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i have a dell Latitude D600 laptop i cant go on the internet or use the internal NIC card and its really bugging me Even Dell Quick set Application cant turn ON and OFF the NIC i go to power management and it says that the card is off, but …

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after i turn on my computer, and it starts up and then freezes. it has given me a stop error code ox0000000A. i have also ran a memory diagnostic tool and hard drive diagnostic tool, both passed.

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Hi, I have two questions (Win XP): 1) I accidentally set a file's extension to open with the option "Always open with this app", or whatever the text is. Anyway, you can change it in the file's property dialog, but you cannot remove it. I want to remove it so …

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Has anyone ever heard of a virus or spyware that would cause identical problems on 2 different machines at the same time? I have recieved a call about a XP based machine not being able to connect to the internet. At the same time I was told their laptop (Vista) …

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Hi, Problem: black monitor. No visibility. MSI manufactured motherboard for Medion pc, onboard video. 1) swapped in a known working monitor. No result. 2) put known working video card in a pci slot hoping compute would bypass the onboard vid. No result. 3) tested power supply voltages at the mainboard …

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I've spent 2 days looking for a working animation program to create animated gifs. I've tried Movies 13 (problems with transparency) Microsoft Gif Animator (problems with transparency) the GIMP (too complicated!!!) and a list of other crapy stuff! :'( All I want 2 do is make a simple animated person …

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I restored my boot.ini file by opening windows pss folder and copying boot.ini to drive C. I renamed file and rebooted and everything went well except the boot.ini file disappeared. I retraced my steps and tried again. I rebooted with no problems except the boot.ini file disappears, vanishes. Temporarily I …

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I have a 250 gb hdd which had two partitions, a primary partition containing 50 gb of space where my OS (win Xp-sp2) installed and an extended partitions containing two three logical drives. When the hdd was partitioned, the name of the drives were C, E, F, G respectively. And …

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Please if I have 2 Opering Systems running on a laptop (i.e Windows XP and Windows 2003) and I intend to remove/uninstall Windows 2003 from the system. Could you help me with the procedure. I remember doing it one time but forget how now Remember that it will not appear …

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Is there anyplace to get fdisk and format that is on cd,and will work? i want to redo a dell laptop that has no floppy!.No place to hook 1 up. can the programs be used on cd?. Thanks. CableRat.

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Hi. I had spyware and viruses but I got rid of them. Right now I'm using safe mode with networking in order to access the internet. The reason being is, no matter what I do, my computer freezes up when I load it normally. I don't understand what's happening and …

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I went to start up my computer today, and then suddenly LSASS.exe came up with a error "Insufficient resources exist to complete api" It then froze my mouse, and forced me to reboot. I tried Safe Mode, came up with a bluescreen and a fatal error, I tried last known …

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My friend has a Computer which has WinServer 2003 R2 installed in it. When he try to install Win2000 on this machine, he is not able to. When he boots the computer in WinServer 2003 ,he inserts the Win2000 Bootable CD into the CD-ROM and and tries to run the …

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Hey ya'll sorry if this is a noobish question but I just downloaded a game which requires 1.8Ghz and 512MB RAM. I only have 1.3GHz and 384MB RAM. My question is, what happens if I install and play this game? How will it affect my computer? Does this destroy my …

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Hello. I'm joining the forum to seek help for my Gateway laptop. My problem is all I'm getting is a black screen -after bootup and logging on. Safe mode works fine and I've tried a system restore with no luck. Anyway, I hope this forum will help me with a …

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Hey I currently have Ubuntu installed on one of my PC's, and it's the only operating system on the PC, and was wondering how do I take off Ubuntu and install Windows XP to it? Whenever I try to install Windows XP it gives me some error that it can't …

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Hi, We currently use lame.exe command line to do .wav to .mp3 conversion. Lame is called by another program and most often, the conversion just works. Except for .wav files recorded in ADPCM format. Does anyone know if there is a command line converter that will throw up an error …

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Sorry if i am asking a question that might be already treated on this forum. Here is the situation: I have an workgroup about 5-6 computers (Win XP Pro) and one printer. All the computers are conected to a network that has internet access. The printer is an HP MFC …

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Can anyone tell me why appointments in outlook exchange 2003 would have the right time when I send them, but the receiver's time is one hour behind. We are both in the same building.

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Ok I have had a Dell monitor for about 2 or 3 years now, and when it's turned on, I guess about anywhere from 5-30 minutes after it's turned on it will start like flickering and looks like the light in it is about to burn out or turn off …

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Hi, I have a sony vaio laptop sz120p with windows xp. I've been having a lot of problems with it but have been resistant to reset my computer, delete everything and start fresh (since I have so much stuff in it). My current issue is the windows explorer won't start. …

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My Dell Netbook is not recognizing the wireless adapter. I want to reinstall XP to verify if this is a hardware or software issue but I don't know how. I have the Reinstallation CD I got with it, but there is no CD drive! How am I supposed to use …

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Some games have started not loading there is no error message. It effects games that i have freshly installed as well as games that have been left on my system unused for some time. it does not do this to all games and there is no problems in the install …

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Hey I was wondering if there were any good desks I could buy to have my computer on. I want one that would be good for a laptop with an external monitor. I have a 17 inch Dell laptop, and the external monitor I am using is a 22 inch …

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hi, i have bought from ebay a pc,xp pro, it works fine but no OME disc, any help would be greatfuly recieved, george

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Hello everybody..!! I want to connect Local Area Network(or Internet:I have Cable internet) manually after starting( or re-starting) my computer rather than windows automatically connects. Is it possible to do this..?

