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ASPI - Nero - INcD
Posted on March 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments

If you're having problems with Nero/ASPI/INcD, this url for Nero will solve your CD burning problems. It did mine. http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/enu/Utilities.html Click on the Tools link and follow...

Quivering and Shaking Tooltips
Posted on March 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments

During the past few days all operating system tooltips and dropdown menus shake and quiver. This is happening whenever I hover over something in the task bar, start menu, control panel etc. In...

RE: Increacing Performance
Posted on March 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments

"Tommy" wrote: temp files.when windows instals itself it makes notes to itself all over the place. windows has software built in to clean up.but does a poor job.i downloaded this freebe that...

auto crop on scanner
Posted on March 26th, 2006 | 1 Comments

How do I get rid of the auto crop on my 9320 USB scanner? In the configer I can see the auto crop but can not change it.

drop down menus
Posted on March 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments

In Windows Home, legitimate drop down menus (not pop ups) appear without clicking for them. They obscure the screen beneath and prevent further entries until removed. For example, as I type this...

Recover compressed old files
Posted on March 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments

I was made "compress old files" by mistake. However, I want to recover all compressed old files because I can not make any disk operation like defragmentation. My hard diske became very slow. How can...

Can't empty Recycle Bin
Posted on March 26th, 2006 | 2 Comments

After I delete files and then try to empty the Recycle Bin I get an error. It states that a file Dc### can't be deleted (### are random numbers that appear they change each time). When I open the...

Restart Problems
Posted on March 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi, I am having problems getting my dimension 8400mc to restart from windows XP. I can't shutdown the computer and it shuts down with no problem then I have to restart by pushing the power...

Start Menu inoperable
Posted on March 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments

I am having a Start Menu problem, in which erratic behavior appears. I am using XP Pro sp2 with all updates. For instance, when I click to open Search, I get a message "Windows cannot create a...

Disk Space for D: Drive
Posted on March 26th, 2006 | 4 Comments

Do they sell any type of disk space for drive D: in the stores? -- roadrulesj

Delete contents of IE.5 folder
Posted on March 25th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I've deleted the contents of the Content.IE5 folder in C:\Documents and Settings\*user*\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\ Content.IE5 Is this a safe thing to do ? -- Message posted via...

What is this? "The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instructio
Posted on March 25th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I get the following error when I try to open a recently downloaded MP3 file from Amazon.com. "16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem C:\DOCUME1\Family\Desktop\hurl.exe The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal...

right click
Posted on March 25th, 2006 | 1 Comments

help please, i run windows xp, have a couple of programs which look after xp only. i have lost the function to send to desktop in the right click menu, also i have heaps more option in the menu than...

Re: RAID Mirror not fault tolerant, by Worried of Wales
Posted on March 25th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Goggz Wrote: This is also not a quirk of windows, it behaves exactly as it should. The reason for this is that the hardware RAID controller presents your array to the OS as a single drive, this is...

windows installer
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I have tried "every which way" to install an hp scanjet. I've contacted hp and have exhausted all the possibilities for resolving the problem.....which is the hp softaware will not install. I've...

What things to turn off?
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 5 Comments

I'm setting up a system that will be running behind a firewall/NAT router. This system will be running two games and nothing else. It won't be browsing the net or be used for anything else, just the...

Standby and Hibernate timers dont work on battery power
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi, For some reason my IBM notebook doesnt enter standby/hibernation as per the time specified. After 2 mins the screen goes blank, but after 5 mins, although the laptop should enter standby, it...

HIBERNATION INSTEAD OF SHUTTING DOWN?
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 2 Comments

i was wondering, is hibernation better than shutting down your xp. i know it saves a lot more time with the non booting, but is it bad?...thanks

Slow graphics processing?
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 10 Comments

So anyway, after a very long wait, I finally went out and bought my 'new' (128mb AGP 8X GeForce 6600GT - running in a 4X AGP slot) graphics card, and a new 450W Antec power supply that'd be able to...

XP doesn't show log in mask
Posted on March 24th, 2006 | 0 Comments

This morning I turned on the PC. The scenario was: At the screen in which would have appeared the log on mask there was just the mouse pointer, that I could move but no CTRL ALT DEL available or...