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| | Hi -- Without warning, my copy of XP stopped responding, giving me only a blue screen with the mouse pointer at the center. Tried Windows Repair console, repairing the boot record, etc., even reinstalling Windows on top of the original version, nothing worked. So I installed XP in a new … |
| | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have a question if anyone could help I would really appreciate it. In our office we have XP and we installed SP2. After the install is finished we tried to run window updates and we got the 0x800a0046 error. So we went out on the web and found … |
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| | Hmm Tell me what else I can check, I use Dial Up at work with above listed software & machine. Upon start up, it takes time to bring up the desktop ???? Then on the net, pages are slow, quite frequent disconnects...Tied into my companies server????? People tell me its …  |
 | Hello, I have recently reinstalled windows on my dell with the xp cd they gave me and ever since then my internet has been running very slow. I have two computer on my network both dells runnin xp home. the one computer is running just fine so it is not …  |
| | We have a wireless router to enable internet sharing (we are all students so we went wireless). The internet connection works, but me and my friend have often wanted to transfer information across the network or play games against each other. How do we go about this across a network? … |
 | Holy Crap!! Longhorn Beta is scheduled to hit the interweb, and existence, by the end of June!! Aero, Avalon, and several other components are allready nearing completion and have pre-beta versions available!! Plus, Longhorn promises to run in 64-bit mode!! Which is nice since this fall, AMD is supposed to … |
| | is there a way to change what a error message says when it pops up? |
| | ok guys first time poster here so ill try give you much detail as i can hopefully someone can solve this ok am trying to installing XP onto a new hard drive Maxtor 80gb 7200 8mb catche (its only for testing appz on) ok on boot up i click F8 … |
| | ON Nov 15 2004 Bill Gates fixed my Windows XP by downloading stuff I tried resetting system to 1 Nov, but this DOES NOT undo the fix (Among other things this fix stopped all my thousands of Basic progs running) Is it time for me to reinstall XP? I have … |
| | Hi all need some help please. I'm now having difficulty saving certain files displayed on websites such as gif files or jpgs when I right-click and "save target as" which is blanked out. This wasn't the case before and wondered why I'm getting this? Please help. Thanks. |
| | Last night, while editing a picture in photoshop to print(action #1), I was also already printing to my epson printer(action #2). Like countless other times in the recent past, I also wanted to download images from my CF flash card(action #3), using my regular card reader. Upon insertion of the …  |
| | Is it possible to make the CPU use the free space in my harddrive as RAM? |
| | I recently reformatted my HD and reinstalled Win XP home. Immediately it began to take a while to start up. It gets stuck on the loading Win XP page. (the one where the little bubble goes across the screen.) I have tried everything that i can imagine except for doing … |
 | what is the difference between windows xp and windows 64 bit edition. And which one is better. |
| | Starting today every time i try and open a file from a internet link for Windows media, all of my internet windows shut down. I have tried to download the new version 10 but it shuts down everytime i try and do that also. I have scanned for viruses and … |
| | After sometime on the computer, the side scroll bar starts to move up and down all by itself. I do not touch the mouse or anything else. Its does nots matter what product I am in or even if on the internet. For some reason it just starts to scroll … |
| | Ok Ok OK - I went to control panel to adjust font sizes, and still can't make them "normal" size... What's up with that? I need smaller desktop icons and changes in the "desk top apperance" doesn't change settings either to a viewable size for my screen.....HELP ! |
| | Hello I have 2 partitions : C and D (one for system, the other for data). I reinstalled my win2k on C and its working but I don't understand why the boot.ini file is on the D partition. There is also a very small WINNT folder on the D partition. … |
| | I own a Packard Bell PC Intel Celeron with 2.2 Ghz using Windows XP home. My hard disk has 60Gb capacity. It uses NTFS file system. I had only used 17 Gb up to a week or two ago when i received a balloon warning informing me that my hard … |
| | When logging in on the XP Pro welcome screen, it takes the user name and password. Then a box comes up and says disconnecting network connection, and it comes right back to the welcome sign on screen. It never signs in and gets to the desktop. There is a networking … |
| | Running Xp pro. Have spybot, ad aware and windows spyware. I cannot get into windows update page. I can get to other ms windows pages. When I go to update, I get a blank screen and done at the bottom of the browser. Have posted HJT on the nasties page, … |
| | I was told that if i have xp SP2 my 1.1 usb ports would be upgraded to 2.0, but they wont upgrade. Is this a hardware problem, if not how can i get it to work? And there arent any ? marks or ! marks under the Device Manager. |
| | We are using Lotus NOtes version R5 and user wants to have reminders come up automatically ,.. is there a way to do that and how? thanks in advance for you help |
| | I have a desktop computer with windows Xp Professionnal sp2. When my computer has been turned off for the night or for an hour or so, windows Xp won't boot. I see the bios and everything goes well. Then just before the windows logo is supposed to appear, it just … |
| | Hello! I am having the following problem when my computer (Windows XP version) is starting up: I get an error message that says Windows cannot find C:\windows\inetdata\winlogon.exe. I click 'ok' and then another message comes up that says: windows could not load or run c:\windows\inetdata\winlogon.exe specified in the registry. Then …  |
