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hi all, i have recently tried installing a new program on my lap top ( ITunes) and suddenly my laptop turned off and put a screen saying blah blah windows did not start successfully, blah blah and then gives me prompts to start the comp in safe mode, last known …

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Just a long shot, my friends computer is having a few difficulties: Once windows xp is running, everytime you try to open a program, it comes up with an error saying "Only part of the memory write process request completed" Tried system restore but wont open, although you can dial …

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I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 and am obviously running Windows XP. Windows XP will not start up on my computer. The computer starts running and then stops and gives me an error saying that if it keeps happening, to check for viruses. It also says "Technical Information: *** STOP: …

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Well, I've tried everything I can think of so it looks like I need help. I have a computer that was running WinXP Pro. It started acting flaky. First it lost the BIOS settings, so I replaced the CMOS battery and re-set the BIOS settings. Within a day, it started …

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Recentally upgraded to IE7,no probs. But suddenly cannot get onto Windows Update,sign into auction sites and some web pages will not load. Run,antivirus and spy ware no probs found. but Nortons is bring up notices about "script errors"in its activity log. Any ideas to help me?

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Hi there, don't know if anyone can help but I'm going beserk with this problem :- Basically when I turn on my computer it takes a long time to load up my windows and eventually after 5 mins or so the entry page appears requesting my password to enter my …

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Forgive me if this is a repost, it is my first post. I am having a nightmare of a time with my PC. First of all on booting up (XP SP1), I receive a message box saying the bridge.dll cannot be found. Second problem is that I am unable to …

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[COLOR=#000000]Thanks to all who have taken time from their precious lives to read this.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]1st the problem (briefly) will be listed, then how I may have gotten it and finally all the steps I’ve taken thus far. [Since this here below is long I have omitted all the googling I …

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This is to do with this posting :- [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?p=59153&posted=1#post59153[/url] The problem seems to have stopped, but I am woindering if there is anything else I can do. Thanks very much Logfile of HijackThis v1.98.2 Scan saved at 03:11:12, on 09/10/04 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 …

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Hi! I'm in a bit of a bizarre situation and wonder if anyone could help. I realise this is a common post but I could not find a solution to my problem in any of them. Not too long ago I purchased 2 copies of Win XP Home for my …

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I am currently enrolled in a QBASIC class, where we use QBASIC 4.5 in a Windows XP environment. But for some reason, I am unable to get them to work properly at home. Specifically, my screen seems to only allow enough vertical room for a LOCATE to reach about 22 …

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Here are some usefull registery tweaks i use for Windows XP. [code];Speed up shutdown [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control] "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="3000"[/code] [code];Do not use Simple File Sharing [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa] "forceguest"=dword:00000000[/code] [code];Disable Messenger Service (to stop spam. Does not affect MSN or Windows Messenger) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Messenger] "Start"=dword:00000004[/code] [code];Change MenuShowDelay (Start Menu load speed) [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop] "MenuShowDelay"="2"[/code] [b] Make …

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I recently replaced the operating system in my laptop from XP Home edition that came pre-installed in the machine to Windows XP Professional. Now my DVD drive (NEC DVD+-RW ND-6500A) cannot recognise DVDs. It can only see CDs. The problem is that when I installed XP Professional, Sonic RecordNow that …

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Hi, I have 2 PCs each running Windows XP SP2 on Celeron 2.0 GHz with 512 MB Ram. The Win XP installation on the first hardisk has become currupt and the system freezes midway during the booting process. I wanted to perform an upgrade installation to fix the problem. I …

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i have a 80gig Seagate Barracudda 7200.7 which i purchased last yr. Unfortunately for me it stopped functioning recently for some reason. FOrtunately it was still under warranty and was ecstatic to get it yesterday since my warranty runs out next week. so i try to install windows xp pro...initial …

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I dont know if anyone has come across this but it has got the service guys on a premium rate number stumped. I have a Wireless USB Keyboard and mouse as my computer doesn not have any PS/2 connections. For some unknow reason the keyboard has stopped working. The mouse …

