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I have a Razer Lachesis mouse and use Windows Vista, although I don't know if this is a Vista related problem. It has been working fine ever since I got it a few months ago. Its supposed to be a high end mouse which cost about 80 dollars. But for …
Not surprising in the least......... [quote]Are you using Windows Vista? Then you might as well know that the licensed operating system installed on your machine is harvesting a healthy volume of information for Microsoft. In this context, a program such as the Windows Genuine Advantage is the last of your …
I was searching for the best free antispyware program. As it turns out, it seems that Windows Defender, Spyware Terminator and Lavasoft Ad-Aware are the highest competitors in the market. AVG Antispyware has terminated its free version. So which of the above names would you recommend? Or do you have …
Sorry this is so long but wanted to give as much detail as possible. My internet provider (Comcast) has recently changed outgoing ports from 25 to 587. I changed all my comcast accounts to 587 and now can send and receive without problem. I have 2 accounts that are not …
Hi, got a laptop that will not run just on the charger, i.e. charger plugged in, no battery inserted. It is about 6 months old. From what i can remember ALL laptops have this feature. Am i wrong? p.s. it also will not charge when the it is turned off. …
When I attempt to click on an underlined URL I get a pop up message that tells me an unexpected error has occurred in windows etc...If I write the actual URL down and click on it in the place it in the location window I will be sent to the …
Hello, We have an HP with Vista and we use WIndows Mail. I recently added CA anti-virus, spam, etc. It constantly freezes up and we have to constantly reboot. ANy sugggestions on how to get his workingproperly?
[B][COLOR=red]Hey people.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=red]I too have Vista RC2 and might I say, what a improvment over XP![/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=red]My lord![/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=red]Anyways I am unable to connect using yahoo voice chat in rooms* and am going crazy here.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=red]I cant figure out what the deal is.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=red]Do I need a CODEC or what?[/COLOR][/B] …
I am a hobbyist looking to learn more networking. I have a Linksys router [WRT-54G ver2] that is capable of VPN passthrough. Apparently, it can only do port forwarding. Looking for some guidance on how I can connect to a desktop from outside of my home. Linksys says I am …
Is there anyway to host games on vista? I've tried portforwarding, setting a static ip, and disabling all my firewalls... anyone have anything else i could try?
i want to ask how to register a .ocx file in vista thanks
I am having problems reinstalling an ATI Radeon 1400's driver into my Dell Inspiron E1505 running windows XP, SP2. When I try to install the driver from dell, it goes through installation, but then says it cannot continue because DirectX8 is not installed. I then installed Direct X 9.0, because …
This is driving me crazy I have networked 2 pc's one windows vista and the other windows xp (well i think I networked them correctly am able to get both online together !) but am new at this and really unsure about it all. I have them both running through …
Hi everyone; I'm new to Daniweb and i have a small problem that i need some help with. The problem is that i can only open up 1 web page at a time. If i leave my current web page open and i try to open another, the new web …
MY USB PORT OF MY TOSHIBA SATELLITE NOTEBOOK APPEARS TO SAY TO NOT RECOGNIZE MY KEYBOARD. Before this incident, i was working on my MSConfiguration; "stopping" unesasary services that were running on my computer to speed up my system. I did write down which of the services i STOPPED: Services …
I bouth a simple laptop for a friend with Vista Home pre-installed. After linking up to the web, the IE/ ceased to function. Message I receive is: Internet Explorer has stopped working. EVENT NAME: Appcrash FAULT MODULE NAME: SmartEnhancer-1.dll etc. Can't now load IE7 at all. Visited MS website, but …
I am the only user on my pc running vista. When I try to change anything (install, uninstall) I get the message that I need to log in as administrator. As I said there is only the one user set up and that is me as administrator? Bob
Fought with Vista -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And lost I installed a program called DosBox on my computer (Win XP) so that I could run an old favorite game of mine Duke Nukem 3D. I had no problems doing this. There is a configuration file that you can rewrite to make the program …
im having trouble opening Control Panel each time it loads it immediately closes the window. tried Backup and Restore but that too will not open. also... when i rigth click desktop and select personalize, u guess it, nothing happens. ive read other post in the forums but found no uesful …
1.Everytime startup, after go into desktop will flash like 3-4 times then work smoothly after that. Is that o/s problem?? 2. I just bought this notebook for 1 week. the screen will turned into blue screen and restart.(This occured when im on call using skype) it happened twice. Im using …
Hi, I have a desktop running win xp and it has a hp psc1350 printer it is wired to the desktop.I have it shared .I have a dell laptop Inspiron E1505 with Windows Vista home premium edition it has a dell integrated nic . The problem is the laptop does …
I recently purchased Visual Studio Pro '08 and installed in on Vista HP. It comes with SQL Server Developer, but I disovered I could not get that to install correctly. From what I have discovered on other forums, Vista HP does not expose IIS properly to SQL Server so Reporting …
Hii all , what will be good and free antivirus for vista system. Regards,
I have 2 concerns that I require help with. Firstly, how do you get the new windows to open at full screen? and secondly, when I try and stream certain videos on gamer and other sites, I keep getting an error that states that 'Internet Explorer cannot open the page'. …
When trying to install the game Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath i get this error message; "Error reading setup initialization file" What does this actually refer to? After some googling i found out that the file could be corrupt, if it is corrupt, how would i un-corrupt it? This …
