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On another thread that has been marked as solved, the suggestion was given, "Create a folder on your desktop called "Office.en-us". Find the same folder on the CD and copy "OfficeMUISet" to the folder on your desktop. Re-insert the CD so that the setup starts again. When it tells you …

Hello Apart from portableapps.com, are there other websites which can allow the creation of a portable application installer, like allow me to add googlechrome, firefox, openoffice etc to a single installer, but given a list to choose from, instead of predefined lists like on portableapps.com site?

I'm being told to use the RAID system in Windows, however I've heard bad reviews. Looking for a little more info and opinions.

Okay, so i have a problem I've never run into before. My gaming keyboard(and any other usb keyboard) doesn't work in the boot loader. It works in the bios, and it works fine after the OS takes over, but i can't choose which OS to go into unless I unplug …

Hi there i'm not fantastic with pc's but i'm not totally useles i can easliy follow instructions. Right anyway I am having serious problems with my pc. I cannot download any antivirus' also when i click on certain web links eg [url]http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/[/url] it brings up problem loading page. This happens …

I have a folder A with files 001.jpg, 002.jpg, etc I also have a folder B with different files but with the same names; 001.jpg, 002.jpg, etc I want to put all the files in the same directory - is there something that will automatically rename them or something so …

I am servicing a customer's laptop, a Toshiba Satellite L305-S5885, running Vista Home Premium x86 SP2, with malware infections and internet connection issues. I have gotten rid of all her 251 infections, and now am addressing her connectivity problem. I am unable to achieve internet connectivity on either her ethernet, …

I have a notebook Lenovo Z61m, OS window XP. I'm trying to disconnect the HP all in one printer 2355 series without success. A window appears reading Error 1606 "could not access network location 0. i'm buying a new printer and want to eliminate the previous one HP. Please help!

Hello all. I have accidently dropped my 500 GB Western Digital SATA hard drive when moving it to other computer. I used that hard drive as secondary hard drive. After reconnect the hard drive to my pc it's still look normal. I can access the file. But some files appears …

Hi wonderfull team of deniweb. short story of my sick computer - my internet explorer redirects me to random sites,very very slow, freezes all the time and lately turns off completly by itself.very annoying! I have followed the steps of your instrustions how to initially clea a little before posting …

Hi, Our company is in the middle of relocating to a new building the next town over. We have already begun moving servers over during the weekends, and this weekend we plan to move over the Exchange Server. As you may know, the Exchange Server is probably the biggest move …

I got nailed with xmedx emails going out to my Yahoo.mail contact list. I deactivated the yahoo account and asked it be on the list for permanent deletion. Then the FaceBook account started sending out xmedx mail and some kind of online chocolates store. So I deactivated the Facebook account …

Hi there! I excitedly got a refurbished Linksys WRT54GS2 V1 router. I am fairly well experienced in software and got a little over confident with my router, and now have some how turned it into a pricy paper weight. I followed an internet guide to put VxWorksKiller-GS2V1.bin firmware from dd-wrt.com …

Hello Last year I tried Ubuntu on a live CD on my mother's laptop that had Windows Vista. She didn't like it, so we didn't install it. For some time we had been thinking about upgrading to Windows 7, and yesterday we did. So her laptop has Windows 7 now, …

hi all, i am new here and would greatly appreciate advice you can offer. i am using xp pro with sp2 i have my pictures stored an a hard drive. there are about 100 folders. within this "photo folder". i do not regulkarly look throuigh it. i noticed about three …

I am attempting to start/stop services via a script. The command is sc stop "service name" It is failing with this error {SC} OpenService FAILED 123: Any assistance would be appreciated.

hi I'm new to this so please bare with me, i recently installed w7 ultimate on desktop with 1gig ram and 200 gig hdd. mother board is ABIT UL8 all ok till restart now all i get to is a screen that says do i want to boot up alternative …

I have a hp a6750y that will not turn on. I've plugged it directly into the wall to bypass the surge protector. I already replaced the power switch on the tower (not the prob). The light on the back of the power supply remains steady when plugged in(not blinking). I …

Hi all, I have AVG installed w/constant updates, I run spybot - S&D on alternate days with ad-aware, I have spywareblaster and spywareguard loaded. AVG now takes over 18 hours to run. Switching from one tsl task to another can take 10 minutes. And there seems to be no let …

hello all, the company i am working for (quite a small company) are looking to host our web applications suite on our internal server running windows server 2003 and IIS 6 and allow external access to it. We have a static IP from our ISP and currently can access the …

so I worked on an older hp for this lady, i did full backup with a dvd set, but nasty viruses and trojans screwed up the back up set. She did not have an xp install disk with media center, so I installed xp with a random xp disk. I …

I have a customer that needs a Thin Client replaced. We have a spare, however the technology is so out dated I can't seem to find any of the information I need. this thing has been on the shelf for years. It seems to be in good working order. I …

I can't seem to find the information on the motherboard in this server. cRUus E139765. I need to know if it will support a RAID system or not and how to do the initial setup. I have 2 blank 500G drives installed. When I tried to boot and get into …

This is a first post, and I hope that it is in the right place. My Toshiba XP Laptop no longer lights up. Info is there and is working, but almost impossible to see. Got it working a few times by quickly opening and shutting the lid, but no longer …

I got up this morning and computer was working funny. I rebooted and crypt_20 would not end. I had no idea what this file was. I clicked end program and rebooted. I ran malwarebytes and found 6 or so virus's and/or rootkits. I rebooted and ran again. found 2 nasties …

I have been given a HP Compaq DC7100 with the SFF case. This PC is fitted with a SATA hard disk drive. The previous owner installed Fedora Linux and the PC boots and works just fine. My problem is that I want to run Windows XP on it. I have …

Hi I am trying to up grade to Tiger, I have the DVD but I have to have an external drive player.Mine will only read CD. I have tried to buy one but cannot find one compatible with 10.3.9 Be glad of some help. Norm.

