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im having a problem connecting my laptop to the internet.. i have my modem plugged in and i try dialing up .. an Error appears telling me that there is no dial tone and to check if the modem is attached properly.. it happended to me before but the problem …

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A simple question. How do I format my system drive? Cant do it from windows, and there is now dos in XP. I try to boot from my XP cd, but it only stats the install... I want to format, its been ages since last time..

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At work we just did a upgrade on machines and OS’s (approx 300) They are all using Windows XP Pro and each and everyone has a unique key. (All activated all ready) Now if I want to take one of those boxes and reformat it, can I use that key …

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Hey all. I'm new to this site. I hope there's someone on here that can help me out. My computer is freezing up on me and I don't know why. I'm running XP Pro. My CPU is 700 MHz Intel Celeron. My RAM is 320 MB. My video card is …

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Windows XP My friends computer has two choices at start up it says something like "windows XP home edition" for both choices one goes further the other doesn't the one that works has 3 choices 1 gets you to another menu with about 12 options another is regulsr start up …

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Hi, I just installed a new driver from Nvidia's site on my computer (Driver:6.1.7.6 - official driver). I have a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440. Now everytime I restart my computer, the resolution is set back to 640x480. This is really weird and I've never seen this before. The only problem …

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Hey all. Sometimes my XP will randomly restart (coincidently when i dont want it to :lol: ). When windows rebots my windows watchdog shows me this screen [IMG]http://img54.exs.cx/img54/7497/prob2.jpg[/IMG] what do i press (i allways press "no") or how do i fix it. thanks

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Heya I run a Celron 2.8 with 1 Gb ram sitting on an Intel 865Perl m/b. Window XP Pro Sp1 + sundry patches/fixes - not yet SP2. I use several Graphic manipulation programs.I have set the default program to open various picture formats with the program I use to manipulate …

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Hi, For some reason, I cannot tell the screensaver (any of them) to require a password. Am running SP2 on a MediaCenter PC. Cannot say for sure when this started. I know it was just within the past coupla days. It worked as it should after the SP2 update, so …

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I've had a high-speed connection for several months, and I've never had a problem downloading or playing videos. But a couple of days ago, my media player suddenly crapped out on me. When I attempt to download a video, it takes a long time to connect. When it finally does …

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Help, This morning, my husband called out-"Hey, have you ever seen this?" I looked on the monitor and 1/2 of the screen to the left was blacked out (some vertical lines similar to when you do a disk defrag appeared). I quickly shut down and tried to restart, but to …

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I have a IBM Thinkpad with Windows XP installed. Is there a way that I can just reset the computer without reinstalling XP? If there isn't, maybe you can help me with this problem: Spyware somehow removed the ability for applications to just open, so everytime that I click on …

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Removing Duel Boot -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I got Winxp and win2k installed as a duel boot, im currently using xp and the win2k folders are in my c directory, i just want to remove 2k from my computer, and keep xp with out reformating or reinstalling.. what do i do... when i …

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Hi everyone, How are you doing? Well I FINALLY got almost everything moved over from the old computer system to the new computer system & here's my problem. I was using OE b4, so nothing has changed as far as e-mail programs go. Now what's happening is my default e-mail …

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Here are my specs: Motherboard: MSI 648 Max series Power supply: 350W (I think) CPU: P4 2.4GHz w/ 533MHz FSB RAM: 512MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM Video Card: ATI Radeon 9500 Pro w/ "Doom 3" Beta Catalyst 4.9 drivers Hard Drive: Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM ATA133 Sound Card: Integrated with Motherboard LG …

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:?: I have just installed a clean version of Win XP Home ed. SP1a on my new 80gb hdd, my system is a HP Pavilion XE748 w/700mhz processor and 320mb ram. Is there a feature or option that I can “activate

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I recently realized that I appear to have WinPcap 3.0 installed on my computer, I have not removed it in fear that one of my applications may be using it. What I would like to know is what is it? Is it harmful (i.e. spyware/adware)? And last but not least, …

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Hey I need some help, my computer was working fine last night but then i came across this problem today.. I turn my computer on then it looks like its loading but then all of sudden it resets itself.. :evil: It doesnt even get to the point (blue screen )where …

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its never done this before, but when xp loads completely up after a reboot/start up all my statbar icons come up desk top fully loaded, suddenly my floppy drive kicks on.. then quits, never done this before, ive scanned for virus,....

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On wed Sept 11th i reloaded XP due to sasser virus,at some time during my reinstalling of such things as , Yahoo Messenger,Adobe photo deluxe,winmx etc, i began to recieve these warnings, purporting to be from Windows as follows : MESSENGER SERVICE message to infecte on 8/12/2004 80:07:14pm *Warning! Your …

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Hey I am Alex, I run Windows XP Professional I have a dell 4550 Dimension desktop I have this problem everytime I press CTRL ALT DEL, the toolbar on the top does not show up, I do not know how this happened, when and why. This has been going on …

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Hi alll my packard has started to make an unusual noise - its a high pitched repeating beep - if you can imagine ( beep lasts about 3 seconds ) goes silent and the kicks of again it onlly happens when i am playing star trek armada 1 or 2 …

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Tonight I installed a new hdd on my HP Pavilion xe748. I then wanted to install a brand new OEM Win XP. My system was experiencing a problem booting for the CD-ROM, so I was given advice to use a startup floppy, choose CD-ROM support and then make sure that …

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I like having several utilities and applications readily available. Does the Quick Lauch toolbar eat up more memory than the tray icons?

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I just built a new machine P4 3.2E with other crap of course, and i tried to install windows xp pro w/ sp1 that I know works on other computers. When it came to installing the drivers after the format and all it would come up with a "could not …

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Hi, I am having problem with my IIS on Windows 2000 Server. I've been trying to create a virtual directory from a shared folder on another computer. After the directory was created, I see the red icon on the left of the folder. It is the error icon. But I …

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Hey, I'm having some troubles with my computer. Well of course I am, or I wouldn't be posting this. Okay. I have a Gateway computer. It was purchased around a year ago and came with 256 MBs of RAM, a 2.4 GHrz P4 Processor, a GeForce 4 MX 440 graphics …

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im on addd and remove programs and it says error when ever i try to remove it!!!! HELP edit: theres also more like smiley central its driving me insaine

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I have 2 OS. Windows 98 and XP. I cant run Visual Basic in XP which I installed in Win 98. BUt i can run other programmes which i intalled in win 98 in win xp without problems. :cry:

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