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| | I posted a message last week about some trouble I was having when I boot up my machine. A host of unknown applications were opening up and drastically slowing down my PC. So I went and downloaded Spybot and Grisoft, ran them and I am still having the same problem. …  |
| | a guy at a local computer shop was telling me about a card he had ordered, rather expensive too. anyway it descriptions is bit likie nothing i have every heard about, but it dont mean no one has ever created one. he described a custom card that has the ATI … |
| | Hi all. I've just installed microsoft service packs and critical updates, but now, if i am inactive on my desk top, the screen switches to the users log on screen. This never used to happen before. How do i stop this from happening? Cheers Cocker 92 |
| | I have a Win 98 machine. I just installed a Pacific Digital CD-RW/DVD Drive. To finish the installation I installed the WinDVD software and Direct X software. The problem! when I re-booted the PC, it only would boot into Safe Mode UNLESS I had the WinDVD software CD in the …  |
| | Hi, I'm using windows xp proffesional, and I'm wondering what I have to do to get my settings in the way that the views allways is shown in the list mode in the windows explorer. Because now I have to change the views in every directory and it takes way … |
| | I just reinstalled a Hardrive and Memory into a AMD Athlon system after there was a black out at my sisters home which blew out the Old Hardrive.I installed Windows XP Pro on her machine it worked fine for a while but when i installed Office XP. the system started … |
| | I have recently purchased a refurbished dell pc that had been wiped leaving no operating system just the initial start up, but after switching on the pc i am prompted with a c:\> which i can't get past, does anyone know how to do this so that i can install … |
| | I have been running Win2k for a while now, and all of a sudden I have been getting this damn error message that says that svchost.exe has been generating errors and will be closed down by windows. Now I cannot cut or paste any documents AT ALL which is very … |
| | Working on a p4 1.6 with winxp ,it had the w32 blaster work plus a lot of spyware exe's in Registry ,current version/ run ,it would just sit at the desktop ,i removed the worm,spyware from msconfig ,now it runs at the desktop but some program will run for just … |
| | can anyone please help, ive just upgraded to win 2000 from win 98, i had a second hard drive which i used for all my media files & i compressed it using drivespace 3, i cant access this hd without mounting it 1st but i need drivespace 3 to do … |
| | What is the big problem with XP home seeing ANY other M$ OS shares? Server is Win2kpro, Laptop is XPhome. Server is sharing a folder that's needed by Laptop, laptop can't see 2kpro??? I'm basically here for info on possibly WHY this is happening and maybe something simple that can … |
 | Here is my question about using Styles or Winblind type themes mods for windows xp. Is there any more of a performance hit, over the standard XP themes, on the system?  |
| | I have a media program on five CDs which I find I cannot view. I'm running Windows XP Professional. When I run the first CD it installs several files after making changes to config.sys and win.ini files. When I click 'open' I get the message "Can't run 16 bit Windows …  |
| | I recently got rid of the blaster worm with the download from Microsoft.com. Now the worm has gone. Everytime I try to open the internet I get "This page cannot be displayed" Message even though my connection to the internet is running. The two computers are in the bottom right … |
| | I'm really having trouble transfering my mp3's from my old 80 Gig HD to my new 160 Gig HD. Everytime I try to transfer them, I get a message saying.. "Access is Denied". I really have no idea why this message comes up and doesn't let me play the file. … |
| | well i downloaded the disk installation version. it has 3 images to make 3 install floppies. well they do work and all but installation is completely FUBAR. first off format.exe does not work when i type install it goes thru the normal it thens asks "where are the install files" … |
| | i would like some help on finding out how to get my auto play to work again...i tried scandisk,nortons utilities and fix it up...i can not figure out what happened to it...i insert discs into the cd rom and burners and nothing comes up...i check under hardware its says its … |
 | I have Norton Ghost, and just finished building a computer. When I copy one hard drive to the other, does it also copy my hardware crap? I've already used it once but on the same computer, when upgrading the hard drive. It had the exact look, and the such, except … |
 | Hi... glad to have stumbled across this great looking forum. I have a question to ask. I just started using VMWare 4, and am trying to install Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition on a Windows XP machine before an actual installation on a server. Every time I boot VMWare, it … |
| | Hello, Does anybody have a piece of code to convert sequence of bitmaps into video(avi) without using directx sdk? I am looking for a pure win32 API solution so I will be able to translate it to the programming language I use(After GRasp) Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks in … |
| | Yes i had to reformat my PC and i was wondering how to get my audio driver and such back cause i have had no audio for the past week, it didnt install when i reinstalled windows 98plus! , if you guys/girls could help i would like to thank you. |
| | My computer froze up after a defrag. The when I tried to reboot, it went through the normal process until my wallpaper was visible. At this point, usually, my icons appear and off I go. Now, a small title bar with "Explorer" blinks for a fraction of a second and … |
| | Arg. I've posted to other forums but to no avail. People seem interested in helping out at the beginning and then the problem seems to serious or something so they drop off! :) Ok. Here's the lowdown. I'm running Windows 2000 on an old beater Sony Vaio. I'm networked to … |
| | How do you remove the text (and just have the icons) for the Right Column in the Windows XP Startbar? Whenever I look at Windows XP Themes, they are turned off. Here is a sample: [url="http://users.skynet.be/bk265512/BlueCurve/Screenshots/BlueCurveSS.jpg"]http://users.skynet.be/bk265512/BlueCurve/Screenshots/BlueCurveSS.jpg[/url] Also, featured in the above image, the desktop icons are larger then normal size. … |
| | I have a document that needs to be filled out. To help the user input all the correct information that goes on the form, I built a user form. On enter, the information gets transferred to the form. To accomplish this I use this statements like the ones below: ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("NAME").range.InsertBefore … |
| | Using Windows XP Pro, when you move a hard drive from one computer to another, it will often refuse to boot and give the blue screen of death with a stop error. i really don't feel like reinstalling windows so i was wondering if there was a way to say … |
| | well at it agian. once agian i have had to tell people why i cant fix it. here is the storym my brother bought a game for his new computer. game hs modest, to low end, system requirements. basicaly a 3d card, 128Mb ram, 8 meg video card and a … |
| | I would like to dual boot between XP and RedHat 7.3 (I hear I shouldn't get 8 ). I already have Windows XP home installed and have games and media on the hard drive. I have Partition Magic 8, in case I have to do that. I don't think I … |
| | When i start the Windows Xp download process it goes the all the steps and when it goes to the Installing Windows it just stays there, At the botton it says Setup will complete in approximatley 39 mins and it has said that for like 8 hrs i have tryed … |
| | Ok, here's the deal: I'm currently running Windows 2000 on my master (c:) drive 30GB, dual booting with Windows ME. Running slave is my new 60GB HD, with ALL of my media files, important files, etc. C:\ has been throwing me warning signs for a while now, and I don't … |
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