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| | My question is, what is considered high physical memory use. I have an HP laptopo with AMD turion 64x2 and 4 gigs of ram.My operating system is VISTA Home Preimum and when I look at Resource overview, it show that I am using 69% of the physicla memory. Is this …  |
| | this is a very basic command prompt question (sorry if i posted it in the wrong place) is there a command for cmd to sleep/wait for say 5 seconds? like say i have a .cmd file that says "start www.google.com" but i want it to wait 5 seconds before opening … |
| | Hi all, I just learned that I can edit the Windows (Vista) host file to assign IPs to domains (host) so that the local system checks the domain against the host file before going through the DNS. My question is: is there a way to redirect an IP instead for … |
 | I'm helping my daughter set up her computer at a new home, and she has forgotten her password. When I go to the Accounts in Control Panel it, of course, wants an Admin password. How do I reset this so that I can work in her account? Any thoughts appreciated. … |
| | Hi all my daughter has a Asus x8ol laptop and started to do a system recovery with the disc provided with the laptop, she followed the instructions and now has a white screen with the word ERROR (in red) accross it and in the top corner is says error 23 … |
| | I'm getting a RunDLL error on startup that says as follows: Error loading C:\Windows\Qqafeco.dll The Specified module could not be found. After I close the notification box, my computer seems to be running ok, but goes through extremely slow periods where it sometimes takes text I write 10-15 seconds to … |
| | Hi everybody, I'm planning to upgrade my Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit to either Windows 7 Ultimate beta or Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. I ain't quite sure if I could upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit. Can anyone help me out here? Anything I need to know before I go … |
| | okay well i have to admit i downloaded somthing and it messed up mu computer. now i cant get onto vista only in safe mode. it will load and go to right before the users pager/ welcome page and it will stay black, somtimes it will restart itself.. i cant … |
 | Hi there, I have been on the lookout for third party boot loaders for Windows that support boot from VHD. Windows 7's boot manager supports boot from VHD but it cannot boot Windows XP. I have setup a dual boot with Windows 7 as the VHD boot alongside Windows Vista. … |
| | I have bought a new desktop machine with AMD phenom Processor and JM26GT4 motherboard. My system used to shut down abruptly without giving any message, i used to work in Windows XP, recently i have changed the operating software to Windows Vista (Basic Home edition), it worked fine for first … |
| | Hi everyone: I would like to ask how to protect the computer from conficker worm. Thank you so much, I know this worm is destroying many pcs out there. Have a great day.;)  |
 | A new Windows 7 build 7057 has been leaked. It was compiled just 6 days back. It'll expire on 02/03/2010. There are lots of changes in this new build. Some of them are as follows: * The infamous UAC issue has been fixed. In previous Windows 7 builds when you …  |
| | HI all, I have HP-Pavillion DV5-1104TX laptop which i ordered from HP few weeks back.It was working fine untill 2 weeks and now it is very slow to start up.Actually it takes nearly 5 minutes to get in to full speed after it is booted to vista. (I have windows … |
| | I am running Vista Home Premium with 3Gb memory. I recently installed Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and allocated 2Gb of memory to it during the installation in order that I could try out Windows 7. I didn't get on with Virtual PC so I uninstalled it. Now when I start … |
| | I have downloaded a driver for Lexmark E210 laser printer that is supposed to work fine with Mac OS X (I have 10.5.6). But I cannot figure out how to install the driver. I think I might need Ghost script, so I downloaded 8.64. But I don't know how to … |
| | I have HP laptop with Vista Home-64 bit OS. If I'm logged in with a Standard User I can't play most of the videos on Youtube either in FF or IE and forget safari, it won't open any pages. If I run any of the 3 .exe file as administrator …  |
| | Hey guys, I wanna know how to create a bootable dvd that have installer of windows 2000, xp and vista so that when i want to reformat a computer i just have to select from the menu in boot are if what os i'm going to install. I tried this … |
| | Hi all am having problems with my WINDOWS DEFENDER on my ACER ASPIRE laptop. It's been fine for all this time I have had it (well over a year) and all of a sudden a error message is coming up saying:- Application failed to initialse: 0x800106ba. A problem caused this … |
| | When I boot up my computer, everything loads up fine; all my start-up programs; everything. But everytime I click on iTunes, Computer, My Documents, anything, it loads but windows explorer suddenly won't respond. I don't know what to do. Will anyone please help? |
 | I really hope someone can help me. I bought a brand new desktop from Best Buy about a year ago and Ive regretted it since. Since the fist day I hooked it up I have had nothing but problems with crashing and the display driver failing. Ive took it all …  |
| | I have installed Alcohol 120 and then after my laptop is restarting in a loop... after logging in i get inly 5sec and then blue screen appears and restarts... atleast in normal mode i can login but in safe mode not even that... i tried F8 last know good...... but … |
 | Hey there, I am running into a problem with a program called system security which is going crazy on a friends Gateway laptop running Vista. I am in college and I am pretty awesome a trouble shooting mac computer problems so I have become, unfortuantly, the go to guy for …  |
| | Hey Guys, My HP Laptop Pavilion turns on, I see all the lights above the keyboard but the screen doesn't come on. I don't think it boots up either. What do you guys think the problem is and how can I fix it. Thanks |
| | I have 1 XP desktop, 1 Vista desktop, 2 Vista laptops & 1 network external hard drive. The 2 laptops are on the network, but they don't see the external hard drive. The vista desktop gave no problems. |
| | Ok heres the deal ...i have a hp paviliion laptop dv9700 that i got from "questionable" sources but the price was right and i needed a comp. the problem is they used a dell recovery disk to restore it to factory settings but its not a dell so when i … |
| | Hi, I am planning to buy a new Laptop. My old laptop has Windows XP. The new laptop will have window vista business. I have no Idea about Window Vista Business. Has anyone used it? How is it different from Windows XP? Any comments are welcome. |
| | Can Someone please help me resolve an issue with my Dell GX110,Stop Error, I've been trying to fix a blue screen of death and can't figure out how to do it without reformatting the drive, Tried Just about everything with this pc, any help would be appreciated, I'm tired of … |
| | I am having a problem on my Gateway Notebook and Gateway Desktop PC's, How can I repair a crash error I keep getting an error saying Microsoft windows has shut down the program and will check for a solution to the problem but it never does, How do I repair …  |
| | Hello, I was hoping someone could help me figure this out, I have a Dell 220s on our network that Runs Vista 32bit Bussines. I had Office 2007 installed and when you open word it shuts down right away, Excel shuts down on printing, and Publisher shuts down when trying … |
| | Here there, I have a problem with my Internet Explorer. When I search on Google or Yahoo or any other search engine, I get redirected to a totally random website unrelated to my search. My computer is less then a year old. I do have anti-virus software but when I … |
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