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Aplication launcher: Unable to load configuration
by Guest Juan Carlos Sotos- 0 replies
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Hello, I get the above message when windows starts in my laptop. Can anybody tell me how can i solve that please? Thanks -- JC Sotos
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Vista automatic updater issues
by Guest MichaelLomax- 0 replies
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I resently installed Vista 64Bit O.S. The install went smothly and every thing works well. Then I recived three separat updates. Two went off with out a hitch. The third one installed all but the update for the Windows Media Format 11 SDK ( KB9293990). After about seven attempts by the auto updater I tracked the update down through the knowledge base and manualy downloaded and installed it on to my computer. This manual update went of without a hitch. The one thing I noticed when installing the update was differance in the lenth of the names for the update, it was much shorter than the auto updater called out. If anyone else has this problem they may have…
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Services-Background Intelligence Transfer
by Guest July- 0 replies
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I am not getting updates for my computer from Microsoft Windows Update website and I cannot start the Background Intelligence Transfer service ---it gives me the error that the file cannot be found. Also, I have Adobe Design Premium and my AcroPro.msi file is missing. also every time I try to OPEN ANY KIND OF FILE OR FOLDER OF ANY KIND by right clicking I get a message from windows installer that "the feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable." "Click OK to try again, or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package "AcroPro.msi" in the box below. Then it say Use source: D:\DOCUME~1\Jannie\LOCALS~1\Temp\Ad…
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XP SP2
by Guest Steven- 0 replies
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Today I was installing Windows XP Home on a friends computer at work and had so many issues with updates that I don't even know where to start. The biggest of my problems was the inability to download and install SP2. During the verification of download process it somehow fails. The following is the error message I got: "Error Code: 0x8007005 Error_Access_Denied" I'm not sure what the heck that means. From what I've been hearing I'm not the only one having problems getting updates from Microsoft. Other errors I had today include: "Update: KB901214" - This just failed to download Install of KB924191 failed. KB832483 - Failed download security update for …
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Help with firewall to allow multifunction printer to scan
by Guest Dinkx- 0 replies
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Running Vista Prem, have Brother MFC-665CW connected on wireless LAN. Everything works fine except when I try to scan from printer/scanner. Will not allow connection to PC unless I turn off Windows Firewall. Have already tried to allow every printer related program through the exceptions tab but still will not allow to connect. Any ideas on what I have to allow through the exceptions to be able to make it work with the firewall on? Thanks.
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Warning signs of Ubuntu Addiction
by Guest NOT Alias - Thank GOD- 0 replies
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Addicition to Ubuntu is an insideous and dangerous disease that plagues the fringes of our society, threatening more and more every day to spill over the fringe and flood the common man with free stuff. But the vigilant and upright citizens of the world can rest assured the warning signs are easy to spot once you know what to look for. Ubuntu addicts exhibit many strange habits for working professional such as: Owning computers for ten or more years with out complaining of the computer "slowing down"! Expanding IT operations at staggering rates with little to no capital or credit! Carrying around hand labelled "live CD's" that they claim aren't pir…
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Language Bar Icons
by Guest Kelly- 0 replies
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I have downloaded both the Japanese and English voice recognition programs. However, the microphone icon telling me I can go ahead and start the voice recognition only appears when my language bar is set to English. Why won't it appear in Japanese? How can I fix this?
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DVD/CD drive read games, but not music/pictures CDs?
by Guest David Simpson- 0 replies
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Friend of mine is having a wierd problem with his CD drive. 1. If he puts a game CD or DVD in, the game starts. 2. If he puts a movie DVD, the movie plays. 3. If he inserts a music (Bought, not made) CD or a picture (made) CD in and when he explores the disk, it brings up blank explorer window. Also, the drive lable never changes from "DVD-RAM Drive (D:)". 4. If he inserts his Recovery Disk in, it comes up blank, also. He has already replaced his drive, and it is doing the same thing. I've tried everything I know (updating drivers, un-installing drivers, etc) with no luck. He really doesn't want to re-install windows. Any other suggestions out…
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DVD/CD drive read games, but not music/pictures CDs?
by Guest David Simpson- 0 replies
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Friend of mine is having a wierd problem with his CD drive. 1. If he puts a game CD or DVD in, the game starts. 2. If he puts a movie DVD, the movie plays. 3. If he inserts a music (Bought, not made) CD or a picture (made) CD in and when he explores the disk, it brings up blank explorer window. Also, the drive lable never changes from "DVD-RAM Drive (D:)". 4. If he inserts his Recovery Disk in, it comes up blank, also. He has already replaced his drive, and it is doing the same thing. I've tried everything I know (updating drivers, un-installing drivers, etc) with no luck. He really doesn't want to re-install windows. Any other suggestions out ther…
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Windows Search Palm Data
by Guest FPS- 0 replies
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Is it possible to configure Windows Search so that it searches Palm data?
