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I have just been upgrading my PC during this process I accidently erased one of my drives containing my shared folders containing mp3's Karaoke files and zip and other files that I had collected to shareusing the western digital lifeguard 11.2 software. I used File scavenger 3 to recover what …

we can not view our website, but we can connect to any other site on the web. I'm pretty sure the problem is DNS, but i'm not sure how to fix it. Our website is [I]ourcompany[/I].com and the domain is the same. What information do I need to fix this? …

I needed to rebuild my wife's computer (Bad hard drive). I managed to get her bookmarks exported, and off the machine. When I reloaded the machine, and imported the bookmarks, what I got was screwy. Many of the bookmarks are missing (but none of the folders are missing). Many of …

All I'm new to these forum seeking help. The below start's with Aplus.net's (hosting company) reply to my emails. Our dedicated server down some 8 hours they knew it didn't come back up and failed to contact us... it's all in the emails (most recent at the top.) What can …

Hi, I'm new here. I am having a MAJOR issue! I normally use SBC Yahoo DSL at my home, with a normal DSL modem connected to my Dell laptop. My laptop came with a wireless card already installed, however, so that I may use it away from home in hotels. …

Hey guys, we have a computer that won't stay turned off for more than 5-10 minutes. I'm going to try disabling the WOL, but just figured I would check for other suggestions. Thanks!

When I start windows in regular or safe mode I get "explorer has caused and invalid page error in module browseui.dll", and that's as far as it goes. I've re-installed windows and got to the point where it was basically working but then all of the sudden it goes back. …

We're having an issue here with installing new programs. I set everyone us with very limited changes to the default gp and applied it to the group. Noone can install programs now... The only policy change I set that I can think of that might have affected this is a …

I am using Mozella Thunderbird and would like to send an e-mail with the picture showing up with the mail just as I had composed it by adding the picture to the letter itself using Insert as opposed to using Attachment. Right now the incoming letter always shows the photo …

Hi, I desperately need some help... I have a brandnew pc, with Windows XP home edition. I restored my backup of user data on a second drive (which I made "My Documents"). Ownership is fine and states my user id on all files. Now, when I MOVE a file from …

I'm running XP with a Creative Soundblaster Live. It was working fine until a few days ago. Now I only get sound from the left speaker. I have run the Creative diagnostics and tested both speakers and they work OK. If I play a CD with Windows Media Player, I …

I didn't see the drivers for windows 95 in the website. Is the device combatable for windows 95? Can i use the same windows 98 driver for windows 95? Do you have any suggesstion??? Ajai

hi, when i try to install windows vista beta 2 64bit on a 80 gig harddrive, i get a message about a missing CD/DVD driver, i cannot by pass that, could someone please help me? here's the cpu and mobo that i'm using, please help :'( AMD Athlon 64 3800+ …

Hi: I'm working on a Dell Inspiron 500m Laptop running Windows XP. The machine suddenly crashed (I was programming but nothing related to the OS) and now it won't reboot. It runs through the Dell bios startup and then goes to a black screen. I've attempted to boot from the …

[B][I]I'm fairly new to this site, but I'm hoping that someone can help me out with this computer issue:[/I][/B] [B] [COLOR=Red]1)[/COLOR] [/B]My system32 folder pops up (or used to until the folders stopped showing all together) [B][COLOR=Red]2)[/COLOR][/B] Everytime I click on My Documents/My Computer or whatever else is related to …

Hey can any one tell me how can i format the drive containing the win xp , bcasue u cannot go in pure DOS mode , and in the safe mode cmd promt it says 'some files r used, cannnot format.... 'what 2 do ?? -sandeep

I have recently started having problems were I suddenly am presented with a blue screen your computer has encountered an error and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage ... It usually says something to the effect of uninstall new software or hardware, I have not installed any new …

I got the Blue Error Screen with the 0X000000C error

I have Windows xp pro and 98 installed on one hard drive and linux on another drive. My windows 98 works fine but xp does not boot.Screen just blanks out after the Windows xp screen showing the blue moving bar. [B] But xp loads in safe mode[/B].Similarly linux also blanks …

hello, I have a problem with my Mouse. The problem i am having is that whenever i start my PC (which is running on Windows Xp home editiion), my mouse won't move. What i have to do in order get the the mouse to move for me again is to …

My Compaq Presario 700 laptop had a heat dispersal issue. It started to overheat and it shut itself down. I cracked it open and put a dab of heat sink compound right smack on the center piece of the Chip. I had done this on all my desktop units, I …

Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop with Windows XT. I was attempting to bring up Task Manager to show my wife how to deal with non-responding programs; my finger slipped off one of the keys (control, alternate or delete) and hit some other key or combination of keys on the bottom row. …

Is it possible to have the systme restore routine automatically create restore points at different times than the default, or automaticly at set times?

