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I have a Lenovo N200 laptop and have re installed Vista Home Premium recently. It now intermittently Powers off on the Vista loading screen when you turn the machine on. It also intermittently powers off when resuming from sleep mode. It does not restart, it just powers off. If it …

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Hi, My laptop was working perfectly fine with internet. I would connect wirelessly with no issue. One day my laptop stop working with wireless. It said local only. I didn't worry, i had fixed this issue before by adding the IP, DNS, and Gateway manually. This time when i added …

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This is my situation, I upgraded my xp to vista business 2 years ago, now the question is can i upgrade my vista business to window 7 pro.

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Hello Members. I need some help and would appreciate helpful comments. I run Vista Ultimate. When I click on the desktop to start a program, or click on START etc... the pop up panel stay on for just a microsecond and then disappers. I had this propblem once before and …

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I recently upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 on my GATEWAY ML6731 notebook. When I selected the upgrade everything was fine. When Win 7 finished installing it just wouldnt load back up windows 7 at all to the main screen or Vista. I tried reinstalling my Vista and it asks …

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Hi, I've just downloaded GNUstep onto my Vista machine, installing the GNUstep MSYS System, GNUstep Core and GNUstep Devel components mentioned on theGNUstep website ([url]http://www.gnustep.org/experience/Windows.html[/url]). I installed into the standard folders but when I try to open the shell for GNUstep the window flashes up and disappears again. I've checked …

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I am trying to trigger an event to run after ten minutes of idleness (as in no mouse or keyboard input). I created a task with the task scheduler, but it is not being triggered no matter how long my computer is idle. I set the trigger "When computer is …

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I have a Compac with Vista home premium and i need to restore it to factory. I don't have a disk and i have tried to hit F11 and nothing happens. I need to restore it because i have alot of viruses, missing drivers, and corupted programs. Any help would …

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I have Dell Inspiron Laptop with Intel Core i3 and preloaded Windows 7 64bit. But few days ago I faced virus problem with my laptop so I formatted my system. I have already 3 dvds of backup file and one is restore windows 7 64bit bootable dvd. But I could …

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I just burned a data DVD backup around 2.5 GB without an issue, and I'm able to burn data or audio CD's all day with no problem. If, however, I try to burn a video DVD, the DVD burn completes successfully (no error messages from multiple software packages including Nero, …

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I'm baffled by a recent discovery with one of my programs. I'm still in beta testing, so this was a good time to catch the issue. But it seems that, when installed on a 64-bit system, the data files are simply [I]not written[/I]. If you are running a 64-bit system, …

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Hi, I would like to connect to another PC in my network using remote desktop connection, but I can't. Both PC's are using windows 7, both PC's are in same network and they can send files to each other with no problems. When using remote desktop connection I don't get …

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Hey guys, I'm hoping this is a well-known problem with a simple fix: I work at a study abroad program and most of the web-related problems that I see involve Vista machines that aren't picking up settings via DHCP. Windows 7, XP, OS X -- all fine. They'll auto-assign a …

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In xp, my Tascam US 122 usb audio interface works fine. On my windows 7 computer the device works, however when i restart/shutdown it hangs at the "shutting down" screen forever. If the usb cable is removed prior to initiating restart/shutdown then everything goes fine, the computer restarts as normal. …

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Hi Guys, Any help would be appreciated here. I'm running Outlook 2003 on Windows 7. Outlook was geeting stuck and 'detect and repair' was run (under help menu). Now I cannot recover the original mailbox (inbox, sent, contacts etc etc). I've tried going into C:\...\Outlook and picking up the *.Pst …

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why is it that my 733mhz Pentium3, 384mb ram, 40gHD, dimension 600cx ran windows 7 with no problem. I was able to surt the internet wih no problems, and media center ran with minimal lag. however the graphics were awful because it only supproted 1024x600 with 256 colors and 800x600 …

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I have a stand alone application [COLOR="Red"]"test.exe"[/COLOR] on a Windows 7 operating system. I have an application [COLOR="Red"]"test.exe"[/COLOR] made in Visual basic 8.0. I have an [COLOR="red"]"Auto Update"[/COLOR] function . Call this function [COLOR="Green"]from "test.exe". [/COLOR]In the first line in [COLOR="red"]"test.exe"[/COLOR] This function does the following: 1. This checks whether …

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Hi, I have a problem with a random number generating function. This function works great on windows XP but when I run the function in Windows VISTA and Windows 7, I receive an error message that displays: [B]"Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that …

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I created a tasks in the task scheduler called VS2010R which opens devenv.exe on demand. I've tested it from the task scheduler and it runs fine. However, I am unable to run this task from the command window. When I input: [code] C:\Users\mini>SCHTASKS /RUN /TN "VS2010R" [/code] I get: ERROR: …

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I need help This is what I get when I get the blue screen of death Any help would be appreciated I just got windows 7 I dled a mmorpg and avg anti now i get the blue screen here is the info Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1 …

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First thread and only semi-tech savvy so please bear with me... My daughters HP Pavillion 6700 (6835nr) is past warranty and over a year old. It will not boot properly. I can access some set-up menus but everything I try does not allow me to start the Win Vista system …

