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Hello everyone, My dvd burner is playing up. It has got progressively worse and is now rendering discs unusable every time I try to use it. Even with a new/valid DVD, Windows Backup gets to about 85% and then reports errors on the disc. On loading some discs the progress …
Hey guys, can you take a look through these specs for a laptop and tell me if there any good and if there's any problems with them. thanks. [Laptop link](http://www.johnlewis.com/231740075/Product.aspx)
Hello, I own Gateway computer - DX Series DX4320-19 Desktop PC Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Recently my wireless internet crashed, so I tried fixing it. I had D-Link Dir-615 and when trying to reinstall it, I kept getting a message "Unable to detect wired connection. Please check the connection …
Hello. I am wondering if it is possible to use a windows 7 upgrade disk on a windows 8 machine. I know you can do a clean install with an upgrade disk, but I am just wondering if upgrading a windows 8 machine to a windows 7 is possible. Thanks
In Windows 8, whenever I download a file (like pdf, exe, office) or click a link to it, the file should normally appear in the foreground. Not so with my new Windows 8. To see the file - or, in the case of an executable, the "run", "save" or "cancel" …
after installing window 7 loader by date and time changes in every booting(restarting) help...
Hi guys, I've been searching google for ages and actually visited Acer's website but I can't find a 32-bit driver for Acer Aspire 4755 for Wireless LANs. This is for Windows 7 by the way. Any chance you guys know where I can find this?
Hi, I have a workout called Insanity and I want to extract the music from the audio from the DVDs. When you start the workout, you can choose to do the workout with or without the music. When you don't choose to play the music, the video is the exact …
I had ubuntu and windows7 at my laptop,change windows7 with windowsXP , after that again install windows7.Now ubuntu dose not work, ubuntu12.04 disapeared from boot list, what should I do?
I connect my phone with my lappy to go online.....but after connecting for sometime it automatically disconnects..... I am runnning on Win 7/intel i3 processor.....
    I have Western Digital TV Live that plugs into my TV and also into my 1TB external HD. I have attached four pictures to help with what I'M confused and having trouble with. Take a look at my network1.png, notice that the …
I have installed windows 7 in my PC and m not able to find I386 for my windows 7 please help and giud me how do i start????? please reply fast :)
hi ive been noticing that when i'm playing online games my internet speed will lag or slow down. ive gone to speedtest.net and checked everything over there and this is the results from that: http://www.speedtest.net/result/2371030413.png i don't really know what those numbers mean at all and was wondering if anyone …
MY husband bought a used laptop from a friend of a friend. Upon turning on the unit, we found that it did not have a genuine version of Windows7. He has been using the internet and being a very new user, he seems to have downloaded major problems with his …
Hi all, My laptop is running Windows 7 64. I need to get into my run it in safe mode but when I press F8 upon startup but I am not given the option. I get Start Windows Normally or a prompt to fix the startup process because apparently my …
I have a strange problem with my computer, and I'm going to do my best to describe it. When I use my computer for sometimes up to two minutes or up to three hours whatever program I'm in, or if I'm on the desktop at the time, the icons will …
Hi, haven't needed help in awhile but this is driving me nuts. In the last week or so my computer has suddenly slowed drastically. Website loading and switching between applications takes *forever* and the hard drive just chugs in the background. I check my resources and my physical memory is …
my son turned on my lap top and claims he did nothing else but it went to a screen I have never seen before it said start up recovery it ran for two hours . Once it finished all I had was a blank screen and the curser was visable. …
Hi , I have this code for win xp `char NotesDir[] = "\\Program Files\\notesw32"; char Fname[] = "C:\\Program Files\\notesw32\\notes.ini"; char Bakname[] = "C:\\Program Files\\notesw32\\notesini.bak";` But for win 7 , these files will be present in c:\\Program Files (x86) folder. How do i make sure my code works for both xp …
hi, I recently got win 8 and when I want to connect to a vpn the main connection goes limited so then it has no internet access anybody knows how to fix it ? thanks
Hello, When I try to restart Win 7 (64bit) I get this error message from apache.exe or mysqladmin.exe like this "the application was unable to start correctly 0xc0000142" I get this error since I have installed EasyPHP, and I don't know how can I solve this issue? Many thanks in …
Hi, I am having a problem with my SONY VAIO VGNFZ240E could anyone please help me with this? I tried to recover my unit by making 2 recovery dvds but the process failed at 89% with error code:320/330 follwed by error code:-1 and when I tried do the same from …
Can anyone recommend any software that will allow me to have *program-specific* key mappings? I have a problem with a laptop that has an odd keyboard map (in particular, the Enter and NumEnter have the same scancode)[1] and I need to be able to map another key combo to use …
How do we set MP3 songs into caller ringtones? How do we download Video to the phone?
