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Setting up guest account but unable to go online!?
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Hi All I want to set up a guest account however when I use it to go online, I'm unable to. I have a dial-up & it says it's "firewalled". I know firewalls are a security thing but that's as far as it...

HELP!!! XP gives license error (Backup on new hard disk)
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 6 Comments

Hello, after restore a backup on a new hard disk, the old donīt boot any time, i got error 0x80090006 licence check failed. I have search MS for this error, the solution in german is not available...

Dell laptop problem - Do dell supply a seperate charger?
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 15 Comments

I have a Dell D500 latitude laptop and the power supply on the mainboard is not working. Do dell make a seperate charger? Something I can put the battery into to charge it without using the laptop...

Downloading IE in general
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Why is there such a strange and arcane way of downloading IE? You usually download a program by just selecting it and then downloading one EXE file, and then installing it. Is it because it's so...

Media Center Update Problem: Download doesn't correspond to versio
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi. I'm having two problems, one I discovered trying to fix the other one. The second one, to which the title of this thread refers, is that when I ran accross the Media Center page and saw the...

Aeiou???
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Does anyone have a clue about this one. The girlfriends laptop only seems to recognise the keys a,e,i,o,u and some command keys. I've had a look and cannot spot anything. I've tried a spare keyboard...

VX2 Cleaner 2.0
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 6 Comments

I already have lavasoft, I downloaded and installed VX2 Cleaner 2.0 but don't know what to do next. thanks for any help from anybody.

Downloading IE
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 4 Comments

I just started downloading IE. It just loaded ie6setup.exe which was very small. If you run through the wizard for a basic version of IE, how big is the whole download and how many files would be...

Calling all Dual DVI experts
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 4 Comments

I am trying to purchase a video card the will work with (2) Samsung 204t monitors at 1600*1200 and give accurate or equal color. The current situation I have is a NVIDIA based 6800 with dual DVI. ...

Processor Fan
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 7 Comments

Anyone heard of during bootup something causes the fan on the processor to stop? This has occurred with 5 different processors and the fan stops at the same time with each one. The fan stops when the...

Hard Disk Change
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 1 Comments

I have windows XP installed on my old harddrive marked C:, I got a new hard drive and installed windows xp to it because i want to use it as my main drive. If I boot to the new drive i get a disk...

Windows weirdness with Automatic Updates
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 7 Comments

I am running XP (SP1! - yes, I know that I really should upgrade to SP2 right away and I'll get to it as soon as I can but I haven't done so yet) and am experiencing some odd behaviour with regards...

RE: Unset read only
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Don't you think it's about time this is taken off the board? I'm getting tired of seeing it, especially when it has been Post Dated.

uninstalling software
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 8 Comments

Please can anyone help. I have 2 software programs that I have been trying to uninstall from the control panel, but they will not shift, one message is catastrophic error, and the other says windows...

Screen goes blank briefly
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 1 Comments

SOMETIMES when I press a button, such as the start button on the desktop, the display goes "blank" for a brief time. The screen-saver is turned off. Help!

Screen goes blank!
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 4 Comments

Sometimes when I click on a button such as the start button, the screen goes blank for a moment. The screen saver is turned off. Help!

BOX WITH A RED CROSS
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 4 Comments

I sometimes am unable to see a page on the Internet. All that is displayed is a small box with a red cross in the middle, in the top right hand corner of the screen, . Does anyone know what this...

Sysmon counters
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 4 Comments

When I use W98, I use the counters 'Swapfile in use" and "Disk Cache Size" but I can not find these counters in W xp sysmon. What are these counters called in W xp sysmon?

Re: Combine network connection speed
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 0 Comments

> Windows doesn't have a way to use both. You might be able to find > third-part "connection teaming" software that can do it. I've also > heard of broadband routers with multiple Internet...

Moving some Program Files?
Posted on November 11th, 2005 | 7 Comments

I originally installed XP Home 4 years ago was in partition C and my data was in D, all on one HD. Space soon became tight on C, so after a year I started installing applications in D:\Program Files...