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Since downloading SP2, often when trying to access the internet say from an OE email containing a URL, I get a message "via" adjacent to the microsoft symbol which essentially freezes my access. Any idea what is causing the problem and how I can correct it? Also, I'm now having …

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I want to set up a computer on my network that downloads windows updates and then computers on the network download them automatically off that computer. Is there a way to do this? EDIT: Windows xp btw

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Hi. My brother-in-law has a Sony laptop computer that he does not use to access the internet. He uses it mainly just to watch DVD's and for computer programs that he's bought. Lately, when he's either watching a DVD or has a CD in the drive, he gets a box …

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Halo guys, I have encountered a problem with my MSN Messenger 6.2 which I downloaded recently. It worked fine for a couple of days. But for the past 2 days, it starts to disconnect itself automatically after a few minutes, and I have to re-connect it manually (sometimes it re-connects …

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[B]HI ALL![/B] My present problem - I ran a System Recovery both from the disk and from the partition and in both cases all goes well, I get to restart into user partition, windows boots and when it comes to the screen where I click finish the comp hangs. Sometimes …

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I am adding a Samsung CD-RW drive to the same (secondary) IDE cable that connects my DVD drive currently - but my computer does not detect this drive. I've got an ECS LVMM3 motherboard, an AMD 3000+ processor, and my computer runs XP. I have set the CD-RW drive to …

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Ok Ive done it this time, and my wife may well kill me... my wife took some photos of the daughters first day of kindergarten... you know riding the bus, pictures withe the new teacher all that.... and i loaded them in the laptop from the CF card... then after …

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After I installed Service Pack 2 on my Windows XP PC, I lost the images (or icons) that often appear next to the favorite links under the Favorites menu in Internet Explorer. Now, they all have the default Internet Explorer image next to them. Having the images next to my …

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Hi all, I cannot install SP2 because i have edited my bootscreen in the past, can somebody either upload or tell me where to get the original bootscreen file (i forget its name, something like "ntoskrnl.exe") Thanks, YoungCoder

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Sorry to dredge up this common problem...but I'm about to take a sledge hammer to my laptop.... I am stuck in the startup loop. It's difficult to get to the screenwhere I select Safe Mode...so once I'm there I choose "Safe Mode" and it asks for my windows password. Then …

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I had my laptop recovered last week since my XP is not loading. That's done. So, when it was finally working I realized that I still had to re-install the video, graphics & modem drivers. When I tried installing the video driver, it didn't work, probably because the driver I …

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Okay, so I don't usually restart my system. It's not because I don't install software, it's just that I don't always believe the developers that I need to :o . So anyways, this isn't good for finding reasons why windows is having a hard time restarting. Mostly because I've installed …

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I resently installed SP2 for Windows Xp and i had a problem with my computer a couple days later and so I did a system restore. Without thinking I set my computer back 5 days not thinking that I installed SP2. When the computer restarted after doing the system restore …

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After installing Service Pack 2, I started getting balloons on the system tray telling me that the status of Norton Antivirus and Firewall are unknown. I figured it was just the fact that it didn't work with Norton, but my Grandma's computer has the exact same version of Norton we …

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hey all, we have several public folders in outlook and if you go into any one of them that contain items, those items cannot be opened by anyone. permissions are there for those who need them. we are running windows 2000 server farm with exchange 2000. i am the owner …

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Okay..I have a huge midi problem with SBLIVE 5.1.... Here is how it goes...I bought myself a Yamaha PSR172 just to mess around with midi on the computer....I use it mainly in Fuity Loops Studio and when I first bought the keyboard..it worked perfectly fine...no problems with that... Then suddenly...I …

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I have a weird problem with my cd-drives in windows 2000 pro. I have two cd-drives, another is Samsung dvd/cd drive, and another a Fujitsu Siemens cd-r drive. Now, every time I try to open a cd in my computer, it says: " The disk in drive * is not …

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Hi all! I'm back with another strange problem. :mrgreen: I have a Dell 8250. About two weeks ago, at exact times twice a day, a stacato series of beeps will blast over my speakers. For example, at 50 and 55 after every hour, all day and night, maybe 10 beeps …

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hi...i'm using mozilla and opera browsers at the same time . With mozilla , nothing happens if i click on the " hotmail " box in the msn.com website . Below , in both mozilla and opera , i can see " total:0kb " , " time:1:48 " and " …

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Hi, i have recently created a logon script for a department where i work, weird thing is it wont run. the script is sitting in netlogon on the AD controler with all of the other scripts. before this script each person had there own script named after the user id, …

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ok.. i had a trojan on my pc that i just couldnt get rid of so i formated my pc.after that i installed the windows updates and i noticed load times were much slower.i cant even play my online game anymore(Americas Army Operations).the games loading time is way longer that …

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Hi, I am in the process of building my first computer and have a question about WinXP, when I bought my memory and motherboard I also bought the WinXP OEM version (from zipzoomfly) because it was about 150 dollars cheaper then the full version and the only difference was the …

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Hey guys, I'm new to these forums, and I just registered to ask about a problem that I've never encountered before. Right now I'm the techie handling the server + computers in my high school journalism class (newspaper). So now the question... I've installed pagemaker on the computers, running windows …

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have checked speaker- ok, after recording , playback to much static to cut cd. was working fine, this just started. Do I need instructions on the recordings settings? :sad: please help me :) gayleaway ps have creative recorder also have xp professional Thank YOU

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everytime i start my computer, this error message pops up. I am not very computer savvy so I'm not really sure what to do. I have run Ad-aware numerous times and there are always objects found. How do I fix this? Please help me!

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I have a Dell dimension 4550 running Windows XP home edition Service Pack 1. I have been trying to get rid of spyware and pop-up adds and in the process i think i have deleted some files i needed, one of which is shell.dll. I have downloaded a copy from …

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I'll be soon upgrading my computer; new motherboard, case, processor and RAM. I'm running Win2000Pro. What are the caveats in doing this. It seems on the outside, a simple matter of blanket copying all on the "C" drive to the new drive. I've been told maybe WinImage would be the …

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hey there. First off here are my specs. OS - XP PRO mobo - ABIT IS7-g with a P4 2.6 Brand new 500w power supply 512 Mb of no name ram ( could be the problem ) Geforce 4 mx420 agp ( could be the problem ha ) hmm dunno …

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i have a 1 ghz AMD duron computer with win xp and i´m trying to run this program named FLUSH that was developed in fortran 77 language, i execute the program in the DOS prompt of xp and it gives me the following error: Abnormal program termination:stack fault CS=EIP=000FH=000013EFh i …

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