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All the other programs on my family's laptop work fine, except for the most crucial, Windows Explorer. Whenever I try to bring up a window (ex. My Computer), there is a 2 second pause where everything on the desktop disappears except for the screensaver. Then everything comes back but no …

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Hi i have a HP nx9105 laptop with MS XP Pro installed and all works fine but for the Drive bay, i have noticed that when i try to eject the CD via pushing the button on the side of the drive or clicking in my computer the Drive just …

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Unable to access hyperlink when in my email; either on my pc with Outlook or on my other acccount which is remote. I click on hyperlink and am disconnected. Unable to open in new window or right click either unable to download SP2 again uable to find "urlmon.dll" using Microsoft …

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Hello, I'm somewhat new with computers and im jsut wondering how i would go about reformating my hp pavillion zv5000 laptop, i have already backed up all my important files and im all ready to reformat i just need to know what to do first and what i need to …

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I'm running a 2 gig machine with 512 megs of RAM with Win XP Pro, Svc Pk 2. It's an Asus MB with built-in audio and video. I've been fighting a lot of spyware lately, and somewhere along the way I've lost my sound. Some input on how I can …

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I don't know what I did but my system font has been changed to what looks like Arial 14pt. So a lot of websites I have been going to now have arial as the font along with IM's, etc...How do I change this back to normal? Thanks!

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Hi, I installed firmware for my DVD writer (Pioneer DVR A07 XLA) when I shutdown, window wont shut down properly, when I restart, window comes up with icon in right hand tray saying found new hardware CD-rom then everything stall. I cant get to any program at all. Please help. …

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Hello, I'm somewhat new with computers and im jsut wondering how i would go about reformating my hp pavillion zv5000 laptop, i have already backed up all my important files and im all ready to reformat i just need to know what to do first and what i need to …

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When I try to install Winrunner 7.0, or some other appliccation program,It show me "C:\WINNT\system32\autoexec.nt.The system file is not suitable to install MSDOS or windows appliction software" I have reinstalled window 2000, but it still have this problem. WHY? everybody can help, please! Cathy

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My wireless connection was working fine. All the sudden it stopped working. I can connect directly to the cable modem, so I know my IE has not been hijacked. My Device Manager does not show any problems. My icon on the Task Bar shows I have a connection. Yet when …

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When I try to install Winrunner 7.0, or some other appliccation programs,It show me "C:\WINNT\system32\autoexec.nt.The system file is not suitable to install MSDOS or windows appliction software" I have reinstalled window 2000, but it still have this problem. WHY? everybody can help, please! Cathy

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Microsoft Update "Failure" leads to Error 80200010 which says that the network card is inoperative, yet it is OK. Can't find any more info. on this error, not even on the Site itself. Funny thing is that there is a way round it, by way of opening the further-details page …

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I am temporarly living at a hotel they offer high speed wireless internet, I have a desktop pc with a linksys instant wireless b pci adapter installed, I am able to access their network although every time I click to do anything I loose my connection and have to wait …

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Hi there, really hope i have picked the right 'room' to write this post on. ( new to this). Ok, so i was thinking i was being clever, and silly me have uninstalled ( i think) something that has now stopped me from hearing any sound from my computer... now …

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Hi! Can you please help me with this problem? "C:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~2\update\optimi~1.EXE The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction CS:0051 IP:02f2 OP:63 6d 3d 43 3a" ThanX!!

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I had window xp on my computer and I loaded Window 2003 Now when i first boot up my computer I can go to Internet Explorer and it opens ok but if i close it and try to open it again I get the red circle with a slash through …

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After seven hours of searching and applying various fixes to my own corrupted Windows Search NONE of Which Worked!!! You "gurus" out there really let me down this time. (I'm telling ya it was worse then finding out about Santa,the Tooth fairy or even the wiz for that matter) I …

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I have tried everything to get my computer to enable my modem but nothing works, went thru the help and it says probably needs enabled in bios ... I have no idea how to enable it can anyone help me please i need to get on the internet, I am …

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I have a C and D drive, the D drive is a seperate HD from C, and has no essential files for running windows. I want to format the D Drive and eventually install some version of linux to it. Is it possible to just format it and leave it …

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Inter net Options..Delete temp files VS Address %temp% which will list them & APPEARS more detailed..Is there a difference? Is the second method more thourough?

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Hello! In today’s world of identity theft, hacking, phishing, etc. I want to be sure I’m doing everything I can to get any personal information on my PC…just that…personal and protected. I heard a news report this afternoon about “scrubbing

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Hello - I was wondering if anyone could direct me towards some information that outlines a good server maintenance program to follow? I'm running about 10 Windows 2003 servers, one with Exchange 2003 on it. Four (I believe) are DNS servers, and we are running Active Directory as well. Thank …

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Okay guys, I don't know much about computers and I'm seeking major help. Problem #1: For some reason, whenever I play a cd in my cd-rom drive, the sound is all distorted. I don't have this problem when I play a music or sound file on my computer, it's just …

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One of my co-workers attempted to send an e-mail to a customer yesterday. The mail was returned with the following error: "There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. Please contact your system administrator. <ourservername #5.5.0 smtp;554 mail server permanently rejected message (#5.3.0)> I have investigated RFC …

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I was in a rush to close this morning and some how inadvertently moved the toolbar from the bottom horizontally, to the right hand side vertically. The start botton is at the top right corner, while the clock and icons are at the bottom right with nothing in between. I …

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hey everyone! first off, im running Windows xp (dont laugh plz) with a 56k modem. i have been having the prob recently where my modem keeps wanting to dial into the internet. even when my pc is sitting doing nothing, the dial up window will pop up and automatically start …

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My PC is currently Windows XP with SP1. Because of some recent problems I need to perform a Windows XP Repair. I have just slipstreamed my original (non-SP1) Windows XP CD with SP2 so now I have a single, bootable Windows XP disk with SP2 integrated. My question is this... …

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Good Evening to All. I have successfully installed windows xp (home Edition)several times on my computer (Hp 533w intel, Celeron 2.0 Ghz). On all occassions, I have download all updates from Bill. After downloading all updates, normal operations is establish. Several minutes later, I turn the cpu and I get …

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All my CD ROM Drives used to work, with no problems. When I went to device manager and went to properties all of them have this as the error message "This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)" They all …

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Hi there, I have a problem and I'm hoping someone can help. The computers not been well recently, I've reinstalled O/S and used a variety of bug killers and all seemed ok. Problem is that in the last week I've been prompted to reactivate windows four times due to hardware …

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