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Hello. I've been trying for several hours now, to install Windows Vista 64 bits on my PC. Here are my specs. Asrock n68-vs3 UCC Athlon II X3 3.3ghz 2GB Kingston ddr3 1333 mhz Seagate Barracuda "7200" 200GB IDE HDD I have an IDE DVD drive but due to technical limitations I cannot connect both my HDD and my DVD drive to my IDE Connector on the Motherboard. Because of this I used my Windows Vista 64 bits DVD (which by the way is in perfect state and i have no reason to suspect data corruption) to create a Bootable Windows Vista USB. The system boots up to the installation screen and It does recognize the Drive and both its partitions, but I get the MSG "Unable to …

A client had recently purchased a Win 7 Pro 64bit for 3PC's. I have activated two PC's already but I am having problems with the third one. I can give you the proof of Licence and Product key via email if you can provide me with one. Please respond on my email address sealiif@samoaonline.ws Your urgent response is much appreciated Continue reading...

i have windows 7 and microsoft office professional plus 2010 and when i try to open power point it gives be a pop up box that says msvcr80.dll is missing from my computer. an earlier forum question said for me to run a scan as the administrator on my computer, which i did. it said i had no problems but i still cannot open power point. what is the issue here? im stuck! Continue reading...

why does it take so long to run a full scan with microsoft security essentials like over 12 to 16 hours. Continue reading...

I have a user running XP with SP3 and the other day, they attached a USB flash drive and may have removed it, before the OS finished installing it. They did NOT use the “safely remove hardware” option, from the system tray. Now, the computer boots up however, no one can log onto the computer, for as soon as a user logs on, the computer promptly logs the user off, regardless of who the user is. I know this mimics the Virut virus/worm however, the user claims the USB drive scans clean and he/she never saw a virus/worm notice pop up. The PC is secured with the latest version of Microsoft Security Essentials and the OS was fully patched. I would appreciate it if someone …

I purchased 2 Optiplex Dell computers from the company I work for (Ford Motor Company). The comps had been wiped, but they also gave me the laser etched instal CD. They both have the Windows product key sticker on them and one product key worked, but one did not. It gives me the error that "the Product ID you entered is not valid", but the key is coming from the original sticker on the computer. Doubled, triple checked the numbers to make sure they are correct and reentered them 5 times to no avail. Any suggestions as to what to do now. Continue reading...

from original naming of 'D' to 'F'. ALL commercial software CD's with the exception of MS FltSimX were easily able to identify the DVD/CD drive and begin a re-installation of their programs as part of my final restoration process. The MS Flight Sim X absolutely refused to 'engage' either autorun or through the control panel after many, numerous attempts, the Windows even 'froze'. Again this Flight Sim was the ONLY one that would not even begin the install process. I ask how could this be, if all others ran just fine? Could there be a limit as to the number of times an MS cd will allow install/re-install on the SAME PC? Any help will be gratefully appreciated......rhh r…

When clicking on the calendar function in Outlook 2010 I get the message "the path specified for the file D:\backupoutlook.pst is not valid". I then need to click OK and the cancel on the subsequent screen to stop the message from appearing. This only occurs the first time I start the calendar after starting Outlook 2010. I'm not sure how to turn this off. Any thoughts? Continue reading...

Today we introduce seven new language versions of IEBlog—French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Korean, Japanese, Chinese (PRC), and Russian. Links to these appear in the new “Languages” block at the top of the right column. We plan to publish translated versions five to ten days after their appearance on the English language IEBlog. We’ve worked hard to localize most of the language elements on the page and in the posts themselves. Text within images will remain in English though we translate captions and image alt text. Markup and code samples will also remain in English. Occasionally, we’ll mistakenly translate an HTML, CSS, or JavaScript keyword please forgive us. The …

from original naming of 'D' to 'F'. ALL commercial software CD's with the exception of MS FltSimX were easily able to identify the DVD/CD drive and begin a re-installation of their programs as part of my final restoration process. The MS Flight Sim X absolutely refused to 'engage' either autorun or through the control panel after many, numerous attempts, the Windows even 'froze'. Again this Flight Sim was the ONLY one that would not even begin the install process. I ask how could this be, if all others ran just fine? Could there be a limit as to the number of times an MS cd will allow install/re-install on the SAME PC? Any help will be gratefully appreciated......rhh rud…

