Microsoft Support & Discussions

I have had many problems with Internet Exployer 9 since buying my new lap top computer. I am contantly being told that the are still working out the kinks so I have tried to be patient. Within the last half hour, I received the following message four times in a row...........something like, Internet Exployer has experienced a problem and is shutting down and will reopen in a new page. It is very frustrating and I just feel that there is nothing that I can do except to keep experiencing all the problems or to change to something else. Can anyone tell me what is going on, what to do and how long before the kinks will be worked out? Thanks. Continue reading...

I accsidently errased a program. Now the music won't play only the system sounds I can hear but not my music. What can i do? I need help and fast! please Continue reading...

Security Essentials could not check for virus and spyware definition updates due to an Internet or network connectivity issue. Computer is not connected to a network and I am able to connect to the Internet. What can I do? Continue reading...

I recently upgraded to windows XP SP3 to use microsoft outlook 2010. The installation seemed to go fine or at least it completed and rebooted my computer. Now every time I try to print something no matter what program I'm running word, excel, autocad it takes several minutes for the printer popup and then when I select a printer again it takes several minutes to recognize the selection, but then it prints. Today I had a system lock up and the error message was SAS window: winlogon.exe corrupt file. Upon rebooting the computer it ran a check disk and fixed a couple of errors, but still the same printing problem? Any ideas why? Thanks Continue reading...

Why would my Windows Firewall recognize that I'm using McAfee Internet Security from my ISP, but the Essential Virus Protection doesn't see that the same software provides my virus protection? I am using an XP Professional SP3+ system with microsoft update patching current up to about two weeks ago, when I shut off Automatic Updates while addressing some application compatabilty issues and perform general maintenance on my system. I'll turn it back on later. The Windows firewall recognizes and seems to be very cooperative with my McAfee Internet Security firewall, so I leave the windows firewall turned. It took the firewall two months before it finally recognized th…

i am using a OS windows vista in my laptop and this give me a problem. there is a file that cannot be deleted i try to scan it with anti virus but when the scanning is finish there is no virus.. what should i do?!!! =) Continue reading...

Good day ~ I want to ask a very important question. Like, if I were to switch from a preinstalled 32 bit Windows 7 Ultimate to a 64 bit version would I need to change any of the hardware? Would any of the hardware be incompatible since it came presintalled 32 bit? Or is it just that if all the hardware than I have, have drivers that support both 32 and 64 bit then I would be fine? If not, is that all I need to do is have a clean install of the 64 bit version of Win7 Ultimate and it would be fine? Continue reading...

I cant see the system tray and i try to open the program but doesn't start and yeah i have reinstall it. it just one day it stop working when i turned on the comp and i have restarted it... but nothing Continue reading...

How can I find an updated driver for my DVD ROM drive Continue reading...

I have Windows 7 Professional on my PC. In the first load I had, the PC should automatically detect if the LAN cable was plugged in, turn off the wireless radio, and change the network icon in the right bottom corner to reflect the cable was now in use. Unfortunately, I had to reload my PC, and since then I can't get it to do it again. So, what I'd like to achieve is this: Have Windows automatically detect when the cable is plugged in, turn of the wireless radio, and change the network icon in the right bottom corner to reflect the cable is in use - and, obviously, vice versa. Can someone tell me what I need to do, please? Continue reading...

Had to reinstall XP from the disc. Naturally SP2 and SP3, and all the other updates were erased. Now I can't find an individual user version of SP2 to download. The Microsoft Update page directs me to a network installation version of SP2, which indicates it's a large file for technicians who need to do multiple installations, and I should go to the Microsoft Update page for the individual user's version. But of course I can't get access to the Microsoft Update page any more until I've reinstalled SP3, which I can't do until I've reinstalled SP2. Any help would be appreciated. Continue reading...

i have managed to get xp installed after hard drive crash. now win 7 upgrade disk setup says: windows cannot be installed to disk 0 partition 1. details say:windows cannot be installed to this disk. this computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's bios menu. bios sees the disk. and installed xp on the disk in about twenty mins and it is working. i had win 7 64 on this machine before the hard drive crash. asus m2n-e motherboard, amd dual core, 4 gigs ram Continue reading...

