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i ave got a toshiba tecra 8200 and im tying to install windows xp but it wont boot from he cd, the cd works and i have set the bios to boot from cd first but i still wont boot from cd please help

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Gooday. I have a spare hard drive I would like to add to my computer. This spare hard drive has either xp or 98 already on it. Will it be ok to use it. My existing hd has xp.

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I have tried to install a new xp pro sp3 disc on a new computer but have been getting errors in the installation. I have tried 3 different times but it says that the disc is missing some components and when it is final it does not work properly. I …

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[COLOR="Green"][B]Does anyone resource CD for a DELL OptiPlex GX260? and the Operating system cd? i tried dell support site........they dont have free download so[/B][/COLOR]

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i have a client that has outlook 2007 on xp pro. recently, he has had a problem where is he has received email that contain URL links within it, he cannot use them. when he clicks on the link, he gets an error message "this operation has been cancelled due …

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so after much trouble downloading the sims 2 i got the sims 2 university and i've tryied every and have been looking for hours online trying to figure out why it wont let me install i took it out and cleaned it really well but for some reason it always …

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I am trying to find a good ram boosting programme (Ram defragmenter) that will work with XP and 3Gbt Ram. Previously when I had 2Gbt Ram I used FreeMem Pro 5 and was very happy with it. Unfortunately FreeMem does not work with 3Gbt Ram so I had to uninstall …

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Hi there. I'm new to this forum but not that new with computers. I've got a computer here and whenever I connect it all up to use, the monitor displays 'no signal'. However I plug a different machine into the same monitor and all is well. I have taken out …

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Hi to all the good folks at DaniWeb !!! I have a Emachine W3503, Windows XP, Serive Pack 3. This computer had MANY viruses on it. I got them cleaned. Spybot, Super Antispyware and Malwarebytes all say I'm clean now. The internet works fine and the whole computer seems to …

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Hi there, this might seem a bit awkward but I have this request for you. I am looking for someone who has Windows XP. The reason is that my roommate has changed my background and I am pretty nervous about that. I am looking for Red, Green and Blue values …

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Anyone please help me how to resolve windows error occurred. It kepts started and asked me to open at SAFE MODE and I have tried all the possibilities options but it didn't works! Recommendation boot from: Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, Safe Mode with Command Propmt, Last good known …

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hey. my PC caught the virus about 2 weeks ago. since then ive been trying to get rid of it, nothing seems to work. there was alot of files, programs and images installed to different folders and subfolders, by this virus, have gotten most of it out, cleaned and defragged …

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as i haven't enough money to buy windows Xp, i decide to use illegal copies. my friend downloaded a copy of xp, used a sepcial software to make a key, and actived it. now it works very well and can update. i want to do the same, but i don't …

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Hi, am in a bit of trouble here... I wiped and installed XPSP2 Professional on a machine that was previously running Vista Home Premium as the machine was crawling. The guy who owns it copied all his files onto an external USB drive before I did the install. Now the …

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Hello My HP crashed the other day and i bought a new hard drive and reinstalled XP home every thing working fine started to load my programs that i had lost and i have rebooted it a couple of times in the last day. but today i got a new …

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I tried to boot my computer this morning and i got the dreaded blue screen with this message c000021a fatal system error I cant get into safe mode either, I also tried booting with windows xp cd but still no joy the disc loaded all the drivers but then stopped. …

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Hi guys wonder if you can help. I had an Korean student staying with me and she downloaded korean programmes on my computer without my knowledge anyway since their discovery I have been trying with no luck to remove them. One is Daum Activex. another is nateon.nate.com. I have tried …

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My wife's HP desktop runs with XP Home. Every now and then, the desktop freezes. Completely. She has to unplug the computer, then it boots and runs ok. The freezeup mostly happens when the desktop has been sitting idle for quite a while, but sometimes it occurs after only a …

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Hey all! Again, it has been a while. Anyway... I just replaced the battery on my laptop, and I've been having issues with the volume control icon in the taskbar tray. Every time I start the computer, it's not there. If I go to "Sounds and Audio Devices" in the …

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Hello everyone I had to reinstall winxp and changed the boot settings, but now i can't change it to boot from hard drive instead of CD rom, it will not let me change any settings at all. I have Dell Dimension 4500S and the Bios version is Dell Computer Corporation …

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I had to put a new Motherboard and CPU in a computer after the motherboard burned out. The current installation of XP will boot in safemode (only as far as cursor, no icons) and get past the splash screen before a quick BSOD and restart in standard mode. Big surprise, …

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hi foilks i have acquired a new AMDX64 500 with sli motherboard so i statred to load windows home edition and it prepares the initial installation drivers etc then just before the agreement page you know where you press f8 to accept term etc it goes into a blue screen. …

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I had XP Home on my system, which met with an untimely demise. I had a copy of XP Pro (not belonging to me), which I loaded to have a functional system, expecting to be able to get a (legal and brand new) copy of Home from a Microsoft employee …

