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I have used my Restore numeruos times, but now I have problem. I get a RUNDLL error msg that reads: An exception occured while trying to run "C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,control_rundll "C:\WINDOWS\system32\system.cpl",system" Has anyone run into this and found a fix?

Hi guys, I live my pc downloading when I go away. There is 2 users on my pc (xp home edition) but when I live it working alone it logs off and go back to teh main screen where you select teh users. How can I make it stay log on my user name until I decide so....

I am trying to find a free third party process viewer for Win98SE. But I do not know where to start looking. Any help in locating one, even if it is trial use (so long as the trial period is free), would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Truly, K

When I try to play any type of video my computer freezes and I have to reboot. I get the following in the ACEEventlog: 1/29/2005 10:03:19 PM --- [Domain]: RT_GraphicsCaste.Caste --- [Type]: Error --- [ProcessID]: 3764 --- [ThreadName]: --- [Assembly]: CLI.Aspect.DeviceDFP.Graphics.Runtime, Version=1.1.1816.25946, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e --- [Namespace]: ATI.ACE.CLI.Aspect.DeviceDFP.Graphics.Runtime.RT_DeviceDFP --- [Method]: Parse --- [Message]: iDEMDriverSettings.GetDFPDisplayConfig failed with status -5 Any Ideas what is causing my problem? THX in advance.

i bought a PNY Verto Geforcefx 5200 a few months ago, and it worked fine with the old driver, but when i installed the lastest one, my cpu crashed and re-starts itself after 10 sec. in to a game like Half-Life 2, or AOM (age of mythology). what could the problem be?... these games worked when i was running the old driver... why does it not work now?... any help guys? :confused: :confused: :confused:

I have had an external HDD that i put together for several months now, and it has always worked fine. the other night it started making bad noises and wasn't recognized by windows, or rather is recognized but doesn't "install" (shows up in device manger with an "!"). As i was trying to find if the error was with the drive (seagate Baracudda ST3200822A 200gb ata-100) or the enclosure (kingwin KH-350U-S) i found that the drive works fine when just hooked up to the ide channel on my motherboard, and the enclosure works just fine with another drive (old WD 120 gb ata-100). putting them back together the way i want it goes back the the same problem (wierd noises, not instal…

Iam trying to get my scanner to load when turning on my computer.It use to load but something changed the settings and now stimon i.e.still imaging monitor is not in the start-up tab in msconfig but is still on my system(win98se). How can I get stimon back into the proper place? Thanks, norm1

Hi, I just wanted to know is anyone could help me, I'm kind of scared. The thing is I had this computer AMD Athlon 2800+, 768 ram, a7v600x asus mobo, 80 gb hdd and gforce fx 5200. It had no problem, but i wanted a better video card, so I bought a radeon 9800 pro, I instaled and the pc started working perfect, I used it for almost 24 hours without gaming much, I just entered the games to see the difference but didn't play more than a couple minutes because i didn't have the time. I saw all the radeon demos and everything was ok, but then when i started playing NFSU2 about 10 minutes into the game the computer turned off and the power supply got broken, it said 420 w, th…

Hi all. I recently perchased a philips pcs 605, and came acropper. I uninstalled and disabled my onboard audio in the Bios, and installed the card. Now, at random points in films, tracks or watever, the computer totally freezes. I am really stuck and have tried the phiips tech support with no joy (including changing the Irq and the Latency). The problem though is that if i change the latency, my Tv tuner card stops working. Any suggestions here or @ my email (mart_oliver@yahoo.com) would b very greatful. Thanks Mart My system is: Athlon xp 2600+ Kt6 Delta Mobo Geforce FX 5600 256Mg Emprex DVD burner Windows Xp Build 2600 512 mgs Pc 27…

hello everyone, I've encountered a frustating problem. A friend of mine wanted me to update his computer and the first thing i did was to run a windows update since it appeared to me that it has not been done in awhile. After installing the updates and restarting, I noticed that the computer was slightly slower and I was no longer able to connect to the internet. I went into run cmd and pinged some website addresses. The computer had no problem sending data, but received only the packets that the ping sent. I am wondering if it's the updates that messed up the connection. Please help! Thanks. Sam edit: I went into the system information and he is runn…

Hi all, I'm new here, and this seems like a good place to get some support so I'll just go right ahead and explain what my problem is. Well, here's what im trying to do. I have a Mobile Phone that has bluetooth. I have a bluetooth adapter on my PC. I have set it up so my phone D+ Connects (Direct connects, if you will) to my BlueTooth adapter on my PC. Then the PC routs this BlueTooth adapter to a vitrual com port. I have set up my PC to recieve incomming connections from this Com port. With this done, my phone and PC become their own little LAN. But I want my phone to join in on my home LAN, so I have to use NAT routing through my PC's NIC. Now, to share my …

I have a Dell PC from 2001 which came with some MSN modem connection wizard...I never used it... I now have cable and I've tried to connect to the net... An error message keeps coming up when I try to make a new connection.... It keeps telling me the Icwconn1 caused an error in ICWUTIL.DLL. What am I doing wrong... Please help. Thanks, CS.

