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Have you guys heard of any new games for Vista? The 3 I have heard about are CRYSIS, SHADOWRUN and Halo2. I have those previews here ( [url]http://www.windows-vista-update.com/Windows_Vista_computer_games.html[/url] ) but I am wondering if there are any games that I missed.. Mike [url]http://www.windows-vista-update.com[/url]
To all you brave people who maybe are going to try and help me fix my problem. After some cleaning work I done on my computer I mentioned that I accidently removed the sound operating system. (or whatever you would like to call it). To get it back I tried …
Hello all: I have XP Home and the Automatic Update wants to update "Update for Windows XP (KB898461)" again. I already have this installed and I keep getting the balloon trying to install it again. Would appreciate any help with this. Don't want to uninstall this update as it will …
can anyone tel me what ccApp is? it is running in my cpu process's and uses alot of power. i think power is the wrong word to use
my computer was working fine until a week ago when it froze. we had to turn it off and now wont start... it begins to load then tells me there was a problem and it needs to start again it gives my the option of starting normally again.. with the …
Hello - I'm a new poster to the Dani Web site, but have gooten good info previously. I have an old Dell Inspiron laptop with Windonw 98 (yes they still exist). Other than waiting 15 minutes for it to startup, it does pretty good. However, I noticed that when I …
I just recently had to format a friends pc. As of right now it is in the condidtion it was in when it came from Dell, with all the default programs installed etc etc. I installed Yahoo Messenger but all it does it open then close right away. Thanks, Will
i recently installed nero on my computer to so i could start burning things to my blank cds. i bought some sony cd 700mb blank cds and thoughs worked fine. Now im trying to put our vacation movie but i need 3.7 gig space so i bought 4.7 gig dvd-r …
hi every one I have a local area network consists of 15 PC , all the PCs are connected to a switch and the switch is connected to a Router with a DSL line (1.5 mb) speed , the Router name is (3com) ,the websites and internet surfing are all …
i am having the same problem as brownboi79. keep getting framebuf error messege. i tried the 2 suggestion , but still the same thing. any new ideas.HELP
every time I restart it hangs after the boot screen with a blank screen my keyboard lights all turn on and everything is unresponsive. when I restart from there I get the boot selet screen that asks if I want safe mode. I first instictivly choose last known good settings. …
Hiya. Well I recently turned on my PC and as the PC began, windows failed to boot up. The error message I got is as follows: [QUOTE] Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM You can attempt to repair this file by starting windows …
Newbie here, have a problem I can't do myself. I believe I have too many programs starting at startup and taking lotsa time to get going. I know what these programs are and can stop them from starting, but don't know which ones will cause me a problem. Don't know …
I am continually being deleted from my contacts lists of contacts. They appear as "offline" on my system - but I completely disappear from theirs. This has been going on for several weeks and happens again even after my contact has reloaded me. Anyone know whats going on?
First off, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this. Please move if so :) I bought a second PC a week ago which I plan on using as my main PC. Now I want to play around with different OS's on the older one. I'd like to …
I would like to be able to run some Windows programs on my newly built BeOS machine. I tried to download one app called Wine for BeOS but it seems to be somewhat unfinished. Are there any other Wine=like apps out there?
i'm using a pentium 3 machine with 128 mb sd ram and 1 GB Hdisk,loaded with windows 98 second edition.When trying to install any softwares from cd the message receiving is "dll not found KERNEL 32.DNL(i'm not sure about the extension whether it is dnl or dll)".Please help me.
earlier I said i could not reboot at all. know I can sometimes get on after it gave a blue screen and said dumping physically memory. i try to reboot in safe mode but it gets so far and then another blue error message comes up saying something like automatic …
i have a 22 page business plan on my computer (right now im on a different computer.) my comp suddenly shut down and i cant load windows. when i turn on the computer it goes to a black screen with 5 options; restart windows normally, safe mode with command promt, …
Ok i have a home network of XP PRO XP HOME UBUNTU WIN 98 WIN 95 WIN 95 NT 3.51 Would it be upgrading the 98/95/3.1 machines to NT4? and the XP home to Pro as i want better security and want to work on a domain. They wont run …
Hi all, Hope you can help me out. I cannot ftp from my Thinkpad, previously was ok. The last time I did it was maybe 3-4 weeks ago, I dont recall installing anything new or resetting anthing since then. Windows will issue error msg: [B]"Internet Explorer has encountered a problem …
I was really excited when I read the initial press releases about Vista. It was going to patch some of the glaring flaws in XP, add some great new features and functionality, include new scripting abilities, and simplify making advanced configuration changes. It was to be to XP what Windows …
ok today my graphics card cant draw 3d, when i run the test direct 3d it gives me these errors also i cant see any of the 3d cubes when it runs the test. -thanks ArNy Direct3D 7 test results: Failure at step 32 (User verification of Direct3D rendering): HRESULT …
went looking for Folder Options to change to show all files and to set it to one click .,found it ! in mycomputer /properties ,top right, next to search icon ,black arrow ,click and go to search options .
Every time I restart my computer it comes up with the little error box wanting to send an error report. It just started 2 days ago. It says Run a DLL as an App Run a DLL as an App has encountered a problem and needs to close. \ What …
Hi! After I start my computer everything is fine until the [URL="http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/46887.html#"]desktop[/URL] is supposed to appear. Nothing happens the mousepointer works but the screen is all black. I think i accedently uninstalled [URL="http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/46887.html#"]intel[/URL]. Has anyone any suggestions..?
