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losing audio in standby mode
Posted on January 19th, 2006 | 2 Comments

I have a Toshiba A75-S206 Satellite laptop with 512M running XP SP2. Whenever I put my laptop in standby mode I almost invariably lose my audio when I bring it out of standby. However, if I put it...

System Restore has trashed my system
Posted on January 19th, 2006 | 9 Comments

I have been keeping up with all of the updates. Recently I tried to update my service pack, but with no sucess. I have been having some problems with my "C" drive, so I would go back into time to...

Deleting Yahoo as the default browser home page in Internet Explorer
Posted on January 19th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Everytime I try to change my default setting for my Internet Explorer home, yahoo overrides my changes with one of their pages. I go to the Tools menu and select Internet Options. I click the general...

Re checking installed files history
Posted on January 19th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Received advice from someone as to how one can check installed file history i.e. see at a glance what and when you have installed a program. Was sent a solution and am grateful for that but just want...

win32K.sys blue screen
Posted on January 19th, 2006 | 6 Comments

0x08E (0xC0000005, 0xBF859A28, 0xB6C7C5AC,0x00000000) KERNAL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED win32k.sys I overclock like the dickens so I can't protest too much, but sometimes overclocking will...

Help! Can't put computer into hibernate.
Posted on January 19th, 2006 | 1 Comments

My computer keeps giving me the message of "Communications Port (Com1) prevents machine from entering hibernation...update driver." Can anyone help me out here?

Deleting Yahoo as the default browser home page
Posted on January 19th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Everytime I try to change my default setting for my Internet Explorer home, yahoo overrides my changes with one of their pages. I go to the Tools menu and select Internet Options. I click the general...

Edit with Notepad 2
Posted on January 19th, 2006 | 3 Comments

On my toolbar, when I click on the icon (edit with notepad), the notepad open with a program on the subject of my home page. the title on top of the notepad is: au_my_yahoo .html-Notepad. How can I...

Re: Voltage Probe - Dell OpenManage
Posted on January 19th, 2006 | 5 Comments

Am I the only one who runs OM client on Precisions? Why do they provide the software if we aren't supposed to use it?

Internet Explorer shutting down...
Posted on January 18th, 2006 | 3 Comments

When i click on a link within an e-mail or on some websites, the pc seems to lock up ('no response'), then shuts internet explorer down. This also happens when i have tried to access pdf file via...

how oft' run this?
Posted on January 18th, 2006 | 1 Comments

xp home sp ii... how often could i run chkdsk?

Defrag problems
Posted on January 18th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Hi- I'm looking for any/all help on this. I am running Windows XP Pro on two 250GB Western Digital SataII drives, set up in a Raid0. Everything was great until I recently tried to run defrag. I...

System Restore.
Posted on January 18th, 2006 | 6 Comments

Hi, I have Windows XP and I don't know what's going with my system restore. It keeps turning itself off. I had to do a system restore about 2 weeks ago and it worked fine.. I had lots of dates to...

Deleting Yahoo as my default home page
Posted on January 18th, 2006 | 2 Comments

I cannot keep Yahoo from overriding my selection for a default home page in Internet Explorer. Everytime I go to Tools > Internet Options and enter a new URL for the home page or choose select...

HP Repair Manual for 'replacing' fan
Posted on January 18th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Hi: My computer, 'hp pavillion 533w' which is 'tower,' about 16 inches High x 7.5 inches Width x 15 inches depth. The color is 'black and siler' and 'hp' in the middle of front panel. I need to...

Desktop heap exhaustion
Posted on January 18th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hello, I think exchaustion of my desktop heap is causing my system to behave weird (would not launch application when I ask to, would not allow to right click on items etc). I gathered below...

IME Needed?
Posted on January 18th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Windows XP sp2 Startup files (via reg: current version\run) associated with Microsoft's Input Message Editor (IME) for translating Japanese/Chinese text in IE, Outlook and Word... Are these...

very slow shutdown
Posted on January 18th, 2006 | 1 Comments

When shutting down, get window stating the ccApp is processing, that fniishes pretty quickly, but then it takes the machine several minutes to shut down. This has only been a problem for last couple...

Free mp3's
Posted on January 18th, 2006 | 0 Comments

<HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft DHTML Editing Control"> <TITLE></TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <P>And much more that that!</P> <P><A...

Disk Mirroring (RAID Level 1)
Posted on January 18th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Hello I have installed a second hard drive into a windows XP Pro machine. I now have two hard drives which are identical in size. I have tried to mirror the harddrives through the windows disk...