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hello everyone! Lets have a travel for a while! :) :) :)
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Any application like Trend Micro Internet security, Panda, Norton can post a dialog box for news or notification that you need to do a scan, etc and when this happens it pulls me back to the desktop while in 3D mode. This primarily applies to gaming. Is there anyway to configure windows not to do task switching while in 3d mode?
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Hi, having trouble installing the reader during installtion tends to freeze up...? I have XP sp2
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I joined this site because every time I sign on to my computer, I get a message saying "The procedure entry point GetProcessFlags cannot be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll". What do I do about it? Is it causing any harm? The computer seems to run OK, but I have not been able to install Adobe Reader after downloading it - the Wizard says it can't find a necessary component. I'll appreciate any help you can give me. Thanks! Barb L
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I'm not sure this is the right plase, but whatever. I guess everyone need to backup utility, some of them at home others for work. Here it is. http://www.acronis.com/mag/vnu-ati7 p.s. they say it's been offered along time ago (a couple of months or so)
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i have joined today this forum i have few windows problems to sort out. i hope we can be mutually helpful happy new year to all our friends here.:)
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i found a great article regarding beer...beer that you really love to hate. http://www.stuffmagazine.com/articles/index.aspx?id=1390&src=gp50 stellas inclusion is odd though. its one of the most expensive beers sold, you'd think it would need to taste good.:D
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I'm putting Windows 2003 Server on my Dell SC1420. It previously had Win2000 Pro on it. I've put a new (identical) hard drive in it. The old hard drive is not plugged in. I've run the CD from Dell that aids in the OS installation. The Windows 2003 splash screen comes up at boot, then I get a gray screen with a functional, but jumpy mouse pointer. Nothing else happens. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Any advise?
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I had deleted a program that I realized I needed, so I did a system restore to an earlier time that same day. The computer started the restore process and then when shutting down to restart I heard an error beep, but the computer still shut down. When it restarted I was left with a blue screen with only the windows XP flag icon in the middle. No error message- nothing. Cant click on anything, tried the F8 with the 'safe mode' as well as 'best known good' (or something similar to that phrase) both doing nothing to bring my computer back. Any idea as to what happened? I contacted dell whom after 2 attempts to figure out the problem stated that if he took me to the next step…
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A security scan by (shields up) showed port 515 (printer spooler) OPEN, leaving me a sitting duck, and I have not been able to find any info on how to control a port. I'm on broadband with several security softwares, and a belkin 4 port router. Can anyone address this situation? (Speak slow and clear, I'm old and uneducated) olddog
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my java was not working properly so i tried to reinstall it, and now i am getting an error message "error applying transforms. verify that the specified transform paths are valid" and it is not working at all any help would bee great, thank you:)
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when my windows xp loads and I log on I get (Remote Precedure Call) error and my system shuts down and recycles allover.???:(
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About a year ago I had bought a Gigabyte nVidia 6800 to go along with my gaming rig. Three or so months later my computer suffered a massive power surge knocking out mostly every piece of hardware in my PC. At this point I had bought a new computer but the video card is extremely out of date (6100). I'm wondering if there's any way of testing to see whether my old video card was affected by the power surge. I'm thinking I can test it in my new computer but I'm not sure if a dead video card would screw up my current PC. That’s of course pending whether or not it's even working. Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.
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Hi everyone, I apologise if this question has already been asked on the forum, but the Microsoft help and support page has so far been useless. My CD/DVD drive is having trouble reading audio or data CD's - it doesn't recognize that there is a disk in the drive. I've tried numerous CDs, all of which worked until a couple of days ago, and it doesn't recognize them. It only plays the utilities CD-ROM that came with my computer and DVD's. I've already been through all the related troubleshooter instructions and the Microsoft website and as far as I know I have the most up-to-date driver. Please, if anyone has any ideas or advice, they will be much appreciated! Thanks…
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First I'm gonna warn you, i am completely stupid to computers. When i start the computer a message reads ERROR SOME STUFF EXE. its different every time. Also limewire opens itself even after i close it rapeatedly. THis happens continously until i just leave it open, even then it will sometimes close itself and then open up again. Also tons of pop ups and web sites just randomly pop up. I'm having a difficult time typing this due to the constant interference by the pop ups. Ive scanned my computer with the usaull norton antivirus and spy ware. although i do recieve messages about my registry when i run nortons. NOTE: none of this started happening until i tried to d…
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I hope someone can help me with this problem. I have a VPN set up between 2 users with 2 QB Pro 2005 licenses. When the "power" user or administrator login was done from one user, the other user could not even open the program at all the next day. It just freezes with no error msgs. ALL programs were removed and re-installed on the computer in question to NO AVAIL. Please, I've searched all over to find help on this and the QB Help Desk are no help, and then want $250! Can anyone tell me what's wrong here???