hi all i want to write unix shell script but my operating system is windows 7 so do you have or know a program that provide unix environment on windows??? thanks in advance
Hello Everyone, I am new in visual studio and trying to learn it. I am exploring a scenario but couldn't find how to do that in visual studio 2012 using windows 8. The Scenario is: I have three buttons named as Bob, Jolly, Elas. When user clicks on a button …
I have been having difficulty opening the internet in normal mode but for some reason it keeps saying there is an error(This is for all browsers), but in safe mode i can use the internet perfectly fine. I think its a hijacker or some other virus. I am not sure. …
help!!!!! my dell integrated cam don't start up
Hi, I recently re-installed Win 7 Ultimate on a fresh hard drive in my Dell XPS 1340, and used my OEM-supplied disk to install drivers. I also used Driver Robot to auto-install or update the drivers, as well as searching the Dell website. I then burned a System Recovery disk …
Hi All, I have a home-built PC running W7 pro with a Sata drive as the primary drive, and a second PATA drive for general file storage. This has been running fine for a couple of years. I have recently installed a hot swap sata drive bay into the pc, …
I have the Advent Modena M101 Windows 7, My DockBar is on my desktop but i cannot use it, everytime i try to update it or do anything with it, it goes to a website which then says nothing as Internet Explorer 8 says Internet Explorer CANNOT display this web …
Hi all, I am having really weird problems happening on my machine (windows 7, IE9). I was testing a website and noticed that my Browser Mode and Document Mode are not doing what they should. Basically from what I have read, when you open IE they should be pointing to …
Hello First off the server is running Windows 7 32bits. I have the following code: <?php $fp = fopen(getcwd()."/test.txt", "w"); fwrite($fp, "hello"); chmod(getcwd()."/test.txt", 0777); unlink(getcwd()."/test.txt"); fclose($fp); ?> It creates the file perfectly but afterwards I cannot delete it. Giving me this error: Warning: unlink(C:\test.txt) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in C:\writeanddel.php on …
Greetings Techies, My access to Youtube via IE 9 has become intermittent. However, it's fine with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. I have tried disabling the ActiveX Filtering and tried the Compatibility thing too. The JavaScript is enabled and working (I checked it on javatester.org). I have Googled for the …
Hello to all, I am working on a spreadsheet/database for my company to track our service calls for the equipment we sell. There are a total of three of us that travel to different locations. I have helped create a database that allows a user to enter information after completeing …
Hello, I have created an application to a fill a datatable with an OleDb connection which gets data from oracle. This works just fine in Windows 7 and correctly retrieves the data. However whenever I run the application in Windows 8 it gives me the following error: *Error while trying …
Gone back to using old laptop with wireless mouse and keyboard and had to update numerous programs. Now the mouse or cursor has movement issues. In win explorer can only select last file in directory - ie 'zebra' and unable to scroll down web pages, pdf files etc. Tried system …
Hello. I have a larger database that I want to import and I cannot do that using phpmyadmin. I tried to do this in many possible ways by command line, but I get message 'wrong syntax'. I have Windows Vista, MySQl version 5.5.24, wamp server. The path to mysql.exe is: …
my internet download manager not working
I cant refresh in my desktop, I cant see any shortcut icon, No option comes if right clicked, I dont see any Start Option, even no task bar, Its totally nothing I cant see anything in my desktop, except my wallpaper, I dont know whats going on.. Please Help.. I …
I recently installed a new graphics card (see specs)and two new case fans, after a few minutes(or a few seconds) my computer will turn off completely as if I had turned off the power supply. I was using a 520W PSU when this first occured, I decided that may be …
I have an HP G62 with windows 7. After fully charged, the battery sometimes goes on a slow drain lasting me 2 full hours plus. Other times, it abruptly drops down down to 94% after a couple of minutes of being on, then next couple of minutes is down to …
Hello I want to make a simple bat file in Windows 7 but the command (route) only works in admin mode so I would have to ask for admin premissions. How do I do this in a bat file? Thank you
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit. I have a 16 bit application that I developed with Borland Turbo C++ on XP. I have installed XP mode and reloaded Borland and my application, but when I try to run it, nothing appears to happen. When I run it under the …
what do you mean by invalid region??
After formatting my PC, I noticed that each time I shut down my PC it is installing update. No matter how many times I shut it down in a day it just happens. The thing is that it is only installing 1 of 1 all the time. Normally, the installing …
i have dell laptop in which window 7 installed and now i am facing a problem ,my all drives are formatted by mistake and it is also not show in my lappy , so kindly tell me how it recover and how it appear on my lappy
Two incidents: Last night, I had my HP Pavilion dv9620us notebook PC running, and was using both Microsoft Word (with a few windows open) and Internet Explorer. (I'm running Windows Vista.) I went away for a little while, and when I came back, the screen was dark, as it should …
I do not know if this is a place to ask this question, but as I have know idea what I am doing I am going to go ahead and ask. I am having a problem with my internet browser and my screen shimmering. The shimmering just started today but …
Hi, I've developed a family browser that blocks adult content, it's been developed for Windows and works on PC's, laptops etc that have Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Now I was wondering about getting it onto mobile devices but it's an unknow area for me, so can anyone help with …
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