Ever since my HDD crashed and I got a new one and installed Win XP PRO SP2 back on it, every time I double click on a folder a new window pops up. If I have a lot of folders to go thru to get where I want to go, …

cannot get into windows at all keeps logging me out...HELP

I have a cable modem w/a Linksys wireless router and I'm not sure what the problem is. I have no problem connecting wirelessly through my laptop, but my PC won't connect at all. It started giving my problems connecting whenever it felt like and even when I was able to …

Hi, Windows98;IE6;CD;CDRW File System Typical Role is set to Cacheman Optimization. If I go to System Properties\Performance\File System\CD-ROM I get the message;- rundll32 an error has occurred in your program, plus the usual close, ignore etc. In 'Details' it says 'RUNDLL32 caused a divide error in module SYSDM.CPL' I reloaded …

My computer freezes for 2-10 seconds and then goes back to normal. It's happened ever since I got it. It will completely freeze whatever I'm doing; this is extremely annoying in games or on the web. I really need a solution to this but I can't get a new hard …

A while back I tried to install Windows XP on my computer. I was not able to because Windows 98 was already installed. Since then I changed my mind and continued using Windows 98. Now, because I started the install of XP I have this error message whenever the computer …

I still have one computer that has Win98 OS. The video card is a Diamond Viper V550. When I open the display properties box then click on the " advanced " tab, it opens another box called " Diamond Viper for Windows 98 Properties Box ". Then clicking on the …

Hello all, I've been trying to figure this one out for a while to no avail. I have disabled the "Auto-restart." I've also tried to recreate the problem, to see if it was a specific program or driver, but that also has lead to nothing. It happens are various times, …

Im not sure if this an office problem but I am having some trouble with my quotation marks. When I use the this symbol " it doesnt appear until the next character is typed. As I said above I am not sure if this is an office thing but just …

I just recently re-installed Windows XP Pro on a friends computer after she was bombarded with more than 400 parasites. Before I did the re-install I went through her system and removed as many of the parasites I was able to and it turned out that most of ehr data …

I've got an ASUS motherboard that tells me during boot up there's no BIOS installed. However, the CMOS says there's a BIOS version installed on the board. I downloaded that BIOS version from ASUS's website and flashed it. Flashing did nothing. Any suggestions on how to solve this problem?

Basically, I hooked up a new Western Digital EIDE 160 gig hard drive(WD Caviar SE - 7200 RPM, if that matters at all) I put the disk into the CD drive that includes software to help partition the hard drive and such, and it works fine. I restart the computer, …

I tryed to change my homepage from google but eveytime i do it goes back to google again. And i have been clicking apply btw. It also won't change to blank or defult. Help !

A. I cant run word or excel cause it's asking me for some file to install from the cd, i put the cd in and it says something like invalid key. B. I try to upgrade to Office 2003 and bypass that file, i do both upgrade and full install …

I have Avance AC97 Audio on my Xp system. Lost sound so I went into Device Manager and there is this message: Device Status: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (code 39) I clicked on troubleshoot and got this error: …

I recently subscribed dsl for my lap top which i had to get a pci card to work wireless. Than i got a blood hound virus which i got rid of by an antivirus, then i found that my computer had several trojan viruses which as per the anti virus …

Actually, I have two problems. The title pretty much explains the first one. I installed scanner software from the disc itself instead of using the new hardware wizard (Windows xp home edition, if it matters) on my new HP. Now every time I start the computer, I get the 'found …

Hi Folks... I was just wondering if this capability was available in Windows 2000.?? Under Windows XP, I just have to do the following: Right Mouse Button on Task Bar Click on Properties Select Task Bar Tab Select Customise for the "Hide Inactive Icons" option Then I am able to …

My OS is Win2000 Pro and here are the problems I'm having: 1. I had several trojans/viruses that I now cleaned up, but most of the files for the system "Administrative Tools" are missing. So I can't configure any programs such as my firewall options. Is there a way I …

i have a program on windows me called Ez cd creater, its a way to burn your music cd for a copy of that. when you go to burn it after the cd is copied there is no files that show the cd's music file on it, in other words …

I have a Sony VAIO laptop, about 2-3 yrs old, with Winddows 2000 Professional on it. Last night, i started it up and it booted fine. Now this afternoon, i go to turn it on, and it does absolutely nothing. When i start it and let it *try* to boot, …

Hello all, I am wondering if anyone has ever found a way to put a "Force Logoff" button onto the "Locked Workstation" window. Presently, I have a network with W2k3 dom ctlrs, and 100% WinXP wkstns. We have a GPO in place so that all computers go to screensaver (locked …

I have a problem with my SBC Yahoo DSL browser. When I am using the browser and click under "file" and click "open a new window" a small narrow window opens on the right side of my screen, running from top to bottom of the screen, but only open about …

Hi All, am really needing help as having big probs. I cannot access secure sites, I had been onto my IP which is AOL and they suggested a few things, which I tried, like checking security settings and parental controls, etc, but that did not help. Then the aol guy …

my system becomes infected with viruses and spyware once too often. so i run anti-malware tools at night. however, i am not able to find any way of confirming that the tool ran overnight succesfully and eradicated everything it found. is there any way to store that information somewhere so …

Gosh today has been horrible.... I'm getting ready to leave work and here's what happened: I was backing up my supervisor's Outlook data and after that finished the laptop became very slow. I tried to open AutoCad to determine if our licenses were still working because I had ran into …

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