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| Repair Win XP Pro? | 06 Feb 2007 16:41 GMT | 2 |
I installed WMP 11 and it really messed up my computer. It freezes up and does all kind of stupid things. Task bar will hang in the down position. I tried to roll back to previous WMP but it will not let me. How can I get 11 of my computer? I tried to reinstall WMP 10 and it said ...
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| System Restore | 06 Feb 2007 12:41 GMT | 1 |
I cannot do a 'system restore'. No matter what date I try for, the same message comes on that the computer cannot be restored to that date. An article by Bert Kinney - http://berttk.mvps.org/html/symantecdoc1.html gave some instructions. These I followed to the letter, but I ...
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| My computer is slow | 06 Feb 2007 10:39 GMT | 4 |
My computer is slow. Specifically, the menus under the Start Menu is slow (each menu takes 4-5 seconds to appear). I have run anti virus software, and run the System Tools (Defragmenter, ect.). I have tried
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| Disc cleanup | 06 Feb 2007 10:30 GMT | 5 |
When performing disc cleanup, I see that debug dump files, setup log files & compress old files are not checked to be deleted. "Compress old files" (whatever that means) is quite large. Should these boxes be checked & deleted with every cleanup?
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| Completely disable automatic updates | 06 Feb 2007 08:56 GMT | 2 |
The Windows XP Pro auotmatic update service is interfering with audio and video applications on my editing machine. I check for updates on a regular basis and manually install them. I don't need this. Even when I turn off automatic updates or disable the service, I still get a ...
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| Slow opening Applications | 06 Feb 2007 08:53 GMT | 1 |
I have a customer who has a DELL computer thats about 1 1/2 years old. It was working fine. Then one day, we tried to open some applications and it would take forever for it to open. Once opened, it worked fine. This includes ANY application, such as control panel, Quickbooks, ...
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| System restore failure please help..... | 06 Feb 2007 08:46 GMT | 1 |
can anyone help me with my system restore failure when I looked up the error it says ' The device. \Device\Scsi\iviVD1\. did not respond within the timeout period.' Im not sure what exactly this means..... please help if you have any idea
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| posting | 06 Feb 2007 04:13 GMT | 1 |
I have sent 2 posts recently 1/2/07 and 4/2/07, neither of which has yet appeared. Am i doing something wrong?
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| welcome screen power settings | 06 Feb 2007 03:29 GMT | 3 |
Where do i adjust the Welcome screen settings for Screensaver, Standby, etc...?
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| Spybot Search and Destroy | 05 Feb 2007 22:23 GMT | 5 |
I just ran spybot and while it was running i was watching the bottom of the screen that shows what is being scanned. I saw things like wild tangent, iphox, hot bar, gain.gator, evileye, something with "nude" it the name and also "porn", plus lots of other things i dion't ...
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| recovery cd wont work | 05 Feb 2007 22:11 GMT | 3 |
ive searched everywhere and wasnt able to find any helpfull information and am hoping that someone here may have some suggestions.. i have win xp home edition that came preinstalled on my computer. computer hasnt been working well- very slow to do anything including starting and ...
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| REMOVE XP | 05 Feb 2007 22:04 GMT | 3 |
How do I complete remove, purge the whole computer & reinstall XP
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| Error message | 05 Feb 2007 20:46 GMT | 1 |
Can anyone help me, Some of my programs fail to start and I get this message ;- "This application has failed to start because MFC42.DLL was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem. "
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| How do I REALLY turn off the page file? | 05 Feb 2007 17:28 GMT | 7 |
My C: partition is only 2GB in size. I like it this way. I always run everything from ANY partition other than C:. This is causing me one problem, however: I cannot get Windows to NOT create a pagefile.sys file on this drive.
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| Device Manager | 05 Feb 2007 15:47 GMT | 1 |
A recent rquest for help came from Mr Earl Grey. I follwed his instruction howver The Device Manger box is stell blank. Is there anything else I can do? Secondly I cannot do a system restore, a response from Bert Kinney gave some insight. This too i followed to the letter, but ...
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