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I have windows xp installed on my computer.When i try to pres shut down button with my mouse it doesnt work or it just shows blue screen with message "windows is shutting down" butt i wait and system is not shutting down. Please answer to me how to resolve my …

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I just dont know why all of my icons are highlighted dark blue? Does anyone know anything about this. Thanks

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I have a monitor (ViewSonic VA1912wb) that has a resolution of 1440 x 900 pixels and everything looks great at that resolution. After installing a wireless keyboard and a KVM switch, I am no longer offered that resolution as an option in the Control Panel. Since I know everything looks …

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Hi all, I am currently having a small problem with my Windows XP computer: when I am for example playing Call of Duty 4 or Age of Mythology, the computer minimalizes the window by itself every half hour (or something like that). It doesn't happen with browsers or other applications. …

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My friend has a laptop that boots strait to the safemode selection screen then crashes. He says he might have a virus. His battery is fine...could a virus have corrupted his boot sector that bad? and what steps should we take to fix this?

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Double clicking folders to view the contents always results in a new window opening. This is very frustrating when trying to view a deep pathfile. I've already gone to Folder Options and made sure open each folder in same window is selected. I use to have ACD See installed, and …

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I copied some photo's onto a media drive from my pc, now i have to give the media drive back i can not put the photo's back onto my pc. I have tried copy and paste, cut and paste and send to new folder nothing seems to work any ideas …

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hey guys, im currently getting a huge problem with my computer booting up. at first it was just the occaisional weird hanging noise? i guess once in awhile which just required a reboot. Then gradually i started experiencing problems with actually turning it on. i had to play with the …

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HI all I rebuilt my computer with some new parts [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread238968.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread238968.html[/URL] and installed xp, it did updates then came SP3. Install went fine then restarted and it came up with "Auto check not found - skipping autocheck" or something to that effect cant quite remember, then it would blue screen …

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I have a friend that can't get her computer out of safe mode. It keeps asking for a command prompt. Do you know what command it is talking about? And can you help?

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How do I solve this problem of my pc being unable to read or open some files copied from other computer

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Hi everyone, Is there anyway in Window XP to open a lot of file explorer tabs in a single window just like we could do in Ubuntu ? For instance, C: D: and C:\Program Files are opening in the same window without requiring to open 3 new windows? I need …

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HI I am new here so hope i am in the right place. I am running win xp sp 2 ie 7. on my laptop i can no longer access the internet wireless but i can access the internet thru a wired connection. when i am wirless and i enter …

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...Even in safe mode. It starts to open and then I get a white screen and it is not responsive Running Outlook 10 on XP machine. I saved the PST to an external hard drive and am thinking of uninstalling Office XP pro and reinstalling. Advice?

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Hi there all. I need some help with my PC... what happend is i started up my PC arter work 1 day it started up fin every thing kicked in like it shode do then it got to the next bit of loading where it has Verifying DMI Pool Data................ …

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can someone suggest me some mother boards that can i use to play INSANELY. Include the brand and price ( ofcourse i need a motherboard that is cheap but best performance in game) Question: is Intel BLKDP55WB P55 S/GL is good in gaming? hence its too cheap to have a …

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Been a little while since i formatted my pc figure i'd get it clean and polish it off during turkey weekend, no problem with the install but when i updated either sp2 or 2.5/3 it bugged out on me. Then i remembered this happened last time I'm using serial ATI …

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My O S crashed. So it was replaced and they reinstalled my files. I have Outlook xp 6 but only e mails showing from o4. I can not send or receive e mail. It keeps asking for username and password which I never used. or if I did I forget …

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I just recently got a semi-newish computer fixed (had a power source problem) to use at college that had previously been a family computer. My brother had downloaded a lot of spyware and adware, so I used a program to remove it. Then I decided to fix a message I …

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I guess this occured when my computer was in for repair months and months ago. I want to take control of a folder (to change its attributes), and to do this I need to boot the computer in safe mode. When I hit "F8" after the POST, I go into …

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My computer freezes after we update to service pack 2 or after we update the graphics card. The screen we flash multiple times until it completely freezes when viewing a video or running a large program. System: Microsoft Windows Xp Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 1 Hewlett-Packard Pavilion AMD …

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Hey guys, I got this creepy and freaking anoying freeze lag every minute. I dont have to do anything my computer just freeze once every minute for 1 or maybe 2 seconds each. It's pissing me off and I dont know what to do, help please :( Some system information: …

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Hi all I am not only a newbie here but also with computers - I know the basics but that is all. My son has windows xp and the problem i believe (although could be wrong) is a virus. He had Vrt1 tmp all the way through to 10 and …

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The Folder Option is missing both in the Control Panel and Tools Menu. What might had caused this problem? Is there any solution to this? Tnx in advanced Gurus!!

