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The past week or so, whenever I start my computer I get an error that says Stimon--this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. Otherwise, my computer seems to be working ok, but I thought there has to be a reason it's doing that. I am …

I am trying to save a neighbors computer and I need some help. They are running windows Me and cant get it to boot. it comes to the compaq splash screan and goes to a blank screen with a blinking underscore thing but you can type into it. I have …

I have what I believe to be a problem.. Each time my computer restarts my disk mirrors have to initialize all over agian I am running windows nt with server and two eighty gig drives ?? Justin

I run WINXP Pro and IE6 The bar which is usually at the bottom of browser windows in IE (showing website or IP address and rate of page download) has disappeared. How do I get it back? Any help would be greatly appreciated Joe2 :sad:

hey ive had this file dpusy.ini on my desktop for a while now and im wondering what is this and how i can get rid of it if its harmfull

i want to know if the 2nd service pack for xp is a lot or at all better than sp1

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I have win98 and win2000 proffesional installed on two separate hard drives. The 2000 is installed from win98 on a separate hard disk and partition(NTFS). the problem is that the USB ports dont work in win200. They work in win98. Any sugestions? Thank you in advance.

Last week, I dialed-up my sterling dial-up connection, to discover that for some reason, the sasser worm, which I had long ago been infected with and i THOUGHT that I had properly cleaned up, firewall and all, was back. My system was being shut down, with the authority of the …

I have windows XP on my computer and every time i load msn 6.2 my os crashes and windows reboots...I don't know whats wrong with it....and its really annoying. any suggestions? - leave a post

printer will print all except main message, any help please, prints top,sides, bottom no main message. Thanks, Dean

I've tried everything. Virus scanning. System restore. But nothing helps. I'm using Windows XP pro. For example, let's say I try to open "Hijackthis". I get an hourglass for a few seconds and then nothing. So then I open up Task Manager and it'll show "Hijackthis" as running or not …

This has happened to me the last 3 times I booted up my pc. I get a screen that says Checking a file on System C, then another screen comes up saying "Check Disk Space" If a driver is identified on Stop Message disabledriver or check with manufacturer for driver …

[color=black]:rolleyes: I was over at a friend’s house last night. She has XP, emachine and word 2002. Whenever she tries to minimize a window it disappears, all windows. I did this with word, and the only thing I could do was reopen word, however when doing that, word still had …

I'm having a problem...I have a cable modem (roadrunner) and running with XP. Occasionally while I'm in IE the error message "USB not recognized" will come up and I'm not able to connect to the internet. When I restart my machine, I can get on fine. Any suggestions???

Need help here to understand why svchost .exe is running twice in the windows task manager. Here's a run down; svchost.exe is running in LOCAL SERVICE and has a mem usage of 4,492k svchost.exe is running in NETWORK SERVICE and has a mem usage of 1,936k I would appreciate your …

i just recently bought a new windows xp cd to reinstall windows on my computer and when i did it didnt reinstall it, it just made a whole new one. Does anyone know how to get it off

Laptop, pentium III, 256, purchased from a business bankruptcy sale. has both xp professional and home os on it. After running fine for approx 3 months, thanks to the support on this site, It gave me a blue screen stating master_ boot_ volume_ error. Not knowing what to do, I …

As of three days ago my Internet Explorer has been very slow. My friend said something about reformating it, but I don't know how to do that. Also I recently downloaded Opera and I didn't like it so I deleted it, but when I go into Add/Remove programs it says …

I have run out of ideas! 3 years ago I bought a dell 733Mhz with Win98se, 10gig HD. 18 months ago I bought a 60gig HD from WD and installed it. 6 months ago the 60gig died, I was able to transfer the files I wanted to keep from it …

Hi I have only had this computor for a few weeks,I don't know anything about them,no lessons or anything!things have started going wrong,I have lost my browser?I keep having to conect all the time,I am unable to link on to any links sent to my outlook express,and are unable to …

Hi, my specs: WinXP sp1. P4 2GHZ 1GB DDR ram Cicero computer (don't know the model #) ATI RADEON 9800 pro 128mb hope that's enough. Here's the problem: I recently upgraded from an 8500 LE to my 9800 pro. I'm not sure if that is the problem or not, because …

I am desperatelty in need of some help here. I had downloaded the DirectX SDK from MSDN library. But whenever i tried to run the downloaded exe file i was given the following message: [QUOTE]WinZip Self-Extractor header corrupt.Possible cause: bad file or file transfer error[/QUOTE] Then i downloaded the DirectX …

I'm on a home network with two computers, both running 2kpro. Now, I'm very pleased with the op system. It is solid and almost never crashes. It takes my 233 :cheesy: with 128 megs of "Model A" memory and makes it a much better operating machine than it deserves. My …

I am currently using Windows XP.LAst week my IE quit wqorking for all practical purposes. When I go to Tools/Internet options and then the Advanced tab, my screen is blank. I had the computer in the shop for several days and at least I can use Explorer in the general …

after login an error message "windows explore has encountered a problem and needs to close" it all started with "98" i deleted some files due to a virus warning, i know it was stupid but done it is, anyway i thought a reinstall would sort it but not having 98 …

hello , my step sons computer want take xp on his pc.When i install it when it get to the point where it copy files a message come up the say a error in(netnf3.inf) what that mean?And when it reboots it go through the same screen again instead of startin …

