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It's a long line of frustration and just when I've about got it licked, this. First, the "about blank" hijack thing forces me to opt for a Windows 98 reinstall. (Understand that, for the most part, I have no idea what I'm doing and am relying on forums like this …

I recently tried to go to oldnavy.com and accidently hit reject cookies instead of accept cookies when prompted by my McAfee security pop up. I have tried everything possible to fix this since I can not go to anything on this website now. What do I do?

I messed up my harddrive suing partiton magic just recently, I went in and put in a new harddrive as my master and installed windows xp home on it. Now i have it running, but it doesnt see my harddrive that was messed up, and it also takes about 10 …

I had windows xp and then I clean installed windows 2000 booting from the cd. Now when I start windows xp it says failed to load windows ... now my cd isnt running properly ... is there any way that I can repair windows xp without my cd. Should I …

My friend is having a weird problem with her Internet Explorer. Whenever she browses to any page, the page loads quickly but she is unable to do anything with it for about 30-45 seconds. She can't scroll down, and she can't even select a text box. There is no problem …

Hello I was searching the web when one day the houses power went out for a few minutes. I Restarted my computer and then tried to sign on. It said page cannot be found, so, I turned off the modem and let it cool down and still nothing happend. I …

Im new to the community and I hope I can fit in o-kay. Internet Exporer wont let me download anything. It starts downloading and about half way through it gives me a message that it cant download it because it cant locate the files or the files are unavailable. I …

I have a DSL 504G (4 port switch and router/ADSL Modem) connected to 2 PCs at home. they both run winxp sp2, and accessing the internet is fine on both. just about everything is possible, EXCEPT playing 2 games which i enjoy very much: warcraft 3 and starcraft. everything else …

Hi, I have been getting this msg on boot up of my pc. I have XP Pro. It does take a while (2 minutes or so but does boot up). I had run Spybot S&D, AdWare and I do use Zone Alarm. I ran Panda and McAfee online virus checks …

I got 2/3 through an installation of windows 98 and i recieved an error "You started your computer with a version of MS-DOS inompatible with this version of Windows. Insert a Startup diskette matching this version of windows and then restart. The system has been halted. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart …

Scan disk restarts 10 times, due to some program writing to the hard drive, i have ran scan disk with tool bar turned off and with only exploror and systray running. and i still get this error message, i ran many virus scans and no viruses, then i ran scan …

I recently installed the language packs...if you don't know what I mean, right click this page and pick "encoding", then go to "More", and attempt to click "Simplified Chinese" or something of the sort. It should prompt you to download/install language packs to view the font. (This might not work …

Hi, Pls help. MSExcel files dont show separately in the task bar. When nmultiple files are stored they are clubbed up in the task bar(as in ofiice-xp) . I am using Office 2000. Thanks in advance. Jacob

Hi All, I hope you can assist. We have a computer (AMD Sempron 2200 with 80GB HDD and 512MB RAM) running Windows XP Pro and Office 2003. It is connected to a Windows Small Business Server 2003 domain. Everything appears to work fine except for the Database Documenter in MS …

i setup my IIS to allow ppl can use ftp their website by ftp.domainame.com to manage their site but here come the problem the users cant login to their site now (used to be good, but not anymore -_-||| ) log event is user *** failed to logon, could not …

When I get a program that is expose to open with cmd it will come up then disappear before I have a change to do anything.

Hello, I am running Windows 98 and I have a DSL connection. I currently use Internet Explorer as my browser. Question: What in the world can I do in order to have a Login page be displayed (or something) when I click on my Desktop Internet Explorer Icon? As it …

I want to format my machine and load Windows 98. Windows 98 is dumped in my computer in D:/. I also have a network with other machines. Can any one guide me how to do this. I have OS : Windows 98 Lan Card Sound Card Floppy Drive I don't …

I am planning on setting up a ftp server for personal use on a second computer that has Win XP on it. What is the best and most secure way of setting up a FTP server? Like i siad before it is just for personal use. No more than 1 …

When I start my firefox it lags like hell for about 5 minutes during which I can't do anyting. After that 5 minutes i can browse the page and use the browser then after loading a new page it lags again. I tried uninstall firefox and reinstalling and now I …

Disable/enable property for LAN connection, in Network and Dial-up Connections, for limited account is gray (dim). How do I enable it for limited account? TY

Please help! Have recently installed windows XP on a 4 your old Packard Bell imedia PC. (upgrade on Windows me) the mouse and Keyboard are connected via usb ports and in the main don't work so can not access pc at all!

