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Hi Can anyone help with this please? The [B]Thumbnails[/B] option has disappeared from my [B]VIEW[/B] menu. I have tried searching just about everywhere and I cannot find any way to restore it, it's as if it was never there. I have Win2000. Any ideas anyone? I'd be really grateful. flynnboy

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Hi, I have a problen with my laptop (Gateway MX3101b) It's running XP home sp2. It was running slowly recently and Mc Afee did'nt find any threats, I removed mc afee and installed symantec corporate edition, symantec found a trojan of some sort (did'nt note the name sorry!)I removed the …

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hello Im wondering if someone can help me, I was restoring my system to a previous date and once it was done the computer would not load, past the screen which comes up when you press f8, althougl I am not pressing f8 a friend of mine was tryin to …

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pc has slowed right down recently sometimes taking at least a minute to load a page up, i have a 2meg connection speed and am running xp, any ideas please?

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I have a Dell Dimension 9100 that wont boot. When I boot to the restore CD it goes along until it gets to the page where you could repair or reinstall windows. Up to that point the keyboard works. As soon as it gets to that page the keyboard stops …

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Whats happenin people, I currently picked up a new laptop and I am trying to set up my previous pc as a server so I can go into the files anywhere in the house. But I dont know how to set it up using a domain and I also need …

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Guys, i installed the ThreadMentor software from cs.mtu.edu website, but i could run it . It says, "This application has failed to start because "gtk-1.3.dll" was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem". i re-installed it twice and im still getting the same message. what can i do …

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I have installed XP SP2 on my pc but after installing, it seems I can't get into safe mode anymore. Does anyone encountered the same problem? Any idea how to fix this without reinstalling windows xp?

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I started my laptop today to find that I none of my desktop items showed up, the background wasn't the one I had set, and I couldn't right click on my desktop. Anything I try to open in my start menu doesn't work, and it freezes. I ran my virus …

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Hi, I have a 80 gig harddrive that was partitioned into three 3. The OS was giving me problems and I decided to delete it. This is what I did. I loaded a bootdisk, then I fdisk. I deleted all the partitions. I formatted c: Then I try to go …

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Hey, I'm having problems with my OS. At random times - right after I press Ctrl + 'S', the system just restarts (which is annoying because whatever I just tried to save is lost). It's happened around 4 or 5 times so far, but they've all been spread apart. But …

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hii im back.. with another problem. i rebooted my comp and everything.. but idk how or what to do to install an audio driver? pls help me =[ thx.

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I have been troubleshooting this winxp sp2 pc all day. It will not boot to XP, does the eMachines logo on boot then black screen. Tried Last Known Good Config. and Safe Mode. BIOS shows HDD fine. Thing too is that every, maybe 1 out of 10 times, it will …

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I have P4 system and win xp , and i want to use speech option in ms word ( TOOLS--> SPEECH ) , initially ms word asked for cd but after installtion nothing happend , they did not ask me for voice tunning like micro phone ??? how i can …

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sorry i know there is a similar topic about this but my computer never booted so I started my comp in "Last known good configuration" and now some of my files have been erased! My computer looks like it reverted to 2 years ago and some of my newer files …

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My Windows XP Home Edition isnt genuine at the moment.. but i have the real validation key from the sticker on the side of my system unit. Does anyone know if i can make my windows genuine by somehow entering this validation key i have... WITHOUT having to reboot my …

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I want to transfer some files from my desktop (Windows XP) to my lap top (Windows 98SE). I have the correct cable (Null modem) but I am hitting a problem. When I set up a network connection for COM1 on my desktop, I can connect to my desktop from the …

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Hello my hard drive crashed, I was unable to boot to pc. Tried reinstal repair of Win xp still no luck to boot. I added old hard drive C, set first hard drive D as slave and reinstalled again Now I have access to my pc however no access to …

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I just want to ask how do I access other drives in my computer using the command line. For example I would like to access the files in my flash drive how do I do it? I tried to use the change directory command ( cd <drive name>) but I …

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There is always a big question of having a system backup for a security purpose.System Backups is the best way to have our data even in times of memory corruption, memory loss, auto format, system crash down.All condition may make a loss of billion dollars to any banking system or …

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Ok check this out I've installed Windows XP on a new hard drive, now each time the computer starts there is no "Welcome" screen instead i get this box with my username and password it gets so annoying. It appears as if its a Windows 98SE username & password box. …

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I have my pc with dual booting of win98 and winxp.I have mcafee installed on my pc, recently i tried to run a patch of mcafee on winxp which didn't run. Then i restarted my pc and booting in winkp gave me error \WINDOWS\system32\config file missing and it said to …

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I write to inquire about what one can do to prevent intrusion while navigating the internet in such a Wi Fi environment. I have XP pro with virus. antispyware, and firewall enabled. Aside from disabling file and print sharing in the windows firewall what other precautions can one take? Guidance …

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Current network 2x Windows NT4 PCs (pentium 2s with 128mb ram) 2x windows 2000 pro pcs (256mb ram pentium 3s) 2x windows xp pro pcs (512 ram pentium 4s) 1x vista buisness pc (1.5gb ram, pentium 4) 1x NT4 terminal server (512 ram, pentium 3) 1x NT4 PDC/Fileserver (384 ram, …

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I have a problem with my windows system following an migration to a new hard disc. To move the system I cloned the original drive using the acronis software from the seagate site, which seemed to work perfectly. When I boot the new hard drive I get an initial error …

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Hi there! First of all today, I experienced a "C0000218 Registry File Failure" error after upgrading my computer's RAM from 256mb to 512mb. The error would appear after the Windows load screen and the system would reboot. It kept on doing this, and would not get anywhere regardless of how …

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By some twist of fate, I got into the BIOS and changed my boot disc sequence, disabled my floppy to eliminate a problem the startup sequence says that I have and with the XP Pro CD in my CD-RW drive...Windows Setup started. Setup went through several inspections and offered to …

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This post is for those who have had the outlook error 0x8004210b. What resolved my issue was to change the smtp port to 587 instead of 25. I guess this change was made by our web host who didn't let us know about the change.

