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Does anyone know how i could make a bootable backup copy of my winxp?Just copying is easy, but my copies are not bootable, so they just end up in the bin.

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Hey, Along with the installation came a host of "Windows.old.0011-003 Files". Is it imperative that I maintain these files or can I safely delete them because they are cluttering up my system. It has taken 7 disk to complete a full backup. If its possible to delete these files, I …

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Sony Vaio PCV-7762 desktop My computer died. Kept trying to boot kept going in a circle. Tried the System Recovery CD #1 which was shipped with the computer. I got a blue screen with white letters. "This program could not find a CD-ROM drive or a DVD-ROM drive for your …

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I like to watch a lot of movies online. Well used to anyways. For some reason when I go online to StageVu or another site, even Youtube, my computer freezes during the movie/video no matter how long it is and becomes unresponsive. If I can get through a whole movie/video …

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POSSIBLE windows registry error - urgent attention Hi friends, I dont know why but every now and then i am getting these two error messages... [URL=http://img82.imageshack.us/my.php?image=errormessage12py.gif][IMG]http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/5908/errormessage12py.th.gif[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://img82.imageshack.us/my.php?image=errormessage26fc.gif][IMG]http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/1346/errormessage26fc.th.gif[/IMG][/URL] would really appreciate if someone can throw a light about what exactly needs to be done and what exactly is the problem.... anxiously …

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I have been trying to install net 3.5 framework on my system because a tax program requires it. It will not install and according to Microsoft tech engineers, I will need to get a sp2 vista home premium cd to do a repair install so I wouldn't lose my programs. …

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I have a 1920 by 1080 resolution and it worked fine before, but then after I changed the resulution to put a movie on my projector it worked fine... when the movie was over I could not change my resolution back.

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I have no sound & got a [COLOR="Red"]red x[/COLOR] on the volume icon plus it says NO AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICE IS INSTALLED. I did the scan hardware in device manager everything updated but i still got the [COLOR="Red"]red x[/COLOR] & no sound........ANY SUGGESTIONS???

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First of all my windows live communications platform stopped working. After several attempts trying to fix it by doing things such as uninstalling and trying to install the program again and deleting some files that may have caused the problem, i decided to delete the program from my Program Files. …

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It seems that leaving for 5 days for a holiday has taken a toll on my internet accessing capabilities. Before i left everything was fine and dandy on my wireless modem. i come back, kaput. heres the sitch... Main PC (connected to modem) -------> My PC (Wireless reciever to main) …

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Recently re-installed Windows 7 to solve an older issue. After re-installing 90% of all my other apps, I notice that two programs show their icon as "generic". The applications are Mozilla Firefox and Advanced Uninstaller Pro. I contact the folks at Advanced Uninstaller Pro and they told me it was …

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Hello, I just upgraded my laptop to windows 7, my computer stats are as follows: [CODE]Toshiba Satellite P205 Laptop, Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, Intel Core 2 Duo x2, 32 Bit Operating System 3.00 GB RAM, 200 GB Hard Drive[/CODE] I have been a long time user of …

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Hi all, I have an XP Pro machine that always prompts to restart (after just starting up). It says it is to install new updates, problem being that it just continues to cycle through this, even if I restart as prompted. Windows updates says the machine is up to date. …

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I would think I'm nuts for trying this, But I have a Toshiba U205-S5002 Laptop, 320GB HDDR, 3GB/4GB ready Boost, Intel Centrino Core Duo 1.6GHZ ,256mb video, SSE,SSE2,SSE3, and guess what, I feel like having Windows XP, Win 7, Mac OSX 10.6.2 Snow Leopard. This is the situation, Had win …

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so installed a theme on windows 7 and i didnt look anything like the screen shots and i wanted to change it back, but it wont let me. when i right clicked on the desktop and went to "personalize" nothing happened, so i went to control panel and i get …

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Hey I've been having this problem of my browser redirecting randomly after a search on google and yahoo. It would even pop out an internet explorer window when I have nothing runing or clicked. This all started after picking up a XP Guardian Pro or so type of fake anti-spyware …

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When I try to launch microsoft office outlook, I get this message: Error 1317. Setup cannot create the folder C:\documents and settings\All users\application data\microsoft I am somewhat technically challenged. Thanks for your help

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hey, im new here and i need help in installing vb.net express edition 2008 in windows virtual pc - win xp, i use win7ultimate anyway. When install, it goes like this. please help i badly need to run it. I have installed MSsql 2000 and 2005 in virtual xp w/ …

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Last day I have formated my computer and installed a fresh copy of windows XP SP1. Then I tried to install MS Office 2007. It shows that it need SP2 or later. So I deceided to download SP2 from microsoft site which is 266 MB huge. I have started at …

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If it were not bad enough that the Iowa Division of Homeland Security official website was hacked, defaced and forced to close down temporarily it appears that another Iowa state government resource was also compromised a few weeks before. At the end of January the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission …

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IS this possible? I hit one of those weird sites by accident...the ones that have weird symbols in the link or whatever... Im on my own contact list, so when I Hit it I instantly got an IM from myself saying to click some link for a free ipad or …

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[COLOR="Red"]I have a problem with my desk top Icons and some files. Probaly a restore would fix it , but I have Norton Internet Security and it wont let me do a system restore. My Recycle bin Icon is on top of several of my I cons it looks like …

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I Can not connect to the internet after installing xp sp3 home edition . I googled the problem one site was really helpful but all i accomplished was that I got rid other LAN error message by repairing the tcip stack. I did the whole bit of running it through …

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Hey, I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium,but the Media Player is loading slowly,skipping on songs,won't play music that's in my libraray,and also when I ripped music from a cd it played as long as the disc was in.It freezes everything that I'm doing when I try to close it out...I've …

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so I"m at my friends house and her old laptop died and she had to get a new one. the old one used to not be able to open internet explorer (I found closing a suspicious process fixed that problem) but now there are two more problems (one possible extra …

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Hi. My {systemdrive}/Windows/Installer dir is currently 4.9GB big - making my Windows dir sum up to ca. 21GB. I'm running Vista Business SP2 32bit. A similar (but old) thread is [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread153483.html"]here[/URL]. Ran msizap g from command line as it was suggested [URL="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqltools/thread/07db294a-79e5-4a5a-916c-6a51e44a5aa4"]here[/URL] but no changes. The folder itself contains lots …

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My Computer is running on windows xp sp2. Last night when i open Folder on desktop, explorer.exe restarted and can't open also my computer other applications can open and nothing problems. I have a trouble for that can't open My computer & Folders. Please any others knows solution , help …

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Hi, I recently got a virus that was some rogue trojan. I used malwarebytes and removed it. But the virus had some effect where I couldn't edit the registry even after i deleted the malware. So i just used one of my restore points and it worked fine. But I …

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