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| | I got a laptop today, but it came with the hard drive partitioned in two. Is there a way to "de-partition" them without running Setup? I'm using Win XP Pro SP1, by the way. |
| | I DONT honestly think its the cable..When I plug any device into the front of my tower, the ICON does not display in the system tray...I DO hear the bell type sound when the device is plugged in..This same thing has happened with a MP4 and a USB cord into … |
| | I wasn't sure where to post this but I figured that I would post it here as I'm using windows 7 Anyway, to my problem. Here's the situation: At the moment I am living at a boarding school and have my desktop, running windows 7, connected to the wireless network. …  |
| | A couple of signs of a virus on my computer are that at times iexplorer.exe opens without my permission. I get an error from a process called HSG.exe every once in awhile, I can't close the process as it simply restarts itself. I have no idea what it is, but … |
| | Hi, I'm running an old (about six years old) Compaq Preario 2200 laptop with Windows XP intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1400MHz 1.40 GHz 480 MB of RAM. Latley my computer has started running slowly. Iv tried in vain to fix the problem but it still persists. I was hoping some … |
| | I have been getting an error message titled wmdc.exe-bad image "C:\Windows\system32\WSOCK32.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Trying installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support". I also get all different … |
| | I have a dell laptop inspiron 1501 laptop with registry probems and its slow. I had stop sign firewall and i guess it got corrupted and stop working properly. I got another program that removed two trojans. I have a registry cleaner and everday it cleans up anywhere from 4-20 … |
 | [ATTACH=right]14704[/ATTACH][B]Reviewer's View[/B] I'm the kind of person who has an almost religious fervour when it comes to keeping data backed up, perhaps unsurprisingly as I am an IT professional and my livelihood depends upon it. So when it came to the hands-on testing of System Mechanic 9.5 for this DaniWeb … |
| | Hey I've been getting ICMP flood errors lately, and now today hardly any of the services on my machine work like Windows Audio and I can't enable the audio services, etc... And the services keep getting disabled like security center and stuff. And I can only choose Windows Classic and … |
| | Seems Daniweb helps a lot of folks out and I would be forever grateful if someone could help me solve this problem. I never actually use IE, just Firefox, but for the past couple of months I have been dealing with occasional popups and at least two copies of IEXPLORE.EXE …  |
| | Hi there everyone. I'm new to Python, and i'm programming a game application, using pyOpenGL. The thing is, the program crashes and exits when i push a key (but i don't want (at least for now) help for that), but i wish i could see the error that appears on …  |
| | When I pull up My Computer to access the different drives and folders all the icons on my screen blink. I don't what caused it. It started about a week ago. Any help will be appreciated. If you need additiaonal info please let me know. Cobrarr2003 :cry: |
| | My new WD 320Gb works fine on my Win7 laptp and another XP desktop but will not work at all on my Win7 desktop. Tried windows update. Doesn't show up in My Computer or Disk Managament?? Any clues?? Thanks Cygnus2112 |
| | I have an mssql database that I need to migrate to mysql. For some reason though any queries to any columns of type datetime are returned in French in the following format: 7/avr/2004 14:00 This also includes all the text of an SQL dump which not surprisingly makes mysql unable …  |
| | I've had the wireless router for a year now and it has only worked 5 minutes and that's after 4 hrs on the phone w/ Netgear. I even returned it once but with same results. When I run the installation CD, it states"Network adapter in this computer is not responding" … |
 | I posted this in wrong forum before..sorry. Using ISP Comcast, windows xp sp3, I followed the following steps. Start-run-CMD-txt box-ipconfig-ipconfig/release IP goes to 00.000; then type ipconfig/renew...I get my original IP. Can anyone help? Thank you, Jim |
| | I have a Sony ICD-R100PC recorder that I purchased in 1999. The recorder comes with a data cable (parallel port) and some software (Win95/98) that allows you to download the voice files (*.ics) from the recorder onto the computer. I can get the software to "work" under Windows ME. I … |