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When loading sidewinder precision pro on my new XP computer, software 3.0 contains incompatable drivers. Going into control panel then game controller and selecting the sidewinder autodetect option, the popup "your gameport or gameport drivers are not properly configured. Please contact the device manager" appears. I understand that software 4.0 is needed but do not know how to get it. Suggestions? Thanks. Ash
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When loading sidewinder precision pro on my new XP computer, software 3.0 contains incompatable drivers. Going into control panel then game controller and selecting the sidewinder autodetect option, the popup "your gameport or gameport drivers are not properly configured. Please contact the device manager" appears. I understand that software 4.0 is needed but do not know how to get it. Suggestions? Thanks. Ash
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After having let Windows XP Home 2002 SP2 do its automatic updates, I am no longer able to have my laptop enter into hibernation mode. I get the following message: The service 'Microsoft .NET Framework v1.1.4322 Update' is preventing the machine from entering hibernation. Try stopping this service and try again. How do I solve it? Or if not, what can I stop in the Windows Task Manager?
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Control Panel question
by Guest nospam- 0 replies
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Should this item be shown as a separate entry in the Control Panel Add/Remove section when installed? ".NET 1.1 service pack 1"
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bat file access denied on nt server
by Guest txodo- 0 replies
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I have a batch file which is a simple xcopy of files from a workstation running xp pro to an nt server on our domain. Every time the batch file is run, the file copy fails with "access denied". If the user on the same workstation simply uses explorer and highlights and drags the files to the server, it works just file. I have given the user full rights to the folder she is copying to but I am assuming I am missing something in giving her rights to copy by using a batch file. Any way to solve this apparently simple problem. The user on the xp workstation is logged in as a user on our nt domain. I would like the batch file to work as I am not sure I would t…
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InstallShield update agent
by Guest Alan T- 0 replies
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Sometimes when I start up XP I got the pop up box with the box title: "InstallShield Updat Service Agent" Saying: InstallShield Update Service Agent has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry to the inconvenience. It happens sometimes but not always. How do I know which program is going to get itself update?
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InstallShield update agent
by Guest Alan T- 0 replies
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Sometimes when I start up XP I got the pop up box with the box title: "InstallShield Updat Service Agent" Saying: InstallShield Update Service Agent has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry to the inconvenience. It happens sometimes but not always. How do I know which program is going to get itself update?
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language translator
by Guest champsman97045- 0 replies
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I have been unable to find any downloads in my ms xp sp1 and sp2 so t5hat i can read english from german or any other language. Is there any downloads from microsoft for this ?
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DVD burning conflict
by Guest Sue- 0 replies
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Hi, I used my DAV drive to backup my system. Recently I installed a movie creation program which includes the gear security utility. Immediately thereafter, I was no longer able to use my backup program, nor any other as Drive E is now "inaccessible". I have tried uninstalling the program AND gear security however even after uninstalling and reinstalling my DVD drive, I can't use it for backing up. It seems obvious that gear security modified some setting in Windows, but I have no idea which one, so can't reset it. How do I fix it? Restore was inadvertently turned off, so that isn't an option. Thanks! Sue
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DVD burning conflict
by Guest Sue- 0 replies
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Hi, I used my DAV drive to backup my system. Recently I installed a movie creation program which includes the gear security utility. Immediately thereafter, I was no longer able to use my backup program, nor any other as Drive E is now "inaccessible". I have tried uninstalling the program AND gear security however even after uninstalling and reinstalling my DVD drive, I can't use it for backing up. It seems obvious that gear security modified some setting in Windows, but I have no idea which one, so can't reset it. How do I fix it? Restore was inadvertently turned off, so that isn't an option. Thanks! Sue
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Mapping Network
by Guest network_newbie- 0 replies
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I need to know how to disable the "map network" selection in WINDOWS XP and be able to map drives as administrator only for regular users. Now you must be logged in as the user to map the drive. This allows the user to access any network drive at any time. Thanks for any help.
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hungapp - msaccess.exe.mdmp
by Guest skeske- 0 replies
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Good afternoon. I'm not quite sure where to ask this question, so any direction provided would be greatly appreciated. We run a Server 2003 R2 environment that contains a SQL Server 2000 database. A VB front end using MS Access Runtine 2003 runs over the database. Users intermittently lose connection to the db (an ODBC Call Fail) and the "hungapp" shows up in the Event Log as the following: Error Report Contents: C:\DOCUME~1\user\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERff8a2.dir00\msaccess.exe.mdmp C:\DOCUME~1\user\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERf8a2.dir00\appcompat.txt The sever event event logs do not contain any errors or warnings that cannot be accounted for and the ODBC Call …
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hungapp - msaccess.exe.mdmp
by Guest skeske- 0 replies
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Good afternoon. I'm not quite sure where to ask this question, so any direction provided would be greatly appreciated. We run a Server 2003 R2 environment that contains a SQL Server 2000 database. A VB front end using MS Access Runtine 2003 runs over the database. Users intermittently lose connection to the db (an ODBC Call Fail) and the "hungapp" shows up in the Event Log as the following: Error Report Contents: C:\DOCUME~1\user\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERff8a2.dir00\msaccess.exe.mdmp C:\DOCUME~1\user\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERf8a2.dir00\appcompat.txt The sever event event logs do not contain any errors or warnings that cannot be accounted for and the ODBC Call fails h…
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how to track who has changed folder permission for user
by Guest Dipti- 0 replies
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We need to know how to audit who has changed folder permission for user. The server in question is a member server. Thanks. -- Dipti
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how to track who has changed folder permission for user
by Guest Dipti- 0 replies
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We need to know how to audit who has changed folder permission for user. The server in question is a member server. Thanks. -- Dipti