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Hi! I just bought a Win XP Professional. After using it for some time I started to notice the following problem: After finishing the starting up process normally, when I click on the broadband desktop icon I have to wait for about 20/30 seconds for the proper window to appear …

I wanted to clean up one of my drives (partition "f"), so I moved everything I wanted to keep to another partition ("h"), and deleted what I didn't want. I then tried to format the drive but got a message saying it couldn't be done (screenshots attached). I've done this …

I can log on to the internet but am unable to open the browser or pull up any web sites. I have no idea what the problem is... I have already ran the internet explorer repair tool and already determined that there are no proxy settings...are there any other suggestions? …

I have a windows Me. i downloaded and installed NPF(Norton Personal Firewall) 2004 and then i tried to go on the internet and it wouldn't work. so i had to uninstall it. does anyone know why this would happen?

Hi. I have a Compaq Presario 1625 laptop computer running at 266M with Win98 4.10.1998. I am trying to set it up to work wireless to the internet. I have a PC card that works successfully to another laptop with my Router setup . But, cannot get it to work …

Hello all, I have been surfing all over the web to try to find the answer to this question but cant seem to find it: Does Norton's cleansweep delete all the temporary files and recycle bin for all users on an XP/win2k machine or only the user that is logged …

im having trouble reinstalling windows xp, ive done it plenty of times before and have had no problems. this time i reinstalled it and after it cleared my hd and started installing windows xp, it said it copied some files wrong and it has incorrect parameters. so now everytime i …

Ok well i finnaly got it and installed everything, I can run NFSU2 on full setings max EVERYTHING and i mean EVERYTHING with not slow down AT ALL. my fps on cs:s went from 20 to 90-120 with just a cpu and ram upgrade! now I have a few questions …

Ok, I am really dumb when it comes to this sort of stuff, so please help. Here is the problem. I have DSL with a 2wire network. One computer is hooked up directly to the router, and then my computer is hooked up through a wireless usb adapter. I recently …

Since September, my computer has been having problems. After numerous failed repair attempts, my friend fixed it for me. It worked for about a week, and then two days ago, I decided to try and get the whole thing working. When I got the computer up and running again, I …

i like it ,Slim Browser ,its so much like IE ,Im starting to wonder if it is a alternitive to IE, or IE skinnie sister !LOL [url]http://www.flashpeak.com/[/url]

I picked up the intel bundel and receieved win xp pro with SP2. im no fan of SP2. Im not happy with alot of the "new" features that take away my access to the system and how intrusive it is. i havent installed the disk yet, becauase ive been trying …

All I know is that microsoft is it scheduled for release in the first quarter of 05 jan. -mar. anyone have an exact date on it tho? xp is good and all but I really wanna to see what XP 64 can do.

Please post ONLY verified tips and tricks for making better use of a Windows PC. This means only those procedures which have been tested and verified. Please do NOT post tips that a 'friend' has told you about, unless you are absolutely certain that they are correct. Please do NOT …

Hi, I've been having a problem with my PC, for some reason it keeps eating space by itself, It's not a Virus nor any Spyware Adware, I was thinking maybe the Page File? But then again its suppose to give back space after you reboot, and it doesnt do that. …

Hello all, I am in desperate need for help. I have search both Microsoft and Apples web sites for help and have not found anything. My problem is I no longer can play Quicktime movies in a web browser or just play them period. All I get is a nice …

When clicking a link that starts a new browser window the window is always minimized and I have to click the maximize icon to enlarge it - or use alt.space.x. Is there some registry or other setting that I can change to avoid the need to enlarge each new window. …

Hi I am getting this error The device, \Device\Scsi\cpqfcalm1, is not ready for access yet. Looks like this error cause server to hang. After reboot everything is okey Any help will be greatly appreciated

First lmust explain I am very ignorant on computers/software. Having trouble with Windows Explorer 6 and Outlook - many links will not work, making many websites, eg. Microsoft Support unusable. Eg. if click on web addresses in e-mails don't work- have to cut and paste. Worse is buttons don't work …

[font=Century Gothic]Hello, this is firecat, I'm kinda new to this, and I have a question to anyone who could possibly help me. The problem is that I am getting red x's on my home page and other sites(not all of them) where pictures or graphics should be. I've run every …

How do I change the icons for the different users as displayed when I first power up XP?

This update addresses an issue when you view a Web page that can render vector graphics on screen in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 running on Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Internet Explorer may stop responding or crash and you receive an access violation in Vgx.dll. File Name : …

Is there an answer to my problem? I'm not an expert on the computer--so I'll need detailed steps and not too technical. I really am a mom of two college girls. Be gentle and patient with me, ok? I have had this hanging problem since I got my computer. It …

O-kay, So I built my computer a little over a year ago, and its my baby. My issue is this: I can't get it to go into standby mode, -it jumps in for about 30 seconds, then right back out, with a ctrl+alt+del prompt to unlock the computer, ( I …

[FONT=Verdana]undefined[/FONT][COLOR=Red]undefined[/COLOR][SIZE=6]undefined[/SIZE] :o Hello I am lost here Just joined!! Have a question about drivers in Windows XP where do I need to go? :o Oh well,I accidently deleted a driver and now can't load certain programs -like Incredimail Thanks for any advice vanilla

Hi - any help here will be very much appreciated. I installed SP2 last week and since then my system has frozen every time about 16 minutes after booting up / rebooting. The application I'm using at the time continues to function after 16 minutes but everything else is dead …

I have a 7 gig hard drive. I have only 3 gigs of files but for some reason it shows that I only have 755 mb left. What has happened to the other 4 gigs?

