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I hooked my old HP 693C up to my computer (also have a HP Photosmart printer). The 693 will print in black & white, but won't print in color. Have checked the HP site and downloaded and installed the correct driver. HP no longer supports the 693 on their site. …

Hey I just moved my desktop computer to another roo and I don't think it has a wireless card, but I was wondering how can I connect my laptop to my desktop computer to get internet connection? My laptop has Windows XP on it and my desktop has Windows 7 …

Iim looking at trying to get faster internet speed. At the moment im on a 10mb service and im getting 6.5mbps going through the phone line. I belive i have an ADSL modem. There is another internet service i am looking at for the same price that is 20mb, it …

Hello, I came home for Thanksgiving dinner the other night and found out my computer was infected with the Rapid antivirus malware program. It looks just like what pictures I've seen on the other sites, and does the same things. I read instructions on how to remove it, which first …

JAVA does NOT post any way to fix this error 1101 for VISTA on the JAVA website. When I try to install the Java 6.0 update 7 on my Hewlett Packard computer with Windows Vista Home Premium and I repeatedly get the same error 1101. Java only posts the fix …

I have a AMD Athlon 64 3500+ in a DFI's LANParty UT NF4 SLI-DR mother board with 991461 DDR EM3200 3-3-3-8 2x1GB ram and a nvidia 9800 gt with a seagate 500 Gbyte hard drive but the thing wont show on the screen. The fans all spin the lights flash …

When I copy information from excel and do a paste special picture (enhanced metafile) all of the gridlines from excel are being pasted as well. This problem just started in July and is creating terrible headaches for us. Does anyone know how to fix this?

One of my clients went out and bought a cheap HP at Costco last spring which unfortunately has Vista Home Premium on it. It originally connect to the office network which is actually a domain without a problem. That is it couldn't log on the domain, but it was able …

Hello.. I am facing a strange problem in my PC lately. The "My Computer" simply stopped showing "DVD Drive"...... So I checked Device Manager..... There it is showing " ! " symbol with the Dvd Drive. I felt it must be some Driver issue, so tried updating it, but had …

Ok, so I had a dual boot going for a while, Vista Home Premium and the RC for Win7. Without thinkin bout it I just whiped off the Win7 partition with EASEAUS partition manager. Well now every time I turn on my laptop it still displays Win7 as an option, …

m getting this automatic refresh in xp pro while scrolling down a folder,it automatically goes to top of the page after 50-60 seconds.which is really annoying and other research on goggle dont help much.,can any1 give me sum solution to this problem

hey guys anyone here know how to use and which softwae to- this broadcom card 3945 abg,so that it could send deauth packets to another wireless....i m using omnipek and find a way through

Hello all, It seems my parent's Dell Dimension E310 likes to randomly loose drivers. Neither of the two Cd/ DVD drives are even in existence in the device manager, the computer couldn't recognized a kingston thumb drive until I manually went in and installed the driver... it keeps loosing and …

I have a pricing program which is written in Basic. It has worked on several computers with SP Pro. I purchased two new computers with SP Pro but these computers will not run my pricing program written in Basic. Any Ideas??

Hello guys! My Sony PCG-K45 laptop needs to have a full restoring as in the time it was new from the factory. I just dont know how to do it! Please help me! Another Issue is the Windows Validation! I bought this Laptop about a year ago on ebay and …

Hi everyone, I did a clean install of windows xp pro and now no sound. I have an Asus p5p800-vm motherboard and American Megatrenda bios 0502 5/26/2006. I have the video and audio drivers installed but it says no audio device installed. Also I can't load some video games. I …

I have this problem. my friends unit has no display and power led is blinking and fan turns on then off and turns again... but no display... whats the prob? can u pls help me?

i am configuring two offices for internet sharing. let assume offices names for them i.e A office and B office. also ADSL router name C one switch for A office and one switch for B office. my aim is to take one Ethernet cable from ADSL C to A office …

Hi I was on my computer Keyboard that has the roundplug in to the back then my kitten jump on and I threw him off (no I didn't hurt him) it made a weird beeping when ever I tried to type so I turned off my computer took it out, …

I am having a proble m similer to [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread109379.html"]this one[/URL] I am running XP SP3 with Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2008 My Hijack This log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 7:26:40 PM, on 8/22/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) …

Ok. my problem is that for a few month i had no monitor i just bought one connected it plugged in. i turn on my computer and the regular boot up starts up until the point where the log in screen and all i see is a blank screen(when i …

hi guys, please help to give some insight on how to block ICMP or ping request in a web server? thanks..

hi, i just got myself a mac book and don't know much about its unix. first of all, i would really like to know if there is a repository like redhat so i can do "yum" to search and install the repository packages. when i do "uname" it is Darwins …

My mom's computer running Windows XP randomly and sporadically "ALT-TABS" (goes to another window) without any reason. For example, she will be typing an email in Google Chrome and it will switch as she is typing (even if she is not typing) to MS Word or Excel (whatever she has …

Hoping for help. Trying to get my daughters computer ready for college and can't seem to kill the three trojan.tdss files Hijackthis log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 8:17:43 PM, on 8/22/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) Boot mode: Normal …

I've been working around computers for what seems like ages now..and I've never seen this kind'a problem before: the other night I shut off my computer and called it a night, the next morning I turned it on, only to find out that '[B]almost[/B]' everything had been restored to factory …

