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mouse locks when switching users
Posted on February 1st, 2006 | 2 Comments

Hello again. New situation. Customer has a one year old Dell. Over a gig of RAM, 3.4 ghz processor,, ect. We recently set up two accounts on it. Hers is the admin, and the employee is limited....

task service not running
Posted on February 1st, 2006 | 1 Comments

Account information could not be set specific error 0x80041315 task service not running unable to start service thanks Ralph

Running scheduled task
Posted on February 1st, 2006 | 2 Comments

I want to run cleanmgr then have my computer reboot once a week. However, when I set a task for cleanmgr, it wants me to supply a password. I don't have a password on my computer and don't want to...

Product Registration
Posted on February 1st, 2006 | 1 Comments

..How do I register my Windows product? I can't find where to do this on the Microsoft website

Dual boot Win XP Media Center Edition and Win XP Pro
Posted on February 1st, 2006 | 3 Comments

I have Windows XP Professional (2001) and Windows XP Media Center Edition (2004). Both are OEM discs. 1) Can I create a Multiple-boot System (on a Dell Inspiron 6000)? 2) If yes, can I do it...

Windows installer problems
Posted on February 1st, 2006 | 2 Comments

I am unable to install few softwares like office 2003, when I tried to install it is showing that " The windows installer service couldnot be accessed. This can occur if u r running windows in safe...

Regsvr32 failure
Posted on February 1st, 2006 | 24 Comments

Hi everybody My machine is a Dell Desktop 2.53GHz/512MB RAM running on WinXP Home with SP2. It runs well and is totally virus and spyware-free. However the regsvr32 command occasionally fails to...

Word, Excel & Outlook2003 take ages to open & file items
Posted on February 1st, 2006 | 0 Comments

I have a brand new Dell D610 with IGig Ram, 80Gig Drive only 40% full, 64Meg Video Graphics driver. Using XP Pro SP2. The problem is that when I am in any of the Microsoft prdoucts, like Word, Excel...

Sounds "Hanging"
Posted on January 31st, 2006 | 2 Comments

I posted earlier that I was having trouble with my sons sound card, but now I think it is something else, because when the sound is making the garbled, breaking up noise, the mouse cursor stops,...

cant download fron web
Posted on January 31st, 2006 | 1 Comments

sony viao windows xp isp compuserve I cannot download off the web. my isp is and has been fine for years.the last 4 days i cannot download anything, it just freezes after perhaps 2-10% of the data...

PageFile_REGISTRY Entries
Posted on January 31st, 2006 | 9 Comments

I did a search and found many entries; I found none that addressed the issue below: Symptom: Slow shutdown of latest clean install of WXP_SP2 compared to previous installs. Status: I searched the...

Re: hibernate/standby
Posted on January 31st, 2006 | 0 Comments

david hickman Wrote: anything out yet? -- dub

Re: Application failed to initialize (0xc0000017) HELP!
Posted on January 31st, 2006 | 1 Comments

It seems that I have started having this issue also after I had updated some of the files from MS my problems with this is when I have been playing windows mediaplayer for a bit and twards the end of...

very slow start up
Posted on January 31st, 2006 | 3 Comments

is there any programs that i could buy that would help my pc run better...i know there is something in there...my wife was on a music lyrics website and bang...running like crap now....also on start...

PC very sluggish after installing new hard drive
Posted on January 31st, 2006 | 8 Comments

I have a Compaq Presario 5000 & after four years my hard drive took a dive. I installed a new Seagate hard drive & jumped the hoops of Quick Restore, reloading XP, getting all the updates up to date...

error messages
Posted on January 31st, 2006 | 3 Comments

I keep getting these two errors in my event viewer - how do I fix them? The ptssvc service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified. The following...

Program not responding
Posted on January 31st, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi, I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with a pentium 4, 2.00 GHZ processor and 256 MB ram running with XP Home with SP2. It had been running OK until about a week and a half ago. Then everything became...

MegaFLOPS and hyper-threading
Posted on January 31st, 2006 | 0 Comments

I have a P4 2.8 w/HT, 1G Ram. Sony VAIO. (PassMark Performance Test) I am a day trader and work from home. My software - MetaStock runs some serious calculations and my computer runs it so...

stop 0x00000007E
Posted on January 30th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Having problem with windows xp Blue screen Stop 0x000007E --go to safe mode, then msconfig>>go to services tab>>put a check Hide Microsoft>>then disable allthe other devices..click apply then...

Xp Registry cleaning
Posted on January 30th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I have used PC Tools Registry Mechanic periodically to clean up the XP Registry. I suspect that over time some of the registry files were corrupted by this process. Any comments? Is there a safe way...