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Mapped network drive caused system to bootup slow
Posted on October 6th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 9200 laptop. There is one mapped network drive which is active and available. When I bootup into WinXP, it bootup fine except it took about 30secs to refresh the desktop...

Unknown error
Posted on October 6th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Am running WIN XP Pro SP2 w/media player v. 10. Cannot burn an unprotected file to formatted R/W CD from hard drive w/o error msg "WMP encountered an unknown error...ID= 0xC00D11CD etc.".Am able...

my documents and my computer
Posted on October 6th, 2005 | 1 Comments

for a while now i have been unable to open my documents, my computer and other files i have saved. i am unsure why this has happened does any one have any ideas why and how 2 rectify this...

No Processor Counter in Perfmon
Posted on October 6th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Any idea how to get the counter back as it's doing my tree in

What causes HD 'activity'?
Posted on October 6th, 2005 | 3 Comments

I've only had it a day, but am getting a bit irritated with the noise from my new 'MAXTOR 200GB HARD DRIVE 7200RPM'. When just spinning, it's fine. But for 90% of the time there's 'activity', a sort...

urgent help
Posted on October 6th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Dear All, we are installing SUS, here in our Network. I already installed the updates through Synchronize now, and its downloaded. Now the question is, how to configure the client to connect to...

Turn off Computer window opens without my input
Posted on October 6th, 2005 | 0 Comments

During normal computer usage (whether running a program or game) or when I am away from the computer, all of a sudden the Turn off computer window will open, minimizing all open programs/games. I...

Windows Volume becomes muted without my knowledge
Posted on October 6th, 2005 | 0 Comments

While using the computer my volume control becomes muted without me changing the settings. I have run multiple virus scanners and spyware detectors and they all say that my computer is free of...

do I need to "rebuild" Windows?
Posted on October 6th, 2005 | 3 Comments

I have XP Home on a 2 year old Dell laptop ( 512mb ram, 2.2 gb processor, 60gb drive). Drive is What was once a lightening fast system is now a slow start up PC with intermittent problems. i.e. (1)...

Codebase Error
Posted on October 6th, 2005 | 1 Comments

I just recently started getting two error messages upon starting my computer. They are both the same (as shown below) except the second one has 81607 in place of the 81606 error number in the first...

CD-R
Posted on October 6th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Using Win EP on Dell Dimension 2400. I copied a file to a CD-R and now cannot open the file on the CD. What now?

Need Help, installed Original copy of XP on temp HD
Posted on October 5th, 2005 | 1 Comments

hie, There were some bad sectors in my hard disk so it's gone for replacement and will be back in a day or two. I have a temprory hard disk in my comp right now which belongs to the vendor. Now...

problem with microsoft
Posted on October 5th, 2005 | 1 Comments

when we shut down the computer a message appears very very quickly stating microsoft application failed or failure - if there is more to the message I don't know because it disappears from the screen...

Slow hibernate
Posted on October 5th, 2005 | 3 Comments

For some time, I can no longer use hibernate because it takes ages - 20 minutes instad of the usual 30 seconds. I did not found any solution to this problem from computer specialists or on the...

no sound
Posted on October 5th, 2005 | 2 Comments

IM absoutely stumped, I have no sound at all from my speakers, Ok some back History, first I had two viru's which affected my computer( I have run my AV programme - ( Which is a free one from ( NTL...

New profile appearance
Posted on October 5th, 2005 | 2 Comments

, and when I attempt to delete the folder, I get an error messageA member of my household was messing with my desktop, now a new profile has appeared, and is apparently the default profile, however...

Re: A new hijacking
Posted on October 5th, 2005 | 1 Comments

try to stop messger "kurttrail" wrote: > floresrikitic@hotmail.com wrote: > > This one doesn't seem to be affecting things too much EXCEPT > > that I now have a wallpaper that won't go away. It's...

Slow Start>All Programs When Logged Into Domain
Posted on October 5th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I have one Windows 2003 Server on a brand new Dell PowerEdge 830 running as a DC and DHCP server on a small network with 5 XP pro clients. The server was purchased due to a crash of the original...

Application Hang
Posted on October 5th, 2005 | 1 Comments

I am running Windows XP Pro SP2 on an HP Pavilion dv1000 laptop. I am having a problem where Explorer crashes, which is then followed by a Dr. Watson error. In the event viewer, I receive the...

mouse single/double click
Posted on October 5th, 2005 | 0 Comments

when i single click on items they open, even though i have selected the double click option in the folder options. tried changing it back and forth but no luck.