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Ok, it all started when i was dloading a program to make windows setups.(.msi). Then i decided i didnt like it and uninstalled it. After tht was done. I decided i was going to stick with Inno Setup. I have used it before and liked it. But then i noticed …

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Don't ask me how, but my wife lost her Task Manager. :eek: When she gives the 3-finger salute and selects the 'Task Manager' button, she is returned to her windows 2000 desktop with no TM to be found. In her Systray is the little green square that shows the task …

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As an applications software VAR, I have a user who received the message "Disk Full" or "Out of Disk Space" or similar. I explained that this was down to a Windows Access Issue of some sort.Their IT support supplier eventually agreed that it was their setting of the users Disk …

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Here's an interesting situation: I'm running Windows XP Professional with two different user accounts. I went into one of the accounts and was able to delete a folder belonging to the other user (which really shouldn't have happened based on security, but it did). Now, when I try to empty …

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These files really anoying me, P-4 3GHz, 512 MB of ram but because of these files (ehRec.exe, ehSched.exe, ehRecvr.exe) the system is very slow, i have searched for the registry entries but couldnt find them, even Hijack this couldnt find them, they are not even in the windows folder, they …

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:confused: I Just finished reformatting my computer and i accedentally parttitoned everything Including all my drivers ( video audio ) I got the Audio driver installed... But i cant install the Video card ( people DONT ASK me if i know the name cuz i got no clue ) i …

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Ive had my computer for a while now and bought it from a major retailer. Because of this my computer came with a restore disk so everytime i wanted to wipe everything on my HD i would just put in the disk and let it do its thing. I have …

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Hi all, I have some weird problem with my system. It keeps on restarting itself after booting. Sometimes it restarts just when the windows starts loading and sometimes it restarts after sometime. I am unable to get any pattern for this. It restarts anytime at its own will with complete …

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when i try to install any program i have downloaded i get a NSIS Error. this is wat it says: "NSIS Error The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete This could be the result of a damaged disk, a failed download or a virus it may …

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ntfds.exe, winrbd32.exe, mwupdate32.exe Can any one tell me wat are these, these files were not in the running process before connecting to internet, i just install win2000 with service pack 4 and IE6, and connected to net and wat i saw is these programs were running and consuming huge amount …

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Heeeellllp !!! Since my Nortons expired I cannot access or login to any https sites eg ebay, bank etc...Ive got IE6 Ive tried the msn help which resulted in an update error code 0x80072EFD The step by step guide diddnt work neither did installing / uninstalling firewalls, virus checkers etc.. …

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Two troublshoots please 1. When I click on "explorer icon" it opens up at bottom task bar and not full screen. 2. When I click "turn-off" through windows xp I have to disconnect online before it shuts down or it takes a really long time. Thanks cbk

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help with formatting a hard drive that had linspire os on it i tried all ways to format it but can't do it anyone with a bright idea? I THINK LINSPIRE INSTALLED SOMEKIND OF SOFWARE ON IT TO PROTECT FROM INSTALLING OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS

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I got tired of the porblems with zone alarm and uninstalled it, and downloaded sygate. After I rebooted I received the following message- Smc. exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created. When I get …

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i was fooling around with my video settings and all of a suden the icons went to a box with the blue bar on the top of it. how do you fix this?

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i have a P IV 2.6Ghz 512 mb 80GB and Gigabyte motherboard system, with windows 2000 installed. It worked fine for 2 months, 2day when i switched on my system during the booting process a message came, winnt/system32/config file not found, i tried to repair it but in vain. I …

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I have a Medion PC with Windows XP running on it. Recently the machine would bootup, show the WINDOWS logo screen then start Windows. However when it starts it simply shows a black screen with the mouse cursor. I can move the cursor left and right and up and down …

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i went into windows update and it said i needed 32 updates, downloaded all of them and after restarting the computer it just goes to the loading xp screen and restarts itself again, and does it forever until i shut down the computer, cant get into it anymore, any ideas …

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My DVD player doesn't work on my XP machine. When I try to play a DVD, whatever software I use says it needs to update. When I go to update it, it says my DVD players driver doesn't work. I lost my Driver disk. So I went to the manufacturers …

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Here's the problem and it's really annoying, I have a laptop it is a dell latitude c600 running windows xp professional, it was running fine until about a week ago it locked up so i had to reboot it, well when it started to load windows i noticed it was …

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Hi, I am a problem with streaming audio... I cant hear it using any program... The problem started a week ago ( I have been listening to the same station for about 6 months) and i have tried everything, ie. updating sound card driver, reloading WMP, downloading new codecs... I …

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I've got a 40gig Western Digital secondary HDD. Recently, the cursor's been acting strangely when accessing files on that drive. When I open an image stored on there, the image of the cursor (the arrow) will freeze after a few seconds and won't restore itself until I reboot. It's weird …

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hello, i tried to back up a dvd the other day and i noticed that my computer had restarted itself. i tried it again and i believe it did it again. so i turned off the computer and figured i'd try it again. well when i turned on the computer …

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Does anyone know if Dell Speakers would work with a Gateway computer? I might get Dell A425 speakers if they are compatible with my soundcard, because the Boston speakers I had will not work now that I installed Windows XP instead of Windows ME. The soundcard I have is Creative …

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I was playing with my windows registry .. and what I did is place daniweb shortcut on my start menu. Does anyone know how to do it ??