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I have XP and when I started the other day, I got the error message: windows could not start because the follwing file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM You can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using the original setup cd-rom... I found lots of information about …

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i have come across a problem every time i turn my computer on it goes to the windows screen with the rolling bar and the rolling bar starts to break up and become distorted then once windows loads the screen is unreadable as if it is in a very low …

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I have a mini ACER Aspire one laptop. This morning it had a page that said windows did not load properly and start in safe mode, nothing worked. I went and called ACER and the guy told me to go buy an external Hard drive container so that I could …

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Help please, At my wits end with my HP laptop and after it didn't work for the second time after having the motherboard replaced twice, (repair shop's advice), due to strange 'tartan' patterns on the screen, I accidentally deleted my recovery drive. Now, I just wanted to re-format the hard …

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I have an Advent 7060 home edition XP laptop that wont start up. When I turn the power on it goes to a screen whereby it gives me 5 options which are [LIST] [*]Safe Mode [*]Safe Mode with networking [*]Safe Mode with command prompt [*]Last known configuration (your most recent …

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Hi friends Today one of my friends messed up my PC while I was away. Now when I switch it on it shows Out Of Range. My friend suggested to log in Safe mode and change the frequency. But I can't log in safe mode also. The same problem persists. …

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I configured ISS ftp in windows xp. I created folders for different users. When I log in to it with a username it allows that user to navigate to all the folders. How can i restrict that. How to use user account control in ISS I got ISS 5.1 thankx …

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friends can any1 tel me this.....[B]wen v switch on the system[/B][ICODE]from wher the actual booting will b done...[/ICODE]

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When try to play certain videos, with Nero Player it gives Error "Direct Draw Acceleration is not comaptible to play video" Upon going to dxdiag it shows under diplay mode no device is availble. In note it says "The system is using the generic video driver. Please install video driver …

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i have win xp 64bit edition and i'm trying to flush the dns manually and i'm getting the error message: Windows IP configuration Could not flush the flush the dns revolver cache : Function failed during execution. does anyone know what this could be from or how to fix it? …

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Sir, I want to print matter from educational original cd. I can not select it by mouse as curser disappears when cd is on.By using printscreen image, I can print but can not read small font. What should I do?

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I configured ftp in windows Xp using IIS 5.1 I created password protected users They can access the ftp with in local network using ftp://<inertnal ip> I want to access it outside the router. How can I do that? When I try to do it says FTP Folder error!! plz …

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My windows xp have slow start up it frezees when i turn on my computer.And i have to wait 1 or 2 minutes before i can use my windows xp but it bots normal .Problem is after i login in my windows xp? Answer to me!

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Hopefully you can help i have an acer aspire 1710 with xp pro and sp2 installed. i have a WLAN 802.11g mini-PCI Module for wireless connectivity. i was using my wireless connetion the other day, until my notebook froze( it often gets hot and freezes) and i had to restart. …

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Okay, so to start out I'm actually on the computer that the problems are occurring on. My account is fine, runs perfectly, nothing closes un-normally. My mothers account when you open certain things like mailwasher and internet explorer, they will start up and in a short period, close and give …

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For some reason, my wireless connection just...quit. Now, whenever I start it, the icon pops up to tell me I got a wireless connection. (If I go to command prompt, and type in "ipconfig", I get a IP address which means I can get on the Linksys site by typing …

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Hi i was working on a machine and noticed it was getting very hot ,at the time i was installing sp3 when it fished it shutdown as normal i then looked at the fan and found that it was blocked with a ball of dust. i removed the dust and …

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hey people,ive got a problem with my pc.so yesterday i installed new update for window then at the end it said sumthing about my window not being valid or sumthing and it stopped responding.so i turned it back on when it loaded up tho my keyboard and mouse were not …

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Hello, everyone! This is my first post. It appears that my issue is unique from any problem I have read. My other computer is a Dell Inspiron laptop with 1.0 GHz running XP, and it will not properly boot. All it will do after POST and the "Starting Windows" spash …

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My computer suddenly turned off and cannot turn back on. It gets stuck on the windows xp loading screen. What do i do, i don`t want to format my hdd because i have important info on it

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I have a small business server 2003 machine that I am trying to replace a raid 1 drive. I unplugged the drive I wanted to replace and put another empty drive in it's place. When I had done this previously with a new drive it just added it back into …

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I tried to download a theme for XP. I first had to download a patch. After downloading the theme, I wanted to change it back to my old one. Now I can't change any theme. I get the error message "Run a DLL as an App" . Sometimes it says …

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I had one windows xp system on my pc and something wiped my dlls and i installed second windows xp on same drive. Now computer when booting always aks which system to use. Does somebody knows how to fix that problem whit system choosing while booting and boot without chossing …

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I have a problem on monitor crash each time I starting to play FM 2010, and the problems report: BCCode: 10000050 BCP1: E2600004 BCP2: 00000001 BCP3:F7078D2E BCP4: 00000001 OSVer5_1_2600 SP2_0 Product 256_1. How to solve this problem ? Thanks.

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