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internet history in back button disapears
Posted on October 21st, 2005 | 0 Comments

when opening a site sometimes all other internet windows close and back button history disapears. I find urls of where I've been by typing in a url address from drop down menue in frequently visit....

Re: After XP update, windows cannot open files
Posted on October 21st, 2005 | 0 Comments

C. Dunda Wrote: > I have been looking into this more. Everything I have > found so far points me to a problem with my icon cache. > Most suggestions involve either using TweakUI to rebuild > the...

Question-21/10/2005
Posted on October 21st, 2005 | 0 Comments

Dear Sir/Madam My computer's OS is MS WIN XP Professional and it is alway connected to the network system. Sometime, when I turn on the computer, it needs more to start it. A few times, the...

Enabling DMA
Posted on October 21st, 2005 | 14 Comments

It has been taking me 10+ hours to burn a DVD, and after some researching I have figured out that it is because DMA is not enabled on my devices (including my hard drives). So I go to device manager...

Re: HELP!!! ERASED FILES!
Posted on October 20th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi, I'm pretty sure data recovery tools will be able to help you. Among them I suppose the best are Active@ undelete and Uneraser. They works really great (Uneraser is a DOS based utility) which...

Windows Explorer errors and others
Posted on October 20th, 2005 | 7 Comments

Running Windows XP Home SP2 Just recently I've been getting Explorer errors, most come as a result of trying to open a picture folder but not always. The error message that results from sending the...

C:\WINDOWS\system32\msi.dll is not a valid Windows Image
Posted on October 20th, 2005 | 0 Comments

This message appears immediately after start up and reappears each time I click OK or X out the message. I just got a brand new computer and did a fresh install of XP Pro. Is it possible to copy...

Dissappearing windows
Posted on October 20th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Running Windows XP Home Edition SP2. Whenever a small window opens in front of a maximised window, the small one dissapears to the back as soon as the cursor leaves it. It can then only be accessed...

Disk Defragment
Posted on October 20th, 2005 | 5 Comments

When I run disk defragment I get a message that says there are some files on my computer that cannot be defragmented.

Update fails to recognize installed Office 2003 SP2
Posted on October 20th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Microsoft Update failes to recoginize installed Office 2003 SP2. Office 2003 SP2 will not install, but I have installed the client of this SP2 before. How do I resolve this problem. Thanks. /Howard

Can't get into Add/Remove windows components
Posted on October 20th, 2005 | 9 Comments

I have been trying to get into the Add/Remove windows components to reinstall Windos Messenger since I keep getting messages that it cannot start when I start Media Center. Whenever I click on the...

Scheduled back up but file is being used
Posted on October 20th, 2005 | 1 Comments

If I schedule to back up data files at a certain time everyday (using Win xp back up wizard), can the data be backed up if someone is working on one of the files during the back up process?

fixmbr and fixboot from recovery console
Posted on October 20th, 2005 | 1 Comments

I foolishly tried these utilities on a laptop hard drive, before attempting to backup data, and they made the problem worse. The original problem was that win xp pro would not boot, even in safe...

Coreldraw 11 freezes in Windows XP!
Posted on October 20th, 2005 | 4 Comments

Very strange an incomfortable problem I come when I installed windows xp Now I will start to explain the things as detailed as I can: For the first time I installed my Corel Graphics Suite 11...

controlpanel mapcontrol tic"open maps in the same window" doesn't
Posted on October 20th, 2005 | 1 Comments

and controlpanei mapcontrol show tick "remember every maps settings doesn't work. maps open i a new window and maps don't remember last state of display fx. "detailed"

How do I re install Windows XP?
Posted on October 20th, 2005 | 3 Comments

I have a Dell 2.4 Dimension desktop with 768 megs of ram......it's SLOW.....it has errors.....and I get messages every so often stating that my memory is low or I have low disk space......I've done...

Missing Icons in Network Places
Posted on October 20th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Does anyone have problems with Disk Partition Icons missing in My Network Places. When I look at My Network Places - this Computer often has some disk icons missing from the Computer - and they...

Deleting obselete processes that load on startup
Posted on October 20th, 2005 | 2 Comments

I've not long changed my CPU and increased my memory to 1 GB, but my PC is still pretty sluggish on start up. I havce a hunch that it is down to numerous background processes that run on start-up...

screen resolution
Posted on October 20th, 2005 | 0 Comments

My screen resolution keeps switching from 800x600 to 600x400 and back again and continues to switch like this, repeatedly. How can I remedy this?

Internet connection PROBLEM - Help please
Posted on October 19th, 2005 | 1 Comments

I am using Win XP Pro SP2, DSL modem. The computer and internet connection ususally remain online 24hrs a day. Lately I have noticed that despite still being connected I am no longer able to browse...