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Is there any program for boosting my headphones i have searched on internet but all i get is the same steps (right click on volume>Playback Devices > Properties>Enhacements> Enable Sound Equalizer)

My brother has Windows XP with a large number of art programs that don't work in newer versions of Windows. Last thrusday, he got a an art file from a colleague with a .rar extension. He downloaded WinZip to open it. It would not open the art file. Now the …

There's a lot of chatter about W10 but just tripped over this due a complaint about network speed fluctuations. Here's a google about what I turned off. https://www.google.com/#q=disable+windows+10+sharing+updates

I have a Toshiba Satellite P55W-C running 64-bit Windows 10 Home. I bought it new less than a year ago. I am the only user. It has an Intel Core i7 CPU, 8 Gigs of RAM, 2.4 GHz. I'm generally surfing the web and streaming audio/video. I'm not a gamer …

I re-booted my XP Home based computer after shutting it down normallty and received the whire screen with the message: "Active Desktop Recovery". I clicked on the "Restore my Active Desktop" and received the following error message, titled: [B]Internet Explorer Script Error[/B] [B]Line: 65[/B] [B]Char: 1[/B] [B]Error: Object doesn't support …

so i checked my storage on my mac(running windows 10) it said 340gb used out of 500gb. 249gb of that are the windows system files. why are they so big and how do i make more storage. please help. im at high school and all my documents take a crap …

Hello. I have an issue, where I want to prevent domain users with administrative rights from modifying the password of the local administrator account on their respective computers. Any way of implementing this?

Hi, 1. I downloaded a free trial version 3.7 of WinRAR. 2. When i tried to open the compressed files, i could not open it, and got the message" WinRAR: Diagnostic messages" window open, and there are 3 options: Close, Break Operation and Copy to Clipboard. 3. Is it a …

Up until recently whenever someone on the network went to a site that required an SSL certificate it would say that there is a securuty risk confirm exception blah blah blah, I managed to fix that but only after confirming the first time. Lets use gmail.com as an example, every …

Hi all, I am trying to schedule a Task that will run a vb script to open a browser, send some keys, and finally close the browser. The task starts, but seems to hang. The task is created as follows: `schtasks.exe /Create /RU "SYSTEM" /SC "DAILY" /MO "1" /ST "23:00" …

Do you guys have had experience with RMS systems? My boss asked me purchase a software for our company. We have to manage multiple shops and online stores. I have read about few standalone applications that can manage retail operations. But I have to purchase an application that can be …

telnet star wars not working. its saying 'connection lost' and something about cannot connect to port 23

Basically, I cannot connect to anything using the telnet software that comes with Windows. I have enabled the telnet service and I can't work out what's causing it so I'm wondering if you guys could help. I'm using Windows XP and the error message I get is: [CODE]Could not open …

Hello Anyone knows the URL or IP of the server from which the Media Creation Tool connects to download the ISO of Windows 10? I need this to add it to the exception list of my proxy as currently the latter is denying access to download the ISO file.

Please, help! I should restore very important file! My work depends on it. I use CorelDraw X3. Through it I can't correctly open the file, I see the unknown image instead my chart.

Hello :) I have several hundred RAR archives that I want to extract, but they each have a password which means I can't just select all of them and extract them at the same time, because it will ask me for the password for each archive - this is pretty …

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Hello, I've clean-installed a Windows 10 Home on a PC which had Windows 7 Home (with OEM key present), but now am unable to activate the Windows 10 with the OEM key available. I read that Microsoft is now allowing the use of existing OEM keys to activate Win 10, …

I can't create a junction from one sub-folder to another sub-folder without an error that the system cannot find the path specified ? For example; Source Path: "C:\Users\<username>\Appdata\Roaming\<folderA>\<folderB>" Target Path: "C:\Custom Program Settings\<folderA>\" In other words, I want the Source path specifically the sub-folder to belive that the Target path, …

My inbox is completely erased after last night's windows update restart. I tried to reimport the inbox.dbx file but keep getting "no messages can be found" error. tried to copy the .dbx file else where, rename the old .dbx file and reimport, also didn't work. I even tried to delete …

Hi, I could import some numbers from notepad to excel 2010, and after right click the cells were converted to General from scientific format. However, when I drag the notepad file to Excel 2013 they cannot be converted to General format. I tried different ways to convert them from text …

All of sudden my desktop icons are taking about 2 minutes too load after windows starts. Can anybody help me. I ran malwarebytes, norton antivirus, no adware, xofspy, spyware doctor, cleaned all spyware and adware off the system; cleaned up start up programs from msconfig, defrag the HD, I've done …

Hi I am running a Lotus Domino 8.5 server on Centos 5.2 x64 Linux. The installation is on a Intel server with Adaptec RAID controller 1.7Tb and the Notesdata directory is on an external Dell PowerVault MD1000 5.5Tb with RAID 5 configuration. I also have LVM2 installed. On Wednesday last …

I would like to ask for help on this problem that I've tried to troubleshoot, but have had no success at. The print spooler on a windows XP Home Edition SP3 machine is refusing to start. Previous to this problem, 5 or 6 printers had been configured and working for …

When I am trying to open the outlook the error came like “filename.pst is not a personal folder”.. so I created one new pst and set it as default.. then I was able to open outlook, but I need old emails which is in the old filename.pst file.... it’s very …

