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| | Recently on a 2 year old Dell 3000 the system would lock up on this "Windows is Starting" screen forever. Safe Mode (with Networking) worked OK. Running Windows XP SP2 with current updates. An external hard drive using usb2.0 was recently connected but all the usb ports were 1.x. Hence … |
| | I Get this error message once in a while. What does it mean? Does it has to do something with Adobe Acrobat/Reader or any Office related product? How can I solve this issue? |
| | Is it possible to add a wildcard onto a string? eg: IF /I '%input%'=='hi'[COLOR="Red"]Wildcard here[/COLOR] |
| | So this morning when I turn on my computer, everything loads and I get to my wall paper, except that is the only thing that loads. my icons, my start bar, my system tray, all gone. I can manage to open the task manager and run explorer to access files … |
| | A neighbor's husband died last year. He ran a business from his house. She gave me one of his disktop Gateway computers (which had a dead power supply) that I replaced. [URL="http://support.gateway.com/s//MOTHERBD/INTEL/2517815/2517815nv.shtml"]Here[/URL] is the motherboard. Upon booting, I notice that it is set to run on a domain. It has … |
| | I am having an issue where the the option for network adapter is not being displayed in the device manager. I've alway had a network adapter displayed in the task bar and out of a sudden I can not see this display. could it be that my NIC card may … |
 | I need a freeware program besides bootskin to change my boot screen. a cia screen would also help.  |
| | Im making a network of 10 computers using an office station device to create a terminal connection type or what others call as "DISKLESS NETWORK" where i have only one computer running on XP and the others are just connecting via office station device.. when i setup the security to … |
| | Hello, is it possible to resize partitions under win XP using Disk management tools, or I need special software for that? I know there are couple of software tools such as Partition Magic. However, I'd like to know if this is possible to be done in Win XP itself. Regards |
| | I have a relatively new (couple months) Dell XP Pro laptop (Precision M90), current on patches, up to date AV (AVG Network Edition) that after the user attempted to install some software on, and it went to hell. There was an error on boot up from TCSD_Win32.exe, which apparently a … |
| | Hi there, Here is my problem: I get this message "Windows/System32/Config/System file missing or corrupt". I have tried this so far: -Using my Windows Installation disk to try to repair my registry, using the windows tutorial [URL="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us"](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us)[/URL], but when i try to enter the first line (c:\>md tmp) i get … |
| | how do you make a computer like at a library, where the start button shuts off the computer, and only the card catalog is available? |
| | Up until now, I've been able to login to update a Web Site I have with [url]ftp://www.sitename.ca[/url] as the address, Now, all I get is [B]"Windows cannot access this folder. Make sure you typed the filename correctly or have permission to access this folder"[/B] There were a couple of Automatic …  |
| | I am having problems with games and other aspects of my computer graphics not loading properly and taking more than 10 minutes to load at all. Also games can become very slow and lots of the graphics incomplete on screen. I have a Packard Bell computer with Windows XP service … |
| | Yesterday I was able to listen to music, and when I log on today, I'm not. I try to use the volume controls on my keyboard, and the sound bar comes up but nothing changes. I've tried the troubleshooter and all I've managed to do is get even more confused. … |
| | When you move your DNS ([url]www.mysite.com[/url]) to another provider, the servers placed in your network can not recahed the web-page as well. So I try to fix that in the DNSMGMT tool tab forwarders, to include the new DNS, even that was made, the user inside the network can not … |
| | im actually not a computer guy but i have a problem i was hoping someone could help me with. my computer is stuck in a reboot loop. i have an intel pentium 4 desktop computer. it is windows xp home edition. the problem happened after i installed the windows service … |
| | Hi I have had an unusually high cpu usage for the past 2 days. Especially when using firefox or safari or similar programs. I have over 300GB of hard disk space and almost 3gb of ram. I have never had over 80% cpu usage even even using high-end games but … |
| | Hi Everyone Just thought that I would like to let you know that I have recently setup a blog dedicated to the latest devices. URL is [url]Http://www.devicepedia.com[/url] if you would like to blog for us you can let me know! - Enjoy |
| | Hi. Just moved to a new apartment and tried to restart the computer with Windows 2000 Pro OS. Goes through the motions and then stops on a white screen with "ACTIVE DESKTOP RECOVERY". The computer does not have the internet. It has never been connected to the internet since I … |
| | Hi All I am using Windows XP Pro, 1Gb RaM, intell dual core 250Gb hard disc (Sata) I recently purchased this Seagate second hand and have a lot of problems with it. It behaves quite unexpectedly. Most of the time its drive (D) is not shown on "MY COMPUTER" When … |
| | Is there a way I can set Windows Media Player as my default music player? When I download a music file it opens in Real Player. I would like to use WMP instead. Thanks. janda5 |
| | hi to all, just a quick one as confused slightly... have a compaq presarion laptop with a wireless card slot . . . seemed to have walked into a mine field when trying to find one thats not rediculusly expensive and still has a range of over a couple of …  |
| | I put this computer together, and I have Windows XP on the hard drive. I gto a cd with my motherboard with the drivers, I installed them all but my sound doesn't work. In device manager it says that the drivers are there and working but there is no sound …  |
| | hello. I have a very annoying problem with my OS. My computer freezes within minutes of turning on the computer. It usually happens whenever I attempt to web browse or install something. Within seconds after attempting to do anything, the computer locks up and I am forced to manually turn …  |
