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machine: hp ze5375us laptop 2.4/40ghd cd rw/dvdr 3 1/2 floppy OS: win xp home sp1 and latest updates downloaded Problem: floppy drive stopped reading disks. says disk needs to be formatted and then that disk cannot be formatted. at command prompt says can't read 0 track or invalid media. worked …

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Hi there I need help. I had problem doing disk cleanup so I'd decided to reinstal Windows 2000. During reinstallation, the computer freezes at various stages, including a couple of time it froze during the last leg of installation, at the registration of components, after the installation of Startup manual. …

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Ive been having a few problems with my P4 3 Gig Pent with 1 Gig Ram was fine when i got nice and fast, now the CPU seems to be working hard when nothing is running, its fine till you run something, it looks like it dosent release it after …

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The 22 icons residing in my Quick Launch Bar have become "location unstable." Regardless of how I position them, upon a restart or fresh boot the icons rearrange themselves randomly. Can any one help?

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I`m using win2000 and I forgot my password and i have tried everything but I can`t get the same rights as my previous login the one am using has no rights and i can`t install any thing .So If you have read this can you help.

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Hi...I just bought an audio cd and everything seems to go well . When I open my computer I can see the picture of a cd with " audio cd " written init meaning that my cd drive has got the cd . when I double click on the icon …

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Hello everyone! This is my first post. I am very frustrated and hope you can help. I am running Win 2000 on an older computer. My brother saved my previous hard drive programs to a folder within the new setup. Attempting to use some of those programs may have contributed …

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hey, thanks in advance. i've got an ugly problem. i have a seagate hard drive (80gigs) it used to have win2000 on it. i ran my xp disk from win2k but it didnt install over win2k and created a dual boot. so i set my pc to boot from the …

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Hi, Will anybody help me troubleshoot my winxp pc please? Its shutting down itself for few seconds without any error messages at all n it on itself and keeps the same routine time and again. But now i cant even on it, seems to have no power. Please Help. :cry:

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Hi, I have Coreldraw8 on my computer and it has run fine for the last 3 years. I have windows xp with word perfect 10 and was sent a graphic the other day that kept opening in word perfect and then switching back to corel. Corel no longer works except …

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Hello and thanks for being here so I may get some help! I have a Toshiba laptop running windows 2000. The problem is, I cannot access programs. When I click on "My Computer" I get a "Explorer has gennerated errors" error window. This happens with all of the programs. I'm …

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I recently built a custom rig for gaming. Here are the specs: p4 2.8 ghz with ht 1 gig pc 3200 (kingston) radeon 9800 pro Xp pro service pack one Anyways, I've been using AquaMark3(a benchmark tool) and have been getting around 18,000, which is half of what I expected. …

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For the past 2 or 3 months on my friends computer, about every hour he gets a small pop up box saying "No modF" and when you click ok, it changes to saying "funk" ...lol when you click ok again it goes away for a while. The label for the …

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Everysince I updated my windows from the windows update program my windows media player doesnt play the videos I use to be able to watch. I use to be able to watch everything I have, not anymore. What can be the problem? Thanks

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Hi Yal, I am having a problem that came out of the blue. whenever I try to open any window like "Internet Options" for instance. The options box sort of flickers on for a fraction of a second, then disapears. I cant even open it from the start menu. please …

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When I open "My Documents" the default icon thing is "Tiles" (View > Tiles). I want every folder to be List. Is there an easy way to change every folder because I have a lot of folders and I don't feel like going through all of my folders and changing …

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I just bought a new Compaq laptop (running windows XP home) from where I worked that I knew was having this problem before, and was supposedly fixed. It seems that just a single left click of the mouse on any desktop icon causes windows to think I clicked on it …

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Can't get some applets to load and run on my P.C. I have Java Runtime 1.4.2_05 and Virtual Machine 1.4.2_05b04. In Internet Options, Advanced Tab, I have Java (Sun) checked. Under the Connection Tab, LAN Setting, I have the Automatically Detect Setting checked. In the Java Plug-In Control Panel,Brouse Tab, …

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My new laptop operates on windows XP. It does not comes with office. Can anyone help me? :sad:

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Hi, Having just put my Windows 2000 drive onto a new motherboard and found it didn't work - and being unable to find any way to get it to do so, as it mysteriously wouldn't work any more on the old motherboard (it claimed a missing OS) - I am …

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Hi guys XP Pro SP 1 : Toshiba Sattelite 1.8 Ghz 256 RAM When I changed the settings to take away the log on password, the process created a new adminstrator (my wife's user account was the administrator) and on startup the computer start up on the new "blank" administrator …

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I cant get in my computer for some weird reason.Ok i turn on my computer everything goes fine untill the login thing appears.Well i duno y but the login thing appearance changed and when i put my pasword it starts up normally but then 5 seconds later it just logs …

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have two accounts for my XP Pro: NAME (admin) and an ADMINISTRATOR (admin). I want to either change the ADMINISTRATOR name to something else like USER or be able to delete that account and make a new one. The problem I am having is that when I go to Start>Control …

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I tryed and tryed and tryed but theres no freaken way to get into the bios with my laptop! its a COMPAQ Armada 1750 (I have Windows XP pro) Theres a COMPAQ screen, at that screen I tryed F1,F2,F3,F4,F5,F6... all [F] I even tryed ALT+CTRL+DELETE Plain nothing. There so way …

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My computer specs: ASUS A7N8X E-DELUXE 1 GIG CRUCIAL PC 3200 AMD ATHLON XP 3200 + SEAGATE 160 GB 7200 The Problem: I just recently reformatted and i cant get into windows because of this error: WINDOWS COULD NOT START BECAUSE THE FOLLOWING FILE IS MISSING OR CORRUPT: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM I …

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I have a Dell Latitude C840 (P4 1.6 with 1Gb RAM and 60+GB hdd) I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, but I didn't see anything similar to my issue. Here goes: A user at my company has a word document. The size of the document is 754k. …

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whe i just try to view any hd s system volume infomation i get error "system volume info not accessible access denied System restore is monitoring all drives Ive never seen this problem before does anyone know whats going on everything on on default settings nothing changed c:\over 12gig free …

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I am using WIN2000 Pro. At one time, when I would open my WINDOWS explorer, I could select to view thumbnails, and it worked fine, even if I wanted to open a photo with Photoshop or ACDC. But now, for some reason, I cannot view thumbnails in WINDOWS explorer, except …

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i have the message c:windows/system32/autoexec.nt on screen when i try to unistall avg anti virus.It also says system file is not suitable for running ms-dos and microsoft windows applications...help!!!!! :(

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I had Windows XP installed in my computer and Old 98 fiiles remain on hard drive. Can I remove them without messing up windos XP?

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