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I know everyone seems to have this problem but I am not sure how to solve it. I have windows 2000 professional as my system and internet explorer(not sure which version) but it will not allow me to see my hotmail inbox. I have tried the login fixer file and …

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I was reading a thread regarding a yellow exclamtion mark, and it reminded me that I have two icons on my desktop that have yellow question marks just to the right and above them, what do they indicate? One is for my printer, and the other is for microsoft XML …

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Hello all, last week my ISP did maintenance on their servers and ever since then if I type in [url]www.google.com[/url] or anything else it brings up a "powered by APACHE" page with writing like "Seeing this instead of the website you expected?" and I cannot get Microsoft Internet Explorer to …

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Hi can anyone help me with this one i'm stuck! CHECK DISK WARNING F PARAMETERS NOT SPECIFIED RUNNING IN READ ONLY MODE. Im running XP pro Any help gratefully received cheers.

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I'm having a continuing problem with Home XP on my laptop. I have to reinstall my personal settings after every reboot or start up. It was fine until about a week ago. My son started using the laptop day and night to chat and blog with people from all over …

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hi der... erm.. i got a prob here.. my audio devices couldnt be detected n i found a yellow exclaimation mark beside my ac97 audio devices.. its say dat code(10), 'this device cannot be started' can anyone please kindly help me?? thanks a bunch~

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how do I stop XP pro from auto launching a music CD? I want to choose my own program to open it, its a pain trying to rip mp3s every time you change a cd it opens musicmatch when I am using a different program to rip the mp3s.

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HELLLLP! :( my pc recently owont start because it says that the file vgaoem.fon is missing or corrupt and i dont know what to do it says u can repair the file if you have the orignal windows disc which i dont have..?? so if anyone can help me that …

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Hope I am in the correct place for this message! Ever since I changed to broadband and AOL I seem to have lost Internet Explorer. IE is not listed as being on my computer at all. I am OK with using computers but as soon as anything goes wrong, I …

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So i ran into a problem with my XP home on my maxtor 80gb HD. I had a new copy of XP pro laying around, so i decided to go ahead and install it on my other harddrive, a 160gb hitachi. Unfortunately that drive is not partitioned, and i believe …

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I hope that someone can help me with my latest problem. My system was working fine before last night. I recently purchased an additional 256mb RAM. Last night I installed it, plugged everything back in and turn it on. I received the “blue HP INVENT

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when i try to burn music i keep getting an error message (c00d11cd) i have not installed any other music or vidoe exceot the wmp 10 itself from an update , the wmp 9 worked jus fine but when i try to delete wmp 10 and try to install wmp …

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am new here, but i came cuz of the same problem ... AGRSMMSG.exe but i think it has something to do with SPOOLSV.exe too cuz everytime i close that process my puter goes faster... but i keeps re-running by itself ... i dunno.. well i've read about asking a PRO …

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i've got a problem. i'm running windows xp pro with my c drive as boot (40g) and have an f drive as a data drive (160g sata) which is the source of my problem. f drive says that there is only 2g of free space which is perplexing. if i …

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ok so heres one of my problems: Whenever i save an animation that i may have found on a webpage i save it to a regular folder, but when i try to open it again, it's not animated anymore. So with my brilliant thinking, i decided that i should change …

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Hi again.. It appears that I am cursed... I just gotmy XP pro machine back and running on a fresh install and reinstalled all my software and it was running perfectly... then i went to upgrade from a Nvidia FX 5200 card to an ATI all in wonder 2006 edition …

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Small network, single W2K domain controller...I want to get rid of the old DC server (old hardware) and replace with a new W2K DC server. What is the process to swap on the old server?

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Hi, I've got 4 full hard drives that i'd quite like to join together (in raid0-esque style), but i don't want to lose the data on the disks in doing so, which ruled out actual raid. Someone mentioned that I can use windows dynamic disks to emulate this behaviour. I …

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I have been trying to boot my PC for the last two days after a while of not using it. The mashine starts and sounds fine but from there nothing appears on the monitor screen. I have checked the monitor with another mashine and it is fine. I have noticed …

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I had a DVD Rom drive and a CD R/RW drive. I just replaced the DVD Rom with a NEC 16x dual layer DVD rewriter. On startup I get the BIOS message "Secondary Drive 1 not found, F1 to continue F2 to setup." If I press F1 it continues to …

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okay so i have multiple copies of xp home and pro, and on the computer i am currently building i have been running into a major problem, every time i install xp home edition sp2 it goes through the whole instalation process smoothly, and then with the final reboot it …

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I'm running winxp home edition and my computer is so messed up I'm thinking about wiping the whole thing clean and starting over again. I don't have a copy of windows xp because it came already installed on the computer. My question is, can I use somebody elses xp disk …

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well i can't start my nhl 2003 for some reason.. i dont know why i use to play it all the time>> i need help guyz... this is the message that shows up in the even viewer.... The event description Event id (0) source ( ) cannont be found the …

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Hi everyone: I need some help here... I have a basic home network. cable modem into a wireless router. 2-pc's get a wireless signal from the router and 1PC is directly plugged into the router. all 3 PC's are running XP pro and receive their respective IP addresses from the …

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hi! please help me ! i can't get rid of these items...everytime ad-aware deletes them, they come right back up again! here is my hijack log : Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 1:25:31 PM, on 6/23/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) …

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I had problems wit xp on my desktop and now problems with windows 2k advanced server. I'd migrate back to me (sooo much better), but no network printing, and no iis which makes it a no no. Two problems: 1. WHEN I TRY TO OPEN UP MY STUPID D PARTITION... …

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My Windows XP no longer opens up a menu when I click Start -> All Programs -> Right Click...any Suggestions?

