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Hey there, I am running into a problem with a program called system security which is going crazy on a friends Gateway laptop running Vista. I am in college and I am pretty awesome a trouble shooting mac computer problems so I have become, unfortuantly, the go to guy for …

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Hey Guys, My HP Laptop Pavilion turns on, I see all the lights above the keyboard but the screen doesn't come on. I don't think it boots up either. What do you guys think the problem is and how can I fix it. Thanks

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Hi guys, I am using the afore mentioned OS, and i have been experiencing Windows - Delayed Write Failure...etc very often. It only happens when i am playing a game (Cabal Online, lol). And it is rather frustrating as i built this computer just to play that game. When it …

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I've spent hours trying to get this to work, but I can't seem to figure it out. This site has been good to me with my java problems and I saw this php section so I figured I'd come back and give it a try. What I have and assume …

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I have 1 XP desktop, 1 Vista desktop, 2 Vista laptops & 1 network external hard drive. The 2 laptops are on the network, but they don't see the external hard drive. The vista desktop gave no problems.

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Ok heres the deal ...i have a hp paviliion laptop dv9700 that i got from "questionable" sources but the price was right and i needed a comp. the problem is they used a dell recovery disk to restore it to factory settings but its not a dell so when i …

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Hi All, I wonder can anyone help me. I recently had a Trojan Virus on my laptop,finally removed it and what I thought was all traces. But it somehow has upset any connections through Windows to access the internet. I can access through Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird for my mails,no …

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Hi, I am planning to buy a new Laptop. My old laptop has Windows XP. The new laptop will have window vista business. I have no Idea about Window Vista Business. Has anyone used it? How is it different from Windows XP? Any comments are welcome.

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Can Someone please help me resolve an issue with my Dell GX110,Stop Error, I've been trying to fix a blue screen of death and can't figure out how to do it without reformatting the drive, Tried Just about everything with this pc, any help would be appreciated, I'm tired of …

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I’d appreciate any and all input re an automated backup solution for our small office peer-to-peer network. We have 5 PC’s, 3 running XP Pro, 1 XP Home, and a Vista Home laptop, which often goes home with the director. Our needs are pretty basic: Daily, incremental backups of MS …

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I am having a problem on my Gateway Notebook and Gateway Desktop PC's, How can I repair a crash error I keep getting an error saying Microsoft windows has shut down the program and will check for a solution to the problem but it never does, How do I repair …

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I built my pc and had a dual boot going on with XP and Vista. I took my pc apart this evening to fix a fan. Plugged everything back in, "boot disk failure insert system disk and press enter" popped up. My HDD usually plays around with me a little …

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Hello, I was hoping someone could help me figure this out, I have a Dell 220s on our network that Runs Vista 32bit Bussines. I had Office 2007 installed and when you open word it shuts down right away, Excel shuts down on printing, and Publisher shuts down when trying …

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Here there, I have a problem with my Internet Explorer. When I search on Google or Yahoo or any other search engine, I get redirected to a totally random website unrelated to my search. My computer is less then a year old. I do have anti-virus software but when I …

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Hi, I have been trying to load Office 2003 PIA's for Windows Vista, I could only find for Office 2003 with Windows XP. Do Microsoft provide Office 2003 for Vista or could I use any other PIA's version, If yes please provide me the appropriate link. Thanks in Advance. Karthik

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I have a toshiba laptop with ample hardrive space and 1.5 gigs of ram......Celeron M 530 processor My toshiba model is A-135-s7403........My problem deals with connecting to the internet via a linksys wrt54g router.......I can hook in fine being hardwired, but cannot hook in, via an air based router.... The …

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This just started recently. My laptop will turn off with no warning. It has done this a few times already, after the laptop has been on for maybe less than 10 minutes sometimes. I just earlier got the BSOD for the first time for this problem. The reason that it …

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Hey, so randomly the right side of my screen will be cut off... like i can see my desktop but the windows wont go past it... im on win7 x64 (i had the same problem in vista) with a raedon x1550 rebooting fixes it, mi not sure what causes it. …

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I have a "WRT54G Linksys router. Ver. 8.0.03." I am running Vista. Last week I somehow lost my wireless connection. At some point I uninstalled the software. I did try to reinstall the software. Then I tried to manually install the router. Each time I got the same message, "Currently …

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Hi, I'm trying to use my Brother MFC8840D all-in-one as a network printer from Win 64. I have it connected with a hub, but can't make anything happen. I've tried to use their out-of-date manual and the latest (but not new) drivers, set a default IP address on the machine, …

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Hi I am running Windows Vista Home Premium on my current HP computer, and i am using the keyboard that came with it. On it there are a series of shortcut keys that can be programmed to open s web browser, email client, search window etc. and they had been …

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I'm working on a Vista Home Premium machine for someone. Its a new Toshiba laptop and works well except for retrieval of some attachments, most notably PPS (PowerPointShow) files. Her ISP is MSN and she accesses email through that interface as installed by the QWest DSL group. While these new …

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so i'm runnign 64 bit vista on a self built machine... anytime i plug in an ethernet cable my computer freezes after between 15-45 min. It took me forever to figure out what was causing the problem but i'm now 99% sure that's what it is. As it hasn't frozen …

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When I s/on my PC I get a window like this: "window unable to find 'regsvr.exe' invalid entry , use search to find the missing file from start menu". This problem I am getting after some unwanted virus entered in my system. any suggestions from anybody please goahead. thanks venu,india

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I've been using Vista for a few months and one of the features I enjoy is the thumbnail previews of windows on the taskbar. Unfortunately, recently they have stopped appearing and I'm not sure why. When I go to taskbar properties, the option to turn on "window previews" is grayed …

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Having a strange problem. Just got my first windows Vista PC. IE worked initially, I used it to download Firefox which is my preferred browser. But now firefox alone can access the internet. The Dial-up Connection box is always up and I can never get it to connect. IE downs't …

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After deleting some spyware detected from my virus protector, I wasn't able to logon to the internet. My laptop then became frozen, so I turned it off manually. Now, after it boots up the screen is black with only the mouse arrow on the screen. What is wrong?