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I have Directx 8.1 and need to put on DirectX 9.0c. But I don't know how to remove it without getting a memory dump warning. I run xp home so how do i do this without destroying my computer?
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I am trying to play World of Warcraft. I recently had to reformat my comp and now I installed everything just the way I did before and nothing works now. WOW keeps giving me an error saying I don't have Directx 9.0c but i do. So i tried updating it and no updates are found for it. But WOW still doesn't play. Why did it play before the reformat and not now? What do i have to do in order to make it work? PS please let me know in a step by step manner to fix. I am a noob with comps...:confused:
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I have XP and this problem exists on only one user. The others are normal. The wallpaper is the standard blue and when I select any other wallpaper, nothing happens. Text and icon size and other prefs have been altered and also cannot be changed. Also I am unable to download anything as that user and everything drags. I have run Norton Anti-virus and Win-doctor, Adaware, and Spybot, but only on other user log-ins because under the affected log-in, these programs just freeze up if I try to run them. It seems really odd to me that the problems are so isolated to the one user. The only changes that I can think of that happened before the problem were some worthless Wi…
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Hello all, hope you are having a fine evening. I recently enrolled in college and I've been having a heck of a time navigating through their web pages. I get a lot of: Internal Error message 500 hypertext transfer protocol. I tried their tech support which advised me to add them to "trusted sites," which I did and it helped some. Once in a while I get to where I want to go without any problems, but most of the time when I try to navigate in the secure pages I get various error messages and have to start over, and I can never get any printer friendly pages to come up. Any Ideas? HELP! I'd sure like to get this figured out before my Summer classes start. Have to use blac…
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I tried to install the driver for a panasonic MP3 player and ever since, I get an error when trying to start windows explorer: EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at 0177:bff9db61 Help !!!
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Just installed a new HD. The old one crashed (40GB), the new one is (80GB). The OS is Windows ME. I'm installed it ok and also checked the BIOS and it detected it fine. I tried booting from the installation CD for WinME (as I read somewhere that is bootable) and my CD ROM doesnt seem to be reading it. The green light come on but I dont hear anything else. My screen pops up with Invalid Boot Diskette, Insert Boot Diskette in Drive A: I changed my Boot to start with Floppy and inserted a Win98 bootable diskette and that message still comes up. I checked all the wiring and it all seems to be okay. When my system crashed I never disconnected anything but removing the…
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today I working in my computer normally, sundelly get frezze, I turn off and turn on again, but appear a window say: windows can't start normally and give 5 options safe mode safe mode wit networking safe mode with command prompt last know good configuration (your most recent setting that working) start windons normally I try this five options, but always I get this windows, I dont know what happens. I turn off and turn on with the cd XP inside, but not working too. please what I can't do.
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hi, i just posted a new thread in the windows section of the software forums i was wonderin if anyone wanted to have a look at my post- the one titled kill disk - maybe quite interesting?!!! thanks camsta
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Good day all, I have a littel issue that I'm hoping someone can resove 4 me. I have a Dell Latitude D610 laptop with WinXP Pro installed with SP2, and it has USB2. I removed the harddrive and put in another one, formated and installed XP Pro in FAT32 on it with SP2, then installed all the drivers. I pulled out the new harddrive and put it into a external USB2 harddrive enclosure. I put back my original harddrive into my laptop, set my BIOS sequence to boot from USB first and let it run. My problem is, once the black XP screen with little blue progress bar starts, it will stay on the screen for about 10 seconds max and reboot itself, then give me the boot optio…
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