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I'm not new to the world of computers, but I am new to a lot of problemes with windows vista. With my bitdefender, I learned that I have a trojan.qhost.akr trojan, and I tired finding a solution on the web, but was unable to follow up on the instructions since …

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I have no clue how to work my wedding dvd. I finally got it to work on windows media player and can view it but for some reason my computer has no sound during this process only. What do i do?

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this message appears but my contacts cant read what im writing ... help... i have laptop with vista, but on my pc it works fine can u help plzzzz

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I need help describing my problem. What is the name of the screen that you see with the various users listed as Vista Boots? I need to know that because whatever the name of that screen is, it is the last screen I see, for about 5 or 10 seconds, …

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I keep trying to download and install sp 1 for vista. My system says everything is ready and I down load it. Then the trouble begins. First It would install part 1 but then would crash and I would have to reboot with install disk. ( tried 3 times) So …

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Hey guys, Hope u can help. Basically have jus downloaded vmware v6.0 and installed solaris 10 on there as guest o/s. Now, usually when I have ftp'd in past I have used command prompt in windows to open the IP on the unix so I can transfer files. However, no …

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About every 5 seconds, my Windows Explorer malfunctions and restarts. It is actually very painful to even type this message as we speak. My start bar as well as all of my desktop icons all disappear and reappear as Explorer restarts. I believe the error may have come from a …

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Hello all, I bought a new HP slimline with Vista. I installed Office 95, but found out it wouldn't open files I created with a later edition. I tried to uninstall it, but the software won't uninstall. I did have a Office 2002 Cd, so I tried to install that …

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As I was going to bed last night, I started to shut down my computer and noticed the Shutdown button had the emblem on it indicating that an update was available for the computer. I let it update and went to bed. When I tried to use the computer today, …

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I really had a bad hair day yesterday. I was talking to someone on IM when my laptop suddenly conked out. I tried to restore it to the usual Microsoft setting but it just won't. As per the notice prompted, there was no other choice left but to fix my …

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Hi. I have a problem when I try to scan from any of the applications on my computer. When I try to scan it always fails and I may or may not get a message from the host application. In Paint Shop Pro 7 for example I get the message …

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Hi people! I installed WAMP server on a computer with Window Vista but the local host and phpmyadmin are not working. MySQL is working. What could be wrong? Some one pliz help me with this. Thanx

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Hello.. i have serious problem with games... on both OS xp and vista.. first i have xp when i play any game including CS 1.6 .. my fps goes down to 10 for 1 minute or more. and then go back to normal after that.. this repeats.. also when that …

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This is probably going to be long but I'l try to explain as best I can. I broke my laptop about 2 months ago, and according to my friend who fixed it, my harddrive had "clusters'. my hard drive is a SATA 80gb with 2 partitions: 1 for OS and …

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I am getting an error that sais: The instruction at "0x636e315e" refrenced memory at "0x00c6c0b0". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program and a message like that comes 6 times for every time i close somthing. I need help on fixing this error please …

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Running Vista, all was well with both ethernet and wireless connections to the internet but now I find I am still connected to my home network but can't get to the internet at all. All other computers in the house are fine and connected. Have tried everything including disabling any …

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[QOUTE] Hai friends , i have the HP laptop with Window's vista OS , while i am working in my laptop ,sometime it sudenly restart and show the physical memory problem in blue screen. is this my laptop problem or OS problem , please share your opinion ....... thanks in …

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I am running Vista Ultimate and two Vista Business computers on my small office network. All can see each other and the folders and can access the Public folder. However, no matter what I do, I cannot get two computers to gain access to other folders. I get an error …

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Anyone had an experience of a hard disk partitioned in half yet one part readable the other gives an I/O error Vista home premium (don't think it matters) Any ideas on fix? or recovery software that will access one file I need?

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Ok I wanna play this game and its a culmination of a long desire to upgrade my new computer Called Age of Conan...My budget is about up $500 heres the requirements Required OS: Windows Vista/XP Processor: 3GHz Pentium IV RAM: 1GB RAM Video Card: Shader Model 2.0 and 128MB RAM: …

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Can XP be installed on a Dell Inspiron 1525 lap top 32 bit Vista OS 1 gig mem. and if so please tell me how or should I just look into getting a system with XP to compliment this one?

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Hello to ALL ....... I know that this subject has been approached before ....... BUT ! ....... things change so rapidly and I cannot afford the incorrect choice. My question: Am about to invest in a new laptop and have a choice between VISTA & XP. What do I do …

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what's making my desktop crash everytime i open a folder with a lot of folders? i open my music folder and desktop immediately crashes.

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hi everyone, i have mp3 songs. iwant to add menuitem to .mp3 files in contextmenu using registry. means when i right click the .mp3 file means ican able to c the menuitem. when i click that it should open windows media player. so i tried in HKCR- .mp3- shell- Play …

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I have a home network with three desktops running XP SP2 and a laptop running Vista Business. I would like to use Windows Remote Desktop Web service to control and access my desktops from my laptop (via broadband wireless) while I am away from home. I have used Webex’s PCNow …

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sometimes i have a really hard time connecting my laptop to the internet,which has a vista OS,pls what could be the problem?

