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For some reason on my new laptop I can't seem to turn off that annoying BEEP when I change the speaker volume. I got everything else turned off but this beep seems to be bypassing the "Sounds and Audio Devices" properties. Any ideas?

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I gather having thirty or more open windows slows the computer; but the only way I know to deal with this is to close them one at a time by "backing out " the way I got in; sort of one at a time. There must be a better way,huh?

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Hi guys, I have a HP laptop which I have formatted and restored XP to. I backed up all the docs etc onto the external USB drive prior to the format. Now I want to restore the backup I cant. When I plug the drive in it locks the PC …

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I'm needing some help with my mother-in-law's computer. The sound was working fine and then one day there was no sound. I opened Sound and Audio Devices in Control Panel and it says there is "No Audio Device". I ran DirectX Diagnostic Tool to find out which driver to download …

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ok, so i put in a recovery disk to start all fresh and new on my dell desktop computer. I re-installed windows XP with the CD and everything was going good. When I put in my MTS Internet CD, it checked off everything and said it passed the test, but …

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Hello, I am new here and newbie about HDD and OS stuff thats why I am desperately searching for help everywhere and found this forum!Three days ago my OS win XP crashed, I restarted and it showed me message <windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is missing please reinstall application above (or something like …

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I am not able to change my Dad's firewall setting. When ever I try to run a program it tells me the administrator settings wont allow me to run the certain program. But when I go to the firewall it's not letting me in to change the settings.

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Hi I just reinstalled windows XP on my alp-t19 packard bell laptop. Now i have no sound at all. iv also ran through the troubleshooting procedures.and a yellow exclamation mark and question mark next to the multimedia audio controller. Please can anyone help me please and tell me where i …

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Hi has anyone found a solution to sharepoint word documents opening in read only mode ; even when you select edit in word form the drop down menu? we are running sharepoint on windows xp sp2 with office 2003. This has only just started to happen the past few weeks …

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Hi Guys, I am working on a review of product RegistryEasy. Its a registry fix software which repair PC errors and Maintain Your PC Completely with an Efficient and Reliable Tool. If anybody used it please share your experience with it. I will publish it in my website. Thanks, Max

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my windows wont start. it will get to the loading screen and flash it again and then just turn off. i tried to reinstall windows but my os cd will not boot. the cd rom works brcause i have tried it with other computers. please help.

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Hi guys, I've come across a problem with my PC and would just like to know how to resolve it. Here's what's wrong: I turn on my PC and it loads up normally until it reaches the Windows load screen with the bars running along the bottom but as soon …

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hi! All I have the problem with Watson postmortem and windows explorer problem. Nearly for every 10 or 20 min it displaying the message "Windows has encountered a problem and need to close", and then Dr Watson postmortem problem error, and then hangs up the system. I am wondering what …

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Hello. I have been given the task to look for a product or concept that fits my company's needs. There are a lot of self-service password reset products out there, but the problem is that the users here put off registering for it, and when they come back from a …

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[B]Whenever i try to access a Drive (Physical Partition) by doubleclicking it i can't open it...It asks me a program using which i should open it..the only other option i have is to right-click and explore which gets quite irritating...please help[/B]

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Hi, I hope someone can help. I just purchased an HP a450y computer without a hard drive or video card. I place a WD 500GB HHD , new BFG GeForce 7300 GT 512MB AGP card and 2 stix of 1024 PC 3200 memory. I'm trying to load win XP Pro, …

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Hi All How to enable the 'recent' command in XP. In some system, when I type 'recent' in the run, it displays a window with all recent documents shortcuts. I some system its working and in some system it is not working. The error thrown states [COLOR="Red"]"Windows cannot find 'recent'. …

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I'm doing tech support and I want to be able to reset XP passwords without reinstalling XP but I tried the Linux boot disk that is supposed to reset the password and the drivers load but then it doesn't show any partitions for some reason (I'm assuming it doesn't have …

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Hello, I have an old hp pavillion desktop. I attempted to upgrade various parts on it, but found that my mobo that I ordered went bad, so I put together the old parts and when I went to go start it again, it gets to the xp loading screen with …

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I have a simple program that I am having trouble debugging. It contains two different problems. 1. If I run a MessageBox in this program after the program is up and running, the program crashes. I have to call the Task Manager to shut down the program. 2. SetTimer will …

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Anyone seen this error, our server keeps rebooting since about 4 days. This is one of the errors I saw in the eventlog. Any ideas? Event Type: Error Event Source: WMIxWDM Event Category: None Event ID: 122 Date: 5/6/2009 Time: 3:21:34 PM User: N/A Computer: NetCP223 Description: Machine Check Event …

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ive tried every thing i can think of and have yet to see the default recording show up other than greayed device in the audio tab of device manager granted im not veteran material with these things AT ALL......... ive searched for help every where and im beginning to lose …

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So I have been running a windows 2003 server with IIS6 for some time now. No problems works great. My host Server Intellect have offered me a new upgraded server with basically double everything that I have now for a awesome price. I will be switching soon and now have …

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I wanna first thank to all DANI web members, Administrator, moderators and to all it's members. I have a PC, which is Windows XP home Edition. It doesn't boot when i start, this is what happens when i start the PC. After a few seconds of the start, i am …

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I'm searching a program which detects change in registry.A program that will ask to accept or deny the change in registry.If somebody have any idea..,please help me.