My computer, with Win98SE, was on the Internet one day and it worked fine then. But the next day, although Windows booted up okay, I found it impossible to enter shortcuts to "My Computer," "Internet Explorer" and others. I am unable to right click on the display to access "Display," …

All seems fine and i get to "setup copying files" until it says - *file name* wasnt copied correctly, i press retry and it shows this to some other files but retry works. But to some file it shows another message - could not copy and thats the problem. Retry …

Hope that I am posting this in the right section & posting this correctly. But I am trying to uninstall AVG & it will not let me, because I am getting these errors: [IMG]http://webpages.charter.net/versatilecreations/images/shell.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://webpages.charter.net/versatilecreations/images/shell2.jpg[/IMG] by the way I am running Windows XP & IE6 .... Thanks in advance for …

Hello everyone. I would like to make a batch file that extracts the contents of MANY .zip files (<name>001-146) to a certain folder, without having to manually extract them. My .bat skills are not good enough to do it and it would be a usuful tool that i currently need. …

HI guys!! I havent posted here in awhile but the last few times i was greatly helped with my problems. Now I have a new one. Im putting my old comp back together for my mother to use and had it all together and even had it started up and …

Hello, Can't make IE 6 play quicktime movies. All software is up to date (6.5 version and quicktime works fine) so I guess is a about activex permissions or something since I have spybot teatimer and "secure" policies on Ie... Searched help in apple but nothing... Can you help me …

hey all, i need to be able to edit and add file formats on my terminal server and even when i'm logged in as local admin, everything is still grayed out. i got a registry hack for it because i've been told the file format CAN NOT be changed through …

Hey my CPU usage jumps and spikes alot to 100% will stay there a bit then come back down to zero. I am using an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ on a ASUS A7N8X board. ANY HELP PLEASE?

Hi, It seems when I turn my computer on in the morning, my Internet Properties Dil up connection box appears on my desktop. It doesn't connect because I have the "connect automatically" box unchecked. This is more "weird" than anything, but can anyone give me a hint as to why? …

I recently had some problems with a hard drive and decided to reformat. I did that and reinstalled Win98 and all was ok until the next time I rebooted. Then it would freeze in the boot-up process. I was unable to do anything so I reformatted again and reinstalled Win98 …

Hi there.... I've been experiencing an intermittent problem sending emails using Outlook 2002. The error message I receive is: 'Relaying denied'. I'm told this problem might be resolved if I change the settings to 'Pop-before-SMTP' but I can't find this on Outlook 2002 and some articles I've read online even …

My computer was working fine yesterday, I shut down, and everything was fine. This morning when I cut it on, my display isn't right. There is about half an inch of space on the (my) left hand side of the screen, while on the other side it is right...it's as …

When I try to get on the internet through MSN explorer, the screen states that it is redialing, then states "Could not log in to internet explorer, there may be a problem with their service or my connection". What can I do?

For anyone else having problems with mouse and keyboard hesitation...my problem turned out to be the Keylogger.trojan virus which was in my windows\system file. For whatever reason Norton could not clean the virus off the machine until I went to safe mode. I hope this helps someone else!!!

I had to install a new hard drive , 98 came with my pc , lost everything ! borrowed a factory 98 and upgrade from a friend . I have a 19" screen that is stuck on 16 color 648x480. 5 days now , I also notice in device manager …

Every time I turn on my computer, it says there may be phisical damage in my hard disk and recommends scandisk. But when I run scandisk in windows98se, it reports nothing wrong. can anyone tell me what the matter is? in fact, it bothers me a lot thank you for …

When I try and Open a link in IE I get the error can`t find server or dns error internet explorer, I am only having problem with 1 address I have checked the setting and everything seems to be set up correct. [FONT=Arial]Unable to open web page in IE[/FONT]

This is weird. On my win98se machine the icons will randomly change themselves. FOr example, a word document .doc will change its icon to some other weird one, like ones that u would find deep within windows system folder or the like. The other problem is that there are times …

I'm having a problem doing the disk defrag on my computer. I'm running Windows 98. My problem isn't like the other person who posted a defrag problem thread....I set my up to run a defrag a couple of nights ago, and was just going to let it run all night, …

Have a Windows 98 SE. Lost IE a few months ago (not sure why - fires up but no connection to the server) but Opera, OE, MIRC worked. Upgraded to ME and lost the connection to everything. Any ideas why?

I currently have 2 partitions: Win XP & Win ME & use Boot Magic for boot up. I was wondering if i could do a clean install of windows 2003 over windows ME, having Win XP & Win2003 as dual boot without any problems, would i have to remove bootmagic …

ok i have shareaza and the downloads are going slow i was wondering if there was a way to get more bandwidth to be used by shareaza. i have tried port forwarding gnutella, ed2k, and bit torrent are there any specific ports for shareaza. [url]www.geocities.com/willbill23045[/url]

ok i just installed my capture card, and i have installed all the drivers. but when i try to run the tv viewing program, i get this error message: [IMG]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=493[/IMG] it wont open the program, and windows device manager says the card is working fine. what could be the problem? …