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| | Has anyone received a part of the new SP2 through an automatic download? :o |
| | I had to install chkdsk (Recovery Console) as I kept getting a message about a corrupt file. This I managed O.K. (well the message has gone!). However, when I now start my computer I get a black screen asking me if I want to start with Windows XP Home Edition … |
 | It sounds like a strange problem but whenever i switch on my other pc, everything loads normally. Then XP loads normally and all the desktop icons appear and the menu button. However i have 2 wait around 5minutes before i can actually do anything! After that time things start loading … |
| | Hi all. I seem to have a problem with my Floppy disk drive. No power seems to be getting to it althought all the cables seem to be plugged in and working fine. For a start if any1 can help with this problem thatd be great. However, if you cant, … |
| | I recently got a new hard drive and 512meg of ram (making a total of 1 gig). I decided to reformat my main hard drive and reinstall winXP pro. After I reinstalled, I started putting my old programs on and after a couple hours, suddenly my computer would hang up … |
| | Well I'm assuming it's SP2 anyway. I have a Pentium 4 2.8 running windows XP. I installed service pack 2 without any hitches but upon restarting the computer freezes during the boot screen. The little progress bar thingy (I believe 'thingy' is the technical term) runs through twice before freezing. … |
| | Hello people, can anyone help me? Recently my PC has been crashing when I have been playing games, online and offline. Half way through the game the pc will either just freeze up or reboot itself. Is there anything I can do? Any help would be much appreciated. Rgds, CN … |
| | i ran scandisk on my 2nd drive (raw) which i didnt know u couldnt run scandisk on the raw drive.. now that windows reboots/boots up it comes up with the checking e drive for errors, cant check its a raw drive.. how can i get rid of that screen, i …  |
| | When I try to login to my computer I get to the welcome screen and then I click to log in on my username. It acts like it is going to login but then it logs me out. What is wrong and how do I fix?  |
| | Don't know if this is the right forum. Anyways, a freind of mine hosted a scan from an article for me to read but it was too small for me to read and others at the forum so I figured I'd save it to "My Pictures" and then upload it … |
| | Every time at start up, I'm prompted to run [i]their[/i] firewall, and [i]their[/i] (MS's) anti virus :cry: Can I get rid of this prompt without getting rid of the entire service pack update for XP? |
| | Hey. My name is Emery, and I'm having a problem with my CD Rom drives. I have a Sony DRU-510A and an old Toshiba CR-RW (it's like 4 years old). The problem is that windows XP is telling me that my drivers are either missing or corrupted. I've only ever … |
| | Hey. Today i had a spark of brilliance (well i think it was). I though 2 things that would be really cool, but im not sure how to do them (they might not be possible, but i think both should work somehow). The first: Hookup more keyboard to my PC …  |
| | I want to change the registry to enable user to save in a different folder, for all software that defaults to my documents, my music, my photos I know word has this option but I need to change it for all time thanks for any help Regards Bob |
| | Hey experts. I hope you can help with this. I have a Dell CPX laptop which keeps locking up due to the CPU usage hitting 100%. It has a pentium 3 498 MHz processor and 128 MB of RAM. Out of the 18.6GB of storage on my C drive I … |
| | Hey Guys I recently bought a new Dell XPS laptop and i was moving my files from the pc that i own to the laptop. When it came to a couple of games that i own, i was told that could just copy the game directory over and it would … |
| | I need help!!! When I turn on my computer it runs through the bios/setup after it detects the ram, keyboard, mouse, etc. it beeps then flashes and goes to a black screen with a blinking line and stops. How do I fix this? I tried putting in a boot cd … |
| | Hello to all, I'm new here. When I boot my PC initially as well as with any reboot, I recieve an error message saying that "explorer has encountered a problem and must close" When I click OK my entire desktop disappears except for the background, all shortcut icons and the … |
| | Ok, this might be a bit lengthy so sorry in the long-run! I figured if I told you exactly the ins and outs of this problem, it would let you help me a little better... I hope. My WindowsXP was custom built by a Computer company not far from where … |
| | Help! Recently downloaded XP SP2 and am having serious problems with my computer. I am unable to use my 'search', 'help and support' or 'system restore' functions. Clicking on these just brings up an empty window. I've uninstalled SP2 but still have these problems. I also now get an error … |
| | I have windows xp pro on a virtual machine because when i tried installing it on my real computer it encoutered a driver problem and freezed during setup so i had to reinstall windows from the cd. So i wanted to know if i could just transfer files from windows … |
| | I have an IBM Netvista, running a Celeron 600, 256mb ram, 40 gig Hd. Have Windows 98se installed but trying to upgrade to xp pro. Keep getting stop: messeges like this; stop: 0x00000050 (0xc173b31c,0x00000000,0807cbefa,0x00000000) or it says PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGE_AREA. I even got this once: CDFS_FILE_SYSTEM. Can someone please help me?! It's … |
| | Ok whenever my PC boots up I have a choice of using XP or 2000, from a partition. I installed both accidentally while making the partition, rather than deleting the other. How do I get rid of 2000, which is taking up disk space, without losing and having to reinstall … |
| | whenever I try to open a file straight from the net, i get this error. It can't access the temp folder or something. And why it says content.IE5\ I don't know, since I have IE6. [img]http://www.dannywartnaby.co.uk/rgt/attachments/error_ohjoy.jpg[/img][url="http://www.dannywartnaby.co.uk/rgt/attachments/error_ohjoy.jpg"][/url] |
| | WIN XP SP2 Dell Demsion 2400 Yahoo browser ***This is my 1st post, so let me know if I'm doing it right! Since installing SP2 my CPU usage has gone crazy! One svchost.exe process was using 100%, I tried to end the process and now it is idle. Still, I … |
| | This might sound oddly familiar with those who engage in virus writing (aka. dual extensions) but I'm wondering if I could open several applications via one program. For example, is it possible to link spam-filter (POPfile) and YahooPOPs! to Outlook Express so they can all be opened simultaneously when Outlook … |
 | well this is sort of a wierd question that doesnt really affect my computer at all, i just am curious about a fix if anyone knows basically after I installed my NOMAD jukebox Zen Xtra drivers, whenever i open up DOS, rather than the first line being C:> or soemthing … |
| | I run a computer that is at least 5 years old and has Windows 2000 Pro. Their are some programs that I wish to install or that have already been installed, that will not run on my computer. When I try to run them, a window titled 16 bit Windows … |
| | Well, I have a Toshiba Laptop with a recently downloaded Windows XP(Home Edition) Service Pack 2. Problem: I can't right-click most things anymore. As soon as I click it, the computer freezes up, and then a message comes up(look below): [IMG]http://www.geocities.com/b_m_786_2000/AHH.JPG[/IMG] The computer is still frozen up, and doesn't close … |
| | Hi, I need help with a problem I'm having. Sometimes I turn on my computer and it say "Operating System not found" and it wont turn on for a whole day. I can't do anything when it says that. It's just a black screen with those 4 words. When I … |
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