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[COLOR=#555555]Hi,[/COLOR] [COLOR=#555555] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#555555]I’m running windows xp home edition currently with SP1 and when trying to update to Windows XP Sp2 via the windows update site it advised that there were various downloads I needed to install to use the update site but when trying to install these it fails …

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Hello all, last month I restarted my computer and it would not start up. It kept restarting and would eventually come to the "safe mode" screen. I kept it turned off till the next afternoon and started it up and it worked fine. Two days ago it did it again. …

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Hi......both my CD drives dont work. I have a cd rom drive (D) and a cd rw drive (E). Neither of them read any type of disc, whether it be data, music, photos etc and i have tried these disc in another pc and they work fine. I am using …

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Hi, I finally got redhat 9.0 installed in vmware 4 on Windows XP (I had some trouble as in a post below). Everything is fine, --I installed all the packages I wanted; the internet is fine, --except that I can not get vmware tools installed in redhat, and because of …

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I have 5 computers running Windows XP Pro SP2 in a workgroup. All pc's are connected with Linksys 1 GB NIC's to a 16 port Linksys Gigabit switch. One of the computers is acting a "file server". On this machine is a shared directory where all the office MS Word …

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[COLOR=#000000]Hi Everyone;[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I am new to this forum, so first I would like to give a brief description of my scenario:[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I assembled a machine with an Asus M2NPV-VM, and an Athlon 64, running XP32.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Few months later, I wanted to use the full H/W capability, and loaded …

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i am having a lot of trouble with win xp.. first of all, my comp freezes for reasons i cannot deduce.. it happens when i try to load anything from any of the cdrom drives, but not everytime.. it only happens some of the time.. and NOW, i tried to …

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All seemed to be in order, and just as suddenly as I went to bed and came back from work the next afternoon, my pc had frozen and now acts very strangely. I run AdAware and Spybot regularly, along with Ewido on occasion. I also use Norton Corporate virus protection. …

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Hello everyone, Here is a problem with my PC. The PC runs for a while connected to the internet and suddenly a blue screen pops up and says some error codes and Says "If this is the first time you are seeing this restart your comp if else go to........" …

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Windows XP, sp2 Windows Media Player ver. 10.00.00.4036 iTunes ver. 7 My problem is that I have quite a few music files that suddenly have stopped working. Used to work fine, but then yesterday I went to play them through my usual player, WMP. A slew of their track names …

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Hi, I wish to Upgrade my PC for the future softwares going to be released.... Like Windows Vista Currently I have: [B]Processor: [/B] Intel Penitum 4 Processor 540 with Hyperthreading Technology 3.20 GHz, 800Mhz FSB, 1MB L2 Cache, 90nm [B] RAM: [/B]512 MB RAM -- 400 MHz DDR SDRAM Memory …

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What is the best way to make it so users cannot change wallpaper? We are not using a domain at this time. I'm lost. Mole

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hi, i just installed j2ee 1.4 on my pc (windows xp). i've set the path/class path as follows - PATH = C:\Sun\J2EE1.4\AppServer\bin;C:\J2SDK1.4.2_08\BIN CLASSPATH = .;C:\Sun\J2EE1.4\AppServer\lib\j2ee.jar And i've added JAVA_HOME and J2EE_HOME in both environmental and system variables as - JAVA_HOME = C:\j2sdk1.4.2_08 J2EE_HOME = C:\Sun\J2EE1.4 the problem is, whenever i …

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Ok heres my problem, and I intend to explain it in great detail so you can presume that this problem is a lengthy one. I hope someone has the courage to read through all of it and help me out. I'd rather not have to buy a new computer but …

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Hi all I am using windows xp home addition ,when I boot up it begins to load as normal until I get to the log on and then it changes to a Mac OS X log on window.My son has an i pod and I suspect he has downloaded some …

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Hey guys, my computer just started acting up, so I was searching the net for a solution, and I came upon this great site. My computer has hardly ever had any problems in the past few years, but this morning, it suddenly became very slow. Once I turned on the …

