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| | I seem to have deleted my notepad or something has happened to it and as a result i cant read some text documents any ideas how i can get it back? |
| | I have a win98 system with a Futjitsu 4.3 gig and a 80 gig Seagate. I was using Ontract Dynamic drive Overlay v9.45 to be able to access the 80 gig drive. So I was having problems with the system so i re-formatted the c drive (Fitjutsi) drive and re-installed … |
| | on my other computer everytime you try to access anyhting internet related an illegal operation sign comes up and it closes...when i hooked the old dial up to it, it connected, but when i open the web browser it closes and nothing internet related can be accessed...does anyone know how … |
| | Hi, am having real trouble with graphics brightness whilst playing certain games ie Call Of Duty, during the training when asked to proceed to the firing range through a door i cannot see the door without the brightness settings in the in game video settings being turned on full, the … |
| | I recently bought a new PC running Windows XP Home edition. The first time I switched it on, Windows started fine and I was able to customise the user account as requested and then use the desktop icons to play DVDs and install my monitor driver. The next time I … |
 | i dont know why but this is the third time that on windows media player 9.i can not play avi.files i have tryed to solve this problem on this forum befor with no luck two times befor i have reinstalled windows xp pro to fix the problem not this time.i … |
| | Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum, but I was wondering if I could get a little bit of help from someone. The problem that I have is that my computer wasn't working very well a few days ago. I ran HiJackThis to see what the problem was. I didn't … |
| | After rebooting our PC (Presario 2.7 GHz Celeron running XP) this afternnon, the display came back completely sideways as if the monitor were on its side. I'm not sure if I have hardware, software, or virus problems. Any ideas? It turns out my son hit a combination of cntrl + …  |
| | I've had this problem for like the 5th time, the last 2 times being the worse. While downloading thru P2P or using Forte Agent, sometimes or should i say randomly, i will get the NT/Authorization something shutting down...u have 30 secs. After that incidence, certain programs just close down as … |
| | [font=Arial]I decide to do some 'spring cleaning.' End result is that I had to move my computer and rewire everything(such as reconnect the moniter/keyboard/mouse/etc). I start the comp the first time and its fine, but mouse didn't work and I see that its reinstalling mouse drivers(Logitech USB optical) and then … |
| | in my network neighborhood folder all my icons in there don't take me anywhere. the [I]computers near me[/I] icon doesn't work anymore. this is win2k any ideas why this happened? |
| | Hi, I have Windows 2000 Pro on a P4 2.4G with 768 megs of ram. My problem is, if I use my computer for a while and leave it on, I go to use the Add/Remove programs dialog box and nothing shows up. (Except for text at the top that … |
 | I got a dell dimension 4400 into fix and I can't get online. It was loaded with spyware. I removed it. but still could not get online doesn't even find the network. I went to a command prompt in windows and typed ping 127.0.0.1 the machine came back with this … |
| | A water drip sound plays every once and a while while the computer is in use. I do not know where it is coming from, I've checked sound preferences in control panel, as well as internet options (i see no sound prefs there). How do I get rid of it? |
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| | I was wondering, if you download something half way then cancel the download, like on kazaa or something for example, where does that saved half go to? I just randomly thought of this because I was downloading the same song from 3 sources to see which went faster, then I …  |
| | hi all i got svchost.exe error frequently.i am using win2k.so i try to reinstall the OS but in the middle of installation i got the same error and showed it fail to register com comp(Sub-component COM+ raised an exception while processing the OC_COMPLETE_INSTALLATION setup message. ..\ccompluscore.cpp (line 274) Error Code … |
| | is there a program that lets you monitor your cpu usage and memory and motherboard and eny other important processes on your computer.rite now iam using the task manager for the cpu usage but it doesnt have the others i mentioned........ |
| | how do i turn email notifications off on this forum?  |
| | where can i get desktop themes? other than the ones i have default on my system? anyone know? |
| | Ok guys I've got a question for y'all. My bro's comp has been acting really wierd lately. I think it's got a virus, but I'm not the techiest guy around so it may be something simple. Anyway, what it'll do is startup, and get through BIOS and all that. Then … |
 | A friend who has XP home wants W2K Pro installed instead. Is it possible? She has W2K disk only. If it's possible, how does one partition the drive, how large to make the OS partition, etc? She has 40gig HD. Thanx for any help. |
| | Hi Guys, sorry my first post is a question but I need your help. I went to install a USB printer for my niece that she got for Christmas , but found that although there are USB ports, she only has win98 ( not SE ) and therefore no USB … |
| | my computer recently had a virus and it said it deleted internet exlporer so i went to the microsoft website to download it. I have windows 2000 so i couldnt download microsoft 6. when i went to download 5.5 it tols me that an internet explorer application was running and …  |
| | My IBM PC kept getting this message on start up gstartup.ink not found then eventually the pc won't start at all. I tried safe boot and scan disks but the PC doesn't turn on it just continues to shut off. What happened? |
| | I have an IBM ThinkPad T22. It's a PIII 900 with 256 megs of ram running windows 2000 pro. I installed a game called Halo. I try to run it and get 2 errors one saying my 900 mhz processor isn't fast enough (thats not the error that i'm having … |
| | I have two Computers one is having Win2000 and another one is Win98. I would like to access Win2000 System from Win98 System. How it is Possible. Pls give the Solution. |
| | I've been having a problem with the icons in msn messenger. The icons show that everyone in my buddy list is logged on, but they aren't. Also, there is some black shading behind some of the icons. This began happening after I reformated my computer and installed a fresh version … |