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We have a Dell PowerEdge running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 w/Exchange. It is about 5 months old and we've never had an issue with it, to date. This morning, it restarted itself. When it restarted, there were no error messages on the screen or anything and it booted normally. The …

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System is a 2000Pro with a HP 7450 Printer. Hardware Device mgr clearly shows 7450 hardware and software as installed and running properly yet printer does not appear on PRINTERS PAGE-the ADD PRINTERS icon is all that shows and when that is clicked on the "OUT OF RESOURCES" "print subsystem …

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Hi, I am using windows-NT workstation. i am not getting the refresh option in menu which we can get by right clicking the empty desktop.but we can refresh by pressing F5, but i want that option. The one more problem is i am not getting the tool bars on Start …

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Sorry about that. Let's start over. I have a win 2k box that I can't install SP4 on. (see previous posts). Since my win2k is an upgrade, I thought I would spring for a new XP Pro and start again. I bought an OEM version with SP2 on it and …

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hi guys, you very kindly gave me good advice a few week ago, and I am back again on behalf of my sister. here are her problems she has her belkin wireless modem connected directly to the xbox, she then has the belkin wireless usb plugged into main pc running …

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Hi guys! I have a problem.. When I start my laptop, everything was going fine. Then suddenly, when I click the START menu, the menu went all black. No icons could be seen until you point at them one by one. When I restart, everything went back to normal again. …

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Hi, I am running WIndows 2000 PRO and the computer connects to the Internet. When I try to access the Net using IE 7 and Firefox, they are unable to connect. Everthing else is running well. Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks, dglassford

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I have looked it up and it says that when you want a clean install of Windows XP, you go into the os disk and press repair or install. i went into the os disk and it says that i can install it but when i press it, it says …

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I have a PC with Windows Xp. It takes about two hours to get to the point where the destop should pop up. Just before it does, errors pop up saying that system32 files are missing and debug and sysevent and a bunch of other files are missing. That's when …

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I tried to download a pdf file and got error x c:\ doc and settings\----\local settings\ temp internet files\local settings\--.pdf The application failed to start because the application configuration was incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix the problem. I downloaded adobe 8.1.2 but the installation failed because "the old adobe …

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i get this error everytime when i start my pc error loading c:\windows\system32\nhdigccf.dll the specified module could not be found i have windowsxp pro.

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my OS is xp pro cannot boot because system 32 Missing or currupt I have downloaded the six startup diskets and loaded them on the defective computer I now get the choices To start up xp now press enter To repair xp using recovery console press R To quit press …

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We deleted the domain option on a 4.0 NT workstation. Our problem is we didn't set up a new user to logon without the domain. Does anyone happen to know how we can reset which domain to log into without being logged in?

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After I turn my computer on and go into windows it lets me play around for about 1min then it just freezes up. I can move the mouse about but cant click on anything press alt+tab a few times and it just switches through blank windows and then completely freezes. …

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I have not put together my computer yet, but does RAID 10 (striping and mirroring) work in XP 64 bit? (4 Hitachi 500gb's?) If so, how do you get it working initially on a built-from-scratch system? Also, is there [I]really[/I] a difference between RAID 10 and RAID 0+1? Is RAID …

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I recently purchased a laptop on ebay, and when I went to Windows to download the latest update, Windows notified me it was an illegal copy. My question is: when I reinstall a legal copy of Windows XP, do I have to save hard drive info before I install XP?

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Dear All, I have broad brand connection. I of the employee always access un-wanted site. I am unable to check it. But the Problems is that he regurarly mail every where. I copy noaccess.rat in system folder. But at present he is unable to access yahoo.mail. I already configure it …

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Hello, I am having a problem connecting computers on my network to the internet and was hoping to get some help. I am with shaw cable. The computers that wont connect are running XP (and Vista but i dont really need that one to connect). Let me start from the …

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Hello to all. I'm new here, so any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED! Just a few days ago, my computer, in the task bar, a message popped up saying "power surge in usb port". Now, the I only have 2 usb ports (there are 6 altogether). Is there a fix …

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I am trying to reinstall XP on my system. This isn't the first time I have done this. I have never had a problem before. The only difference now is that I recently had Ubuntu 7.10 on my system on a separate partition. I deleted that partition and my XP …

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I was attempting to reinstall windows xp. I put in the cd, formatted the hard drive, it copied the files, and then it is supposed to restart the computer so it can continue with the second part of the installation. You are supposed to take out the cd and boot …

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Hi, I have faced this problem many many times and have never found a conclusive solution. I do not know, but perhaps there is probably no solution at all to this problem. Anyway I am posting this problem in the hope that I am wrong. The problem is about Windows …

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