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To start with I need explain that I'm not the brightest when it comes to anything too technical as far as PC's go! OK... my PC will boot up normally and everything seems fine. Then after a while (not more than 10 minutes) the machine hangs briefly and then ungraciously …

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Hello There was no topic to put this but i have got windows media center 2005 and i cant upgrade to windows media player 11 is there any way to get round this it says incompatible version Thank You Bondi007

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Hi there, My wife has a calendar she likes to use, called the [URL="http://www.hallmark.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/article%7C10001%7C10051%7C/HallmarkSite/hoops&yoyohome/CC_BF_HYY_MONTHLY_CALENDAR"]Hoops and Yoyo Fun Calendar[/URL]. She said it was working before on her home and work computer. It's basically a SWF file that plays on her desktop. Since We've moved and had to set up with a …

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Has this feature been removed? When I amble back to '[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/search.php?"]old familiar[/URL]' (which takes more work than I would like), it doesn't work as I expect. That is, if I specify to search for "environment" in Geeks Lounge, I get results in forums [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/search280691.html"]such as[/URL] [list][*]Windows NT / 2000 / …

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I am trying to setup email templates in Outlook 2003. The template is a basic email that will be sent to different users, but the body of the email rarely changes. I have saved a new email with the body setup the way I want it to look each time. …

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hi i posted this at jan 7th 2006 .... i still got the problem and yet no answer....can anybody help me please? "hi , as it seems i am full on problems ... i dont exactly know how i managed to do this but whenever i click on a file …

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Since I'm new to all this and have little time, I really want to pick a few brains on small details if there's another 'nut' out there who has the time to talk to me now and again. My first question......how do I shut down running programmes (Win.XP Prof.)in order …

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I've been having a problem with the way Window XP handles navigation from folder to folder. When I open subfolders then back up into higher level folders, Windows opens a new window instead of backing into the previously opened folder window. This results in (often many) duplicate folder windows open …

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I have a laptop that i use for remote recording. the laptop has in internal drive and an external firewire drive. the firewire drive is used exclusively for storing the audio files that are recorded. when the recording is finished, i take the firewire drive back to my studio and …

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Now i know theres a thread on this problem, but nothing posted there has worked. so perhaps a few screenshots can help. [URL="http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/556/errorqc6.jpg"]http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/556/errorqc6.jpg[/URL] [URL="http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/3744/locationmissingej4.jpg"]http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/3744/locationmissingej4.jpg[/URL] [URL="http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/1299/startedjl5.jpg"]http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/1299/startedjl5.jpg[/URL] Basically, i hear no sound. i've tried all steps in previous threads. On top of this a USB headset does work and i can hear …

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Hi All, We have a product which is web based and uses sessions for everyone logged in and when they timeout the Session_OnEnd is supposed to fire and delete records from a table which stores some data for the user. The problem is that the Session_OnEnd is not firing and …

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Hi there. My PC has recently decided not to work, giving me the common message "c:\windows\system32\config\system is missing or corrupt....". I have it under good authority that the way to fix this is to reinstall windows (I've tried fixboot, chkdsk, etc...). However, if I do this I will loose all …

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Hi, I've just built my first PC - which may or may not have anything to do with my troubles... I split my pc into 3 drives: 1.Windows, 2.ProgFiles, 3.Documents & Settings (done with an unattended install + answer file). All seemed fine. A few days later I have a …

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Is it possible to recover data after a drive has been overwritten? In trying to solve a blue screen problem, I accidentally formatted the partition where I keep all of My Documents. (This is a computer I built and I'm pretty new to being my own tech person.) For whatever …

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ok i have a hp pavilion ze4500 laptop and when i go to turn it on now and i go to the welcome screen it is blank of users it was running on windows xp service pack 2 when i try ctrl+alt+del+del and tried to sign on i could not …

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Hi, and thank you for your time. I just recieved my computer through UPS service. It was sent to me after I relocated. I don't think that is what is causing the freeze because my computer worked for the last day and a half since I have set it up. …