| | Hello i have windows xp and im doing school online now on our message boards we have people who attach files with there posts and for some reason i am the only one who can not open these attachments now if someone PMs me then i can open the attachment … |
| | Hey, Some stupid virus just murdered my computer, and its also about time that I do it anyway. I want to just wipe everything from my computer and start like I just installed XP. Is there any way to do that or do I have to just wipe everything and … |
| | if i have a regular copy of windows xp professional installed on my computer, and i want to buy a new copy and change the cd key, will an OEM cd-key work without reinstalling? |
| | I am running windows XP and would like to reformat my computer but I have never done this before,how do you go about doing it?Any tips or help would be great!!! My system is older here is the specks. Microsoft windows XP Home edition service pack 1 AMD Athlon Xp … |
| | How do i edit my BIOS settings? Do i press DEL when my computer is starting up? Because when i dot hat theres BIOS SETTINGS UTILITY. I have to change my boot order to CD-ROM. THere is no "Boot Order" tab anywhere or CD-ROM. Theres boot settings priority, but i … |
 | I long time ago when I used IE, I had the address bar toolbar on my taskbar. I found it very helpful for getting to pages quickly. Eventually, I got rid of it because even in 1280 x 1024, it took up too much of my taskbar space, and there … |
| | Im having a problem with a computer that appears to randomly lock up at various times and there is no way to shut down the computer unless I turnoff the swith on the supply. I have replaced the RAM and ran diagnostic on the machine and it still freezes. Is …  |
| | I am runnning Windows XP Pro, with SP2 recently installed. Before I installed SP2, I could run DOS-based programs OK. Tell the system to run the program, and it would pop up the Command Prompt and run it. After I installed SP2, when I try to run most DOS-based programs, … |
| | I am running windows XP and would like to do a system restore to try to fix a problem I am having with my computer,but when I go into Sytem Restore it will not let me choose anything but a date from January and I would like to go back … |
| | Hey everyone. I wanted to install xp over my 2000, and so i loaded everything up installed everything and then got to the partition selection. It would not let me delete C: because it said there were files that were needed for the setup, arent they supposed to be on … |
| | I think in win 98 you could display internet files on the desktop without opening any browser. I remember I could connect to server and get the location of satellites on my desktop. is it possible in XP? |
 | [FONT=Verdana]Hi, I was just wondering when anybody knew when the new O.S. from Microsoft: [B]Microsoft Windows [I]Longhorn[/I][/B] would be coming out and any information that anyone should know about it? Ohh and could you add :o where you can download it for free or get it from someone that you …  |
| | hi i am havin a problem wid my windows xp pro every time i do a format i have 2 put all of my drivers bk on and when i put my anti-virus on my com askes 2 restart then it goes mad it gets to the loading screen of … |
| | Hello, this is my first post so thanks for any help you can provide. At work, I had about 350 Contacts in Outlook 2003. A coworker tried to sync his blackberry with the contacts and instead of taking them from the computer, he did the opposite, he managed to take … |
| | Ok, slipstreamed xp pro installation with sp2, Clean Install, inspects hardware config, asks me to press F6 if i want to install SCSI or RAID Drivers. then to press F2 for ASR, and then nothing, the screen hangs, cd and hard drives go idle and after a short while the … |
| | I have an 80gb hard drive which I wish to partition. On one partition I would like to install Windows 98, mostly in order to play older games. One the larger partition, I would like to install XP, for anything else I need to do. I understand that Windows 98 … |
| | I use msn for my internet provider. I at one time was able to erase the address line by going into control panel and clearing the history. This no longer works!! Im not sure if its MSN or my computer that is the problem. I am unable to get any … |
| | Hi, just a quickie - does anyone know if my Win 2K Advanced server will require a restart after installing the Connection Manager Administration Kit? Kinda mission critical to avoid restarting this box between certain hours, but I'd really like to install CMAK today if I can. |
| | hi i am havin a problem installing windows xp on my computer and i get to the setup is starting wwindos with a blue background and then it freezes and does not do ne thing ne help email male me pls (bravo206@hotmail.com or reply) |
| | Hi folks, A while back you helped me with spyware, so now I am hoping you can help again. I am attempting to load some new software but when i do it comes up file error "cannot find shell.dll" I did a search and it is in there. I also … |
| | In any Office 97 application if you go to exit after you have made file changes a pop-up says "Do you want to save the changes" followed by three buttons: "Yes" "No" "Cancel". Since installing SP4 on windows 2000 my three buttons say "Cancel" "Yes" "OK" but the functionality of …  |
| | Ok here is my problem: Yesterday I rebooted my computer, it began to start back up. Then after showing the XP loading page the screen went black for about 5 seconds. If flashed blue for no more then a second and then began to restart again. I left it on … |
| | Does anybody know what services are safe to disable or set to manual? Also, what recommendations to use as far as turning off themes, using a screen saver, power setting options, i want to get the best optimization possible. Thanks in advance  |
| | i want to send information via networking to my two computers but whenever i try to setup the wizard this comes up : The wizard detected that this computer belongs to a domain. Therefore, you cannot use this wizard to set up a network |
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