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| reinstall | 22 Mar 2010 06:03 GMT | 11 |
Why do I need to reinstall my printer every time I turn my computer on?
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| Book recommendation for Vista | 22 Mar 2010 05:54 GMT | 2 |
Hello all, I have a friend that has a PC with Vista. She would like to learn
this OS more in depth and was asking me about a book recommendation, Since I
do not have Vista I could not recommend any books off hand.I have heard good
things about the Missing Manual series. Is Vista, ...
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| errors on disk | 22 Mar 2010 04:52 GMT | 4 |
My Mcafee scan has frozen the pc 3 times in the same place, and the Mcafee
tech said there are some errors on the disk that could cause this. There is
a "scandisk" on xp and earlier versions, is there something similar on
Vista? What else can I do to identify and correct these ...
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| Administration (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| The user name or password is incorrect error | 22 Mar 2010 05:06 GMT | - |
I recently decided to password protect my computer so that upon startup
I have to type in a password. But now when I start up the computer I get
a "the user name or password is incorrect" error message (at this point
I haven't done anything except push the power button to turn the
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| Win7 questions | 20 Mar 2010 00:21 GMT | 1 |
I just upgraded from Vista to Win7 and I have a few questions. Is this a
good placwe to ask questions or are there better groups? Apparently I lost
outlook express or windows mail or whatever it called and I need to find out
what hapened to my old mail and where I can find a ...
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| Unable to make changes to parental controls | 17 Mar 2010 16:27 GMT | 25 |
I am trying to make changes to parental controls. I get an error message
that reads: "Unable to make changes to parental controls settings. If this
problem persists, contact your system administrator."
I am an administrator on the computer. I have tried creating a new account
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| File Management (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| Windows 7 My user folder is invisible | 22 Mar 2010 05:36 GMT | 4 |
Hello all,
Somewhere there HAS to be a Windows 7 discussion group, but it doesn't seem
to be listed anywhere in the Microsoft discussion groups tree. Someone in
here may be able to help or at least point me to a Win 7 discussion group.
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| File associations not responding in Vista Home Premium | 20 Mar 2010 15:58 GMT | - |
I can not associate htm and html files to Front Page 2003. When I try to
Open With, point through the files to find FP03 program file, it will not
associate with html or htm. It instead changes to an Internet Explorer
file. It is strange. I think I need to set all associations ...
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| File set to read only | 20 Mar 2010 02:05 GMT | 1 |
I have an Access 2003 app that is set to compact on exit. This fails because
the origional directory (a sub directory of Program Files) seems to
constantly re-set the Read Only flag. How can I get over this? All my other
machines running XP dont suffer from this problem
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| Games (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| HEARTS and KING - Saved games? | 21 Mar 2010 23:00 GMT | 3 |
How can I delete my saved games? Any one?
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| Playing games on Dual Monitors? | 21 Mar 2010 19:38 GMT | 5 |
Hi, I had a simple question that I just can't find the answer to. I have two
monitors, a 32" LCD and a 19" CRT. I am running a dual monitor setup
(extended desktop) and I want my primary to be the CRT and secondary the LCD.
I know how to do that.
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| The Bard's Tale - the game | 21 Mar 2010 17:26 GMT | 9 |
I am trying to install The Bard's Tale game. The game will not install on the
hard drive. Would like to know what I have to do to get it installed.
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| Hardware (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| Vista freezes when copying files to external hdd | 21 Mar 2010 21:46 GMT | 2 |
recently I have been trying to back up all my movies pics etc to a
Lacie 1tb external hdd. We have had it for a while, it worked fine for
a month, then we started experiencing difficulties with it and it
remained in the too hard basket until now.
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| Did I just turn off my CD/DVD drive? | 21 Mar 2010 00:30 GMT | 2 |
I had just got done fending off a virus on my computer (vista home
premium, 32bit). Had to uninstall/reinstall QuickBooks because it wasn't
working. I also went through and cleaned up everything I could from the
computer, and turned off anything I thought was unneccessary. QB got
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| USB flash drives improperly installed | 20 Mar 2010 06:33 GMT | - |
I have several PNY Attache 2 GB USB flash drives that do not install
properly on a computer running Vista Home Premium SP2. They work just fine
on other Windows Vista (Business), Windows XP and Windows 2003 computers. On
this PC, the drive is detected when it is plugged in, but ...
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| Mail (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| Can't send emails | 22 Mar 2010 07:00 GMT | - |
When I try to send emails through my chosen server (pgalinks.com) it won't
send mail although it checks the account for new messages. It gives the
following error message:
The connection to the server has failed. Subject 'SwingView Pro Lesson',
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| Le fonctionement de ma boite de reception. | 22 Mar 2010 05:32 GMT | - |
Bonjour le group windows je n'ave plus à utiliser corectement ma boite
electroniques windows il se trouve que mon serveur internet rantrent est
www.sfr.fr,
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| Windows Mail Password | 22 Mar 2010 04:56 GMT | 3 |
Starting today when I open Windows Mail I get a "pop-up" asking for username
and password. will not connect until I complete. this just started
today..computer is approx 11 mos old....When I go to tools,properties,servers
and put in password and save (apply) it does not save.....
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| Music, Photo, Video (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| How to Convert DVD to iPod Video for Mac with Mac DVD to iPod Converter? | 19 Mar 2010 02:58 GMT | - |
Feeling frustrated when you have an iPod and a bunch of DVD movie but you can't enjoy them on iPod? Generally, DVD is only supposed to play on DVD players or DVD-ROMs only. DVD copy is sometimes prohibited by CSS-protection measure. If you have bought the DVD movie and do not ...