TENGO CODIGO DE ERROR 0X80070643 COMO LO SOLUCIONO Continue reading...

I am preparing Office 2007 packages to deploy to a client of approx 1200 seats via SMS 2003. About 5% of the target machines have 2007 installed already. I am looking to uninstall Word, Excel, PPT and Outlook off these machines (I.E. not uninstall other apps such as Access, InfoPath, Publisher, Visio Viewer, etc...) and reinstall with the standard set of install bits. With the Office 2007 OCT I can uninstall individual components that are prior to Office 2007 but not at 2007. I have been looking to accomplish this by leveraging the setup.exe in the MSOCache directory and then creating a config.xml file to point at that names the target Office suite. In the config.xml th…

Trying to install Microsoft security essentials, not having any luck! This all I see I have except I might still have deffender on Continue reading...

I am having a weird problem. On TNT.TV you are supposed to be able to watch past episodes of their programs. Once you are on the site, you select full episodes, the show and then a listing of them appears. It tells you that you need to unlock the page in order to watch. You select the key and a pop up comes up asking for you to select your carrier. Once you do this, IE is supposed to take you to your carrier's website where you can log in and then you go immediately back to TNT and the shows are now open. I have the very same version software on my tower and two different laptops in the house. I can get this all to work on the laptops, but not on the tower. I even…

I was doing an upgrade from Windows XP PRO to Windows 7 Professional. I have all of my serial numbers. During the install it was corrupted and I had to do a repair of the Windows 7 Professional Install. When I try to activate the software it tells me the software version I have isn't for a clean install and is for an upgrade only. I downloaded the upgrade software from Microsoft's store, so I assume I have a legal copy. I have 14 days to activate the software. I already bought another version for my other computer, since they told me that Windows Professional wouldn't work on it for an upgrade from XP home. Continue reading...

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I'm trying to install Office 2010 (32 bit) on a Windows server standart 2008 (64 bit) . It gets about half way through and gives the following error: "Error 1719: The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed." Unfortunately neither of solutions made a difference. please help Continue reading...

How do I remove a virus ending in "Cred.B" when the Windows Security Essential has identified it and "allowed" it? I have run the full scan and the report shows several detected/quarintined viruses however, this one slipped through. Continue reading...

I'm having terrible CPU spike issues with my USB sound card and KB981214 looks like it may be the answer. I've downloaded the correct patch and tried to install but always get the error - "The update is not applicable to your computer". Its definitely the right patch though. So - (1) is this already installed? It's not listed as installed but it is a 2010 patch - how can I tell if this has now been deployed through another fix or servcie pack? and (2) if it's still a stand alone fix, how can I get the damned thing to install? Thanks! Continue reading...

hard drive crashed..have a new one..how can I install win 7 from the upgrade disk i have? Continue reading...

A man with a HEAVY indian accent just called me several times (I kept hanging up) to tell me my computer was sending error messages to "windows" about a virus my computer has. He wanted me to go a website (www.windowstechnical something else I couldnt understand. com) I am assuming this is a scam? Continue reading...

zobrazila sa mi vyzva ze windows defender je vypnuty a mam ho zapnut pri kliknuti na zapnut sa po 2-3 minutach objavilo chybove hlasenie chyba:0x800705b4 inokedy chyba.0x800106b5 pokusal som sa chybu odstranit pomocou microsoft fix it na internete mi poradili odinstalovat micros. security essentials a znova ho nainstalovat no ani to nepomohlo poradte mi prosim Continue reading...

I have Security Essentials and PC Optimizer Pro.I scan w/MSE every day and no issues are found.Yet when I scan w/Optimizer Pro hundreds or even thousands of issues are found.Are these issues different or is Optimizer Pro a bunch of hooey?Thanks. Continue reading...