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Sound but no picture
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Am having problems with my Windows Media Player as when I try and play video files, I can hear the sounds but there's no picture! I thought it may be a codec problem so downloaded DivX player...

Additional components Installation
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 4 Comments

Hi, Iam using WinXP Pro with SP2, we bought latest Fujitsu machine 5 months back with registered XP license CD. I tried to install addidtional components like IIS, for Tsweb and it prompted some...

Office Freeze Up
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 2 Comments

I'm using XP Pro Office. My computer ran an automatic update earliier this week. Now Excel and Work freeze up when I click "save as" to resave a doc or spreadsheet under a new name. Any ideas on a...

Help Automatic update
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 4 Comments

Automatic update has 6 critical updates. When I did express install, after re-booting, my system would hang when I tried to copy or move files. After a process of elimination I have found which...

Jammed up hard drive
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Have Win XP Home. Main boot HD 8GB (C:\) is jammed up. Have slave 80GB drive with lots of room. Want to swap out main 8GB for larger drive. Is there a simple way to mirror my existing drive to the 80...

'send picture via email' option not available
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 3 Comments

When I right click a photo file, go to 'send to', the option to send to email recipient is not there. The only options are to send it to another drive on my PC. I am running XP Pro, SP2 with all...

Jump Drive Not Recognized After XP Pro Upgrade
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Yesterday, I asked a question on how to upgrade XP Home to XP Pro, because the XP Pro disc I had didn't have SP2 (when my XP home version did). With help, I slipstreamed SP2 into XP Pro, and...

Dialup disconnection warning
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 6 Comments

I have a dialup connection. Initially, now and then, I'll get a warning asking me whether I wanted to stay connected. I checked a box there, thinking that it would not ask me again and it would...

Class action lawsui
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 5 Comments

I think all purchasers of Symantec products should get together and form a class action lawsuit. All of their products are clearly defective and don't perform as advertized.

Programs always running
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 3 Comments

When I hit Ctl, Alt, Del. I have 14 programs running that I dont use all the time and my CPU usage is at 90% making my computer very very slow. How to I change them to only open when needed?

Please Insert a Floppy Disk Into Drive A
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 4 Comments

This has been happening since upgrading to SP2 many months ago. I have three PCs and all are suffering from this affliction. The problem is when I put a floppy disk into the drive and try to read it,...

Restore DEL or ERASE
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Is there a way to restore files deleted with the delete command on the command line?

Windows update don't work any more
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 0 Comments

The next text is what i get trying to update my computer, anyone have an idea what this mean? and if can be solved with a system recovery (We have found an error en can't show the page) is the...

Windows Locks when right-clicking on desktop
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Recently whenever I right-click while my mouse cursor is over the Windows desktop, instead of the desktop settings menu appearing, the cursor just turns into the hour glass and my computer locks up,...

NTLDR
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 7 Comments

When I start the computer all I get is the message "NTLDR is missing. Press any key to restart".

Boot from External USB drive
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 10 Comments

Hi: I have 2 hard drives for my laptop. Both of them have XP installed on it. I swap them when I need to boot from the other. I am wondering if I can boot directly from external USB hard drive which...

After Windows Last Update...
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 9 Comments

I just noticed after installing the latest updates from Microsoft, that when I type an address (cnn.com for example) without the http:// in the address bar, it will no longer open the address I typed...

Windows XP Pro Freezes during reboot, standby, shutdown functions.
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 0 Comments

I installed xp pro w/sp 2 on my laptop. everything works great, but when I try to restart the computer due to updates, it freezes on the windows restart screen. It freezes on the screen as well if...

Windows XP Pro SP2 Freezes...
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi all, I have noticed that Windows XP Pro SP2 freezes everytime i try to open an image in MS Image and Fax Viewer. I have to kill Image and FAX Viewer process to get Windows unfrozen. I noticed...

usb disk for backup
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 4 Comments

Hi All, Would I be better buying a usb automatic backup system with my new usb2.0 disk or should i buy a usb 2.0 disk and get a program like Acronis to do a image of the hard drive on my p.c. as i...