[windows-nt-2000-xp] Forum Topics

Can't uninstal Norton 2004, PC runs slow due to some spywares..I am sure. Don't know what to do. I disabled my norton 2004 when I wanted to uninstal, while online. I am sure that brought the infection. I need help to understand the log and fix, please. Below is the …

Hi, Not sure if this is the right section to bring this up, but when I turn on my machine in the morning it starts up nice and quickly but when my screen appears with my desktop, the Dial-Up connection box is on the screen. It doesn't connect because the …

i am using windows xp home sp1. i downloaded and installed the version5 update. with it installed i can't get online. it dials in appears to be online but all pages come back as can't connect. i have reinstalled earthlink, rebuilt my internet connection, disabled firewalls. i am now at …

Not quite sure if this would be the best place to post this, but if not I'm sorry. Was just wondering, I heard there was a way to save a file, and require a password to reopen it? Is this true? And if so how do I do that? And …

Hey, guys; Just this week I haven't been able to restart or shut-down my PC. It gets as far as... "Windows is shutting down", and just hangs there for ever (at least after returning home from 12 hours of work, it's still trying to shut down). My sytem: Dell custom …

Hello, I am troubleshooting some problems on my PC. When going through my bios I noticed that the AGP aperture size was set to 64mb. I have a Radeon 9800 XT which has 256mb. My question is. Does this matter? I should I set my AGP Aperture to 256mb? There …

Hello , I will try cover my problem, I was using windows 98 that came with my PC had a little problem with fault errors , so went and purchased widows 2000 pro , down loaded everything was good , using 15 gig hard drive , well it took a …

I have two hard drives on my system. The first drive has Win XP. I was reformatting the second drive to load Win98 when I stupidly started to format the d: drive. (Which is where Format.com had put What had been my C: drive.) It went about 20% thru the …

When I try to save a picture, even when its animated and supossed to be gif, it usually only wants to save on bitmap. Can someone help me out?

OK guys, got this retarted problem, I changed the DNS on one of my sites and it has now fully propogated. When My programmer that sits beside me goes to my forum, he sees the new site new DNS my content writer on the otehr side sees the new site …

Hello, Is there anyway that I can change the LPT1 printer port to USB port when I use MSDOS? I am to have LPT1 printer to print my government documents from MSDOS, and use the USB port printer for all other documents used with Windows XP. Please Help!!!! Houseape

Help ! My integrated board's video card must have gone (no comments pls., I didn't have enough money at the time), so we have to replace the WHOLE MB. The problem is, Win 2000 doesn't allow you to just copy on top of itself. So we have to reformat. I …

I am unable to enter the regedit -The box pops up and then exits , same for the control panel add and remove. Is this a virus or just software glitch? there are no error msgs this happens both in 98se and 2000

Hey everyone, Im sorry, yesterday I made a post saying that my internet browsers were lagging, this is incorrect. After using my computer a little more I discovered that dragging windows also lags, so its not an internet related problem. Anyways onto the problem. Im using a dell laptop, running …

Well, i've got a total of 30 processes when i turn on my computer. Im wondering is there a way to get rid of them so they dont show up every time i turn on my computer. So each time i turn on my computer i dont i dont have …

Hi everyone! This is my first post, so I'm saying hi, as well as seeing if anyone can help me with this little problem I'm having... I've recently got back from a 2-week trip, and upon turning on my computer, the monitor screen flickers continuously. This doesn't happen in safe …

Windows XP SP1 Dell Inspiron 1100 Last few programs are Spyware Guard, Spybot, Ad-Aware, Microsoft Office XP, Norton Internet Security, Chapura, Palm Desktop. Intermittent I reformatted my hard drive this weekend. I am working through some other problems in the Security forum. I reinstalled Outlook, and then i installed the …

Hello, i have two questions: 1 - when I start Win 2000 Pro, i always receive a message that says: Run Dll – error of loading of C:\PROGRA~1\NEWDOT~1\NEWDOT~2.DLL What is NEWDOT? How can i repair it? Can i delete the software (what is?) that load it? 2 – when I …

I've got a Windows XP installed in a PC. I forgot password to login. How could I skip or resolve this issue? Thanks for the comments or advice given. :evil:

I am running windows Xp Professional and I have a dell dimensions PC (sorry I do not know much about computers) Hi, out of nowhere today I turned on my computer and the xp load screen comes on and then immedietely it goes to a message that states stop: c000021a …

Alright I am using Windows XP, what service pack i am not sure because I can't get in to my computer. ustom built machine, last 2 programs I tried to install was MVPBaseball 2004 and a Fantasy Football program. Problem just occured yesterday and as never occured before. So I …

[COLOR=Navy]Am facing a problem with windows 2000. Each time i try to submit a long email thru yahoo or try to delete lost of messages at a time thru yahoo or try to "submit" lot of information thru any web-site my browser window closes as soon as i hit the …

The OS I have is Windows XP. For some reason when I click on RUN then type MSCONFIG I get this error message. This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator. Could someone please tell me how to correct this …

I've got a problem in the BIOS downloading of a IBM Thinkpad T22. I've got Windows XP installed on the laptop and when starting, system goes directly to the BIOS page (PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 for IBM Thinkpad) and there it shows: "0175:Bad CRC1, stop POST task. Any comments or …

I have been getting this warning alot recently. It comes up on some internet sites prior to loading and I think it was completly imobilized Quicktime. I cant View anything in a quicktime format. Quicktime wont even start anymore. I have uninstalled it and reinstalled it it just isnt working. …

