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Hi, I have a weird problem. So, i turn on my laptop and am connected to the wireless internet. However, after some time (very random - ranging from a few minutes to hours), the internet suddenly switches off and I am unable to browse anything on the net. The windows …

Hello! I was wondering how I can access another computer from my desktop. My parents often have computer trouble, and instead of telling them what to do and where to go over the phone, I'd much rather just show them. I'd prefer if there was no software to download. Any …

hello, can you help me or advise me if i am doing the right thing...i edited the boot.ini in msconfig,in order to boot faster that's what i know.. i change the timeout=30 to timeout=0 am i doing safe?please help me hoping for your positive responds...thank you in advance

All of a sudden three or four days ago I got ready to watch a DVD on my PC and I had no sound. I have checked everything even reinstalled both DVD drives and nothing. I saw a little while ago that some other have had the same problem and …

I just reinstalled windows XP Home on my old laptop, and for some reason I can't access the internet-through LAN or wireless. Before I reinstalled the OS I could access the internet just fine, so is there maybe some driver I'm missing?

I have a SD card with Files that got changed somehow from MP4 to JPEG...I have tried altering the suffix and it seems like they wont play. Does anyone know of any FREE program or way to correct this so I dont lose my movies?

my app needs to be run as admin, but a link to my app is in startup. when Windows 7 starts my app doesn't work! what should I do?

Hi I am new to the forum...I just installed Windows Vista and it show the volume icon and says: " No audio output device is installed"....I have a dell dimension 8400 computer....is there is someway to fix this please help me, it would be very sad to have to change …

I have had this computer for a few years. Problem started about 2 years ago. While playing games such as Dawn of War:Dark Crusade the computer randomly stalls for a few seconds every few seconds. The sound stops and stutters while stalling. I am inexperienced with computers and have read …

Hello Well... i have here a complicated case. I bought myself at the beginning of the schoolyear a new laptop. Then i upgraded it to windows 7. at some point, my father wanted to make some setting in the computer. He made himself an admin account, made my account into …

Hi i was shutting down my windows vista on my hp laptop . Vista wouldn't shut down till a program would end so i plugged the power supply . Now when i turn on my laptop all that will appear is a blank black screen any suggestions how to over …

my machine keeps shutting down just after i turn on it is not even booting windows and it also looks like there may be a fault with graphics card i cannot get it to stay on long enough to do any diagnostics

I am running W7 Ultimate 32 bit. I have been using Chrome as my browser of choice until an update resulted in it coming up with the message 'Google Chrome has stopped working'. According to Google they are working on a solution to this, as the error message alone isn't …

I am currently having a problem with my inernet explorer. My computer says I have an internet connection yet whenever i use internet explorer or firefox the pages just keep loading and loading or more common than not, I get a "Page cannot be displayed" dialogue. I am currently running …

Hi, I have installed Windows XP SP3 and the latest Ubuntu 10.04 on a 320 GB HD as a dual boot system. I have made a 125 GB partition for windows and left the rest for linux. When I boot the OSes, linux works fine, but windows takes a very …

Ok... so I am running a Hp Pavillion 512c. I plan to get better ram for it so I can run what I want/need. The thing of the matter is it is all hand me downs. I will be getting a 40G HD and a 60G, one is nearly full …

I have a final almost finished database for one of my school courses yet when I went to open it this morning it wouldn't work! Is there a free tool that anyone knows to recover a "corrupt" .mdb access file? Any help would be appreciated! -Bryansworld

Memory Usage Goes Up Gradually (Memory Leak) When I starting the Windows (in the first few hours) everything is normal But after 1 day or 2 (sooner or later) the amount of available memory gradually goes down and the physical memory usage increasing. This increasing, continues until the memory usage …

I had both Mp4 and Jpeg files on a Scan disk. This was mixed with both type of files. Today I went to burn the MP4 to DVD and the disk is ALL JPEG..? How could this happen, I dont think I clicked on anything to do this , is …

purchased latest flash player, it downloads fine but when I try to install it, I get a "this site is blocked by the administrator". I bought and am sole owner of this computer and never knowingly blocked this or any other program from loading. How do I remove this block …

Hi in my win xp when i open a window there is no menu bar and button bar !!! there is no any place to right click on it to add thats to windows !!! how can do this ??? thanks

