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| | Geesh, Last night, for some reason, all my desktop icons turned funny shapes and colors. I tried a virus check, ad-aware, spybot S&D, and a few others...nothing is helping. Any ideas folks? John Kowalski |
| | I have tried and tried to install Norton systemworks 96. When it does a scan onmy computer is says that go back scan failed because of a multi boot disc. What in this and how did I get it? Will I be unable to install this software? I had 05 …  |
| | Hi I have a 40GB hard drive set up as a spare HDD master on my secondary IDE. All I want to do is set aside an active partition of just 1GB on this drive. I have tried to do it following the help menu by using 'disk management' and … |
| | hello all... i can play any mpeg or avi etc files in color. when i try to play them in programmas like winamp or divx or windows media player they all get played in black and white. now when i play a movie from a dvd, i can play it … |
 | After trying to install XP on a machine at home, something happened and we stopped. Now, everytime the machine boots it goes the the windows setup and asks for the disk, which apparently doesn't work now. Is there any way to get rid of this and start from scratch? Thanks |
| | I'm in the process of trying to delete the yahoo program. Can't find it in the add/remove program. How do I find it?:?: |
| | Hi, I am using Office 2003. When I do mail merge from Outlook, it opens up two MS WORD documents instead of one. Any suggestions please ? Regards, Mo |
| | There is no start menu or no desktop icons when i start up my computer regularly and the same when I start up in Safe Mode. I can control alt delete and access programs. Also when i type Explorer in run I can see the start menu flash. Thanks in … |
| | i have a 22 page business plan on my computer (right now im on a different computer.) my comp suddenly shut down and i cant load windows. when i turn on the computer it goes to a black screen with 5 options; restart windows normally, safe mode with command promt, … |
| | I have 1Gb cards, 1Gb switches, and Cat5.e ran. Why aren't I noticing a performance boost? I've been trying to transfer 120+GB for going on 3 hours now. |
| | My cat was just in the computer room with me and he jumped on the keyboard, and suddenly my browser closed and I was logged out! Well, not "logged out" exactly, it was like I'd clicked "Switch User" - my browser and even my Last.fm radio was still running, but … |
 | Hi, I have a badly virus infected laptop that needs Win XP to be reinstalled. I've run out of warranty but this should not be too tough. I have a Dell XPS M140 that has a feature called PC Restore that you can initiate by Ctrl + F11 during boot. … |
| | Ok i have a home network of XP PRO XP HOME UBUNTU WIN 98 WIN 95 WIN 95 NT 3.51 Would it be upgrading the 98/95/3.1 machines to NT4? and the XP home to Pro as i want better security and want to work on a domain. They wont run … |
| | I'm having a problem to access recovery console from a bootable XP CDrom. The "Repair" does not appear as option. Even clicking letter "R" repeatedly does not work. But I'm sure this option was there before. Does anyone know what has caused this issue and how to fix it? Thanks |
| | I was running a virus scan and after a long while the computer froze. I shut it down (power button) and when it restarted get me a message saying that there was a problem before and giving me options to start normal, last known good configuration, or safe mode (w/3 … |
| | Why do i have to use the windows cd to boot up. i have just installed a secondary Drive, but what do I need to do so as a cd does not need to be inserted.  |
| | I have deleted my sound card device:eek:.I have tryed downloading it back, but when it uploads it back, it gives me this crappy driver called cinemaster that still doesn't run any sound.I'm also not sure where to find system restore on my computer, or if I even have it.Help would … |
| | Hi I have posted a similar issue before but now i have figured out a few more things. I have IBM Thinkpad R52. It had a combo drive(CD-burner+DVD reader) which a got changed to a IBM DVD writer. The problem is , system crashes with a blue screen when I … |
| | I have been having problems with my mouse cuting out and spining at the sky while playing games and cuting out while on desk top and last week it stoped working and wont work at all now ? I have tryed cleaning the mouse pluging in a difrent one and … |
| | Hi I connect to my work computer (Windows Server 2003) using Remote Desktop from my home computer running XP Professional. Is there any way, when I am connected to my work computer using RDP, of printing to my local printer at home ??? Cheers Glenn |
 | [CENTER][COLOR=magenta]I'm a model and I wanted to take my photos from my cd to my computer but once I got home I wasn't able to view my pics on my computer. My brother put the cd in the DVD player and a slide show began of all of my pics. … |
| | I tried to restrict users from editing the local group policy in my computer just for security but not knowing... that doing that locally (computer not in a domain) will affect all the users who logs in in that certain PC even the Administrator account. HERE IS THE CAUSE:!!! What … |
| | So I've reformatted my Hard Drive, and re-installed Windows XP Professional, and well now I don't have any sound ! My sound card is a "C-Media AC97 Audio Device" It's say this in the "Sounds and Audio Devices Manager" : This device cannot start. [Code 10] Location: PCI bus 0, … |
| | Really confused here. I'm running Firefox in XP and recently I started getting this error. When I boot up my machine, everything is great for about 10 minutes. Then suddenly, everypage I try to open, whether I follow a link or phsyically type in an address leads to the exact … |
| | [B][B][B]Anna Marie I too, stumbled onto this from Google. I have the same problem Monitor Screen displaying everything sideways. I tried the ALT+CTRL+arrow key combo but that just inches my viewing area whichever the arrow is pointing that I push. [/B][/B][/B] Does anyone else have any other suggestions.? I have … |
| | I am creating a VB.NET program that will automate several installation programs with the click of one button. In creating the program, I am utilizing macro's to record mouse movements, clicks, etc. to breeze through and automate the stupid installation wizards. The macro program that I use creates an .exe … |
