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my operating system is windows xp professional version 2002, it is custom built, last few programs installed are virtual dj. my problem started about a couple weeks ago i wanted to burn a cd and then i realize that i could the program nero did not recognize the cd that …

*You can probably find different methods of doing this somewhere online, but this is the way that has always worked for me* *NOTE: This hack might not work 100% all the time, i'm not exactly sure why, but I know that after you re-start having installed a program that puts …

Hi Can anyone help please I have recently installed a new HD, setup XP Pro SP2 and all seemed to be working well. Recently when I plugged in my USB Memory Sticks, the stick shows up in my Computer, (will not autoplay) but when I doulbe click to open it, …

Hi All, I have recently formatted my HDD and proceeded to re-install Windows XP Home with the suppliers recover discs. Everything seemed to be progressing correctly untill i was told to press any key to restart after the installation was complete. When the pc restarted it got as far as …

Hello, I don't know how exactly to explain this but usually menu bars in programs have on underline letter which you can use with Alt key to choose it. For example in almost all programs you can use Alt+F to open File menu. However in some programs you cannot see …

Hey everyone, I'm new to posting forums, so please bear with me. I don't know what info I need to put down and all that. I have Windows XP Professional Edition, and I think something got onto my computer yesterday. It keeps changing, though so I couldn't really get help …

Hi, whenever I open up a video file in WMP 10 it is zoomed in and crops part of the video off. Any suggestions?

Hey guys. Im trying to format/reinstall XP pro and when i attempt to reinstall the computer finds no Hard Disk Drives, where i have 2 (only 1 is powered atm though). I have downloaded the Seagate Disc Wizard (i have a Seagate Barracuda 120 gig) and made the floppys i …

I just purchased a Seagate 200gb hard drive. I am trying to install windows xp. I am receiving the following error message: kernel_data_inpage-error. It goes on to read: stop: 0x0000007A (0xe124f3f4,0xc000000e, 0xbf8ed7dd, 0x0c01d860 win32k.sys- address bf8ed7dd base at bf8000000, date stamp 3b7de698. Does anyone know what this means? Please HELP …

i have windows me, i want to upgrade to xp, my computer is 6 years old, i have 256mb ram that i just upgraded, everything else is old, do i need a new processor or graphics card or anything?

Can someone please tell me how to get rid of those irritating desktop pop-up balloons on XP. I reinstalled a few months back and forgot how to 86 them. Thanks

I have been getting blue screen errors for a couple of days now. The technical information i got from one of them was Stop:0x000000F4 (0x00000003, 0x820EA2f0, 0x820EA464, 0x80604450), I think thats the right one... anyway any help on how to stop these would be much appreciated. Oh and im running …

Hi, Can any one help? My IE is so slow I first noticed when browsing ebay, I noticed that the picture action was canceled too. I had good conection speed with all other sites except ebay, Then the Next day all browsing was so slow but my download speed was …

I am using a pentium 4 2.66ghz processor, windows XP professional, 512mb ram 80 gig hard drive etc........... I am using nero 6 to burn a movie file to my dvd rewriter. As soon as I have added the file and click burn (although nero 6 will transcode the file …

When Windows need to download a activeX file, I dont get the download (tab line never shows). Do anyone know why and what I can do to fix this? I have SP2 and must have messed up some security settings.

Hi, I connect to the internet at home via a modem. When i log in to my account (UCLA is my ISP), the screen immediately goes blue with a messsage saying the system is doing a memory dump. I don't have the exact error msg with me (for which i …

hello all, hope someone can help me, i cannot install windows xp updates, downloading is ok but nothing happens when trying to install, i have windows xp pro, i have norton internet security 2005 loaded and i have tried turning off firewall but nothing.

This is the legacy section but there isnt an area so ok. Does anyone here know how to network windows 3.1?

Ok, I have an external Hard Drive, I already format it and I have some files in it, I want to divide the Hard Drive into two different partitions, can I do it without losing any of the data I have in it? and also what happens if I select …

I have an HP Pavilon ze5200, and I wanted to know what happens if I press the 'reset' button that is under the Computer.

I passed exam 290 today with 925. Exam wasn't so hard. I have prepared several weeks and I expect more difficult simulations... Yes... simulations were very simple (I have 4 on exam). Rest of questions cover all topics (I above average questions from auditing, backup and permissions). This is a …

i've got two different games that i bought for my previous computer (win 98SE) that when installed on my new computer (win XP Home) will just not play. they install O.K. but when i go to play them the cursor goes to hourglass, and then nothing, no error messages or …

Hi there. I'm the super newbie aroud here. I have a problem when I try to download anything from th net. The download starts but only goes to about 4% then shows it is complete, but when you try and open it it says incomplete or corrupt. I've tried uninstalling …

I have an HP Pavilon ze5200, I've had it for 2 years, and about 2 or 3 months ago my cd/dvd driver disappeared, I open My Computer and it doesn't show the driver, I tried putting the recovery cd and restarting the computer but it doesn't do anything, does anyone …

Hello, This morning, I turned on my computer, only to have it stop booting before it got to the Windows logo. It then gave me the message: windows cannot start because the following file is mssing or corrupt <windows root>/system32/hal.dll. I then did "ctrl+alt+del" to restart and received the message …

I'm using IE6, FireFox. After deleting some cookies and cache, my broadband connection will auctomatically cause my PC to shutdown after disconnecting. The most is that I can connect and disconnect to the web for 2 times after which the "Networking PC" icon will automatically disappear from the taskbar and …

