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| Slow page opening; disconnect from internet | 29 Feb 2008 21:35 GMT | 1 |
My computer has become excrusiatingly slow to open new pages. The second problem is that if I have more than one window open, if I close any one of them, I am disconnected from the internet. I have had techs at ATT, HP, and Microsoft give me all their instructions, some have ...
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| Pagefile on mounted drive has incorrect size | 29 Feb 2008 20:44 GMT | 11 |
I'm trying to move my page file to dedicated partition. I have system partition mounted on C: and swap partition mounted on C:\Swap. C: has 200 MB free, and C:\Swap has 2 GB free. I set value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory
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| Slow Booting Up | 29 Feb 2008 12:42 GMT | 1 |
I have solved my porblem and just what to share with everyone, How I did. I had done a Google and come here and did a search. I tried everything, nothing worked. I went to an earlier Restore Point, Ran Spybot, Ad Ware, Registry Cleaner, CCleaner, Defrag, Disk Cleaner you name it ...
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| scared of Disk Cleanup | 29 Feb 2008 06:43 GMT | 7 |
I have owned my very first computer now for about six months. No real problems with it but I feel it's time to do some maintenance. People around me are very wary of doing Disk Clean up as they don't trust Windows' interpretation of files you are no longer using. Here's an ...
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| Desktop from scratch | 28 Feb 2008 16:41 GMT | 4 |
I built a desktop computer from various componets and have found that it is a good one its a little slow because of the processor that i had to use but none the less it works as i am using it now. It has Intel Celeron 333MHz proccesor 192mb of ram two hdd 1st one is a 4gb
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| Registry editing | 28 Feb 2008 02:08 GMT | 2 |
Is there anyway to edit each user's HKEYcurrentuser registry without having to log into there account and make there account hold admin priv.The reason I'm asking is my son had a bunch of programs starting on just his account so I checked his reg files and he had some programs ...
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| Benchmark test | 27 Feb 2008 19:23 GMT | 2 |
I am looking for a freeware utility that I can use to gauge the performace of a pc before and after a cleanup. This needs to be related to application performance. I am also looking for a freeware load testing utility to test pcs after
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| Right-Clicking in Start Menu doesn't work | 27 Feb 2008 16:35 GMT | 7 |
I'm running WXP Professional on a 2.4 GHz Intel CPU. Three days ago, after updating my NAV 2007 virus signatures, right-clicking anything in the Start Menu suddenly ceased functionung. E.g., I cannot right-click an entry in My Recent Documents for immediate deletion, & I cannot ...
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| severe and unresolvable fragmentation: why are tiny files in 9 fragments? | 27 Feb 2008 14:19 GMT | 3 |
I tried multiple defrags and I'm still left with a lot of fragmentation on my drive. I seem to have enough free space though! 12 GB free on a 37 GB drive. This is my primary windows drive. Single logical and physical drive.
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| How to recover users with files intact | 27 Feb 2008 06:26 GMT | 2 |
I wnat to recover users who have been lost from the registry but whose files are all intact on the H/D. After a recent crash, I had to recover from my original XP 2002 disk and then run upgrades (I am now current with XP-SP2 Home). Unfortunately, no
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| CHKDSK prevents reboot of Windows XP SP2 | 27 Feb 2008 05:46 GMT | 3 |
A program on my Windws XP SP2 laptop reported a corrupted file, so I ran cmd.exe and scheduled CHKDSK /F to run on the next reboot. I rebooted, CHKDSK ran and reported that it had corrected some errors, but when the computer restarted, after the first bootup splash screen it hung ...
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| windows startup and program startup drag | 27 Feb 2008 00:36 GMT | 4 |
ive been experiencing a problem and i dont know how to figure out whats causing it. i am using XP HOME. it is up to date with windows updates. i have very little in this computer so its not maxxed out in any way.
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| copy on select / paste with middle mouse | 26 Feb 2008 21:49 GMT | 2 |
being a long time linux user I really miss these two UI features on WinXP: (1) Copy on select. (2) Paste on middle mouse click.
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| User account shutdown, chkdsk runs | 26 Feb 2008 05:02 GMT | 2 |
We have two systems in our home. My wife's system has two accounts set up. Windows XP Home, with all updates, is her operating system. Her account has admin rights but the 10 year old boy is a user with his own password.
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| CPU usage 100%, computer temperature becomes to hot! | 26 Feb 2008 02:48 GMT | 8 |
Hi, I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2 and I have developed a problem where by the CPU keeps going to 100% and either freezes the PC or slows it down to virtually standstill. I have searched on the net and found that quite a few people have this problem. I tried some of the fixes ...
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