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When booting one our laptops, it boots up to C drive which turned out to be the recovery partition. Running ERD found the windows partition. Does anyone know how the active partition could of been changed inadvertantly? Anyone seen this before? System was running XP SP3.

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[B]When one upgrades windows vista to windows 7 does it allow you to keep Windows Mail?[/B] Windows Mail is the email program that comes with Windows Vista. It was the replacement to Outlook Express. I want to know if it is possible to keep windows mail if you are a …

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Well, recently I got pissed off with Avira pushing me into installing update in order for me to allow ask.com toolbar to be installed. I hate toolbar because it eat up the browser page and bog down processing speed. And afterwards, I switched to Avast! which most people recommend it …

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Im new to this site, but hopefully someone can help me with this. I can normally get on any site EXCEPT blackplanet.com (no other site) and ONLY on MY computer (no other computer)(takes 2-3min to go from page to page). I have gone through the internet options and have deleted …

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I am trying to burn some files to a DVD but when I put it in the drive it says "Device not ready (medium not present) The drive is an HP DVD Writer 640b and I'm using memorex DVD+R 16x 4.7 GB/Go 120 min. Am I using the wrong kind …

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When I get an e-mail with an attach picture, I double click on the attachment and get the following error message "This application has failed to start because UXCore.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem." Then I click OK and get "Error loading C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Photo …

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Hi, I am having duplicate 'boot line' options in my boot-up window. The first gets me into my machine, the second takes me to: "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware." I …

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I'm trying to burn a program to a cd but my computer keeps saying there is no disk in the drive. I tried another file and it keeps saying the same thing. Two days ago I copied files to it but now it won't recognize that there is one in …

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When I open my machine I get the message "Windows cannot find E:\Inkli-10Reminder.exe" To remove this message I'm told to remove this iformation from the register. I don't know how to even access the registry. This probably has something to so with installing Quicken over an already installed application, but …

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On my Windows XP computer, I can't run ANY .exe files without it saying "The application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect." Reinstalling does NOTHING. I recently reformatted, and now I'm stuck with NO drivers because I can't run the .exes to install them!!!! PLEASE HELP

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Please disregard this post - I just found the answer. Sorry for the needless post! I'm trying to change the boot order in the BIOS but there's no way to move things around. It's shows how to highlight the items but no way to actually move them around. Boot Device …

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I am using the EXAMPLE Code in the attached code example to copy a CSV file into a 2d array. The Code came with a CSV Data Example with the Filename of "Test.CSV". As the code indicates the Dimensions are handled by the Ubound parameter and the ReDim option. The …

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I recently installed the updated Dell Support Center (DSC) onto my Inspiron 1520 with Win XP(SP3) and ran the included PC Checkup (PCC) powered by PC-Doctor. Everything went smoothly; however, a little later, I started to notice a random .wav sound (a click followed by a "bubbling" sound like someone …

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I have a serious issue with our computer! We had CA Internet Security Suite on it but I uninstalled it. I wanted to run a scan because we were having issues with a Google redirect virus. But when I opened it all I got was a blank white box. So …

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Hi All - I'm Brent from New Zealand. Recently I had to get a new hard drive because of a fault. Im running windows xp Prof with 80GB Hard Drive and 512 meg Ram. My supplier who sold me puter is not that helpful and he left when Windows disk …

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Hallo, I have a computer that now runs windows xp. I had windows 7 ultimate X32 but I'm went back, because i had 4 till 5 BSOD every day on windows 7. Now I'm a few weeks back to xp and the computer is very slow with the logon, he's …

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I am using ShellExecute(NULL,"open","control.exe","ncpa.cpl","c:\\windows\\system32\\",SW_NORMAL); to open the Network Connections window. That is working on my system which has Windows XP on it. But when I make a build for the machine on which this program has to run it doesn't work. It has Windows Embedded on it. I guess it's …

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Hello, Im having a problem with my OE6 first, When I download emails it stops receiving at one out-of #s? Sometimes I do receive emails from Outlook but most of the I can't receive one. What I did is to removed emails from the server and back to normal then …

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Running XP SP3 Dell Dimension 4700 The computer was acting a bit weird for a short part of the day, the monitor kept blanking out and sometime it would flash. We tried a reboot and ended up with a BSOD stop: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005,0x804D9092,0xF78DDF88,0xF78DDC84) [img]http://fototime.com/9178CAB72707663/orig.jpg[/img] For a while I had access …

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Here is the problem: Computer starts fine. Passes bios control. Starts loading windows. Right after the win loading and before the password login page the screen turns black and no signal is displayed. I believe the problem has occured from an abnormal shut-down the previous day. How can i fix …

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Hi, when ever i login to my system it prompt me to activate my XP sp3 pack. But my administrator is already activated it. when ever i login into administrator account it ask weather to activate it or not(yes or no) when i press yes it is not responding. so …

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[B]Windows XP[/B] is installed into [COLOR="Red"]C [/COLOR]drive. later i installed [B]Windows Server 2003[/B] in [COLOR="Red"]D[/COLOR] drive. While installing some S/W into Server 2003 it is corrupted.So i tried to overwrite or upgrade the same Server 2003 on D drive. But it is showing error as can't upgrade. I can't format …

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My friend had the Yankees game streaming and was working on something else online, when the screen went blank. I restarted the laptop, but now I have only the wallpaper and the message error with explorer.exe. I had just allowed Norton to expire and was in the process of buying …

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Hello Group, I'm running with MS XP Professional, version 2002, service pack 3. Many of you may well have already heard that there are some problems being encountered by some users with trying to install the update for SQL S/Pack 3. KB970892. As I do a lot of traveling with …

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Had to buy a new hard drive for my laptop 2 months ago, lots of problems since. Tried to uninstall IE7, unsuccessful, did a system restore and now I can't open internet options in tools or the control panel. I am running WinXP Pro on a Dell Inspiron 9100. Any …

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Hi, I have a HP Pavilion dv6000 notebook. I switched over to Linux a few months ago, and have been very happy with it. (running Ubuntu 10.04) Recently I've had the need to install Windows on my laptop again. I've got Windows XP Media Centre, which came with the laptop, …

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I have windows xp 2003, Installed the free version of avg 2011. Was told Microsoft Essentials was so much better so wanted to try it. Thought I downloaded it, but now I can't find it. To top it off, can't remove avg, keeps telling me that there is an error …

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I am using Windows XP on a Lenovo 3000 c100. I get a funny beeping noise that accompanies continuous backslahes in typing areas. (\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\). This will continue until I hit any key on the keyboard, but will resume when opening any window or typing area. I have removed and reseated …

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Hey guys I'm really new to this forum, i signed up to see if anyone has any idea what could be wrong with my PC that i built, generally i'm not that inexperienced with this kind of thing but i wanted confirmation before i go out and buy new parts. …

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