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Hey guys, I'm having a problem with a laptop I just received a few days ago. The model is a Dell Latitude LS (P3/400 mHz/256M RAM/Win2000Pro) and to my surprise had Windows XP/SP2 installed running quite smoothly. I planned on simply using this machine to run older games/emulators so I …

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Hi all! I have this problem; When i turn on my laptop with win 2000, it loads everything except "explorer" i can see only my wallpaper, and then starts to heating up very fast. To solve temporarily this problem, i run ctrl+alt+del to open "task manager" and i close "explorer" …

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Can anyone give me any idea what i can do as my outlook express is not working. I click on the desktop icon and it starts to load then all of a sudden it will freeze and i will have to reboot my pc. I do have MSN Messenger which …

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I don't know how, but it started unexpectedly and suddenly. Tried everything from my side but nothing works. I have Windows XP Professional Version 2002(i mean no service pack) Well the problem is that whenever I press CTRL + ALT + DEL a error message is displayed with this content: …

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I am trying to reinstall xp. I have an OEM XP disc. I boot into the disc and get a blue screen with white text that simply says Windows Setup. I left the computer on this screen for an hour and nothing happened. What should I do?

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My D drive is full. There's not even enough space left to defragment. I have 156KB free. My computer is SLOWER than molasses. I can't figure out what is tying up all the space. I don't have an over abundance of programs loaded. How can I see what's on D …

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My system will not restore (to any point!). The points seem to be present but the reboot finishes up with the message "unable to restore no changes made". As this was a problem on my previous machine, I assume I've got something wrong in the set up although it looks …

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Hey, Recently I've been getting messages saying that iTunes cannot play music files, and when I try to open the Volume Control, it says that "no mixer devices are installed." It then tells me to install new hardware...but I HAVE a mixer device attached, so why? Any help on this …

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Hi All, I have just reformatted this computer to the manufacturer defaults - IBM NetVista. Kind of old but we are going to use it here in the mill. My problem is that every time I plug in a USB be device, wither it be a USB Mouse or Memory …

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All of a sudden my xp home will not restart using the Turn Off Computer, Restart function. It shuts down properly, the blue power light stays on, but the screen remains black and it won't reboot until I power off and press the power button to restart. If I start …

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I do not have a tech no for HP., there is one job stuck in que...it will not delete from que, my green light on the HP continually blinks, I have shut down & restarted, actually tried to un install hp too... it is kind of logged in there in …

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How to set a image in to my computer-> properties window on the free space and logon screen. I am using win xp professional service pack 2. help me to fix this.

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Hello folks!!! I just installed windows xp sp3; but i was wondering has anyone else has done so too. If anyone has installed it, can you tell me of some of the major difference that you have notice.

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Using avast to scan my windows xp media centre laptop it tells me the system volume information on both C: (main) and D: drives is password protected. Anyone know why? Or if it matters? And the two files listed on the screen dump are corrupted. Any takers on explaining? Do …

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I just got a second hand laptop and I want to restore it to factory settings, it came with three "recovery cd's" which I can't get to work, and every online guide suggests going to "erecovery" on my laptop, the thing is I don't have this "erecovery", I have "emanagement" …

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I put a new BIOS battery in a Presario 42000NX. When I try to start it, it powers up for about two seconds and shuts off. Once I got it to start by pulling the battery out right after I hit start. HAve not been able to do that again.

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Hi, i am brand new to php and in need of help before i blow up my building. how do i connect to an oracle database from a php script/program running on apache installed on a linux server. Please help. ty

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Hi I need a solution for POP3 mail server and I need a software for following features. [B]• All mail transaction will be recorded seperately for admin's review at any time.[/B] • Retrieve mails from any POP3 server provided by any service provider • All copy of incoming and outgoing …

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ok here goes! my cousin got a dell dimension 4600 from her mom. mom says it was working fine then crapped out so it was brought to the shop. shop said to reformat & reinstall windows. the system was failing to boot up completely. well, i reformatted the hard drive, …

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Hi, I have XP 2000, service pack 2 and I need to change the administrators details which are currently in my name. I am sending out CV's and cover letters for my husband and because they where all created while I was the administrator they all say created by -----(my …

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Hi all; My system has been acting crazy since yesterday, i first got weird file named IT_LKW_SUCKS i dont know where it came from and i deleted it then just after one minute the file appeared again. Tried deleting that file but it cant be deleted. ma hard disk has …

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Hi, is there any chance to get this sound card working on windows 2008 ? There is no chance to get offical support from creative. And i wasn't able to setup working kxdrivers even on windows 2003 :-( If somebody could write little howto how to get kxdrivers work (even …

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I have a problem ( intermittant boot failure ) and looked in the event viewer which was quite useless to me as there are only numbers. Errors were DCOM 10005 and Service Control Manager 7001. I have spent hours fruitlessly searching through Google the Microsoft aticles were as obscure as …

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Hi after a recent virus I ran a clean install on a computer I'm working on for a friend. I get it running beautifully SP2 fully working, AVG antivirus and Spyware running smoothly, etc. I defrag and close and within 24 hours I get a similar problem. It's not a …

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i have a custom computer with 1.1 gigs or ram, radeon 9600, 1205 mgz processor. i have installed battlefield2 multiple times but every time i go to play i can hear the audio but no video shows. i have waited 10 mins of black screen. i have sp2 updated drivers …

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Hi All, I'm trying to knock together a bit of a program for picking through the contents of %windir%/CSC in the hope of being able to recover somewhat from disaters suffered by users when Oflline File sync goes wrong It appears that all windows does is strip filenames and extensions …

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I have XPhome and if I power cycle my computer I have no control over my USB Logitech trackball mouse until I unplug and plug it back in then every thing works fine. If I restart windows the mouse works fine. This isn't a major problem, as I leave the …

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Hi can anyone help me? i inadvertently quick formatted my hard drive, which at first has 3 partition 1 for windows the other 2 for files. but now it is 1 big ntfs partition. is all my file deleted? is there a way to recover some of my files? pls …

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Background : Hi recently I took a new assembled PC with Windows XP installed on it. I wanted to install Linux on it and i did so. But after that my Windows XP os was not working fine so I uninstalled Linux. Later on I could able to work on …

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HI FOLKS WENT TO DEFRAG MY HARD DRIVE TO FIND A RECYCLER\NPROTECT FILE LISTED WITH OVER 7GB LISTED. I DELTED NORTON SYSTEM WORKS AGES AGO. WHEN I OPEN UP THE RECYCLE BIN ON DESKTOP IT IS STANDARD RECYCLE BIN. SEARCHED FOR THIS AND FOUND MESSAGE DETIALED AT END OF THSI …

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