 | hi first of all sorry if i put this thred in a wrong place yesterday i installed on my windows xp flash player 9.0 the last one from macromedia. since then i am not able to run any swf file on my internet browser. i spend a while playing with … |
| | OK, recently I was playing an online video game and my game froze up. My first thought was, "Oh my internet died." Then my whole computer shut down. I tried booting up again and heard my computer running but saw nothing on my screen. After a few more attempts I … |
| | Hi I have read through a number of forums with this same issue, but I haven't been able to find anything relavant to my current situation. I read up on how spyware/virus can attack certain key windows processes that cause windows to crash. I have checked all posted issues and … |
| | Recently I installed Nero 7 premium, that was two weeks ago, over the last few days I got errors trying to create my own dvd video from short subject downloads- Stooges shorts, when I tried to uninstall/reinstall Nero 7 Premium it came up with the error message can not install/uninstall-Missing … |
| | ok today my graphics card cant draw 3d, when i run the test direct 3d it gives me these errors also i cant see any of the 3d cubes when it runs the test. -thanks ArNy Direct3D 7 test results: Failure at step 32 (User verification of Direct3D rendering): HRESULT … |
| | Hi I have several pcs that when they boot up they hang on the applying settings screen, these are windows 2000 boxes with no hardware changes. The only thing we changed was the dns but it's only a few pcs that are booting up in 20 minutes. The pcs log … |
| | On startup I get the message that I cannot Load C:/winnt/system/dpvdlg.dll (I believe). (Not my computer, another work computer.) And that Access was denied. Does anyone have any information about what this file is or what it is used for if anything? Thanks |
| | I posted this somewhere else also but... I could really use some help. I lost power with the computer on last night. When I tried to restart it after it came up with a screen that has the lines that the puter wasn't shut down before & gives me options … |
| | Ok in the EULA it says the licence is like permission to use the software, It does not mean that you own it. I have a copy of XP home upgrade and a laptop which once had windows 98 (now no cd) - but the certificate of authenticity and serial … |
| | I noticed something yesterday while researching the latest MoviePass variant on one of my customer's computers. It seems that MoviePass, the makers of the MediaPipe software, have changed their terms of service. They used to require a phone call to their toll-free number to cancel your software subscription, but now … |
| | I have XP and this problem exists on only one user. The others are normal. The wallpaper is the standard blue and when I select any other wallpaper, nothing happens. Text and icon size and other prefs have been altered and also cannot be changed. Also I am unable to … |
| | I am seeing a message "error loading OS" on booting up,then PC stalls.Then I insert windows XP cd to boot up . Can anybody help me through the steps to resolve this error so as i do not need to use a CD. |
| | heres a couple of freeware thats good. [url]www.firewallleaktester.com/wwdc.htm[/url] - [url]www.theorica.net/codecs.htm[/url]. make sure you read the help txt file if your not sure on what your doing |
| | hi my sister was on my pc and for some reason she restored the system to some previous date. when she restart the pc. it give her some type of message. so i tried to repair my xp using xp cd. but i forget the administrator password. so i installed … |
| | I've gotten excellent help before, so I'm back for more! I was being stupid last night and I accidently clicked when Windows was logging off (it was at the stage where everything was off the screen except my desptop background). It froze right then and there (is that normal?) so … |
| | hi all, can anyone help me on how can i clean my computer from trojan virus?i've scan the computer then just 14 from 28 virus deleted.how about another 14?what can i do with that?fyi, i am using AVG.Please hekp.TQ in advance |
| | Well, just last night, I bought a game for the PC that is capable of online gaming. Being my ignorant self, I didn't look at the system requirements for the game. I barely passed the requirements, the only flaw was my graphics card. When I tried to play the online … |
| | I have been a visitor here for a while and impressed with your assistance to everyone and the wealth of info here. I am sorry that I am now needing assistance myself. I hope someone can find the time to help me. I am need of assistance on a blue …  |
| | Hi! This is my first posting here. Too bad it had to be a negative tone to it: I WANT TO KILL MY LAPTOP!!! Sorry... Now that I got it out... Here's the problem in detail. And this had to happen right before I was going to back everything up … |
| | When i boot up my computer it goes through the whole startup system etc.. and then when it gets to the login in screen it crashes it says this [B]STOP: 0x00000051 (0x00000001, 0xE29830008, 0x004F4000, 0x000001D6)[/B] I dont know what it means but its very annoying and wont let me use … |
| | Hello All, I am new to this forum - found it by Googling for help with several errors I've been experiencing. Here's the scoop: My PC is several years old and was running WinXP Pro with SP2 applied. Everything was fine, until it started crashing intermittently. I had added several … |
| | I need a REALLY reliable software that can shutdown xp systems automatically everyday at a certain time. I prefer to use MS utilities but can't find one. I dont want the BIOS to crash the system and do all kinds of damage to the platform. It needs to be as … |
| | so i installed a SP1 pack of windows xp on my computer, it worked fine at a resolution of 1280x1024, and then i installed my drivers for my Radeon 9250 and now the biggest i can make the resolution without making the desktop area too big is 1024x768, when i … |
| | please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:cry: I m having a problem in ma computer. i cannot open any folders including my document, my computer, control panel. is there any know how to treat this problem??????? if yes email me [email]shb234@hotmail.co.uk[/email] waiting for reply................... |
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