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Hey. I recently tried to play a dvd on my comp and media center told me that the disk wasn't being recognised, so I checked the computer and the drive was missing from there. This is the error in my device manager: This device cannot start. (Code 10) Click 'Check …

Hello! I have a Logitech ClearCase serial mouse (from 1988) that I want to use with windows XP. I have had no luck with this mouse so far. I will test the wires to see if they are broken. (I doubt it though) Any solutions are welcome!! Thanks, javanoob101

On the ‘Folder’ ribbon the ‘favorites’ section does not appear. Right clicking the ribbon and choosing ‘Customize the Ribbon…’ shows the ‘Folder’ tab as being selected and within that tab are ‘New, Actions, Clean up, Favorites, Share, IMAP, Properties’. ‘Favorites, Share and IMAP’ do not appear on the ribbon. I …

the software installed in my pc is windows xp.yesterday i downloaded google chrome and set it as my default browser .till then my default browser was internet explorer 6,from then onwards my system is taking longer than usual to start.. can anybody please help me in this matter ... I'm …

I have had to format our computer (eMachines W6409) and reinstall Windows XP but I cannot find the correct audio driver. I have gone to the eMachines support website and used their program to detect the driver on the computer. I downloaded the one they said but it did not …

Hi everyone I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 , I used the default burner which was installed automatically when I downloaded Ubuntu 10.10 , every time I burn a CD the process ends with an error and the CD becomes unusable . Is there's any Nero burner for Ubuntu ? Or any …

Hi! I could play 18 Wheels of Steel: Haulin, and then I've deleted it. After a while I've installed it but I can't play it. I click on the icon but nothing happens. Can somebody help me? Thanks a lot!

Hi all, Another OwenBear question about older technology. I've just been given a Gigabyte GA-K8vt800 socket 754 motherboard with loads of bits. Seeing as this is better (I hope) than my P4 1.7 (socket 478) current set-up I'd like to try and optimize all the parts I've got. So - …

Hi everyone! I've got a probelm im hoping you can help with! Basically I had a virus on my laptop and i got rid of it, but now I can connect to my internet but I cannot browse. Itunes wont connect either! It says I have very good signal strength, …

I have a 500GB sata hard drive whose , a plastic 'L' shaped support of the sata data pin is broken(the plastic support behind the pins circled in the attachment). now i'm unable to plug the data cable to the drive. is there any way i can access my hdd …

hi i recently updated my ubuntu 10.10 into 11.04. and when i tried to enable the compiz configuration for animations,wobly winow etc etc it kinda crashed.now i don't have the left bar with the applications. also my windows dont have the upper bar with the minimize/maximize/close icons.....

This may be quite out of business... while, this is my favorite forum, so i have no where else to go. So, I have a gmail account for my technical letters a hotmail account for my personal emails, and a yahoo account for my business mails, and a junk account …

Hi, I have had Call of Duty Modern Warfare for a while. About 6 months ago, I updated the game to version 1.7 and when I go to the multiplayer, I click refresh and no servers come up. I have looked at infinite other threads at different websites and none …

I need to uninstall and reinstall MP12 due to massive duplication of music files (my fault). I can't find a way to reinstall save for this: [URL="http://www.thewindowsplanet.com/869/how-to-uninstall-reinstall-windows-media-player-12-windows-7.htm"]http://www.thewindowsplanet.com/869/how-to-uninstall-reinstall-windows-media-player-12-windows-7.htm[/URL] Is it that easy?

I have a WD hard drive. that when go to delete files or folders they just come back. any recommendations.

I had a problem a few days ago. My internet explorer runs on its own once in a while to many different sites and uses a lot of memory. I am running on Vista home 64bit. Apologies if I have not provided enough details. Thank you in advance.

i have formated a friends laptop by instaling a new windows 7 in a different partition but i do not know how to remove the old windows from the other partition, the computer keeps saying unable to perform format when i format the partition containig the old windows please help.

I forgot administrator password so i am not able to access my pc.:(PLEASE suggest something.

I have Windows XP Professional. I understand that one should have just one anti-virus program. I have discovered 2 very good (free) programs, SUPER Antispyware and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware which have detected and removed/quarantined spyware and malware on my computer. Can I leave them on or will they conflict with my …

Hello and thank you for the welcome to DaniWeb. I hope that someone can find the time to help me with my xp problems. The problem is that one of my svchost.exe processes gradually demands more and more ram and cpu which eventually locks up my machine. I can safely …

Can anyone tell me how can i install the xlib.h library in the gcc compiler of ubuntu?

I have Desktop Comp. when i logged in Guest account my pc works fine and my internet connection also works good. but when i logged in Using Admin account my pc suddenly slows down and internet connection also not work properly, continuously i refresh my connection. i m not getting …

Hello again anyone can recommend some useful tools (free if any), which can help find out for example when an application is being run in Windows, how much CPU, RAM and other resources are being used (i know the task manager provides something like this but want something with more …

Hello, This all started yesterday when I tried opening Photoshop CS4, which I've been running for years. First it began to load OK but very quickly sent my display into 640x480 which nothing except a reboot seemed to fix. I tried again, and exactly the same problem occured - no …

Hello Everybody! I came to discuss a strange behavior of my WSUS. I started some days ago and I could not find any solution yet. I hope you might be able to give me one. The problem is the following. When I start the WSUS the "add-snap in to console" …

