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cannot open old documents after I upgraded to pro
Posted on October 9th, 2005 | 3 Comments

I am in Afghan right now and am getting ready to come home and start a business. So I wanted pro. But when I upgraded it made me create a new login account. I could not quit the upgrade at this...

autoexec.nt - this system file cannot run a DOS or Windows application
Posted on October 9th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hi I was wondering if you could help me. Am trying to install a kid's education cd-rom on a windows 2000 machine. The cd-rom can install on windows 98, 2000, NT and XP however on installation I...

google reset
Posted on October 8th, 2005 | 1 Comments

hello, how do i stop google from opening with my personalized settings? i have set IE6 to open at google (www.google.com) as my home page. but google keeps resetting itself to open with...

RE: Total System Hang
Posted on October 8th, 2005 | 1 Comments

My machine is turning itself off after about 30 minutes. I did have two strange emails this last week but did not open either one of them. The Ad-Ware shows no problem but Spyware showed four...

Unwanted Bubble Messages
Posted on October 8th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Whenever I start up Windows XP Professional — from either standby mode or from power-off mode — I am inundated with bubble messages in the lower right hand corner of the screen telling me that my...

Can't Open Files
Posted on October 8th, 2005 | 1 Comments

I recently had my primary drive re-formatted. The files were saved to my secondary drive. Now they appear there but I cannot open them. When you click to open the correct program opens (e.g. Word)...

IE Explorer Script Error
Posted on October 8th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Receiving IE Explorer Script Error: An error occured in the script of this page Line:84 Char:2 Error:Object Expected Code:0 Do you want to continue running script on page? yes/no Receive this...

Two Problems since installing SP2
Posted on October 8th, 2005 | 7 Comments

Since installing SP2 a month or so ago all has been fine with a couple of exceptions. 1) My newsreader (Outlook2000 which uses OE I believe) used to delete all downloaded messages and headers after...

Missing boot.ini file
Posted on October 8th, 2005 | 4 Comments

Laptop is missing boot.ini file/folder in Windows XP. Boots at startup with error message but to stop it mains and battery have to be disconnected. Checking msconfig against my desktop confirms the...

Processor Usage
Posted on October 8th, 2005 | 4 Comments

I currently have the default setting that no single program can use more than 50% of the CPU while working on a task. How do I change this to a higher value? Thanks.

Bad Image Message?
Posted on October 8th, 2005 | 1 Comments

In the last week, I have been continuously receiving pop up messages (both while online and offline) telling me there is a bad image. For example, it will say, "The application or DLL...

Need to free up space in Windows Directory
Posted on October 8th, 2005 | 4 Comments

Hi, I need to free up some disc space on my C drive, it is not very big at 9GB but I want to keep it as tis SCSI 1500rpm and performs very well. I have kept all installs to a minimum but it is still...

Can I force 'eudora.ini' file to stay in memory ?
Posted on October 8th, 2005 | 4 Comments

I downloaded and ran the freeware file monitor 'FileMon' from SysInternals. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html I saw that when I launched my email program, Eudora, there are...

RE: Total System Hang
Posted on October 7th, 2005 | 11 Comments

Paul, You might try rolling back the drivers for the geforce or updating them to the latest from the MSI or Nvidia site. Also you could update and or roll back the drivers for the Promise card..You...

Auto Services not Started
Posted on October 7th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi, I had this prob before but can't remember how I fixed it. On lokking in services.msc, I found 10 services that are set to auto start not started, namely, Auto Updates Crytographic Services DHCP...

Boot-up hangs in Windows XP Home
Posted on October 7th, 2005 | 1 Comments

When I boot up, it is suddenly very slow and sometimes does not bring up my personal settings. After it checks the floppy and the CD-ROM drives, it hangs at the CD-ROM drive and will not go any...

Need Help
Posted on October 7th, 2005 | 1 Comments

I have been having problems with the Windows Installer for quite awhile, I have tried everything. Renaming it and reinstalling the 3.1. Restarting the service. The weird thing is this only seems to...

Driver Problems
Posted on October 7th, 2005 | 1 Comments

I am having problems with one of my drivers. I am running a Athlon 64 FX 53, 1 gig RAM, Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card, with Windows XP X64 edition operating system. On occasion my computer will...

Re: Defrag
Posted on October 7th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Thank you very much. I'm not sure how my Disk Defragmenter disappeared, but this sure helps.

how would I figure out what's eating up my bandwidth
Posted on October 7th, 2005 | 5 Comments

Recently a problem installing the newest version of Zone Alarm left me in an odd situation where I couldn't access websites but was still able to send email, IM, and do pretty much anything else that...