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when I try to boot, the sounds and lights come on, but the screen remains blank. Same thing happens if I use another known working hard drive. I can't even get in to check the BIOS etc using F2. I've been working with computers for some years and have never …

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Hi, My name is David and i realli need your help! Well first of all, I was updating my sound card driver because the currnt one wasnot working and i was asked to restart the pc after i install the new driver so obviously i did, but now my pconly …

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G'day to all Anybody's got a system with Prescott cpu? My system: Asus P4P800-E Deluxe and Prescott cpu. My question is anybody got similar system with windows xp sp2? I was told that installing the service pack 2 will lock up the computer. Thanks in advance

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I am having a tough time fixing this... I cannot get into windows update page. I can get to other ms windows pages. When I go to update, I get a blank screen and done at the bottom of the browser. Here is my HJL ... any ideas ... I …

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I am trying to rebuild my computer and wipe everything out making it like it was when bought new. I think the way I'm doing it im just reinstalling the program and not erasing everything. What are the steps to rebuild the computer and reload the windows xp on the …

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i recently went on holiday.. it was lovely thanks =) anyway.. while i was away some smart little girl known as a "sister" decided it would be a good idea to upgrade my pc without actually upgradeing =O she installed windows xp.. ¬¬ and if your looking at my computer …

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The hour glass feintly goes on and off periodically on the screen.Otherwise it works fine.Optic Mouse hooked up to the usb port. I dont know why it happens, I just know it cant be right.I hope this is enough info. Thank You Dan

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I am trying to uninstall Norton Antivirus 2002 Professional Edition so I can install a 2007 upgrade. I've tried the uninstall button, the add/remove program, and even got instructions from Symantec website on how to remove it through the registry, and not everything it said to delete was there. Any …

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I went to bed last night and turned off my computer as normal. When I got up this morning I went to turn it on - it sounded like it was starting fine for about 3 seconds, then it just beeps at me. I tried booting from the boot disk, …

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Greetings to all. I have Win XP, Internet Explorer 6 and regularily use (and update)AVC AntiVirus, Ewido Antispyware and Ad-Aware SE Personal. My pc is updated regularily from Windows Update, but not automatically so I can choose what I want to update. I have not downloaded any programs recently. When …

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Windows XP, Version 2002 SP2, 1 gig memory, AMD Athlon XP 1800+1.53.GHz. I have been using TPX on this computer for a couple of years without any problems. Last week when trying to load TPX from windows the Error, "Disk or EMS I/O failure" message appears and TPX won't load. …

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Hi my windows xp is auto logging off right at the moment that i logg on. I got a legal version of XP Media Center and i have had no problems untill i installed IE 7.0 I have been looking all day on google and everywhere i know about. And …

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Hi, Was having problems removing an out of date version of McAfee. After using Killbox and unlocker I finally managed to remove all the files under the c:\Program Files\McAfee directory. I have then tried to re-install the latest version of McAfee and am getting display issues. Rather than being able …

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Hi everyone, My name is John and like everyone else I'm just posting on this website because I have problems with my Windows. Ok, here is the story. About a month ago, I came home and turned on the computer and thought I'd change my virus scanner to a different …

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I've got a system set up that I'm going to use to test spyware removal on. My only problem is that since I've done such a job keeping spyware off of my box, I have no idea as to how I can get it on the machine. I'm doing some …

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THIS IS MY LOG FILE I WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR HELP:cry: I KEEP GETTING THE WIN32 ERROR Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 9:13:22 PM, on 2/27/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe c:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\vso\mcvsrte.exe C:\Program …

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About two weeks ago, we had an electrician come to our house to fix some unsafe outlets and rework the wiring a bit. I think he some how changed the wiring so that upstairs is getting more power now (my computer is downstairs). But on that same day, my mom …

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I just started with TASM 5.0, and I have a question. Is there a way to assemble the exe so I can use it in windows XP? I write TASM myproject.asm then TLINK myproject thats how I was told to do, but I cant run it in XP how should …

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