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| | Hi, I have recently came from a LAN sesion and when i got home my windows media player is playing up. I can't listen to music of any kind or movies this is really irittating... Whenever i do try to play a song or movie clip it comes up with …  |
| | my friends computer got hit with 38 virus's it had coolwwwebsearch on it, about:blank tons of stuff. he didn't have any kind of virus protection. so I put adawarese, spybot s&d and AVG, than ran all, rebooted in safe mode and did it again rebooted again. ran everything one more …  |
| | Greetings all. I recently was forced to do a re-install of XP to clean up a few bugs. The system has 3 hard drives, but since the reinstall, only the C: drive appears. The other two are nowhere to be found. I've tried mapping to them, but they just don't … |
| | I would like to know how to password protect files under my profile with Win XP on another hard drive. Currently can only do it on the C drive where windows is installed. Thanks, Derek |
| | Whenever I try to change my firewall settings in XP...by going through the control panel and clicking on "change firewall settings"...the window opens and then immediately closes. It doesn't give me time to take any action. Can anyone help? Thanks, Sarah |
| | ok so here's my headache... one of the computers in my office is having a problem... one of the svchost.exe started by SYSTEM is running at close to 100% of the proccessor, while another is dormant... what could be causing this? the OS on the machine is xp pro, sp2 …  |
| | How do you completely wipe Hard drive (NOT using "format c:" or "fdisk"? My old Sony Vaio Pcg f350 randomly crashes and is genrally crash prone. I have checked the hard drive and it contains "bad clusters"! I have used "format c:" and "fdisk" but neither get rid of the …  |
| | I have modem troubles on my Laptop. I have got on the internet about a month ago with no troubles but now I cant even dial out. My device Manager says the modem is working fine. I am afraid it is a virus and I have forgot to update my … |
| | I have problem with my Windows Media Player or computer, it want play some mp3 songs(something about codec missing)? How to Fix that? Thanx |
| | My Computer is windows XP. Please can you tell me do I need jave software installed, and how do I get it. Thank-you  |
| | I have three windows ... 2000, xp and 2003 server. My primary drive ( c:\) has a windows xp installation ... now my windows xp is getting corrupt and I want to wipe it out and install a fresh one. The problem is that if I format my C drive, … |
| | Okay, here is the long and short of it. Today is April 25th 6:48 MST I want my computer clock to be set to uhm let's say the 17th of April. I right click on the time in the bottom right corner (windows XP proffessional) I click "Adjust Date/Time" I … |
| | I recently had a hitch hicker, and after downloading the Spyware Doctor, I thought that would be the end of that...alas, it wasn't. I have a backup disc using Drive Image software for my C drive, it was provided with this computer which was a gift from a friend, and … |
| | I don't think this is a major problem but it is definetly annoying. I have a Wireless DSL connection and about four out of ten times whenever the phone rings, I lose connection to the Internet. The first few times it happened, it didn't bother me because I think Wireless …  |
| | ok i have a computer but it is a windows 2000 and i want xp on it but how do i do that?? :cheesy: |
| | Hey everyone. I need some help. I have a Dell Dimension XPS Gen4 and it came with a DVD burner drive (DVD R/RW). It burns DVDs, however i noticed they won't play on any dvd players, just computers. However, when i burn the same movie with my brothers external dvd … |
| | Yesterday evening Windows Update crashed telling me 2 updates had failed to install. After rebooting IE no longer seems to support Javascript or any plugins (Flash, Java, etc. all fail), HTML Help no longer works, popups don't pop up (that's often nice), etc. Is there any solution to this except … |
| | Hello I am getting set up to use photoshop elements and i am thinking of getting two sata drives to use as a striped array to handle the data files. If i do that do I need to install a seperate operating system on the array? I don't think i … |
 | I have a wireless adapter hooked up and installed, but it's not working. I went to network connections, right clicked on my wireless connection, then selected repair. I get this message: "Windows could not finish repairing the problem because the following action cannot be completed: TCP/IP is not enabled for … |
| | My computer connects to the internet, but when i try to view a site or connect to a messenger it acts like i'm not online. I even reformatted and it did not help at all. |
| | I have a new functional (already tested it elsewhere) lexmark 2200 series all in one and xp will not detect the new hardware. i have downloaded the software from the disc and then get not communicating with printer message making me nuts |
| | Hi! I'm trying to help my sister who's in a bit of trouble. She needs to run scandisk but we can't figure out how to do it in Win XP (not even her Dummy book tells us how!) :o Can anyone here spare the time to gives a few pointers … |
| | I'm not sure what exactly is causing it, but there seems to be a problem with java. I cant play any java games, nor see anything in the java windows. I also cant goto some sites. My problem is a lot like JJJ's on his thread "[URL=http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?t=18415-java]IE and Firefox Problems[/URL] … |
| | ok on the home screen of my xp home edition the icon colours have changed anf i dont no how 2 make them default again look at the attachment if you dont no what i mean there a dark blue when they r really white or something |
 | hi there. i am using my sisters account to ask for this advice i have a 40Gb samsung hard drive with windows xp professional installed on it. my problem is that i have been experiencing quite a few windows errors and BSODs over the last couple of days. A virus … |
| | HELP!! As usual i follow instructions and mess up !! 1) Have a Dell Laptop with WIN 2000 OS, loaded WIN XP pro (with NTFS) and now i have both OS. When i boot i get the option of choosing any one OS. 2) How do get rid of WIN … |
| | Everytime I format my computer, the moniter will not work. And everytime, I have to take the computer to the repair shop and they do something very small with takes them about 1 - 5 minutes and cost $5. They told me this is because my moniter is too small … |
| | Anyone ever deal with this before? Let me tell you...lots of fun. So I had XP Home and had one user "Quinn". I upgraded to XP Pro and for soe reaosn, I was now prompted with a popup login (similar to the one most people have and that I have … |
| | Ok, just last night I was playing a game that requires you have one of the game disks in. My mom was on this morning doing some virus scans and stuff, now I cant get the computer to recognize any disk. I put in my game disk, and click to … |
| | Hi My old CD-RW drive died last week so I've purchased another and installed it. The problem is that the drive letters have changed. Before my CD-RW drive was (D:) and my DVD ROM drive was (E:). But now they've both shifted one letter forward so they're: CD-RW drive (E:) … |
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