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hello, My windows xp starts up fine, but after a few seconds i loose all my screen colours.. exept for some desktop icons, which stay normal untill i move my mouse over them. i don't have a clue what happened and how i can change this. My monitor is plugged …

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Hello!! I have a Dell Latitude notebook which i purchased 2 years ago. It is 256 MB ram. 800 Mhz , Win 2000 pro. I was wondering what can be done to make it work to its max potential speed ? obviously i can upgrade it but it will be …

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I am running windows xp home, i am the administrater and when logged on i can print, no problem, but when my kids log on they can not print, nothing happens, is there anything that i can change to put this right so that i can start spending a fortune …

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Hi Can anyone help please I have recently installed a new HD, setup XP Pro SP2 and all seemed to be working well. Recently when I plugged in my USB Memory Sticks, the stick shows up in my Computer, (will not autoplay) but when I doulbe click to open it, …

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Hi All, I have recently formatted my HDD and proceeded to re-install Windows XP Home with the suppliers recover discs. Everything seemed to be progressing correctly untill i was told to press any key to restart after the installation was complete. When the pc restarted it got as far as …

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Hello, I don't know how exactly to explain this but usually menu bars in programs have on underline letter which you can use with Alt key to choose it. For example in almost all programs you can use Alt+F to open File menu. However in some programs you cannot see …

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Hey everyone, I'm new to posting forums, so please bear with me. I don't know what info I need to put down and all that. I have Windows XP Professional Edition, and I think something got onto my computer yesterday. It keeps changing, though so I couldn't really get help …

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Hey guys. Im trying to format/reinstall XP pro and when i attempt to reinstall the computer finds no Hard Disk Drives, where i have 2 (only 1 is powered atm though). I have downloaded the Seagate Disc Wizard (i have a Seagate Barracuda 120 gig) and made the floppys i …

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I´ve just gotten an XP notebook from work that I´m using on my home network. If I´m not using it for awhile, I come back and it´s sitting there waiting for me to sign in and logon again. A real pain...especially as it loses the wireless connection every time. I´m …

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I just purchased a Seagate 200gb hard drive. I am trying to install windows xp. I am receiving the following error message: kernel_data_inpage-error. It goes on to read: stop: 0x0000007A (0xe124f3f4,0xc000000e, 0xbf8ed7dd, 0x0c01d860 win32k.sys- address bf8ed7dd base at bf8000000, date stamp 3b7de698. Does anyone know what this means? Please HELP …

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i have windows me, i want to upgrade to xp, my computer is 6 years old, i have 256mb ram that i just upgraded, everything else is old, do i need a new processor or graphics card or anything?

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Can someone please tell me how to get rid of those irritating desktop pop-up balloons on XP. I reinstalled a few months back and forgot how to 86 them. Thanks

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I have been using this wireless adapter for over a year now and in last few months it started freezing up my windows 2000 at any given time, sometimes I'm online for 6 hours and it will freeze, sometimes I'll turn the computer on (without even going online) and it …

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I have been getting blue screen errors for a couple of days now. The technical information i got from one of them was Stop:0x000000F4 (0x00000003, 0x820EA2f0, 0x820EA464, 0x80604450), I think thats the right one... anyway any help on how to stop these would be much appreciated. Oh and im running …

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Hi, Can any one help? My IE is so slow I first noticed when browsing ebay, I noticed that the picture action was canceled too. I had good conection speed with all other sites except ebay, Then the Next day all browsing was so slow but my download speed was …

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I am using a pentium 4 2.66ghz processor, windows XP professional, 512mb ram 80 gig hard drive etc........... I am using nero 6 to burn a movie file to my dvd rewriter. As soon as I have added the file and click burn (although nero 6 will transcode the file …

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When Windows need to download a activeX file, I dont get the download (tab line never shows). Do anyone know why and what I can do to fix this? I have SP2 and must have messed up some security settings.

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Hi, I connect to the internet at home via a modem. When i log in to my account (UCLA is my ISP), the screen immediately goes blue with a messsage saying the system is doing a memory dump. I don't have the exact error msg with me (for which i …

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hello all, hope someone can help me, i cannot install windows xp updates, downloading is ok but nothing happens when trying to install, i have windows xp pro, i have norton internet security 2005 loaded and i have tried turning off firewall but nothing.

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Ok, I have an external Hard Drive, I already format it and I have some files in it, I want to divide the Hard Drive into two different partitions, can I do it without losing any of the data I have in it? and also what happens if I select …

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I have an HP Pavilon ze5200, and I wanted to know what happens if I press the 'reset' button that is under the Computer.

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I passed exam 290 today with 925. Exam wasn't so hard. I have prepared several weeks and I expect more difficult simulations... Yes... simulations were very simple (I have 4 on exam). Rest of questions cover all topics (I above average questions from auditing, backup and permissions). This is a …

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i've got two different games that i bought for my previous computer (win 98SE) that when installed on my new computer (win XP Home) will just not play. they install O.K. but when i go to play them the cursor goes to hourglass, and then nothing, no error messages or …

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I have purchased an internet cleaner and it said it would clean the "pagefile.sys". What is this first of all and since it says it cleans it at shutdown why does the file still say it has 384 mb in it after I restart the computer? For instance it says …

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Hi guys this is my first post and its a troublesome one. Ihave been at this for 3 days please can someone help. OK here is what I want to accomplish: I have 6 Servers all running Win '03 server standard Server 1 : Configured as a Domain Controller w/ …

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I have an HP Pavilon ze5200, I've had it for 2 years, and about 2 or 3 months ago my cd/dvd driver disappeared, I open My Computer and it doesn't show the driver, I tried putting the recovery cd and restarting the computer but it doesn't do anything, does anyone …

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Hey everyone. This seems like an awesome forum and I really hope you can help, I’m in a huge bind. I put a computer together myself and had no problems until I went to install windows. When I attempt to install it, I get the dreaded hal.dll file missing or …

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Hello, This morning, I turned on my computer, only to have it stop booting before it got to the Windows logo. It then gave me the message: windows cannot start because the following file is mssing or corrupt <windows root>/system32/hal.dll. I then did "ctrl+alt+del" to restart and received the message …

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I had a registry issue with a game client i was using, aparently by installing 2 different clients of the same game i messed a bit up where i could not log either, so this resulted in reformatting. however after i reformatted, i kept getting the message stating the file …

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i posted a thread about my dell laptop, p-3 . model 8000, with windows 2000 pro. decided to put xp for the looks in it. ral the program, half way it s,,,topped and said cannot go on sys/32 confg/ missing or corrupted. so i tried again, and again. no luck. …

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