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| | Hey everyone, You just set up a brand new Windows PC or did a clean install… now comes the fun part: installing your go-to apps! 👉 What’s the very first app you install — and why? It could be: Your favorite browser (Chrome, Firefox, Brave?) A trusted antivirus or security …  |
| | My shortcut bar has broken and I can't fix it. I'm using Win XP Home, and MS office 2000. The shortcut bar has been fine ever since I got this machine but now it's gone wrong. There are a lot of shortcuts on my desktop, each of which has an … |
| | I am having a problem printing on a home network. The printer (Epson Stylus Color D68 inkjet) is connected by USB to a desktop and is also installed as a shared printer on a laptop. The network is set up and running properly - the laptop can connect to the … |
| | I have a Microsoft Wireless Mouse and Keyboard set, it's a Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 2.0. Both the mouse and keyboard had worked fine until last night when the mouse suddenly just stopped working, and I restarted the PC and the mouse just sits in the middle of the screen … |
| | I've just installed Win XP pro, clean install - the problem is the computer will not shut down. When I click Shut Down, the lights on the tower will flicker a bit, might get a hourglass which then returns to a pointer, but I do not leave the desktop. Everything … |
| | I woke up this morning and only half of my computer screen is up the other half has the "start" icon and the address bars that show what programs that I have running, it also has the time and date. My daughter was playing Webkinz last night, as she always … |
 | I recently came back from a Europe trip for five months, and when I arrived home I took my computer system from out of the garage from which it was stored and tried booting it back up. For some reason my hard drive died. It wasnt detecting it on my …  |
| | Yesterday I followed a thread trying to learn to lock file folders using the cacls in the command window. I thought I'd use the temp file folder as my target, thinking that it was the most innocent folder I had. I was able to lock it, but now I can't …  |
| | I am trying to fix problems on Windows XP Home edition SP2 accessing CD or DVD discs. The system doesn't seem to recognize discs inserted into the drive. I installed a new drive, a LITEON DVD/CD re-writer, to replace an older drive that seemed to stop working. Yet, the new …  |
| | Ok so I have a Toshiba A105 s4284 that I just bought from a friend that bought it in january and it was working fine until just recently, all of a sudden the screen just goes completly black when I'm in the middle of something, I mean the computer doesn't …  |
| | Here's a question for you: I often use remote desktop to connect to my office pc. Often times, I'm writing a document on the office pc and I need to include a screenshot of an application etc. Over RDP, how do I make the office pc take a screen shot …  |
| | hi, yesterday the modem on my other computer could not be detected and I can't get on the inernet using it. I have a dial up modem 56k and I could get on the net fine for a long time, but something happened to my network connection and it isn't …  |
 | I cannot access my Toshiba External HDD. When I use chkdsk, It complains [B][COLOR="Red"] "Unable to determine volume version and state, chkdsk aborted"[/COLOR][/B]. I cannot think of any other way to restore it. I don't have access to buy recovery software so, freeware is preferrable. Thanks all  |
| | Hi, Due to my laptop having a strange COM port problem I decided to try and fix it by doing a 'repair' with my Windows 2000 Professional disk. When I put the disk in, it asked if I wanted to 'upgrade' and keep all my existing software or 'full install' … |
| | I cannot access the serial port, COM1:. I used to be able to but now any app, such as Hyperterminal, that tries to open COM1: puts up a small info window that says "Unable to open COM1. Please check your port settings." Any idea what might be causing this? According …  |
| | [color=black][size=3]I tried to get the nic on my motherboard to work and got a message that the hardware did not have a Microsoft digital signature, but I continued anyway. Ever since this attempt, I have been getting the following errors in the event viewer and my ip address is not … |
| | Just a quick question. Does anyone have an opinion as to wether it is best to Import or Add Data file when using Outlook .pst files after a re-install and you are putting the customers data back onto the machine. I would normally use Import to put all contacts and … |
| | Hi, I am having a stupid problem that is really making my life hard. Me and my team are trying to release a Computer game tonight and my computer holds allthe source code!! Anyways here's the situation I had Windows XP Home Edition for like a year, and today of … |
| | which is not possible. I have a dell e1505 running xp So I bought this [URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822145113[/URL] and this [URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817392009[/URL] Perhaps of note is that the HDD is OEM. I'm not really sure if that plays into any of the following. Installed HDD into enclosure per instructions and connected it to …  |
 | I've tried disc management, manager but still not working.. What should I do????  |
 | Here is the order of what happened. Some of it seems weird: 1. I downloaded a web page with Firefox Save Page As. The site should be trustwoirthy (a local newspaper). 2. I edited the HTML file with Notepad to remove everything (ads, scripts, etc) from the page except the … |
 | It's been over a year now since XP has died and i'm feeling guilty about it. I am very lucky to still have my 3 copies which are in the original cases with unused product keys, so I decided to install it on a desktop that i've been given from … |
| | 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 … |