I am running XP Prof SP3 and Office 2003 In Outlook mail, I am plagued with commands hanging with egg timer icon showing. If I leave it sometimes for up to 4-5 minutes it will complete, but on the next command it hangs again. Eventually if left for some time, …

Hey, yesterday, i was gonna play a game, and it worked for the first few seconds after entering the game. After that, the screen kinda ... Ehh, hard to explain, it got some lighter spots all over the screen, it completely froze the computer. I had to restart it, i …

You guys were so kind in helping me resolve my database connection problem, my web page is up and running with connections to the database working just great. Thank you all. Now I am just having a problem getting the Search to work. My web search requests return the following: …

hi , been wondering if i can use more than 1 psu in my new rig ? i have found a thing called a lian li interlink cable on the net for use when using more than 1 psu . only problem is that going to the lian website does …

Hello, I am facing a strange problem. One of my friend's machine was not working fine. I went to his place to check the error, but the Win XP in his system was just not ready to startup. So I decided to Repair / Format his HDD. The machine was …

Hello For the past few days am having an unexplained problem with my network connection when I connect on another pc on my lan to copy files from there to my pc. Once I click paste on my pc, my network's sent packets gets accelerated to such an extent that …

i am currently downloading a file on the torrent aplication Vuze, and it is just over 10GB in size. I am currently downloading it at around 30-40KB/s, but i've read in forums that people have been able to download at speeds well over 100KB/s. My question is, is this really …

do nothing open or go on line but in to run what do i do :sad:

My dad got a new Dell lap-top with Windows Vista less than a year ago. Yesterday all the sudden it's wireless network adapters quit working. I went to investigation and found that it wasn't finding any networks, further investigation found that it was turned off. Now on this computer there …

Hi, I have 2 notebooks, one using vista and one using 7. I just set up the ad-hoc (win 7) and connected sucessfully using other notebook (vista) I set up the IP for wireless in win-7using 192.168.0.1 subnet 255.255.255.0 and the client(vista) using 192.168.0.2 subnet 255.255.255.0. The win7 is connected …

I have two pc's, one is on a UPS (rated at 1000w) and I want to add the other one on it to. I have been looking in the system information for the size of the power supplies but can't seem to come up with it. Isn't it listed someplace, …

Hello OK let me start off by explaining the situation, we have a email address that is connected to a company server (Where all the emails pass through before they reach us) and I would like to know if it is possible to delete the emails off the server (or …

Hi all, I would like to replace the 400GB HDD in my Toshiba A350 with a 1TB drive. The existing drive is HDD 2H41, I've found a Toshiba 1TB internal HDD 2K11. My question is how do I find out if the drive is compatible with and will just slot …

I have a new iMac (with OS X snow leopard) and having difficulty getting Pro Tools software I installed to work, i.e. I don't receive any audio from the external speakers.

My CPU sometimes is on max all the time. I found msmsgs.exe. Can anybody help me evaluating HJK log? Thanks! Poultje. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 3:55:15 PM, on 9/1/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe …

I've been reading several threads to try to get help with my problem but I've got to admit that I am just getting a bit overwhelmed. I am not nearly as computer savvy as I can clearly see that most of you are. Here's my problem: In my home I …

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 4:16:34 PM, on 10/3/2010 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe C:\Program Files\Juniper Networks\Common Files\dsNcService.exe C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe C:\Program …

HELP! Last night while doing some work for school on my pc, I realized that an update was being downloaded to my computer. I finished my work and was reading email, when prompted to install, which I did. After the install was complete, I was asked to restart the computer, …

I am trying to deactivate a touchpad on an HP2730p Notebook with a stipulation. There is software running on the notebook that is required to be there because it is owned by a company, so the software is a security software. You can't run the HP synaptic touchpad drivers because …

I have win xp home edition and I just noticed that when I open Task Manager, 3 incidents of Internet Explorer are running under processes altough I am not on the internet. Is this normal?

I've just upgraded from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 and now firefox will not play videos on youtube. Please help, thanks.

1. [URL="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/TechnicalOverview"]Overview[/URL] 2. [URL="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+specs"]Features[/URL] Waiting for 10.10 :)

Long time no see DaniWeb =] Sadly it's a problem with a new system I'm building that brings me back. To start, the specs I know are probably most important are: MoBo: [B]ASUS Crosshair IV Formula (AM3 AMD 890FX)[/B] RAM: [B]Crucial Ballistix 2x2GB 240-Pin DDR3 1600[/B] CPU: [B]AMD Phenom II …