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HI GUYS!! I have just installed a a new vista original home edition few days back . but the problem is that I'm not getting any updates for my last install software specially games. What should I do. ___________ [URL="http://www.baysideimports.com.au"]Camper Trailer Queensland [/URL]

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My 13 year old daughter had a friend over who downloaded a movie from the Internet. When it asked "open with", she entered Windows Media Center. Now, EVERYTHING is opening with Windows Media Center (E-mail; documents; pictures; etc.). I was able to get some things converted back by going to …

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i downloaded borland turbo C explorer in my xp but now i have shifted to vista the problem is that when ever i try to install it shows a message box asking for .NET v1.1 i downloaded it also but when i install .Net v1.1 it gives the following error …

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I recently bought a play and charge kit for my xbox 360 control pad and was led to believe that now i could use the USB connection to connect the pad and use it to play games on my PC? however I cant figure out how to do this? im …

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How do you make a loggout sceen say PLEASE INSERT CARD OR PRES CNTL+ALT+DELETE TO LOGIN. On my computer its just the regular loged out screen for Windows Vista.

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Hi, I formatted my pc and restored everything back and now I forgot how to install jdk and set the path. I am using windows vista..... I created a CLASSPATH in system variables as follows .;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_02\bin and path in system variables as %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_12\bin and again a new path …

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Hey guys weather its windows 7 or vista i found these grate steps online to start,run and shutdown your vista operating system and make all those 3 main things happen much faster and smoothley. 1. Restrict the no. of start-ups. Why have programs starting up when you dont really use …

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I have a Gateway desktop computer. The computer went into sleep/standby mode and when I went to turn the screen back on, it prompted for my password as if it had rebooted. After entering my password, a screen popped up saying the Vista activation code I entered was wrong, but …

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hi everyone, how can i react on a plugged in usb drive? (e.g. show a messagebox or whatever when a usb drive is plugged in) The whole thing needs to run under windows only (xp and maybe vista)

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I read a post on Joe Harris' blog (author of Cisco Network Security, Little Black Book), and he says Cisco isn't going to support Windows Vista 64-bit and he recommends using NCP Secure Entry Client. Does anyone use NCPs product? If so, how is the support? And is it easy …

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A couple days ago, I noticed that my gadgets didn't load in vista (Premium 64-bit). I restarted, they still didn't load. I tried closing and restarting the sidebar, and still nothing, so I went to re-add them, except the entire list of gadgets was empty, not even preloaded vista gadgets. …

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I've got a Vista Home machine that is not playing well with my XP workgroup. I originally tried to connect to a printer shared on an XP machine. Jobs from the Vista machine would cause an error on the printer. So I connected the printer to the Vista machine and …

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My boss just bought a cheap-o Dell with Vista Home for our small office. We're running a workgroup with 2 other XP Pro machines. Had a huge amount of trouble with Vista Home but now have everything working except the backup to an external drive hanging off one of the …

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To get VISTA to have the same tool bar info as XP. ie FILE EDIT VIEW FAVORITES TOOLS, HELP If so HOW?

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Just happened - error message "will not display webpage" MSN works. O/S Windows Vista Premium. Have checked for viruses system protected by Windows defender. Other PC ok. HTTP set to 1.1 . Addon ons disabled . Temp files deleted. SSL ticked to 3 and TSL to 2.0. Windows diagnostic and …

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Hey everyone, So, my question is as follows. I'm planning on building a new rig, & I'd like to put Vistax64 on it. However, I would also like to keep my old (XPx86) PATA HDD so I can have all my music, games, files, & such. My question is, what …

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When i start my computer, all i get is a blank black screen. If i open task manager i can see that explorer.exe is running but under CPU it shows 0. I have to end explorer.exe and restart it from "run" each time to get my computer to work. How …

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Installed Fedora 9 recently in my laptop.... Resulting in dual boot system After a few days, hibernation seems not working. Can any one help me to solve this???

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this problem only started yesterday the pc wont boot up passed the motherboard screen like were it says press F2 for bios any ideas what could be wrong?

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Hi, Does someone know about drawing a window in a Memory Device Context, I need this so I can then read pixels from a window that is behind other windows. I need this for windows XP, not Vista. Thx in advance.

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I just got this laptop this month after my beloved HP died, and it has basically the same specs as my old one, a 2.0 Ghz with 3GB of RAM, the only difference is it's a Compaq, which is still technically HP. So I figured it would run just like …

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I have Windows Vista,my DVD drive will not recognize any DVD's or CD's or install software.The drive shows in 'My Computer' but when I attempt to open or explore contents it ejects the disc.The driver is up to date,it shows that''Device is working properly''and I set the region to 1-for …

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