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I am trying to have XP automatically close Outlook when Itunes starts up. Is it possible to have XP do this with a script? When my boss syncs her iphone, if Outlook is open it will not sync the calendar properly. So in order to make it idiot proof I …

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I have server 2003. I set up a GPO for internet for users to go through Proxy Server 0.0.0.0 with access to only certain sites. That Policy works fine. I set up the supervisors under a different GPO to have free range over the internet. For some reason they can …

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Hi guys... you see, not a long time ago, my computer worked fine... absolutely fine... about a week and a half in, something odd started happening... when i play any flash embedded games online (say... facebook), after a while (when the game gets too loaded) my pc goes berzerk, moving …

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Hi, my computer works fine in all safe modes of xp sp3 but whenever i try to run it normally it will crash, the time it takes normally varies from a few seconds to 5 minutes, what is wrong and how can i fix it?

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Hello, I am looking for software for customer service reps. I have looked at CRM software and it goes way beyond our needs. What we want is a program that will place all of the emails into a “pool” where customer service reps can pick and choose which emails they …

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Hey I was wondering since my computer can only have 2GB at the max and I have 2 slots for RAM. Would I be able to have 1GB in slot and 512MB in the other slot? Or would I have to have 1GB in each slot for my computer to …

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I am getting a message that states that "phoquxa.dll" is not a valid windows image and application. How do I get rid of this error? Thanks.

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hi frnds, I connect to the internet through a shared connection in my hostel lan.The problem i am facing is dat when others try to copy the data i have shared in the lan my whole system starts hanging. Can anybody suggest someway to reduce others using my resources i …

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Recently, I noticed in the Windows Task Manager that a spurious svchost.exe appears and always uses about 50% of the CPU resources. I 'End the process', but it will appear later. If I don't initiate a new activity the greedy svchost does not appear. One thing for sure that will …

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I have a Delloptflex GXa when I try to boot up I get the message one or more dimms not sync it won't even allow me into command prompt

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Hello all, I recently had someone send me an excel file that was made with Excel 2007. I have 2003 Excel and so I could not open. I went to Microsoft support and downloaded the file that did eventually open the file. However, all my other documents I created will …

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Dear forum, About two weeks ago Microsoft released a KB update for developers, updating the runtime assemblies (from 8.0.50727.762 to 8.0.50727.4053). That caused everything we built in the last few days to require the new libraries, failing run if they did not exist. This caused a mess and confusion, since …

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Using Norton utilities norton detected a file missing in windows\system32, how do you recover lost files in windows XP? what command do you execute to reinstall system files?

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I am currently on a Gateway laptop because I cannot boot my other computer. The problematic system is running WIN XP w/SP3. I somehow picked up a virus called Win32.virut.ce. As I was trying to extract it by running Norton Internet Security's Anti-Virus, Spy-bot Search & Destroy, MalwareBytes and Panda …

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Dell Inspiron 6400 starts to load Windows XP for a few seconds then goes to blue screen unmountable_boot_volume. Cannot even enter Safe Mode. Any Suggestions?

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Hi everyone! Well, I found out that there is a way to remotely shutdown a computer on a workgroup using the command prompt. I've been putting in the following sequence: "shutdown.exe -s -m \\[I]computername[/I]" like it says to remotely shutdown a computer. Well, when i hit enter, it seems like …

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Basically while I was away some malware infected my computer. My girlfriend was unable to enter gmail.com and there were various popups advertising 'Windows Security Suite'. Using Malwarebytes I was able to get rid of the Malware and am 100% sure that my computer is not infected anymore - pop …

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Hi, I reinstalled windows xp on my computer but video controller(VGA compatible) and audio device on high definition audio bus have big yellow question marks next to them. The computer is an ei system e205a. pls does anybody know where i can find both drivers. Thank you in advance for …

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Hello Guys, I badly need assistance with a problem am facing with my HP laptop. I jst acquired a new laptop but the problem is that its Vista is in polish which requires me to re-install the OS. I want to downgrade to XP but it crashes whenever i try …

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I have been experiencing an error known as "VER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" and according to the reboot error report, the following is involved: C:\DOCUME~1\MICHAE~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER633e.dir00\Mini081409-01.dmp and C:\DOCUME~1\MICHAE~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER633e.dir00\sysdata.xml. Under my Event Viewer, I noticed an error stating that the boot-start or system-start driver known as Beep failed to load. I uninstalled Beep, but I couldn't …

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Hello I am in need of help. My Computer is very very very slow at the moment. I tried to fix this issue by going into my MsConfig to no avail I go into Run and type in McConfig and nothing happens I also try the search feature and nothing …

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After a recent Senior Moment, I re-installed XP and have since encountered countless problems. The latest being that I have to press F11 on start-up and arrow down to HDD. How can I prevent this please. Also, when I go on to "Stand-by" mode everything shuts down but on restart …

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Hi everybody, My Canon Camcorder MV430 does not work anymore on Firewire-port. However, it does work on my son's computer. So the cable and the camcorder are O.K. My neighbour's Panasonic camcorder is working perfect on the firewire-port, so this seems to be O.K. as well. I cannot find drivers …

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