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Hi folks, hope someone can help me with a very strange problem I've been having for some time now... Windows XP on this PC "freezes" at random. The weird thing is, when the computer "freezes" the behaviour is very strange: - any application that is open at the time keeps …

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Hey. My dvd drive isn't showing up in my My Computer section. It opens up and everything, so it isn't the power cable. When I put a disk in, it doesn't auto-run or anything, so I think the computer just thinks it's wierd. It's not like I just added it …

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I already posted this in the windows forum before realizing there was a forum for precisely this. Anybody who can help, please do. ::::: Alright, this is fairly urgent, so if any of you could help me out, I would be very grateful. As of yesterday evening when my mother …

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Is there a way i can make it so that someone has to enter a password before they can access my external harddrive?? if you know a way...please give instructions....i'll try all the ideas i get and pick the one that works the best. Thankx :-)

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I just finished downloading Adobe 7.0, which also included their photo ablbum 2.0 much to my surprise. What I'm about to ask may be a dumb question, but this download took two and a half hours and I just want to make sure I don't do something that I'm going …

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I’ve been experiencing a severe problem with Windows XP not loading. I found some instructions on doing a Repair / Recovery Console by using the original Win XP disk. I did a boot by cd-rom and then press F-7 to install the storage drivers. I am then taken to the …

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No ntbtllog.txt after F8/Enable Boot Logging. This is XP SP2 I did a system restore to plug and play discoverning new hdc (although no hardware or software was changed) and then saying wrong software version ... although the system worked happily after that it was annoying HMMMMMMMMMM

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Passed first time with 814. I have worked with Windows XP for a couple of years but when I sat the practice exams for 70-270. it made me realise how much I did not know. Make sure you really know your power management settings for laptops, installation (ie RIS), startup …

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I have 2 computers both running WinXP Pro and i wanna transfer some files from one computer to another. both pc are hooked up to the internet. any help would be great......the items are 2 video files about 1.5 GB in total.

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Hello. I'd like some advice on simple Internet controls for a 16-year-old who habitually visits porn sites. I monitor him closely, but if I step out of the room even briefly, I find porn sites in the history. He gets grounded or whatever, banned from the computer, promises he won't …

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ok i have VMware 4.5.2 build 8848, and i wanted to setup linux, but it didnt work.. To test it out i then tried xp first and that didne work neither. They noth give me this error, " "Unable to open kernel device "\\.\vmx86": The system cannot find the file …

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At first I thought this was only happening in Windows Media Player, but it turns out that it happens in other programs, too, such as Winamp. Music will play at first, and then it will stop playing... when I change a song, or stop and then start again... it does …

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Hi......both my CD drives dont work. I have a cd rom drive (D) and a cd rw drive (E). Neither of them read any type of disc, whether it be data, music, photos etc, and i have tried these disc in another pc and they work fine. I am using …

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Running XP on an Intel D875PBZ mobo with 1 SATA HDD and 2 IDE HDD's. SATA is primary drive, other 2 drives are used just for storage. The LED light for the HDD is constantly on; I've ran disk check, disk defragmenter, and scanned for viruses and ad-aware. I've read …

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I'm getting a "Failed to initialize remote infrared device" error when XP boots. I have no infrared devices associated with this system. Any ideas? thank you in advance.

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:?: What effect, if any, will I notice in my system by installing Standard PC HAL & NOT installing the ACPI HAL? Also, will I lose any of the programs & files currently on my hard drive? Thanks! Tom

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hello all, first post, be kind plz :eek: anywho, ive got this machine i built myself, running Windows XP SP2 all availible updates installed. Everytime I go to run a full screen game, (ie final fantasy XI or RollerCoaster Tycoon III) the machine will shut off and restart... but this …

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My computer has been effected with many Trojans and it changed the display properties when i want to change the background of desktop. After it's been efftected it also changed the background of desktop by itself. How can i change it back to normal settings?

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I have a HSP56MR modem which has ceased working since I installed W2000. I have downloaded the suggested driver from th makers web site to no avail. I have emaild them with no response. Can anybody help. OR I have a second HDD. Can anybody tell me how to put …

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I have a windows 2003 Domain with more than 200 clients. I have a registry key that can display computer Name with "My Computer" Icon on desktop.e.g. (My Computer TESTPC1). It is working properly is applied manually. Can anyone please help me in deploying this registry key in the domain …

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It's embarassing to ask this, as I do helpdesk work for a living, but hey... if I can't ask here, where can I? I recently upgraded my system at home to a Pentium 4 (3 ghz) with an Intel Motherboard (915). After doing so, I wiped my hard drive and …

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Can anyone please tell me how to run scandisk to check for corruptions on my hard drive? cheers

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After ditching Gentoo on my dual booted Windows/Gentoo box, I forgot that Windows was, in fact, NOT first in the partition list. It's 180 or some odd MB away from the beginning. This must have caused this error. I tried many times to go into the recovery console, but it …

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