I have a Dell Dimension XPS. the ABCD lights are all green but I consistently get a blue screen and hard stop while booting. I booted to the diagnostic CD (F12)and tried to run the full 32 bit diagnostics. I immediately get an error message "No line mapping found. Hit …

I am trying to install the audio driver on an HP Pavilion a820n and keep getting the error message "Can't find match Realtek HdAudio inf file". The file I downloaded is Realtek High Definition Audio Driver Update sp26552.exe from the hp website. I had problems with this computer before and …

hi I have a win server 2008 DC and a lot of XP clients,some of users in DC are tested and worked until I want to share files for some users I logon as a domain user and share a folder,for permisions,I want to select another user but my domain …

Howdy, I had a virus, one of the ones that pops up and says, viruses detected, click on this to start running the anti-virus software. I CTRL-Alt_Del out of that, and then it usually tells me, jga.exe (or something similar) not responsive. I search on that, its always in the …

I'm having trouble booting up from my HDD. It's a SATA HDD plugged right into the motherboard... I have played with the BIOS setting for a while now, but can't seem to get it to boot up. Can anyone who has this motherboard help me out? I've gotten to the …

When booting one our laptops, it boots up to C drive which turned out to be the recovery partition. Running ERD found the windows partition. Does anyone know how the active partition could of been changed inadvertantly? Anyone seen this before? System was running XP SP3.

I have a toshiba laptop running XP and the internet was working until a while back, but then it stopped. I have a Vista on the same internet and it works on it. What could be the problem we have a DLink router. I have tried many things that I …

A couple weeks ago my computer was hit with the "Windows Repair" virus that said my hard drives were crashing. I managed to get rid of that but it seems that now every once in a while Internet Explorer will pop up with a random link to anywhere, such as …

Hi, I've recently been given a PC with a load of parts. So I have a spare CPU which (I think) is 200Mhz faster than the CPU currently installed. However I'm not sure if the spare CPU works. So - a few questions. 1) If a CPU is mishandled is …

Hello All: It appeared that I had downloaded a virus this morning while working on my PC. I have been having intermittent issues with RAM, I believe...PC would freeze on occassion or boot up to blue screen. However got some virus notices from NOD32 and the Windows XP Repair kicked …

Well, recently I got pissed off with Avira pushing me into installing update in order for me to allow ask.com toolbar to be installed. I hate toolbar because it eat up the browser page and bog down processing speed. And afterwards, I switched to Avast! which most people recommend it …

Hi guys, if i had set a the delegation for a particular user to manage an OU, how do i give access to the user if i just want him to connect remotely to the server and manage the OU remotely? do i need to install some software on user …

I currently have a factory made Acer Aspire AM5802. My current motherboard is an factory built Acer mobo. It sucks, because it has compatibility issues with a Hackintosh(Don't me ask for links . No warez allowed here) I have 8GB of DDR2 placed within 4 DIMMs(2GB each then). I have …

Hi, I was having a problem with my new Dell computer making clicking noises so I called Dell Tec support. He took controll of my computer and ran some checks then told me I had Spyware that had to be removed. Wanted to charge me a high price to do …

When I get an e-mail with an attach picture, I double click on the attachment and get the following error message "This application has failed to start because UXCore.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem." Then I click OK and get "Error loading C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Photo …

Hi, I am having duplicate 'boot line' options in my boot-up window. The first gets me into my machine, the second takes me to: "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware." I …

What is the porblem of my PC??? Is this 'cause by viruses.. Actually my PC has viruses stored in C and D drives... How can I fix this one???

When I open my machine I get the message "Windows cannot find E:\Inkli-10Reminder.exe" To remove this message I'm told to remove this iformation from the register. I don't know how to even access the registry. This probably has something to so with installing Quicken over an already installed application, but …

Hi everyone, I am just having a few issues with Ubuntu system on my machine. It doesn't fix broken packages and everytime, I want to install/remove a software from my machine, it says "can't locate PACKAGE NAME" Now, I want to re-install Ubuntu. I logged into my other OS which …

Guys,i'm facing to a massive problem in these days.Because my Windows 7 OS gets about 2 to 3 hours to installing updates during its' shutting down.But sometimes it gets more than that.It's a really horrible thing.So I'm doing is removing the battery.I know that is a harmful thing to my …

when I turn on my pc the power supply is good but when I trying to press the power button or restart botton nothings happen.. Nothing shows on my monitor unless it shows different kinds of colors. My OS is winxp 32bit. Help..! How can I fix this problem????

Hey, this exploit periodically pops up on my MSE. I'd ideally like to get rid of it permanently. Here are the logs I had to break this down into like a million posts because the logs were too large for one post to handle. Sorry about that! I know for …

Hi everyone, I share a flat and we have wireless internet, the router being in the living room. Two rooms from there (in a row) is my bedroom and unfortunately it doesn't reach that far (zero signal). I have no clue what the walls are made of, however the previous …

I've searched Mozilla's site and the web for help on this problem, but without success: although Mozilla Firefox is normally set to open with only two homepages on my computer, in the last month or so it's been opening with 8 pages that happened to represent one web session I …

Please disregard this post - I just found the answer. Sorry for the needless post! I'm trying to change the boot order in the BIOS but there's no way to move things around. It's shows how to highlight the items but no way to actually move them around. Boot Device …