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| | I have just did a clean install xphome everything has gone well considering it was my first. I did all the stuff from the optimize xp linkhttp://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html#Tweaks I am trying to do a few things and getting nowhere, get to the point right. trying to load the drivers from creative … |
| | Dell 8300 xp home sp2 I was just tweaking and stuff, reading all your great info trying to speed it up. Well I installed a program that filters the start up's and running processes since I'm not to bright and didn't want to shut off the wrong stuff. I removed … |
| | Hey guys. I've recently seem to have deactivated my main partition. I was messing around with my partitions and propably deactived it. Now if i start up my computer it just stops me dead. At first it told me: reboot and select proper boot device Or insert Boot Media in … |
| | Hi, Im having a big prob on my cpu, yesterday i was downloading some files, and WAM my cpu restarts then before the windows XP pro loading page, an error pops up, it says :Disk Read Error Occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart? Tryed that but it keeps popping up, so … |
| | When I try to open IE I double click it and it does nothing. My opera works fine. Anyone know why this would happen. If I do a system restore to 5 days ago it will open but when it takes the microsoft updates it wont open anymore. Any ideas? |
| | Okay, I have a serious problem here that is really plaguing me, as I am trying to make a video which requires the ability to drag-and-drop files - problem is - [B]I can't![/B] I am running Windows XP Professional SP2. I have tried downloading a few .reg registry edits. One … |
| | Hello there! I´m not exactly shure if I´m right on this page cause I´m not a Computer prof. but I´ve got a serious problem wich I can´t solve, so I hope you can maybe help me (also my english isn´t the best and I have to translate into English but … |
| | Whenever I try to open my Control Panel (in XP) it says explorer has encountered an error and it won't open. It looks like explorer then does a quick reboot. I looked at the error report, and it says: AppName: explorer.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.2180 ModName: shell32.dll ModVer: 6.0.2900.2180 Offset: 00022aa0 Any … |
| | Im not sure if I am under the right Thread! Im new so please excuse if i have some probs that are already on here. :o My computer is a complete disaster. I have did a complete system recovery on it. That didnt work. I could of done it wrong. … |
 | Is it possible to reformat a hard drive and install Windows XP using a windows startup disk (floppy)? And if so, how? Note: I cannot get the PC to boot from CD and thats why I was wondering if this is possible. Ive been trying to reforamt a troublesome PC …  |
| | Outlook Express wont send/receive messages sometimes. When i send a message window comes up and says 'Some errors occurred while processing the requested tasks. please review the list of errors below for more details' Then it says 'Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server … |
| | bought a new 7800gs...tried it in my pc and could not get it to work..was told it was faulty..so i sent it back. When i recieve the new one i was getting the same problem. Bios and POST will show..but when it comes time to load the windows screen, the … |
| | Hello everyone. My name is Anthony and I have a Sony VAIO, with Windows XP Home Edition. This morning I woke up and my computer had froze-up/was unresponsive. I had a peer-to-peer running and the numbers (speed I was receiving the files) was changing but I couldn't do anything. I …  |
| | I have got windows XP and got microsoft antispyware beta 1, I would like to update to defender beta 2 but I am not sure how to do it can you talk me through it Thank-you Peter |
| | What program/utility/etc to use to AUTOMATICALY recognize what file types are files rescued and saved as CHK files? --------------------------------------------- I'm looking for a solution that offers automatical recognition of "what's actually there". (My hard-drive crashed and there are four folders with CHK files (there's 10000 files in each* (FILE0000.CHK - … |
| | I know this is in the wrong section but if anyone could help me, I'd be sooooooo greatful. Anytime I go to a website that has the words "Spyware" on it, my browser shuts down. I can't even open the page in a seperate window. I tried to go to … |
| | I have a pair of 160gig sata drives one was going bad so I tried to clone it to the new drive. It has a dual boot 98 and XP. The old drive is gone and the new system works but the drive letters are wrong when running XP. In … |
| | I know this is a program that has got into my computer, and I cant find out how to delete the pop-up about that Microsoft tells me that it is something wrong with my Windows 2000. Please help me asap. :cry: I would be very happy :p Grete |
| | Dear colleage, In one of the Laptops in my office, It is found a problem. The modem couldn't be functional. So I can't use a dial up connection from this Laptop I've tried to install the drive from its own CD. It gives me the message "Can't continue Hardware update … |
| | I too have the same prob as benyam dessu had. My prob is different as in that i have 2 xp home systems and now only 1 H.D. If i follow gemini4's fix through the system Startup way how do i know which one to delete as they both are … |
| | Hi, I'm putting together a new machine for my office work. I chose a 160GB HD and Win2000. When I go to install Windows it only sees 131070GB on the drive and only lets me partition 131062GB and reserves another 8 for partition info. I know drive capacities are rounded … |
| | Hey, I hope someone can help me cos otherwise my next step is formatting my hard drive :cry: Right, my problem is: when i start up windows it comes up to the screen where my windows hard drive gets checked for errors and after the drive has been checked there … |
| | Hi everyone, I just replaced mobo and cpu in my girlfriends dead computer. It has xp office on hard drive. When I powered up it runs bios and then beeps and stops asking if I want to start windows norm, safe mode, safe mode with prompts and network. No matter … |
| | I'm just wondering if there is such software for people to run full screen games (ones that can't be changed with the "-window" or "-w") in window mode, specifically Red Alert 2 :cheesy: |
 | If I created a tech site just like this one and had the same forum layout structure: meaning, I used the -Microsoft Windows - Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 - Windows 9x/Me - Web Browsers - Windows Software - Viruses, Spyware & Other Nasties - Windows tips 'n' tweaks Does that break the …  |
