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Hey, I recently installed MSN Premium browser on my computer. I did this for the MLB.tv service and the universal 'ease' of having everything microsoft running on my PC. The problem is, ever since I installed this browser, my computer will not shutdown, restart or log out of windows. I …

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My name is Dustin, I am running XP Pro. I use one computer to handle my personal and business life, and i am the only person using the machine. After I installed XP on my machine I soon relized the benifits of creating multiple user accounts so to have a …

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My computer has recently just stopped working... I came back to my computer after leaving the room and it froze up, so I restarted it. Every time the system tries to load Windows it restarts again Even if I try to load up with Safe Mode or Last known working …

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I am upgrading from 98 to 2K. I put the disk in and it runs. When I go to delete the partition that has the old 98, I can not create another partition for the Win2K nor can I go in and manually create it. Ideas?

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first off here are my system specs Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack: 1.0 System Model: MS- 6547 BIOS Version: American Megatrends Inc. 7.00T MSI Processor: Intel (R) Pentium (R) 4CPU 1.80 GHz Version: x86 Family 15 Model 1 stepping 2 Speed: 1813 MHz RAM capacity: 128MB …

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:o While at work I like to surf when the load is low and slow. How ever there's a techno geek peeking at my computer activities after I leave. I just Know it!:mrgreen:

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Location: school wide OS: Win 98 --> Win 2k I was told to upgrade all of the old computers with 98 on them to 2K. Well, I am having a few problems. One: when they want me to do this upgrade, they want me to do a new install, not …

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Hi, I keep getting the SVCHOST.exe error (running W2k SP4) but have tried all of the blaster removal/patch tools and cannot get rid of it!! It is really annoying me as it seems to stop me from runing Windows Update and from loging into websites (like this one) that need …

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I TRIED to do a clean install using XP, it froze at 15% during the formatting process, and I havent been able to continue instal or even boot the old tecra 8100:sad: HHHHHHHHHHHHHHELP PLEASE Tbeckstr

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Hi to you good folks..firstly can I say I'm not very technically minded so if anyone can help will you please keep it simple..thankyou...... running XP pro. just put a second hard drive in as a slave for storage...went to disk management..storage and tried to make a single partition (fat32) …

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Hi, Urgently help required. I am working on Windows 2000 network as a Adminstrator. As we don;t have any option like "Maximum Password length" (Under the Security Settings->Account Policies->Password Policy. <?xml version="1.0"?> <s:Schema xmlns:s="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-data" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" > <s:AttributeType name="userID" xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes" dt:type="string" /> <s:AttributeType name="password" dt:type="string" dt:minLength="6" dt:maxLength="8"/> <s:ElementType name="LoginInfo" > <s:attribute …

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Hi! When I bought my computer off ebay 6 months ago the heatsink and fan had fallen off in transit and I had to reattach it (with thermal grease etc) myself. Since then it's been crashing alot. At first it happened every 30 mins and the guy who sold it …

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I keep getting the blue screen of death. :sad: I am running win 2000 sp4 256meg ram ,1.7 pentium 4 maxtor diamondmax 120 gig aopen AX4BS-V I thought it might be the hard drive, so I put a new WD120gig in. I started to format for the install of win …

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My system restore has stopped working. I think it is linked to a Javascript problem, anything requiring Javascript stopped working in internet explorer (you could click on the link as much as you liked but got nothing). I installed Mozilla Firefox and replaced iinternet explorer so that solved the problem …

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anyone know where i can get a completely free rm converter? not the one that boilsoft makes because that is only a trial version or do you know where i can get a working patch for boilsoft's converter?

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I have windows XP home on 2 machines in my house, and I was wondering if there was a way to add the 'Remote Desktop Server' like there is in xp pro/2k3 so that I can remote desktop into my home machine. I've searched microsofts website and haven't found much …

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Hi all, i have an xp system that i just installed like a week ago, but for some reason the amount of processes that are running(when i check) sum up to around 50 something...wut can i do, and some of the processes have wierd names....like y9LEy.exe....plz inform!!!

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I just built a computer, an ASUS board P4S800, Pentium 4 2.8gHz, WD80gb HD,512mb RAM, Lite on Combo drive, Antec Case, ATI Radeon 9600, 56k modem. Ok the computer works great with one glitch, from a cold start it goes through post and looks like it will start up but …

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Hi I am running windows XP service pack 1 on a Dell Dimension 8300 that is approx 1 year old. My kids downloaded a virus, W32.HLLW.Gaobot.gen; we downloaded the virus removal tool from Symantec and were able to remove the virus. But to run the removal tool we needed to …

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If I've got lots of short video clips on windows media player how can I combine them to form one long cip and hence save the whole thing as one big file... cheers if anyone can help

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If I were to do a back up of my C: drive on to an external hard drive and then for some reason my computers hard drives are erased or get a virus, would I be able to put the back up back on my computer and have all of …

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To make a very long story sort of short, I messed up big-time! :( I just installed a new 200 GB hard drive as master (the comp. recognized it as F drive) and used my old 80 GB drive as slave (recognized as C drive) and everything was going fine …

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Hi! I am new at this forum and do not know where to post questions. That's why I am placing it here. [font=Verdana, arial][size=2]How come I can use my local server for emails but the Sygate Personal firewall blocks my Outlook Express? How do I set up for incoming and …

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Hi all! I have a problem I hope you can help me with. Computer Info: 500SE Special (Gateway) Intel (Nimitz) Pentium 4 - 1.8 GHz (400 MHz) mobo DDR 256 MB PC266B RAM integrated video card I was working on the PC when the screen went black, the keyboard stopped …

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Gday, I just dropped back to Messenger 4.7 from 6.1 because it's alot plainer and simpler and minus the adverts. In 6.1 I had contact groups, Y, X, Z for example. Y Would only show online contacts so would X and Z. all the offline contacts would be spooled in …

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i have XP Home, and when i tried to restore my computer from a past date, it wouldn't allow me. i don't know why and would appreciate any help

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My computer runs very slow after a while and it would become difficult to shut programs. I would then go to the task manager to close the program only to see that the cpu is running at 100%:sad: and it want let me do anything. AMD Anthlon 2600+ 256MB 40GB …

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I currently have an EIDE drive with Windows NT 4.0 running on it and installed a SCSI ultra2 hard drive to allow for more storage. I cannot see the SCSI drive in the Windows NT environment although the BIOS has detected it. I have looked for software and drivers for …

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I have been having problems with the BRISS.Exe. I went into and unchecked the system restore, reboot, and rechecked it to totally clean it out. I am wondering if this one thing is suppose to be in a folder. I went into c drive-windows-system32-restore, and the very first thing on …

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