Hi, since installing vista, a few of the programs that I attempted to install have failed on this error. A little research suggests that this may be caused by the software trying to write/read to registry folders that no longer exist in the vista registry. This is because a lot of these progra...

I need to disable the Send Page by email menu item in IE. I currently am disabling other menu items via a Group Policy Object but there is no setting for File > Send > Page by Email. :(<br/>Any other way to do it or am I just missing the setting somewhere in GPOs.<br/>Thanks

The Firewall of our systems at work has thousands of random ports open (see image). Anyone seen this before - I suspect it may be the work of something sinister.

I have a emachines 620 which is now 4 years old. I'm just wondering how long in years do these PCs last? Reply soon please.

Hi all,As you guys know on your choice, you can change the Widows display view. Two option are available, Widows XP Style Widows Classic StyleSome people believe that Widows XP Style need much higher system configurations(mostly they talking about memory), than Classic style. Is that true. I don...

Hello to all.I'm preparing to install (1st time) Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise Edition (fresh from the sealed box-retail-not academic) on my laptop running Windows XP Home.I wanted to take a look and see if there were any issues to be aware of, so I've searched the forum threads and FAQ...

I installed Office XP on my new laptop running Vista Home Basic and everything works fine except for Access, which gives me the message "MS Access has stopped working" each time I want to create a new database or even open an existing one. I tried to get support from Microsoft, but I can't...

See on my computer my log in name is J.D. Davis, but my username is HP_Owner. How much damage would it do to change the environment variable USERNAME?

Hello...I have a mouse that is very slow, so I have to go in mouse properties and in the Pointer Options, I have to se the pointer speed to almost the maximum.The problem is that when I restart my computer, the settings go back to default, and I have to set the setting again every time I start m...

I have installed a project which i have developed on an XP system, onto a windows 98 PC. It replaced the oleaut32.dll file to a latest one and due to that now, Im getting an error, oleaut32.dll can not start.can anybody help me with this...I have tried to install the vbrun6.0 to fix this but Im...

Hi i have two computers linked via ethernet wire. one of the pcs is linked to a cable modem also. the other computer wont work though and the network diagnostics says that the dhcpserver has an invalid ip address (255.255.255.255) and when i look under the connection sttus it says the default ga...

Hai to all :wave: ,<br/> I like to study abt the windows registry. pls send me some link or some manuals to know abt registry in details

Does anyone know a shortcut key to access the Control Panel?<br/>eg. Windows button + Pause button opens System Properties.<br/>eg. Windows button + L = Logoff<br/>I read that Windows button + C will open it but it doesn't for me.

Being as the is so strong, I thought I'd try and get a good deal on a CPU by buying from a US site (or maybe Hong Kong site).<br/>Anyone know of any that ship to the UK?

I tried a couple of games and i was receiving errors implying that SndDrv.dll was not being initialized. Then i decided i would try play some music and a video. No sound at all.This all occurred after installing VS2008 and uninstalling some other applications that i don't use any more. I re...

Hi, This is an unusual one, but I have some software that got from my workplace, and am trying to run on my laptop at home.I have taken the network licence from work and have it in a file on my laptop and the software has installed ok.When I try to run it, I need to select the licence file - how...

I just purchased a new wd 500gb sata 3.0 hard drive. Occasionally I can hear a sound like you hear if the hard drive loose power. It's a clicking noise and then you can hear the spindle slow down and stop, but I'm not have any problems accessing anything on the drive when it does thi...

Hai to all,<br/> While right click on explore to create a new shortcut or the folder it gets slow. I found that there are some unwanted shortcuts are loaded in the new shortcut list. pls say me that how to remove those unwanted shortcuts from the new shortcut list.

Hi,<br/>I need to change the boot order of my devices in my BIOS. Is there any way to do it without going into BIOS itself and doing the change?

Okay. I just cashed out a grand to buy a decent laptop. First of all is that a decent amount of money or should I pull out more? I don't want the very best, I'd just like a decent one that gets the job. I'm just looking to play poker on it, basically. I'll be putting pokertra...

Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 6 Setup was not completed successfully.Nothing in the event log.I have Vista Ultimate and have vb6.Every time i exit vb6, i get an error telling me to run sp6.But when i do all i get is :Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 6 Setup was not completed successfully.Thats it...

I found a hidden room in my house. Ok, it isn't much of a room, more of a closet that the builders couldn't figure out what to do with, so they did nothing with it except walling it off. This got me thinking. Somebody broke into my house many years back and stole almost nothing. Howeve...

Here are the rules i followed to get rid of my issue with the black login screen.after installing the new netgear driver/utility go to Start -->Run and type regedit.when the registry editor opens browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/Current Version/WINLOGONDelete the key...

I rarely use my task manager and when I had the chance to use if I've found out that it now looks like the attached image, could it be a virus work or some settings which I don't know?

Well today i finally got Cable Internet :) anyway at the moment i am using a wireless adapter (USB) to my computer until i get around to running a wire. Anyway once i installed the drivers and everything i restarted and instead of this nice looking blue login screen i usually get with avatars et...

Hi all...i have one question here..<br/>i have a pen drive and once i open it, it asked me to format this pen drive..<br/>is there any way to save all my data in the pen drive.the data are very important to me..<br/>please let me know if someone faced this problem before.<br/>Thanks in advance

I recently bought a new PC running Vista and have connected it to my existing Wireless-B Router. I want to now also connect my old PC (no monitor, just CPU) back to this router as well so I would be able to RDP into it. Can I just plug the network cable into my PC and router and that's it...