Ok,,,,,,,,, really wierd....... whenever I try accessing yahoo.com, or google.com, for some reason it forwards me to some site called "cpanel" and the message on the site says "There is no website configured at this address." The address bar on IE still displays google.com or yahoo.com even though this happens …

Hi, I have a Win XP 1.1hertz 512 ram with 40 gig hardrive. A few days ago I installed an additional 80 gig Maxtor drive, & everything had been working perfectly for a few days, but today I opened explorer to navagate to some files & it didnt display my …

Some how while changing themes I must have deleted the xp theme. Now my screen is black, all I can see are icons and web pages. I can't install another theme because I can't see the display dialog box. I'm guessing blind, I have been abel to connect to the …

Hi Folks, I am having a problem uninstalling Norton Antivirus. I have the latest version and it is asking me to uninstall the old version before proceeding. Just into the uninstall a dialogue box pops up with......COULD NOT ACCESS NETWORK LOCATION %SYSTEM DRIVE%\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\NICK\MY DOCUMENTS\. Can anyone help me …

Hi, I am using Windows Xp and a dial-up connection. Having removed kazaa and Perfectnav and running adavare, sybot etc. I can no longer connect to the internet. When I press the connect button I get a busy tone and it just keeps dialing over and over again, never connecting, …

[FONT=Georgia][COLOR=Indigo]When I try to setup my server extensions, it says that I do not have permission to do it. I have an account that is the administrator and it is a member of all groups. :([/COLOR][/FONT]

Heres the deal, i cannot get into my internet by clicking on any of the IE icons, nor by clicking on iexplorer.exe. I can how ever, get into IE my opening My computer, then typing in the address of where i want to go. When i am in IE, if …

Hi I'm new and my computer knowledge is limited. I'm running Windows 98SE and am subscribed to BT Broadband. I set up an e-mail account through BT and set Outlook Express as my e-mail receiver. All was fine until I had a bit of a glitch with Internet Explorer which …

Right, iv'e been stressing over this for the past couple of days. The lowdown is my Broadband connection connects fine, i can ping the dns server recieving 4 packets, so there is a connection. The problem is that IE6 wont loud any pages "cannot display..." also my games wont work …

when i try to play video with an extension of .avi on win 98 os the media player displays errors which undefined cannot play back the video stream: no suitable decompressor could be found. the errors messages is Unable to download an appropriate decompressor. (Error=80040200) Cannot play back the video …

I got my old pc out of the closet,,lol reformated it, putting it in my race trailer,,,the problem im having is,when i open IE , sometime the pages open good,,other times ,i get a page that has a bunch of words on the page,nothing else,,if i refresh it,,its good,,,any help …

I just instaled XP Home on a Dell Latitude C610 from a Dell XP Home CD. It installed fine. My question is that I have heard about needing to connect to the internet to activate XP or once I access the internet it will kill XP if I dont have …

For a while now my modem has been acting funky. I'll dial up my ISP and it'll work alright for maybe five minutes. Then it stops transferring data. The connection is still open, it just won't let me access anything on the web. I've recently moved and now have a …

Hi All Using windows XP I am having problems E mailing pics via the My Pictures Folder.Clicking "E mail this Folder"in the Pic task pane brings up the pic size window.click o.k.here and instead of the E mail message coming on screen the Msn log in passort window appears click …

:!: I'm having a problem now with my explorer showing that there is an error on page when I connect to hotmail. I found older posts from people, but they didn't say what the solution was. And those postings are from last Feb. I have explorer 6 and the service …

I have a fairly new computer, and about a month ago it started having the problem of windows not starting and the screen displays a geometric pattern of squares with colored shapes in them. Sometimes you can see the windows loading page faintly in the background. I have a Nvidia …

[FONT=Comic Sans MS]When using WGET command line utility to download a file using HTTP from a website, this works ok, but when i go to delete the file later, I am unable to. e.g. wget [url]http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.exe[/url] This works ok, but then I cant delete it Any ideas anyone? Cheers[/FONT] :confused:

Hi, After my PC was repaired due to a power failure. For some reasons, the antivrus software (Trend Micro's Internet Security) does not automatically restart itself. Usually, the icon would be at the taskbar, now it's missing and I have to manually find the icon under my Start - Program …

[FONT=Arial Black]undefined[/FONT]Whenever I disconnect from the dial-up service. It brings up it the blue screen, it sometimes it disconnects by itself, although i think dial-up does that. The details are the following: An exception OE has accurred at 0028:C86CO233 in VxD ---. This was called from 0028:C84C5AD0 in VxD. It …

Hi guys, can somebody talk me through the steps I need to do in order to have my yahoo and msn e mail accounts linked to my outlook express e mail account which is my primary account. I want to be able to have all my e mail accounts checked …

specs: Maxtor diamond maxplus 16gb hd ASUS A8V Deluxe SATA bios wonte detect hard drive thus i cant format my disk as windows cannot find a hard drive. I have looked inside the comp and there are 4 SATA conection ports on the mobo, 2 two say above them sata …

I have an Asus board, 512 DDR Ram and a fresh install of XP Pro Svc Pk2. Everything seems to be fine, it flies. One problem is that every once in a while it will freeze; can't control alt delete; have to shut down and reboot. It does not have …

I recently reformatted my hard drive and installed Windows XP Pro SP1. Prior to formatting my HD, my PC was having boot problems. I received “We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully