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| | Hi. My brother-in-law has a Sony laptop computer that he does not use to access the internet. He uses it mainly just to watch DVD's and for computer programs that he's bought. Lately, when he's either watching a DVD or has a CD in the drive, he gets a box … |
| | Halo guys, I have encountered a problem with my MSN Messenger 6.2 which I downloaded recently. It worked fine for a couple of days. But for the past 2 days, it starts to disconnect itself automatically after a few minutes, and I have to re-connect it manually (sometimes it re-connects … |
| | [B]HI ALL![/B] My present problem - I ran a System Recovery both from the disk and from the partition and in both cases all goes well, I get to restart into user partition, windows boots and when it comes to the screen where I click finish the comp hangs. Sometimes … |
| | I am adding a Samsung CD-RW drive to the same (secondary) IDE cable that connects my DVD drive currently - but my computer does not detect this drive. I've got an ECS LVMM3 motherboard, an AMD 3000+ processor, and my computer runs XP. I have set the CD-RW drive to …  |
| | Ok Ive done it this time, and my wife may well kill me... my wife took some photos of the daughters first day of kindergarten... you know riding the bus, pictures withe the new teacher all that.... and i loaded them in the laptop from the CF card... then after … |
| | After I installed Service Pack 2 on my Windows XP PC, I lost the images (or icons) that often appear next to the favorite links under the Favorites menu in Internet Explorer. Now, they all have the default Internet Explorer image next to them. Having the images next to my … |
| | Hi all, I cannot install SP2 because i have edited my bootscreen in the past, can somebody either upload or tell me where to get the original bootscreen file (i forget its name, something like "ntoskrnl.exe") Thanks, YoungCoder |
| | Sorry to dredge up this common problem...but I'm about to take a sledge hammer to my laptop.... I am stuck in the startup loop. It's difficult to get to the screenwhere I select Safe Mode...so once I'm there I choose "Safe Mode" and it asks for my windows password. Then … |
| | I had my laptop recovered last week since my XP is not loading. That's done. So, when it was finally working I realized that I still had to re-install the video, graphics & modem drivers. When I tried installing the video driver, it didn't work, probably because the driver I … |
| | Okay, so I don't usually restart my system. It's not because I don't install software, it's just that I don't always believe the developers that I need to :o . So anyways, this isn't good for finding reasons why windows is having a hard time restarting. Mostly because I've installed … |
| | I resently installed SP2 for Windows Xp and i had a problem with my computer a couple days later and so I did a system restore. Without thinking I set my computer back 5 days not thinking that I installed SP2. When the computer restarted after doing the system restore … |
 | After installing Service Pack 2, I started getting balloons on the system tray telling me that the status of Norton Antivirus and Firewall are unknown. I figured it was just the fact that it didn't work with Norton, but my Grandma's computer has the exact same version of Norton we … |
| | hey all, we have several public folders in outlook and if you go into any one of them that contain items, those items cannot be opened by anyone. permissions are there for those who need them. we are running windows 2000 server farm with exchange 2000. i am the owner … |
| | Okay..I have a huge midi problem with SBLIVE 5.1.... Here is how it goes...I bought myself a Yamaha PSR172 just to mess around with midi on the computer....I use it mainly in Fuity Loops Studio and when I first bought the keyboard..it worked perfectly fine...no problems with that... Then suddenly...I … |
| | I have a weird problem with my cd-drives in windows 2000 pro. I have two cd-drives, another is Samsung dvd/cd drive, and another a Fujitsu Siemens cd-r drive. Now, every time I try to open a cd in my computer, it says: " The disk in drive * is not … |
| | My system was very fast till recently. It started with every now and again the mouse would seem to drag and i would have a lot of process activity for a bit. Has now got worse. I did have it so protected with anti-spyware utils that i was sure i … Information Security adobe apple apple-hardware asp audio client-server display dns first-post flash http-protocol ide image lan-wan microsoft microsoft-access microsoft-windows pci-card printer session storage streaming-service tablet user-interface video video-card web-browser web-server windows-nt-2000-xp windows-server windows-virus windows-xp wireless-networking xml  |
| | When I set the status of the messenger to “Away |
| | Hi all! I'm back with another strange problem. :mrgreen: I have a Dell 8250. About two weeks ago, at exact times twice a day, a stacato series of beeps will blast over my speakers. For example, at 50 and 55 after every hour, all day and night, maybe 10 beeps … |
 | hi...i'm using mozilla and opera browsers at the same time . With mozilla , nothing happens if i click on the " hotmail " box in the msn.com website . Below , in both mozilla and opera , i can see " total:0kb " , " time:1:48 " and " … |
 | Hi, i have recently created a logon script for a department where i work, weird thing is it wont run. the script is sitting in netlogon on the AD controler with all of the other scripts. before this script each person had there own script named after the user id, … |
| | ok.. i had a trojan on my pc that i just couldnt get rid of so i formated my pc.after that i installed the windows updates and i noticed load times were much slower.i cant even play my online game anymore(Americas Army Operations).the games loading time is way longer that … |
 | Hi, I am in the process of building my first computer and have a question about WinXP, when I bought my memory and motherboard I also bought the WinXP OEM version (from zipzoomfly) because it was about 150 dollars cheaper then the full version and the only difference was the … |
| | Hey guys, I'm new to these forums, and I just registered to ask about a problem that I've never encountered before. Right now I'm the techie handling the server + computers in my high school journalism class (newspaper). So now the question... I've installed pagemaker on the computers, running windows …  |
