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Is there a way I can set Windows Media Player as my default music player? When I download a music file it opens in Real Player. I would like to use WMP instead. Thanks. janda5

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okay this has got to be the most annoying virus, spyware w.e. it is ever i almost pile drove my monitor... okay so a couple weeks ago i downloaded a keygen for a game that i lost the serial key for. I assume this also downloaded something wicked and nasty …

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hi to all, just a quick one as confused slightly... have a compaq presarion laptop with a wireless card slot . . . seemed to have walked into a mine field when trying to find one thats not rediculusly expensive and still has a range of over a couple of …

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hi, irolands here, newbie, need help installing vista, i'm upgrading from xp, in the install it gives me the option of installing without entering product key so i click "no" then it just goes back to wanting me to enter the key. what am i doing wrong? i have also …

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I put this computer together, and I have Windows XP on the hard drive. I gto a cd with my motherboard with the drivers, I installed them all but my sound doesn't work. In device manager it says that the drivers are there and working but there is no sound …

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hello. I have a very annoying problem with my OS. My computer freezes within minutes of turning on the computer. It usually happens whenever I attempt to web browse or install something. Within seconds after attempting to do anything, the computer locks up and I am forced to manually turn …

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hello friends, i have created a virtual directory when my site is under development.... here we have a link whare it gets dynamic data from a folder. but its not working when i hosted my site. in my local environment also the link gets 404 error when its in root …

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Every time I try opening the control panel, the following error appears -" This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Contact your system administrator." Please help me out wiyhout having to reinstall windows.

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Hi All, I all of a sudden one morning had a problem with my wireless. All I got was the 'Cannot display this page' message no matter what I was trying to connect to. I have a Netgear wireless router and all the lights on it were lit as normal, …

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Hi guys I'm a fairly lightweight (in virtual world only, sigh) hobbyist who finds programming fascinating. I enjoyed teaching myself C++on my old machines. Bloodshed Dev C++ I found particularly robust and reasonably forgiving in older Windows OS. We recently switched to Linux for most of our machines and I …

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Hello all Can any help me,How task manager find which applictions are running on our desktop? Or Which Window Api helps to find the running application in our system?

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Hello All, First of all, let me say that I really don't know much about computers, but I want to try to fix mine without just trashing it. My husband was downloading a new poker site and he got a blue screen that said" the windows logon prosess system terminated …

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recently noticed my pc running not quite as quickly as it should be and wondered if there is any nasties lurking which are impacting on system performance. below is a hijack this log .. would appreciate your thoughts.. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 18:00:53, on 09/06/2008 …

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I know a few threads have been made about this but I'm still not so sure. When I start up the computer everything looks fine, I use Windows XP Media center edition for at home. I'm not for certain but my computer is a gateway that I got a few …

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An unregistered XP anti virus keeps poping up on my computer. How do I remove it? It will not allow me to go to any sites. Once I click on a site, the site shows up for 2 seconds, then it redirects me to the anti virus page. I didnt …

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Maybe someone can help me - I'm pretty new to web development. I am working in Dreamweaver CS3. I am working with Windows Vista Home Basic. 1. When I inserted a sprymenubar - I changed the color in every possible place for the text to be a dark brown with …

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Hi guys ive been having quite a bit of trouble with my internet starting up automatically every time i log in to the computer. i looked at some of the older threads and i have the hijack this program. just wondering if you could help me figure out my problem

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Hello, Recently I bought a "Win-Stars" digital webcam for my Windows Vista (desktop). After installing it, I saw a box that claimed that the camera was installed successfully and that my computer needed to restart. I did so, but I did not find the device anywhere in the computer after …

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I have to connect asp.net with SQL Server, the normal windows authentication established fine, but not with sa login and What is the default password for sa in sqlserver?

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I was using the program Ableton Live 6, a music creating program, and it keeps shutting down at random. Firefox has done the same. Here's my HiJackThis output: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 4:55:33 PM, on 6/9/2008 Platform: Windows Vista (WinNT 6.00.1904) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 …

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everything is fine on my computer except all java windown in internet explorer will not work. On many websites i cannot click on links. No videos will play...for example youtube videos. i need to know how to fix just this problem, or just to completly restore windows to its original …

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Installing a fresh copy of XP Professional SP2. Had to disable shadow caching in the BIOS and not getting this error. No card installed. Everything is OB. System starts to do the install gets about 15 mins (with caching off, takes forever) and then BSOD with the above error. Any …

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Heres an odd one. I have about 40 users on a pair of load balanced citrix servers running a series of published applications (Office products and such). Occasionally, there are a couple user profiles that corrupt here and there (this is windows, after all). Typically, I go into the documents …

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I can not use the scroll bar at all...tried using mouse, pg up and pg dn, home, end, arrows... nothing works. This happens for all programs I have tried... explorer, word, excel... any ideas? Fixes or work-arounds would be appreciated. Thank you for your help!

