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my folder option is missing from tools..only sync..map driver network such 3 things are present in tools tab..m using xp 2006.......

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I was recently given a 80GB SATA drive to use on my system at home. After I hooked it up and rebooted the drive comes up stating it is a network drive with the letter Z as a drive letter. I also have a network printer that is using the …

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My hard drive crashed and I had to install a new hard drive. I installed every disk that came with my computer but I don't have any sound and I get error messages from itunes saying "ituns detected a problem with audio configuration. Audio/Video playback may not operate properly. Not …

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In advance, forgive my ignorance. I am not very computer literate. Here is my situation. I have an older computer...Windows XP. Out of the blue, it dropped internet access. I did the typical start/restart the modem and router. After it connected to the router it stayed on "Acquiring Network Access". …

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Hi all, I have a system running Windows XP. I've never had a computer do this to me, but what is happening is that it boots up ok and everything visibly looks ok, but when I go to click on an icon, it takes forever to load a program or …

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Hi folks, my desktop icons have diasppeared and i have tried every trick on the book including tweakui to repair the icons no success please help. have tried to sefe boot nothing helps.

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This was an error I found on my computer that I did a search on the web for a quick and easy fix for. I found this forum that had my error and symptoms, but found no one had a solution. The thread was closed because the original poster had …

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I have recently assembled a computer out of old components, a Gigabyte 8SMMLP Motherboard with 1GB worth's SD-Ram, a 256MB Geforce FX5200 graphics card and Intel 2.6GHz CPU. When I turned it on it throws me a "Drive Read Error", it's unable to read either my DVD Drive or the …

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Hello, I received word documents by mail and I can not open them. I receive a message that I don't have winwrd632 converter. I downloaded it from Internet and followed all the instructions I found to solve the problem, but it wasn't successful. Please if somebody has an idea help …

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I'm having an issue with my compaq presario desktop when i boot into windows it hangs just before the windows log on screen and so far i have been unable to boot the comp into safe mode any help figuring out the problem would be appreciated

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1. when i watch dvds from nero essentials and play videos and files from windows media player, but when i watch youtube videos, and watch videos from flv player, there are no sounds! 2. i have tried the windows audio service troubleshoot, but apparently, my windows audio has started and …

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I've just returned an old laptop to its factory state with reinstall disks and have Windows XP Home installed but I can't find a way to update Windows at least to SP2. I have Automatic Updates ticked under System but it is not downloading anything. Can anyone help or provide …

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Hello I have Networx installed on my PC, and bizarrely enough, since this morning I can see from its traffic monitor that something/s is being downloaded, but I did not launch any specific downloads, and using Networx NetStat revealed very little info. I want to know where the downloads are …

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Hello all tutor, I want to know how to reinstall my windows xp without losing my data, thanks before

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Everything WAS fine..I have absolutely NO sound and nothing changed....Where can I begin to figure out why?

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How do I get Tools, Internet Options back on my computer...it will not load from the browser and it is not showing in Control Panel...is there any way to type the code back in? I am good at following directions...just don't know what to do..thanks:'(

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I get this error message every time on start up. Will describe it as best as I can: Application NDP1. 1sp 1 Error Description Queue Serv Size 2.1KB Contents NDP1. 1sp 1. KB2416447_x86_ wrapper log version bd As I get this message every day I would appreciate any help in …

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Hi I hope someone can help. A recent update came for my anti virus product (McAfee Total Protection). However as a result of this update the screen resolution changed from 1024 x 768 - 32bit to 640 x 480 - 4bt and cannot be changed back citing Windows does not …

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I have a problem on win XP where every command I run including cmd and msconfig do not run but open as text files for editing. This happened after I manually tried removing the New Folder.exe virus due to the failure of my antivirus to deal with it. I cannot …

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Dear all, I spent nearly 3 months getting a blasted epson thermal recipet printer to work correctly on Windows XP. It was the hardest task I ever came across in my life. Epson printers and support are the worst I have ever seen in my life. If anyone else is …

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Hi, i've been struggling da whole day with getting my administrator or primary password for my dell d600... a little or alot of help will be nice....

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PC - Dell Dimension 8200 - Pentium 4 - 2.8GHz - WinXP SP3 - "born" 2002 I have previously added an extra HDD from a Sky TV PVR. For several years I have had no problem with this 250GB drive. Maxtor DiamondMax 10 - 6L250RO 250GB - PATA133 Jumpered to …

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I have windows xp professional Celeron CPU 2.53 GHz 1.24 GB RAM and I am trying to open some photos which came in an attachment to one of my e-mails. However, I get the message "this file does not have a program associated with it to perform this action. Create …

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When I power up my PC and Windows XP tries to load, I get the following message: "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this." There are a few old threads on here with suggestions to deal …

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The other day we bought a used Compaq Presario with the following specs.: Celeron CPU 2.50GHz 2.49GHz 120 MB of RAM 32.2 GB hard drive with 21.8 GB free space The problem is that it runs so excruciatingly slow that it literally takes several minutes just to open a program. …

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I'm having trouble with a computer that will not get out of chkdsk. Every time the pc boots, it starts the chkdsk program which normally would be ok, but it will not finish. It gets to 83% of phase 5 and freezes. there is no way to cancel the scan …

