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I am having problems with my dell laptop running vista. Seems like whenever I try to open a program I get the following error message "logon process has failed to create the security option dialog." Tried to do a clean boot and nothing changes. What would you recommend? Continue reading...

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I cant get my Windows Media player to open, I have tried several times to open it so that I can transfer music to my sons MP4 player but I cant get it to open. Do you think you could help me figure it out? Continue reading...

I attempted to add a new Path Variable to System Variables on PC-1 by Right Click My Computer | Click Properties | Advanced | Environment Variables - clicking "New" - then entering "Path" as Variable - then entering "c:\program files\folderX" as the Value. In doing so I guess I wiped out the prior System Variables "Path" values - One symptom is Windows Security Alert does not see that I have MS Security Essentials installed and working. - I'm sure there are other issues as well. Question 1: Can I just copy the Path's from another XP Pro machine... PC-2? .. The path is gone on a PC with a lot of software installed (PC-1) .. The other XP machine (PC-2) has almos…

hola.tengo un problema a la hora de conectarme al messenger.no me permite conectarme al messenger aunque si que me permite navegar por la red sin problema.he desinstalado el messenger y lo he vuelto a instalar y me sigue sin abrir...la conexion esta bien pero persiste el problema.....ayuda por favor..gracias Continue reading...

I don't know Beta or Not Beta.. On my laptop I have 3 user accounts, two are mine one is Administrator Password Protected, the otherStandard User, and Guest of course, which is turned off. Can I turn off the Administrator account also so it cannot be seen? Continue reading...

i have installed norton internet security 2012 and the stupid windows comander or whatever won't let me install it.... not impressed thank you in advance mark Continue reading...

Every time I start up MSE, it seems some of the history is deleted. A few days ago, I noticed quite a few detected threats weren't in the history, and today, some of the threats that were still there then, aren't in the history now. How do I stop this from occurring and restore the removed logs? Also: I don't know if i have the beta or not, i don't think so, so I said not beta. EDIT: On a slightly unrelated note, how may I clean a USB drive/mobile phone that I know is infected without the malware spreading? Continue reading...

I could not find out how to answer a thread here, so I'm posing this as a new discussion in the forum. I FOUND THE FIX FOR IE CRASHING IN WINDOWS LIVE HOTMAIL. This has only been a problem for me here at home since the last Windows Update released on 1/7/11. I tried everything under the sun, and here is the ONLY thing that worked for me. I am using Windows 7, a brand new computer and the latest version of I.E., 9. UNINSTALL MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT. That's it - that will solve everything!! If you found this helpful, please find me on Facebook and let me know. I'm very proud of this recent achievement! LOL facebook dot com forward slash annieminette AnnaBanana Continue…

I have an website business that sells games that can be downloaded for trial. IE9 is warning prospective customers that the download my be unsafe even thought they are digitally signed. How can I correct this? Continue reading...

We want to be able to use laptops running Windows XP SP3 boxes to do computer auth only (auth mode 2 in registry) for wireless. This is great for the machines as long as they are on site (domain connected). The issue becomes if they take the laptop offsite and need to do another type of wpa connection and need to do user auth. The registry key is for all wireless profiles (unlike Win7) and now they are stuck. Users can't edit the registry nor do we want them to. Has anybody run into this situation? If so, what did you do? The behavior with the default value (0) is after an hour the wireless drops as it attempts to do user auth and fails Continue reading...

I am getting a BSOD when I try to load into safe mode with the above error. I replaced the atapi.sys driver from the xp disc using the recovery console but still its BSODing, I am running XP SP3, fully updated, the stop error codes are as follows: 0x01, 0x44f73c4c, 0x05, 0x0, 0xf771D688. I ran the MEMORY dump through debugging tools for windows x86 and it came back with atapi.sys. so im stumped, any help much appreciated. Regards Darren Continue reading...

I have a HTC radar and was woundering if I can get outlook express on my phone? I'm not sure if it's windows 7 on these phones or not? Continue reading...

I am having problems with my dell laptop running vista. Seems like whenever I try to open a program I get the following error message "logon process has failed to create the security option dialog." Tried to do a clean boot and nothing changes. What would you recommend? Continue reading...

I don't know how to get it to complete, tried closing everything else makes no difference. Continue reading...

Every time I start up MSE, it seems some of the history is deleted. A few days ago, I noticed quite a few detected threats weren't in the history, and today, some of the threats that were still there then, aren't in the history now. How do I stop this from occurring and restore the removed logs? Also: I don't know if i have the beta or not, i don't think so, so I said not beta. Continue reading...

HI, I've been experiencing this issue on 3 completely different computers, all running Windows 7 x64. Some are clean installs, some are OEMs. Microsoft Security Essentials is installed on all of them, and makes the computer to randomly hang or freeze at the login screen. About 1 out of 3 login attemps, hangs or freezes while Windows is preparing the desktop. If I turn disable the Microsoft Antimalware Service, then the issue completely goes away. I also noticed in the Event Log the following error during login: "Session "Microsoft Security Client OOBE" stopped due to the following error: 0xC000000D". I suppose that this must related to the hang. Some forums suggeste…

have 820 emails in windows live mail. it is not my preferred mail and i want to get rid of it. I can find only info to delete one mail at a time. there must be a way to delete them all???? Continue reading...

I have been tasked with deploying WDS (first time) and what a headache it has become. I installed WDS on Server 2k8 R2 64-bit which I setup pretty quick. Next, I successfully captured a Windows 7 32-bit OS. I can deploy it to workstations successfully as well. I have been attempting to create an answer file, but have had the worst time. First, I found out that you cannot create a catalog file for 32-bit systems on a 64-bit server OS using Windows SIM. So I installed Windows AIK on a 32bit versions of Windows 7. I then tried to create the catalog file on there, but it failed as well. So I then used the catalog file from the Windows 7 32bit DVD and created my …

I want to move a folder folder which is my lab work to another folder but the computer is telling me to ask permission from AB desktop But am the one called AB Continue reading...

a problem is preventing windows from accurately checkingt the licese for this computer. error code: 0x8007008e Continue reading...

I have a HD2, not Android network, and recieved an email 1 day before they discontinued the 6.x network that my phone uses...what am I supposed to do about this, I had no intention of purchasing a new phone any time soon. Continue reading...

I have a computer that came with a choice of Windows XP or Vista and I set it up with XP. However, the machine was eligible for an upgrade to Windows 7, which I obtained and installed on my computer. I've had to reinstall a couple of times due to problems with the computer. I had to do so fairly recently, but things seemed to be ok. Yesterday, the machine informed me that my copy of Windows is not genuine, and offered to allow me to enter a new key. The problem is that the only key I have is the one on the conputer itself, which is for Vista and is apparently invalid. How do I get this corrected. I ran the reporting/ diagnostic tool that I see tech support has asked for …

By Paul Thurrott In all the excitement over OnLive Desktop for the iPad and, more recently, Microsoft threats about this solution not being legally licensed, I was reminded today of another solution for running Microsoft Office on the iPad. It’s called CloudOn, and while it’s a bit more difficult to configure than OnLive Desktop, it’s worth a look. Continue reading...

I cannot figure out how to get rid of it? Continue reading...