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alright i looked around for awhile and nothing helped me. my computer doesnt boot it turns on lights fans everything but it wont boot keyboard is haulted they flash on once and thats it nothing else works no screen or anything, its a navigator custom built i donno whats wrong …

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I have two partitions in my hard disc. One is Primary DOS Partition and another is extended DOS-partition. And there are two logical dos drives inside the Extended DOS Partition. I want to delete the existing partitions and make new partitions, but when I am going to delete the Extended …

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ok, im running windows xp professional, since yesterday my internet explorer has been givin me hell. when i type in an address i want to go to another internet explorer window opens and it wont load the page i am trying to go to, when i exit the second internet …

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Hi, I have a several computers on my LAN. One of the computers is the file server. There are a shared folder that is currently shared on the network. There is no a proper permission set on that folder. This means anyone can access to it. What i'd like to …

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Hello everyone, I am using Windows XP and I have about 40% free space. I just recently discovered that when I clicked the Itunes icon, nothing happens. When I click the Internet Explorer icon, a blank window pops up and it freezes or says that Internet Explorer has to close. …

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[B]Hello. I was wondering if someone could PLEASE help me figure out why my laptop keeps lagging / freezing. I dont usually have anything open except a couple of webpages (ebay & verizon email). Even IE freezes all the time (or lags ALOTTT). Alot of the times they permanently freeze …

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i went to restart and all i got was a blue screen and a F1 at the botton and a F10 at the bottom and then i locked up and could do nothing.. i took out the hard drive and put it in a enclosure kit and tryed to get …

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Hi all, I have forget my admin password in window xp please help me to run the admin .

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Hi, I recently attempted to do a computer repair via booting form my installation disc. I change the boot priority to my dvd drive, put the disc in, and restarted. The "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD..." message comes up, so I press a key. Then it …

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Hi Guys My PC has recently refused to boot up to windows XP. It reads a message saying "Press CTRL + ALT + DELETE to restart", when I do this it loads up with exactly the same message and I end up going round in circles! Someone advised me to …

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I am running XP professional. I haven't received any updates since August 2008. I have SP2 but nor SP3. The Security center showed automatic update ON and I went to check for the latest updates from windows updates. I received a window which stated the site cannot continue because one …

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Hey, I just recently had a windows xp partition fail (blue screen of death), so i decided to just get a new SATA drive and install a new windows xp pro partition. After restarting the computer 20 times to set the slave and master drives for SATA, i tried to …

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:eek: [font=Comic Sans MS][size=4]Okay, Okay....so I made a Boo-Boo on my part[/size][/font].:o [font=Comic Sans MS][size=3]I have a fetish with changing the way my computer looks....(wallpaper, fonts, boot screens, taskbar....etc.....) Well I went and tweaked my computer, and tried to change the XP Boot screen by first [color=red]backing up the ntoskrnl.exe …

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Hi, recently my laptop has been getting a blue screen error, it's only happened a few times but I don't like it happening at all. The error says it has something wrong with either new hardware or software. Although it's not new I think it has something to do with …

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hi good day. my cpu is havin problem with auto-shutdown.. even i set this settings Settings / Control Panel / System / Advanced / Startup and Recovery / Settings. Make sure the box is UNCHECKED where it says "Automatically Restart" under System Failure." still my computer keep on restarting.

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I am running windows XP, when i start up my computer the windows xp loads and then goes to a black screen with a white blinking cursor in the upper left of the screen. It never go to the accounts screen. It just started today december 28th (i am posting …

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Hello, I have an XP Pro "corporate" laptop that I'd like to turn into a basic home computer. It was configured to log into a domain controller. I went to Control Panel -> System -> Computer Name and told the system it was part of a workgroup and not a …

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Not 100% certain this belongs in this section but anyway: Over night, my computer downloaded the automatic windows update and restarted. Once I logged back on, my browser would not connect to the internet. I knew i was online because I was running AIM. I restarted my computer and I …

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I recently flash my HP with a new Bios and now it gets to the XP screen and freezes up. I flashed it again just in case of some kind of error during the first flash, but still get the same result. I tried to reboot from the last known …

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Hi all, When I play my wave file through media player and an amplifier, volume is fantastic. Once I put the wave file onto my mp3 player and play them through the exact same amplifier, the volume sucks. I've tried fiddling with volume settings in media player to no avail. …

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Hello, My Windows XP Pro SP2 setup gets through formatting my hd(500gb) and all the way down to Installing Windows but once the install bar gets to about half way and says installing devices my comp restarts and it loads up to this point and starts to install and then …

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Hey to all at Dani Web !!! I have a Emachine, T1740, with Windows Xp Home Edition on it. I'm lost when it comes to dealing with hardware that won't install right. This computer was givin to me. It was loaded with a few viruses and had issues I couldn't …

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my family has an older gateway computer. It has a 600Mhz AMD processor, and 192 megs of ram. A while back the harddrive broke(made this clicking noise when we turned it on) so we bought another HD and intalled everything fine, and it all worked great except for when we …

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