 | Here is the solution I found: [url=http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html] Removal Tool[/url] Viri and those who create them pee me right off :evil:  |
| | Hello, a few days ago my computer was being really slow so I decided to restart it, after doing so I could no longer open internet explorer. When I tried to open 'my computer' all the shortcuts on my desktop disappeared for a second and I could only see my … |
| | 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 … |
| | hello my destop is gone half white and i cant see any icons on my destop ive tried different things but didnt work someone plz help me |
| | 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 … |
| | So I have a problem, any help would be great. I have a new computer, like 2 weeks old. I have turned off sleep mode so I only have the shut down button and the restart one. When I shut it down, no problem, turn on no problem, its very … |
| | Problems resetting the /safeboot option in the BOOT.INI when the computer decided to never go into safe mode. I have tried reinstalling windows but no luck. Any other ideas on how I might be able to reset that option to off? PLS HELP!!!! |
 | HI guys, I have to reinstall windows XP onto my samsung nc10 laptop because I want to sell it, but alas, I've just realized that the label at the bottom has faded out completely so I don't have a window key anymore. The thing is the lappy, when I bought … |
| | Hi all, I just joined the forum hoping to find an answer to this problem. When I try to open "My eBooks" folder in Win XP Pro, I get an error message that says "My eBooks is not accessable" "the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable". The first thing …  |
| | I have Windows XP (which I usually LOVE) on my HP Pavilion a820n desktop computer. I recently had to do a reinstall of XP, due to removal of an anti-virus software which (apparently) corrupted my computer. After doing a clean full reinstall of XP, some of my drivers are missing …  |
| | 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 … |
| | Since upgrading to Microsoft Office 2007 I now have trouble reading PowerPoint documents from a particular client. Before I upgraded, I had no troubles reading their PowerPoint. Now, I have missing fonts and graphics - so much so that many pages are blank, or filled only with a few dots … |
| | [URL="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/poll/index.cfm?action=showresults&pid=3228421"]A new poll into Operating System popularity by a British computer magazine[/URL] has revealed that an incredible 37 percent of respondents are still using Windows XP. That's more than Windows 7 which managed to woo 30 percent of the folk taking part, and Vista could only garner a pretty poor … |
| | My computer is about 1 years old. Its has an HP EliteBook 2540p and an Intel i5. My problem is that my computer suddenly and randomly switches off on its own. There is no blue screen, no error messages, the pc just goes off as though somebody pulled the plug. … |
| | I have a computer that is running Windows XP with Office 2007 Professional. He is having problems only with the Powerpoint files in the office, specifically .pptx files. When you double-click on the file it opens up to a blank presentation. Once that is open if you click open and … |
| | Hi Having a problem with window XP sp2 When i try to open a file e.g (text file) windows XP takes about 30 seconds to opening the file. Also if i try to right click on any file the contents menu also take about 30 second to appear. The problem … |
 | My XP machine was freezing after bootup and I could not access utilities to detemine the error. Could not access Sys restore, so my only option was to initiate a an XP repair using my Win XP SP3 disk. I messed up the first time as I missed entering the … |
| | Which of the following ststements regarding windows Xp users acecss is/are correct? (a) multiple users can't switch between account without restarting the computer (b)multiple users can switch between account without restarting the computer (c)windows Xp does not support multiple user acecss (d)None of the above **Hallo Members can any one … |
 | I'm an XP lover and while I have moved on to Windows 7, my Windows 7 machines are configured to look like the XP Classic interface as much as possible. I'm pretty happy with these machines for now... I know that there is another popular DaniWeb article concerning why XP … |
| | Any ideas on this? I know how to fix the whole french E but this isn't the problem. I can type in outlook but then when I need to put a ? or ! I can't...it shows up as the notorious french E. When I do the shift ctrl to … |
| | i boot again the windows and done all the partitions and also scaned now no data in hard still loading overloading why plz some body help |
| | I have a .dat file which is actually an mp3. It plays with all my audio players (winamp pro 5.1, windows media 9.0, etc), but i want to convert it to an mp3 so i can compile it to a disc. By renaming "Klubbheads - Let the party begin" to … |
| | Windows is, according to just about any security expert you ask, the operating system most vulnerable to attack. Unless the security expert happens to be from Microsoft, that is. So it was quite refreshing to see Microsoft admitting to a spike in attacks on Windows this week. [attach]15849[/attach]According to [URL="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2010/07/13/update-on-the-windows-help-and-support-center-vulnerability-cve-2010-1885.aspx"]a …  |
| | Guys is there a way how I can use winsock to design a simple web server, if possible please help me. |
| | unable to connect is it compatable to windows xp thank you  |
| | i recently put this in tips and tweaks by accident and i apologize i have a custom built computer that i decided to upgrade not to long ago. I bought new ram, cpu, and a mobo to go along with an ide hdd and nx8600gts video card. i use windows … |
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