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Hi, One of my friend has a Compaq Presario 5340. Has about 340 something MB, recently installed 160 GB harddrive from 7 gb HD. 400 MHZ. After he installed Win Xp, He said that his CPU usage went up 100% and he ran updated Spybot and Adaware and found a …

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I use GAIM and have no use for Windows Messenger. I have managed to make it hidden so that it at least does not clutter up my system tray, but it still runs in the background, which annoys me to no end. Is there anyway I can completly remove it? …

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i install the via 97 realtek audio driver after restarting , my computer hangs and when i use safe mode options i received the error message (C0000221 unknown hard error \systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll) i try everthing fom disabling the hardware which is onboard from the bios but nothing happens i do not …

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It's a fresh install of XP Pro Srvc Pck 2. Of course IE is the latest version. Anytime I try to read the source and click it in the menu nothing happens. Any ideas as to why? It wouldn't be the pop-up killer in SP 2 would it. If so, …

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I cannot run .exe files or .lnk files directly, I have to right click and 'open with' the select the program itself. I also get [B]Registry modification detected Root:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Key:Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Value:RunDLL Data: New Data:rundll32.exe "C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\bridge.dll",Load Attempt to alter the autostart section (Blocked)[/B] from Adaware. I can't access regedit …

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i bought a ati radeon 9600xt 128mb awhile ago and it worked fine for a week or so then it started to freeze and restart my computer and it normally does this when im in a game or someone walks near the tower. my computer specs are: win/xp home sp1 …

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Hi guys, A very annoying problem. Hope you can help, I will try to explain how this problem occured so that you have a better idea about whats wrong: 1. I am running XP-Pro with SP2, P4 2.66, 1GB RAM, 40Gb HDD. 2. One day out of the blue every …

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Hi. I got a winner problem I was running xp disk cleaner, and the computer re booted.. Now it rebooted before, but seems like it wont let me run the disk cleanup program in windows. when the computer turned back on, it said the computer recovered from a serious error. …

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Does anyone know anything about Lameme.exe? I found this exe on my sons PC and, I suspect it may be related to PORN (It's not the first time I've caught him). If so, can anyone instruct me how to get rid of it?? Wallace.

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Please can someone help! My friend is stranded 1500 miles from home, and has recieved an error message that prevents her opening windows explorer, or anything at all now. The error is "win32shock.dll", and neither she nor I knows what it means or how to fix it. I am a …

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Please somebody help. I have COMPAQ Computer running Windows xp which untill today was okay. Now what happend is that. Today when i booted my computer i got a STOP ERROR c0021a{Fatat System Error}. The session Manager Initialization System process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000022(0x00000000 0x00000000) The system …

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I can't boot Windows 2000 due to a kmode exception error (see earlier thread) so I wondered about the possibility of doing a fresh install but in a seperate directory. The computer has a C drive (FAT32) and a D drive (NTFS) and I wondered if it would be possible …

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Hi I now have PartitionMagic, I was wondering if anyone has copied their existing files and preinstalled OS to a new drive using this program. I hope to make my new 160GB drive the master and the current 80GB drive the slave. Any tips would be a help. Thanks! -Cole

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Hi I recently installed a 160GB Hitachi ata hard drive in my HP. The master drive is a maxtor 80GB. I have already moved a lot of my pictures, videos, and other miscellaneous files to my 160GB slave drive. However, I would like to move all of my installed programs …

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I have a problem, need a know-how on ishue which DVD files must I download on abc torrent so I could burn some movies in DVD format. My brother has a Panasonic SC-HT500 DVD (home cinema) player, I won't to burn some movies for him, but I just don't know …

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Is it possible to move IE to something other than c:\program files\internet explorer? I want to use that space to put a Firefox installation so that applications trying to open IE will open Firefox instead. How about renaming the old directory? It says its in use when I try.

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I'm usuallly working with about 5 apps on a continual basis. Is it possible to open all of them simultaneously by opening just one (ie. by opening MS Word, the spreadsheet, DB & other apps also open)?? Thx in advance.

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i have windows 2000 with a adsl modem as the main pc which gives internet to all of the 15-20 other PCs. the problem is that a few of them download a lot of stuff with p2p, so the internet is way too slow to use for the rest. as …

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Hello All Im Running A Pentium 3 1gb Ibm Tower Everytime I Go On The Internet It Freezes When I Open Some Programs It Freezes Ive Tried Getting Rid Of Spyware Ive Tried Reformatting The Computer I Cant Figure It Out And Im About To Give Up Someone Pleasssse Help …

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Hi I need some help with my IE, not sure if this is the right place. Seems like when ever I am going to a site a extra window opens (minimized and will not allow me to maximize it, I have to use Task Manager to Maximize it but its …

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Hey, I just got a new laptop and formatted my computer. I'm running windows xp home, 60 gig hdd, 512 mb ddr ram, 1.8 gig amd cpu. My explorer.exe is slow at times and then it would just freeze and restart. It happens when I try to do a bunch …

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My computer starts fine but once you get to the welcome screen and type in password it shows desktop for a few seconds then logs off and shows register screen again. This problem only started a few days ago.

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Does anyone know if Windows Longhorn will be able to read FAT16 partitions like Windows XP, or is it too early to tell?

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ok i just moved and got my DSL set up here but i am having a major problem that i or my DSL provider can not figure out..ok its windows XP if you go in to control panel network connections there is lan and high speed connection under that has …

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Whenever i hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE my task manager pops up, then befor i can do anything it crashes and i have no clue why. Microsoft.com wasn't anyhelp, and my help topics on my computer didn't eather :mad: What to do?? :?:

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HP Officejet R 80 printer/fax/scanner worked just fine until I upgraded to XP SP2. Printer works, but scanner does not...saw some info indicating that the drivers were not SP2 compatible. Searched quite a bit and cannot locate SP2 drivers for scanner. Anyone? Thanks, Carrie

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Ok, I've had it, SP2 causes more problems than it fixes. Although, im not [i]quite[/i] sure how to uninstall it. My guess is I just go to add/remove progs and select Servie Pack 2 yada yada but i have a terrible vision of it uninstalling more than just SP2...

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I have re-installed Win 2000 Pro on my daughters PC after she loaded something onto the system by accident. 2000 kept asking fot a Paperport 8 disc even though this program was removed. We removed all Paperport files and documents and re-loaded again. Now when re booting the PC comes …

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Hey guys, everytime that the monitor goes off or the screensaver goes off, xp hangs. if the monitor is off, it will turn on and bring up the desktop and i can move the mouse, but i cant click anything and CTRL+ALT+DEL doesn't work. i have to turn it off …

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my friend has a really crappy computer that he has messed up even more so yesterday i said i would help him reinstall everything. The problem was he didn't have the discs all he had was this crappy hp tools program that does a system recovery. I did that and …

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