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Hi, Anyone know of a way to determine the memory speed in a machine running WINXP? (i.e. PC2700 333 Mhz or PC3200 400 Mhz). Thanks. Glenn.

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I have 98 right now i want to know is there a way to install XP on top of it? and when it boots up i can choose what os i want to use, any help? I have one hard drive.

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I have an HP computer with Windows XP. I turned my computer on and it's giving me an IDE Error #1 message. I can bypass it by hitting F1. How do I fix this problem? I do virus scans regularly, I have Spybot, I do disk cleanups, defragments, basically everything. …

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what are the steps to uninstall linux and reinstall windows. can you please explain? I want my computer back. :sad:

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I Need To Know That Where Updates By Microsoft.com Are Located(saved) In Win Xp Sp2

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Hi ! I am getting this error 2 times a week . monitoring paged pool and handles etc.. only showed that services.exe and cqmghost taking anourmous amout of handles error starting when handles amount around 5 000 000 - 6 000 000 Windows 2000 sp4 , SQl 2000 sp3 Also …

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i have an xp and at one time had only 3% of my hard drive free SO i took off many programs and freed up my hard drive to 24%. But when i go to defrag it barley does anything but when i run the analyzer it says defrag is …

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i had to recently try and clean install XP, and ive gone thru setup about a million times, and it partitions, wipes, etc, and the reboots. next, it restarts the computer, and for a moment, says "setup is starting windows" but wait! then i get taken back to SETUP and …

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Hi, I currently have four profiles displayed in winXP start up. I only use one of these. How can I remove the other three? Thanks. Glenn.

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I turned my windows pc into a linux box and now i want to put windows back on it. I deleted the partitions with partition majic and formatted with fat32 but when I tried installing the windows OS nothing happened but a grub file showed up in what appeared to …

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For some reason, regardless of how many times I try to optimize my hard drive (whether through the traditional scan disk defragmenter provided by Windows or speed disk optimizer provided by Norton Antivirus) I can’t get my disk space fragmentation level PAST 78% It was like this since I got …

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Is it okay if I delete an application (without unistalling it) and then can i remove it from the registry??? :eek:

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i bought a brand new camera and i can use it but my camera also has a MP3 player on it and it doesn't allow me to install the program beacuse "C:\WINDOWS\System\sda\sdpaums.dll" cannot be found...please help me...i want the mp3 player that i payed for...and i looked for the file …

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I'm using a laptop and I keep getting the message below whenever I try to put it on standby. The device driver for the standard 101/102-key or microsoft natural ps/2 keyboard devise is prevening the machine from entering stanby. Please close all applicantions and try again. If the problem persists, …

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Hello everyone, I'm having a very frustrating problem I was hoping someone could help me with. First off, these are the system specs. Windows 2k (service pack 3) 2.6c Mhz Pentium 4 (hyperthreading disabled) 512MB of Corsair DDR ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe Motherboard 120GB Maxtor Serial ATA HD A few days …

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We have SP2, Norton, and just loaded Bsafe online yesterday in addition. I unloaded Bsafe after being unable to access the internet. Now, when opening Yahoo, IE, and even some other programs, they shut down immediately after their initial window appears. Can someone assist? Much appreciated!

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Whenever I attempt to paste something (such as a weblink), it comes out as gibberish. I've tried this in emails, forums, etc., but instead of the link (or text) I copied, it pastes about 5 lines of random letters and numbers almost like a code. How can I rectify this? …

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how can I edit my right click menu in windows 2000?? it has become very heavily occupied and it takes time to open ...

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When I right click, there are some old programs, etc. that have been uninstalled, but have left right click options. I remember taking care of this before in the registry, but i forgot what values/entries/keys i need to access. :[ Lil help here? thanks :)

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I have recently noticed that my windows update icon is in the system tray and when i click it does nothing. It shows that it is 0% downloaded. It does not go away when i restart the computer either. I try to keep up with the security updates because the …

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It has lost a file what is internet.exe in my win2K system. My anti-virus scaned my computer yesterday.It found some virus and killed them. But when I restarted my computer,it show that the system can't find c:\winnt\internet.exe.So I wanted to look for the one from google ,but could't get the …

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We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent harware or software change might have caused this. Start in safe mode. Safe mode with networking. Safe mode with command prompt. Last known good configuration setting (most recent setting that worked). Start Windows normally. No matter what …

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This problem has been plauging me for over a week. I have called my internet service provider and my computer "tech support" and they are clueless. I am now turning to you fine folks who I know for sure are going to help me!! Here's the scoop: We have a …

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Hey everyone! My names Laura and I'm brand new to this forum. I'll admit it...I know nothing about computers. But I really need some help!! Recently I have found some files on my computer that I can't get rid of! I'll tell you the whole story. I have XP. Recently …

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:?: Sounds straight forward, but I can not figure this out I am new to this. I have a Etower 500 MHz with 192 mb's of memory and 4 gig hard drive. I used partition magic 3.5 to partition the drive in order to try and install DOS and win98 …

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hey guys, i dont know if this is the right forum for SQL errors but i need some help on the following error: Connection failed: SQL state: '28000' SQL Server Error:18452 [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Login failed for user '(null)'. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection. ok, …

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Hey! I have been using XP Pro with SP1a and IE6 without any problems. Literally overnight I am no longer able to connect via 56k dialup. No new software has been installed. The Internet Connection dialog box appears and list the ISP tel. number as normal but nothing happens. I …

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Hey! I dont know if this is the right place to write this on. But i give it a try. [B]Info[/B] My computer keep turning of itself while iam playin´ a game listen to mp3 and looking on internet. Sometimes just when iam cheking IE. i never know when. and …

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I have accidentally obtained the update from Windows XP that gives me Trustworthy Computing. I have some questions about it and I hope someone here will be able to answer them. 1. What is done to my computer if something is discovered on it? Are the files simply deleted? Is …

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I was with a group of people the other day, talking about Spybot, Ad-Aware and some other stuff along that line, and some guy says there's a better way and he's not had the first pop-up. He contends whenever you boot open the "etc" folder and delete everything there except …

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