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Can not get updates from Microsoft. Have run Mr. Fix It multiple times, both Download & online. Have also used System Restore. Have older Desktop, Dell Dimension 3000 with XP Pro. Continue reading...

Hi my name is Tammy and Im at a total loss I have windows Vista basic that came with windows security essentials and windows defender I have been unable to open either program says restricted box comes up says this action has been canceled due to restrictions placed on this computer! see system administrator! I am system administrator and have tried to run programs as system administreator with same results. then last night while checkin computer health was told system unable to detect anti virus so need to figure out what to do. Been told by several people not to worry about defender it was just old malware program but cant even see what programs are running or run at st…

I dont have any removable drives inserted on my win 7 machine and yet it shows as "removable drive (h:)" in my explorer. Kindly,tell me how to get rid of this virus. Continue reading...

My laptop has trouble about ''PC Power speed optimizer'' that have 352 errors right now, so that need to be fixed this problem by getting something..what should I do? Do I have to buy something on the website?? If my laptop is continue have more than errors about PC that will risk in my laptop or not..please help me answer this question..Thank you..!~~~Q_Q~~~~ Continue reading...

I'm planning on upgrading my Windows XP computer to Windows 7. Reading the tutorials on how to do this, I see the preferred method is to use the Windows Easy Transfer software. However, when using this it says that I must transfer settings/files to an external location. My question is: My XP computer HD has two partitions, one XP plus and one for media, picture files etc. Is it possible to transfer the computer's settings/files to the second partition on my HD without having to use an external source? Continue reading...

Before installing the SP3, I had my Dell 2005FPW monitor rotated 90 degrees to that it was oriented up and down (easier reading). After installing SP3 RC, I found out that the orientation of my monitor had reverted to the 0 degrees aspect. I have removed and reinstalled the ATI Catalyst Control Center(CCC) monitor suite, updated the driver, and then removed and updated both a second time in an attempt to correct this problem. I cannot change it back to the 90 degrees aspect I want. When I go into the Ati CCC, I can hear the hard drives read/write but display will not change. My configuration is: Ati x800-XT/256m, Dell 2005FPW (Digital) Dell XPS 3.46 pentium, …

After connecting newly setup WIn 7 enterprise 64bit PC to a newly installed MS Windows Home Server 2011 by installing conection software from servers home network facing device page I now get a message: The 'FiltrateIE Class' add-on from an unknown publisher is ready for use.

This is what I got from opening a mindump in a debugger. The system is Windows XP SP3 and it keeps crashing. Please point me in the right direction. Thanks Microsoft ® Windows Debugger Version 6.12.0002.633 AMD64 Copyright © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Loading Dump File [C:\Users\Compaq\Downloads\Mini020412-03.dmp] Mini Kernel Dump File: Only registers and stack trace are available Symbol search path is: C:\Windows\Symbols Executable search path is: Unable to load image ntoskrnl.exe, Win32 error 0n2 *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for ntoskrnl.exe Windows XP Kernel Version 2600 (Service Pack 3) UP Free x86 compatible Product: WinNt, su…

I have the same problem with two computers. One is Sony desktop VGC-LT15E, the other is Dell laptop XPS M1530. I just upgraded both to windows 7 home premium. After installation, sleep option was grey, I was not able to click on it, to use it in order to put my computer to sleep. I downloaded chipsets for both ( from sony and dell website). Now sleep mode option is available. But when I leave computers in sleep mode for a while and I want to use them it turns out that they just shutdown by itself.Does anyone have the same problem, what do I need to install or unistall? I really appreciate any tips and help. Joanna Continue reading...

About six months ago I purchased the disks for professional plus 2010 to put on my computer and now I have a new computer, but it does not have a disk drive. Is there any way I can download professional plus from the internet using my current product key? Continue reading...

can not run windows updates or microsoft updates can uninstall Mse or install mse Continue reading...

I'm commissioning hundreds of laptops. I finally found a way to open the windows update app (wuapp) so that it starts checking for updates without having to click the 'check for updates' link. the command line is wuauclt /ShowWUAutoScan More here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc720477%28WS.10%29.aspx Joy! G H Continue reading...

If I specify a MAK key during the setup.exe /admin process and then create an MSP file, will the key get activated automatically after office is installed using setup.exe /adminfile file.msp on a PC? Continue reading...