Hi, has anyone ever used Acer computers? Are they reliable and trustworthy? ( http://www.shopacer.co.uk) Thanks alot.

Hi guys This is my first posting here, If i have not posted in the right category, I am extremely apologise. I wish to purchase New PC with HT technology MB, So i decided to go with Asus P5gd1-vm 915 chipset, I wish to have 2.4 MHz CPU, but somebody told me its not supported, is it correct ? Please guide me which CPU (MHz) are supported with this MB, and normal ATX Cabinet will do for this or I have to purchase extra big Cabinet for such type of MB Please help! Thank you Kashyap P.S. - I am planning to buy Cabinet of Iball (612 Ivory) type.

Hi has anyone ever heard of this card? can ne1 give me any info on it? Ta

Now that Sonic Solutions has accquired the Roxio software easy media creator and it's other software, do you think they will do a better job of making the software actually work? Most people know what easy CD creator (now called easy media creator) was nicknamed for.....EASY CD CREMATOR! Because basically.....it killed your cd's and dvd's. I just wonder if the software will get any better development and improve in features, but also just be able to WORK properly???? Or do you think this will just be another buyout by a large company that will do nothing to improve the products they are buying?

Hi all, first of all sorry for my english I'm doing a backup from one server to other but as I use a mapped drive I must be logged in the server, because one is in one workgroup an other in other work group. So, could I map a network drive without loggin??? I tried with srvany to run a cmd as service, but I don't know how to schedule a service in server 2003 and xp. Many thanks goyo_rolmen

This Guide will help you to avoid Service Pack 2 (WinXP SP2) headaches: http://www.fixyourwindows.com/winxpsp2install.htm Good Luck! :)

I changed from a domain to a workgroup using the wizard on XP pro and then it asked to restart.. At the "logon" ctrl-alt-delete screen my username appeared but my password doesn't work? Administrator or Guest no good either. It says "check that pw and domain are correct" however there is no domain field?? Any help would be appreciated! Tx

I was having problem with battlefield so I uninstalled it hoping to reinstall it and everthing to be good. But now when I try to reinstall it gives me this. An installition support file C:/DOCUME~1/ADMIN~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/{E35B3C63-E958-4E31-A178-95D22024109A}/setup.inx could not be installed Data Error(cyclic redundancy check) :confused: I have no idea what to do and if anyone could help I will be very thankful

I have a Radeon 9600 Pro 256Mb Graphics Card. My problem started as soon as I got my new graphics card but as I also got a new LCD monitor and RAM at the same time it has taken a while to track the problem down to the card. Just for clarity, I know of 3 different ways to check the frame buffer size of the graphics card. 1. Dxdiag then the display tab. 2. Display properties>advanced then adaptor tab and 3. Display properties>advanced the Option tab then Details. I check these each time I boot-up. When the PC boots you would normally see the black POST screen! IF I see this screen on boot-up then the frame buffer size is always 256Mb. IF I don’t see the POST s…

Lately, I just got myself a new ASUS A7V600-X motherboard with an AMD Athlon XP (~2.6 GHz). After changing to the new motherboard, the computer ran smoothly for an hour or so. But after I left my computer for a while, I came back to find that it has been turned off and it would not start. I even tried switching back to my old motherboard (ASUS CUV4X P3 733 MHz) but this time, not even the LED light would turn on and I can't start my computer even with my old motherboard. My power supply has a max of 250W and I know it sounds like my power supply might have worn out. However, the LED light actually lights up on the A7V600-X, but when I push the power button nothing happens…

I'm trying to install windows 2000 using remote installation service (RIS) but the installation keeps failing midway of the setup. I've dumped ghost images and installed Win 2K on several other drives of lower capacity without any problems. The drive which the installation is failing has 160 GB capacity and has an older build of Win 2K. I've heard that I might need to tweak the registry to enable support for large disk partitions. Has anybody else had a similar experience when installing or dumping ghost images on a remote drive? Any help is appreciated, thanks! :p

I am having a problem with Windows XP. Whenever I try to delete a file, I get a pop up saying that windows explorer has experienced an error and needs to close. It doesn't happen when I rename or cut a file. But whenever I try to delete a file, either from the right click menu or using the keyboard, explorer closes. When I run disk cleanup, it gets to "Checking Recycle Bin" explorer crashes. When I try anything to do with Recycle Bin, even looking at the properties, explorer crashes. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I've got an Athlon 2800+ and when I was installing drivers and programs, sometimes when i restarted the keyboard and mouse wouldn't work, so i went to asus webpage and saw that a release of a bios update fixed that. So i go and flashed the bios to the new bios and it somehow was corrupted or damaged and my computer would't start, so I put the old bios again, but now my windows xp is really slow.. it takes like 10 min to go through the logo with the bar below, and then takes even more to finalize initializing. I thought that format and installing a new windows would help, but instalation is very very slow also. What could be the problem? Ps. I start a new thread…