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i am planning to upgrade my windows sp2 to sp3 . But i already have fedora installed (dual OS ). will my upgrade from sp2 to sp3 crash my fedora ?

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I'm in a bit of a tussle at the moment. My PC has been acting odd for a very long time now and I just gathered the time to try and fix it. I searched around and found out how to fix most of my problems but one that's beating …

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Ok, so I recently bought a new Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000, I don't know if anyone here has that mouse or any Microsoft mouses, but for some reason when I click the scroll button/middle button on my mouse it will bring up all the windows on one screen. I don't …

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Computer Info: 6 Year old Dell B130 Pentium M 1.70 GHZ 1024 MB RAM The battery has been dead for 1-2 years. I have been running plugged in to outlet. Issue: 1. BSOD: Unmountable_Boot_Volume So I did a little research. [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread41835.html[/url] [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302[/url] Easiest fix...Boot from Windows XP CD and Repair... …

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Whenever I run Latale Online(Online game using Xtrap) I click start everything seems to run fine then nothing , seems like program just closes itself , I need help fixing this problem I went on the game forums but they dont know how to fix it so I figured out …

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I was greeted by the notice "One of the files containing the system's registry data had to be recovered by use of a log or alternate copy. The recovery was successful" when I started my PC this morning. What makes Windows make a registry recovery? I want to know because …

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I'm a new user in desperate need of help! I have a Dell Deminsion 2350 with windows XP. I recently upgraded to DSL 6.0 along with adding my ISP's security suite. I have no trouble deleting spyware, adware etc... yet my 6.0 runs at dial up speed! I do have …

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What's happening. F10-factory redo, all's well xcept "outlook" multiple clicks will open, but AVG "Failed To Initialize pops up on first click. Have Ofice XP 2002/. Thank you someone.

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Hi! All of a sudden, I can't seem to boot into my Windows XP Home Edition. I see the logo and processing line but then it stops and starts to reboot again. I cannot boot into Safe mode and the last good configuration doesn't work. I did stop the automatic …

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The laptop hard drive crashed. Installed new hard drive and reinstalled the XP Home OS. On startup I press F2 which opens the BIOS Setup screen. The screen is inactive, I can't change anything. It shows the correct time, processor, cpu speed, system memory, etc., but NOT primary hard drive. …

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every time I start up my computer I get c:\pragra~1\mywebs~1\bar\4bin\m3pluggindll and a specified module could not be found I have tryed for two days to stop this pop up with no luck can some one please tell me how to get rid of this problem thank you thank you so …

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who can give me the serial number of my windows xp it was lost. i can only remember D3R3T part of that serial number. help. thanks

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I have a Dell inspiron 1150, with a Sony CRX830E CD/DVD burner player. If you insert any disk (CD or DVD) to run a message pops up saying "please insert disk" when it's already in there. If you eject and put it back in you hear a lot of clicking …

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I have acquired a used canon 1d mk ii slr camera which should connect to pc via ieee 1394 firewire cable.This is supposed to open Canon software for downloading pictures and also backloading personal settings into camera. The pc is almost new Gigabyte mbo with Intel E8400 core two duo, …

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I am with a user whose PC has lost all file associations, tho' it seems to be able to start and run certain things (IExplorer for instance). I have various .reg patches to apply (from [url]www.dougknox.com[/url]) but since the PC doesn't even know how to open Regedit I am stuck. …

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Hello, today I found a problem that seems a little odd to me. The situation is the following; on a Windows 2008 network, several clients are part of the domain, all without errors or any problems of note; except a laptop. This laptop is also part of the domain, it …

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Hey there, So I have been experiencing some issues with mouse lag in games. Simply put the mouse, as it moves from left to right, appears to lag my game and at some point I can even freeze the frame of my game with the mouse movement. However, when I …

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when I restart my laptop(windows xp) I get a screen: "Checking file system on C: The type of the file system is NTFS" it happened continuously 4 times when i turned on the computer. Can anyone help me with this.

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cant boot in to my compact laptop even cant detect xp cd but others cds can detect them i want to back my information before worst happens please hellp

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when i try to install an educational software programme which is available in cd, and which requires registration through net, the programme/computer is not connecting to the net. Due to this the installation gets aborted. I use win XP SP1. Kindly help

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im trying 2 setup xp home edition for my mother who is a famous "Garden knome"... i tryed booting from the cd and and installing a new copy...but get a "no hardrive found" and it stops there. i even chnged the boot order to cd 1st, then harddrive 2nd. HP …

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Running Windows XP for about two years with 3.0 Ghz CPU and 2 GB ram. Recently the display started freezing. CTRL, ALT, DEL does nothing to recover. At first I thought it might be the FireFox browser. I upgraded to the latest version. Then it would freeze when I was …

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Hey there, I've had a hoke through the forum and I've seen that a lot of people have issues with windows not starting, but no-one had the exact symptoms that I have had, hence this new thread. Basically yesterday I shut my computer down as normal but when I turned …

