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| | xp will not boot in normal or safe mode. goes to a black screen with no cursor. I've tried resetting cmos. xp cd starts and gets to the screen saying windows is starting and freezes. I have tested the hd with seagate diagnostics and all passed. right now spinrite is … |
| | my pc cannot locate the boot.ini file? pc cannot find the boot.ini file and is not loading my normal desktop settings. I have lost most of my icons. My pc no longer asks me to logon. I am running Windows 2000 professional. Would appreciate any help, thank you |
| | In the last week I have had troubles with my Laptop. When ever I enter My Documents my computer will start to run at rediculously slow speed. It wont fully freeze but it is still unberable. I looked at my task manager and it said my prossecor was running at …  |
| | I am trying to activate TSEdigital's Desklog (flight log program). After confirming my email address I hit the activate button and get an error message: An unhandled exception has ocurred in your application. If you click continue, the app will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click … |
| | help!!! I just reinstalled XP home and i get that error that mixer devices not installed. does anyone know what drivers i need for that and where do i get them from?:sad: |
| | these two errors occur right after bootup finishes 1st error: svchost.exe - Application error [The instruction at "0x745f2780" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read".] 2nd error: this occurs seconds after the first one Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem and needs to … |
| | Been reading this forum for ages but now I have a real live issue of my own! I've seen this posted a few times, but I haven't yet found a definitive answer. After initial boot up, I get the Generic Host Process Failure message with these details: szAppName : svchost.exe … |
| | Not sure if I should be posting in this forum or the Internet Explorer forum, but here's the problem. I have XP Pro and have two seperate sides set up....one for my wife and one for me. I.E. works fine on my side, but when I switch to hers, I.E. …  |
| | I have had 2 instances of Movieland files on my computer. Based on help data available I have removed all of the files that the data suggests. When going through the registry keys I found two files that I am unsure of. They are HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\TRIALEND.TRIALEND AND HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\TRIALEND.TRIALEND.1 None of the …  |
| | God only knows how I landed up with this crazy problem... My main C:/ Folder has somehow been given a Folder Type as a Media Folder. (If that was too confusing: When you right click in any other folder, click on Properties. Under the customize tab, you can use an … |
| | I'm having a problem with my new computer. It had no Hard Disk in the computer so I bought one from e-bay which was perfectly fine. I've since installed a Genuine Microsoft XP Professional, and just yesterday had my Tiscali Broadband connected. Now here's the problem. I know one of … |
| | how can i get my data off my hard drive when my computer will not boot? I cannot find my w2k cd just the setup disks I made. If I use them will I lose my data? Any suggestions? Thanks  |
| | Hi - I hope this is in the right forum. About a week ago I installed XP Pro on top of the home edition. I got lots of hardware conflicts and other problems, so I installed the home edition again. (I know this was idiotic...:sad:...but its done now! Since then …  |
| | help!. I screwed up one day when i denied everything, inluding my system to the registry key 'CLSID' in red edit with the 'permissions' option, now when i try to start up my system doesnt get past the logonui part, because of the permissions crap i set. So does anyone … |
| | heres my issue. I have recently gotten cable connection in the house. For a few days, life was great with downloads. 1 mbps and above. Now, its downloading at less than 100 kb/s. Im completely lost, does this have to do with my coputer?? Also, my laptop, which is 3 … |
| | My sisters computers keeps constantly stalling for no apparent reason. The computer can be idle and will freeze or you can be in the middle of a task and it will freeze, the only thing that resolves this is a restart. On restart though you can log in and it … |
| | I installed 2 copies of windows xp trying to solve a start up problem. I have start up fixed but now I have two operating systems. How do I uninstall the 2nd system?  |
| | I am helping some nice old ladies with their computers but I have run into a problem. They used to own Samantics Norton suit but got tired with it so they uninstalled it. When they did this a samantic pop-up appeared saying "Your computer is in danger." I have gone …  |
| | Okies, So between my boyfriend and I we consider ourselves more computer savvy then the average joe. We have a friend whose computer had been sitting for 3+ years and we are trying to get it up and running again. Atm, we are trying to install windows on a brand …  |
| | Hi Folks, We have 3 citrix servers which our internal users use and our external (home) users can log into citrix via our web site. We have a user at home which has a HP Laserjet 1200 which she needs to print to whilst in a remote citrix session, my … |
| | Ive gotten a couple of trojans before, and i deleted them myself, and realized that most of them were located in the registry key 'CLSID' so one day i set permissions in regedit and denied everything to this class and now every time i log on, the system cant acess … |
| | I was a lurker here, now I need help. Suddenly, I got the dreaded "missing or corrupt hal.dll" error message. In reading everything I could find on the Net, I succeeded in fixing it, more or less: Computer again runs just fine, everything is apparently operating as it should. One … |
| | Ever since installing internet security 2006 my computer has revolted against me. More recently I brought my comouter to my country house and attempted to Dial up via Earthlink. Internet was fine but I could not send /recive messages via Outlook. Brought my Laptop home and tested my dial up … |
| | My hard drive is completely full of junk that i don't need anymore, and is rendering my computer basically useless. For example, it takes my computer over 20 minutes just to start up. So i want to completely wipe my hard drive and start out from scratch. Please, anyone with …  |
| | HEy all, the most recent windows update KB920872 keeps re-appearing for installation in my taskbar even though I've installed it. What is going on?  |
| | Yesterday I was using my Compaq v2030 laptop and I suddanly got the bluescreen error message "KERNAL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR" it said some other stuff that I didn't quite catch...maybe something about deleting physical memory...and "STOP: 0x00000077" and then it froze up. When I tried restarting it this morning the computer began starting … |
