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i bought a toshiba satellite A305-S6843 with windows vista, but i upgrade to windows xp sp3, so i made the partition and everything, i create the dual window also, so i can choose between wp and vista, the problem is that i cant run my toshiba recovery cd, to install …
I setup a Brother HL-2270 on a PC running Windows Vista Home Premium. I went into Network Sharing Center and enable printer sharing and removed the password. I also went into Control Panel > Printers > sharing> Security and allowed ANONYMOUS LOGINS and EVERYONE access to print. The UAC is …
Hello, I have windows Vista. I have a laptop and access the internet wirless. I seem to run into a problem where windows explorer freezes and stops responding. I check for known problems for microsoft to fix and there just is nothing... I have never had it with XP.. Maybe …
Media player will not open. Was working fine one day, then wouldn't open the next. Is there some sort of troubleshooting process I can go through, or is there some way I can reload it. I have windows vista sp1 (??) premium.
when starting up i get a message saying; we appologise for any inconvience but windows did not start , this could be due to a hardware or software change might have caused this, choose last con/fig to recover recent settings, not sure what caused problem choose start windows normally , …
Whenever I log in or reboot my PC the desktop icons and task bar appears for 5 sec and disappear. There is no muse function either..I have to use ctrl alt del to access task manager...HELP PLEEEEEEESE!
Hey Good folks at DaniWeb !!! I have a Vista, Emachine W3611 I have 38 problems in the device manager that all are probably related. Under "Network adapters" there are 38 things listed that have a yellow exclamation point nest to them. The way I found them is by searching …
I deleted some files yesterday and now I cannot open Internet Explorer and Windows Update will not connect. I cannot access the internet so I am unable to download any repair software. I hope someone has a solution for me. Thanks
If I use a dialup ISP nonMS, does Internet explorer do all the "explorering"? Or does the ISP have it's own.? I use search engines google and yahoo and save favorites for all my webbing. How do I know if IE is behind the scenes running the show. Reason foe …
Hi, Last week I started up my computer and noticed the the start bar did not appear, and when I go to right click on the desktop nothing comes up. What should i do? Please advise. Thanks.
hey guys i just started getting some problems from vista i keep getting a popup for almost everyprogram saying "a problem cause the program to stop working correctly". i also reformated, before i reformated it would also get a black screen and my videocard fan would speed up. that is …
Hi, I am currently using vista with my personal notebook as it is less prone to virus (heard from friends) but I'm more comfortable with XP (it's functions and displays). Will dual use of Operating system not affect each other in case the anti-virus failed to delete the virus? Collection …
I've done a system restore due to my p.c running very slow as of late. I then wanted to get rid of some program and games that I didn't want. I've gone through the control panel etc. I get to the point where nothing will uninstall, each one is saying …
OK, i built a new computer, and it was the 5th one i built, the first 4 i built had no problems at all...and still dont after 1-2 years of use... Anyway, this one keeps getting the motherboard burned...at first i thought it was the video card thats burning, so …
Can any one tell that where can i find the "Local Security Policy" in Vista, originally found in control pannel of XP. Or is there any other way in Vista from where I can enable Auditing of ma logs???
Hi.. Does any one know that vista's registry and xp's registry has a difference or not....r they totally same..?
Hiya folks, I have recently upgraded to a HP Pavilion with Vista. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to reconfigure or shut off some of the extra keyboard buttons. I am always hitting the sleep button on the side by accident.
I just bought two HP laptops with Vista. I downloaded the following print driver so that I could print to my existing (non-network) Konica Minolta Magicolor 2400W printer: 24w_v32_e driver from the Konica website. There are no "old" Konica print drivers loaded on these laptops. I also verified that the …
Hi, I have a 4 year old Sony Vaio laptop, that suddenly became very slow. I have noticed the following: - The time taken to boot-up the PC is probably tripple what it used to be - I can hear that the PC is very active even when there are …
I have recently had to do a System Recovery, followed by sending my pc in for a bench repair, on my new computer. Big mess! Each time I did a backup, I discovered that Windows Mail did not get backed up, in fact it had to be exported to my …
I am in the process of looking for a new laptop and I am unsure which to get. My daughter as told me to get an Apple Mac but I have only ever used windows. At the moment I am using Vista which I really don't like but I am …
Thanks in advance for the help. I’m fairly new to Python so please forgive me if I don’t quite use the correct terminology. I have a very simple serial port interface (non-gui) application that I run on windows. Upon closing the window, I want the program to run some cleanup …
I am having trouble logging in to my Windows. It asks for my password then says loading your personal settings but it only brings up my desktop background and that is as far as it will go. I am able to login in safemode but that is it. Any help …
Hi all, I have a piece of program written in Visual C++ which works just fine in Win XP. However when its run in Vista, the error message "A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available." …
Hey guys, I need to dual boot xp and vista on 2 seperate hard disks without partitioning anything. I'll use XP as my primary OS, and Vista for media centre only. Any ideas? Thanks :D Mikey
