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I have bought a copy of windows xp home upgrade from best buy for a friends old 333 mhz, 128 ram machine. She had 95 origionally and upgraded it to win 98 and after many problems she wants to go to windows xp like the rest of her computers. Her …

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This is what I got for a report. C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini032405-01.dmp C:\DOCUME~1\JAMESD~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER1.tmp.dir01\sysdata.xml At the time i was playing dungeon siege a computer game online, suddenly the monitor went blue, flashed bunch of normal error coding message, then the system shut itself down and restarted.

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About 3 weeks ago I got a new video card, an Nvidia Geforce 4 ti, made by Asylum (basically an unknown brand). At the same time as I installed it, I reformatted my computer. This all happened less than a week after Nvidia released new DetonatorXP drivers. So I reformatted. …

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<<Sorry originally posted in the wrong forum!>> Hi, can anyone help <this is a little difficult as its my parents computer thats having problems and I've got them to do various things over the phone! but here goes...> <Running XP home sp1, 256mb ram, zone alarm, advast antivirus> 2 problems …

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Hi, recently my sound was working fine but a wanted to watch a video and i didnt have the required codecs so i downloaded the Nimo codec pack and installed a standard package. the video still didnt work so i uninstalled it and my computer later froze from a problem …

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If you want your BASIC progs to go on running on XP you can do any of the following:- (a) Get rid of Windows Wait 2years and CHINA will do this for you The reason Windows is a mess is it was forced to inherit all manner of conflicting protocols …

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Ok, I used to have my pc all nice and happy, then when I reformated my PC today, (Which I do about once a month due to lots of issues) Windows is showing up with only 2 harddrives, yet I have 4. Please help me, all my reformatting tools are …

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When installing Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Windows gave me a Error 1606: could not find network drive. I tried all of the fixes I found on the internet but could not figure it out. In the process of my tinkering I restarted the system in safe mode. Now whenever I start …

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I recently started my computer over with Windows XP by re-installing it. However, this delted 4 of my drivers. The drivers I need to get are: USB Controller, SM Bus Controller, Multimedia Audio Controller, and Video Controller (VGA compatible). Atleast that is what drivers my computer says I need to …

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I have a computer with win xp home sp2, that locks up during startup in random locations. It does the same thing if you try to go it into safe mode. After approx 4 restarts it boots and runs fine, until I shut it down for the night. Thanks, Goose

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Does anybody know if a 3DFX Voodoo 5 AGP 64mb Graphics card is compatible with Windows XP ?? Any help much appreciated Thanks Rob

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im getting an error message when i boot up that windows is missing load dll's. when i try to start up in safe mode, it says that the missing files are ntoskrnl.exe hal.dll and dkcom.dll i have another computer that is exactly the same hardware, and has windows set up …

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Hi, can anyone advise me, is it ok to load Office 2003 Pro onto my TC1100 which is installed with Windows XP Tablet Edition? I'm not very clued up, as you can probably gather!

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I tried using the windows xp repair and it didn't help. If I choose reinstall a fresh copy of windows xp, what are the ramifications? Does it wipe out my files, my periperal drivers and DSL software? or nothing? thanks

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I've been trying to get a triple-boot set up with Windows 98, Windows XP, and SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional. Here is the setup I had BEFORHAND: Hard Drive 1: - Partition 1, FAT32, 80gb, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Hard Drive 2 - Partition 1, NTFS, 80gb, Microsoft Windows XP …

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I have discovered what Gates did (Nov 2004, his fix called SP2) to stop all applications like QBASIC working. What he did is deleted autoexec.nt Replace it and those DOS programs he sabotaged now work fine again, and it is so easy to do: What you put in it hardly …

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Hiya doin' out there. :D I was wondering if there is a difference between the Windows XP distributed in N. America and the one in Europe? Is it just a matter of installing a particular language add-on (European or any other language)?

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I'm using fedora core 1 and most of the files that I need to work with are in windows xp. How do I access this fiels from fedora core? Windows is using ntfs file system. :?:

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My CD R/W, working for 2 years, suddenly says all discs are blank But the winbdows troubleshooter says "This device is working fine" The disc goes round The laser lights (for 6 secs while searching the disc) And My Computer, drive E, says the disc is empty Please suggest some …

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On 15 Nov 2004 Bill Gates downloaded a "fix" to my Win XP (without informing me) From then on XP no longer allowed me to run BASIC I have been writing ALL my progs in BASIC for 30 years so this is catastrophic. Has anyone ideas who to contact who …

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I have a desktop computer with windows Xp Professionnal sp2. When my computer has been turned off for the night or for an hour or so, windows Xp won't boot. I see the bios and everything goes well. Then just before the windows logo is supposed to appear, it just …

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Ok, slipstreamed xp pro installation with sp2, Clean Install, inspects hardware config, asks me to press F6 if i want to install SCSI or RAID Drivers. then to press F2 for ASR, and then nothing, the screen hangs, cd and hard drives go idle and after a short while the …

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This is my first time to post here so please bear with me.I use netzero as my dial-up ISP and here is the problem I am having. (I am using Windows XP Pro) When I click on the NetZero Desktop Icon the connect screen will come up but, before I …

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I upgraded windows XP home ed to professional and want to uninstall it and return back to the regular home edition. I've tried by going to control panel and uninstalling the program, but it's not there. I've tried to restore the system with the disks that came with my notebook …

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I have A Compaq presario I am trying to install windows XP Home on I have Fdisk the hard drive formated it done a scandisk 0 all segments tried to install XP but half the files will not load this one has me lost.any help would be greatly appreciated have …

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I Just put a new computer together, well really my dad did all the work, so now I'm trying to install Windows XP Pro. The hard drive already has exsisting files and OS on it so I'm trying to wipe everything and install the new OS (I don't know if …

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Hi, I will be installing windows xp on a new Maxtor SATA drive. I know that it is usually necessary to install SATA drivers before installing WinXP on this type of drive. I have the motherboard's CD but am unsure which drivers I will need to put on a floppy. …

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I’m now sitting in my local library and thought I would try one of these forum things, they are supposed to be helpful – so here goes people. I am having problems installing Windows “XP

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This is my first time to post here so please bear with me.I use netzero as my dial-up ISP and here is the problem I am having. (I am using Windows XP Pro) When I click on the NetZero Desktop Icon the connect screen will come up but, before I …

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Hi, I was helping my brother install Norton Internet Security, part way through we got [color=red][b]"error 1327 invalid drive c:\"[/b] [color=#000000]Looking at his drives he as 1 floppy A:\[/color][/color] two cd/dvd drives G:\ and H:\ and the hard drive is I:\. Any ideas on solving this problem would be most …

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