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To install Windows XP, i need "SMARTDRIVE"? I believe i'm supposed to type "SMARTDRV" as a command. I've tried this on drive "A:, C:, D: & E:" with NO success, i keep getting the following error message: [QUOTE]Bad Command Or File Name[/QUOTE] Does anyone have any suggestions as to what …

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I somehow,using my recovery disk, have installed windows xp home edition into my computer 7 times. :lol: I would like to know how to uninstall the other 6 please? My computer is an e-machines. any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

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I had a PII running XP home on a 80G seagate hard drive. I bought a bare bones system w/ AMD Athlon XP 2700+ processor and 512M of ram. The manufaceur has the XP certificate for this mother board. I used the video card and hard drive out of the …

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I triple-boot Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2, and SUSE Linux 9.3 Professional. For those that don't know, Linux has special user permissions. There is only one user with access to the entire harddrive, called "root", and this user has an encrypted password. …

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Hello First timer here, I am having problems installing windows xp professional and was hoping that you guys could help. My problem is that I use a win98 boot disk to start the computer with the windows xp disk in the drive... I then get to a command prompt just …

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Microsoft Update "Failure" leads to Error 80200010 which says that the network card is inoperative, yet it is OK. Can't find any more info. on this error, not even on the Site itself. Funny thing is that there is a way round it, by way of opening the further-details page …

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Hi there I am having problems! I cant view animations on the net I have already checked this: On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options. Click the Advanced tab. Under Multimedia, check one or more of the Show pictures, Play animations, Play videos, or Play sounds check …

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Hi there, I have a problem and I'm hoping someone can help. The computers not been well recently, I've reinstalled O/S and used a variety of bug killers and all seemed ok. Problem is that in the last week I've been prompted to reactivate windows four times due to hardware …

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I would like to bridge my two Network cards so that I can share my wireless internet connection. I have 1 Wirless Lan card and one 10/100 Bit Lan card. The problem I have is when I go to the properties of the 2 Nic cards and Uncheck Internet connection …

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after downloading a small program to my desktop the program would not open after double clicking, so i deleted it. now when windows xp boots up each time i get setup wizard popup if i click cancel it closes but comes back each time i boot up. (any ideas) many …

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Hi Dani: I'm so thankful for the help I have received here. I have tried everything but I can't even run a scandisk. I looked in my Dummies book and couldn't find it. I'm wondering if I have a trojan in the PC. I still can't do the Norton updates. …

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For about a week now, my computer has been taking longer and longer to start. When I turn it on, it goes to the loading screen and completely freezes without the loading bar moving. After about a 2 minutes, the loading bar will finally appear and start moving, then freeze …

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I am trying to do a system restore, but it keeps telling me it was unsuccessful. Why is it doing this? How can I get it to restore? :cry:

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I was having problem with something on my system, so as a temporay fix, I placed a second installation on the computer. Is there anyway to move the files I want from the first installation to the second before deleting it?

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im having probley with my computer. i can play normally and then suddenly the computer will just freeze up and i can't do nothing but restart the computer. this is pissing me off heaps. here is my hijack log Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 4:39:41 p.m., on 29/04/2005 …

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Hi! I'm trying to help my sister who's in a bit of trouble. She needs to run scandisk but we can't figure out how to do it in Win XP (not even her Dummy book tells us how!) :o Can anyone here spare the time to gives a few pointers …

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[font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff][i][size=2][color=black][font=Verdana][color=black][i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i][/color][/font] [/color][/size][/i][/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Restore the Operating System to a Previous State in Windows XP[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]This article describes how to use the System Restore tool to return your computer to a previous working state. System Restore takes a "snapshot" …

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To get some DNS errors., SPECIFICALLY if I go into a page & go a page deeper Occasionally I get the following error: Cannot find server or DNS Error Internet Explorer I wonder about that., I do have the Google POP UP BLOCKER..... Ideas, things to check or suggestions are …

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Hey! All right. I have tried sharing a folder over the network to about 38 computers using a windows XP Pro computer. What I found out was that there is a "user limt" to about 10 over the network. Now I have gotten around that by logging of the user …

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Is there any way to use Windows XP and set up a domain over the network. I know there is a way on Windows Server 2003 but we do not have that kind of money! Help!

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a friend of mine was given a comp with windows xp on it and then they installed windows xp upgrade. how do I remove the upgrade or do I need to wipe the whole C drive clean as it is taking up a lot of memory and a lot of …

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hi i have a laptop which runs windows xp but i really want to use linux does any one know how can i run both in one if it is possible :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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Hey, I stumbled across this great guide for tweaking Windows XP. It has every tweak I have ever heard of and more. I would highly recommend that anybody check this guide out at [URL=http://www.tweakguides.com/XPTC.html]tweakguides.com[/URL]

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My son some how activated a passowrd on our home computer. We had no way to log on and were forced to reinstall windows. After formatting the drive, and attempting to reinstaller windows xp i recieve the a pop that states i need a file "D:\I386\asms" It also states this …

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Hello forum ppl, Im in the process of upgrading a computer. Heres the new specs: Athlon64 cpu asrock k8upgrade 1689 motherboard maxtor 80gig SATA hard drive. (along with other things that arent really related to the problem) when i tried to install windows xp with the third party SATA driver …

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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]Obtain Remote Assistance by Sending an E-mail Message in Windows XP [/color][/size][/font][size=2][font=Arial][color=#000000]This article describes how to obtain help by using the Remote Assistance feature in Microsoft Windows XP. Remote Assistance allows a remote connection to …

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Well I got a laptop, one of thoses old 366mhz for travel only, and I got this problem which is quite annoying after about 5-10 mins the screen turns black, and it doesnt seem to be the screen saver since its at 60min(60minutes needs to be past for the screensaver …

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:confused: I want to get rid of XP and go back to Win 98. How do you do that?[COLOR=Purple]Help, XP Problems[/COLOR]

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I just bought a used PC. It is running Windows XP Professional. I don't have the CD. Does anyone know where I can find the recycle bin?

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anyone knows why my connection tray keeps hanging? i kept losing connection and got to restart the pc in order to be online again..

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