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The past couple of days I've had a frustrating Windows Media Player error manifest itself on both my work computer and home computer. When trying to burn files to CD-R at work, WMP went through the preparation phase and began burning the files to disc as normal, but abruptly stopped …

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Okay, as of now this is THE PROBLEM i am having, if you read this guy's post here... [url]http://microsoft-personal-operating-systems.hostweb.com/TopicMessages/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/1989521/1/Default.aspx[/url] I am at the windows stop 0x00000006f part. now how did i get there? Well my computer used to work. But whenever i would close windows, yes, just closing windows, my …

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An Excel file was saved yesterday with filters set on 4 columns. On opening it today, an error message was issued, saying that problems were encountered in the area of Autofilter. Any idea on the reason? Above all, is it possible to retrieve the data of the sheet in some …

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I have the latest version of WMP, but a few weeks ago, it started failing to get pass the "writing to CD" step of burning. Once all the song titles are analyzed and pending, it will try to burn the first track only to freeze midway and then finalize the …

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Hello! There is a white flashing dot in the upper left corner of my screen (whilst the rest of the screen is black) It appears after going through the general bootup stuff (I have an ASUS P5K-E WiFi Motherboard) :( I am dual booting Vista & XP. (Both 64-bit editions) …

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Missing files - I recently recovered files off a dead and infected Lenovo through rescue & recovery. Most of the files came through fine except a group of music files. The directory and filenames are not showing up in explorer. Yes, all settings are OK so they should show. If …

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I have Windows XP Pro on my home computer, with Office 2003. Recently, the spell check on Word stopped working and the error message [B]"Cannot find proofreading tools for English(US). If you have the proofreading tools, try installing or reinstalling them..." [/B]was displayed. I tried to see if spell check …

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I just turned on my laptop now and everything i had in there isn't there anymore..Its an IBM R50E thinkpad. I don't know where to start from to get all my docunments back..SOMEONE please help me outtttttttttt..Pleaseeee

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I'm trying to have an autorun.inf file open two files. An .exe and a .txt. The .exe is no problem, but i cannot get it to open a readme.txt at the same time. Any ideas? Thanks!

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the message says The instruction at "0x7c91218e" referenced memory at "0xfffffff8", the memory could not be "read". how do i fix it? i have windows xp

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Hello all! This is a weird problem I'm facing. I'm running Mint/XP/Ubuntu triple boot. Booted into Windows after like 2 weeks, and now I cannot access the internet from windows.:'( It Works just fine in Linux, so definitely no problem on my ISP's side. Maybe I need to reconfigure something …

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hi i installed and unistalled Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 Refresh for causing errors but then when unistalled it and it started to download again through windows update. How do i stop that and i do i remove it from windows update ? thx

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I reformatted my laptop yesterday. Automatic updates are enabled, and supposed to check for updates every 3:00 am. But it hasn't download any until now. But when I try the manual update through Microsoft's web site, all updates were downloaded and installed successfully. May I ask why is my automatic …

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Okay, my hp laptop worked pretty slow for a 1 year old computer but then i ran a defragmentor one night and woke up in the morining with the disk defragmented, but when i tried to access the internet it could not connect. So i shut it down and went …

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I recently bought a new AMD Dualcore 6400 barebones system. Not realizing the motherboard it came with only had one IDE channel, I wound up purchasing a 500gb SATA drive to replace the 100 & 120gb drives I previously had. The issue is installing Windows XP on the 500 SATA …

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I was removing a few programs I my computer 2 days ago, (in Add/Remove) and I needed to remove a file with the word "Sound___". The problem is, I wasn't paying enough attention and accidentally removed a file by the name of "SoundN__" instead (or something along those lines). Now …

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Hello i have a couple of pc's 1 of which the " and @ keys are opposite i did at one time no how to do this but have forgotten can someone help. Thanks PIKE.

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Hi all, Have been working on a system, XP home editon removing a virus and now the system tray or lower task bar has gone. I have removed this same virus from other systems with no probs. I think I have deleted a file in system32 ? maybe. Any ideas …

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All of a sudden my laptop keyboard stopped working properly. You have to hold the key down for 2 seconds before it will work. At first I thought that it was a bad driver, but the file has not been modified since I got the computer, according to the date …

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My computer is very slow in opening documents and programs. To open a browser page or a program I have to wait for minutes. I frequently get warning that "your computer virtual memory is minimum & too low". Could anyone advice me as to how I can remedy this problem. …

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Hi ALL I am Srinivasan S Saripalli. I have a VC++ doubt which I have notified below. Hope you can give me a solution. I have developed a ATL,COM 32-bit Service and in the Service I am implementing Timer functionality using either `SetWaitableTimer` or `CreateWaitableTimer`. When I compile my Service …

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Yesterday all was well. So as a treat I thought I would Disc Cleanup and Disc Degrag to keep my little lap top happy. Did that and put the lap top in a drawer - of course the battery went flat during the night so Windows may not have shut …

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Does anyone here know of a reasonably priced, reliable data recovery service? I have a drive that won't boot anymore, I put it in an external USB drive bay and was able to recover only a few files. It has approximately 5GB of data on it, stuff I'd like to …

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In windows XP, when I click on C: or D: drive names in 'My Computer', the system treats it like a file asking "the program you want to use to open this file." However through Windows Explorer i can open the drives. In my Folder Options View Tab, the setting …

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I have a new laptop with Windows Vista and get "Internet Explorer Navagation to web page cancelled " and can not get to any web pages. I can access AOL mail. Help Peggy

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I'm a Mac guy, but I also use two PCs running WinXP Pro. They both just recently started popping up windows that say: "the web page you requested is not available offline. To view this page click connect." I wasn't requesting any page, nor was I even online. Somehow my …

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I recently had new motherboard installed, MK33, for my trusty old but updated (as much as possible) computer. Offline use of XP pro was freezing up on me quite regularly until I changed my DSL connection from USB to Ethernet card. Now I have freeze up when I try to …

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