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ok every time i do an install or reinstall of windows xp home there is always something wrong with it usually it is the same 3 things but never on the same install. this time it isthe system info util.(msinfo32.exe).and the troubleshoot button in the properties window of any given …

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I'm not that much of a computer brainer... so here goes: My computer has been running really slowly lately (I have defragmented it) - and I've got a lot of running processes. Could any of you tell me if you see anything strange in this log I created using HiJackThis? …

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Last night I got home and activated the screen(from power saver), and found a screen full of popups, IE had not been open before. When I got these closed, open IE and found it had totally changed. Lycos side search, Google toolbar gone, home page changed. Tryed SpyBot, found MANY …

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does any one know how to get a copy of windows xp pro coperate edition? I would like to upgrade to pro but it to requiers that i activate it. you can e-mail me at [email]alexhubbard@cox.net[/email]

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Using windows XP pro. on a 2 computer home network. Was using simple file sharing and everything was working fine for awhile. Then started getting file accesss denied with different files. clicked off simple file sharing and tried to change owner but would not let me and could not find …

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We just updated one of our computers from Windows 98 to Windows XP Pro. The IOMEGA CD driver & software we have is not compatible with Windows XP (of course, they want us to upgrade!), so every time we start our system we get the error message "Error loading DLL, …

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Whenever I try to download updates to windows xp I get error messages to the effect that my product key is invalid. What do i do ? I cannot imagine reinstalling another OS, this has allready given me enough stress.

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Hi, my internet explorer is messed up right now. i have windows xp. whenever im on any site and i right click, theres this link thats right above properties and under print and refresh. the link leads me to a porn site. ive tried getting rid of it by going …

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bought win xp home ed "upgrade, attempted to install it and registered product code to my backup computer , Gateway 950 gighertz with 2 8 gig harddrives, cddvd rom drv and cdrw drv, ,,,,,,,,,,and roxio cd burn program for phillips cd-rw drv. got corrupt errors on Uggrade edition so i …

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Greetings, From my G3 I can see my Windows XP shares, and my Windows XP shared Printer is set up, but when I attempt to print from my G3 I get one line of gibberish. The following is the output of the gibberish: %! PS - Adobe - 3.0 %RBINumCopies …

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Somebody plz tell me to how to get options like " windows xp " " windows me" while booting.I don't see the options.How to enable them from settings ?

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I am having a big problem with my windows Xp Pro. it "crashes" I guess.. but when it does the screen just gets lines on it and then I have to re boot. it lets me re boot and then it will do it again. it is random and dosent …

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Its been a few days that my internet explorer stopped working and i have no idea what went wrong. I have Windows XP. I also have Norton internet security but i did check if its firewall disabled IE's access to internet but i find out that this is not the …

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hiya i mucked with virtual pc 2004...tried out my redhat8,i was able to go online and yak it up with yahoo messenger for linux. thus i was definitely encouraged to go and load it on a seprate drive well.it wont work,the card that is.. it wont initialize.and i am seriously …

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Hi all I'm running Windows XP Pro and Office XP Pro and Outlook no longer prints properly. When I open e-mail and select print, I get the error message that I've attached. (An error has occurred in the script...) It works just fine as long as I have an IE …

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Hello, I just recently installed Windows XP on my computer, completely wiping my harddrive and starting from scratch. I'm running an AMD Athalon 2100 (1.7 ghz), 512mb Ram, ASUS A7N66 - VM/LAN/AA Motherboard and 120 gig hard drive w/ 8 meg cache. Since installing Windows XP, my Internet Explorer experience …

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Ok, Where to begin, My computer specs are as followed: Athlon XP 1700+ Win XP Pro - Upgrade (if you needed to know) 398? MB RAM (around there) GeForce 4 MMx 440 Graphics Card Don't know motherboard (if you could also tell me how to find out, i've looked all …

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hi i have a sony burner when i install it with the cd reboot the system to completed installion it show me a blue screen saying hardware installion failure if u see these screen again follow these step ..... go in safe mode to fix the problem ....... turn off …

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I've installed Enter The Matrix game and when I try to start it I get the message "Fullscreen mode not found". Does anyone know why I can't play it? My Operating System is Windows XP. Also, I can't play Yahoo Games over the internet. It says I need Java Virtual …

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We've migrate to Windows 2003 Server with Windows XP as clients. I have people that have save files in the "My Documents" folder that is inherit from the server. The users have a mandatory profile, means that whatever they change it doesn't retain the changes. So my question is that …

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iam running a pentium 4.1400. with windows xp home edition with sp1.and all updates.i removed all traces of the program from the registry beforei uninstalled the program.i tryed to use jv16 power tools to remove the program but.i cant get it out of the ad&remove window.i tryed to reinstall the …

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I have Windows XP and my precocious teenagers downloaded KaZaA along with all their spyware. My problem is this; now when they try to access INternet Explorer, instead of getting the home page (google) they get this: C:\WINDOWS\eeiecrgrststvst.htm#[url]http://www.google.com/[/url] There is no way to get IE to change from this and …

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hey i was reinstalling windows xp didnt know it was on safe mode now i got a messege that say (Windows xp setup cannot run under safe mode.setup will restart now. OK) then when i close or press ok it just restart the computer and bring me back to the …

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iam running a p4 1400 with windows xp home edition i just got acronis true image 6 to backup my harddrive it installs ok but when i try to copy my harddrive it starts and then the cd pops out and is says error cant create image may be becouse …

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on my Picture folder. the Picture tasks-copy all items to c.d-has disappeared how do I retrieve it? I have Press the down arrow at the side but it is not there. my computer is windows xp with 2 sides-it is o.k on my wifes sides. Thank-you Peter