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Hi, I have tried to install Oracle database but it was too big for my PC and the installation failed. But it looks like that something has been intalled and the PC has become veeery SLOW. So the problem is how to remove that **** (sorry) from the computer. When …

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is there any programs or ways to make your usb need a password to open it but i use it at skool and ther blocking forces are amazing just about all u can do is skool work. so i cant use other programs at skool. but yer does any1 no …

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When I got on some websites, there are several red "X" in boxes. When pointing mouse on it, it shows what the area is, but I am unable to click on it to enter that area. This doesn't happen on every website, but quite often. I hope I am explaining …

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Hello! I have an issue with uxtheme.dll, as i have patched it so i can use 3rd party themes and it's been working fine till about a week ago when i got a new DSL connection and Windows Update sent me a new update and since then every few days …

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Dear my freinds, Whould you please tell me how I can make a copy of my drive(OS drive or others) and make it bootable from cd/dvd. Good Luck and Have Fun ALL.

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Hello all, I recently ran a CAT5 cable from my router about 50 meters across the land to another small house. I checked the connection with my laptop and it works great (very fast) the next day I came to set it up for my girlfriend with her pc and …

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I am running xp as my os and have encountered the following stop err on xp start up STOP: C000021a [Fatal System Error] The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000263 (0x00000000 0x00000000) The system has been shut down If I attempt to start in …

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Hi, I have a problem with my modem: my computer does not detect it. I can still go on the internet but I can't play online games. I use Windows XP. Is there a way to have it detected? Thank you

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Bizarre: even when I am not browsing the internet. If I turn on the computer, click start and then double-click or right click on the following: my documents, my computer, my network places, control panel or search: I get the error message above. If I wish I can then access …

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Hi guys, I have a HDD split into three partitions. The first partition has just Windows system files. The second has only application files. The third is now empty. Something is wrong with that HDD. When I try to boot it, I get "A disk read error occurred". Fortunately I …

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Hello, I've been having a kind of annoying problem for the last... as long as I can remember. When I try to move or copy large files or a large number of files, my computer tends to lock up completely at some point and I have to hit the reset …

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Everytime i turn on the pc i get serval things come up. First its Error Loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\fslvndya.dll Then its Error Loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\wxstofsr.dll Then finally its Microsoft visual C++ Runtime Libray C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe Here is my HiJackThis Log file. Please help me sort it out, its doing my head in. Thanks alot …

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I have just built a nice new pc (my first time). I installed Windows XP Pro, but it's an old version (before SP1) and it won't let me connect to the internet. I connected my cable modem directly to the pc, but I get nothing. I tried automatically detecting settings, …

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Can you steer me toward a current, correct solution to a Blue screen? Here are the specifics: STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error} The Windows Logon Process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000135 (0x00000000 0x00000000). The system has been shut down. I was removing some software and the …

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For some reason I can't see or set my background. When I go into properties and go to desktop the background option is grayed out. Both the Background and Browse button are the gray that means it's not an option. I can choose solid colors but no pictures. When I …

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So here's the deal -- I'm dual-booting Mac OS X and Windows XP on my MacBook. On Mac OS X, I have the clock synced to network time. And, being a good Unix system, it sets the system time to GMT. That's all fine and dandy until I install Windows, …

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I am getting a memory dump error while trying to load in XP pro. I have a K7AMA (Elitegroup motherboard, 1.3mhz with 512M Ram (which I just replaced, thinking it was bad). I ran the RAM checker and it checked out fine. This computer was working fine and then I …

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I formatted my drive and reinstalled XP yesterday and now when my laptop boots up it comes to a gray screen with two OS showing with the first one highlighted. IF I agree to boot to the first one everything is fine and it goes directly to Windows. If I …