When I go to check for errors on the hard drive and the puter reboots to check for errors I get the message "cannot open volumne for direct access and then it says windows has finished checking the disk. please help lbarnes

I have napster on my computer, and have a fairly large collection of songs- music is the primary use of my computer. Recently, my computer began using 100% cpu when windows media player was running. Songs would stutter and programs freeze. If i go to task manager, windows media player …

I need some help. I no longer can record songs onto my cds through windows media. The red copy button is grey and I get a "device not detected" message. I dont know if this has anything to do with it, but my son installed a usb upgrade to 2.0 …

I have Windows XP Pro. I have more than ample space for System Restore, and the disk space usage for SR is set to maximum. When I create a Restore Point - I am then able to view it in System Restore and the RP is saved in the System …

Ok, just finished building my new PC (Prescott core P4 2.8HT, Abit AI7 MoBo, 1.5gig ram, ATI Radeon 9600xt vid card) And I am unable to instal anything, even after multiple formatts on the brand new HD, I cant get anything to install from a disc, I get an error …

I am upgrading a computer from Windows 1998 to XP and it gets too the 34 minute mark everytime and the computer restarts and does not come back on just stays with a black screen for hours. When I restart it the Windows XP restarts the download and samething happpens …

Hey again all. I know I already posted a problem about my computer "freezing" when windows is booted up (on June 30) but it is now July 8 and I have still not fixed the problem. I am running windows xp home edition version 2002 w/ service pack one(1). Intel …

Microsoft Changes The Game Plan: Windows 2003 A True NOS? Sit back get a cup of coffee it's time for another tale of technology by Jimmy Freligh Jr | April 1st, 2004 A lot of people ask about Windows 2003 is it better then Windows XP? Ha! I wish, there …

A New Environment: The LiteStep Shell Sit back get a cup of coffee it's time for another tale of technology by Jimmy Freligh Jr | June 20th, 2004 Many people love Windows but, they hate the crashes the bugs the problems the restarts the pain. A lot people don’t know …

When i start my computer i always use task manger to cancel uneeded programs running..When i did that today the tabs ( performance, users, tasks) were all cut off and the border too. I tryed to do a system restore and somehow my system restore was turned off and last …

Is it possible to use a Dell Windows XP Home Edition on a non Dell PC? I tried, it let me do everything with the install. Did not ask me for keycode, but it boots as far as the blue screen with the Windows XP logo. It then seems to …

I like the way some companies like Emachines and HP make a hidden partition with system image. I was wondering if anybody knows what they use to do this and if this partition is safe from viruses.

Hi everyone. When I boot, the folder (program files) always opens. I have been patient for a year now with this but how do I change it. I have changed the folder name and tried to search out how to customize startup. Hmmm :-| can you help. Thanks

Just for furthure refrence, what exactly is the diffrence between NTFS & FAT systems?

I just recently reimaged a freinds dell laptop with his XP restore CD. while going through the process of formating I found that his origanal configuration had a partitioned hard drive. Not knowing why it was origanlly set this way I just went through and formated the second partition (it …

7/5/2004 I tried to re-install Windows XP Home Edition over the same existing, and operational, Win XP. The procedure proceeds through ‘Collecting Information’, ‘Dynamic Update’, ‘Preparing Installation’ and ‘Installing Hardware’. At the ‘Installing Windows step, it launches into Scan Disk and restarts the installation all over, and over, and over. …

Higuys, I need your help. I've had two operating sysytems installed on separate partitions of one physical drive: Win XP on C: and Win 98 SE on D:. I was able to choose between them via dual - boot menu. They worked just fine until I installed a new hard …

Long time no post. OS: Windows XP Home Location: Mesquite, TX My aunt's computer has been having prolems lately; Pop-ups and network issues. Pop-ups: There have been a number of pop-ups that have been happening when she is opening Incredimail, going to Hotmail or doing anything else. It is also …

I just reinstalled windows xp 2004 sp2 and since installing , I have been seeing the screen changing into a bluish colour , then a bit darkish and hardly normally lit . I think it might be an attraction of the news winxpsp2 but it's hampering my workings . I …

I have this Dell 2gig celeron with 512 ram. Ever since I got it maybe once or twice a month it would juts instantly shuit down if I was heavy into a graphics program. Around 2 weeks ago it just started shutting off all the time, like 6 times a …

Any time I've ever tried to install 2Mpro from a newly formatted harddrive it would say it can't be done. However, one time I was told this could be done and how. It's been a while, and I've forgotten the method. Can anyone help me with this? Does XP follow …

My wife's box got the dreaded about:blank hijack recently. I'm thinking this problem is a side-effect of this: You know how in 2000 you can open My Computer, and along the side of the window, there are links to My Documents and My Network Places? Hers will not open. I've …

On my machine 2M Pro skips the screen that gives you the choice of 2M or another Win op sys, but I just installed 2M on another computer and when it gets to that screen it counts down 25 secs I believe before it loads Windows. Is there a way …

Recently my computer has came up eith a window sayingcannot close rundll32.exe ie it hangs and i have to end task. Can i repair this without reinstalling xp? Many thanks:rolleyes:

Hai , I am using Win2000 Server, how can i know from which time the server is running non-stopply (i.e) at which time it is restarted. Ctrl+Alt+Del is showing that the current user login time,I am using 2 users as administrator and restricted.