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Dear Friends, Can any one suggest me, im using Windows 7, i m try to install the Turbo C complier, but it is creating virtual directory, after completion of the creation of directory, it will ask for renameing the root path, How can i rename the root path... (virtual Directory …

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Hi All, I am having a very bad weekend. I am having problems with a HDD, so on Thursday I when out a bought a new HDD to go in the bank of 4 HDD's. To add this new drive to the computer system I also got a 7 port …

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Hi, I am not able to browse my own site [url]www.example.com[/url] in my laptop alone, I turned off my firewall and proxy but still not able to browse the above site. I checked in chrome, IE, opera and firefox but none of them are opening the above site. - All …

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When I open Internet explorer it days cannot open web page! I am connected by wireless to the Internet with an excellent signal! I can access the internet on my daughters laptop and on my iPhone via my wireless connection, I can even connect to msn and chat but cannot …

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does any body here know how to install a c++ compiler in windows vista ultimate 64 bit

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Hi I'm running windows 7 and have recently had an issue when booting up. I turn the computer on and it displays a black screen w/t blinking cursor(BSBC) in the upper left hand corner. This continues for approx. 2 min. Then it will proceed to the GRUB where i can …

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Hello everyone, I just recently bought two Samsung SyncMaster P2570 Monitors. I'm unable to get them to work properly with ATI 4850 when trying to use the DVI and HDMI connectors (it also has a VGA connector as the third). The two main symptoms I get are as follows: [LIST=1] …

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My pc will not startup and run normally. I receive a message on power up "that windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt <windows root>/system 32 hal.dll please re-install a copy of the above file". I made an ms-dos startup disk from another PC. I …

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I unable to create drive in windows 7 how create it, how send msg to local host through cmd in windows 7 and how to login adminstrator in windows 7

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help! cannot uninstal programs off features ,as told error code 5001 + shell manager data base is corrupted or missing.suspect registry problem,but as beginner cannot deal with. thanks

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All right kiddos, heres the plan. I have wifi. yay, thats cool, but the router sucks. so what im wanting to do is have my 2 computers receive internet via wifi BUT send local files between them via hardwire -> ethernet to network switch. [B]computer specs[/B] desktop: smc usb wifi …

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Hi. Names Kermit, 53yrs old. rather new to the computer stuff. Retired now and would like to do some game modding and such. Plenty of time to sit here and make sure it all works right. But that will have to wait until i figure out what all I need …

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recently my internet connection has been randomly disconnecting, and after a few minutes it can reconnect. I wirelessly connect to the router, and the router is an apple air port. When internet is connected, like right now, the connection strength has full bars. I use an Inspiron 1420, and the …

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I own a Compaq laptop w/ the Windows Vista System (and Sempron). It's not verry old, about a year maybe two and I've had no issues with it so far. However, I was playing an online video from youtube that it was having no issues with. I do have it …

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hello friends..i need some help here.. my os is windows seven,and i installed linux for a educational matter.then when i boot the computer i had to choose the os from the grub.And today morning i formatted the partition which is linux installed.then i unable to boot from windows seven.After that …

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This problem has been happening recently. My PC will just automatically shut down onto a blue screen which displays this error: "Technical Information: ***STOP:Ox0000008E (OxC0000005, Ox8056537F, OxF3F96C94, Ox00000000)" Anybody know how to fix this error?

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antivirus suite has got into sons laptop have tried starting in safe mode with networking but after selecting goes no further where do i go next

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Hello everyone, i was a bit stupid installing a theme that required me to replace my explorer.exe in c:\windows.... and explorerframe im c:\windows\system32\ i am running a genuine copy of windows 7 home premium 64 bit. can anyone give me their explorer.exe and explorerframle.dll ? (64bit)

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I just switched on my toshiba satalite laptop and this blue screen message came up stop 0x00008086. I tried safe mode didnt work, I tried recovery console but after drivers loaded same message came up again. Tried boot disc but still no luck. Anybody any ideas how i can get …

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Does anyone know how I can find the version of Microsoft Windows Installer(MSI)? I've found references to a "getdllversion," but it's not a standalone program. It's all code for different languages and I'm not a programmer and not sure what I would need to even run the code I'm finding. …

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Hi all, I want to reduce the no of process running in start up, however, I don't know what these process are, would anybody help me out with this? Thank you!!! My computer is vista, it is very slow. And I also want to know that, except reducing the number …

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hello my computer is a gateway computer windows vista and it was working fine until yesterday yesterday i bought a webcam and it had that mini cd thing, and i put it into the cd rom. but my cd rom is vertical, so the cd fell into the cpu inside. …

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I would REALLY appreciate your help with this because it's driving me nuts! The problem is my computer seems slow to respond. When I type it takes a while for the text on screen to catch up with my typing, and when I play a movie using windows media player …

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Whenever I open Roxio Creator Classic the window does not seem to load properly and part of the user interface window appears as a black bar on the left. The programme will actualy burn CD/DVD's OK only if I use the "File/Burn" command as the other buttons are obscured by …

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