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Hi Friends Found this icon on the desktop - Wgtvsdzmkk.tmp - I delete it and it appears again when I next start PC. Is this something to worry about? Any commentsappreciated. PC is on good old XP. Thanks all, Tez

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I want to create a batch file that opens an executable(.exe) file . Actually when we open that .exe file it asks us select or browse a file then we need to select the file. After selecting the file we need to remove the file in the second textbox by …

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Hi I have an XP Pro PC with SP3. I have all the latest drivers. And everything in Bios and windows itself is setup correctly. ACPI is in S3 mode. When I want to shutdown the PC, I press the Sleep key, which I have done for ages, and the …

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Good evening, I have the blasted 'We apologize for the inconvenience...' screen. There are 3 safe mode options, 1 'last known working' option, and 1 'start normally' option. None of these work. The whole laptop freezes. The laptop did not come with a start up disk, which might make things …

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Trying to burn copy of a home DVD/video of amateur show (about 1 and half hours long, transferred professionaly to DVD originally off VHS!!) using Nero 7. All seems well until the actual burn when about about half way through when Nero says ' Aborted' and ejects the DVD. Have …

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I can't do it through the normal way because it's been locked out by administration (I'm at school). I'm just trying to add the Python installation.

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Xp Machine is very slow to boot. I notice that MsMpEng.exe is using up a huge amount of memory during start up process. It goes from about 150,000k to 15,000k. When it reaches the lower figure - which takes some time - things then start to make progress. Also, I …

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Whenever I attempt startup, I receive this message: We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this. If your computer stopped responding, restarted unexpectedly, or was automatically shut down to protect your files and folders, choose Last Known …

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I'm currently running on a Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 1 and my CD-Drive doesn't seem to close itself. It will open on it's own, most of the time, but when it does do that it won't close itself. But that's not my main concern. My …

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I want anything pasted in desktop automatically copied to another folder in next drive. Is it POSSIBLE?

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Hi, I run a Lenovo PC with Windows XP. Lately, it's been doing some funky things. It's hard to define, so I will give a couple of examples. When clicking on bookmarks, I usually have to click and hold the mouse to get it to get to the bookmark. Or …

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Using XP PRO , the add/remove display has white areas and truncated descriptions and the column widths too narrow . I have searched far and wide for a solution but cannot find a solution . Does anyone know of this problem and have a fix .

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I have windows xp and IE6 OR 7,when I have 2 or more websites open and I close one they all close.This just started to happen.Did the tools thing,under tabs as someone suggested in another site/click warn when closing multiple sites and no help. Any suggestions greatfully appreciated. Thank You …

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I work with video files, one image frame at a time, using PhotoImpact. The normal process is to crop, resize & save each image frame, then repeat the exact same process for dozens of other image frames. PhotoImpact does support some batch processing, but not doing the same cropping of …

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hi'yall. while trying to repair a XP media ctr. system (Gateway 5520), i discovered that this Gateway system lists the C: drive as active and listed as the #1 partition, but is only 73mb and named 'backup'. after a couple of trys with a non-destructive 'restore' (re-install with a data …

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Hello My Temp folder in XP has many files in it, and I want to free some space on my C, can I safely manually delete these files or are there steps/tools to delete its content automatically?

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I am updating my root certificates,I am using a 2.0 beta program called "Security Holes" it put out by 10bit Security 360 which is an anti virus-anti spy ware program. I am using it supplement my AVG. But when I try to update my root certificates I get this error …

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i am currently using Mircosoft Windows XP (32-bit) Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz (2532 MHz), 1280 MB RAM (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500) [U]My Problem[/U] when i run java program the CPU USAGE will run to 100% . i tried to reinstall but doesn't work. i …

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Greetings To All. I'm just wondering if anybody has any workaround or solution for the problem as described on the thread title. I've been doing the search on the web but so far it has not worked for me. [B][U]Setup/Environment[/U][/B] [LIST]LAN with about 30 computers connected to network.[/LIST] [LIST]Mix of …

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Gateway computer - Intel Celeron - Win XP SP2 I just had to reinstall Windows on my computer. I backed up all of my files into a folder called "My Backup -- --/--/--". So I go into that folder to make sure my important files are still there but when …

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Hi errbody!:confused: I got a problem with my PC:icon_sad: . Since last week, I can't disabled/enabled my system restore, suddenly, the place I've to click it grey and it's write: "Disabled by Group Policy":-/ , I've tried to Run "gpedit.msc" to see what the matter but it doesn't work:icon_rolleyes: . …

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Hi everyone, I wonder if you can help me out . A few days ago when my PC was shutting down and the power was switched off corrupting some file and giving me this blue startup screen "Unmountable_Boot_Volume". I tried many suggestions about using the recovery console to fix this, …

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I recently wasn't able to connect to the internet, so i went to microsoft's website and followed the steps for fixing the problem (which was supposedly winsock2 related) and now my start button and taskbar freezes every time i start my computer. It also displays the Active Desktop Recovery Screen. …

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Greetings, I had two copies of windows XP Pro running one on drive C: and another on drive D: I was not using the one on drive C: so I stupidly formatted drive C:. Naturally I lost my boot loader and needed to reinstall windows to get access to my …

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Any idea how to install CENTOS FTP server, We tried any tutorial in the console but no matters........any suggestions how to do it also in graphical mode or in cosole mode....

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The power optons on my XP Pro SP3 IE8 laptop will not let me change the options back to default when I click on the standby or hybernation. Want it to stay online while at idle & not ask me for a password everytime once it shuts down with the …

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Hello need help and I saw this forum and was hoping someone could. I keep getting reidirected to different websites so I google that and found a thread on this site that helped but I am a novice and don't know exactly how to fix my problem. Another problem I …

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when trying to install radeon drivers i get an error that suddgest i first install standard SVGA drivers. how do i do this in windows 2000pro? i did a maunal update of drivers but i see no standard drives( like in windows98) any help is good. How do i install …

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Hi! I have downloaded a software called Easy Dp (Desplay Picture) for my Msn Messenger. When I tried to run it, it has a message with [COLOR=Red]Run-time Error '-21470024770 (8007007e)': Automation Error The specified module could not be found.[/COLOR] How can I solve this problem? thank you!

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:rolleyes: have a simple question. my Emachine will not proceed to clean C: drive. it just hangs at 3 bars for ever. it is a 2.167 ghz. athon w/ wxp pro. sp1. 30 gb maxtor diamond max. 7200 rpm hdd. whats the deal? can do a defrag. w/ no issues …

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