 1 is blank and part to has the info it should (80megs worth). Don't ask what happened to the first one i don't know! (same … |
| | I've just attempted to set up a password on our network (WPA-PSK). And now I'm trying to connect to the internet, on my laptop, through a wireless network which uses a Belkin54g router. My laptop says that it's [I]connected[/I] but the internet pages are saying "The page cannot be displayed". … |
| | I'm on a wireless network with 2 other computers for which the internet is working just fine. however, on my laptop it isn't. My connection to the router is fine, and if it tells you anything i seem to be able to connect to the ITunes store. I can't however … |
| | Hi im trying to troubleshoot this laptop 4 a freind who knows nothing about laptops. I think the laptop has been knocked or something. Basically, The laptop won't turn on at all, with the Ac power cord pluged in or without. There is however a slight noise when i push … |
| | Hi to all from a first poster :-) I have an odd problem with Outlook Express 6, running on a newly-setup XPProSP2 laptop. When I access mail from this machine, it won't leave the messages on the server, even though I've selected the option in the Advanced section of the … |
| | Okay I got some trouble when I log on from the log on screen I get three error messages that say: 1. Entry Point Not Found: The procedure [any] could not be located in DLL WININET.dll. 2. RUNDLL: Error loading C:\PROGRA~1\NEWDOT~1\NEWDOT~2.DLL Invalid access to memory location 3. ViewMgr.exe- Application Error: … |
| | Ok this will be hard to swallow but here goes.. In 2005 I bought a brand new Toshiba Mx-35. I sold it un-used to a friend who brought it back the next day and told me the monitor went out. We hooked it up to an external monitor and it … |
| | Hi, I used my laptop one night and when I wake up in the morning, I could not turn on the power and nothing is responding. I have tried to open the battery, but I could not. Three of my friends tried to open the battery as well. The manual … |
| | Hi, I am a new member joined today looking at the very helpfull posts. I have Inspiron 5100 laptop and had problems with fan which is not cooling the processor enough. I read some forums regarding Inspiron 5100 fan problems, so I decided to open up and clean the fan. … |
| | Hello everybody, I have no image on the screen of my laptop but I am sure the screen is working fine because I have tried it on an other laptop (similar model). Furthermore the graphic card seems to be working because I do get images on an external monitor i … |
| | I am working on a friends laptop, (XP/SP2) setting things up, and installing various progs. and I come accross something I've never seen before. Several hours later, I still have no solution! PROBLEM: When I dbl click a folder/File the "Search" option opens instead. *Note: If I rt. click instead, … |
| | I was having problems with losing interent activity and it being very sporadic at best. I would have it for 3 or 4 hours and then lose it for a day. It was very annoying. Sometimes if I walked upstairs and reset the modem and unplugged router then I could …  |
| | Hi, my name is Joe. I bought a used IBM Travelstar for my Laptop. It had Windows NT on it. I used FDISK and was able to delete the Non-disk partition, but I cannot delete the other partitions. Tells me I need to delete the Logical partition first but there … |
| | I've got an HP zd7000 laptop and I've been having a hell of a lot of screen trouble with it. Right now, my screen only shows a basic white background with a bunch of colored lines on it (see attached picture). The few times I can get it to work, … |
| | When I boot up my Gateway 450sx laptop it will run for approx 3 - 5 minutes then the monitor will, for lack of a better term, appear to scramble and eventually lock-up. When I reboot after this happens it will take 5 minutes of the fan running or hard … |
| | hello. I was searching on the internet for some help and came across this site. It looked promising, so we'll see if you can help. In our home, we have a network that was set up by our daughter(who is in Italy and can't help with the problem, hence me … |
| | Good evening guys... I just purchased a Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop with the UXGA screen, which runs at 1920 x 1200 screen resolution. The screen brilliance and text resolution is awesome!!!, BUT every picture displayed on Internet Explorer is quite blurry. This includes regular images (like pictures) as well as … |
| | Hi, Recently I bought a new 640m laptop with Vista. Trying to install XP pro, but getting error, a blue screen with some information like system will shutdown... video driver is not... But I was able to Install another xp pro CD (from my friend) without any errors. Problem is … |