While working on quickbooks, when I try to print checks, the new pages pops up to display the check, and as soon as the new page pops up, my IE-9 immediately stops responding and closes. I have rebooted, reinstalled, and it still does it. anything that pops up into a new window does not load and cannot be printed, but I can print and do everything from firefox. What is causing this and how can I correct it! Continue reading...

I run weekly full scans, and daily quick scans... but all the time my MSE-beta a statis of 'potentially unprotected', I have all of the options turned on to fully protect my computer. My computer does not stay on 24x7, usually is only in evenings when I get home. Weekly scans are done over night (huge hdd), AND my computer is not online during the scan. I have the current definition file. My virus and spyware versions are 1.119.1586.0, so is the spyware I have a Windows7 SP1 X64. and up until a few days ago, the MSE-beta has been running fine. What could be the cause? Continue reading...

When I click on install updates on VIPRE antivirus , nothing happens, I am using Windows 7 Pro. Continue reading...

The 31 css file limit started to bite me. This happens because I am using third party controls which inject theire own css files. I am surprised this limit still exists in IE9! Other browsers don't have this limit. I am hoping the IE team come to their senses and have increased this limit in IE10. Continue reading...

... until after shutdown. Every morning, I get the Startup Repair window on a newly installed (Home Premium purchased) Windows 7 64bit system (6GB RAM, Gigabyte MA78GPM-DS2H, AMD Phenom X3). At some point a day or two after the initial install (maybe after updates, not sure), it started coming up with a blue screen (stop 0x0000001A) on first poweron, however it works quite normally after a restart at anytime after that point (although I have only tried brief power-off states, 30 seconds or less). I installed so many items during that time to make it useful (chipset drivers, Anti-virus, backup, etc.) it is hard to tell which may have been at fault, and I'm trying to a…

I have worked with 2 mobile devices (Honeywell Dolphin 9900 using Windows Mobile 6.1 and Pidion BM170 using Windows mobile 6,5). My company produces bluetooth devices wich authentication pin may be 8 or 10 char length. When we try to pair the Honeywell to our devices with 8 char pin, we succeed. But the same device set to a pin of 10 char length, it fails. Using the Pidion device (WM6.5), there is no problem connecting to the both device (pin of 10 and 8 chars long) Is there any driver or system update that expand the 8 chars long for pairing in WM6.1 ? Continue reading...

Hi there, I recently brought a quadcore pc, for recording motion capture in the animation industry using iPiSoft software. My new PC has 1x 180GB IDE, and 2x RAID Drives. With Windows7, I want to set this up to have maximum read/write speed. My thoughts initially are OS on IDE Drive Write animation data using RAID drives (somehow). Can anyone suggest an optimal configuration for fastest write speed in this case? Thanks AC Continue reading...

I know that you MUST do a clean install when moving from x86 to x64 (even from a Win7 x86 to Win7 x64) but has MS ever put out a white paper explaining why it is technically impossible to accomplish an in-place migration? Tom Philo Continue reading...

Hi everyone. I was bored and looking sat funny videos of tv commercisals. Found the "10 most sexist tv ads by absolute pigs" (or similar) next thing you know I had that Security Shield virus. The we site was adweek.com....anyone else have this? Continue reading...

I restored my Dell Inspiron 640m to factory settings and now my Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card hardware is missing. I thought it was just the driver but when I tried to install the driver, I got a message that it couldn't install because the hardware was missing. How do I get this hardward back? It came on the computer and was working before I did the reset. Continue reading...

I'm attempting to deploy Microsoft office 2010 to about 90 computers via a GPO startup scripts. I've tested it in a small test environement with about 10 computers. The script works and the setup launces on each PC, but it will only install on the very first PC that boots up. For instance, I reboot 5 PC's and when it gets to the login screen I see all 5 PC's flash the office setup page for a brief second then disappear. When I come back about an hour later the only PC that has office 2010 on it is the very first PC that started up out of the 5. All the office source files are located on a network drive that everyone has access to. Its almost like only one instance o…

I have had this problem ever since I installed Windows 7 and I'm really getting sick of it. I am running Genuine Windows 7 Ultimate on a custom build of my computer. Here are the specs: 8GB DDR3 Ram [2x4GB] 1TB SATA HDD ATI Radeon HD 5450 480W power supply I've had this problem more recently, especially after I dual-booted it with Linux. I doubt did anything to Windows besides add the boot menu. Here's a screenshot I took: http://imgur.com/cUMw1 PS: I tried using the link button on the toolbar, but it didn't do anything... -___- Please Help! PPS: I've tried this so far: reinstalling MSE using another program to check for a virus manually stop/start…