| | Every time I try opening the control panel, the following error appears -" This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Contact your system administrator." Please help me out wiyhout having to reinstall windows. |
| | Hi All, I all of a sudden one morning had a problem with my wireless. All I got was the 'Cannot display this page' message no matter what I was trying to connect to. I have a Netgear wireless router and all the lights on it were lit as normal, … |
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| | Hello all Can any help me,How task manager find which applictions are running on our desktop? Or Which Window Api helps to find the running application in our system? |
| | Hello All, First of all, let me say that I really don't know much about computers, but I want to try to fix mine without just trashing it. My husband was downloading a new poker site and he got a blue screen that said" the windows logon prosess system terminated … |
| | I know a few threads have been made about this but I'm still not so sure. When I start up the computer everything looks fine, I use Windows XP Media center edition for at home. I'm not for certain but my computer is a gateway that I got a few … |
| | Hi guys ive been having quite a bit of trouble with my internet starting up automatically every time i log in to the computer. i looked at some of the older threads and i have the hijack this program. just wondering if you could help me figure out my problem |
| | Installing a fresh copy of XP Professional SP2. Had to disable shadow caching in the BIOS and not getting this error. No card installed. Everything is OB. System starts to do the install gets about 15 mins (with caching off, takes forever) and then BSOD with the above error. Any … |
| | Heres an odd one. I have about 40 users on a pair of load balanced citrix servers running a series of published applications (Office products and such). Occasionally, there are a couple user profiles that corrupt here and there (this is windows, after all). Typically, I go into the documents … |
| | I can not use the scroll bar at all...tried using mouse, pg up and pg dn, home, end, arrows... nothing works. This happens for all programs I have tried... explorer, word, excel... any ideas? Fixes or work-arounds would be appreciated. Thank you for your help! |
| | Alright well I just reformated my hardrive and put windows xp professional on it. Previously it had home edition and the sound worked on that. My issue is no matter how many times I try to update the audio codex or drivers for some reason windows will not recognize any … |
| | Hey gang I am new ans this is a quick intro on me for what it's worth. Born Scotland 2 kids married and skint. I need help. I have no money and I cant afford to update the windows 2000 system I am on one particular problem I keep getting … |
 | hi all, I have been sharing a laptop with my cousins and I use an administrator account as they do. But my account is more sensitive as it contains most of my school works and personal projects. Plus I have saved passwords in the browser for every website I have … |
| | Hello everyone, i seem to have a problem that i can't find the answer to and is somewhat hard to explain. It started when i needed to switch PCI-E cards between a Geforce 7900gt to a GeForce 7600gs, i did so without taking into consideration any drivers installed, as i … |
| | Hello, I'm trying to create a batch file that will delete & remake temporary directories, but it isn't working. There are two directories that I want to do this two, and the second one doesn't work. here is the code: @echo off rd c:\windows\TEMP /s /q md C:\windows\TEMP rd C:\Documents … |
| | Hi, I obtained a legitimate copy of XP Pro through University as part of Microsoft's Academic Alliance. This came as an ISO and I successfully burnt it to CD. That CD works perfectly fine. However I formatted my old P4 which has 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA HDs that … |
| | Im using WinXp ; When I rename a file; I get a message that tells me that I will lose the file association as it thinks i am changing the file extension also "as the file extension is listed in the name of the file". How to correct this and … |
| | Hey everyone. I work at a library and I have some public access computers for searching our catalog with internet explorer. I want the user to not be able to close this internet explorer window, and I believe the setting for that is in the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in … |
| | I am having a problem keeping items in any shopping carts on any site. I have cookies enabled and have tried clearing the cache and cookies. I can put items in, but they don't stay. Right after I have put something in, at the top it will say 0 items … |
 | [B] I have a Gateway 3310 with Windows XP home with 512 megs of RAM. It's still running a bit sluggish. And when I run certain programs that ran okay in my old computer that had a lot less RAM here the program occassionaly freezes, the computer was running at … |
| | This is a Windows XP Pro SP3 question: I have two DSL lines, one of which I use exclusively for VOIP (Vonage) and the other I use just for Internet Browsing and downloading. I have a standby VOIP device called a magicJack that is a quasi softphone as it plugs … |
| | When I try to watch it I got a blue screen and PC crashes up top it says " IRQL_LESS_GREATER_OR_NOT_EQUAL" then below it says "cmusys.exe IRQ base (numbersHERE)____IRQ (numbersHERE) date" and last line says memory dump and counts up from 0 till I decide to reset. I also get this … |
| | Hello, I was in the middle of a session when suddenly all my programs give the error "The image file FILENAME.EXE is valid, but is for a different type of machine than the current machine." The only way I can get around the error is to go to the shortcut … |
| | Hi all My cousin has got a PC which I have built for him 3 years ago, it was working fine until last night suddenly it switch itself Off and does not want to power on again. If I disconnect the hard disk the PC works fine without any problem … |
| | help; when i open picture folder in my documents, it opens but when i try to open a picture it does not respond; please help |
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