| | have checked speaker- ok, after recording , playback to much static to cut cd. was working fine, this just started. Do I need instructions on the recordings settings? :sad: please help me :) gayleaway ps have creative recorder also have xp professional Thank YOU |
| | everytime i start my computer, this error message pops up. I am not very computer savvy so I'm not really sure what to do. I have run Ad-aware numerous times and there are always objects found. How do I fix this? Please help me! |
| | I have a Dell dimension 4550 running Windows XP home edition Service Pack 1. I have been trying to get rid of spyware and pop-up adds and in the process i think i have deleted some files i needed, one of which is shell.dll. I have downloaded a copy from … |
| | I'll be soon upgrading my computer; new motherboard, case, processor and RAM. I'm running Win2000Pro. What are the caveats in doing this. It seems on the outside, a simple matter of blanket copying all on the "C" drive to the new drive. I've been told maybe WinImage would be the … |
| | hey there. First off here are my specs. OS - XP PRO mobo - ABIT IS7-g with a P4 2.6 Brand new 500w power supply 512 Mb of no name ram ( could be the problem ) Geforce 4 mx420 agp ( could be the problem ha ) hmm dunno … |
| | i have a 1 ghz AMD duron computer with win xp and i´m trying to run this program named FLUSH that was developed in fortran 77 language, i execute the program in the DOS prompt of xp and it gives me the following error: Abnormal program termination:stack fault CS=EIP=000FH=000013EFh i … |
| | Hello, I recently removed the 'hp center' from my hp pavilion 8984, however it seems to also have erased all the 'hp tool' links from my startup menu. Thus i cannot access application recovery or system recovery. HP want nothing to do with this as the warranty has expired. Just … |
| | I am running Windows XP Home Edition on my PC. I have been having a problem with links for a while now. When I click on a link in my email, or a link in a webpage that would normally open in a new IE window, my screen just flashes … |
| | Hi, I use Windows XP and i'm having a problem with my quick launch tooblar. When I start up the computer and log on to my user account there is no quick launch toolbar when there was when i shut it down, so i have to waste time putting it … |
| | hie When I 'am using winxp it does not display the message "it's now safe to turn off your your computer" , it keeps on saying windows is shutting down. help!!!!! |
| | I have a dual boot running C:win2000 and D:winXP, I have 4.5 gb of free disk storage space on my C: drive and 45 mb of disk space on my D: drive. How can I transfer some of the disk storage space from my C: drive to my D: drive. |
| | I cannot download any kind of files on my xp it says it is not logo tested but it was previously fine what wrong or missing? |
| | i need help...period. I have a dell computer and when i boot up i am unable to open any of my folders and recieve an error message that needs to be sent to microsoft.....this continues until i log on to AOL and then i am able to open all my … |
| | I Am Using Windows Xp.from Last 2-3 Days Windows Xp Is Not Shutting Down. Can Anyone Help? |
| | Here's Mine: Service Pack 2 has its ups and downs. The beefed up firewall was a nice touch, but it also limited TCP/IP connections, which can cancel out filesharing. Also, I have noticed a few Windows Installer errors when I try to install a program that utilizes this service. I … |
 | I get this error now when I try to run a setup of adaware and other programs any ideas?  |
| | I did a system test on pc doctor and it said my floppy drive failed :eek: it provideds a number but i dont know what it does so i dont feel safe giving it out! |
 | Everytime i switch one of my pcs on i get the following message... Windows could not start beacuse the following file is missing or corrupt: <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll. Please re-install a copy of the above file. It was working file but this is what i get now. I didnt change anything … |
| | This is a small problem but its these things that really grip me. On the main desktop on XP my icons have the old fashioned coloured box around the writing, unlike the white writing with the transparent background that it should look like. I hope you know what im on … |
| | I am continusouly adjusting the gamma settings of my riva tnt 2 graphics card and increasing the brightness and so on . Everything gets bright and etcetra but when a video plays in windows media player , it's extremely dark for some reason . I'm sure that it's with my … |
| | i have almost the same problem.. when i try to start my computer it loads up normally and when the windows xp screen finishes loading up it just blanks out. i tried to boot the computer from a windows xp disc but when it says "press any key to boot" … |
| | After installing xp service pack 2 I tried to install a 16 bit program I assume that needs to run in dos mode. The program will only come up to a window that is blank with program name in the box at the top. I get an error that says … |
| | I'm not exactly sure whats going on here, I'm running out of space on my hard drive, but I would have plenty if I could just get my CD burner to work. It can read cds fine, but it does not want to detect blank ones, and it is NOT … |
| | OK, I have an HP Pavillion notebook running Windows XP Home Edition. Well today I tried to log on so I turned on the computer, and the whole startup seemed to go fine, but after the "starting up windows XP" screen went away, the screen just went blank and stayed … |
| | when i try to start my computer it loads up normally and when the windows xp screen finishes loading up it just blanks out. i tried to boot the computer from a windows xp disc but when it says "press any key to boot" i press any key and it … |
| | :cry:[SIZE=2]undefined[/SIZE][SIZE=1]undefined[/SIZE] i am windows xp home edition user.after 3 years i meet a serious problems. when the windows was slow ,i put original recovery cd to new installation. the bios show 2 options 1)microsoft windows 2)microsoft windows xp home edition i install the xp twince time on differents versions. in … |
| | I have a web server at home running Windows 2003 Server. This week, the server has frozen 2 times. It looks like the keyboard stops responding even though the mouse cursor has movement. Once this happens I loose connectivity to the server. The only thing that I can do is … |
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