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Help is really appreciated. When i click the turn off computer from Start button the Standby button is inactive ( grayed out) the Shutdown and Restart are working ok. How do i get the Standby button active. :sad: Thanks

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Hi all, I have an older PC that I want to take win xp off of and reinstall win 95 and then I will give the pc away. My question is how does one get win xp off of the conputer and still have the comp. boot from the cd …

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ok im not sure if this is where i should report my problem but yahoo is not letting me delete any emails or mark them as spam or move them or anything it will only let me view them and its not showing my yahoo avatar so i tried to …

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I've Been Looking On The Net On How To Remove The Forgotton Config Password. Seems That Dell And Others Just Want Your Money To Come Up With The Master Password. I'm Disabled And Have Very Little Being On A Fixed Income. If Any One Would Be So Kind Please Assist. …

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I've just been given a spare hard drive that works great except for one thing. Whenever I move my mouse the monitor goes a reddy colour and sometimes has stripes. It's not my monitor, mouse, keyboard etc as they work fine when hooked up to my original hardrive. My refresh …

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When I boot up my laptop I get the following error: [hr]Windows could not boot up because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\System32\SYSTEM\SYSTEM.CONF Insert the Windows installation CD and press "r" at the main screen.[/hr] I have done all of this, but still, it boots with the same …

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Hey everyone, I have a question for you all: I have Windows XP, and it has magically stopped working. When it starts booting up it goes to that black screen with the safe mode option (and the other ones like network prompt). The problem is, is that when I try …

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Quite often but not always when I burn a dvd (I use sonic software for this) Windows media player will not give sound, yet windows media center has no problem. I am using xp media edition. Easy workaround I know, but why?

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compatibility issues made it necessary to switch from zone alarm to kerio personal. i was told that it is complicated. my greatest fear is that i have already allowed a hacker in. would any of you experienced kerio personal firewall users guide me thru the steps of shutting down traffic, …

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Hi Please allow me to introduce myself. Currently I am employed with a local firm specialising in Network and Software Support for other local firms. I form part of a CERT team (Computer Emergency Response Team) whereas one of my duties include cyber investigations for our Information Security and Risk …

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Hi Friends I cannot delete shortcuts on desktop I am getting this message " Make sure the disk is not full or write protected and that the file is not currently in use " Please help me in deleting these shortucts Actually i want blank desktop so please help me …

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Hi I have a heinz 57 PC AMD Athlon at 1837Mhz, 200MB HD, 512RAM. Windows XP Pro SP2. I have a problem for the last couple of months, Each and every time I try to enter Safe Mode the password is rejected. I have even tried creating a new administrator …

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Hi guys, Re: my orignal post titled '[B]Win XP: Mouse and Keyboard frozen after startup' [/B]of Oct 5th 2006 7:50 am I managed to get a XP Repair/install dick from my mate but following all the advise I have read online so far I cannot get any further. When I …

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One of my clients has this startup problem. After his system boots, he gets 8 messages about a file or registry reference missing. Clicking OK on each popped up window gets past all of the reported errors. See this link for details: [URL]http://rouley.com/pub/it/StartupErrors.mht[/URL] Currently, I am studying the startup sequence …

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Hello All, I'm running Windows XP with SP2, connected directly to the modem and have been having a problem for a while now of the internet connection dropping ramdonly and I need to reboot to get it started again. I can be downloading or not downloading (Heavy or light use) …

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Hi... I came across this place while lookin for a solution for my current problem... In the hope that someone here can help me... Ok, i won't beat about the bush i'll just tell you what went wrong... When i had a play with my speaker setup yesterday everthing was …

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I dont know how did i made it but there are 2 Window XP OS in my computer. Each time when i turn on my pc, it will ask me to chose which OS that i would like to run. I was tried to format my pc yesterday, but i …

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I have read a similar thread which discusses the problem of 'computer taking a long time to boot......yeah my computer also takes a long time to boot but once booted .....say after 10 mins..then when i restart it restarts immediately....its just for the first time in the day it takes …

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Can someone please help me.:sad: [U]Problem![/U] windows\system\config\system I have tried all different things on this computer and all i get is missing or curupt file (XP will not start) I have managed to put the hard drive in another computer running windows xp as a slave hd and have copyed …

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Hello.......I run Win XP. Since recently, I cannot play videos on Quicktime 6.5. I usually get a message to " hit this to activate an Active X." When I hit "ok," it then says I am missing software to run the video. I don't know when things changed, but I …

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Hi everyone. This is my first post. I have a problem with Windows 2000, sp4. When it starts up, sometimes it proceeds ok and then stops at a blue screen. I do not mean a bsod, just a blank blue screen - no text, no error messages, nothing - just …

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i am running XP sp2. i am also running IE 6 and the most current version of firefox. when ever i try to log into a few particular websites my web browser shuts down unexpectadly, no error no nothing. both IE and firefox. some1 please help!!!!!

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Okay, I've never done this before. So I will apologize now for any distortion. But I have right now on my only partition XP he. Which as we all know sux and gives the admin basically no security features. So I have a copy Pro I want to install onto …

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Hey gang whats up? Here's my problem. Ever since i loaded win xp i have not had any audio through my speakers. i checked the driver in my sound and audio devices and it was installed but not working properly. So i uninstalled it, and downloaded again from the c-media …

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hi there You guys have helped me with sucses before so I'll try again. My graphic card is running in vgasave mode and I have tried to update new driver for it, but with no sucses any good ideas.thanks regards John:mrgreen:

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Its a fairly new sony, it had a problem before, it would restart after about two to three minutes into windows. It eventually fried the mother board. which was replaced with a new one. Now it is having the same problem. But now it restarts after about 30 seconds. it …

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i tried to copy the URL but everytime i paste it, this word will be pasted not the URL >> Hello! :mad: and i cant cut or paste my pictures from my desktop to other folder in my documents... i tried restarting my pc but it doesnt work...any1 can help …

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Hi all i have this problem İ was playing game in web browser then a massege come and told me that i must upgrade my java 5.0 to 6 and i updgraded that... When i close the browser my pc restarts... When i tried to delete this java it still …

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Hi all! Im new to computers and not very technical. So here goes:When i insert a Cd into the Cd tray of my laptop nothing happens?? When i try to burn a cd through Itunes it says the "Cd Burner or software is missing"?? But i have burned cd'd many …

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I was on my in-law's PC that trying to merge a partion with Partition Magic (Merging with main C drive). During the merge process, I got an error. It told me to hit any key to exit and reboot. After doing so & trying to load back into Windows, I …

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