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Playing games is one of the fun things I do on my computer, but recently I noticed svchost.exe and system takes all my processing. So now everything is slow, even the screen saver. I did not have this problem until I went online to play games. The computer was not …

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ok heres the problem: I am running two hard drives each w/ XP Professional on them. I get my new 120 gig hard drive and get XP running on it etc etc. Its now time to format the old hard drive and use it for file storage. So i go …

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I bought a game for my kids that will run on my system (according to the Minimum System Requirements: Supported OS: Windows

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This is pissing me off. Random restarts. I know the topic has bee discusses many a time before. But i've never heard anyone speak of this particular error. I hate it, i'm angry, lol, and I am about ready to make the "Switch" if you know what i'm talking about. …

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How can I repair = applet crashed as I can't see all of a page, something to do with Java?. Not knowing what Java does even!.

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Hi all! I need help applying to grad school. All of the forms are online as .pdf documents. I'm supposed to somehow fill them out on my computer and then print them and mail them. One school suggests using cutting and pasting with a word processor. I have tried that …

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Ok ,I am started to get annoyed at this problem but anyways here I go. When I go to My Computer and click on my D: Drive which is a hard drive it says please go to the control panel to instal or remove programs. When I right-click on the …

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been trying to restore back to one point... and when it starts restoring back to a point i pick it stops half way and restarts comp.... then says system restore was unsuccessful.....

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[size=3]Hi All, I am having trouble with my xp os. Everytime I start my computer it doesn't pick up my CD-rom. I have a older IBM computer PIII with a 500 mhz and tons of Ram, Everything else is working great, I just have to reinstall my drivers for cd-rom …

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With about 9 days left for the release of Office 2003, Can I get your oppinions on it and whether I should get it. I have Office 2002 or something like that now.

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Ok, i have a very fustrating problem. My buddies on messenger cannot recieve my IM's although i recieve theirs ok. This started happening about 4 weeks ago I've reinstalled messenger 6 it made no difference. I'm using aol dial up so I contacted aol about the problem and they say …

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My old (not really that old) Compaq died on me. I bought a new Dell. I wanted to keep the info on the Compaq so I installed its hard drive in my Dell as a secondary. I got all my pic's which is what I really wanted. But I cannot …

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Hi, This is the sceneario......... I took my HDD out and put it in my mate computer, took out the jumper to make it a slave drive, and i loaded files in it..... i didn't change boot file or ne thing. I put the jumper back in to make it …

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Im trying to transfer some data from my old Western Digital 30G hard drive to my new Maxtor 80G SATA drive. When i hook up the old drive in my new comp, as a Primary Slave, i cannot get i to boot from my Maxtor, and it actually dosent even …

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I have a 17" VGA Monitor, bout 3-4 years old. It was connected to my PC which is also about years old, and it was working fine. But when I removed it and put it on my old Packard Bell the Screen became really wavey. So i thought it might …

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I have a clone PC using Windows 98. When I try to boot up system, it gets to the first screen and then it just shuts down completely. I can't even get to the safe mode. When I hold down the ctrl key and I choose safe mode. I get …

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Hey guys, first post here... I recently configured my PC (XP-PRO SP1) to have more than one user, for my roommate. I want him as a Power User or regular User. I'm doing it so he can't access my documents and whatnot. I set everything up but when I log …

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I wonder if someone could help me? Every time I swith on my laptop I receive an error message saying that 'windows could not start because the <windows root>\system32\hal.dll. file is missing or corrupt please re-install a copy of the above file. i tried booting the windows xp cd rom …

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Hello all...pretty nre to this game but I'm in need of assistance. I decided (maybe unwisely) to build my own PC. I have the following - Asrock m/board/XP 2000 processor/256 DDR 400/Geforce graphics/cdrom/40 gb harddrive. Just a bare system for me to build on really.... Anyway, I have both 98 …

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I have 3 win2000 boxes and my main one has the broadband connection. In it I have two network cards in which the main card is set up for IP sharing. It passes the goods over to the second card and out to the second box. They now both have …

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im in a horrible situation for installing windows 2003 on my windows 200 machine... 1) bios doesnt find any boot record from the cd. WHY???? 2) installing win2k3 from a windows machine puts temporary setup files on the hard drive, making it impossible to reformat and clean install on reboot. …

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I just bought a compaq laptop from Best Buy. When i open the computer properties, it says the processor is a 1.05ghz when the processor is a AMD xp 2200+ so it should run at a 1.8ghz . sometimes it does say 1.79ghz but mainly it says 1.05ghz 1. Why …

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in winxp how and where do you set up your monitor type. winxp just sets up the plug and play monitor. i would like to change that to the monitor type i am using

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Hello Guys, I have Windows 2000 OS on P IV intel pentium 256 MB RAM. Since 2 days my pc keeps on freezing when I try to open something, sometimes it works properly and then when I try opening windows media player or may be a bigger application it freezes, …

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i would like to know if win/2k will run on the same hard drive with partions i have a program that will not run on xp

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I have a computer in my room, and it is somewhat noisy. Naturally, before I go to bed, I want to put it on standby mode. The computer supports APM and ACPI, but there is no place to turn on standby mode. I did some research, and found in a …

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hey guys. i am havin some serious problems with having this webmail to run perfectly on my windows 2k pro box. instead of writing it down here i just want to have an instant message conversation with one who knows alot of about setting squirrelmail on a windows box. thank …

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i get this virus.what can i do? help me plz.my english is poor.what can i do in the [url]www.microsoft.com/security/s...ns/ms03-026.asp[/url]. ? what can i push there? svc host exe error plz plz plz thx

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This is my first post, TIA. I keep trying to partition my new 120 Gb Western Digital with two partitions, c: & d: (using Windows XP recovery console), but when I go to format the second partition it names it f:. What can I do to get the second partition …

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i really need someones help here...okay my computer wont load windows. everytime i try to turn it on it goes to this black screen that says that windows is messing up and i have a list of 4 options that say like load windows normally...or safe mode or what ever. …

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