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[url=http://www.ultrafunk.com/products][u]Popcorn[/u][/url] is a freeware ultra-lightweight POP3/SMTP e-mail client for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. It works as a client/server application,reading mail "directly" from POP3 servers. It is ideally suited for "on the road" mail access,for scanning,reading and sending mail over slow connections. It supports multiple user profiles,enabling you to read and send mail …

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My explorer.exe keeps flashing on and off. I ran combofix and this was the log: ComboFix 08-05-29.1 - Joshua 2008-06-09 11:21:50.3 - NTFSx86 Microsoft® Windows Vistaâ„¢ Home Premium 6.0.6000.0.1252.1.1033.18.2044 [GMT -4:00] Running from: C:\Users\Joshua\Desktop\ComboFix.exe * Created a new restore point . ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( Other Deletions ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) . C:\Windows\System32\FeMllnnn.ini C:\Windows\System32\FeMllnnn.ini2 C:\Windows\system32\FLTuvGgh.ini C:\Windows\System32\FLTuvGgh.ini2 …

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Hello. Im running an Acer Power1000 small form factor, well 9 of them. within a week 4 motherboards fried, just 1 month out of warranty. I happened to find a company which deals with acer parts and replaced the mboards for 150 ea. vs 500 which is what acer wanted... …

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Alright well I just reformated my hardrive and put windows xp professional on it. Previously it had home edition and the sound worked on that. My issue is no matter how many times I try to update the audio codex or drivers for some reason windows will not recognize any …

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Hi - My PC is conected to a Linksys Router, model WRT54G via ethernet cable. The Linksys is connected to a cable modem from comcast. I have [URL="http://en.allexperts.com/q/General-Networking-Lan-1049/lan-privacy.htm"]read[/URL] that my network activity is NOT safe from the other computers (one wireless, one not) on the home LAN. I don't have …

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I have had it with Vista HP, as it cannot support SQL Server at the level needed. Too bad Microsoft doesn't tell you about the problem (I found out by surfing their forums) I've purchased an XP Pro disk, but now I discover that XP cannot see my hard drive! …

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I am trying to accomplish One thing and either way I will be happy. I had a HP Laserjet with No Mac OS support and every third party drive didn't work at all. So I sold the windows only LJ and just bought a Mac OS X compatible HP LJ. …

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Hey gang I am new ans this is a quick intro on me for what it's worth. Born Scotland 2 kids married and skint. I need help. I have no money and I cant afford to update the windows 2000 system I am on one particular problem I keep getting …

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First of all, let me apologize for all the mistakes I'm making while posting my question. This is my second time to post and I'm still new at computer terminology. I don't have a website, I've never blogged and I just recently learned what a "thread" is. I guess my …

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Vista white screen on startup Ok - I installed SP1 just over a month ago and everything went well, no probs for a few days. Then I noticed that on startup at the point the welcome screen would usually fade into your desktop it faded into a plain white screen …

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hi all, I have been sharing a laptop with my cousins and I use an administrator account as they do. But my account is more sensitive as it contains most of my school works and personal projects. Plus I have saved passwords in the browser for every website I have …

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Hi all! I original posted my problem under win xp, (see below) because that was the screen I would get to before auto shutdown. I thought I had somehow lost or deleted my xp program in my last security suite scan done in safe mode? Now unfortunately I think my …

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I just got a new computer. I connected wirelessly just fine at first. I went online to try and alter things with the connection to make it go faster. After tweaking a few things, I went to use my internet. When I tried it, the pages were all unavailable. I …

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Hey All, I've been having this problem for a week now and it's driving me crazy. I work in IT, do network set-up/network administration/troubleshooting, pc repair and web design so I like to think that I know my way around computers but this has me pulling out my hair. I …

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Does anyone know how to install Python3.0a5 on a Windows Vista OS / AMD64 AthlonX2 platform? I downloaded the amd64 version of Python3.0a5 but Vista won't install it -- although it has msi. After much 'googling' of the matter, I found that many other people have similar problems with Python …

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I have a form where there is image, at the first time it displays the defualt image,when the user uploads image, the new image appears. But when the user get out from this page and get in again and upload another image the same old image is still there. Its …

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Not sure how much of this is relevant, but I'll start when the problems started. A couple of days ago, my macafee subscription ran out. I wasn't too concerned, but then IE (I'm running 7.0) would crash to a problem page (like it was disconnected) and then multiple windows with …

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Hello everyone, i seem to have a problem that i can't find the answer to and is somewhat hard to explain. It started when i needed to switch PCI-E cards between a Geforce 7900gt to a GeForce 7600gs, i did so without taking into consideration any drivers installed, as i …

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Hello, I'm trying to create a batch file that will delete & remake temporary directories, but it isn't working. There are two directories that I want to do this two, and the second one doesn't work. here is the code: @echo off rd c:\windows\TEMP /s /q md C:\windows\TEMP rd C:\Documents …

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recently i was reading a tutorial about the ole api and i think i managed to get through the whole tutorial but when i try to use some of the functions the tutorial uses like oleuninitialize then i get an error saying undefined reference i would like to know what …

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hello .. here is main.txt and extra.txt. i scaned my system because windows explorer, iexplorer and winamp errors started to appear more often then usual. and when last night i started to render image in 3dsmax (and vray), i needed to restart computer - windows has stopped and this message …

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Hi, I obtained a legitimate copy of XP Pro through University as part of Microsoft's Academic Alliance. This came as an ISO and I successfully burnt it to CD. That CD works perfectly fine. However I formatted my old P4 which has 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA HDs that …

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Im using WinXp ; When I rename a file; I get a message that tells me that I will lose the file association as it thinks i am changing the file extension also "as the file extension is listed in the name of the file". How to correct this and …

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please help! i keep getting the buffer overrun in explorer.exe error message and explorer keeps crashing. also, mozilla seems to be having huge problems on my computer and frequently pages won't load. certain websites won't work at all and sometime when i do searchs on google, it's 50-50 if it …

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