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When turning on the computer...I get a message that says "loading PBR descriptor 2...done, a disk read error has occurred, press ctrl+alt+del to restart". I did that and it looks like its going to load, then the same screen pops back up with the same error message repeatedly, this is …

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I switched on my computer, and suddenly it says no audio device found. I do not know what to do. I read on some sites that I have to reinstall the chipset but I am not sure where to do that from, and how to reinstall my audio device. Here …

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I recently built a new system and am having complete lock up issues -total freeze up, no warning, stuters, slowness just an instant freeze up. It sometimes happens within a few minutes sometimes in an hour sometimes not at all for several hours. I received the following error message once …

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I have a Dell Optiplex GX270, with 512M Ram. It came with a CD ROM which I just replaced with a generic IDE DVD ROM. The CD ROM was working fine. My DVD ROM will not read any files except CDA, and it won't even play those. FIle Manager says …

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I'm using XP and am having a couple of difficulties. The most annoying is that I can't send email. I'm using Outlook 2003 and everytime I try to send email it says synchronizing folders and eventually times out. Downloading email works fine. I thought something was wrong with outlook until …

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Hello, I am new to sharepoint, we currently run sharepoint portal 2003 and sharepoint service 2. This portal site has been up and running for quite some time. I was recently hired and tasked with getting it going, and here is my issue. Everyone in the company on the network …

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I just upgraded a rig with a new MBO/RAM/HDD. The new HDD is a WD SATA. It works fine. The guy I was helping out wanted his old IDE hooked up so he could acess his old files. I was sucessful in doing this, however everytime windows boots it wants …

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i turn on my computer and the desktop(icons) are there and then are not.this goes on until i turn off computer. when i go to check processes etc.. i notice that it is explorer.exe that come and goes. happened yesterday then was fine. today i started computer and was ok. …

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Hi! everybody, I have a laptop (Win. XP professional) and have faced with a problem. In turn off menu the stand by option is not active (in gray) while the Turn off and Restart options work OK. please help me to fix this problem. THANKS :) Abolmaali

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these two entries are alongside my normal hijackthis logfile: O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-18\..\Run: [DWQueuedReporting] "C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\MICROS~1\DW\dwtrig20.exe" -t (User 'SYSTEM') O4 - HKUS\.DEFAULT\..\Run: [DWQueuedReporting] "C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\MICROS~1\DW\dwtrig20.exe" -t (User 'Default user') hijackthis.de said they were Microsoft Application Error reporting. (Which i''m guessing would be from some random errors a while ago.) Does that mean they …

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When I attempt to install Windows 2000 Professional via Caldera DR-DOS, I get the same error to the one found within this link: [url]http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=228218[/url] The cause apparently is due to my not having any defined partitions. After some poking around, I found this site: [url]http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/23839.html[/url] As far I know, this …

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XP...suddenly Windows Installer isn't working...tried installing 3.1, and all indicates that it installed, but still isn't working. Do I need to install 3.0 first. Is there an "uninstall" for Windows Installer that i need to run? What are the steps for me to get this darned thing fixed????

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I have been having network problems. I checked my event viewer and it shows me alot of errors in system log. this is a windows 2000 pro sp4 system. I have a list of commands that have errors, here they are. the at9.job command failed to start due to the …

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Hi all, I'm sure you have an easy fix for this. When I start up my computer, which uses Windows XP Home, it goes through the normal routine, then after the Welcome screen it just goes blank (actually it's blue), and my desktop does not appear. Only after I hit …

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I wrote a windows service in .NET 2.0, but when I try to uninstall it, I get an exception. The full text for the message from my event viewer is this. [quote] The description for Event ID ( 11001 ) in Source ( MsiInstaller ) cannot be found. The local …

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Hi, My WinXP Dell D610 laptop lost all installed printers. When tried to "Add Printer" by double clicking "Add Printer" icon, nothing happens (task does not start, curser doesn't change). Print Spooler was already started, so I stopped it and restarted it, no change In the "Printers and Faxes" folders, …

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