I have xp on one hard drive and i installed vista public beta on another drive in my computer. The install went fine and i was up and running on both os's. I wanted to access my my documents folder off of my windows xp installation and i was prompted …
Hello, im new here so im unsure as to whether this is the correct section I am posting my problem in (apologies if it isnt). Anyway; Over the past week/week & a half I have been having problems accessing certain websites. At first I thought maybe the sites were down, …
Yesterday I was going to head out to a friends so I was going to reboot my system (I do that every so often when I leave) and when it was rebooting, it took way too long. My power shut off for a minute and then came back I turned …
Right ill start from the beginning so you can get the whole story, Built a new computer but was short on cash so i scavenged two old hard drives out of other computers (1x20gb and 1x40gb). Soon ran out of space, they were running realy slow so after a while …
HI!! i double click My Computer then c (hard disc) but it is not opening and gets me back to my desktop. a message says that''DRWTSN.32EXE MODIFIED MEMORY OF EXPLORER.EXE'' I OPENED DR WATSON AND IN THE APPLICATION ERRORS WRITES C:WINDOWSEXPLORER.EXE c0000005 <NOSYMBOLS>(017E0710) WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT? I USE …
I have a hp pavilion desktop computer. I just got verizon online dsl and since then every time i am online i get this drumming noise through my computer speakers I have no clue what it is and I really need someone to help me
I am torn between 2 options [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2272896&sku=A458-1116%20Q[/url] That kit has a 32bit 3.06GHz processor which is better than my 2.50 GHz Or this kit: [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=2273650&sku=M450-2400%20A[/url] which has a 64bit 2.00GHz processor Right now I am running XP, but I will probably end up getting Vista, so in the long run …
Hello Every one, I had same problem with svchost in Windows Vista which was running on 100%. I found out that was the Antivirus program. I am usually using NOD32. After deinstall it in emergency mode, everything looks good. :-) Machine should work and people should think. :-)
Ok I'm at a loss here had spyware quake, and removed it using smitfraudfix, ewido, ATF-Cleaner, spyware doctor, ad-awareSE, and AVG. But, I still have virus alert icon flashing at bottom. It is not the one whith green wheelchair. It flashes between red circle slash, and blue-white question mark (help) …
Can anyone please tell me what happened or help in any way? I was playing a game...one I play all the time when, but this time, when I exited the game, I realized all my icons on the desktop have turned into the generic browser icon (except the recycle bin). …
I don't mean to spam but on my site, we are really interested in finding out whether PC owners like you plan to upgrade your hardware for Vista or not.. We are trying to find out one way or the other whether Microsoft has done a good job of articulating …
I have a Linsys BEFSX41 Broadband Firewall Router with 4-Port Switch/VPN Endpoint which connects 3 computers and 1 VOIP device for my phone. I have two other computers which I need to connect together so I used one of the Linksys ports to 'daisy chain' my Microsoft MN-100 Wired Broadband …
Recents escapades with "Red circles", followed by relentless attacks of unwanted "items" (one session with AdAware revealed 82 extras !!), like recent encounter with Alexa, found by AdAware (gave me some chills, reading description) and EzuLa, found by Spyware hunter 2.0, but not (I think) HijackThis and AdAware (logs posted …
I currently have both linux and windows installed. I can boot linux just fine, but when i attempt to boot windows, i get something like this (this may not be word for word, but its close) chainloader (hd0, 0) cannot find NTLDR (or NLTDR) Press CLT-ALT-DEL to Restart Is this …
Sorry for the VERY basic approach to this but I want to be clear because I am frustrated. When double clicking a folder on my desktop, it open into a window where the files and folders inside can be seen. Great, no problem here. But when double clicking and opening …
The new internet explorer came to BETA testing quite a while ago now and I personally think it is quite a vast improvement. I think it is becoming more like Firefox with the tabs and RSS feeds. I have also noticed that the startup time is quite a bit faster. …
Hello, I restarted my computer without installing any new hardware or software (save for an update to Firefox). Windows would not boot. A blue screen with an error flashed very quickly (could not read), and then I got the screen asking me to boot Windows regularly, last good configuration, etc. …
Hey all, Recently my "folder options" was missing from the tools list. I just went to the registry and fixed it, HOWEVER when i go to the "view" tab, I've got a really short list of checkboxes; there is NO option to hide and show hidden files! Plz help me …
I'm having some sort of problem with Norton, and if anyone has any ideas, I'd be grateful. Here's the problem: Every few minutes, I get a Norton window popping up saying svchost.exe is trying to access something, and wants me to permit or block it. It's done this before, but …
I've been stuck in safe mode with a blank screen for quite a while now. I have been waiting for almost 2 hours now and nothing is happening. I don't know if I did something wrong or there are just too many programs. I tried restarting the computer twice, but …
Hi guys, I'm at a loss to discover the cause of my dilemma. I have ADSL internet, and most of the time everything is fine. Then, for some reason, my internet browsers (and those connected to the network) simply stop working. Everything else is fine - I can receive/send email, …
I've been trying to play mp3's and wma files downloaded from kazaa for somedays . Whatever the downloaded file is , an error message pops up and says " Windows has found a problem with this file . Name : fhg.CAB publisher : Unknown publisher . The file has been …
My computer keeps shutting down and I get the "blue screen of death". 0x000000c5 and 0x0000008e I have not installed anything recently. It just keeps turning off and going to the damn blue screen. How do I fix this? PLEASE help! windows xp emachines
Windows Media Player 10 and Real Player 10.5 continually display a "Crash" error message, yet continue to play if I do not respond to the Error Message. I have updated both.
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