Hey guys, I'm not sure what the problem is and don't know what info you even need to figure this out, but my laptop is only able to properly shut down about 20% of the time. The rest of the time, it shows the Shutting Down screen and waits forever, …

Hi - I have a corrupted Excel file which I can't repair. Cannot attach the file writes that "The file type you are attempting to upload is not allowed." When I open the file writes that "cannot open the file because the file format or the file extension is invalid. …

Hello, good day to all I hope this the right section to post the thread. I just upgraded my win 7 ultimate to win 10 pro lately, and i got a problem about UAC. I have 3 user account on my windows 2 local user and the elevated built-in admin …

I am supporting a customer who has a Server 2003 SBS server. We recently migrated this customer to a new Exchange 2013 server running on a Server 2012 server. Some of the mailboxes weren't exported to .PST files before this migration was done and the old Server 2003/Exchange 2003 SBS …

I have got 3 MS-Word 2007 document files (DOCX) which MS Word is now unable to open because they are corrupted. MS Word's recovery could work. Tried Stella Phoenix, Recovery Tool Box and a few more: they do the job but are for sale. Is there any free one which …

Has anyone installed Windows 10 and continued to run Lotus SmartSuite?

What tools have people had the most success with for repairing corrupt Excel files? I have had 2 people come to me recently with corrupt Excel files (oolone was XLS and the other XLSX). I tried opening the files with versions of Excel and repair but nothing. I then tried …

How do I repair a PPT file that has the error message:The file may be corrupt, in use, or of a type not recognized by PowerPoint.?

[B]Both computers connected to internet on same FIOS modem. Verizon can't help. Why is one computer connection much slower than the other one. Both are running Windows 7 (build 6.1 version 7600)Home Premium 64 bit. SLOW [/B]one is Velocity Micro (2010 new)Intel core i7 860 2.80 GHz 6.0GB Ram speedtest …

When I started videogame on my computer, I used i3-3217U with Intel HD Graphics 4000. GPU works at 350MHz (1.05GHz with Turbo). Runned nicely on 50FPS. When I tried passing this game to a friend, from the very installer, the game has been installed and all it's requirements have been …

We had a need to factory restore our PC. It is Windows 7 Home Preimum with SP1. We copied all data off ran the factory restore drive, reinstalled Office 2007, restored all data files and now when we open Excel files we cannot format them proerly. The page breaks will …

I am having an issue with a formula in excel and am not understanding what it is doing =COUNTIF(J28:L31,"w")+COUNTIF(J28:L31,"l") is supposed to give me a result of the number of cells with the value of either w or l in that range But instead of displaying a number, it is …

We have a Windows NT 4.0 Workstation which we forgott the admin password. The admin is the only user assigned to the machine. I want to know, is there any free software out there that will let me reset or change the password of the administrator? or how can I …

Hello Anyone knows how I can get and install MediaCenter on a Windows XP SP3 machine? I've seen some versions of the OS itself, like Windows XP Media Center Edition etc, but since I already have a licensed version of Windows, is it possible just to get the Media Center …

I just replaced my hard drive and diid a new install. I now realise i left a couple of files i didnt back up. my question is , am I ok to replace my old drive boot up , then export the foiles then put back my new drive . …

The disk C was formatted. By means of R-Studio pulled out from it the ntuser.dat and Outlook.pst files. Through regedit I exported from ntuser.dat all branch [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem] to the .reg the file. I placed in the virtual disk the received file of the register and base with …

MS Outlook 2007. The user account domain was accidentally deleted, then created again. I received new SID. on a local computer the new local profile was created. on exchange the new box with the same name (to it access is) was created. in exchange there are 2 boxes now. How …

Hello all. I am having an issue with the dual NIC's on my Gigabyte 890FXA-UD5. I'll start from the beginning to give as much info as possible. I had Server 2008 R2 installed and was given a copy of Server 2012 R2. Both NIC's were present in 2008 and were …

Hello all, The issue I am having involves a user that uses a CAC to log in to a network. When the account is created, a 10-digit number printed on the CAC is associated with the users account and replaces their User Logon Name in ADUC. This users number was …

Hello! All mail Outlook stored on a network server. The server crashed. Accordingly disappeared and the Contacts folder. However, when sending a new message when you type the first letter of the address in the email Outlook offers a list of addresses with this letter. Obviously somewhere this list exists …

Does anyone know of aPST Repair utility for an oversized PST file ScanPST does not repair it I have "easy recovery professional" and the email repair within this tool does not work The client whose PST file it is cannot pay the £100+ for the cost of software for a …

How to view corrupted mpp file of microsoft project ?exported a large (4,000 tasks) mpp to xml and when I attempt to open it with Project I get the error “An unexpected error occurred… The file may be damaged.” I tried exporting it several times but get the same error …

Hey guys, what is the defferince between apply and ok in windows?

I just installed and added a user. Then I copy the old .pst file to the Outlook folder. When I open my Outlook email, I don't see the calendar. How do I get it back? Thx

Hi I have decided to update my PC to Windows 7 64 bit. My existing PC has a lot of programs and data that needs to be preserved. I have read that with Vista Business an inplace install can be made but wonder if that is correct. If not I'll …