We recently upgraded to Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6. And we have one web application that works fine except for a certain feature within it. It gives "Disk or network error" when you click on a button that opens a popup form window and "Network path not found" when …

As the title says, I can't access any anti-virus website, or Microsoft update, as well as getting random popups. I suspected the Conficker worm, so have ran two different removal tools (one from Symantic, one from Grisoft), as well as Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal tool, with no results reported and …

Hi everyone! This is my first post so I'm sorry if I have placed it in the wrong place. I hope I will get a better response than I have recieved from HP customer support. Well heres the problem: I have a Hp Laptop DV9000 that I purchased abut 2 …

i have a dell Latitude D600 laptop i cant go on the internet or use the internal NIC card and its really bugging me Even Dell Quick set Application cant turn ON and OFF the NIC i go to power management and it says that the card is off, but …

When trying to save either an Excel or Word file in Vista to a networked drive, get the error message: 'word.docx cannot be found. Check your spelling or try a different path.' Can save this to the desktop and then use 'My Computer' to copy it to the networked drive …

I wish to set up a network to transfer files between my XP SP3 desktop and HP Vista laptop. My desktop is connected by Ethernet to my Linskys modem. I also conected an Ethernet cable from my Laptop to the modem. On my desktop I ran the XP networking wizard …

after i turn on my computer, and it starts up and then freezes. it has given me a stop error code ox0000000A. i have also ran a memory diagnostic tool and hard drive diagnostic tool, both passed.

I have a Lexmark X5470. It works great, and I'm very happy with it. However, something very strange happens every now and then when the power is off. At any given time, the printer will start up on its own for about 30 seconds, making the sounds of the cartridge …

Ok, I need help please....here's the rundown. I have a laptop running vista. I became infected with "windows security suite" that I have found out is a spyware/virus. It bogged my computer down really bad, internet explorer and all the other functions would try and run, then just lock up …

My laptop, Acer Aspire 5100-3949 cannot start, when I tried again, it suggest me to Launch start recovery, then I followed the instruction and tried to load the drive from the website to do system recovery,it still not work. I tried to start in the safe mode, did not work. …

I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate RTM on my system and had a peculiar experience. I was running Windows 7 Ultimate RC and decided to blow it for the RTM. My first hard drive is 250 Gigs with one primary partition (40 Gigs) and the remainder in the second partition. …

I have a older Dell Latitude that won't recognize the hard drive. When I run diagnostics, I get the following: Start DST Short Test Test Results: Fail Error Code: 1000-0141 Message: No Drive Detected

Hi, I have two questions (Win XP): 1) I accidentally set a file's extension to open with the option "Always open with this app", or whatever the text is. Anyway, you can change it in the file's property dialog, but you cannot remove it. I want to remove it so …

I've run CC cleaner, that seemed to help but it still seems slow. Firefox is very slow to open. Here's my system info. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 7:42:57 PM, on 8/13/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Boot mode: …

hi i'm a newbie so i hope i can get this right ... i've just bought a new motherboard to replace my old one i've moved all my bit's and bobs to the new motherboard and attached the cpu , graphic card , atx cables and memory , dvd drive, …

Does anyone know of a software to make slide shows simpler than Powerpoint and Memories on TV? With the first one I can't insert music because it's too complicated and it only accepts MP3s and Wave files (too big). The latter has also become too complex. I'm following all the …

Has anyone ever heard of a virus or spyware that would cause identical problems on 2 different machines at the same time? I have recieved a call about a XP based machine not being able to connect to the internet. At the same time I was told their laptop (Vista) …

Hi, Problem: black monitor. No visibility. MSI manufactured motherboard for Medion pc, onboard video. 1) swapped in a known working monitor. No result. 2) put known working video card in a pci slot hoping compute would bypass the onboard vid. No result. 3) tested power supply voltages at the mainboard …

Hi all, I need to set up three different sites with different domain names using Windows 2003 Active Directory. How many routers and switches do I need? Each domain will have 6 Windows 2003 servers and the three domains are two trust-relationship. I know how to create a LAN/Wan using …

i am using lcd Monitor .My sound card is not working.Kindly let me know the idea.Any help would be highly appreciated.

Hey guys whats up? I myself am pretty good with all this and actually know what i am doing here but... Having an issue that is bugging the crap out of me. I can not figure it out for the life of me. (either im to frustrated, or missing something …

when my computer turn on a pop up comes up and says.. C:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\desktop is not accessible access is denied i tried system restore but i dont have a restore date.. so somebody help me

I am having a problem on my Dell XPS 400 desktop with getting my wireless to work for me. I have downloaded and installed the network driver from [url]http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&ServiceTag=&SystemID=XPS/DIMENSION%20400/9150&os=WLH&osl=EN[/url] but I still can't get it to work and I'm not able to have my router in the same room as …

Recently bought a new PC Motherboard= MSI 770-c45 VGA= ATI RARDEON HD4870 PROCCESSOR= AMD PHENOM2 X4 2.6 GHZ QUADCORE 6 M CASH RAM= 4G KINGSTONE HARD DISK= 500G POWER SUPPLY= 500W But i just keep getting BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH every time i do anything !! Even if the pc …