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i want to reformat my PC. it is in windows XP service pack 2, i want it to change in service pack 3.. but i can't seem to reformat my PC.. when i inserted the CD of SP3 and reboot my PC, it did not direct me to "press any …

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Hi After i logon to XP, i get application failed to initialize (0xc0000005), click OK to terminate the program twice, and then only wallpaper appears, no icons or menus. And when i press (Ctrl+Alt+Del) your taskbar has been disabled, I tried to boot safe mode, even that failed. I ve …

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I want to format my Dell and I was reading articles on how to go about formatting a computer but I was wondering if I could just do a quick CTRL + F11 and would that be the same thing? I know this is probably the best place to find …

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Hi. Can answer this? A vp ordered a laptop for the owner as he was told to do, but he had windows xp home on it instead of windows xp pro. Now the vp would like the only person in his IT department to use two different websites to change …

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Hi My Dell 1501 laptop seemed to get slower over the past week until today when i turned it on, it crashed a few seconds after booting up, and now when i turn it on, just before the Windows XP screen comes up, it displays a DOS screen stating a …

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does anyone know a site with free cd burning programs? the program i have now isn't working right so im going to try and download a new one.

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Are there any freeware offline notetaking applications comparable to Luminotes or Evernotes? What are they?

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I have a small recording studio in my house and I send my computer out to get cleaned up and when I got it back none of my programs would open up. There are select programs that will but none of my recording programs will open up from the shortcut …

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OK so here's the problem on my computer i have multiply log ins and on one of these log ins explorer.exe is not loading up how can i make it so i dont have to start it manually everytime i start the computer up BTW i am running windows xp …

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i 'am trying to remove nero 7 and nero ultra from my computer with no sucess. i keep getting the shell manager data base is corrupt or missing.i have purchased a regestry cleaner but still can't get rid of it,there seems to be some "black opps" thing going on with …

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Hello y'all. Running WXP Pro SP3, on laptop (Acer 3002) I have installed .Net 1.1, 2.0 SP2, 3.0 SP2 and 3.5 SP1. Do I really need them all? I thought not and tried to delete 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0. through add/remove programs but they wont go. Got message...."cannot uninstall as …

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I was trying to install a new printer on an existing print server that housed another printer and now my print spooler won't stay on. I've gone in now several times and turned it on but it keeps going back off within about a min. Can anybody help with this?

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Don't know but why do we keep getting this error on our Windows 2003 box? Event Type: Warning Event Source: MsiInstaller Event Category: None Event ID: 1001 Date: 5/1/2009 Time: 11:11:45 AM User: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE Computer: abc123 Description: Detection of product '{790FAF64-3086-4AD8-95CF-CBBF55B546A5}', feature 'SERVER' failed during request for component …

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Reinstalling PC Health -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Could anyone help please? System is: XP (1.80 Ghz, 120 Gb HDD 512 Mb RAM AMD, SP3 downloaded 6 months ago. Computer 4 years old and has Version 2002 SP3.) PC Health is missing. I understood this would work: - I went to C:\Windows\Inf, find the …

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I am new to this so please be patient. I cannot opn the Control panel, it give me an error message and wants to send a reort to microsoft, it has only strated this in the last hour or soo. Please can someone help me Cheers itunsavvy (johnboyh)

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I decided to have a second hard drive/disk to my PC. In the process my purposely formated my original hard disk which was running WIN98 for sometime. My new hard disk is installed with WINDOWS 2000 professional. I have configured my new hard disk has the primary and the old …

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Here's the situation: Installed Windows 7 RC7100 (64-bit) onto its own partition. Needed to setup dual boot. Obtained WinXP Pro 64bit and installed onto new partition. After installation, PC reboots and hangs at the WindowsXP screen for about 15 seconds, then automatically restarts. It [U][B]WILL NOT[/B][/U] boot into Safe + …

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Hi there, Thanks for reading my problem. I work in a internet cafe. My owner told me to make CD for each PC for recovery. Like if any computer have any problem than he wants to use that CD for recovery. In easy explanation: Step 1: Problem happened with computer/Does …

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Hi Recently ran into problems with My amilo siemens Laptop, so not a problem I'll just reinstal the O/S. found the disc but upon putting it into the cd drive found it wasn't reading so naturally proceeded to clean the plastic side of the disk in order that it may …

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I cannot uninstall some of my programs on my computer. I get a message INSTALL.LOG FILE. What do i do to uninstall these programs?

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Hi all , I'm new to all this , so bear with me . My friend has XP and the drive is partitioned into 3 separate sections. C drive is 10 Gb , F drive is 10 Gb, and the rest is annotated "Everything Else" which is 60 Gb, I …

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I have an application error that says - "The application failed to initialize properly(0x0000034). Click ok to terminate the program". When ever my computer starts this error always appear and not just that I cannot open Windows movie maker, photo scape, and I cannot even update my windows media player …

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Due to problems I decided to re-install XP Pro and formatted my Hard Drive. When I ran the installation it got as far as "Installing Devices" with 34/35 minutes left to run and then stopped. I have tried both XP Home and XP Pro with identical results. Following advice from …

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Today I was copying a file from my laptop onto my USB external hard drive when the transfer froze and I had to cancel it. The file is still intact on my laptop but the unfinished copy created on my external hard drive does not seem to want to be …

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