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I play an MMORPG called World of Warcraft and occasionally my system freezes while playing. The only thing I can do is restart, and the speakers on my PC make a buzzing noise when this happens. THe screen freezes on the game. When I look at my Event Viewer it …

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How do I fix this problem? I can't find the drivers for this... [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/loopah/driver.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/loopah/driver1.jpg[/IMG]

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I setup two computers for an office with MS office 2k3, both are new computers that run very well. The problem is that those two computers print the grid lines (while in category view) very light. Everything else is clearand printed nicely. Even in print preview the lines are very …

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hey i noticed a few weeks ago that my windows xp is taking 5-15 minutes to load to the login page.. if i try going into safe mode it just freezes and wont load.. any help on this would be great i also hav removed some unnesisary files from my …

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I am new to this tech "stuff" and computers in general. Could someone please tell me how to go about transferring a "words" document to a CD-RW? Thanks! :sad:

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hey, i am having trouble with my laptop. im trying to reinstall windows. i had xp and i wanna go to 98. i used delpart to erase the harddrive and then i ran fdisk to create a partition. and now i am stuck. i cant get the format command to …

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Hi, Does anybody know why the AT programmed tasks do not "see" the network mapped drives?? The issue is I launch a BAT file by double-clicking its icon and it works fine, but if a schedule an automatic launch (by using AT)... what the f(...) do Microsoft people with their …

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Hi Guys need your help I have a computer which i bought it from someone . Its not allowing me to download any of theservice pack . It keeps on giving me error saying illegal key ...Please let me know if there is a way around it thanks

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hey, if anyone can help me, i would greatly greatly appreciate it. let me explain my plorblem to you all. when i start up my laptop running xp, before it does anything else, it gives me the error... "windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: …

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ok i can't view any of the music videos at yahoo and i can't view this one video someone posted here's the screenshots. i've tried reinstalling windows 10 like tons of times with no hope if someone can help me i'd be one lucky man here's the errors

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[font=Tahoma]Okay... I'm fixing a computer for my father's co-worker. The XP box started rebooting for no reason at all when he was running some programs a couple weeks ago. He approached me at work a few times to try to get some tips on what to do. Apparently, from the …

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Hi, I have 1.25 gig of ram and svchost.exe starts hogging my ram sometimes utilizing up to 98% of cpu. I dont have any viruses or worms, etc that I know of. I run Adware, SDspybot, Spyware Blaster, MS Antispyware, and Mcafee regularly... Below is my hijackthis log.... Please Help!!! …

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Hi, I'm having some problems with cachecachekit. I've formatted my pc 4 times, but the norton window keeps alerting that the virus is still in my pc. How can I finally kill it??? Please, help me. I use win xp sp1 Thank you very much indeed. Here is my logfile …

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Ok i have been getting a BSOD after a fresh clean install of windows XP the error says it was caused by the file nv4_disp. Now i reserched the error to find that it ussally has somthing to do with the video card. And MS support said to disable hardware …

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Hey everyone. My exact problem is that when i use my computer everything is fine, if i use it for hours on end its fine. But when i leave it alone for about 4 to 5 hours or something without doing anything(being afk) then it will freeze but i can …

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I just turned off the computer and when I restarted it the whole screen is really small. The settings is 1024 X 786, I tried changing it but it didn't look like before. win xp home Radeon 9250 256 MB

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I have always searched the web by typing in a general subject title in the Address tool bar (without "www" or ".com" included), then the search engin would list the most common web sites that contained that subject. As of a couple of days ago this stopped working. When trying …

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HELP!!! I get this error message everytime I try to load Auto Cad 2000. Top Of error box(16 bit windows subsystem) Error message C:\windows\system32\autoexe.nt.The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft windows applications. How can I correct this?

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I have 10 system with same configuration. Intel P-IV 3 GHz, 512 mb ram, 40 gb hdd, i have installed windows xp in one system and all other softwares, which took me 2 hours to completed, i dont wanna spend 2 hours on each system now, is there any way …

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I have p-4 system with 40 gb hdd intel original board and 512 mb of ram. It had 4 parititions, Win 2000 professional was loaded in with norton antivirus 2004. The OS was totally corrupted so i had to format C: and reinstall everything, now the problem was i completed …

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windows service pack 2 installation - unique problem please help me........!!!! Respected techs and dear forum members, I have installed a fresh copy of windows xp (without having sp 2 onto it) on my hard disk. After that i tried to update windows through tools>windows update. It took so so …

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Tried installing my usb controller,but i keep getting the above file misssing,and will not proceed to install,also says (code 28) with the same message. :( Any help to find and install this file will be appreciated, :) if not on my system,and chance of a web link to the file …

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Please help I have a client with Win 2000 and When you set the view option to Thumbnails nothing displays. It still shows how many items there are in this folder correctly but other then that the folder looks empty as soon as you change the viewing option. How do …

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I recently received a computer from a friend. I had to put some parts in though... It was prety much a barebones pc. I installed Windows XP Professional SP2, and enabled Advanced Power Management. It gives me the option to hibernate, but when I do, when I boot the computer, …

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i Had sveverel files in my temp folder,some music and some programs and they all worked fine.When i moved then into an other file or on to the desk top i got the following message "Windows cnnot access the file>You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item" …

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