I had a registry issue with a game client i was using, aparently by installing 2 different clients of the same game i messed a bit up where i could not log either, so this resulted in reformatting. however after i reformatted, i kept getting the message stating the file …

i posted a thread about my dell laptop, p-3 . model 8000, with windows 2000 pro. decided to put xp for the looks in it. ral the program, half way it s,,,topped and said cannot go on sys/32 confg/ missing or corrupted. so i tried again, and again. no luck. …

hi i cant use ctrl+alt+del on my pc, when i press them nothing happens. why is that? thnx

Hi speed cable connection. I can surf the internet in safe mode with networking but unable to surf the Net in regular desktop. OS-> XP Pro. Uninstalled SP2. No go. No other firewalls. NAV 2003. Performed MSCONFIG. No go. Antispyware scan with MS Antispyware says "No spyware found". Please help. …

I am getting this error whem my computer boots: "Hardware Monitor Found an Error. Enter power setup menu for details". When I go to power setup I don't see anything wrong. If I press F1 to go ahead with the bootup. The computer will work but it will go extremely …

When I use any video program Iam unble to save the finished audio and video together. I can save audio on it's own or video on it's own. Used to be able to but then BAM! nothing. :cry: Using XP Home on HP desktop Hope someone can help. Peter

I think I caught a virus which won't allow my control panel to open. I've run a McAfee virus scan 3X, but it doesn't detect anything. But, yesterday it identified a Trojan which wouldn't allow me to delete or quarantine it. I've been working on this all day, I even …

This is my first post...hope I'm in the right place. I am trying to network 2 lousy PCs. One is WINME the other XPPRO. I have internet cnxs on both, but I cannot see the shared printer and folders from either machine. I have file and print sharing enabled and …

hey guys, i have IIS running on a couple servers at my company, one hosting our companies website and the other hosting a web portal for outside clients. now we also bought a domain name for our web portal which i guess automatically comes with a public IP. we have …

I'm obviously overlooking something, but don't know what. The system is an ASUS KM2M Combo series with 1.7 GHz processor, built-in audio and video. The operating system is Win2000 pro and there's 256 megs of RAM on board. I know the speakers work, 'cause I can here them when I …

For those of you who have ever had a problem with this, there is a simple solution... You need to re-register Jscript.dll and Vbscript.dll Its very simple-- Click Start, and then click Run--In the open box, type regsvr32 jscript.dll, and then click OK. --Click Start, and then click Run again …

Hi, Just recently, I've had trouble with webpages not loading correctly. Some will not load at all, for example when I do a google search, a large percentage do not open. Others, like Yahoo.com, load with no background or pictures. The same problem occurs in both Firefox and IE. I …

I have a Dell laptop. Wirless connection through a router which is connected to cable. The connection worked fine until a few days ago and now when I click on IE it says cannot connect...webpage not aviable. My connection tab for my wireless connection is fine. But I CANNOT access …

Hi, I have a little brother who I want to connect to our wireless broadband internet connection. I would like to know if it could be possible to restrict access so he can not use any browser except for aol (so i can set parental controls and to see what …

have a Dell laptop. Wirless connection through a router which is connected to cable. The connection worked fine until a few days ago and now when I click on IE it says cannot connect...webpage not aviable. My connection tab for my wireless connection is fine. But I CANNOT access the …

I have a 2002 Windows XP. Whenever I shut it down, it immediatley starts back up. It used to do this once in a while, but it happens all the time now.. Can I get some help? =|

My system was working fine until three days back, it started giving me problems.... Configuration is: P4 1.7GHz Windows XP Professional Harddisks 200GB(Primary) and 80GB(Slave) are being used Mercury Motherboard Drives Present: C,E,F on Primary and D,G,H on Slave Whenever i start my computer, it takes a long time and …

[B]How to enable remote assistance in 2000 prof?i want to conncet from 2003 server give me clear answer .[/B] :cry: thanking u Gunasekhar

I have one account on my new computer, which is currently labeled "Best Buy". I want to rename this to "Kamex", including the folder in Documents and Settings. I thought I'd ask how to do this to be sure because I can't afford to reformat it. Can anyone provide instructions …

hi previously, windows media player works fine for me.but recently, it starts to become weird.i hav installed asian language pack for my windows xp.but wen i play a chinese song in wmp, in the "now playing" window, it cant display chinese chars.i hav attached a screenshot. anyone havin any idea …

Hello Recently my pc has started to freeze randomly. But i noticed after the first 20 times that it tend to crash when im running some other programs( microsoft antispyware, adAware, winrar) while im surfing the net, regardless which browser(firefox, ie, netscape) i use it freezes for a couple of …

This problem is driving me crazy. i know there's something out there for a winamp-like window-snap effect. Example: bring one window border to the side of the screen or the border of another window, and in the last ten pixles, they will 'snap' together for just a 'whoa, cool' factor …

After upgrading from 2000 Pro to XP Pro, it's random, but every 2nd or 3rd boot or so results in a black screen when starting Windows. The BIOS appears and everything, but once it starts Windows it's Black. I can hear the Windows StartUp Sounds, but no display at all. …

Hello all, Well, I've had similar problems like this in the past, but now this is the worst. It started with The Sims 2. It played fine for a while, but then it started to get holes in the pixels, and after about 15 minutes, the game would freeze up …