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Thanks for your services. I just got a Blue Screen Of Death on a 1 year old Dell Inspiron 530, running XP, SP2. Never had a problem before. Tonight, my wife started Left 4 Dead 2 and it went to blue screen and rebooted. I saw another thread here very …

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Hey guys I've found this guide pretty good. It's straight from my site [url]www.k2labs.com[/url]. If you've been using Windows XP for a while now and want to try out window 7 or vista, you might have tried dual booting! In that case once you installed windows 7 or vista, you …

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[i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Check for Disk Errors in Windows XP[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]The ScanDisk utility is not available in Windows XP. However, you can use the Error-Checking tool in Windows XP to check the integrity of your hard disk. [/size] …

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I have Windows XP Home Edition, Version 2002, which I run on eMachines version T2875. I also seem to have contracted a virus that uses Microsoft Internet Explorer to send pop-ups whenever I'm using Firefox, which is my main web browser. Yesterday, I noticed the virus for the first time, …

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I recently got myself a few old games that I wanted to play but they don't seem to like XP. I get errors about DOS and such, and I know that XP doesn't support DOS, but is there some sort of "emulator" or something that I can get so I …

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I've been having this problem on my Dell Vostro 400 XP SP2 for around 3 weeks now. The PC boots up fine and then functions well as it has always done for a random period of time. Then it starts slowly freezing eventually giving me no control at all over …

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Good evening you all, Today and after having several problems with Vista I finally was able to downgrade to XP. I was able to find the drivers wich was a really hard task although right now the problem is, as said, that I am not able to connect to the …

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[URL="http://www.laplink.com"]Laplink Software[/URL] [URL="http://www.laplink.com/pcmover"]PCMover Professional[/URL] $59.95 Download Version If you don't know it already, you can't upgrade directly from Windows XP to Windows 7 using the Windows 7 bootable media. Microsoft suggests upgrading to Vista then to Windows 7. That's an expensive undertaking. It's also quite daunting to consider moving from …

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Hello my friends, I would like your advice please. I have just recovered from being stung by a horrible nasty virus called Install_Patch.exe Trojan Downloader win32.bagle.bxn, I was advised by my previous AV provider to have the drive formatted which is what I have had done by a friend and …

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Help. My pc will not boot past the Windows xp logo with the green bar showing progress. It is an Acer quad core, 3 GB RAM, XP pro. It will boot in safe mode with networking but I see no problems once I get in. The boot.ini is fine, I …

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My default games have vanished(minesweeper etc.) I am unable to reinstall games from my xp cd which is a xp prof sp2, I have upgraded to sp3. I tried to reinstall from Add/Remove programs, Add/Remove components and get the following msg. The file freecell on Windows xp cd/rom is needed. …

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So I want to know some opinions/facts as to what will be the future of windows XP. It's been nice month or so since windows 7 has been "officially" released and lots of people have got their hands on it. What do you think this means for those people who …

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My friend handed me his laptop today claiming it was dead and that it would not start and work. i turned it on and found that it was in the middle of a fresh windows installation of windows xp home sp 3. i called him and asked what he had …

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I have a PC runnng Windows XP SP2. I have installed a number of applications but overtime, the PC slowed down and now takes 30-45 minutes to boot. I have tried reparing Windows XP with no results. When it boots, starting applications takes 10-15 minutes and the applications including Office …

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When Windows XP tries to load, I get the following message: "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this." My options are: Start in safe mode. Safe mode with networking. Safe mode with command prompt. Last known …

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registry editor and task manager has been disabled in my computer because of some virus activity.plz anybody help me to make them enable.

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My friend handed me his laptop today claiming it was dead and that it would not start and work. i turned it on and found that it was in the middle of a fresh windows installation of windows xp home sp 3. i called him and asked what he had …

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I have the restore CDs for Windows Vista and XP Home Edition, is there any way I can make them into .vmx or .iso?My XP tower is broken and i miss using it so is there a way to get my VMX using the Vista or XP?Is this legal?If so, …

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If i push the start button then everything loads but if the user thing comes then it frozes can someone help me plz

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I've been employed to fix a friend's PC troubles and apparently his monitor automatically goes into "sleep" mode whenever the CPU is turned on. Once it passes the initial loading stage (Where the "DELL" screen shows up and the loading bar fills) it goes into sleep mode. I've tried removing …

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I'v done some reading on this site already about similar problems to my own but decided it was best to make my own thread considering i have some different problems from the other users. - My computer shut down by itself the other day and I was thrown into the …

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Hi everyone. So I have your average Windows XP emachines PC. Just a few days ago, I booted and installed Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit on my pc, to make it dual booted. I just wanted to see what ubuntu was like. Pretty nifty, nice graphics, etc. So I go to uninstall …

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Hi I have A full program which I have written from google and other reference sourcesand have now came to a bit am stuck at I have created two new classes and this scrolls through the items information when I click the next button but I cannot get it to …

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When I used my computer i cannot see anything except the my desktop wallpaper. I cannot see the desktop shortcuts, start icon, quick lunch and the likes. I run application using ctrl + alt +del and new task. How can I fix this one?

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Hi, I have an XP sp2 laptop I use for work. I was installing some broadband software. The machine locked up, I restarted it and received the following error. lsass.exe Bad image c:/windows/system32/dnsapi.dll. I've tried booting to last good config, starting it in safe mode but I can't get past …

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I'm trying to install XP Home on a machine that sold bundled with Vista (A Toshiba Satellite A200-16V). When I attempt to boot from CD and it inspects my hardware configuration, I consistently get the same error: *** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0xF748E0BF, 0xF78DA208, 0xF78D9F08) *** pci.sys - Address F748E0BF base …

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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 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 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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