[microsoft:windows-vista-7-8] Forum Topics

This problem is intermittent to some degree. After booting to desktop, and clicking the Mozilla icon to log-on to home page it will say not found. Sometimes it will log on with no problem. The hard drive activity lite is flashing and the activity lite on the modem like something …

When I click on red X in small download box in Firefox it just refuses to close no matter how often I press on it. Sometimes web sites refuse to close as well. Does anyone know why this happens? Normally clicking on the X in top right hand corner closes …

Hi all, I have downloaded Mandriva One 2010. I have Windows Vista and one 80GB external HDD. I want to install Mandriva in that USB drive (On 40GB partition specifically) and walk with it anywhere. Unetbooting only supports up to Mandriva 2008. Is there a software to do So? Thanks!

So basicly i was wondering if there is any way to set it so that when you type something into the web search bar(top right) and press enter it will open up the search results in a new tab. i know that you can acomplish this by pressin ALT+Enter, but …

need to reboot widows vista...... on a dimension e521..... My problem is that there is no PS/2 keyboard -and- mouse ports ... just usb...... how do i reinstall the OS without taking the harddrive out.....

I have a 1 year old dv9920us laptop that is refusing to boot into Windows Vista. The Vista "loading screen" appears, but the marquee doesn't and the laptop is perpetually stuck in this state. I was able to boot into live Linux and access my hard drive form there, so …

Hello, I am new user now,but i saw some solutions that makes me believe and trust on you that i can get 100% satisfaction solution from u. About my Home PC problem is: By the past 4 days ,Our PC is not booting when i press the CPU button,no light …

hello...I am having a hard time trying to figure out what is wrong with my recycle bin...I delete things and they go ...I don't know where so I can't restore anything I have deleted to the recycle bin. I unistalled all my Norton things and I still put stuff in …

Hi, I'm new here and I need help with error messages popping up. The latest one reads: Windows cannot find C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\netfxupdate.exe It appears every time I start up my PC. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of it, please?:(

Running XP SP3. Recently ran an update, upon restart got BSOD. Restart, BSOD. Frustrated I left it alone for the night. In morning booted up everything worked fine. Started BitComet, BSOD. Same issue with restarting, BSOD. Entering Safe mode was no issue. Deleted some junk. Left alone for the night …

Hi I want to install Windows 7 and Mac Os on same computer any body help me how can i make my drive dual boot.

Hi All, I'm using a Toshiba Laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium. Strangely my USB mouse will suddenly freeze after 3-5 minutes in use. I cannot move my cursor but I can click (left or right). Have tried with several mouse, all having the same problem. However, touchpad got no …

Can't access folders (D: or DVD) after sleep/hibernate. The error is: D:\<Folder Name> is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable. All normal after restart.

Hey guys and gals, I've recently formatted to Windows 7 and everything has been going fine except for my audio card. I am using a Xonar DS PCI card on a conroe kentsfield fsb 1066 motherboard. Basically, under the Device Manager, the drivers for the card always show the Code …

Hi there, I am suffering an issue at the moment where if I search on a serach engine and click on a result the web redirects me to another site, this will happen 3/4/5 times before directing to the correct site. After a while I will also get another page …

My laptop crashed on Monday then seemed to recover. Later discovered I couldn't use Firefox OR Internet Explorer. Firefox wont run at all, despite removing and reinstalling. IE starts but stops responding before connecting to home page. While this is driving me nuts, MSN Messenger works every time. Any suggestions …

I was trying to uninstall the trial version of Ms Office 2007. during that process my system got auto shutdown due to overheating. Now i am unable to uninstall it. It exists in add-remove progs menu. and if i click on remove it says "Product installation corrupt. Run setup again …

Hi, I have designed a application in VB.net on Win Vista using the MS Office spreadsheet component. When launching the app on the client PC it gives a 'Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close' error, when clicked on Debug the error says 'An Unhandled exception occured ('System.InvalidOperationException') …

I am having trouble getting PHP to run on Windows 7 under Apache. I know I installed everything properly because I have them running on 3 different machines (one with XP, one with Vista), but for some reason when I use my phpinfo(); script it shows up as plain text …

I have thrown everything at the search redirect (most commonly takes me to shopica.com) I have found some things running everything anti-virus/spyware/malware I can at it. PLease help!! My hijack this is pasted below. Thanks! Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:00:39 PM, on 11/3/2009 Platform: Windows …

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Hi everyone, I was wondering if daniweb had the intention of, or have even thought about- creating a subforum for Silverlight / WPF development. As a growing and popular technology(ies) I would think it would be a good idea to include these. I am constantly looking to daniweb for help …

Hi, I have a COMPAQ Presario v6700 laptop with Core2Due processor 1.8GHz, 2GB RAM, and Windows Vista Ultimate SP1. My problem is all the time I see the processor cycles gage is full for nothing, I tried to look for any frenzy process that eats all processor clock cycles like …

i have corrupted my computer, and unfortunately i had to reinstall windows from a disc given to me by HP. afterwards, i tried to reinstall the programs, a bit fast, and then I noticed after boot the logon screen breaks up for a few seconds. And for some reason, i …

hey guys, im new here and this is my first question. my pc runs a bit slow and im sick of trying all those system care products that people claim to work. ive tried so many but it just seems worthless. i know my best bet is to reinstall windows …

I am running a Dell Inspiron 9400 with 2.5GB RAM. The machine use to boot very fast until recently. Now when it boots it gets to the point of loading the desktop image and then stops for about 25 seconds, then you hear the short burst of "Windows" music and …

When I first start up my computer, it goes to the safe-mode screen automatically. After this, my cursor will not move within the screen to get to the safe-mode to select it. Therefore, since the cursor sticks - windows counts down and then it recycles and does the same thing …

hi guys, i need ur help..my computer is experiencing a dll error everytime i boot my computer and appear as "BHO.dll" it says like i deleted something and need to reinstall a particular file..can anybody suggest and help me??? thank u very much!!