| | [FONT=Arial Black]undefined[/[COLOR=Sienna]undefined[/COLOR]FONT][SIZE=7]undefined[/SIZE Need info on a HP computer. It has windows Xp. Want to put second hard drive from another computer on it This drive has windows 98 se on it. How would this work. Dummy here as I have not done any changes in a while  |
| | Hi, im using xp home, and between now and yesterday a problem has developed and i cannot stream videos. When i click on download/stream etc.. i can hear the sound buy no image appears. This also happens with dvds on both windows media player and power dvd? im no good … |
| | [quote=lol_hacker101;253375]...cannot play music files, and when I try to open the Volume Control, it says that "no mixer devices are installed." ...[/quote] I'm having the same problem. Nothing is red(X) or yellow(!) in my sound, video and game controllers. Here's a list of everything in Sound, Video, and Game controllers: … |
| | Hi when I start up my pc the display is normal (Windows XP) however once it switches over to users or the desktop the display flips onto its side. The background picture, icons and taskbar are lying on its side and dragging the taskbar doesn't help either. Turning the monitor … |
| | Hi when I start up my pc my start up screen (Windws XP) is normal but as soon as it changes over to users or desktop display everything flips on its side, that is the background picture, my icons and my taskbar. Dragging the taskbar doesn't help and everything including … |
 | hi well i have a very weird problem i have succesfully installed windows server 2003 R2 that was with the disc 1 . then i also inserted disk 2 and continued the installtion process. its now that my problem starts.!! as it is i wanted to configure roles onto the … |
| | Hello, In Despirate Need Of Help I Have A Laptop (acer) When I Turn My Computer On It Goes Through The Processes(you See The Windoes Logo And The Bar) Then A Very Quick Flash Frame Of A Blue Screen Pops Up And Then The Computer Restarts Itself, It Brings Me … |
| | I will be working on my PC, XP Home Edition, and will randomly lose connection to the Internet. I can still work offline. In order to re-establish connection to the Internet I must turn the computer off and restart it. This disconnect happens whether I use a Belkin router or … |
| | I have searched this site and the web and have tried many ideas to try to resolve this problem. I recently purchased a computer and installed win XP pro. Ever since I got it I would restart randomly(Rarely, but always while playing World of Warcraft). Just recently I upgraded to … |
| | I have a phantom dvd drive on my computer. it is not connected to any hardware but it is there as my I drive. I just noticed it in "My Computer" and I can't get rid of it. Thoughts?:?: |
| | Hi, i've been upgrading this old pc that was running win98 perfectly to winxp home... the system now keeps on randomly rebooting, sometimes when i click a button(any button for that matter) it reboots or even on its own sometimes... now i've checked the event logs and at first it … |
| | Acknowledgements: Thanks to DKnoppix and Crow for most the images and dgosling for helping get this setup. This guide shows how to reformat your computer in case of a severe corruption or a severe malware infection where helpers cannot guarantee the security of your computer. This guide is for reinstalling … |
| | Hi all , i have abnormal problem i cannot re appear my quick launch toolbar.... i put tick to Show Quick Launch option but nothing is happening what i must do pls help me ! :(  |
| | I have windows xp service pack 2, a clean install with a modified uxtheme.dll to allow for custom visual styles. This was working fine, but after installing a few things (nvidia drivers and utilities for video card, windows .net framework 1.1 when I already had 2.0 installed (side note - … |
| | Hello. When I try to start my computer, the screen goes black and in the corner it says "NTLDR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart" when i press Ctrl+Alt+Del it brings up the opening "compac" page and then goes back to the black screen with that message. Does anyone know … |
| | Hi Guys i need help bad situation: I have recently bought a Fujitsu Siemens amilo. Worked fine for a week. I installed a music making programme off the internet (Magix music and video) - it worked then my computer switched its self off and rebooted - strange. Laptop turns back …  |
| | My girlfriends computer has been dead for about a week now and Ive tried almost everything I can think of. I will start off by explaining the problem. The computer runs fine from anywhere from 30 seconds to 48 hours without crashing. When it does it is a total hardlock. … |
| | Hello all! I'm new to these forums, so give me a chance. You should post a sticky to tells ppl all the information they need to provide in order to get an appropriate response. I'm running svp2 and I can't get my computer to reboot. When I try, it stops … |
| | Hi all, I have a computer that using Windows XP with drivers installed for my hardwares . When i try to play any video files with any media softwares ( i tried with windows media and winamp ) , my computer gets freeze . I have to shut it off … |
 | Ok I tried to upgrade to xp pro awhile ago and it didnt work and so then today I tried again using a student version I got. It stops at around 34 or 33 minutes remaining and doesnt do anything. So now I just want to go back to windows … |
| | I have ran my Reg Fixer and it has showed 4 problems : Active X mostly: Can I just delete them . These are the reg Keys: :HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\{32F87EA3-AD21-43FF-9F1A-657E58D13399} HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\NavShellExtEx.DLL HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{1E6478F0-7FA8-11D2-B40A-00600831DD76} When I click fix problem it does not fix it it just keeps re-appearing at every scan. It … |
| | Hi, I am trying to help a friend fix his computer. He didnt activate his copy of xp in the 30 days after installation, and as promised, xp will not let us start windows without activating. The problem is, when we click the option to enter an activation code, it … |
| | Ok... so I start my computer one time and I get the following message as soon as i turn it on: "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \windows\system32\config\system " It sais I need to insert the windows instillation cd and press r. I do … |
| | Ok, i have a friend that has come to me for help with her comp and i have no idea how to solve this one. When she starts her computer (laptop w/ Windows XP) a dos-looking screen comes up after a short wait and says that the file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system" is … |
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