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I'm having trouble with the supposedly bootable XP installation CD. I have used it before successfully but on an IDE drive. THis machine has a SATA drive and I understand that this can cause some problems with a pre-SP1 installation CD. THe CD is not in perfect shape so I …

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Hello Gentleman and Ladies I have a note book here running XP pro. It wont boot up and as you know you that darn blue screen with the error. I'm at a lose, heres what I have done so far. Checked ram all ok In recovery console chkdsk r/ all …

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Okay...here it goes... Mistake #1...I bought a used computer off of ebay for my daughter for Christmas Anyway, this is a micron.pc it was running slow, but did everything it should do!! then it quit working. I got on this forum and did the FDisk thing. I even have a …

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We have just relocated to Australia from the UK. Our PC arrived in our container of personal effects last week and I successfully re installed it with everything running perfectly. Tonight I tried to start up the PC and experienced problems. The machine tries to start. Two green lights come …

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I configure something wrong in windows XP through gpedit.msc and restart the computer after that 80% of services of windows are stopped I tried manually to start that services but group dependencies services error 1068 comes. Then I saw that RPC service is also stopped then I try to start …

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Hi, Im using windows XP home edition right now. Couple of weeks ago I started using torrent. When I diagnose the computer using system mechanic professional. It says "error is detected in ur hard drive". Starting from that point, my transfer speed for file (e.g. copy files, deleting files to …

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when i start xp i get the setup option showing still, windows does not boot straight normally, i have to choose

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Hey guys, I hope someone can give me some insight to this. I've tried reading everything I can find, and nothing really addresses the issue. I have Windows XP Pro, with 512Mb ram. When I boot up everything is normal, and I have very little running on the machine. The …

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Hi. This is a really strange one. Sorry about the length, but there's a lot to digest. WindowsXP computer with 200Gb HDD and 2 partitions and AMD3500+ and was running well. At startup one day it suddenly started to reboot once it got to the Windows logo. Safe mode etc …

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Windows Media player 11 will play some audio and video fine, but then I try to play *.asx or *.wvx, I get the video but no audio. I have reinstalled codecs, WMP 11, drivers, and tried many other things, but nothing fixes this. Can someone please offer me some sugestions? …

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Using IE7, wont let me into internet options, and options in control panel has a different tab, wont let me in their either. My computer is slow and was told to delete temp files. Please help Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 21:19:19, on 08/03/2008 Platform: Windows …

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Hi I installed a fresh windows xp professional sp2 , i had a little surfing on the internet . So ,when ever i restart my computer i had a 1 minuter freeze on startup . Thank you for your effort of reading .

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I have a problem that I've determined from reading some previous threads, is a virus. I have thousands of POS Temp Files on my C drive that I cannot delete and my C drive has a red X on it. I downloaded the Hijackthis software and ran a scan. The …

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Hello, when attempting to open an explorer i get the following message: "an unhelded win32 exception occured in explorer.exe[1704]" and I'm asked to debug using visual studio. How can I fix this? Thanks. Pascal

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Hello, when attempting to open an explorer i get the following message: "an unhelded win32 exception occured in explorer.exe[1704]" and I'm asked to debug using visual studio. How can I fix this? Thanks. Pascal

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I recently aquired an old compaq that still had a windows 2000 license. It didn't come with an OS so I want to put windows on it. Is there anywhere I cant get the ISO? like Micorsoft's website? Thanks in advance.

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Ive have been having some problems with my computer -once in a while the bottom bar with go to the original grey and i will lose all sound -when i am typing sometimes the letters wont appear and they will start to show up somewhere else (even while writing this …

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My HP Pavilion laptop, won't power up for me. When I push the on button to turn it on, the indicator lights come on but it won't turn on. Once I remove my finger from the on button the indicator lights go off. This happens when I try to use …

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Hi when loading xp i was missing /'gfxext.exe driver were do i find this thanks pmb

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I had an error with Windows XP, it kept "checking the disk for errors," and then aftward the bios prompted my to start either "normally," in "safe mode," etc, and it did this every time I rebooted. So I reinstalled Windows XP on the same partition, and I was wondering …

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I have to turn my labtop in to be fixed (that's another story) and the guy who's doing it is a friend of my family. Anyway, there are some websites I've been to that I'd rather he not find about, if you know what I mean. Anyway, I deleted the …

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Hi all need some help, I have a thinkpad T60p running windows xp pro and it was working fine just before I installed ZONE ALARM PRO(got a copy form a friend) need less to say after the installation it asked me to restart the pc to complete installation. Unfortunately after …

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I have an Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop that I have had for a few years now. Just recently the CD/DVD drive has disappeared from my My Computer path, and the computer won't register that I inserted a CD or DVD. I've checked the drivers already through the Device Manager, and …

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i bought a new xp upgrade hoping it wouldnt have as many problems as my other windows xp. the first time i tried to upgrade from 98 to xp (with new copy) it told me there wasnt enough space to back up 98 there was enough to load xp. i …

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Hi everyone, I've got a little, annoying problem that I'm stuck on. When exploring, and attempting to open folders with a double click, the search menu pops up. i don't want to search the folder, i want to open it. it lets me open if i right click and select …

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hi..just want to ask guys if anybody can help me...I use XP as my OS. but there seems to be a problem when I open the command line.Everytime I open it Windows shuts down and I have to restart my PC all over again. It displays a error but I …

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Help! I have been trying to set up a Raid on my system. I am using Nvidia software. When I set the array up the system shows it as healthy but I am not given the option to make the Raid bootable. In the boot status column it shows N/A. …

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I am sorry to post twice, but I don't think I did the best thing in posting earlier today as a reply to another problem. Here it is again, slightly revised. ________________________________________ I am using windows XP Pro on a Dell Inspiron 5150. I [I]seem [/I]to be an administrator: I …

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It has been almost 6 months now with this Spool.exe problem. In the event viewer I can see the "Faulting application spoolsv.exe..." message. I gathered from some research that this is related to corrupt printer driver. I tried twice to uninstall/reinstall printer drivers, but never succeeded. Every time after uninstall …

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