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 | I have a laptop that has an interesting problem. When browsing "Myspace" and only that site, it continuosly looses and reconnects when running wirelessly. You can see everything and can change to any Myspace site, but it is quite slow loading becausre of that. This problem goes away when you … |
| | Two questions here...One how is is possible that entering a specific site "my space" my cursor freezes? it appears to be only that site.... Secondly say I wanted to wipe out my system and start new, is it as easy as it was on Windows 98? That was just pop … |
| | Is there a utility which you load with a .txt file which is a list of files and directories you made previously, so it generates, sort-of, a virtual directory tree (explorer-like, with icons and all)? _______________________________ For example: You have a list, a .txt file, which has this text in …  |
| | Recently I've been having trouble ripping CDs to my itunes library. The program will rip a song or two and suddenly stall. At this point Itunes becomes unresponsive and makes no more progress on the rip and I can still hear the CD drive attempting to rip the track. I've … |
| | Im trying to fix a computer for my son in law but it wont start up. Its an emachine 420 2.60 ghz intel celeron processor 80 gb hard drive. I noticed that when i switch it on i hear a clicking sound once from the processor and the fan is … |
| | I just got a computer of mine back from my niece. Not working very well. When boots it just has blank desktop, except for background pic. no start menu or icons. When I right click on background, I can get to various programs, but the icons won't do anything. I … |
| | hello I have dell desktop dimension 4700. i start getting different errors on my PC like (win32 generic host) and etc and after this win32 generic error my sound dont work so i have to restart my pc to enable sound again.. and after 15-20min i again get that error … |
| | i checked in the control panel/user accounts/change the way users log on or off Both Welcome screen and fast user switching are Enabled, even i check in the Registry (run:regedit) LogonType and AllowMultipleTSSession are "1" some i did changes too, about make some folders in my drives strict to new …  |
| | Hi, I am first going to ask if this is the proper place to post a question regarding an XP Pro format issue. I don't want to start off on the wrong foot on my very first post. If it is ok to ask please let me know and I … |
| | Hey, i was just wondering if there was a way to have Windows XP Pro automaticall shutdown the computer everyday at a specific time. I know this can be done through the schedule tasks program under control pannel, so what is the shutdown file called? Or, if there is a … |
| | Hi, I have a Dell Dimension 8300 (Yes I know Dell sucks, please don't remind me). I bought a new Lite-On burner (DH-20A4H) to go with my NEC RWer.I had new NERO 7 installed and everything was working to burn dvd's, and my other cd-rw was fine. But I uninstalled … |
| | i want to hibernate the system.but hibernate option is not displayed in power options in control panel.how can i enable the hibernate.i m using windows xp professional sp2. |
| | Hi! To connect over L2TP VPN (without IPSec ) in Windows XP ProhibitIpSec value must be changed [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rasman\Parameters] "ProhibitIpSec"=dword:00000001 How can I do the same configuration in Windows 2003 Server? There is no ProhibitIpSec in Parameters.. TIA |
| | Hi, If anyone has any ideas about this I'd love to hear them... Recently i've had to turn off and re-boot my laptop 5 or 6 times before it completes its boot sequence. I boot up, go through the windows user account password, my desktop appears, all the icons, all … |
| | I dont have EXACT duplication of what is mentioned however, I am wondering if anyone can shed light on these 2 things .. 1) AT times some of my system may freeze ., upon doing shift ctl break, I bring up task manager & get an error to the effect … |
| | i have a dell dimension 4550 WINXP PRO w/ a single DVD-RW tray. now when i put a CD that someone has burned for me, it reads it as a blank CD. any advice? thanks! chuck |
| | Hi All new to this so please be bear with me, i have had a problem now for about a week where i can only access my internet in safe mode with command prompt. I think the problem all started when i downloaded detonator XP drive. I cannot get the … |
| | I have a laptop that I took off the domain today and made it a work station. I like an idiot do not know what any of the user names or passwords were before i did that. Is there anything I can do? I have xp and a dell precision …  |
| | Is there a way to password protect file share permissions, mainly the properties, and or sharing and security tabs. We have someone here that caused a problem playing with those settings. Thanks. |
| | Hi, I was wondering if anyone could tell me why I can't start windows in safe mode? Thanks  |
| | Hi, im not sure if this problem has already been solved in another thread but basically my computer has been infected by several viruses and i don't have a clue on how to remove them all. firstly, there is [B]kamsoft[/B], then there is [B]vamsoft[/B] then theres another one called [B]cdoosoft[/B] … |
| | I while back, I went to "Add or Remove Programs" and got rid of some things that I wasn't using and I suspected were slowing things down on my computer. Since that time, whenever I shutdown, it goes right to the end of the shutdown process and then a blue … |
| | hey, i have an Asus F3J laptop thats giving some form of memory problem.. i cleaned the RAM modules and sometimes, when it does boot, the screen has glitches, sometimes it works properly for a while then locks up, other times u just hear the startup sound but no display. … |
| | Hi Guys Probably the most hectic one Ive experienced so far. I have a Terminal Server witch the majority of my staff connects to. It started very recently that atleast twice a day I get the error [B][I]RPC Error Unavailable[/I][/B] when some of my users try to log onto the … |
| | My windows XP starts-up very slow, its takes bout 10mins before I can eventually put it to use. Is this normal after 4 years use? I've ran all types of malware and virus checks and the system is clean. I do run norton 360, so thats perhaps one reason for … |
 | Hi, I'm not sure if this is in the right forum, I apologize If its not. I have the GRUB boot loader installed on my computer, and its interfering with me installing windows from cd. I insert the windows install CD, and it says "Setup will now check your computers … |
| | I have a zebra lp2844 printer connected directly to my computer, and a networked laser jet printer also hooked up. Two days ago, everything worked fine. CAme in the next day and now I cannot print to my zebra printer unless I change my system default to that printer. The … |
| | Hi All This is my first post to the forum. I'm not a noobie but not an expert either :) . My problem is that after some problems with a video driver going bad and doing a reinstall of XP Home now my broadband (cable modem) internet connection seems to … |
 | I have a client who came to me with: "I lost my icons and start menu all I see is the backround image on my desktop". Anyone have this problem? |
| | Hi All, This is the first time i am using this forum.I have a issue discussed as below. I have Acer Aspire 4270 laptop (pre-installed with Linux), bought a year back. I got Windows Xp (SP 2) installed onto that by the shopkeeper. Now that I am installing Windows XP … |
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