| | i have a siemens mobile scenic 710 of 1998. A few days ago i change my harddrive (1,44 GB by 20 GB), bios only detects a drive of 8GB. when a start with MSDOS i can't reach the drive, so i cant install windows98. i only can install windows xp. … |
| | Hi There, My CPU is hitting 100% every 10 - 20 minutes for 2 - 3 minutes, not too sure what it could be. I got hit by a virus last week and have updated Windows, AV and spyware. Scanned and scanned but still nothing. Run regisrty cleaners / checkers … |
| | I have a situation where I am recieving this error: 'STOP: c0000218 (Registry File Failure) The registry cannot load the hive (file):\SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE' when booting a hard drive on one computer, but it works perfectly when the drive is attached to a different computer. I've scanned the forum and found out … |
 | Hi everyone, I have a custom built system with a 2.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 800 FSB, 512 mb DDR 400 Ram, an Abit Geforce FX 5200 128 Mb DDR and an Abit IC7-G Motherboard installed and Windows XP Professional. My problem is that when the screensaver is on or … |
 | Hi All, Do any of you know how to switch on the 'tracking tab' in the sent items folder of outlook 2002/xp. i have read receipts coming back to me but they are not being passed to the origanal message in the sent items folder, this means that when i … |
| | Would anyone be so kind advising on the rudimentary question on network design. 1) How the Win2k domain controller interfere the VPN network? We have brunches in Europe, and now we plan to singularize the European network via VPN connecion with inexpensive IPSec. (This is not the MPLS-based VPN network.) … |
| | Can anyone give me an idea of what is a good video card to buy that won't lock up my computer? I currently have an nvidia gforce mx420 and I'm begining to feel it is the culprit that is locking up my pc. I'm running winxp pro on an amd … |
| | I was downloading from a friends server and when the file was copying to my folder a virus warning popped up. [url]http://frontiernet.net/~rdjpg/virus.jpg[/url] you can see it there. When I clicked OK it said something about access denied. Then I clicked OK again and it said it had been deleted. The … |
| | Hi ppls, Having recently upgraded 2 of our workstations from Win2k to WinXP we have noticed a rather anoying trait of the WinXP Explorer: The nav tree of folders (Explorer panel displaying folders) flickers/refreshes very frequently with disk activity. The flickering appears to be associated with each file save, copy … |
| | need some help. boss is rushing me to complete a script - i am struggling where do i start? under lot of pressure here. thanks, i feel this must not be that difficult i'm given tab-delimited file w 2 cols: aaa d 014 bbb e015 bbb e 016 ccc e016 … |
| | Well, I'm tired of pulling my hair out! Here it is ...I've performed the recover system to correct some problems, which work out fine..but after that..when I click on the "My Documents" icon I get the following .... "c:\documents and settings\owner\my documents is not accessible...access denied. I've never put any … |
| | you know when u press ctrl+alt+delete on windows XP and it bring up the menu with applications, processes, etc. well i always close all programs running for me and other usernames, but i never touched the ones under SYSTEM. im concerned now tho because some of them look like they … |
| | hi all nice forum he is my problem im running winxp-pro on a network evertime i start my comp it loads up but i cant access anything untill at least a couple of mins then they load up as normal...i did a limination of services by unchecking everything thats in … |
| | Xp IE user woes can or could have been prevented by running/browsing IE on a Limited account. [b]Definition:[/b] [b]Limited account[/b]: [i]Assigning limited user accounts is an effective way to prevent inexperienced or unauthorized users from changing computer settings or deleting important files.[/i] [b]Resource:[url]http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/gettingstarted/sharing/default.asp[/url][/b] This means Viruses,Trojans,Spyware,Addware,Backware,malicious scripts,malicious Codes ect........ [b]comment … |
| | I've got this file called Badframes.stt sitting in a folder of mine and I was wondering where it might of come from, and can I delete it? I read that it has something to do with graphics and 3d polygonal junk. It just showed up one day, but I can't … |
| | My friends computer is messed up. Everything is real gigantic... and you cannot open anything.. I thought to change the screen resolution but you can do that cuz you cant find it. whats wrong? |
| | Hi! I am running windows 2000 and seem to be having some fairly common problems. I get the GStartup error, random restarts, freezing, and just lots of program errors. I was wondering if somebody could take a look at my log and tell me if i can fix it. also, … |
| | Have recently put in winxp pro - it cannot display html files IN internet explorer it show a blank page at web sights but if I go to veiw source the source for the html is there --- any ideas |
| | when ever i go into my downloads folder my computers hard drive spins up to full speed from just opening the folder even when i havent clicked on anything else in the folder. the computer just sits there using max cpu usage for no reason then the only way to … |
| | Hi Hope someone might have had this problem before. My XP install refused to boot (including safe mode) or repair. I installed a new (additional) hd and reinstalled XP (professional) on that drive. Boot off of new drive Log in as administrator Access old (XP corrupt) drive. No problem I … |
| | [center][i]Running Windows XP Home AMD Athlon XP 2200+ ATI Radeon 9600 PRO 1 gig pos ram but works. MSI Mobo.[/i][/center] [center][i]Maxtor Hard drive X 2, 1 40gig one 20 gig Mouse Keyboard yeah im cool... ATX kase, Koolance, PC2 or what ever... [/i][/center] Hi, I have 2 hard drives, one … |
| | [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Create a Desktop Shortcut that Locks a Windows XP-Based Workstation[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]This step-by-step article describes how to create a desktop shortcut that you can use to lock a Windows XP-Based Workstation. To take full advantage of user authentication as a means of network access control, you must be sure that only … |
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