| | i'm new here, so i'm not exactly sure if i'm supposed to post this here, but i hope someone can help me. at christmas, i recieved a SanDisk cruzer micro 1.0 GB with U3. my roommate used it on her computer soon after, and i recently tried to use it … |
| | Hi Everyone, I am running XP Pro on a P3 laptop. Everything was fine until yesterday when I was doing some work in FrontPage and my system froze (this has happened before; didn’t think much of it). I turned the system off, restarted it, and then got the error: Windows … |
| | Hello, forgive me if this has been solved already -- i did searches but did not see my specific dll mentioned. I recently started getting the "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem and needs to close." The error signature is: szAppName: svchost.exe szAppVer: 5.1.2600.2180 szModName: msvcrt.dll … |
| | hi all... came home, turned my laptop on and this page came up Pheonix First BIOS notebook Pro version 2.0 copyright bla bla all rights reserved cpu = inter (r) pentium (r) m processor 1.50ghz 63k9 system rams passed... u get the point.... then it jumps to a page saying … |
| | I just got a Toshiba Satellite A70 from a friend who was gonna trash it. It took a nasty fall and now when you turn it on it displays: "For Realtek RTL8139(x)/8130/810x PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v 2.13 (020326) PXE-E61: Media test faillure, check cable PXE-MOF: Exiting PXE ROM" repeatedly, …  |
| | I cold not login to IBM Think PAD T22 Laptop due to Alt Ctrl and DEL key are not working.I tried with following 1. Removed Key board and cleaned 2.By attached External USB Key board still I could not login.External keyboard is not recoconising. Plesae kelp me in this regrd. … |
| | when i got home from work, my computer was turned off and the light was glowing orange. (i have an old pentium 4 2ghz gateway. cant find specifics on the model etc...). i would try to boot up the computer and nothing, i mean nothing at all was happening. i … |
| | I just got a new Toshiba laptop for Christmas, and it came with a FREE upgrade to Windows Vista Home Premium (yay). Is Vista good enough to write over my Media Center (XP) install permanently? Or should I keep the XP Windows files? Is it possible to 100% get rid … |
| | When I go to shut down my laptop, the rundll32 box comes up asking to end the program and takes forever to shut down. Also I noticed that my latop runs alot slower prior to shutdown and I feel it has to due with the rundll32 problem. I hope someone … |
| | I am having a problem with using the network bridge on one of my PCs. When I use my laptop running vista business, I can use the network bridge capability to recieve the wireless access, and then pass it out via a switch into my XBox 360 and a PC, … |
| | My laptop keeps crashing, in any situation, usually if its just on desktop. Then a blue screen comes up saying something about Kernel Data Error and loads of numbers. Then when it restarts the desktop comes up with a message saying there was a serious hardrive error. and most of … |
| | Can someone please help me with this? When I turn on my laptop I get the popup that says: Microsoft Visual C++ runtime library Buffer overrun detected! Program:C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE A buffer overrun has been detected which has corrupted the programs internal state. The program can not safely continue execution and must … |
| | Hey all, I have an HP laptop. Just as of late, my mute button doesn't work sometimes. Now, you may think this because of I hit the laptop or something, but I find weird is that the mute button will work when Firefox is open or itunes, but for aim … |
| | I'm hoping someone out there can help me. This is my first post, so bare with me. A friend recently asked me to help her get rid of a message that appeared everytime she booted her computer that said, "Cannot find file \\.\DRI_KBFiltr". This is an HP Pavilion N5475 laptop. …  |
| | I currently installed windows xp home onto my laptop, and every time I start windows, after i log in and the desktop, the ALL USERS folder shows up. Anyone have any idea how to disable this? Thanks!  |
| | My laptop recently crashed (by the way, thanks again to those of you who responded to that post =] it works now) and so i was looking into the area of external hard drives for back up between my desktop and laptop i don't really know much in the hardware … |
| | Greetings to all... Presently, I live in Palau a small island country 500 miles east of the Philippines and 800 miles south-southwest of Guam. Been here for 10 years (not crying-it is PARADISE)... However, our internet service is in its early stages and although it has gone down in price, …  |
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