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I have win XP home, with all the updates and svc packs up to date. I've run Spybot and Ad-Aware several times already. The problem started when I was playing Battlefield 1942. I left it playing for about an hour unattended because I had visitors come over. When I came …

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Anybody please help, this IP address(168.254.2.237) always appear in our INTERNAL DNS SERVER entry as name server. Even if i delete the IP after several minutes it will appear again, please help.

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i just installed winxp to try it out. and for some reason it hates my video card. the screen flickers and craps out. if i turn off hardware acceleration it works fine. i downloaded the new drivers for the card. it works great under win98, redhat 8, and slackware 7. …

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I recently built a new computer. I installed XP fresh, and installed some various programs that I use frequently. Everything was going fine until Windows Update downloaded SP2. I installed it, and restarted. Ever since then when I start up it simply hangs on the windows loading screen. I see …

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Hi every one. I have a problem in CheckDisk, CheckDisk does not start automatically when I start my PC after a power failure nor when I press reset button. To run CheckDisk I have to schedule it to run at the next restart. However when CheckDisk runs it finds no …

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All the sudden MS outlook and Word on XP MS office 2007 the spell checker and Grammar is set to FRENCH? I've done alot of resarch on the Internet and MS site and there doesn't seem to be a fix other than download 3rd party s.w. and install it and …

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Can someone please help me; how to remove this Trojan/virus fake warning popup: "Some dangerous viruses detected in your system. Microsoft Window XP files corrupted. This may lead to the destruction of important files in F:\Windows. Download protection software now! Click OK to download the antispyware. (Recommended)" Here is the …

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I found the post below dating from April 2006 but there were no replies. I've got the same problem. I started to watch the latest Little Britain programme on the BBC website when the whole thing froze up. The sound was ok but the screen froze. After a long time …

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I am on xp home edition using HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop. When I started it the other day it showed this message: STOP: 0x0000007B, 0xF79D7528, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x0000000. Run chkdsk /f. From there it reboots and cannot give go to safe mode or any other. I tried running the OS …

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I am having trouble with my CD drive starting an unwanted program when a blank CD is inserted. I have gone through the procedure of assigning actions for all types of CD's in the properties of the drive but nothing seems to apply to a blank CD. It is very …

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I have been having connection issues with my newly built system. I was able to activate windows and connect to internet but things were running extremely slow (I still have dial-up which made it even worse). Now I can connect but can't open a web page. Modem diagnostics says I …

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Hi All I'm debbie computer science student from technical university of cluj napoca Romania.This is my final year, so i've gotta start my thesis...I need ur help! I'm interested in computer network cabling.. my tutor asked me to come up with some ideas for a possible subject of my thesis. …

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ok, maybe I have posted this topic before but I failed in describing the problem. Im very bad in explaining stuff but I really work hard on this one. My monitor is making me crazy. Just recently, it took me 3hrs and 30 mins to see something in it. Yes, …

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Hi, I am on Windows XP home edition and having a strange problem. Whenever I try to double click the C: Drive icon in the My Computer window, there comes a window called Open With and shows a list of applications such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint …

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Hi, I have an on board cam on my notebook, but i want to install another one. I installed some so called driver software on the CD that came with the webcam but the software sees the on-board cam, not the one it should. Thanks in advance for your help.

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Hello, Im having a trouble with my monitor and speaker. 1st, my monitor: sometimes, my monitor won't show anything. It's just like it's off but the monitor light is ok, the light's color is yellow (just like normal). I need to turn it off and on to make it function. …

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Hey, i'm trying to fix this laptop for a buddy, and it won't startup.. it goes to straight to the screen with it saying it's sorry for the inconvience but windows couldn't start. then it let me choose from safe mode, start windows from last working configuration, and start windows …

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Odd that anyone would want to play this game after so long but I do! It's worked before but for some reason now when I try to start the game, my Computer reboots! here are some details I am running Windows Xp media center edition SP3 on a Compaq Pressario …

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Is there any possible way I can get a server to run a standard windows app that can access the internet? If so, how do I do it and spend the least amount of money?

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Hi, This is my first thread. Yesterday, I installed Windows 2000 Pro, but did this by installing a new copy of windows 2000 (clean install) and not upgrading to W2000 (which Microsoft recommends) as it was my understanding that ME cannot upgrade to 2000. Now when I startup a message …

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Hey, I was wondering if some one could help me. For about a year now, ever since I upgraded my motherboard and cpu, my motherboard's BIOS detects my DVD-RW drive but if I try to open the drive, nothing happens as if there's no power what so ever, no activity. …

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so i bought a cheapo mp3 player today and it says 4gb, i go to open it in my computer and it says i have to reformat it but my only option is FAT how do i get it to let me use FAT32

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Hello, I was hoping someone might know how to go about clearing out unwanted files, programs, registry entries, temp files, etc every time the computer starts up. At school, there used to be a refresh.ini that ran every time you fired up the computer, and I am hoping to accomplish …

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Hi Guys, I have Administrator rights to a Laptop running XP Home Edition and i need to use Regedit from another account on the same Laptop. How do I give access to use the Regedit to the other account from my Administrator account.... When I run the regedit from the …

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when booting my computer it shows windows xp on screen then goes blank want do nothing want read disk or anything. the screen just has a grey color please help. thanks

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Basicly, I tryed setting up dual monitors on my pc. It was proving unsuccesfull untill I saw a option saying somthing like "force recognise TV" so i pressed (stupidly) and restarted my computor. On my default monitor the start up windows xp icon displays with the loading bar, thats when …

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I'm wanting to do a full system restore of my wife's computer which has Windows 2000 Professional but when I run the first system restore disk, it says I must first delete non-dos partitions. I don't really understand what this means and how to do it and I have no …

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My buddy has an HP pavillion Media Center PC that I am looking at. It started to hang on boot the other day, coincidentally when he bought software for his kids that was a game with a usb controler. It hangs at mup.sys and never loads fully to windows XP …

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Hello to all the great folks at DaniWeb !!!!!!!! I have a strange question and I'm not sure if this situation is common or not. I took a Compaq Presario 5190 computer that had WINDOWS 98 on it, and I put Windows XP Pro on it. I wiped out Windows …

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