Is there any reason why the vast majority of motherboards with the nForce 600 series north bridge (for SLI) and a 1066/1333MHz FSB have a memory standard of only DDR2 800? I was looking for one with DDR2 1066. Would there be much of a difference between DDR2 800 and 1066?

I recently purchased a new sound card becasue the onboard sound on my pc had mic issues. I still have the same issue... Im thinking its because I still have my on board sound installed... I opened my device manager... I dont know what to disable... anyone have any ideas? Would a screen shot help...

Why is VB.NET so extremely slow? So is VC++ 2005/2008 Express.No other program on my computer lags so much.I also noticed that Internet Explorer is EXTREMELY slower than other web browsers on both Mac and PC. What gives? Why can't the biggest software company on the planet make a fast pr...

Hello<br/>Many times when I open someones webcam in yahoo room, its showing video rather than showing the person on the other side. How do these people do that? Does yahoo allow you to do that? If so which version of yahoo allows that?<br/>Thank you for your help.<br/>Newbie

I have a brand new PC I'm building. I was trying to install Vista when it said my WD 500GB HD did not meet its requirements for installation. So I tried rebooting and going into the BIOS. When I hit the BIOS key the screen goes blank - and stays blanks.Now, after half an hour, the comput...

Sorry for the dumb title. I'm not even sure what to call this, so I'll just give an example.No matter what directory you are in while using Command Prompt, you can type ipconfig or netstat (among many other programs) and the program will run. Even though ipconfig is not in the director...

I have recently installed suse linux 10 to give linux a go. I think its fantastic and has some really good features.However i have two monitors. they both work but they both show the same image. I have been trying for hours to get them to show the Xinerama extended desktop image but it just wont...

I need to remove or disable the Research button/toolbar in IE. I am currently customizing the IE profile and toolbars/buttons for use profiles but they want this lame button removed too but there s no option for it in the GPO Editor. :(<br/>Any ideas?

I forgot how to disable the search history in google searchbox. I am not talking about google toolbar. I am talking about the searchbox in google.com

I have just formatted my pc. I dont have dislay adapter drivers. Please suggest what to do. How to install this driver.

I'm experiencing the BSOD on my desktop computer. It's been doing this off and on for a really, really long time now. I once got it temporarily fixed by updating the bios, but shortly after that I got the screen again and now I can't even boot into safe mode. It takes about 15-...

I have aquired a Dell 1800FP LCD because someone at work told me to throw it away. Anytime I get something like this I dont throw it away I attempt to fix it and make a little extra money off of it!So anyway this is the first LCD I'm trying to repair. (I am a computer tech by the way). T...

My hardware engineer loaded windows on my pc. But he could not found the display adapter driver.When i m opening prperties>settings>advanced>adapter. There is no information of the adapter. I know the name of the driver its via/s3g unichome pro igp. Can i download it from the internet.

Dear All, I have a wierd problem with my PC. My Explorer.exe keeps getting refreshed, i.e it keeps getting killed and starts by itself (sometimes it doesnt start). I have scanned my computer for virus and spywares and adwares and was not able to find any trace of them. I badly need your help. Th...

Linux and Mac have an awesome print screen feature. You hit print screen, and it asks you where and what to save the file as, as well as allows you to pick a file format. That's sweet.You hit print screen on Windows and you have to open up some program, paste it in, save it, ugh.Anyone know...

I m using XP i have RAM 256 MB and 1.8 GHZ processor . and i m having an error while working as <br/>"Your system is low on virtual memory" <br/>This error bothering me a lot<br/>Suggestion required to remove this Error and improve performance of the system

Hi,Just connected a user's outlook to our pop3 server, and let it download all her mail (leaving copy on server) to outlook. (Like others here, she only used the web interface before, and we are changing to a new server, so they need to get their mails to their own machines)However this o...

yeah i know how incredibly awesome etc etc the program is. But i have an extreme issue that is bugging the dog-snot out of me.I am able to stream a video to a file, ok? VLC can still play the file i made. I have codec packs installed and can also play them in Media player, BUT i can't bur...

We are moving to a new server tomorrow (pop3)Until now, everyone used the webmail interface, so their emails got left on the server.So *I* suggested they use Outlook to download their messages from the old server to their local machines. A very simple process as you all know.Well, my boss asked...

Only a few weeks ago I upgraded to a Pentium 4 3.0Ghz HT from my Celeron 2.4 So I'm still curious about it, hence these questions.While I was using an application, I took a snapshot of of the performance. People say that this HT thing is like 2 CPUs, does this mean its equal to 6.0GHz?Could...

Wondering if anyone uses this or knows someone that does.I have gone through the help file 6 times and tried what it suggests twice and my keyboard is yet to work. When I configure it seems to work but it doesn't. I have fiddled with it and I still cant get any sound to output. My speakers/...

Basically i have a computer that connects to the internet through another computer. This creates a problem however because it is possible for this computer to use up all the bandwidth leaving none available for the other computer. Can anyone recommend a free program that i can run to limit my...

i have just Reinstalled my OS again,but the problem is which im having from last two Installation. my Drive 'E' is always Scanned for errors when system boots up by chkdsk utility. i never stop it and let it go to do its works.but it always scan my 'E' Drive.how can it be fix...