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windows xp recovery feature wont kick off. It says press R to start recovery and the the windows director comes up like this 1: Windows/ so I press "1" and then nothing happens. so i tried pressing enter after that and it goes back to c:/windows and nothing else happens. …

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Acts like it is loading normally but finishes with a blank screen. Won't respond to Ctrl/Alt/Delete. Has to be shut down manually. Can be brought to the desktop by hitting F8 and last known good, but will have the same problem next time it reboots normally. Since this started after …

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I have a Gateway E Series PC setup as a Linux Print Server. We decided to remake it back into a Windows machine for a new employee. When we try to boot from a Windows XP CD it comes up with the Setting up hardware line and then the screen …

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I just installed Windows XP and i have been getting this problem. I have a fresh install of windows XP. I have checked for spyware and viruses just incase. I have checked my running processes and there are no unusual processes running. I have a good computer. Intel Core Duo …

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I am trying to install Windows XP Pro, on a new PC. I know the disc works because I just tested it on another PC. Anyway - what happens, is that it gets through the first part fine. I create a new partition (entire size of drive) and format NTFS …

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Hopefully someone can help me with this. I have a Sony Vaio I've had for a few years and a month after warranty was up it started crashing. I haven't noticed any consistency in when- no particular programs or actions are in use everytime it crashes. Just in the span …

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Hi there, My wife has a calendar she likes to use, called the [URL="http://www.hallmark.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/article%7C10001%7C10051%7C/HallmarkSite/hoops&yoyohome/CC_BF_HYY_MONTHLY_CALENDAR"]Hoops and Yoyo Fun Calendar[/URL]. She said it was working before on her home and work computer. It's basically a SWF file that plays on her desktop. Since We've moved and had to set up with a …

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Hi everyone, just a bit annoyed by XP? Or do you have rather good experience with it? This one serves both: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLxP3V4veJk[/url] Many artists and home studio owners have been playing around with "Microsoft Sam" in the past. In this one, this gets some purpose: Sam singing about XP. Not …

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I have an AMD XP processor and would like to know if I move the hard disk to AMD Athlon 64 motherboad will it recognise the new motherboard and run?

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Hi, My windows xp machine won't shutdown when I click 'Start->Shutdown'. It remains idle/does nothing. Only hibernate is working. What is wrong? How will I fix this? any help would be appreciated. Thank you, kath.

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Hi guyz, this if my first post so letz so hope i do well... anywayz My aunties computer has always had problems and always fixeable untill a recent problem. When windows xp starts loading it quickly shows a blue screen (which im guessing is an error msg) and the PC …

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Hi guys, my p.c has started running very slow on startup. I've removed everything with Ad-aware and Spy Bot. Here is my hi-jackthis log. Thanks in advance for any help. ------------------------------------------ Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 09:51:45, on 03/08/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer …

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I installed IIS 5.1 on a Windows XP machine with no problems. I got all the updates as of 7/31/07 5pm. I setup a virtual directory pointing to a directory in wwwroot I checked all the boxes (script access,read, write, scrpts, directory browsing, indexing etc) and I selected Execute Permissions …

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Hi, I'm having big problems with my comp... recently (over the past 2 or 3 days) it has been slowing down considerably, taking twice the time to load some programs. The cpu doesn't seem to run noticably higher than normal either. Forgive my noobishness... it's had a rapid slowdown and …

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A couple of days ago I turned my laptop on but turned it off as it was still loading things up at the start. Since then when I turn it on it comes straight up with the screen which lets me choose safe mode etc. I have tryed safe mode, …

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I just build a PC, with spec: asus p4s8x-x motherboard, Celeron 2.4GHz, 512 MB, GForce 5200, 80GB HD, DVD and CD-RW. The problem was, after loading Windows the second time, it takes almost two minutes to load Windows, and the sound is bad; it sounds like have a lot of …

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I currently have a licensed copy of windows XP. But I have two computers. Can I activate the OS on both computers?

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Recently I had my computers registry become massively, well we will just say bad. I went to use the DELL Symantec restore ( The control+ f11 deal ) and it says I have unsupported changes to my master bootrecord. Thats fine and I will have to find a different fix …

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Hi im planning to repair my windows xp. does the content of my deskotp gets deleted when repairing? i mean using the windows recovery cd.

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Hi all , please help me ..... i tried to open my windows xp but it was just cannot get through the windows . i turned on the pc , appear the log-on screen but once i click anyone of the icon(user account) it just loading ..... and then appearing …

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The infrastructure: Windows XP account connected to a domain controller in a Active Directory based infrastructure. Various Domains available but user is connected to a single domain. The problem: XP account gets locked out. What can be the issue here? Any help/suggestions appreciated.. Thanks -Kishore

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Non-techie needs help! I installed SP2 yesterday and now my Windows XP is running slow as molasses. At first I thought it was just my internet connection (high speed cable modem with wireless router) which all of a sudden was slower than dial-up. But then I realized that it was …

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When trying to install windows xp on a brand new hard disk I get the following BSOD error just after it says "Starting Windows": "DRIVER_CORRUPTED_MMPOOL", followed by something about safe mode etc, the the error code is " STOP: 0X00000000 (0X00000001, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x8087E973). If anyone could help, I would …

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When I sign into Windows Live Messenger The PC Reboots unexpectedly. I am connected to internet over a network. My anti virus software is updated. And the Pc is clean as far as I know. The system is hardware level protected by HDD-Guarder from ([URL="http://www.hddguarder.com/"]http://www.hddguarder.com/[/URL]). What could be wrong! Please …

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Hi Guys A weird situation: Just finished building my PC (XP). But my D drive has no icon! It has one of those icons when a file is not recognized by windows or has no application installed. Otherwise it works fine. All other drives (C, B, E and even network …

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Hello all. I recently had to re-partition a drive and used XP disk management to do so. Prior to that I backed up the system drive in another computer using the Windows Backup utility. I then removed all of the logical and primary partitions and created a single primary partition …

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Hey all, Having a little trouble starting windows as of last night. I came to turn on the computer and the usual screens came up, until i got to the windows loadscreen (blue load bar) which just remained as though loading....forever. Anyway, came to it again this morning and the …

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Hi there, I am having a problem with reinstalling windows xp. I am trying to reinstall xp because I was having a problem. alls was going well it got to the step where it started installing devices. A window popped up saying that "the software you are installing for this …

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I want to create a bootable recovery CD in case my operating system ever fails again. What files do I need and in what folders do I find them? I am new at this so please reply in laymans' terms. Any help is appreciated, Tim

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I am using Apache 2 with windows web server 2003 on the windows XP. I have problem using exec() command. My safe_mode is off. Does anyone know what can be the reason why exec() does not function? It is interesting that immediately when I restart the Apache server exec() command …

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