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I just installed windows xp pro on my PC with a geforce 4 mx card (PCI). Howwever after installing it i get the windows loading screen but when it gets to showing the desktop i just get a blenk screen i can hear that it has loaded, I know my …

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im having a hard time putting windows 98 in i have windows xp right now i put in the boot disk with the 98 plus 2 edecion in the cd rom are start the computer but it tells me to remove the disk and hit any key to restart can …

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i am working on a dell computer that has never had sound. I went to check in the device manager but nothing shows up. i tried to use add new hardware and nothing happens. i tried reinstalling the drivers, but nothing i even updated and reinstalled direct X this isn't …

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when ever there is no player open or any app that is made to produce sound, other then windows, a faint static can be heard at all times. when the mouse is moved another sound is mixed in with the first, again its very faint. when a keystroke is made …

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Hello, I have a Problem with my computer in my processes the Svchost is taking up 50% or more of my cpu usage. My system idle is usually at around 90-99 % like normal computers ( i have windows XP home ) and it is at 90-99 percent now too …

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Can anyone recommend a good key logger for Windows XP? I have a 14 yr old child who's been acting odd for the last few months. I believe he is up to something. He won't talk and I am getting worried. TY

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The Test for XP Professional has come out going to start some reading and going to take that test when I get some money. [url]http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/exams/70-270.asp[/url] 70-270 Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional I will keep you updated on this topic

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Since I can access FAT32 filesystems from Linux Mandrake, I wondered if the reverse was true. I soon found out that it is (too a limited degree), with some freeware generously provided from [url]http://ext2.yeah.net[/url]. However, you will notice some limitations in writing data and that prevuiously hidden files (prepended with …

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Hello, Lately when i have been viewing videos in games or just on the internet my computer will freeze up and most of the time it will just freeze. Often the video will freeze but the audio will keep playing. I updated my drivers according to the creative website for …

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Now ever since he did this no applets run. OS is Windows XP Pro SP1(reapply sp1?) Would anyone know where to change this in the registry? I checked in HKEY local machine and also HKEY Local User. Both are set to 1 which means its enabled... Because of the custom …

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i am running a p4 1400 m.d.g with windows xp home edition.i did a fresh install of xp home.at that time i had 21 gigs free space on a 40 gig hard drive after the install i have 14.9 i looked for eny thing that was a double or taking …

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Recently internet exp. has been erroring telling me to send error reports when i open certain pages. I send error reports, but that does nothing. Web pages like the windows update page and this page seem to work fine but, almost all others don't. I have approx. 30 or seconds …

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i recently got a new hp. while starting up, for some reason right after that green bar is done moving, i get a blue screen which says "windows is starting up". The problem is it stays for about 32 seconds everytime before i can log into my user name. i …

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Ok heres the situation. I am working in a small office network situation, and everything worked fine before last night when I installed a new copy of WinXP (because I needed SP1 [which requires legal copy]). Well now the main computer can nolonger access internet, or the network, but the …

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Going through my Video setting on my computer, I notice I set the "system memory for PCI mode textures" to 100MB from the default of 47MB. My video card is 64MB. Does that memory pertain to the video card memory? Thanks for any feedback __________________ Windows Xp AMD Athlon XP …

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abit ic7 (bios ver. 16) pentium 4C 2.4 @ 2.8 (HT enabled) 2x 512 ocz ddr400 cas2 (2-3-3-6) radeon 9700np 333/315 windows xp sp1 hi guys, this has been bothering me forever. my cpu scores in 3dmarks '03/aquamark 3 are all on par with the norm. they are 650/9463 respectively. …

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hi faily simple question to you guys i suppose, but i need an motherboard upgrade for windows xp pro.got the flash program and file but a bit worried of all the bad press on bad flashes.its an old jetway633aspro board is it worth taking the risk or is replacing the …

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Hope some one can help. I just bought a new Toshiba computer with XP Home OS. I am trying to put my wifes XP office professional on there and it works well, except for Word. I am unable to save new documents under the "save" and "save as" options. What …

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I have Windows XP Home and Linux Mandrake 9.1 Dual Booted on one Hard drive. My Windows XP Home partition is NTFS based, but Linux refuses to remember this. When I boot Linux it tells me the partition is the wrong FS type, yet I'm sure it's set to NTFS. …

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My old (not really that old) Compaq died on me. I bought a new Dell. I wanted to keep the info on the Compaq so I installed its hard drive in my Dell as a secondary. I got all my pic's which is what I really wanted. But I cannot …

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I wonder if someone could help me? Every time I swith on my laptop I receive an error message saying that 'windows could not start because the <windows root>\system32\hal.dll. file is missing or corrupt please re-install a copy of the above file. i tried booting the windows xp cd rom …

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I have a user with a PC running Windows XP home, on a Novell netware network and a bordermanager proxy server. Since the computer is shared by many users, they like to utilise the personalised background part of Windows XP and log in locally as different users. The first user …

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i have just built a new computer and it has a soyo K7ADA mb and a maxtor 40gig HD 256mb ram amd athalon XP 2000+ onboard sound and a pny vetro gforce 4 mmx 440 vid card 400 watt smart blue power supply and an antec case windows XP professional. …

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Before I begin, i'll have to say i'm totally computer retarded so anywho. First of all my File sharing is disabled - how do I enable it again, I can't find the setup wizard in Connections. I'm using a Microsoft Broadband Wired Base Station MN-100, I seem to have a …

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I am trying to find out how to setup my laptop to act as a desktop when I am at home (ie regular keyboard, monitor, and mouse) for comfort. I can't find a docking station for my particular laptop. I don't know much about docking stations ( :?: Duhh) but …

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