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 | I have one account on my new computer, which is currently labeled "Best Buy". I want to rename this to "Kamex", including the folder in Documents and Settings. I thought I'd ask how to do this to be sure because I can't afford to reformat it. Can anyone provide instructions … |
| | hi previously, windows media player works fine for me.but recently, it starts to become weird.i hav installed asian language pack for my windows xp.but wen i play a chinese song in wmp, in the "now playing" window, it cant display chinese chars.i hav attached a screenshot. anyone havin any idea … |
| | Hello Recently my pc has started to freeze randomly. But i noticed after the first 20 times that it tend to crash when im running some other programs( microsoft antispyware, adAware, winrar) while im surfing the net, regardless which browser(firefox, ie, netscape) i use it freezes for a couple of … |
 | This problem is driving me crazy. i know there's something out there for a winamp-like window-snap effect. Example: bring one window border to the side of the screen or the border of another window, and in the last ten pixles, they will 'snap' together for just a 'whoa, cool' factor … |
| | When I start my newly installed Windows XP Pro there is a Windows System Error message saying there is "Duplicate name exists on the network". How do I fix this? |
| | After upgrading from 2000 Pro to XP Pro, it's random, but every 2nd or 3rd boot or so results in a black screen when starting Windows. The BIOS appears and everything, but once it starts Windows it's Black. I can hear the Windows StartUp Sounds, but no display at all. … |
| | Hi. Whenever I put a DVD into my computer DVD/CD-RW drive, it reads it and then the computer locks up. Sometimes it completely freezes my system, and other times I have to click on the DVD/CD drive in My Computer before it freezes. Once I closed everything but what I … |
| | Hello all, Well, I've had similar problems like this in the past, but now this is the worst. It started with The Sims 2. It played fine for a while, but then it started to get holes in the pixels, and after about 15 minutes, the game would freeze up … |
| | I am using Internet explorer 6. Everytime i go into a website, for example a real estate website. I want to view the picture of the house in an enlarged form. But when i click on the thumbnail, nothing happens. When i right click on the picture to scroll to … |
| | Hi everyone. Now, I'm sure there's a simple way to solve this, and I'm just brain fading... lol. I am running a machine with Windows XP Professional and was wondering if there was a way to limit an individual user's internet access. I know there's a "content advisor" or whatever, … |
| | I was cleaning up some softwares in my laptop, and i must have deleted something wrong, coz after restarting the laptop, the sound system went haywire, and my music/video files all sounded rather synthethized and the playback speed was faster than usual. Can anyone out here kindly advise me? Thanks! … |
| | im trying to add a dvorak keyboard to a windows xp machine for someone i know. they prefer the style. but when i plug it in it only goes qwerty. does any one know how to fix this. the other dillema is his family prefers qwerty is there a way … |
| | I have used this computer to burn cd's but since I used the registry cleaner it has not read ANY cd's. It won't play, burn etc. It keeps telling me to put in a disk. I put the disk in and nothing happens, it says I aborted the burn. I'm … |
| | Hello all, I have windows xp and a memorex mmp8500 mp3 player. It used to work great!! Then I got a very bad virus in my pc and reformatted the whole computer. I went to install new songs on my mp3 player and now it actually shuts down the whole … |
| | when rebooting the computer in at the beginnin it has a little xp bar going a cross wel it takes me now 5mins or more to get of that screen and the computer is slow..i have tried scannin but nothign found any1 no whats wrong?? before it used to load … |
| | If you recall Dazzle products, though still on the market, to a degree, not so plentiful and it seems run now by Pinnicle Software. Anyway, I started analog to digital interfaceing with their Digital Photo Maker, namely for stills, but also music and movies... I'm sure I had a driver … |
| | Since Upgrading From Me To Xp My Pc Doesn't Auto Shutoff When I Shut Down. Anyone Know A Fix?  |
| | What does SMC.exe mean when you first boot up and are on the icon page? Is it a problem with a screen saver or somthing more serious?. Should I run a reg cleaner or not? |
| | Hi I'm asking this a bit prematuraly but a friend at work (more a co-worker hehe) asked me to solve a PC problem for him, he's a real novice and his problem seems simple, but I don't know the answer. He tells me he has Windows 2000 and has forgotten …  |
| | ok i have a computer which is not in my room n dat has internet but da 1 in mine doesnt..its broadband so how can i get it onto my otha computer n also my otha computer doesnt have a usb slot thing!(the 1 that doesnt have internet) |
| | ok now seems like when i go to add/remove programs in control panel it will not let me remove any program at all???? i am very confused ..its a xp computer |
| | Well I have a 600MHz AMD Athlon PC with 128MB RAM, a sound card and a 17GB HD currently running WindowsXP Pro SP2 with 10GB free space remaining. Since it's a good computer with internet access and chugging along fine I don't want to give it away or take it …  |
| | After numerous emails with supposed fixes from Hotmail I still cannot turn on the Rich Text Editor in the Tools Menu . It is always showing as Off . I am unable to create new messages or reply and forward old ones . I created a new account with them … |
| | Can I take my old hard drive, install it in the new computer, uninstall everything on the new computer's hard drive and transfer the operating system and files from my old hard drive?  |
| | I have a problem in IE 6.0 with SV2 I want to Quote this on your Site, but i was not able to find out the correct path. Please assist on the same. Or else following is my issue. I have a Web based project going on. For my users … |
| | hey all! sometimes when im playing games windows does something kinda freaky. A blue screen with white text appers and has a title BAD_POOL_HEADER . It tells me that windows need to shutdown. It says something about hardware and BIOS and then a line of Tech Info. What does this … |
