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Whenever I open my IO.SYS file, I cant read it. It's a bunch of symbols. I was thinking that I dont have a particular font installed from adobe but I cant figure it out. Any suggestions? :(

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I have a dual boot system. I have 2 IDE Hard Drives and can go into the BIOS and choose to boot to a Windows XP Installation on the C Drive (40 GB Seagate) , and a Windows XP Installation on the D Drive (120 GB Maxtor). I normally boot …

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Ever since I changed from dial up to broadband a few days ago MSN messenger 7.5 will not sign in. Oddly Windows messenger will sign me in. Does anyone know why this is and what I can do about it? Cheers Kris

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Hi, I recently had my hard drive replaced on my gateway desktop computer, and now instead of being drive C: it is now the I: drive. I was just curious if it possible to rename the I drive back to C, it is the only hard drive and partition on …

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hey i just got a new-old computer (new to me) and i did a system restore. well now i am having problems with dl'ing stuff on my computer. When Winamp loads up, I get a "the ordinal 422 could not be located in the dynamic link library PX.dll" message, but …

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Hello I have a couple year old "Adobe Premiere 6.0" video editing software that I want to download on my computer, I have Win XP and when I install the cd and click download I get this error message. "16 bit windows subsystem - C:\windows\systems\autoexec.nt. The system file is not …

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Well I have a little problem.I tried to disable password on an acount on another computer in order to connect through LAN because its user didn't remember it(it was on auto logging mode so never used it).Windows switced on guest mode (why?) and in order to access administrator account we …

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Hi all... I have a problem here... I have 2 Compaq PentiumIII (model ia P450). I have image CD's created using norton Ghost and I am supposed to format the computer using those images. The problem is after I finished running the images I restart the computer and it starts …

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As the title says, I can't seem to find the 'folder options' in File - Tools on my Windows Explorer anymore. I'm not sure when exactly it started and what caused it to disappear. Also since I had that problem, I realised that an additional 'Data.exe' file appears in my …

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out of the blue i lost 20 - 30 % of icons like .doc ,.ppt all micrsosoft office and some other programs. Is there a way to like get them back or something :cry:

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Everytime I try to purchase something off the internet, after clicking the submit button or what have you, the screen goes blank, says done at the bottom, and has the word 'error' in the address bar. This happens whenever I try. I'm using windows XP, IE, and I don't have …

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Everytime I click Start---Turn Off My Computer---Shut Down, it doesn't shutdown right away..... the End Now prompt comes up and trys to End explorer.exe and it can't,so I click END NOW and my computer shuts down after that, Why does this come up everytime! It's pissing me off! I ran …

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[COLOR=Orange]help.. im new to this site. In order to sign into my msn i first have to change my password. I change my password and then sign in, im on for like 5 mins and it says ive signed onto another computer. I know what your all thinking " well …

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I am struggling to uninstall some programs on my computer. I recently did a system restore on my computer, due to a fault on my system. I uninstalled some programs from my computer before my computer went funny. I then went ahead with the restore which made my p.c fine …

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Recently I shut off my computer without letting it shutudown. I know you shouldn't do it but when I have in the past nothing bad has happened. This time I did it but while a program was still running. Now my computer wont start up! I can get to the …

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Hey everyone . . Who knows what th CVm.exe file is? isn't it a Windows System file? I seem to be missing this file in my System32 folder. I get a "CVm.exe Application Failed" at bootoff. I see this file in my registry . . and when i attempt to …

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After being hit with a nasty virus that I cant figure out how to get rid of I have decided to just wipe the computer and start over and I was just wondering if I can get step by step instructions on how to do this. Im running Windows XP …

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Ok, im in need of some help...i am trying to find if Windows XP Pro stores the history of everything you do. i am in a predicament where i need to show someone the history of a particular folder, what i want to do is show them all the times …

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I have had my computer up and running for 6 months now...So I installed a new game and it crashes a few times and then one time it crashes I can't get it to turn on correctly. When I hit the power button it turns on the fans go and …

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i accidentally reformatted my computer i know, that sounds really stupid and yes it probably is.. basically i was having problems with it today, it kept blue screening when i turned it on (suspected virus) and safe mode didn't work either... windows just wouldn't load so i dug up …

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i have a cable intenet connection but any time i go to download anything it has a 30-40kbs download time. what can i do to fix this? :?:

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my pc configuration intel 865gbf motherboard,p4 processor with ht technology,512mb transcend ram i have windows xp professional my pc hangs and givesw a blue screen showing stop:0x0000007A(0XE17D8424,0XC0000098,0XBF8F9C8,0XICDE3860) win32k.sys-address BF8F92C8 base at BF800000,datestamp 3b7de3698 please help me out

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I messed up in my folder options>file types :o Somehow I changed the way my folders react when I click on them, they don't open anymore but the activate the search. Does someone know what is the [B]string or command[/B] for opening the contents of a folder in [B]the same …

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hi everyone, great forum you got here. not sure if ive posted this in the right section, but please help me out if you can. on my other desktop pc, i have got a 200gb hard drive, its about 180 gb full of my own music recordings that i have …

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i am having a very serious problem indeed, i am a novice so i can just describe my nightmare i installed a dbmanager software to view a mysql file, the next thing after installing and rebooting, was all file extensions in my taskbar and startmenu were replaced by .lnk of …

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well i decided to remove linux from my laptop. so i booted up a freedos floppy and removed the linux partitons. however i also had win2000 installed and wanted to give it the space the linux was useing. here is my problem. grub was the boot loader and now it …

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Every weekend, i will turn off my computer, and the next week (every day until Sunday) i will put it into Hibernation. After coming out from hibernation (twice now) my password won't work. I had to use my password reset disk both times, and it still resets itself. Help please?