| | Ok..hear me out, My computer at first would crash and restart when i was running games such as Sof2...i fixed that 1..lol my Geforce2 was Heat damaged coz the fan on it didnt work...anyway My computer still crashed and wouldnt work :P So i thaught it was a problem with … |
| | When I am on websites like my gmail, or even here on this site, I am typeing into one of the boxes things, when I fill it up I get a bar on the right like normal, as what I am writing gets longer the page grows upwards. Thats normal. … |
| | Fixing Folder Options missing in Windows XP After a virus attack in one of my client machines, the folder options from the windows explorer was missing and we were unable to show all the files including the hidden ones. So here’s what I did to restore it back: Go to … |
| | I'm having an annoying problem with my browser. Every time I go to certain sites, my browser pops up a new window that usually goes to google. Some times to other things. But mostly Google. I'd like to stop it from happening and I'm wondering if something called [B]spicetraffic advanced … |
| | I haven't been able to solve my problem, and I was wondering if anyone here could help me further solve my problem. I have run anti viruses, malwarebytes, and I've been to cmd and typed in sfc /scannow but I still have no luck, and I can't even run system …  |
| | I sure hope you can help me. I have reached the end of my tech expertise. I am having trouble connecting to the internet on my main computer (Dell XPS 400 running Windows XP and a Westell 6100 modem); I can get online through the wireless lan on my laptop … |
| | I am unable to connect on my home network using a machine with Windows 2003. Until I disconnected this machine and left it unplugged for a couple of days, I had no such problem. Any tips of where to look for solution? |
| | Hey guys, this is my first post here as I have been struggling with a problem with my internet for about two weeks now. I'll try to describe the problem in as many details as possible. I have a HP laptop with Windows Vista. Recently I moved to a new … |
| | Hi all, Booted up my XP today and, when I returned to start using it, ZoneAlarm came up saying that it had found "virus.dos.horse.1576" in my system restore files. However, it was found nowhere on my system and, when a ZL super scan was started, the only viruses found where … |
| | Do I need to keep all these Visual C++ Redistributable installs, which one can be deleted,the most recent ? [B]Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Microsoft Corporation 25/10/2009 0.42 MB[/B] [B]Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (x64) Microsoft Corporation 25/10/2009[/B] [B]Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x64 9.0.30729.17 Microsoft Corporation 30/10/2009[/B] [B]Microsoft … |
| | All the registered IIS MIME types in IIS 7 + Windows Vista are registered in the following config file. [CODE]C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config[/CODE] I was wondering where I can find the same file in Windows XP when I have IIS 6 installed? Additionally, in Vista if I add a MIME type MANUALLY, it … |
| | I have Win ME. Everything appears to be connected normally. I am connected through a wireless connection. My IP address releases and renews fine. I can ping the IP address (ex. 69.221.21.231) but not the name ([url]www.yahho.com)[/url]. I think it may be spyware, virus related. Here is my Hijack This … |
 | I am having a problem with my computer (Windows XP, 1Gig Celeron, 512 PC133 RAM) booting up. Whenever I completely power down my computer, even if it has only been on for a few minutes, I cannot immediately power up my computer. The drive lights come on, but I don't … |
| | I am running XP and have formatted before with no problems. Yesterday I started to format and when it was at the point of installing windows, we heard a large crack of thunder and the power went out for a minute, which in turn shut my computer down. When I … |
| | Hi, I am totally novice to vmware, but I have a desperate situation where in I need to run a program that only runs in windows 98 or ME provided DOS. But I need to switch to XP in as it is more stable. Only for running that program i … |
 | Hi! There is a file on my desktop of size 0 bytes. When I try to delete it, it says "Could not find this item" What is the problem? This is really irritating me. Any help would be highly appreciated |
