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| failure to log on | 13 Oct 2008 03:39 GMT | - |
On booting I am informed on the screen: "The system could not log on. User name and domain name are correct. Then Type your password again!" I have complied. Failure to sign on.
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| USB Drivers | 13 Oct 2008 02:34 GMT | - |
I have Windows XP Pro SP3 on my computer. I also have 3 external drives connected with USB to IDE cables. I used to be able to use these drives with no problem, but I have had to format my HDD and reinstall Windows about 6 times now. These drives are no longer visible in My ...
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| Explorer freezes or hangs on startup | 13 Oct 2008 01:12 GMT | - |
Here's my problem: My taskbar stops responding every time widows XP Home Edition SP3 startup, it freezes or hangs. only ctrl+alt+del works. I formatted my system twic. Checking for processes in Task Manager but nothing that spikes during the activity. I tried to end the explorer ...
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| Unable to block/unblock contacts in MSN Messenger | 12 Oct 2008 20:46 GMT | - |
Whenever I try to either block or unblock a contact by right clicking on it in the contact list the action won't be performed (the contact still shows in the same status as before attempting the change). When i right click the contact in my contact list it says either "unblock" ...
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| Audio driver keeps disappearing | 12 Oct 2008 17:29 GMT | - |
My audio drive keeps disappearing and I have to reinstall it for no reason. Someone mentioend this might be caused by a windows update and there is a patch for it depending on my hardware is that true? I have onboard sound and this MB: MSI P6N SLI Platinum LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce ...
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| bootable USB pen drive etc. | 11 Oct 2008 21:46 GMT | - |
Ages ago I made an old 256mb USB pen drive bootable, using HP's http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en &cc=us&mode=3&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-UNITY-I23839 ...( I think that was the utility ) "HP Drive Key Boot Utility"
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| Text Cursor Disappears While Typing after a few seconds | 11 Oct 2008 03:55 GMT | - |
I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 notebook running Windows XP Home. I am using the touchpad. No mouse. Whenever I am typing (e.g. in MS Word, text search box in Google, composing Gmail message), the text cursor will suddenly disappear after a while. If I
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| Multiple Windows Named mformat | 11 Oct 2008 03:53 GMT | - |
Occasionally, my computer will not go into hibernation and when I return there are many small windows titled "mformat" with an error message about access violation. Normally they can be closed out but occasionally I have to reboot to get rid of them. The computer seems to ...
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| Double Click Classic Programs | 10 Oct 2008 18:25 GMT | - |
Is there anyway of restricting users from double clicking the programs icon (in classic XP style) and allowing access to a Window Explorer window which allows access to unauthorized areas. We are using redirected desktop and global policies.
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| Redirect "raw" print to different LPR/LPD system | 10 Oct 2008 16:21 GMT | - |
I have an application (faxing) that captures the printing thru the standard LPR/LPD protocol. It works find when send from Linux based servers but not well with the Windows print queues. I need to redirect the "raw" data stream from a shared Windows printer (\
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| Windows XP heavy harddisk access at startup | 10 Oct 2008 08:14 GMT | - |
In the first few minutes after starting XP, I have heavy harddisk access. Looking at filemon shows that XP is reading files I used recently. That may have someting todo with the prefetcher!? (but my "C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch" is empty for example)
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| keyboard & mouse lockup after disk eject from dvd or cdrw drives | 09 Oct 2008 23:35 GMT | - |
I have a dell dimension 4550 with Win XP SP2 that recently develop this problem. After playing or writing to a disk in either of my dvd or cd drives then ejecting the disk, my keyboard or mouse will not function. It seems the system locks-up. The only way I can get the system to ...
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| out of control video | 09 Oct 2008 22:18 GMT | - |
I'm trying to split an mpg file using a Boilsoft splitter with a built in player. When I open the file in the app it immediately goes to full screen and I can't control it at all. This has been happening for a while when trying to play files as well using whatever ...
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| Removing Multiple Users | 09 Oct 2008 16:54 GMT | - |
I had a single-user system. Attempts to reinstall an Adobe program were unsuccessful, so the Adobe rep assisted the Dell rep in taking control of my machine remotely and creating a new user, then installing the program the program under the new user. The program is available to ...
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| Running a GUI application at Winlogon Notification Events | 09 Oct 2008 16:50 GMT | - |
First of all, sorry for the long post and the misspelled words. I really need help with this issue. I've been through this Winlogon Notification Packages thing and managed to produce interesting results. I have an application that
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