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| | Hi, I have just bought a new laptop with Vista Business installed. I want to Downgrade to Windows XP Professional as some of my programs will not run under Vista. Do I have to buy a Windows XP OEM or can I use the CD I bought with another computer … |
| | Normally I live the box on and don't normally have to reboot. Once in awhile I'll reboot twice, then export the registry which I should've done before my vacation but was too busy (this is all irrelevant anyway). Well, when I went on vacation, I turned the computer off. When … |
| | hey guys, ummm im not that good with computers so i needa bitta help here... i think i have a virus or spyware or sommat. i have an annoying Security toolbar on Internet explorer. when i click on it it takes me to a few different antivirus webpages, antivirgear.com, antispywear …  |
| | my system was infected with virus after cleaning my system i canot open my file by double clicking will any body help me to counter this problem |
| | Hello all, I hope this is allowed (I am a new poster and I did read the rules). I have a thread going at a different tech forum, but getting no responses from anybody. Thought I would post it here as well, if that is allowed. I mean, if it … |
| | Here are the steps I took. 1.Spybot picked up a few attempted registery changes, that my wife allowed (gaaaah!!) 2.Ran hijackthis as scannow.exe and fixed obvious errors. 3.Attempted to use Vundofix to remove 2 files that are associated with Vundo that were not picked up by the Vundofix scan. (C:\Windows\System32\vturq.dll … |
| | Whenever I go to the Speech option in Control Panel, and click on Configure Microphone, and then to the testing for the blowing in the mic, it plays back the first time fine, but the second time it goes about 2x/4x slower and deeper. I have looked at the troubleshooter, …  |
| | My laptop was fine yesterday then today it just froze on me and restarted. After that, it never fully loaded XP so I manualy restarted it and nothing happened. I tried to start it in safe mode, nothing happened. After a few more times, it finaly started in safe mode. … |
| | Does any one know a way to install IIS on windows xp sp2 when the option isn't there to install in add and remove components. Someone given me this laptop so i don't know the history of it. I don't really want to reload it does anyone have any ideas |
| | Yes, I still run Windows 2000 Pro, at least up until yesterday! Now, I cannot boot the computer. Windows 2000 has three splash screen in the boot-up. The first screen is a DOS screen which says, "Starting Windows", and my system makes it through this screen fine. The next screen … |
 | Hello all! I am new to this site and I wanted to start by posting my problem. I work for a k-12 scool, and I have 40 new barebones systems. I recieved these from cyberpowerpc.com and I cannot load any OS, or mainboard drivers. We have a standard cd-rom drive, … |
| | I have been trying to reformat win xp pro. I have the cd. I put it in. I selected "boot from cd" etc, etc. When I turn my pc on and it goes into the setup menu, it doesn't even get to the place where i can delete partitions. It … |
| | Hi Everyone, I wanted to ask, does Windows record the amount of times it is turned on, logged into or something similar? I would like to have a log of when it is turned on or used, also it would be usefull if there was a program usage log too. … |
| | Hello all, I've just been hit by the utterly annoying [url=http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_142420.htm]Voterai[/url] virus through an infected flash drive. The virus doesn't exploit automatically; it was just a sad unintented double-click that got my PC infected. The virus doesn't seem to be harmful. It repeats opening a "Raila Odinga.gif" file repeatedly and … |
| | Hi it only happens sometimes but when i try to go on any website i get redirected. I know when im going to get redirected as the ip address of the website comes up. i have just been redirected to this website [url]http://dubaidiplomat.com/flex.cfm?pt=2&rpt=1&kt=1[/url] please help ! thank you |
| | This forum was the closest to what i need help with.am helping a friend who has Windows Server 2003 and it was working fine untill about a couple months ago.It's no longer accessible by using remote desktop connection by any computer.I'm trying to allow remote access but I'm not getting … |
| | I recently had a "SMART event" on my c: drive. I could no longer boot because "windows/system32/config/system" was missing or damaged. since i have two hdds i thought maybe i could swap them, install xp on the new c: and access the old c: (now d:). next problem - no … |
| | HI! Just wanted to ask if a 64bit program would still take full advantage in a 32bit OS and a 64 bit processor Thanks!  |
| | hello to those who read this... i have a laptop that has a cd and dvd writer drive on it... up until recently, i have never had any problems with it buttttt lately it has been acting really funny. if i am writing a cd, whether it be audio or … |
| | Hi everyone, When I click the Search button in windows explorer the folders pane (on the left) is replaced with the search pane. This has a title bar "Search companion" at the top with a close pane 'x' button on the right (which works). Saddly that's all I get. The … |
| | So after upgrading from microsoft.com to sp2 from home edition it asked to restart the computer, so I let it and now it won't start in normal mode only safe mode. If I try the normal mode it just continues to restart/reboot and goes to the "We apologize for the … |
| | My PC can connect to the internet, seems to have no problem, except sometimes I lose the connection in the middle of browsing. The question that I want to ask anyone here is that why my PC gives the result of "request time out" when I ping the sites that … |
 | Anyone know how to LOCK THE TASKBAR in 98se?? I looked on an XP and if you right click the taskbar it has the option right there (Lock Taskbar) but not on 98se.... Im trying to get rid of the silly little LINE next to the word "Start" and i … |
| | I'm trying to set up IIS so I can use I WinXP remote web desktop. But this only works within the LAN. I can not get access to my computer via internet. Meaning when I type: [URL="http://my_localip:my_TCPport/tsweb"][COLOR=#006699]http://my_localIP:my_TCPport/tsweb[/COLOR][/URL] -----------> It's OK [URL="http://my_externalip:my_TCPport/tsweb--------->%20not"][COLOR=#006699]http://my_externalIP:my_TCPport/tsweb---------> not[/COLOR][/URL] working (I have a Qwest Actiontec GT701-WG already … |
| | Recently I have discovered a trojan horse or virus on my machine. I get IE popups but I am not using IE, I use Firefox. I repeatedly used spybot, Adaware and AVG to find and remove all of the aboved named infections. Newly installed Zone Alarm now stops these sites … |
| | ok first let me say hello to all ... now im confused about this pc im trying to start to keep it short but to the piont blank hard drive (20 GB) winxp pro trying to install xp pro on drive was getting the blue screen of death now drive … |
| | Hi i have this problem .... when i start windown and power on the computer starts up goes past the windows startup and then a black screen before an eggtimer appears and stays there. I have to manually switch off and restart - lst time i did this it took … |
| | Help! My computer started beeping really loud and now I get this message and am a virtual standstill. I am not coputer savy at all, but I did run HJT and here is the log Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 8:51:58 AM, on 10/4/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 … |
| | hello i have a windows mobile 5.0 pocket pc and i was wondering if i can connect to my xp pro pc using remote desktop web connection. i have set up the remote desktop web connection and can access it from other pc's with internet explorer. on my pocket pc … |
| | Ok, First off, I went out to fry's to buy a motherboard (Gigabyte GA-945GCMX-S2), DDR2 Memory Stick (512), Power Supply, and a Celeron Processor. I also have a HDD with XP: Pro-SP1 that was given to me by a friend (it came along with the computer but, the computer is … |
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