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ive purchased a laptop from a friend of a friend. he brought a newer and better one. the laptop, p4 2.8g 512RAM XP Home Ed 60g HD, i checked the manufacturer and believe that i got a pretty good deal. until i ran into this problem. once in awhile when …

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I'm really frustrated because my PC is fairly fast and last night and this morning it's been acting really weird. First thing I noticed was that the sound was really choppy in Bioshock and it was lagging to the point where it was unplayable. I got out and went to …

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I have an (ancient) HP Pavilion 7840 with a Cognac Motherboard (200731). Windows Xp was installed by someone after market and has never run properly. I found where HP shows the bios should be 3.07 and what was installed was 4.06 so I set the bios to hp specs. Using …

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Hello, I realize I am a new member , and with hopeful resolution of this problem , plan to be a much more active member ,, but i have been tryin to fix this for a long time and any help would be greatly appriciated. When I start Laptop It …

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My Hp Media Center computer will not boot up. It will not go into setup,recover or reboot from the recovery discs. It just freezes up at the start screen. Does this mean my hard drive has died or I have another problem. I have considered getting another hard drive to …

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Hi all, I have seen MacBook from my friend and have loved nice bash command line interpreter. Is there similar one for Windows XP/VISTA??? Here are some nice feature lacking in windows: 1. Tabbing 2. Full screen on maximization of window 3. The use of sudo command (At least there …

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my firefox and internet explorer wont open properly... they both either open very slowly or dont open at all. when it does eventually open, the browser freezes (Not Responding) when i try to browse or do anything with it also, when i go to My Computer and try to open …

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we have a forest root dc and a replia dc both running win 2003. I have a problem with our users on xp when browsing to any mapped network shares. When they try and access a share it takes up to 40 seconds to access the shares on the forest …

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Hey, I was wondering what is the best way, or what is the best program I can use to make a banner for my BlogTV page???

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can someone just give me a quick overview on the defragmenting freespace? in defraggler there is an option to leave fragmentation in free space? what does that mean, the fragmented files you leave behind will just be written over

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I have a computer that hangs for about 10 - 15 seconds between the POST and when the Windows loading screen appears. I've tried changing settings in the bios but that didn't work. Anyone got any suggestions? Mobo- M861G, HDD- WD 320Gb, RAM- 2Gb, Cpu- AMD3000+

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I created a website on IXWebhosting.com. I then set up ftp to a folder named "transfer". On my XP Pro computer I access it by: [url]ftp://66.116.193.2/ereddick.com/transfer/[/url]. It opens immediately (doesn't ask for the name and password I had set up). Then I choose "Open ftp site in Windows Explorer" in …

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I've been trying to delete some programs that i dont use i managed to delete almost all on em but i still had only 1/4 of my hard drive free so I found a folder in C:\Documents and Settings\.user-ZFG7ZFI280\My Documents and I found there same files that i had in …

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In Windows XP, when using the default picture viewer to look at digital camera photos, I can select a picture and right click to choose "Send to Mail Recipient". This then pops up a dialog to ask if I want to make the pictures smaller: all this is fine. However, …

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I have a Lacie external hard drive which I've used with my Compaq 1015v and XP home. This week I bought an HP G7000 latop for my wife and replaced Visa with XP though the process is ongoing. But the new laptop won't recognise the Lacie.

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If I have no text highlighted and right click on the mouse the normal menu comes up but with cut and copy greyed out. If I highlight part of the text and right click the mouse the menu shows [B]Move here, Copy Here. link here (greyed out) and cancel[/B]. I …

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I followed all the steps in the previous posts on how to fix prob. 19 in relation to my CD however my DVD burner still will not function even though the device mgr. says it is working properly. Is there another registry fix for the DVD?

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Hello, a few days ago I configured 2 servers (A and B) to they can use the Terminal Server service per user (for 15 users), getting the licencies from a TS server C. I did that by reading the following instructions (in spanish): [url]http://www.ajpdsoft.com/modules.php?...rticle&sid=258[/url] The server C is the TS …

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I am running Microsoft Windows XP and when I tray to install a mass storage USB device I have this message: An ActiveX control on this page is not safe. Your current security settings prohibit running unsafe controls on this page. As a result, this page may not display as …

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I had an account on here before, but i've been through air force training and i forgot my log in. First, my system specs. Just for reference. Windows XP Professional SP2 CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Black Edition 5000+ @ 2.61GHz Mainboard: ASUS M2N-SLI Video: GeForce 8600GT Sound: PCI-e Soundblaster …

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I have window xp pro can boot normally but can't boot in safe mode or recovery console the system just restarts. Tried replacing config files default, system, software, security etc with older files usinglinux still have the problem. My restore files only go back to March.

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I just got a new pc and everything is working fine except my usb 2.0 flash drives. Every time I save or try to write a file that's bigger than just 100-200 kb, it hangs and then I get a "delayed write failed" error. The drive still appears in windows …

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Hi... I'm new to VBA in Word and need a nudge in the right direction. I've written a Word VBA Userform that adds bookmarks & sets their values on the fly with either an ASCII Chr(9) for a tab or CHr(13) for carriage return after each bookmark. However, when I've …

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I just bought a laptop for my wife and since she likes things simple, I decided to remove Visa in favour of Linux Ubuntu. But I've had so many problems finding drivers etc for the laptop (an HP G7000) I would now like to install Windows 2000 which she is …

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When i start my computer i get an error saying Feb 17 08:10:11 Privoxy(01836) Fatal error: can't check configuration file 'config.txt': (error number 2) Do you have any idea what this is talking about and how i can fix it?