Forgive me for elaborating but this is very weird I recently installed nero 7 and it was working fine and i turned my computer off for the night. I turned it on the next morning and it said "Installing windows update (1 of 1)" and then something like "saving settings …
I am running vista on a brand new asus laptop. It will not play any dvd, cd, mp3, etc. I have had this problem before and have reinstalled vista several times. Everything was playing fine until 2 days ago and now it won't do anything. There is no error message …
Hi, I'm looking for a good remote access solution, primarily on my home network but out of network access would be a plus. I have a windows media center Vista Home Premium machine that I want to be able to control from any machine on my network including my laptop …
When I try to run the Administrative Tools in windows Vista Business from the start menu there are no items and it just shows empty. When I try and run it from the control panel I get the following error message. "C:\Program...Admin tools refers to a location that is unavailable...". …
I'm using firefox and my computer wouldn't let me go on digg.com or gmail.com because when I did, the page just stopped loading at the point of being a completely white, blank page. When I deleted cookies, it logged me out of those sites and i could get on them …
Hello! There is a white flashing dot in the upper left corner of my screen (whilst the rest of the screen is black) It appears after going through the general bootup stuff (I have an ASUS P5K-E WiFi Motherboard) :( I am dual booting Vista & XP. (Both 64-bit editions) …
I have recently been thinking about installing Vista on my Compaq Presario V5305WM notebook computer. The problem is, I am almost out of hard drive space. So I am wondering if I should get a bigger hard drive, install XP with my recovery CDs, and buy Vista. Anyone have any …
i wanna uninstall windows vista and put on just windows xp HOW DO I DO THIS?
Ten days ago I added a post that complained that my PC wouldn't boot and may be crashing. Last August I bought an emachines T3616 desktop PC w/AMD Sempron processor 3600+ and Windows Vista Home Basic OS. Well, I have been having on-again, off-again problems with booting. Today my PC …
I work as a tech on a college campus, and as prepartion to eventually go to Vista, we loaded up a couple of our administrators as guinea pigs to test out Vista for us. We've had issues, but the one that's really annoying is this: We have a large network, …
I'm trying to install SQL Server on a Vista HP machine, but it will not detect IIS, which in turn prevents Reporting Services from being installed. I have seen blogs which indicate that the UAC system in HP does not properly detect IIS and that as a result NOTHING can …
I just found this community searching for Giga Pocket's Remote commander setting software. The remote commander has a mode switch with settings 1 through 3 "whichever value is set in the target computer's remote commander setting software". I can't seem to find how to set this value. Any help would …
Hi, I am a total idiot when it comes to IT stuff. I need help. I have been experiencing very irritating pop-ups and I do not know why. I have already activated the "block pop-up" functions and did multiple scans using trend micro. Only a few things were detected and …
I ran into this issue recently. Thought I would share the resolution. [B]Folder is not accessible. Access is denied \Documents and Settings\[any username]\[Any Foder] is not accessible. Access is denied C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents is not accessible. Access is denied d:\ is not accessible. Access is denied[/B] [B]Gaining access to …
Hi, I'm trying to understand why my pc is running slow. I've already checked for viruses with avg 7.5 and spybot, with no virus found. I'll post a hilackthis to see if someone could find something wrong with my register, etc. I'm not confident enough to remove things from my …
My other machine has vista, I dont believe its top heavy with START UP programs yet it takes a long time to shut down. We do maintain in terms of temp files, ect, is there a fix for this , a patch, update, ect that anyone can recommend? Thank you.
Can someone tell me if it sounds as if my computer has crashed?? For the past two days when I turn on my computer a STARTUP REPAIR box appears, saying "Your computer was unable to start. STARTUP REPAIR is checking your system for problems." Then the words "Searching for problems" …
Hi everyone, Please bear with me this is my first post here at daniweb. I usually develop in C or assembly for embedded systems, but occasionally I have need to develop a PC application using C/C++ and have relied on Visual Studio C++ 6.0. Unfortunately I recently purchased a laptop …
I have a new laptop with Windows Vista and get "Internet Explorer Navagation to web page cancelled " and can not get to any web pages. I can access AOL mail. Help Peggy
I am running vista home premium on a hp pavillion with 3 browsers (cause im special) and recently my internet just started going really slow. acording to opera its about 172 bytes per second, i dont have McAffee or spybot installed. Internet explorer wont load pages nor will firefox, only …
I just recently bought a new laptop running Vista. I know very little about The Vista O.S. I have created a new primary partition, formatted it, and copied the i386 files to it. When I try to run the wnnt32.exe it will not run. I followed this exact same strategy …
Hi all, I did an online scan a while back and to try to really identify if I had a problem, I turned off some programs to help with the scan. I thought I turned them all back on again but now whenever my comp starts up and I log …
I am testing Windows Vista DVD Maker under Virtual PC but I get the following message "...cannot start because the video card installed on this computer does not meet the minimum system requirements." I know that the card does meet the system requirements. I think the problem is with Virtual …
HJT log... any help would be happily accepted... -badatthis [CODE]Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 9:31:19 PM, on 4/17/2008 Platform: Windows Vista (WinNT 6.00.1904) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16643) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\system32\Taskmgr.exe C:\Windows\sttray.exe C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmware-tray.exe C:\Program Files\Free Download Manager\fdm.exe …
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