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Lot may time i come acorss a error MSG(Unable to silently launch embedded setup(27091)) while installing software which looks unresolved sometimes it gets fixed by changing a package however most of the times its bogs me down i researched in many verticals but nothing gives me insight about the error. …

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I tried to use winchat on a LAN but it shows that the other computer didn't respond while LAN is functional. Any ideas?? :(

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Hello DaniWeb Family ! I have an Emachine Netbook, EM250, 1GB RAM...Windos XP Home. This may be the wrong place to put this thread so let me know if we need to move it. I let my niece borrow the net book for a day. Bad BAD BAD ! The …

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We have here at our home my wife's work computer. While not today's hottest iron, it is still Centrino Duo machine, runningn WinXP Professional with 1 GB RAM. Our home machine is aged AMD Semptron 3100+ (1.81 GHz) and has 2 GB RAM running WindowsXP Home. While running my Mandelbrot …

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I think my eGeForce 8600GT NVIDIA graphics card is going bad – frequent system pauses occurring when complex displays are being processed - & I’m looking for suggestions for an upgrade costing under $100 USD. My system is Windows XP SP3, Gigabyte GA-945P-S3 motherboard, 3.0G Pentium 4 processor, 750W power …

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I accidentally installed 2 xp's on my pc and now i want to replace one of them with linux operating system.... Someone please guide me....

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I have an empty folder with the above name. When I try to delete it it says 'Cannot delete, it is being used by another program'. I have tried EMCO 'MoveOnBoot' but it doesn't allow you to delete folders, only files. Suggestions please. Sorry I didn't google first. NOw have …

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Our computer has a 6g hard drive and I just reformated it a couple of days ago. It had been running slow and saying that it had low disk space. So after I reinstalled Windows XP and as I was installing the various drivers I was watching to see how …

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I have had to format our computer (eMachines W6409) and reinstall Windows XP but I can't figure out how to fix it so Standby is not grayed out. I have gone to the eMachines support website and downloaded the chipsets. One of them installed but it still is grayed out. …

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Hi I used to have a problem, where if i double clicked on any hard drive in My Computer, it would be opened inside the program ACDSee, rather than just opening up in explorer. there was no way to switch it off from within ACDSee so i went to Tools->Options->File …

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I purchased a barebones computer and it works great! I want to use an old steering wheel with the racing car games (old), but this is a 15 pin socket. The Motherboard has a 9 pin game socket. I installed an old sound card which has a 15 pin socket …

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Hello, I have windows xp professional, cpu 2.53 GHz, 2.53 GHz, 1.24 GB ram. I am having a heck of a time trying to download music to my pc. I have several playlists on utube but I'm unable to transfer them to windows media player. I also thought I could …

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Hi my PC has no sound and the 'C-Media AC97 Audio Device' in the device manager has a yellow exclamation mark next to it. I have tried un-installing and re-installing it but this does nothing. Can anybody tell me how to fix this or how to aquire a working device …

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Well un fortunately I dont have AC...My FAN runs almost constantly...What if anything can I do about this? Is it a threat to the tower? Is it normal?

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I have a pc that is shared by several people. Have decided to disable the log on password, but would still like to protect my private documents. It should be relatively simple - can anyone tell me how to set password entry on specific folders? Much appreciated

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This is my 1st attempt at a posting. My PC has 1 HD with 3 partitions; 55 mb FAT -- Partition Magic 8.0 (works fine) 300 mb FAT -- DOS 6.22 (E:) (works fine) 37 gb NTFS -- XP Pro (C:) Have valid OEM XP Pro CD w/SP2 XP really …

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Hi, all, Got no idea what causes this: My sister sends a JPG attachment from her Mac (OS 10.6, not sure what else you'd need to know) to someone with Windows who uses AOL. The attachment comes up with an ASPX extension at the Windows end. Huh? Then I try …

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HI,my Keyboard stopped working and i bought a new one and now i turn on my computer and When it asks me to start windows normally the Keyboard works and then the Syskey box will pop up and i'm trying to enter my password but i can't. but i don't …

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Hi, This is me called Malik. I want someone serious help. I have given a task to make the Learning Session of a software, same as the learning softwares available in the market. Unfortunately I am unable to find the appropriate software and also stays still unable to complete the …

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Hi all Have a problem, loaded nero, ranperfect for a couple of days and then started picking up errors. Nero support suggested- Nero fix, if this didnt work uninstall/ reinstall. Fix didnt work and when i try uninstall it runs through half the process and i get the following message. …

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On the ‘Folder’ ribbon the ‘favorites’ section does not appear. Right clicking the ribbon and choosing ‘Customize the Ribbon…’ shows the ‘Folder’ tab as being selected and within that tab are ‘New, Actions, Clean up, Favorites, Share, IMAP, Properties’. ‘Favorites, Share and IMAP’ do not appear on the ribbon. I …

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I have had to format our computer (eMachines W6409) and reinstall Windows XP but I cannot find the correct audio driver. I have gone to the eMachines support website and used their program to detect the driver on the computer. I downloaded the one they said but it did not …

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