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| missing movies from dvd-r | 18 Mar 2010 02:02 GMT | - |
hi guys (hope this is the right section)
ok i may be missing something really basic, but its like this.....
i burnt 2 .divx movies to a TDK 4.7gb DVD-R, each movie had its own folder, and each movie had a subtitle file .srt also in the folder..well i had this disc for awhile and ...
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| Share an easy way to move music and other files from iPod/iPhone to computer/iTunes | 16 Mar 2010 03:56 GMT | 2 |
Many friends have found it difficult to retrieve songs, videos, photos,
playlists and other files from iPod/iPhone back to computer and iTunes
library,because iTunes only supports one-way transfer. Here I'd like to
share an easy way to move music and other files from iPod/iPhone ...
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| Networking (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| Remote Desktop problems - one laptop works the other doesn't | 22 Mar 2010 04:49 GMT | 4 |
This is strange. I have two nearly identical HP laptops.
Both are the same model, but one (that gives trouble) has
some additional hardware (video) features. Both are running
Vista Home Premium 64 and have all the updates applied. I am
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| File & Folder sharing between Win 7, Vista & XP | 22 Mar 2010 02:21 GMT | 2 |
Just when I thought Win 7 had finally made networking easier!
From my desktop with Win 7 I can access and control all shared files &
folders on both my Vista Laptop & a XP desktop. However, even after
enabling folder sharing with full permission on the Win 7 machine, the
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| Determining the presence of wireshark | 21 Mar 2010 11:56 GMT | 13 |
How to determine the presence of wireshark in a network ?
Are there any specific packet types exchanged while it
is present in the network so that it can be used to determine
its presence in the network . Any tool to identify its presence
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| Performance and Maintainance (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| problem with shell32.dll | 22 Mar 2010 03:51 GMT | - |
I'm not much of a computer nut here and don't want to mess around my
system stuff or i'll end up recovering my whole computer.
When i start up my comp and login i get this prompt, "The procedure
entry point SHFlushClipboard could not be located in the dynamic library
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| "Logon Process has failed to create the security options dialog." Error Message | 22 Mar 2010 01:24 GMT | 11 |
Another thread on this problem has closed. I am adding this in case it
can help someone with the same problem. I have just had 3 days of hell
trying to get my HP dv9500 Notebook working again. (Vista Home Premium
32 bit)
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| Defrag | 20 Mar 2010 13:31 GMT | 3 |
Within my task scheduler, Windows Defrag is configured as such:
%windir%\system32\defrag.exe -c-i-g
I believe -c is to defrag my c:\ drive.
What are the switches -i and -g for?
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| Printing and Faxing (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| Recommend a vista 64 compatible wireless print server! | 18 Mar 2010 05:06 GMT | 4 |
I want to buy a vista 64 compatible wireless print server. Two machines
will access the printer - a system running XP and mine with Vista 64.
Are all the modern print servers going to be compatible? Are there any
I should avoid? Are there any that you recommend?
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| Windows Fax and Scan and Outlook contacts | 17 Mar 2010 22:12 GMT | 27 |
I can't get Windows Fax and Scan (WFS) to use the contacts from
Outlook 2007. Running Vista Ultimate 64 on an SBS 2003 network. Using
the server's shared fax. This worked when I had Vista Ultimate 32
installed.
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| Scanner driver for HP Laserjet 3330 | 17 Mar 2010 10:41 GMT | - |
Hi All,We have HP Laserjet 3330 MFP and it was previously working on Windows XP. Now we have migrated to Windows Vista and installed drivers for HP 3330. All printing functions are working properly but when try to scan thru HP Laserjet Scan Control Viewer system gives message ...
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| Reinstall/Repair WMP | 21 Mar 2010 19:00 GMT | 3 |
I got a virus which I was successfully able to remove from my system but
now Windows Media Player doesn't work.
I get the following error:
[image:
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| Startup Repair Loop HELP | 21 Mar 2010 17:39 GMT | - |
All of a sudden my computer has fallen into a startup repair loop
i start my computer, and it goes into startup repair. It finds nothing
wrong, but also says that it cannot repair my computer automatically. I
press finish to restart my computer, and when it reboots, it goes to the
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| No "Check for updates" in Windows Update | 20 Mar 2010 06:29 GMT | - |
Hi --
On a Vista Home Premium SP2 PC, Automatic Updates is switched off (right now
on purpose). However, when I manually open the Windows Update applet, the
"Check for updates" option at the top of the list is grayed out and
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| Security (view all ...) | Last Post | Replies |
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| HELP: Final Question About Hackers Stealing Files Via Wireless Net | 20 Mar 2010 23:39 GMT | 2 |
Hello, my question is to verify if these statements are true,
I wanted to email these guys personally but
I understand it's better to share this with everyone.
The questions concern if hackers can break into my Vista computer
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| Vista Antivirus Pro - malware | 20 Mar 2010 07:40 GMT | 10 |
I have a Toshiba laptop running Windows Vista. Vista Antivirus Pro has
appeared and is creating havoc on my system. Is anyone familiar with Vista
Antivirus Pro? I removed my laptop from my network and then I ran a boot
scan with Avast! It said that it removed a Trojan, but ...
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| Help: Not sharing folders, but can they still be hacked? | 20 Mar 2010 00:31 GMT | 1 |
I'm using Vista but not sharing any folders at all on my
unsecured wireless network.
However, could a hacker in my apartment complex
still access the hard drive's files if my admin password is blank
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