I recently reformated my harddrive on my older computer. I am looking for a windows xp sp1 for my computer. Apparantly my boot discs have an earlier version of windows xp. I'm unable to upgrade to windows xp sp3 because it continues to ask for a version of atleast sp1 which I'm unable to find since Microsoft no longer supports this. Does Microsoft have sp1 archived somewhere? Thanks, Terry Schneider Continue reading...

Whenever I try to add a video to windows live movie maker that i took with my iphone, the program shuts down. How do I fix this and add my video? Continue reading...

an error has occurred in the script on this page line 1527, I think is occurred in delete of aol Continue reading...

i have just bought a new samsung notebook with windows 7 starter already installed. I went through the registration process, then inserted a norton anti-virus cd to download and now it wont reload at all and just turns itself off. I am not tech expert and am stuck with possible solutions. Samsung website refers you to microsoft and microsoft refers me back to samsung..........any possible solutions? Continue reading...

when i activate my windo it gives me an error of code 0xc004e003 Continue reading...

Hi! Iam using yahoo upgraded or latest browser in which iam unable to see the option in one of my account. while in another same account of yahoo it is there. please help me in this regard to forward my email from one yahoo accout to another account. Thanks & Regards MOHAMMED FAHAD Continue reading...

I have a new laptop with Windows 7 and IE 9. When I visit certain websites, my bank, my teacher sites, I am unable to open a window without allowing " Zeon Corp". If I enable it, explorer cuts off. If I don't enable I cannot open the next page with pertinent info. I read on the Zeon site that it is not compatible with windows 7. SO waht do I do to access my material? I think previously adobe opened everything. Continue reading...

Found a Trojan on my motherboard CD. Is it possible to remove it? Continue reading...

I had a virus on my computer that was discovered VERY recently and now microsoft security essentials protects against it apparently. But i am still concerned about if it's still there or not. This virus is classified as a backdoor:Java/krempun.a. it's condition is severe and i had two of them on my computer but good thing microsoft security essentials removed them it says. This is a link to the online info on the virus if you can help me please leave a comment i will be really greatful. P.S.. i couldn't find any info on the virus if you search what is a krempun.a virus... so it has to be a rare or new virus. Continue reading...

ok my web broswers do not work unless i log onto safe mode i recently got rid of a trojan virus but no matter what i do nothing can change the fact that my web browsers do not open Continue reading...

I woke up this morning and my computer had rebooted. When I signed in, it was a whole new machine. IE9 had been installed. All of my favorites have been lost. The "Documents" folder is empty, I have to go on along hunt to find my documents. Office 2011 has forgotten all of my options. I had to set up Outlook all over again. What happened and how do I undo this? Continue reading...

I have several new machines here with win7. I need to uninstall some OEM programs off of them. I have been trying to script something that would use the uninstall string in the registry. I have been somewhat successful except for the fact that UAC keeps preventing me from doing some installs, and while trying to uninstall some programs it is asking for approval or an ok or cancel even though i am running it silent. Does anyone have any ideas what i can use for a script to remove programs on these computers. I am also trying to streamline the process for future computer deployments.Jim Thomas Continue reading...

My pc says the security setting will not let me downoad the new internet explorer. How do I change the settings? Continue reading...

Will installing this virus protection interfere inway with my Norton already installed? Continue reading...

Microsoft officials are sharing some details about the new ReFS file system that will debut first as part of Windows Server 8. Continue reading...