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I bought my computer just for Everquest but find myself frequently fustrated with it even trying to run StarCraft. Graphics card : e-GeForce FX 5200 Mother Board : ASUS (A7N8X Deluxe) Processor : AMD 2500+ (2.88) Modem : PCI V.92 Internal 512 DDR (2 x 128 K-byte) OS : Windows …

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hey all, my dad has a Dell Dimension 8200 computer and he runs Windows XP pro. he's had it for almost a year and up until recently it was working just fine. Almost a month ago, he tried opening his picture file and he got this error message: "[color=red]The instruction …

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grr I have three PC's each with a WD Cavier WD1200. I just installed win2k on one last friday and over the weekend it crashed and it says invalide boot sector insert bootable media. I checked the post screen and it doesn't find the harddrive. so than I tried to …

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We have a ton of users on our network with laptops who use offline folders. Our issue revolves around sync'ing these folders and/or trying to remove them. For example, we had a server go down and I rebuilt it. Afterwards, everyone was complaining of sync problems because I had changed …

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I installed windows xp onto a second hard drive that I had, but i removed it. When I start my computer, it would ask which windows to start. Even though i removed the hard drive with the other windows installed, the option to start the other windows appears. How would …

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I also have the commonname problem. From what I hear it's big and hard to get rid of. After downloading hijackthis and doing the scan, how are you supposed to know what to delete and what to keep. An "about blank" screen always pops up on my computer also. Here …

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Hey all, Unfortunatly its my first post, so that means I have a problem. I just built this new system. Details: Mobo: Gigabyte GA-8KNXP CPU: 2.8 HT P4 800FSB Hard Drive: Western Digital SATA 36GB Raptor 10K Video: 9800 Pro OS: Windows XP Pro CD: LiteOn CD-RW/DVD+RW Well ever since …

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About 3 years ago, I had a Windows 98 system, then upgraded it to XP. I have a Kodak DVC325 Digital Video Camera, and now it doesn't work. I downloaded the driver here: [url]http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/downloads/dln_ekn.jhtml?ekn=EKN009389[/url] and unziped it to the DVC325 file. Should it automatically work or is there something I …

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Hi, I've just installed 512mb ram on my laptop, running windows xp home. I had to do this becuase it was only running 128 before aahh. Now I don't know very much about this but when I had a look at System in the control panel it tells me I'm …

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Hello there, the other day I downloaded a program, it had two smaller programs and i double clicked one called load_me.exe and it loaded like 50 or 60 of them into the processes tab and so I immediatly restarted the computer. When my computer started back up, the 60 or …

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Hi I just tried to load win XP home edition. doing a new install from scratch. the install started out fine, after the format was done it started to load. I walked away for a minute and when I came back there was a light blue screen (not the blue …

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Original problem started w/error mess saying files required to run have been removed/replaced-tried doing system restore to previous date-same error message-put Win XP Home Ed cd in (inc sv pk 1) like it said to- froze in the middle of setup.Fatal error pdt catalog -signature invalid-prevents setup from continuing. Called …

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All of a sudden today when I tried to open Money 2002 it tries to reinstall itself. Then it gives me the following error: "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable. Click ok to try again or enter an alternate path to …

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Ok here's the deal: I keep getting this Winnet error that pops up about every minute or so. I have Spybot and it said that Winnet was possible spyware. The error keeps saying that Winnet has encountered a problem and needs to close. I have no idea what Winnet is …

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OS: win2k Connection: dialup As window boots "preparing network connections" takes a long time and when it finishs everything is fine EXCEPT for the internet... it dials... it verifies u/p.... But then it TOTALLY freezes when it says registering on network and takes like 10min to do its job... found …

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Recently i have had problems with my pc freezing up during usage and or restarting itself. I heard it could be because of the dust build up and i cleaned my pc to find out that did not slove the problem. Well then i read i could have a problem …

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Hi, I was given a computer to fix and have been searching various forums on the solution, well the problem is that aparently the user clicked on a popup for a free trial on anti-virus software, after the download it scanned his HD and found a virus and told him …

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All the time if I am replacing a CD by another one or if I take it out of a CD-Rom-drive while the windows explorer is opened Windows XP Pro hangs or seems to be working. It happens also from time to time if I try to close the windows …

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Hello all. Im trying to write a batch file that will install a few (3) Applications/patches at once. I want the installs to be quiet or unattended, but I cant get it to work for adobe. W2K SP4 works fine and a custom app we use (Impact) also is fine. …

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Ok when i go to run disk clean up it stop at scanning compressed files then nothing happens, how do i fix this Windows XP pro

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Ok, internet connections have a possible tweak to make them faster, or program to make them faster. Is there anything to tweak a graphics card? and if there is, where can I get it?

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hehehe....Um...well you see, I was messing around with two machines, a Windows XP pro, and a Win2k pro, and I sort of got confused. Well to make a long story short, I sort of renamed one of the user accounts...Now it's, of course, not logging in correctly. It's logging in …

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Hi, I've got a 2.4GHz machine running XP pro, Office XP pro, and very frequently, my cursor turns to a "CD Cursor" as if the machine is trying to read a cd, although there is no cd in the drive, or any apps that are requesting a file from a …

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XP Pro SP1 had been running fine with just the Administrator account, and one other account with administrator priviliges. When I added a new user with the wizard, limited account, XP makes it to desktop with that account and then reboots. The same happens with the guest account. Previous accounts …

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OK ... system specs... Running Windows XP Home AMD Athlon XP 2200+ ATI Radeon 9600 PRO 1 gig pos ram but works. Asus A7V266-E Mobo. Mouse Keyboard yeah im cool... ATX kase, Koolance, PC2 or what ever ... 430 watt Enermax PWR Supply, not that any of this matters... Some …

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Greetings, I recently installed the Windows XP update on to my computer and have had no problems up to now. I had to re-install Norton Antivirus and after I installed the program I ran the live update. Everything was working fine until I rebooted the machine. Now EVERYTHING from the …

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Hey guys new to the site so go easy on me.... My brother is a retard. I went to the bathroom and he changed my account from admin to normal and changed my password. Is there a wa to get n without deleting my stuff or reinstalling xp/

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OK some weird things happened while on MSN messenger today I posted them on the IE forum but here it is: "start the application sharing feature so I could see her desktop. The app share thing took forever to start working and we were never able to connect. THEN all …

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When trying to load Word, a command prompt dialog box pops up for a few seconds before disappearing. Nothing else happens. The same problem occurs with most other utilities - it won't even run something simple like a ping command. The OS is Windows XP Home (no SP installed), and …

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