| | Hello everyone :) (new Daniweb user here) I'm currently experiencing some wlan issues. My computer is using an 3com usb adapter (3CRUSB10075) adapter with newest drivers installed. I've also tried with an SMC wireless PCI adapter, and that was even MORE unstable than the 3com adapter. I got a Linksys …  |
| | Hi My friend has a mac laptop and he's installed something that allows him to run xp softwares. Can anyone tell me which software that allows us to run mac software on windows xp? Thanks  |
| | Ok so I installed a new Asus v60 cpu cooler on my system today, and after I installed the cooler my internet and audio aren't working. And also barely any of my services can be started. Is there something I could've done wrong? The cooler seems to be installed fine. |
| | hey so heres whats happening recently i have been receiving the windows message "windows has Recovered from an Unexpected Shutdown" randomly... i dont know what triggered this because it happens occasionally on shutdown and i get the blue screen but a lot of the time i dont see the bluescreen.... … |
 | Ok, here are the issues I'm having & yes I run a lot of anti programs including Advanced System Care which some say they love & a few people say caused problems. Honestly I can't remember when the problems started, at least 4-6 months ago & it may have started … |
| | Hi, I'm dealing with this problem lately. When I'm using firefox (3),my cpu (E7200),is overloaded! It only happens with firefox,not with any other browser. From an ordinary 6-7%,my cpu can reach,just in few seconds,the 100%,remaining stucked there forever!!! I'm using windows 7 (32) ultimate. Any idea? P.S I'm sorry for … |
| | Hello I am trying to compile my project in VC++ Express Edition and get the error below. The project did compile fine before I reinstalled XP windows. But now when I have installed everything again, I receive this error. I dont understand what this can mean ? When clicking the … |
 | whenever at school i visit websites like youtube, mail services, etc, i keep getting this messgae (see below). It is really annoying, and my school presentation will need a youtube video presented from the school computer(s), and i can't bring it in on cd, etc. thanks to those who can …  |
| | I can no longer log onto my homepage unless it is in safe mode. I have a number of windows come up one which says [COLOR="Navy"]The instruction at '0x000000' referenced memory at '0x000000' the memory could not be written. click ok to terminate, click cancel to debug.[/COLOR] Another I have … |
| | folks, this one has me stuffed!! admittedly I am no techie legend, but I can hold my own... I have beside me a HP pavilion DV5000 that has an XP pro install. the error is is in that during boot it will go all the way to the desktop, show … |
| | A day or two ago AVAST! AntiVirus warned me I was attempting to access a dangerous website. (I don't remember what website it was.) I took the warning and didn't access the website. Later I did a sweep with AVAST! It reported three malware infections. All 3 were of High … |
| | So my friends are saying that one of my email addresses is sending them weird ad spam from my email and I recently got a warning from MSE about a fignotok.a and ponmocup.a. I deleted them with MSE but I wanted to make sure I was clean. Here's my HiJackThis … |
| | Hi I have Windows 2003 server at home. I want to access this machine from the internet. Instead of opening port 3389 to the internet, I would like to have it accessed via the RDP web connection. So I installed IIS... created a self signed SSL. Withing the network at … |
| | Hi ive tried so many times to change my desktop background, ive tried downloading and applying my pictures but nothing happens. There isnt even an option when i right click to change the background. My computer is new and ive only had it a week so dould it be that … |
| | Hi, I am experiencing what seems a common problem of search selections jumping to incorrect sites. Very annoying! I have performed the AVG install and scan as per the Read Me post. The results are below along with the hijackthis log. Can anyone help me please. -------------------------------------------------------- AVG Anti-Spyware - … |
| | Hi, In my code, I am trying to open a directory of Solaris OS from Windows OS using FindFirstFile(). In Windows XP, the code is working fine but in Window 7 same code is not working. FindFirstFile() returns INVALID HANDLE in Windows 7 and GetLastError() return error code 50, which … |
| | Plz help got this IBM p3 Thinkpad 600X that wont boot without bios password. av tried removing the cmos but no succeess. tried shorting the parallel port but wont work. Plz help |
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