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I have a fresh install of XP Pro, SP3 that I just rolled out to the office. What's missing is the XP ability to compress files. According to Microsoft support 306531, I should be able to go File|New|Compressed (zipped) Folder -or- in an folder right click New|Compressed (zipped) Folder. However, …

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today, my computer started freaking out, command line started popping up, random internet pop ups, i have not had a pop up in a VERY long time. so first instinct was to run, AVG and lavasoft ad-aware. ad-aware found tracking cookies, only 5 though, AVG found 5 trojans though, AVG …

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My laptop has been giving me some grief and I'm wondering if anyone else has had any similar problems, and if so what solutions they've found. When I turn on my laptop the display usually stays black unless I hold in the power button for about 15 seconds (flushing capacitors?) …

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I currently have two pc's set up in my home office. The first one is a Dell Dimension with 512 MB DDR RAM, P4 2.8 Ghz. There are quite a few peograms on here which I use on a daily basis. The most important one is a stock market scaaning …

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Hello goodmorning it is my first time to install windows 2003 using the active directory please let me tell what im doing during my installation 1. I install windows 2003 and put IP address of statis like this: IP: 162.100.1.0 Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0 Gateway: no gateway Dns1: 162.100.1.0 and continue …

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I'm having an issue with my desktop as the title eludes to. I recently found a background I like and I prefer to have it centered. This leaves some room for default background (blue) to cover the top and bottom of the screen. The problem ensues after adjusting the default …

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hello there, can somebody read sandra report? i scaned my comp for drivers info becaus my cpu is high and i have no idea how to read this report. whats going on in my machine? thanks guys! this is the report: ***** Start of Report ***** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <<< Computer Overview …

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Approximately a month ago the card reader on my laptop quit working correctly. I say correctly, because it obviously still recognizes when I insert the card and remove it because I get that tell-tale chime. It used to open a window asking what I wanted to do as far as …

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hi, i have a INTERNAL for 3.5" IDE hdd and i want to make it bootable. i have windows 2003 installed and i can't boot from it. I looked over the internet but not a chance. i found nothing Ok first. I just finished formatting a laptop and tried the …

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Hey guys, I've used these forums to find help for a variety of malware issues and have had great success in the past. I'm hoping someone can help me with a stop error I'm receiving. A little history on my machine: Xeon processor, 2.66ghz quad core 8 Gb RAM 2 …

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hi guys, I cant play DVD with power dvd v8.0 ultra, it gives me an error which says, "Internal error code 80040216". I have uninstalled and reinstalled the software but still it gives me the error. Anyone who can help me please?

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My system: WinXP Home SP3, Intel 2.2 GHz Dual Core, 3.0 Gig DDR system RAM, Intel DG33BU motherboard with G33 chipset, XFX "Alpha Dog" 8800 512 Graphics Card, 750 W PS. I was attempting to upgrade my audio to a Creative Labs Blaster 64mb card when.....I disabled the on-board audio …

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Hello, I have a Dell 1.80 Ghz running Windows 2000 NT Professional. The main problem is that I cant get to the desktop anymore when I start my computer. The computer boots and gets to the screen where I type in my username and password to get to my desktop. …

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It looks like my computer picked up the a.exe virus about 3 weeks ago. Since then I've had all sorts of problems. 1. Can't login to internet 2. Can't reinstall software for net card 3. Can't see properties in device manager 4. Can't printer 5. Can't reinstall printer - spooler …

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I have an HP Pavillion dv8305 us and just upgraded the memory from 512 to 2Gig. Now that the new memory is in place the operating system (XP) will not boot up. I keep getting recycled back to the black and white screen where I have the option to start …

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So here is the problem--I have the quick launch toolbar activated and and when I click on the double arrow to show the hidden items or when I go and open up a folder like My Computer I get a message basically telling me that Windows has encountered a problem …

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So i just wiped my laptop and installed XP Home SP3. Everything was going find until I started downloading a few things, software removal tools, pc maintenance tools, etc. I started to see that my firefox is using about 50% of my cpu usage anytime that it's open now. Not …

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I suddenly find myself unable to access my desktop to change it, getting tired of the 3 kings. Where should I look to see what changed? I am dumb as a stump about some of this stuff but I can follow directions....

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My wifes laptop was short of harddrive space so I thought i would investigate .........so i got rid of all the silly pictures and stuff and unwanted,unused programmes,but it oly left about 10% of free space on a 40gb drive !!! So i thought that windows maybey was hanging on …

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OK. I installed the newest version of iTunes on my PC so I could play with my new iPod. Instantly, all my video and audio started stuttering. It's made the PC useless for watching videos or using audio. Since I also use this machine to edit video and audio, this …

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I would like to get 'help and support' back on my XP machine, but this is proving difficult. I need to turn on the service, but it is not even listed in the services console (it goes from 'Health Key and Certificate Management Service' to 'HTTP SSL' with nothing in …

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I need a way to play some kind of alert or sound when a cerain process is not running in the task manager. This program needs to always be running and occasionally throught the day it stops running for some reason and I have no way to tell when it …

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Anyone know a website which has printable downloadable listing of windows command prompts which are grouped (not in alphabetical order) but by topics eg network commands, file commands, hardware commands etc. I can find numerous links which has them in aphabetical order but I want them grouped in topic area. …

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My computer sometimes runs smooth than after a while it begins to lag very bad I cannot afford to purchase a new PC so please any help will be great. System Specs OS: XP Home edition System Manufacturer: Dell System Model: Dimension 2400 BIOS: Pheonix ROM BIOS Plus Version 1.10 …

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Im a novice here so if in wrong place forgive me. can I get software that will let me wipe files clean and not just release them for use but leave info there? FWIW am using a dell with XP pro..

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OK, I am home and I am testing - creating an environment. I use COMCAST and have a LinkSys router. I live in the East coast of USA. OK, the HOST is a Windows XP running a VMWare version 1.0.1. I created a VM called VM-W2k3ent it's a windows 2003 …

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I was wandering if someone who is familiar with batch files could help me out? I have the following code to create a time stamp folder for some configuration files. This code runs on XP but errors out on the set hh command when ran on an NT platform. What …

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