| | Basically here is the situation. i want to develop a batch file that can preform multiple actions. one of them is download a file from the net, so that i can send the batch file to people over msn, which would only be a few KB and then DL the … |
| | hi.. my computer was functioning properly until I installed a WinTV 150 TV Tuner. after that i was unable to turn on my computer monitor successfully. I know the windows is loaded and all fine and proper because i located my way through my keyboard and hear various sounds and … |
| | "We are sorry for the inconvience, but Windows did not start succsesfully, a recent hardware/software change may have caused this" I was always afraid to installed SP2, and this is exactly why. Earlier today I decided to install all the windows updates, and get them going. I installed SP1, and … |
| | Thanks to Microsoft we have a whole line-up of Media Center Edition computers that are basicly Crippled version of the sony GigaPocket if you know what that is. Wow you can record wow this wow that... Microsoft is not being royal to its advanced users instead it goes for the … |
| | I have am IBM thinkpad 365xd, It is basically my first project. the laptop came to me reformatted. BUT it did not come with a floppy drive but it did come with an internal cd-rom drive. I am tryng to install windows XP but I hve no Idea on how … |
 | Hi, (MS Word XP and Outlook XP) Can someone give me the VB code to set up a macro (command button) so the end user can click within the word doc and it will email to the coded recipient? Hope this isn't asking to much. ;) Thanks as always |
| | I've been trying to play this internet game (Bejeweled 2, found at [url]http://www.addictinggames.com/bejeweled2.html)[/url], but the game won't load in my Firefox browser. So I checked the Firefox settings, and Java was enabled and everything, and then I made sure I put the .dll files into the Firefox plugin folder, so … |
| | Okay heres the situation, when the screen gets to the main screen, the only thing that shows is my background. My desktop is blank, theres no icons, no start menu, no task bars, and i cant right-click. If I alt + ctrl + del, i can open explorer.exe but its … |
| | hi I have not been able to download MP3's. Whenever i click on a link that says "download song", instead of a dialog box opening asking me what i wud like to do with the file i.e Open, save or cancel, it directly launches windows media player and the song … |
| | I can't seem to figure out why my graphics won't display. My monitor is on stand by but I hear the regular windows operating just fine! When I swap graphics card I come upon an error saying "boot device must be seleted". This seemed to have happened after I added … |
 | Ok heres my problem, i get stuck at the boot screen before loading windows. It wont load up because it sais that hal.dll is missing or corrupted. I can get on my computer and use that hard-drive, by booting up on this old 8GB Quantum i have with XP installed. … |
| | when my computer comes of standby my bradband internet doesnt work but after bout 10 mins it starts working and thids happens when it comes off stand by..does any 1 no whats wrong? plz help? i have compaq presario xp sp2 home editition telewest braodband internet |
 | i just read in the above sticky that AMD 64's have problems with SP2, i have both, and also get BSOD's alot. Could this be the problem. If so is it safe to unistall SP2. And will i be able to if my xp disk insalled it right away? |
| | This situation might seem a little odd. Alot of questions deal with trying to get rid of that log on box when accessing a network share, where me, I need it to come back. I got a 15 user workgroup network at a church/school office. All computers are Win 2000/XP … |
| | I'm getting an error message after start up that reads "The drive or network connection that the shortcut 'Apple Reg.ink' refers to is unavailable. Make sure that the disk is properly inserted or the network resource is available and try again." I don't know what this means. How can I … |
| | Hello :) I hope someone here can help me... i been reminded of my membership here by someone answering to a thread i posted a year ago :) The situation: I had (and still have) Netscape 7.1 on my machine (XP pro SP2), beside the usual IE 6. Now since … |
| | Hello everyone. Does anybody have any knowledge of WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER they could help me out with? I'm having a little problem getting "mini mode" to work right. It's not important but it's driving me crazy...been trying tocorrect for two days. If anybody can help, I'd appreciate hearing from you … |
| | I'm trying to delete a .avi file that I have on an external hard drive in the limewire incomplete downloads folder. I've tried every option I know of and everytime I try to delete it says it's being used by a different program. I've tried restarting, shutting down, closing programs … |
| | hiya all.The problem is this i have created this Form1.exe in visiual basic.But I can't seem to be able to erase it.I tried everything.First I tried shift+del then i went like to safe mode from admin than from my normal user name but each time i try to erase it … |
| | I had to power off as it would not shutdown. Now when I turn it on, it goes through POST fine, starts to boot and then just a blank screen. No curser, no HD activity. Nothing. I am building XP onto a new HD just to ensure hardware is OK. … |
| | Somebody keeps jumping on my wireless connection. I have a mac filter on now. but before i had it on, 3 or 4 times they've bummed off of me Im sharing files and everything with the network computers. I have thier MAC adress and they're computer name. I also think … |
| | Whenver I boot or restart my computer I get the following message: nwiz.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Error Signature: AppName: nwiz.exe AppVer: 6.13.10.3190 ModName: nview.dll ModVer: 6.13.10.3190 Offset: 00002429 Files included in this error report: C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\1e58_appcompat.txt Does anyone know how … |
| | :o I have a "Cordless Mouseman Optical" and "Logitech Cordless Keyboard". Both work fine under Linux (and indeed in GRUB/DOS/BIOS) - I'm posting this from Ubuntu. But under WinXP, the keyboard no longer works - tried removing drivers, reinslling CD, downloading new drivers, leaving bateries out, connect button many times, … |
| | It appears for the most part after say you pull up a web page & then go to a SUB page with in ...I do have GOOGLE toolbar, but I dont think that is the issue, the setion which indicates checked, I think I am ok on that....I have no … |
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