| | Greetings, I have an old PIII/550 that my kids use. It's overdue for a cleanup due to all their junk. I'm not having boot difficulties, just really need to speed things up with a fresh install of XP Pro. It's been a long time, however, and I guess I didn't … |
| | A father forgot his administrator passord and needs to download security updates. Windows XP Home Edition. Any suggestions? |
| | Dear colleage, One of my Pcs is Booted Dualiy (Dual Boot), But know I want to remove one and have single Boot. How could I remove one with out formating the drive that contains it's files. Best regards, ben. |
| | Hi guys n gals, I get a microsoft internet explorer pop up saying 'Out of line memory at line 94' regularly when i open up my browser, any one of you experienced people know how to get rid? :mrgreen: Cheers Dougie |
| | recently, i unable to play my game in full screen mode. i remember that it works well before. i dont know whats happen...it is my register in regedit.exe has been change?? anyone know how to solve it? |
| | Hi. I'm running an Athlon 2400+ with 512 DDR ram with Windows XP Pro. However, I've noticed that whenever I begin to burn a CD, or simulate a burning, my CPU usage shoots up to 100%. As you can imagine, my computer becomes pretty much unusable when this happens so … |
| | I am an admitted Rookie. I install :eek: ed Radeon x 700 pro on my Vaio Desktop.The reason for the upgrade was to take advantage of the component video out when I use the Cloning feature. I like to watch recorded Media Player stuff on my Big Screen (which of … |
| | We just put together a computer for a friend of ours. Everything worked fine when we gave it to her, and she checked it out again at her parents. But when she started it back at school it went through the check disk for errors then the monitor shut off. … |
| | I just set up a new PC and have dual monitors using extended desktop. Works really well, but one strange thing is happening that I was hoping someone here might be able to explain. When I move the cursor from one monitor to the next, the cursor shifts up or … |
| | At my boot screen i am always prompted to choose the operating system. I use only windows xp home edition and it's listed twice. is there anyway to skip this prompt and go straight to the booting of xp? |
 | For some reason when I try to install most software, I click on the setup.exe file and then nothing happens. I tried to fix the problem by installing hte most recent version of windows installer, but no luck. All I see is a little tab on the bottom of my … |
| | my computer has been acting funky. then 1 day when it asked for the password and username it wouldn't let me try anything in. so i rebooted the PC by cutting the power off... then it wouldn't boot into windows..just sat there, "trying" to boot in there but couldn't.. so … |
| | Im having a problems with XP i installed it on two different HDD already and they are both using up 100% of the cpu... also one of them is new out of the box. Cant seem to figure out what the problem is.... I have also reconnected all the wires … |
 | Hi guys, According to [URL=http://testdrive.mapinfo.com/TECHSUPP/MIPROD.NSF/0/9d37e38edafa743f8525708b00555906?OpenDocument]Here[/URL] I am told to update the ISScript engine on your computer by downloading the latest one from [URL=http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q108158]Here[/URL] However, I can't even install this MSI because the error message speaks : The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are … |
| | [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/275546/en-us[/url] describes my dilemma. The problem is that according to this solution I need the Client for Microsoft Networks :cry: I do not have it installed. I am running XP. What do you recommend?  |
| | Sometimes under no apparent reasoning certain processes will use 100% of the processor, causing it to become really hot and slowing down the overall performance of the computer. So far I have had trouble with these processes: trillian.exe, wmplayer.exe, eplorer.exe I have searched for viruses and spyware with no results. … |
| | How do I find it. I can't remember where I saw it but they said it came directly from ms and it is just like the xp pro themes so there is no add on like some other 3rd party stuff. Anyone know where I need to look in [url="http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic43764.html#"]microsoft[/url]? … |
| | I have tried looking everywhere to figure out how to reinstall the .cda audio codec and cannot find it anywhere. Because it's gone Windows Media Player doesn't even include it in the list of playable/updateable file formats. Does ANYONE know where I may obtain this file/codec/driver? and reinstall it on … |
| | Hello everyone, and thank you for considering this topic. I think I may just have screwed up my friend's machine. I was trying to fix some problems with drivers, and used system restore, to restore all of the origional OS, and drivers. Now the computer says on a black screen … |
| | i would like to either disable or reduce sensitivity of the touch pad as it causes serious upset when typing: cursor jumps at the slightest touch of thumb to another place, or wipes out loads of work. help! |
| | I am receiving an error message that displays USRprbda.exe DLL Initialization Failed and then the PC displays the blue screen that says IRQ is not less or equal. I thought it was the video card so I replaced it with a new one. Has anyone seen this before? |
| | Hi Guys, I am running a virgin installation of XP with SP2 with an Athlon 750 & 512Mb RAM. Everything has been running fine after my installation a couple of weeks ago, until today. Upon reboot I am seeing "a disk read error has occurred, press ctrl-alt-del". This is an … |
| | Every time I try and install windows xp, it freezes during the installation. I've formatted the hard drive over 10 times now and I've tried to use both FAT32 and NTSF file systems, and neither one gives me any results. The problem occurs after the computer restarts when it finished … |
| | Hello. Following one of your tread, I try to reformat my Pc. But it don't let mi change the "boot order". I have the feeling that I have put a pasword but whitout intention, so now I can't change anything on the Bios. Problem is that I did a instalation … |
| | I am having a bit of regret contacting Microsoft on their Piracy email address about copies of Windows XP I bought off eBay... Mainly my XP Pro that was sold w/o the product key and was initially an OEM OS. My inquery to Microsoft was to ask whether it was … |
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