Hey everyone this is my first post and unfortunatly its about me needing help. I am currently running Windows XP home edition version 2002 service pack 1, with intel pentium 4 cpu at 1.6GHz and 512 MB of ram. After installing a new driver for my keyboard the system would …

[i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Obtain Remote Assistance by Sending an E-mail Message in Windows XP [/color][/size][/font][size=2][font=Arial][color=#000000]This article describes how to obtain help by using the Remote Assistance feature in Microsoft Windows XP. Remote Assistance allows a remote connection to …

I have Norton system works. I am sure you know what it all contains. Is there a better product out there than windoctor. I am looking for a good registry fixer or something of the sort. I found a couple article about one called 1 Click fixer plus. It has …

I am trying to install diskeeper 9. I receive a message from the program which says that "system services could not start, check to see you have privileges to start system services" I am logged on my computer as an administrator. Does anyone know how to check to see if …

Ok, so I reinstalled last night using the Compaq QuickRestore CD that came with the machine (my computer was barely usable last night). For some reason, it seems to have just installed a bare-bones Wndows XP, instead of loading it with all the Compaq bundled software. This is fine, and …

SOME ONE PLEASE HELP ME FIND A MISSING FILE??? I have a compaQ windows 98 year 1999 or 2000?? My problem started when I downloaded My Web cam from Logitech and got an Error after restarting my computer win..98 cant run atl71.dll need ANSI version So I went to their …

Whenever I try to paste something in a message (either from right mouse button or the menu paste) when I'm using Firefox, I get an error message from: [Javascript application] you need to edit your Mozilla config file to allow this action. I can't find any reference to a Mozilla …

We have a network at work and there is a rather diverse assortment of windows versions (i think we even have 3.1 somewhere) windows 95, 98, 2000 can be used to ftp and other OTHER internet usage (not just http) the XP, 2003 machines cant seem to connect (no ftp …

Helloy all. Ok, so i have this client who is older and needs to hav his text size in windows larger so he can see it clearly. I've messed around with the obvious display settings under the Appearance tab in Display in the control panel, set text contrast colors to …

I've been having some internet connectivity problems lately, and I believe it's due to some nasty spyware. I've already gone through all the steps to correct this (checking my DSL speed, anti-spyware scans, anti-virus scans, doing it all in safe mode, even reset my winsock.dll, etc.) but I'm still having …

I own a Compaq Presario 7594 that I have had for ~5 years without having any major issues. I went away on vacation a couple of weeks ago (& I did remember to turn off the computer & shut down the power strip), but when I came back from vacation, …

Hello :) I am new here, and i hope i did post this in the correct section of the forum. I have a strange little problem which bugs me since about three months, persistant and a little annoying. My problem is, i can't log into my hotmail account! It comes …

Hello can anyone help me. My internet explorer is very slow to fetch sites, it seems thought once its on a site it will be its normal speed. I am quite tec savvy and have run and intstalled avg hijack this adaware etc. but I don't think these have anything …

Hi i have windows xp pro and when i go onto enable hibernation i get a nice little message saying "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" i tried to run it in safemode except hybernation is not enabled so it is not …

Well I got a laptop, one of thoses old 366mhz for travel only, and I got this problem which is quite annoying after about 5-10 mins the screen turns black, and it doesnt seem to be the screen saver since its at 60min(60minutes needs to be past for the screensaver …

Hello and good health to you A cry for help from a old fossil new to dvd burning. I have just purchased a dvd-rw for my dell 4800. I have also purchased some phillips 4.7GB dvd-rw discs. I am trying to burn a film on to one using nero but …

I recently started using Windows Messenger and enjoyed the real time voice/sound communication feature through microphone.Is there any way to do the same thing through LAN?I mean do I need special software or not?And if yes where can I find it?

Hi, all I am running a small home LAN. I am unable to access web pages from a Win 98 machine- (Tried IE 6.x, and Firefox1.0.2) E-mail, YIM, etc are all functioning correctly, and I am able to access the web from the two XP machines on the network. Pings …

I have recently formatted my hard drive and re-installed windows XP home edition because i felt that i had slowed my notebook down with too many programs. However it seems that it has been slower since i did this! Whenever i drag a window round the desktop or scroll down …

hi i just recently bought a new motherboard and and took all the components from my old motherboard and put them in place on the new ne. ok so thats all working great i start the pc up sort out all the bios settings. this is all still ok. my …

Is the Windows firewall necessary if my interent connection comes through my cable modem, then through my DLink router? Doesn't the router act as a firewall? also, I've had connectivity issues across my home network when the Windows firewall is activated. Thanks, rs

i using outlook express ver 6 , why the attachment file i received can't open at just click attachment files there? second question is i received the mail with hyperlink address , why i click the hyperlink add but nothing happen(mean can't to the i.e and browse)? pls give me …

Please help, Windows XP wont open and the message "unmountable_boot_volume" appears. Have tried opening in safe mode but the same thing happens. It suggests it may be due to software recently added but theres no way of removing anything. Many thanks in advance.

after fitting new hdd and formatting with xp pro on a hp pavilion 763 the screen starts with hp logo for about 2 minutes then blank screen with flashing line in top left hand corner then reads failed boot insert boot disk. anyone please help.

Hello everyone! :) My problem is thus: Internet explorer works wonders until I try to connect to protected pages, then I get page cannot be displayed. If I try to conect to any server-based programs - P2P, online games, etc - the program either says the server is "dead" or …

I'm having problems with one computer not being able to send a page or a link through Internet Explorer. It will work from other computers besides the one particular one. I'm using Outlook 2003 on all computers. Internet Explorer is the default broswer and Outlook is set as the default …

I have a Compaq Presario xp computer. I have tried to download 11 priority windows update. It always downloads and says successful but afterwards my modem runs and runs and runs. I shut my computer down and turn it back on. I might be on for an hr. and the …

Hello all, I've recently had a problem with my pc, but it is fixed noe, but during the process I did some sort of system restore (advice from a support line). This changed the adress of some of my files on i-tunes and on my rome total war game. The …