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seems that on my toshiba satellite windows might be corrupted or something and i dont have th packed in boot disc to restart it on. it gets to the startup of windows and then it doesnt start up.. it just resets the laptop and its a loop of that nothing …

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Hello....I run XP, and up until a week ago, there were no problems with watching Youtube. Today, I get.....Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player..... So, I downloaded the flash player, and it says success, but no …

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I've checked the other threads relating to this message, and they all seem to occur when the user goes into IE. However, this happens on my work PC every time we boot it up. The message is: Server Busy This action cannot be completed because the other program is busy. …

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yeh ive been having problems with the speed of my computer, its really slow and was never this slow. when i open up windows task manager its shows a massive page file usage, and to be honest i have no idea what this is. it always shows a low CPU …

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My computer works fine otherwise but outlook seems to move real slow...I have not changed settings, is there anything I can check out?

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Dear awesome IT blokes/blokettes, Today a rather curious problem has started occurring on my Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 x64 system; when I right-click on any disc image (be it .ISO, .NRG, etc) there's a brief moment when the mouse cursor changes to an egg timer, and then I get this …

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I am having a terrible time with XP pro sp1- Took on a computer that was loaded with viruses. I am wanting to format the HD and start over. CD was bad (bought new one). Couldn't get in to boot with boot disks (6), so from a web page I …

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hey Guys,, ve been getting this rundll error for about two weeks now...ve tried almost everything to remove it but it just wouldn't go away!!! PLEASE HELP

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hi guys .. i hope yu guys have a solution for me .. my window xp OS on my c drive had a fatal error where everytimei load and get to the blue screen it restarts endlessly .. im not sure how that happened .. this happened after i restarted …

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I formated drive and partitioned the drive, installed windows xp and is back to it's old self, but if I change bios settings to boot from hard disk as first boot device instead of cdrom (for instaling win xp) I get a "boot disk failer" error. If I have it …

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i was given a dell desktop computer that had the hard drive wiped clean, I installed the windows xp disk in the cd drive and it statred loading the operating system. while it was loading for about 5 minutes i had the great idea to wipe the dust off the …

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hi im using windows xp and wanted to know if i can download linux mandriva 2008 and use it or do i have to have linux as an OS already like is linux mandriva like an update for linux or what thanks for any answers chris

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Hi This might be a quick fix,can someone tell me how to delete a file that has a file with blocks (no letters or numbers) and no extension,it just says file.when I delete the file it says cannot read from source. can anyone help me this client is my BOSS.Grrrrr!

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I have an IBM ThinkCentre home build. My uncle installed Windows XP and the sound stopped working of course. I have tried multiple things I have found just reading other's threads before I began my own...and still no luck. What do I do? I have yellow question marks on PCI …

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hey ... can anyone help me? my boyfriend and i both have ibm netvistas.. recently i started having a problem with mine .... the bedreaded ..... xp wont load and monitor goes into sleep mode...... i would unplug it from the wall for a few then it would maybe work.... …

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Greetings, Just bought new system. Brand is E-machine P6528 AMD Aphlon 64 processor 3500 plus 2.21 GHZ 384 mgabytes ram running XP home edition with SP2. Had modem installed last night by friend and DVD drive used to install drivers. Went to use DVD drive and it is no longer …

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I know there are many discussions and threads around this subject. I have tried many of the suggestions in other threads, without any luck. The PC with this problem is my friend's pc, and it boots up until the desktop, and while loading desktop items, shuts down, and re-starts again, …

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When I start Windows XP everything seems fine until I click on one of the Quick Launch Toolbar icons on the taskbar. Then the Toolbar icons stop being clickable, and after an indeterminate period they disappear. The place where each one was still has an alternative text available, but no …

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I have a Dell Precision 360 desktop. It works just fine in every way, except that at the beginning of the boot process, right after the bios screen, I get a message that says: "Primary drive 0 not found. Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup …

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Hi... My lap top's monitor started going black about a week after I installed Trend Micro. Dell nor Trend Micro were no help. I got upset and removed Trend micro and installed Care One. They detected I needed some Updates. So I installed them. all was well until I went …

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Hi I have a linux tarball (.tar.gz) The software I have has only this format. It does not have any .exe distribution. Is there any way I can install this .tar.gz file on my xp system. Thanks in advance..

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Hi all am new here, my windows xp with service pack 2 will not connect to internet even thoug the tcp ip is set to auto, when i run ipconfig all colum including ip add is blank (0000) but the same network cable is working in my laptop and other …

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I picked up a trojan..thought I got rid of it. Now my desktop icons are displayed behind the wallpaper. I am able to use browser because I started browser before the icons went away. I have a Windows XP system. HELP Please! In Task manager, I do new task: explorer.ece …

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Let me start by saying I do not possess much computer knowledge. I've been under the hood a couple times on limited repairs on the PC built for me by a friend. I recently unpacked and set up this XP powered PC that had not been used in seven months. …

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Hi, How would I apply a local group policy for a specific local user? I've applied local group policy settings, but it applies it to every user, including the administrator... Thanks to anyone who can help.

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or the CMI audio config from the control panel - cmuda keeps causing blue screen of death - any advice???

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I'm trying to install php5 but I need to copy the php.ini file to the %SYSTEMROOT% folder. The problem is that I don't see this folder in my C:/WINDOWS directory. Where is it or am I suppose to copy the file to another location? I'm using Windows XP.

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Hi, In "My Computer", "Tools" when I click on "Folder Options" I get a small window displaying "Registered File Types", "Off Line Files" plus a button "Advanced". Therefore, I can't see my hidden files or any other features in Folder Options. I'm on Win XP Pro SP3. I shall be …

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I have a problem w/my DVD Drive. It is recognized by the computer, but will not read DVD. I have swapped teh DVD ROM with another on and I get teh same result. It has tobe in the software/computer. I have gone into the Reg Edit and deleted the upper …

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My windows XP got virus infected. I have removed it. But I can't access Task Manager. When I press Alt+Ctrl+Delete it says, "Task Manager is disabled by administrator" How can I enable Task Manager?

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