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Is there a way to uninstall SP3 using knoppix? My brother had some issues with one of his mmo games so he thought he would just update his OS he didn't tell me what he was doing so i couldn't get the fix for sp3 on his PC b4 he …

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I have a HP pavillion 512 @ my work I installed new ram yesterday now it wont do anything. I even took out the new and put the old back in, but it will not start. I can hear the fan running it beeps once then the amber light comes …

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how do i get my computer to boot up without having to click the owner icon. i used to just turn on my computer and it booted up totally straight to the desktop but since i had to reinstall windows due to a nasty virus i cannot get rid of …

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I have windows xp installed on my computer.When i try to pres shut down button with my mouse it doesnt work or it just shows blue screen with message "windows is shutting down" butt i wait and system is not shutting down. Please answer to me how to resolve my …

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I just dont know why all of my icons are highlighted dark blue? Does anyone know anything about this. Thanks

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I have a monitor (ViewSonic VA1912wb) that has a resolution of 1440 x 900 pixels and everything looks great at that resolution. After installing a wireless keyboard and a KVM switch, I am no longer offered that resolution as an option in the Control Panel. Since I know everything looks …

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Hi all, I am currently having a small problem with my Windows XP computer: when I am for example playing Call of Duty 4 or Age of Mythology, the computer minimalizes the window by itself every half hour (or something like that). It doesn't happen with browsers or other applications. …

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My friend has a laptop that boots strait to the safemode selection screen then crashes. He says he might have a virus. His battery is fine...could a virus have corrupted his boot sector that bad? and what steps should we take to fix this?

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Double clicking folders to view the contents always results in a new window opening. This is very frustrating when trying to view a deep pathfile. I've already gone to Folder Options and made sure open each folder in same window is selected. I use to have ACD See installed, and …

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I copied some photo's onto a media drive from my pc, now i have to give the media drive back i can not put the photo's back onto my pc. I have tried copy and paste, cut and paste and send to new folder nothing seems to work any ideas …

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hey guys, im currently getting a huge problem with my computer booting up. at first it was just the occaisional weird hanging noise? i guess once in awhile which just required a reboot. Then gradually i started experiencing problems with actually turning it on. i had to play with the …

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HI all I rebuilt my computer with some new parts [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread238968.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread238968.html[/URL] and installed xp, it did updates then came SP3. Install went fine then restarted and it came up with "Auto check not found - skipping autocheck" or something to that effect cant quite remember, then it would blue screen …

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I have a friend that can't get her computer out of safe mode. It keeps asking for a command prompt. Do you know what command it is talking about? And can you help?

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How do I solve this problem of my pc being unable to read or open some files copied from other computer

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Hi everyone, Is there anyway in Window XP to open a lot of file explorer tabs in a single window just like we could do in Ubuntu ? For instance, C: D: and C:\Program Files are opening in the same window without requiring to open 3 new windows? I need …

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HI I am new here so hope i am in the right place. I am running win xp sp 2 ie 7. on my laptop i can no longer access the internet wireless but i can access the internet thru a wired connection. when i am wirless and i enter …

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...Even in safe mode. It starts to open and then I get a white screen and it is not responsive Running Outlook 10 on XP machine. I saved the PST to an external hard drive and am thinking of uninstalling Office XP pro and reinstalling. Advice?

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Hi there all. I need some help with my PC... what happend is i started up my PC arter work 1 day it started up fin every thing kicked in like it shode do then it got to the next bit of loading where it has Verifying DMI Pool Data................ …

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can someone suggest me some mother boards that can i use to play INSANELY. Include the brand and price ( ofcourse i need a motherboard that is cheap but best performance in game) Question: is Intel BLKDP55WB P55 S/GL is good in gaming? hence its too cheap to have a …

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Been a little while since i formatted my pc figure i'd get it clean and polish it off during turkey weekend, no problem with the install but when i updated either sp2 or 2.5/3 it bugged out on me. Then i remembered this happened last time I'm using serial ATI …

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My O S crashed. So it was replaced and they reinstalled my files. I have Outlook xp 6 but only e mails showing from o4. I can not send or receive e mail. It keeps asking for username and password which I never used. or if I did I forget …

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I just recently got a semi-newish computer fixed (had a power source problem) to use at college that had previously been a family computer. My brother had downloaded a lot of spyware and adware, so I used a program to remove it. Then I decided to fix a message I …

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I guess this occured when my computer was in for repair months and months ago. I want to take control of a folder (to change its attributes), and to do this I need to boot the computer in safe mode. When I hit "F8" after the POST, I go into …

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My computer freezes after we update to service pack 2 or after we update the graphics card. The screen we flash multiple times until it completely freezes when viewing a video or running a large program. System: Microsoft Windows Xp Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 1 Hewlett-Packard Pavilion AMD …

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Hey guys, I got this creepy and freaking anoying freeze lag every minute. I dont have to do anything my computer just freeze once every minute for 1 or maybe 2 seconds each. It's pissing me off and I dont know what to do, help please :( Some system information: …

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Hi all I am not only a newbie here but also with computers - I know the basics but that is all. My son has windows xp and the problem i believe (although could be wrong) is a virus. He had Vrt1 tmp all the way through to 10 and …

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The Folder Option is missing both in the Control Panel and Tools Menu. What might had caused this problem? Is there any solution to this? Tnx in advanced Gurus!!

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I have XP and when I started the other day, I got the error message: windows could not start because the follwing file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM You can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using the original setup cd-rom... I found lots of information about …

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i have come across a problem every time i turn my computer on it goes to the windows screen with the rolling bar and the rolling bar starts to break up and become distorted then once windows loads the screen is unreadable as if it is in a very low …

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I have a mini ACER Aspire one laptop. This morning it had a page that said windows did not load properly and start in safe mode, nothing worked. I went and called ACER and the guy told me to go buy an external Hard drive container so that I could …

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