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there's two msn messenger icons on my task bar or whatever do i have two versions installed on my computer or what just curious see if i can take care of this thanks

Hi All, I would just like to say hi and begin by saying that I am a computer tech novice and so perhaps some of the answers to my problems may seem obvious so I hope you`ll be a bit patient,though I am learning slowly.Many Thanks. I keep experiencing the message Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close.The error signature I recieve states:- AppName:iexplore exe. AppVer:6.0.2900.2180 ModName:msgsc.dll. ModVer:7.0.816.0 offset:000215aa. I then get an End Program Now message and then I have to log off and begin the whole process again.This often goes on a number of times until I finally,through frustration,give up.I would say that…

Hi everybody, this is my 1st post and I have a problem I cannot figure out. A while back I broke a pin off my processor and I had to send it to get fix. While the processsor was getting fixed I had to use my old motherboard and processor. So I just got back the processor a few days ago and it is good as new. Last night I went to shut down windows and then went to bed. This morning I wake up and my comp is still on. The monitor light is now orange (It is green when active) I tired to hold down my power switch for a while and my computer does not turn off. I have to flip the switch on the power supply for it to go off. I have never Had this problem before I could hold the p…

I would like to record some sounds from one of those Arcade games on Nickelodeon for personal experiments and NOT for commercial use of any kind but when I open a game it fills the whole screen so I can't get to use Windows Recorder, is there any way that this can be done please? Thanks.

In further pursuing my multimedia CPU spike and DAW timing issue I came across info about conflicts causing these phenomena due to the combination of Intel 925X chipset, certain higher quality PCIe video cards, SATA controller and firewire devices. My Dell dimension 8400 is suffering this anomoly. I have the 925x chipset, ATI X600 Pro PCIe video card and Firewire Video and audio I/O. I have several emails out to the manufacturers involved but was wondering if anyone here dealing with multimedia authoring has encountered such problems? Here is my basic config: Dell Dimension 8400 P4 (3.0 ghz, 1 gig DDR2 ram, (2) 160 SATA hds, ATI X600 Pro PCIe video card w/256MB Ram…

I just need help removing the front cover of my old pc, the power button is stuck, anyone know how, its a pentium 3 gateway at least 5 years old, I have the sides off, but it has hard plastic hooks at bottom, some kind of hooking bit at top that I cannot see. there are no screws so at a total loss I would very much appreciate help

My name is Wayne Popin and I am visiting this site to see if anyone has ever been able to "turn off" or disable the uninstal-a-shield in Windows XP Pro with SP 2. I have any older Canon Multipass printer that will not install due to the uninstall program included within XP. Any suggestions would be greatfully appreciated ;)

I have no idea what the problem is or what caused it... my friend was playing world of warcraft and it all of a suddenly just restarted. Every time I've turned the computer on after that, it just restarts after getting to the desktop and staying there for a couple seconds. I went into safe mode and under My Computer> Properties> Advanced and unchecked the box that says "Automatically Restart." Now when I load the computer up, it gets to the desktop and gives me a BSOD that has this message under Technical Information: ***STOP:0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0x80593C85, 0xF369F9AC, 0x00000000) Beginning dump of physical memory. Physical memory dump complete. If anyo…

I have WinXP Pro and AVG Virus for virus control. Ran a scan last night and it detected the above virus in C:WINDOWS\systme32\rdriv.sys. I have tried "healing" and "deleting" it but it keeps popping up. I tried deleting the folder directly from the system32 folder but it reappears in about 4 seconds. How can I remove this completely from my system?

HELLO ALL !, was wondering if any one could give me some advice, Im building my pc currently and Im just at the stage where I would like to see if the power is working fine now Ive got the motherboard installed fine and the processor and I stuck a stick of ram in there for good measure, im at the bloody front bit, now I have an Asus mother board..P smthing or other -e, and the front connections are at the bottom right, ive looked at the manual and no matter how man ways I put in the power switch connever the PC wont turn on..at all !, alough the standby light on the motherboard is on...so it is getting power at least. Any ideas on if there needs to be somthing else in…

I got up this morning and my computer would not turn on. there was no power at all. I checked all the connections. I just replaced the cpu, motherboard, and added ram a month ago because it was frozen beyond repair. The metal box with a fan that the plug goes into will not even come on, at least when the computer was frozen that part always came on. Could a bad motherboard cause this or would it be more likely the metal box is shorted out. please help. Thank You,

Hi, I faced this problem where i wasn't able to connect to GPRS on Win2K/98 but was able to do so for WinXP. Somehow, I narrowed it down to the DSR line used in data communications. For your info, my modem wasnt using DSR (left floating). It works properly when I tied this line to ground or HIGH. When it was left floating, i probed this line at the end of the cable at the computer's side and found a 100mV p-p Saw-like waveform on the line. For another cable which worked on all three, I found a 30mV p-p similar waveform. Just wondering whether Win2k/98 are sensitive to DSR line? Thanks.

I just loaded McAfee Virus Scan and continue to get constant messages that the file C:Program Files\support.com\TWC\vbs\tsoe.vbs contains suspicious activity. Does anyone know what this is? :confused:

I have a Viewsonic media center Win XP machine that shuts down. End Program box comes up saying End Program - CiceroUIWndFrame, you can cancel it and sometimes it will continue to shut down and other times it runs. What I have to do in order to keep the machine from shutting down is log into another computer on my network and open a file. It will ask me to save my file before shutting down. Without a file open it's gone in a matter of minutes.

Limited Virtual Memory - Pagefile Increase...??? Dear friends, I am confronted with a typical problem and am almost at my wits end. I have two HDD Disk One 80 GB two partitions C and D on windows xp Disk two 160 GB on three partitions E F and G on windows advanced server 2000 I have no problems as regards the first HDD in which I can work easily. BUT when i boot from second HDD; it says while almost about to start that- There is Limited Virtual Memory and asks to increase pagefile.sys. I had no idea about this but i did a lot of reading and increased pagefile in all drives and partitions. Still when I boot from 160 GB running on windows advan…

I have an EMU PCI soundcard which is what I use most of the times but there are times when I need to use my pc's integrated SC, what's the "fastest" way to switch from 1 card to the other please? Thanks.

Sometimes My Computer Will Just Turn On By Itself And Start Windows After It Has Been Shutdown For Hours At A Time. How Can I Fix This? Wallace

Hi everyone, I got a problem at hand with my PC. I just bought a Silicon Image SiI 680 IDE Controller Raid Card. My intention was to hook up a new Harddisk of 200GB to my computer. I asked the retailer and he told me I needed this RAID card for I am running on a Pentium 3 933Mhz Processor with 256 MB Ram on a Asustek P3V4X motherboard. So I bought this card, came home, installed it and the drivers. After all of that, I still do not see my new 200GB MAxtor Diamond Max 10 Harddisk under Windows Explorer. Can anyone tell me what did I do wrong here? I am really at wits end. :(

when opening text file using wnbrowse the text is gibberish; little squares instead of text. to read the text i click the "options" and "select font". i then change the "script" from "western" to any other, for example greek. the text is then readable. but i cannot save the setting and the problem reappears as soon as i open the file. as a matter of fact the problem reappears if i switch from text to hex mode and back again to text mode. the font i am using is courier new and works perfectly using wordpad so the font is not the problem. wnbrowse version 4.8b, using win98se.