I have a reasonable spec PC with (amongst other things) Athlon 1400 CPU,
512MB RAM and Leadtek Winfast Titanium 500 graphics card (64MB video memory)
driving a Sony SDM-S204 flat panel monitor (native resolution 1600x1200) via
the analogue output of the video card (I use the ...

All of a sudden, out of the blue, WMP won't play any MPEGs. It plays all
other files. The screen just stays black and it says playing at the bottom
but nothing is happening. The slider bar doesn't even move. I also noticed
that the same thing is happening in Real Player also. So ...

I've been having problems with my display; it shows large icons and windows,a
lthough my settings are already configured at the smallest. I've checked my
monitor display, but that does't seem to be the problem. can anyone help me?
I am getting irritated with these large ...

I have a compaq presario V2311US laptop with a rectangular screen.
The aspect ration is such that when I set it to use the whole thing,
everything is distorted.  The setting for this is buried in the advanced
settings of properties.  In the Panel settings it has a check box

-- Since installing and uninstalling Nero 7,my Windows  media player will
not open videos I reeive in e-mail.II keeps trying to open in Nero 7 even
though Nero  has been removed and as many residual pieces taken out (seardh
for Nero ).

How can I create a quicktime movie from a DV-AVI file?  I downloaded my video
from my video camera into movie maker.  Did my editing, music, transitions,
intros etc. and saved it as an DV-AVI file.  Now I would like to put it on my
web page as a quicktime movie so that my mom can ...

I had a recent problem when I tried to copy a DVD I burned on a ILO
DVDR05 recorder onto my hard drive of my computer. My CDC-ROM drive
will now not read any type of DVD?  And Windows explorer does not read
them at all either?  Seems like some how the firm ware could have been

i don't know what it is it is turned off on my pc and i need to turn it on
please tell me how

I have (had) an intermittent problem whereby XP crashes with a corrupt
registry problem. I read it could be a device driver which needs
upgrading. However if I try start Device Manager to see lwhat drivers
are installed this causes the crash straight away. Has anybody

I Have tryed to up grade to media player 10. tryed changing setting but still
can not get videos from MSN or videos from a game site . Now I can download
something and play it and it works, But not a direct lick.

Has anyone experience how to work with the panasonic camcorder DS27 and WinXP
64? I'm working on AMD Athlon X2 4400+ Machine. The camcorder is connected
via Firewire. When turning the camera on it is recognized as "Panasonic
Vendor Specific Subunit" - so to say "Unknown". The ...

I have a Toshiba Tecra M2 & am unable to play video on an external monitor.
Playing a video displays on the laptop screen, but I just get a black box in
Media Player. All other graphics work fine, ie. Windows desktop, excel etc.
on both the laptop & external monitor. I have the ...

Some (but not all) files play in silly colours. Like a cartoon.  Lots of
bright red and fiery hot colours.  Same files have played fine on other
machines, so not the files.  I think I have tried all the media player
settings but not managed to correct this.  I have other players ...

How can I change my Quicktime movie files into a format that Movie Maker will
accept?

I have been using Power Desk as my file manager for years. For the
last 2 days I have been getting a warning that their is some kind of
problem that is making it close. All I'm doing is copying, moving and
deleting files.