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I am having some issues with a couple computers not responding to domain or local policies.I am fairly new to windows 2003 server but I dont see were the issue is comming from. They are all on the domain and updates can role out as well as our virus patterns …

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When i click on a program in add/remove on Win XP the add/remove screen closes. we have ran and remove a number of programmes to rid spyware and am fairly confident it has gone but not 100% sure. It just seems that somewhere along the way i may have disabled …

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I wanted to know if it was possible to change the desktop color over the domain. I am using windows 2003 server and I have changed the wallpaper but I would like the color surrounding the icons to be the same color on all desktops! Any help or advice would …

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I am having problems after installing SP2 onto a machine with a clean install of Windows XP. I don't think its a virus or spyware, as I've wiped the drive clean several times, reinstalled XP, and only gone online for Windows updates and nothing else whatsoever. After installing SP2, the …

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Ok so i go to turn my computer off as im getting ready for bed. Network cable is pluagged in, and i leave my room for 5 mintues. No one else is home. When i come back from the kitchen, my PC is turned on!!! I didnt touch it, so …

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Yet another problem from my computer :mad: ! Heres what happend this time. about three days ago....I shut of my computer. And I got this blue screen saying "Diver_icql_not_less_or_equal beguining to dump phisical memory" Or something like that. But anyway...I've like goten that a ton of times before...I always thought …

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Hello there! I think I have a very simple problem (for the comunity here). I want to recover lost data from a HDD. This has worked quite well until now but now I´m searching for a file type my recovery software does´nt know. So I have to enter this as …

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Hi everyone, Recently my primary hard drive started dying (it isn't dead yet but runs slow and crashes frequently). I already had a second hard drive in my computer so I transferred all of my important data to that, and then made a new installation of windows on that drive. …

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My dad's computer is messed up. One thing is that he can not get Windows Media Player. I've tried installing it and it won't install. The other problem is the internet connection. We have Juno and he can not use the icon on the desktop. He has to go through …

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i am trying to instll the driver for the ATI radeon 7500M in a Dell 5100. however it gives me a sor of paradox. on install an error pops up saying something about being unable to find the display driver inf file. well duh cause i havent installed one. it …

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my folders are opening behind each other. I just reinstalled my OS and now when I click on a folder inside "my documents" the folder opens behind and you dont't see it. Its real bad when the print preview does it. My wife tried printing the same thing 20 times …

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Hi all My son has a Dell Dimension 3000 pc OS Home XP Everytime he starts the pc as the windows screen appears he then gets the dreaded blue screen with STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF894E528, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) Can anybody help p.s He dosent appear to have a XP recovery disk …

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When i close a window it leaves a trail as though there are loads of the same window open, i,ve had this b4 and it was a virus but i,ve done a full scan and nothing!Defrag the lot

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Hello, I installed Norton Internet Security and I also uninstalled because of all the problems that it caused to my system. There are a number of problems: 1. I cannot logon to my hotmail account. I have made all the changes that have been suggested by different sources on the …

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originally i have a windows ME with 16mb ATI Rage Ultra video card. now i upgraded the sys with an upgrade cd of windows xp cd, now i had a problem with the sys because its running slow. now i tried to reformat the hard drive by installing the windows …

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help me please!!!! I am having problems with my windows system 32 folder always opening up when ever I sign on to my computer. I don't remembe having this problem until I downloaded my aol security system check. Is there ayway I can stop my system 32 from opening everytime …

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I have a relatively new (Aug '05) Sony Vaio S460 that has a nasty habit of crashing. It follows a relatively predictable pattern in that it will crash soon after powering up, displaying a blue screen for a split second, before restarting. Afterwards, it is stable for days. There is …

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Wife's desktop PC running windows XP sp2, connected to netgear wireless router (this conn. hard wired to port of router). Connected to internet by cable, IP provided contends everything setup properly....This pc connects to net, but cannot access secure sites. I have my desktop also connected to router (hard wired …

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Everytime I start this computer at work it says it has a device driver disabled because it will cause windows to be unstable. It look like it is Roxio casuing the problem. I have uninstalled it to no avail I have also used Hijack this to see if it was …

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I had 2@256MB Dual Channel on my WXP SP1. Removed the two memory chips replaced by single channel 1 GB memory chip The system at startup recognized the 1024 Memory BUT WXP w'not BOOT. Any suggestions. or explanations. Do I have to reinstall WXP because I upgraded memory!!!!!!

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This is my first post here so please bear with me. I have a two fold problem. The first is that my computer freezes up, I have to shut it off manually with the button (as I can't move the mouse) and once it reboots I have the Restore Active …

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i'm urgent to get any help i can get. my photos were in a file listed by dates (altogether 15 days, that is to say, 15 subfiles there). they were in Drive c and i tried to 'move' this whole file to Drive D. i clicked 'move' and it began …

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