I have been trying to fix my computer for a couple of days now because I have a Fatal System Error problem. I have been searching everywhere online as to how to fix this dilemma, and majority of the answers consists of me opening 'run' and searching for 'msconfig'. Now …
I'm trying to get my daughters laptop up and running well again. It keeps stalling out and then she can't reboot it for hours at a time. She uses Windows Vista which I am unfamiliar with. She says OneCare is her virus scanner and it came installed???? I ran the …
I need some help with this: I had MSN before but i uninstaled it, coz i made major changes to my computer and now i got new internet as well(ADSL) and before that i had Dial Up. I download MSN and when i want to instal it it tells me …
In left bottom of internet explorer there is a message "done, but with errors on page". This happens when i first open the explorer first time and when I go to any other website it disappears. Please find below my hijack this file. Solution please. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis …
I insert AutoText entry, and it disappeared. Word
I currently have two hard disks in my computer: c: - running vista operating system no problems - Primary master - (80gb) d: - completely empty - Secondary Slave - (200gb) And obviously a dvd drive (Secondary master). My aim is to put XP onto d: as it is blank. …
I know this is a silly thing to be complaining about, but i have this little problem with vista when it comes to recycle bin. when i delete a program, i am used to hitting delete on my keyboard. but, when it comes to recycle bin emptying, i hate to …
[B]Something is taking control of my Web Camera. Firstly, the web camera works fine. It's when I am not accessing it for awhile after booting up. Letting the notebook stay idle for a shot time, I find that I need to reboot to access it. I have Vista. Any ideas …
I was wondering how Python would work with this program I wanted to make. I have very little experience with Python, so bare with me. What I wanted was to make a program that brought up quotes randomly from a .txt file and put them in a XP/Vista message bubble …
Hai friend's i installed iTweak software in my lap , which is having vista OS , while i start up , the I tweak is blocked my vista , how can i rectify this ???
Hello all, I am new here, so please be gentle if I am posting in the wrong forum. I have Win XP PRO SP2. Almost a week ago, my desktop icons and taskbar disappeared upon booting. I was able to get them back by using control alt delete and running …
okay so i tried to shut my computer down but it went to the blue screen (after you log out) and started updating this thing. well i was in a real hurry so i held the button on my cpu for a couple of seconds till it shut down. then …
i installed two OSs in different partitions and later removed the other one by formatting the disk it used. now when i start the PC the BIOS still makes me choose the OS i want to start.How do i remove the OS that is no longer there from the bios …
I have windows vista on my laptop and I get warnings that tell me there are updates I can install, but my computer is incapable of installing them. Any idea of what I can do to solve this?
Vista ultimate or premium? I have xp pro on one of my machines and want to change to vista but I want to know if premium is worth it or should I go with ultimate? I have ultimate on my main machine and love it. My only reason is that …
Hi. Windows Media Player 11 won't open in vista either by clicking on an audio file or trying to open the application directly....is it possible to remove the program and reinstall or repair without doin a whole system restore? Thanks Phly23
I need to do this process decribed in that article on the microsoft site, i thought i had it all figured out, then wn step 2 part 2, it simply states "Press a key when you are promped to restart from the disc." I cannot figure out how to do …
HELP! My Asus M51E is in a "loop". On the latest Vista update (Sept 10), the install was being completed. I got to the screen that said "Please do not power off or unplug your machine. Installing update 7 of 7..... Unfortunately my laptop "self powered" down (part of the …
Currently I am running the AMD 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ with Windows Vista. I am new to assembly but have been reading a book on it for a while and am coming to grasps with how it works. The problem is, the book I am reading is from …
My dad has a Windows Vista computer and suddenly today the internet didn't work. So we restarted it a few times and it still didn't work. We tried to ping google and it worked and in task manager it said that the wireless internet and hard line were both working. …
Hi, I have a really weird problem that i was hoping somebody might be able to assist with. Whenever i click on the control panel the window will open, and then close, taking the rest of explorer with it. The Start menu and task bar disappear, i see the background, …
I am trying to install Microsoft Accounting 2008 Express, which requires installing SQL Server Express 2005. I have a Vista Home Premium machine and it's giving me fits trying to get SQL Server (any flavor) installed. I've tried every tweak I can find online, but all to no avail. I've …
Hello, New to the website. Today I was cleaning my fiance's father's computer and last thing I had done was do a check for bad sectors ( C: ) Right click and did a system check for bad sectors and repaired them. After that I had removed some applications that …
i m having a dell1525.i m havin XP installed in it.i tried installing windows vista but, wasnt able to..my laptop is havin 160gb hard disk n 2gb ram..it is displayin an error code 0XE0000100 when tryin to install vista business edition n error code 0XC0000005 when tryin to install vista …
Please help I've been working on a home movie since last christmas. When I view it, it plays perfect but after I save it to my computer it either dosen't play all the music or randomley flashes through all the pictures and no music. I've had it with this program …
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