Everytime I open my firefox browser additional tabs keep popping up. Not just one or two, but 20. when I try to close the tabs more keep popping up. I have to close the entire browser in order to stop it. Each tab is directed to the firefox help and …

Hello everyone, hope I am posting in the right place. Yesterday evening my son was playing flash games on the pc. Logged off normally and today Window Vista automatically goes to temporary profile instead of going to our profiles. None of our files are present but can be locate on …

I was wondering if anybody would know? I have an old computer with a bad hard drive and nothing else wrong. I also have an xbox with a cd drive problem but a good hard drive. Is it possible to format the drive and use it?

Hello everybody. I wanted to ask what does exactly Win7 do with their so called xp mode. As i have seen from various clips, this "mode" is actually just a virtual machine that runs win XP. Am i right? If the answer is yes then how come not all processor …

I'm curious if anyone is using this Studio and how does it match FL studio. I ahve not used it but wan't to know how is it doing ;) It is -->[URL="http://lmms.sourceforge.net/"]Here[/URL]

Now that I have Win7 set up the way I want it, is it possible to create an image on a bootable DVD so that if (and when) my computer crashes I can just reinstall everything from that image? I seem to recall something like that was done on my …

I have a windows xp with vista. I have never had a mac. I am a musician and have an rs232 connector on my laptop. I also need a wave file player. Also my computer has no cd so I want sonic foundry and cakewalk software. Do you know where …

Hi guys, I just got myself a Philips 20" TV Monitor(20PFL4122/98), but its resolution is too less(640X480). I have Windows 7 and everything comes really big! Is there any way I can increase the resolution?? I have a nvidia 7100GS graphic card.

every time i start my toshiba laptop, it's on control mode (like i'm pressing control to go to shortcuts). and in order for me to get to normal mode, i would have to restart my computer around 5 times. is it a virus? my computer is around 3-4 years old.

Hi guys out there, Today when i came home, i found out the pc is not starting. the power goes on, all fans work, cd drive works, but monitor keeps blinking and no display, I've changed monitor, but no help my machine is an acer 2.4 gh inter core 2, …

I can browse the net but when I will download a software there is an error. "The Internet Explorer cannot display web paged...What you can try: Diagnose System problem...more information" I tried to diagnose it and the system do not see any problem. SSL and TLS protocols are enabled. What …

How can you get Hardware that only has drivers in 32-bit to run in a x64 bit Windows environment ? I'd prefer not to dual boot as well as I'm not keen on running a virtual Windows x32. Anyone have any suggestions ?

i am using windows 7 with xp mode , i am having a problem with accessing to the internet using Windows 7 that is why i downloaded xp mode for windows7, i can access to the internet without any problem using xp mode and my hardware huawei wireless can work …

My DELL laptop Core-2-duo 1GB RAM / 120GB HDD / Windows VISTA, but i remove it and install Win XP 4 month ago..I have 3 partition in my HDD other than C/ Yesterday, suddenly its started rebooting automatically... Also i did not install any sftwr or any hardwr in it …

Hello, Having a problem. I have a hP desktop that keeps going to the blue screen of death and them reboots. I turned automatice restart off in the f8 screen and it still does it. So what i have found is I can boot the computer in the Directory services …

So, my internet connection works just fine, but those two little computers in the task bar have a red "X" over them which is supposed to mean I have to internet connection and when I go to the network center or whatever it's called, the internet connection doesn't show up. …

The ultimate tweak: Windows Vista or XP installs on larger than default allocation sizes. Even 64KB cluster size. Lesser fragmentation. Make your drive perform like RAID. The choice of cluster size has an impact on real-world performance, though for most people it is not all that significant. In a nutshell, …

For Vista and 7 users: found a very useful free sidebar gadget. It shows the most resource-heavy processes in real time. Can be downloaded [URL="http://www.fileinspect.com/sidebar-gadget/"]here[/URL].

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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 2:38:36 PM, on 11/3/2009 Platform: Windows Vista SP2 (WinNT 6.00.1906) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18828) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\IObit\Advanced SystemCare 3\AWC.exe C:\Program Files\SanDisk\Sansa Updater\SansaDispatch.exe C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Quick Launch Buttons\QLBCTRL.exe …

Hello good people! I have just build a htpc. The mohterboard is a ga-ma78gm-ud2h with an AMD X2 250 Processor, it has a 1G samsung harddisk, a Infrared USB receiver. The PC seems to boot just fine when it has been unplugged from the mains. But when I shutdown the …

Ok, here are the issues I'm having & yes I run a lot of anti programs including Advanced System Care which some say they love & a few people say caused problems. Honestly I can't remember when the problems started, at least 4-6 months ago & it may have started …