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Hi all, My laptop is running Windows 7 64. I need to get into my run it in safe mode but when I press F8 upon startup but I am not given the option. I get Start Windows Normally or a prompt to fix the startup process because apparently my …

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I have a strange problem with my computer, and I'm going to do my best to describe it. When I use my computer for sometimes up to two minutes or up to three hours whatever program I'm in, or if I'm on the desktop at the time, the icons will …

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Hi, haven't needed help in awhile but this is driving me nuts. In the last week or so my computer has suddenly slowed drastically. Website loading and switching between applications takes *forever* and the hard drive just chugs in the background. I check my resources and my physical memory is …

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hi, I recently got win 8 and when I want to connect to a vpn the main connection goes limited so then it has no internet access anybody knows how to fix it ? thanks

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Hello guys, I hope am in the right forum. I am virtualizing Windows 7 on my Win 8 with Hyper-V, everything is working great, except the virtual machine is unable to find my wireless network adapter. I tried adding the legacy network adapter, nothing. It can get the wired adapter, …

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Hi, I am having a problem with my SONY VAIO VGNFZ240E could anyone please help me with this? I tried to recover my unit by making 2 recovery dvds but the process failed at 89% with error code:320/330 follwed by error code:-1 and when I tried do the same from …

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Can anyone recommend any software that will allow me to have *program-specific* key mappings? I have a problem with a laptop that has an odd keyboard map (in particular, the Enter and NumEnter have the same scancode)[1] and I need to be able to map another key combo to use …

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How do we set MP3 songs into caller ringtones? How do we download Video to the phone?

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Today my pc came, (windows 7 32-bit) so i set it all up, it work i installed everything i needed to, but i downloaded minecraft.exe, so i ran it and loged in, then it took 1 second and it closed, a notepad document came up on my desktop (hs_err_pid3400), so …

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i have 3 win7 pc's, 1 2 and 3 1 is wireless and cannot access 2 or 3 and returns an error "network address invalid" 2 is wired and cannot find 1 with error "address cannot be found" but can access 3 3 is wired and cannot find 1 with …

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Hi, I recently re-installed Win 7 Ultimate on a fresh hard drive in my Dell XPS 1340, and used my OEM-supplied disk to install drivers. I also used Driver Robot to auto-install or update the drivers, as well as searching the Dell website. I then burned a System Recovery disk …

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I have the Advent Modena M101 Windows 7, My DockBar is on my desktop but i cannot use it, everytime i try to update it or do anything with it, it goes to a website which then says nothing as Internet Explorer 8 says Internet Explorer CANNOT display this web …

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Hi all, I am having really weird problems happening on my machine (windows 7, IE9). I was testing a website and noticed that my Browser Mode and Document Mode are not doing what they should. Basically from what I have read, when you open IE they should be pointing to …

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Greetings Techies, My access to Youtube via IE 9 has become intermittent. However, it's fine with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. I have tried disabling the ActiveX Filtering and tried the Compatibility thing too. The JavaScript is enabled and working (I checked it on javatester.org). I have Googled for the …

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Hello to all, I am working on a spreadsheet/database for my company to track our service calls for the equipment we sell. There are a total of three of us that travel to different locations. I have helped create a database that allows a user to enter information after completeing …

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Gone back to using old laptop with wireless mouse and keyboard and had to update numerous programs. Now the mouse or cursor has movement issues. In win explorer can only select last file in directory - ie 'zebra' and unable to scroll down web pages, pdf files etc. Tried system …

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I recently installed a new graphics card (see specs)and two new case fans, after a few minutes(or a few seconds) my computer will turn off completely as if I had turned off the power supply. I was using a 520W PSU when this first occured, I decided that may be …

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I have an HP G62 with windows 7. After fully charged, the battery sometimes goes on a slow drain lasting me 2 full hours plus. Other times, it abruptly drops down down to 94% after a couple of minutes of being on, then next couple of minutes is down to …

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I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit. I have a 16 bit application that I developed with Borland Turbo C++ on XP. I have installed XP mode and reloaded Borland and my application, but when I try to run it, nothing appears to happen. When I run it under the …

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After formatting my PC, I noticed that each time I shut down my PC it is installing update. No matter how many times I shut it down in a day it just happens. The thing is that it is only installing 1 of 1 all the time. Normally, the installing …

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I do not know if this is a place to ask this question, but as I have know idea what I am doing I am going to go ahead and ask. I am having a problem with my internet browser and my screen shimmering. The shimmering just started today but …

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Please can anybody help me? I have just bought a WD 160gb external portable hard drive and when installing by the usb cable it loads software onto the laptop but then connot find this drive anywhere. When i Right Click on this then on Properties a message saying that This …

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How can I do a deep system search for files ? Windows default indexer scans only at a surface level, missing alot of files. For example, if I search for all text files, it will find 35-40% and skip the rest. I want it to find all 100% of the …

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Having failed to achieve the DEFAULT behaviour of 'window on top' by available software, I'm wondering if there is registry tweak (that can be added ?) to achieve that effect in Win7 - maybe based on the now-absent feature in GTalk. 