I happened to find this way on google. And hope to share with you. Please reply me if you have any other ways. The software I'm using is called flv downloader. It is a freeware. Install and start the downloader. You needn't get the url when downloading the vid. Press …

Hi, I'm having a little problem with IE7. I'm entering data for my work on a netbook but I get an error message saying that "Class doesn't support automation". I've tried reinstalling IE7 but that doesn't fix the problem. It works on other computers, but not the netbook I'm using. …

I am using windows7(authentic version) but facing problem in booting the system!my system is going slow day by day! The reason may be avg anti virus or probably some other problem which I am not able to trace out! I work on multiple applications at a time so a speedy …

I have unplugged everything from my computer except for my monitor, mouse, and keyboard. I still get the blue screen saying bad pool caller. I tried to reinstall windows xp, but when I get to the screen asking me to install or recover windows xp my keyboard stops working (I …

Not sure where to post so I guess I will post here. I have Yahoo! IM, and for some reason I Can not voice chat at all. This even happens when I try and go into the website and chat there. It suggests that I get out from behind my …

Since downloading Windows SP2 I decided to delete it to see if it would help and it didn't. I have also downloaded Norton Internet Security 2006 and it is still up and running. Before doing this I had quite alot of free space left on my hard drive, now I …

Hello everyone, I have reformatted numerous computers in my life but have ran into an error that my experience (or lack there of) cannot fix. I have an Acer 5100 which had Vista on it. I have reformatted the HD (actually have tried two HD's) and have attempted to install …

hello can you please help me what should be the first boot device or the primary because i am going to reformat my P.C..hoping for your positive responds..thank you in advance...

Guys, Please tell me which are the best DVD converter and rippers available in the market? Share your views. Thanks,

I have MS Office Pro on a work computer that we just tasked to a new job that requires MS Access. All of the other programs in MS Office open and work fine, but when I try to open Access (either by clicking directly on a file or by just …

It has been more than a year since I went on that account, I just realized that I can't remember the pdf password.

I have a PO form that I have created in Excel. It is set up as a template, and I would like to have a macro assign a sequentional number to the PO's as they are written. Does anyone know how to help me with this? Thank you, Tracy

When I press the start button the green light shows the computer powes on however the HD indicator light won't gon on and the computer would not boot. I have to keep the switch pressed for a few seconds to turn it off. After I repeat the procedure two or …

Hi whene i try to run cmd as administrator (Run as administrator) this message shown : access denide you dont have permision to ... how can i do this ??? thanks

First off hello. Ok I recently decided to downgrade from vista to xp. But the only xp OS resource that I had available was an .iso after countless hours I found a decent ISO image burner and was able to burn the image to cd. But for reason I can't …

Does any body knows that why i am facing problem in my Window 7? I have installed WINDOW 7 few weeks back and since than i have reinstalled it three time.. Does any one know how can i secure my window 7 from viruses? Thanks in advance!

I've been working on my kids computer for months now, off and on, thanks to a classic case of good intions going VERY bad. Their computer WAS working just fine until I decided that since I was upgrading the soundcard on my Dell, that it was only fair I give …

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I have a new Dell Studio 15 laptop with Windows 7 Pro and a 500GB hard drive. I want create new partitions for storing my data. Currently, the size of the C: partition is 461,899 MB, of which 36,250 MB is used. That leaves 425,649 MB free. But when I …

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I have a Win 7 64 bit machine that has Outlook 2007 on it. The Outlook is standalone there is no Exchange Server. When we moved from our old XP computer to the new computer we moved over the 2 Outlook PST files as well as the .NK2 files. I …

Hi, ive recently been asked to wipe a friends computer and have done so with no probs until i noticed that the ethernet controller driver isnt backed up on disk anywhere and now i need to download it from somewhere, the driver i need is for an Intel(R) FW82801EB Ethernet …

as soon as i switch on the ups the cpu gave a continuous sounds any suggestion plz

When I turn my hp pavilion a805n on, it makes a strange, load noise; as if it was on way to long and is overheated. When it turns on, it bumbs me to the screen saying "Safe Mode", "Start Windows Normally", etc. Whitchever one I choose, the computer shuts down. …

Hey guys, me has a little problem with this wonderful new operating system..It basically randomely freezes every few minutes for 30seconds or so. Doesn't matter if i'm browsing net, playing a game or whatever. At first I thought it was the mouse but I think it's explorer freezing. I can't …

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 …