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Hi ! I have a question to ask. My question is do softwares developed in VB 6.0 work on win vista or not? Do vista come with the visual basic runtime library or you have to install the dll's ? Thanks, Hassan Ahmad.

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Please help, I've got a new Vista machine and it's connected to my router but I can't talk to the internet. It was working yesterday.

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Thanks to anyone willing to help me. I own an emachines cpu with windows home edition. After I log on to my CPU it goes to my background but the desktop doesn't show up. I open the Task Manager and manually start explorer.exe and the desktop opens. But afterwards no …

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OK, I've got another problem, one I've seen around that seems to be common among people using Windows. After some trouble with my system, many things went wrong. One of them was that the Packet Scheduler Miniport #5 and the Wan Miniport (IP) parts of my system stopped working. Each …

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I want to disable the ALT CTRL DEL process in vista...Any body help me....Currently i am developing a proejct LaptopLock...Now its work in XP smoothly...But in Vista ALT-CTRL-DEL is a problem...?

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Hello My Dell laptop cannot access safemode. As I know very little about computing can anyone give me an easy guide as to what to do please. Many thanks for any replies.

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Hi everyone, Have a strange problem with my dual boot. Vista and XP are both on the same hard drive. Vista is partition C: and XP is partition F: Vista was installed first, then I added XP. Used easyBCD to create a bootloader allowing me to choose which OS to …

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Hi, I need to install the Admin tools on Windows Vista Business. I would like to administer Window Server 2003 from my desktop. I just install SP1 on Windows Vista. thanks...

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Hi, I am trying to implement roaming profiles on a Vista machine with Windows Server 2003. For the life of me I can not figure out why it not working. It works fine with Windows XP. Any suggestions would be helpful.

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I have an older Gateway that was originally set up with Me (yea, I know). Recently, I installed 2003 and upgraded through the internet with 2007 packs. I purchased XPSecurity for virus control and it obviously did not work, as I soon become infected with numerous viruses. Asking everywhere, I …

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Hi, I have a problem accesing my control panel. It keeps saying windows explorer stopped working and doing a quick "restart" Anyone know what I need to do to solve this?

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help, i am tryin to format the c drive, and re-install win xp pro.. but thats not so easy when i cant boot from xp cd. i get the "media failure, check cable exiting intel boot agent" message.. so i tryed paragon partition magic to format c. it went into …

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Hello, I can't change my desktop background through Display Properties. Even after I choose a background image via Browse, the preview does not change, the image I just selected doesn't show up in the list, nor does the desktop background change after clicking OK. I should note the following: - …

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Hey guys, Quick question; I'm using Window Vista Basic and I'm encountering a new problem with Windows Update. Windows Update informs me that I have 2 new updates. I instructed it to download and install the update. Windows update proceeds to start the download, but is stuck at 0% with …

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Newly built computer, Windows XP Home Edition installed. Graphics Card is: MSI GeForce 7300LE Graphics Card with TurboCache Technology GEFORCE 7300LE PCIE 256MB VISTA VGA DVI TV OUT NVIDIA Graphics Card - 256MB 64bit Once drivers were installed and resolution set to what the 19" monitor wanted, I get the …

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about 5 days ago when i tried to run 3d games (battle field 2, CoD 4) the games would freeze at a random time usually within 10 sec to 10 min of running it. and about 0.5 sec of the sound that was playing would repeat it self really fast …

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I own a HP system, I don't usually buy brand name systems but this system had all that I required. It came with a 500gig HD (Sata) and preinstalled Vista Premium and no backup disks. The harddrive has a factory recovery partition, unfortunately to recover my system using this partion …

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hi all, i am planning to buy a laptop with vista home basic preinstalled. Can i use it to connect to the server in my office? is there any network limitations in Vista home basic? what exactly do u mean by domain join support ?

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Hi there! I sincerly hope you can help me! The problem started yesterday! When I boot my computer, the task bar and the icons appears and then disappears. I opened the task manager and noticed that explorer.exe keeps shutting down and reloading, and I had to terminate the process and …

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Wan t to share this with you :) [quote] [URL="http://www.vistahelpforum.com/showthread.php?t=1183"]A brief history of windows:[/URL] WINDOWS FOR WORKGROUPS - A newborn child WINDOWS 3.1 - A 3 year old WINDOWS 95 - A 6 year old know it all, stamping its feet on the ground WINDOWS 98 - Just graduated elementary …

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My Dell 6000 is having some problems booting up. When I attempt to boot up it goes to the dell boot up page. Then it almost immediately goes to a black blank screen with a flashing cursor in the top left corner. I can't type anything in the cursor and …

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