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Hi I am using Window vista.I want to keep my folder secure. How can I set password on it. I know below way to lock folder but this is not effective I dont know on Window vista. Right click on desktop -Then Select New -Then Select Compressed (zipped) Folder -Then …

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Sometimes while doing various tasks I must brush against something and all items on the screens vanish except for the frames they were in. Moving the mouse cures this and returns things as they were. This has happened many times and I can't nail down how I am causing it. …

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Sorry - might be a noob question and there's no section for Microsoft office, but this is the closest section I can get. I just installed outlook and am using it for the first time. I added an email and it shows up on the left, but I also want …

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We have set up our Vista PC with multiple users for the family. Some of us like loads of shortcuts on the desktop, others like a clean desktop environment. Trouble is that if you delete a shortcut from one user profile, it deletes it on all of the users profiles …

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Have the UEFI Option in the boot menu of the ASUS K42F notebook. Regrettably, boot to USB is not an apparent option. Have emailed Asus support and the reply demonstrated no knowledge of the feature. There is an option that allows the entry of "command line" entries. The setup utiliities …

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Running Vista on a Sony Vaio - constantly getting error message pop up about a missing .dll file : QTCF_CFHTTFMessageSetHeaderFieldValue. What can I do to find/fix this problem?

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I am a relative neophyte in approaching this problem. I just reinstalled Windows 7 on a new laptop hard drive, but now have a problem that affect many programs. I think it may have to do with SSL or accessing https sites ont he web. For instance it affects Outlook …

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i downloaded and installed google browser. when i click the browser after installation, it's not working. the browser did not even opened. i did it many times, uninstall, download then install again, but it's just the same. It's not working.

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I used to code on MS Visual Studio 2008. It had MSSQL Server 2005 installed with it. Recently I uninstalled MS Visual Studio 2008 and installed MS Visual Studio 2010. But it didnt uninstalled MSSQL Server 2005. And MS Visual Studio 2010 installed MSSQL Server 2008. So basically I have …

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I had installed Apache web server latest in my laptop and after updatation of the conf fil it was working now. Initially after installtion when I said stop and restart the engine it was working. When I tested with my .pl and html also it was working. But when I …

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I am designing an online-radio Windows 8 app that will have all these radio channels that can be streamed online. so, my question is: How can I find the streaming URL of an online radio? These URLs are generally hid behind Flash players or ActivX elements. Google results say I …

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I just bought a hp omni all in one pc. My sister tells me that if i remove all the extra software that's pre-installed my computer will run faster. Is this true, and how do i know what to un-install?

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Hi Guys and Girls, I tried to install a new keyboard and mouse (wireless) on the computer. It wouldnt work, so i reinstalled the original set. Now the computer will not even boot up, it seems to be in a sleep mode, cant even get to the BIOS screen.. any …

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Hi Family ! I have an Acer Aspire 5315-2940, Windows Vista, 32 bit. I had a virus/trogan and I believe I got rid of it using Super Anti Spyware, Spybot, and even Malwarebytes. I went to run Malwarebytes one last time to make sure the computer was clean and the …

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I have a tale of woe to tell which is all the worse because of Microsoft's abject failure to put things right. On the first day it became available (26th Oct), I started the Windows 8 Pro download upgrade process. It's only £24.99 from here in the UK. On my …

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System thread exception not handled windows 8 Blue Screen when shuting down Windows 8 Event 41 The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly. I went to device manager and uninstalled the modem (smart …

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my acer aspire v5-471g intel core i3-2367m cpu@1.40ghz, 4GB RAM, 64bit OS My Laptop freezes a few minutes after start-up but i can move the mouse but as i click applications it wount run and not responding i think it is not a virus or any treaths because i dont …

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Microsoft failed to make tablets work with Windows for PEN Computing twenty years ago, so why are some people saying that it is set to dethrone the iPad later this year? Can Windows 8 really prove to be a commercial threat to iOS? [ATTACH=RIGHT]24152[/ATTACH]I still have my Compaq Concerto from …

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Please help! all my files are gone. i was using my laptop then closed it then i came back and nothing was there!!!!ive tried restoring my pc but that didnt work, i tried looking in the recycle bin... not there! and they arent hidden either! it can tbe a virus …

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Hello! I am having trouble getting the abspath when entering only an executable file. How can I fix this to return the full abspath? I am taking user input and opening a process (application). Here is my code: file = "/" + arr[2] + ".exe" print(file) path = os.path.abspath(file) print(path) …

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hi, if anyone can help me? I have problem with windows live mail. the preview pane show different email with the selected email I click in message list pane. It is not happened to all the message but some do. this is happened just recently, I didnt have this problem …

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Hi, I have problem on how to share a folder from my laptop to my pc and from my pc to my laptop,My Laptop is connected to my neighbor's wifi,..my First question is how can i share my folder from my laptop(windows7) to my desktop(windowsxp) and etc...second question is i …

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