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black screen of doom
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 7 Comments

I just built a new computer, D945GTP intel motherboard, intel pentium 4 3.0 processor, but am using old HD. when i try to reformat and install windows, windows setup opens, goes throught it, i get to...

Re: Harddisk 400GB - using diskmgmt
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Greetings, Among recovery software I want to pose Active@ Undelete. It helped me in really hard situation, I was impressed with it's restore methods. Definately a must have...

Icon Problems
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi, I have a Icon Issue. I change the icon on my downloads folder and when i use the downloads folder, the icon goes back to the default folder icon. Any help needed. Cheers daymo -- daymo_1990

IE Links Sequence
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I know that I can rearrange links in any sequence by dragging them on the links bar or favorites organize menu. How can I arrange items that are within a folder on the links bar? Even though...

Re: trojan horse message
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi RoadRunner: Thank you for your help.I will try some of these.One more question. Is it possible there was a glitch in McAfee virus scan that brought up the message?I'm still getting a negative(no...

Hardware device recognition problem
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 3 Comments

I have had my PC for a year and yesterday the CDROM stopped working, i looked at device drivers and i have a yellow exclamation mark by the CDrom driver. It says... 'Windows successfully loaded the...

WindowsXP Boot problem
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hey all, I have a friend thats having some pc problems and thought someone here could help. Ok, he has WindowsXP home, preinstalled, so he has no XP CD. The other day when he went to boot up his...

Explorer doesn't load at logon
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Running Windows XP Pro Sp2 In a Windows 2003 AD network. User logs on to computer after a reboot, and just sits and stares at his wallpaper... the explorer shell never loads. Hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and...

hibernation
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 0 Comments

My computer no longer has the hibernation feature, and it is not a choice in the power options in the control panel. How do I reinstall the hibernation and standby feature. I used to have both...

Nightmare
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Bruce Chambers Wrote: > C.L wrote:- > Is There Anyone Out There Who Can Help????? > > I Have A Friends Laptop On Loan, And This Morning When I Tried To Use > It, It Said That Windows Couldn't Start...

PC usage logging
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Years ago when the command line was in command, I had a very effective little prog which logged when users logged in and what programs they used and for how long. Nowadays my searches only seem to...

Comp keeps freezing up
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Yesterday out of nowhere my comp kept freezing up. No keyboard or mouse. Won't let me ctrl+alt+delete to reboot. Have no idea why it would start doing this out of the blue. I thought it might be...

No Choice to use FAT32?
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 4 Comments

im trying to install windows here, and when i go to format the partion, it only allows me to use NTFS, which is strange, its only a 40g HD, i want to use FAT32, but no FAT options to format come up...

Re: XP Home re-load after new motherboard
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Gazza wrote: > Thanks Ron, > > I have an e-machines 420 PC and XP was pre-loaded when I bought it. The > system manual tells me to restore XP via the recovery disks of which there > are 2. One simply...

Re: Nightmare
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 0 Comments

C.L wrote: > Is There Anyone Out There Who Can Help????? > > I Have A Friends Laptop On Loan, And This Morning When I Tried To Use > It, It Said That Windows Couldn't Start As There Were Corrupt...

Re: Any way to stop active window coming to the front?
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 0 Comments

4wd wrote: > Hello all, is there any way to stop active windows coming to the front? > Well, no. The request is self-contradictory. By definition, the "active" windows is the one that takes...

Re: XP Professional Key Code Help
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Donald Cook wrote: > I've been running XP Professional for the last couple of years and updated > the software with SR2. The original software was a copy which is no longer > recognized by the...

Is there a way to intervene the shutdown process? How to make my computer never shuts down?
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi all, I am using a Toshiba M4 Tablet PC and it has an nasty problem on its standby. Every time I open the lid to resume from standby, it mysteriously shutdown. I tried to reinstall the OS and...

Re: XP Help and Support / System Information utilities lost after installing Protel 99 SE
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 0 Comments

CityKidx Wrote: > Hope this post may help some of you who have installed Protel 99 SE > trial CD > and lost your win XP help and support system (along with a few other > XP > features and...

error message
Posted on September 24th, 2005 | 1 Comments

i'm getting an error message stating"file will be included in report" C:\DOCUME~1\OWNER\LOCALS~1\TEMP\6E9_APPCOMPAT.TXT ie encountered problems& needs to close. send error report.... previously,...