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I have XP Home edition and recently installed all three service packs. On the top page bar and within various dialog boxes I'll have other-colored pixels displayed where they should not be. Any fix to this??

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Hellow Daniweb !! I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop that has given me fits when it comes to trying to install a Windows XP Home Edition on a new hard drive. I have the original installation disc that came with the computer. I have a new hard drive which …

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I have a windows 2003 server running dhcp for sharing internet among client computers. Occassionally the clients will be limited to only some websites (domains) while the server can still access them. It seems to happen at random and requires a reboot of the server so that clients can continue …

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Hi, i found this message on my pc :Error loading:C\WINDOWS\system32\litijaro.dll The specifed module could not be found..... Now i've tried to eliminate the causes of this message but...i'm asking HELP!!! thanks!

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hi guys i bought a notebook recently with windows xp. After a few days everytime i turned the computer on it would bring up a file c:/, this happened for a number of weeks. Recently two files now open on launch of computer, one titled internet file and another random …

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During install of XP my HD was given the drive letter H: because the card reader was assigned C:, D:, E: and F:. Now when I am trying to install drivers I am encountering a problem. Most of the drivers are Setup.exe type files and when I open them they …

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I recently formatted an Acer Aspire M5620 that shipped with Vista. I installed XP pro on this machine. Now I cannot find any drivers that work with this machine. Acer's website only has Vista drivers(which don't work with XP). I even tried finding drivers based on the mainboard model (G33T-AM) …

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I am repairing a computer running an Intel Quad Core, 500 Gig HD and 4 Gig of Ram. The PC blue screens on start up. I checked the error code online and it indicated a HD issue and told me that the HD installed in this machine was defective. I …

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I understand that you can change and assign what programs extensions are associated to what program. I'm looking for a program manager in which you can manage which program goes which which extension something with more flexibility

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I am not sure which section this would go in but this seems the most relevant... I have a pretty simple network, consisting of a Domain Controller (Server 03 Enteprise) and some workstations, I want to deploy an anti-virus such as AVG Free or Avast Free so when the user …

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I route my output from a windows billing application through a text format. When I try to print this file through the USB port, I am unable to give a direct print. If I save to a file and print the same opening through notepad, the output is in graphic …

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Can any Senior Technical Support person help me with this? Their is a problem with my dads laptop, I am using an internet service of a local cell phone company. We use a wifi usb on our laptop to access internet through wireless . Their is an indoor device of …

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Hi folk... My first post and I will enjoy reading other's...I am not a professional IT person...a 72 year old lady that has just been involved with computers for more years than I care to admit to...remember the IBM 360 and the Burroughs Beastly B80?...and have had my own PC …

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is using folders to store related stuff the best way to do it or is there some more better way. that's all I know how to do. thanks for info.

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Hello everyone..!! I have just formatted C:\ drive and Setup Windows Xp pro. service pack 2. My problem is that while starting windows, Windows loading screen appears and suddenly blue screen appears and restarts again.Windows couldn't load safe mode also..?!! please help me..

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For a few weeks now my computer has been slow and now I'm starting to get annoyed. If i go into task manager barely any of the CPU is being used and not much of the memory is being used yet the computer is running slower and it happened overnight, …

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I read on your site that there is a fix for IE redirect problems but it was closed. When I do a google search and click on the results I go to a redirect page. Could someone help me with this? Thank you.

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I have an HP Mediacenter computer with .99 RAM. Earlier this week my mouse began having hesitation problems. I've checked for viruses and other than a Dropper which is now taken care of it found nothing. I read a post here from 2006 that said Java could be causing my …

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I'm having problems removing some temp files and folders off a partition, anyone know of a way to remove and maybe find out why these files won't delete in explorer or what they're associated with ? How to remove temp files off a drive parition that just won't delete though …

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I'm trying to un-install norton goback 4.0. Before I begin to uninstall I am asked to disable nortoon goback. everytime i try to disable goback I get the following error "unable to communicate with norton goback device driver!" I have searched this forum and google for a soution, but can …

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I've been having this problem ever since I installed Windows 2000 Professional from Windows 98SE. I've heard you should install the motherboard chipset drivers. I downloaded an update to my Intel 440 Chipset but It turns out I didn't need it. I don't know what to download now! Can anybody …

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OK: I run WinXP SP3 and am a bellsouth.net customer. A week ago today, my computer rebelled at my internet password, then it rebelled against my Firefox browser. Could not access any internet site. After more hassles than I care to delve into right now, I know: My computer communicates …

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I have not been able to connect to Bearshare 4.6.0 for several days. I know this is not the latest version, but up until a few days ago, I've never had any trouble. When the page comes up, the blinking red light in the upper right corner never switches to …

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I am trying to burn a DVD. I have burned DVDs on my laptop for 3 years. But recently it is not letting me. 1. Explorer shows my DVD drive as a CD drive 2. Whenever I try to burn to a DVD it tells me there is no valid …

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I've had a similar problem with my system restore. Actaully it's not been working for a couple of months now. My computer is 2 and half years old, a Toshiba Satelite A100. Up until April of this year it had never been connected to the internet (I couldn't afford it!), …

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