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Hi guys n gals, All of a sudden my pc has got slow especially on start up. When i start it up i can see the HD light clicking away as though it's loading up and after it finally gets there (about 1 min) its just very slow at doing …

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I have recently had some problems with all of the programs in my MS Office. The main problem is that whenever I click on the arrow to open up the Look-in drop-down menu at the top of various windows in Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint, the program locks up and …

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ok, this was about 6 weeks ago, and i had 2 deal without flash for that long, and i cant take anymore. at first i was ok with it cuz i had my laptop and flash worked there, but then my laptop started freezing up on me. i dont mean …

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I am unable to access the internet. I only get a white screen, yesterday I could atleast tell the internet was out there, today nothing at all. I checked my system for virus, malware and all of that. Nothing helps. I even did a system restore and still nothing. Does …

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Ok here is a question to all, in XP we have system restore, and we can create restore points. Now should I have a problem and need to run MSCONFIG, and run selective start up, I lose all the restore points This also happens when you turn off restore, to …

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[B]I haveWindows Xp and when I boot, it gets past the startup screen, but then stops at a plain blue screen. The cursor is visible, but none of the screen icons, such as the harddrive or workfolders are. I can't therefore access any work or applications! Help. Never had this …

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hi im sry im new ive been going though all these threads to see if i can find an answer but i havent. last night i tryed to shut my computer down but it wouldnt so i did it by holding the button and shuting it off. So today i …

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I have a jump drive that I am wanting to put private files on. Like my MS Money Backup and a file that stores passwords. Whats the best way of doing this? All I want to be able todo is encrypt the files that are in a specific folder on …

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Hi All, I'm kinda suck with a problem i have. My parents have a PC that is on a internet connection that has a dynamic address. I VNC and connect to this machine remotly all the time. The issue is the IP address changes every 4 hrs. I'm trying to …

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Can anyone help please, a friend of mine has somehow managed to double the height of his taskbar, also date and time are permanently displayed. I tried for hours trying to revert the taskbar to it's original size, I can drag it up to 4 times original size, or down …

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On XP I have two hard drives - C (original drive) is 20GB with 10.7GB free. The second drive I had fitted has only 295 MB (Yes MB!) on 10GB (actually 8.56GB). In spite of deleting unwanted photos and music I cannot seem to gain much additional space on D …

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I was using both window 98 and xp on my pc, Now I want that when the system starts, it should not display the option for choosing the operating system, it should simply start xp. Please tell me how to address this issue, if this is through boot.ini how can …

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I am helping a neighbor who has a 9 year old computer with windows xp home OS who subscribed to cox cable internet. the cable teck came out and hooked up the cable modem, gave her a usb network card, hooked everything up but couldn't successfully get her online. He …

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Hey there, Lately things have been going awry with my computer and so I'd like to reinstall XP. However I don't have the XP disks that originally came with the system. Would these serve the same purpose? [url]http://servicesales.sel.sony.com/web/viewItemDetail.do?operation=getItemDetail&itemID=21259&category=3&categoryName=Computer&searchOperation=modelSearch&searchText=PCVRZ22G[/url] Thanks in advance!

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I am trying to network a mac which has a dial-up connection to a PC with XP using an Ethernet switch where is a good reference to this ?

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My mother has got windows xp everytime you switch it on it goes as the xp logo with the balck background and then restarts. It will not start in safe mode either. Can any one help At some point it said that a program may have been installed wrong Help …

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I am trying to install windows xp on a system which has windows 2003 server system. After restarting system with cd-rom support the system is showing A:/ prompt directly instead of starting the setup process. When i try to format the c: drive , i am unable to do that …

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Hi All There have been previous threads here on related topics, and I've read them all carefully, but at this stage none of them has solved the issue I'm having. It only happens if I play a 3D game (both Morrowind and UT 2004 Demo have exhibited it - I …

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Hello, My CD-Rom drive and a virtual driver by DAEMON Tools do not exist. I have been watching Registry. I think that drives need system32 folder to work. If I open C:\WINDOWS\, I can't find system32 folder! If I type C:\WINDOWS\system32, then it goes to the folder. I think that …

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I've got my dns server set up on the new DC for the Active Directory domain. All the clients are in an NT4 domain and are using a Bind DNS server on Linux. All clients think they are in the mydomain.com domain (netbios name MYDOMAINUK). The new domain is a …

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im trying again, im not sure if there are many ppl that see these, but i am desperate, i had probs, with windows updating, i solved this by re-registering files for the background intelligent transfur service, then was able to d/l and install windows updates, but, something happened, i wish …

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My mum has a copy of xp pro on her PC and has bought a copy of home edition to replace it. Is there any way of installing the home edition copy onto her PC without wiping the hard drive. The reason for the her doing this is we have …

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hi, anyone know if the product key for Windows XP Home (english) can be used for Windows XP Home(chinese)?

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I was installing windows xp pro on a system running xp home. When the install gets to the INSTALL DEVICES area it sends me to the blue screen. The F8 key functions as designed, however nothing will let me boot in safe mode. I get an error saying the PC …

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HI ALL. I stumbled into this site while trying to find out what the kernel is in my computer due to the fact that when I turn it on it says wt kernel not found I have no clue on what to do would greatly apprechiate some help from one …

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I have three user accounts on windows xp, and everytime i restart my computer it does not display the welcome screen, but automatically logs on to my name. i have gone into the user accounts options menu and checked the box "Use the Welcome Screen", but it is still automatically …

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sorry , i post this thread at here, but i really got a problem. 1. System time shown on the task bar has 29s(max) time of delay to update itself . 2. The system time (task bar) is delayed after system repeatingsuspend/resume . 3. System time shown on task bar …

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Hi All When turning on my PC, computer starts, windows XP logo appears then message that it cannot start properly due to upgrade. It gives options including start in safe mode, start in most recent config and start windows normally. Keyboard will not work so timer on screen counts down …

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