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I have recently noticed that I am unable to run most of the admin tools in Control Panel. I need to run "Computer Management" to initialise a disk. When I click on the icon I get the nasty sound and a simple "Access is Denied" without further explanation. I am …

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Lost in the title actually means I deleted it thinking it was part of my problem with "Isearch" and AdDestroyer. AdDestroyer showed up as running in my Task Manager and the process was attached to "explorer.exe" in the list of processes. I took it out of System32 files and put …

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My pc suddenly quit responding to the mouse on left click. It will accept right click, but this is strange, too. As an example, if I want to click on a "next" button, a box will open up, but if I hit enter - it will go to the next …

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Hi everyone, i have an everex laptop that is windows xp based and sometimes when i boot it up i hear a beeping sound that beeps 3-4 times and then stops. however, it does not give me the startup screen. and sometimes if it actually gets thru to the bootup …

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hi, i have a dell laptop model #PP22L. i know i have a virus because i keep getting popups that tell me im infected and they want me to purchase their software. i ran a hijackthis report and the following info came up. before the scan ran these 2 boxes …

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Hi, I bought a computer with a HDD capacity of 80GB however, 40GB is only available for me to use, can n-e 1 tell me what to do to use the maximum capacity of my 80GB HDD??....

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Whenever I try to use system restore, it says: "System restore is not able to protect your computer. Please restart your computer, and then run System Restore again" Of course, I tried restarting, and it didnt help. I went into the Services thing in the Administrative tools to see if …

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Hi... my Help and Support Files are missing!!! :S When I click on the links... nothing happens!!! So I cannot use Help and Support Files, or Troubleshoot options!!! How can I get them back? (And how did I lose them in the first place?) Thanks in advance!

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Thanks guys... autofix worked by repairing Autoplay... but u know that window that pop ups when u use a CD, DVD, Flash Dirve that gives u an option to do something with the files stored... that is not popping up! The autofix restored autoplay - music and DVDs are detected …

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I have two virtual machines, one running Server 2003 Enterprise and one running Windows XP Professional. I want these two operating systems to operate in there own network, not connected to anything else. I have been doing some research but have been getting confused and I have had no look... …

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I uninstalled Visual studio more than 2 years ago but the problem explained below pops up at least every 2 weeks and I am just sick and tired of it. The image attached at the end of this post shows the error which I get randomly. I have tried almost …

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Hi... I'm having some problems with auto-deteck... nothing i connect to my computer is detected! CDs, DVDs Flash Drives, nothing!!! I can only access them via My Computer by selecting the particular device. So imagine putting in an audio CD to listen to your favourite music and it doesn't start …

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My time wont change back to normal as in its suppose to show 3:40 but it shows 15:40 can someone help please

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When I am logged in as admin and map a drive to a remote server, and have reconnect a login checked, does this mapping apply to all users on the system or only the admin user. I have had mapped drives work both ways and would like to understand how …

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Windows XP Starter Edition is a lower-cost edition of Windows XP available in Thailand, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia, India, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela. It is similar to Windows XP Home, but is limited to low-end hardware, can only run 3 programs at a …

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Is there any free programs that can record my desktop and record while I'm playing a game? I'm looking for one that can record in HD 16:9 widescreen format so that I could upload it to youtube and fill the whole youtube player. If anyone knows of any free programs …

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If someone has my password to the windows live messenger would they be able to remotely see my ongoing conversation window?

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I have a new Acer PC that came with Vista Home Preium, due to our applications I need to downgrade from Vista to XP. I have downloaded the XP license to the desired PC but MS will not let me overwrite Vista to XP. I was told that I would …

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Greetings for the community of this forum=) I am having a serious incompability problem. I recently bought hp pavilion dv6 1120ep (laptop) and it came with Windows Vista. I formatted the hard drive with Windows XP Professional and installed all the drivers but I canĀ“t seem to install: ATI MOBILITY …

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Ok i know you guys probebly get 10000 of these a day and i was reading threw all the post before me. and ive noticed none of these are the same problem as mine. When XP starts it doesnt load the explorer.exe [desktop] I ctr alt del it and it …

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On a laptop running Windows XP, I can't seem to view webpages or actually connect to any server. Going to pages in IE or firefox give me unable to connect/cannot display errors. Trying to ftp to a server through windows explorer or filezilla gives me simmilar errors. Everything I do …

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Hey Everyone, I am new to DaniWeb, but I figured I could get some help here. I have been searching around and have not been able to find an answer to my question. I like to think I have a decent knowledge of computers / hardware / Os's, but one …

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I just purchases a used tower computer at auction. When I power it on it automatically loads this "Smartlaunch" program then goes to a gaming type program that wants a log in and password. If I hit esc it asks for a pw and log in again. I didn't get …

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HP Pavilion 510n , Windows XP Home Edition,some RAM, and a 40GB hard drive. I was updating the computer through Microsoft, already had SP1 & SP2 on it. I already had Internet Explorer 7 on it. It seemed like I was on the last bit of updates and it said …

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