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Just installed a new monitor on an older Dell Optiplex PC, 20", native res is 1600x900.  I installed the drivers and rebooted, that resolution is not given as an option.  I installed power strip, created the custom res, rebooted and it is still...

My computer had been running and just stoped repsonding.  After a reboot it would not boot to my drive.  I removed the drive and connected it as an external drive to another computer.  When it was connected windows disk manager show the drive is...

Having another computer with SuperAntiSpyware on it .. Tonight doing update and cleaning, the computer booted and came into Windows XP BUT the monitor is still blank and not on.  It is a digital Samsung monitor..  

The hard drive light is...

I created a partition on my windows 7 c drive so that I could install windows 8 - dual boot.
Now I would like to increase the size of the partition where windows 8 is installed.

Is it possible to expand the windows 8 partition without...

I have heard a few months back that Microsoft will be opening up the Xbox platform to HTML5 /JS apps in addition to Silverlight ones as the move to a HTML5 app for ESPN testifies. Since then nothing including on the Googlesphere. Would anyone...

I have a client who has an HP Pavilion G4 laptop. The f12 key hosts the wireless indicator light and it is permanently stuck on Orange(disabled); instead of Blue(enabled) and there seems no way to turn it back on.

When I go into the HP...

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My win 2008 R2 server was working properly until a few hours. The electricity suply was normal and there is a small UPS system for 15 min. All the network continues working but the server will not turn on.

1) Is this the power suply...

Client has an HP 110 G7, Raid 212 controller, 4 200gb drives, setup Raid 5, so leaves about 5.8TB free space....Installed Server 2008 x64 to a 250gb partition, went to disk manager and can see all the space, but only lets me format 1.8 and the...

We have a very peculiar situation.  After a while not using the Wireless Logitech Mouse, we have to move vigorously in order to start working again.  

What is causing this problem and can it be solved?

We have a Windows 7 Pro PC.
...

Hi experts:

Have a dell server poweredge 1900, running windows server 2003.

2x 160gb sata hard drives

using perc 5/i controller

(with LSI controller on another server box, it will start the rebuilding the mirror once we replaced the...

Something I haven't seen before

Compaq PC.  ASUS Puffer2 motherboard

DVD and DVD rewriter.  Both drives are detected in the BIOS.

Drives do not appear in Windows Explorer

Drives do not appear in Disk Management

Device management...

I am getting and invalid application path error when I try to test the settings all my applications--all the directories are doing this. The pages (so far)  will come up in the browser though.  
This seems to be a common issue with IIS7.

We...

I need to replace the battery on a APC 750 Smart UPS

Can someone recommand a good place to get the proper replacement?

Thanks

I have a Microsoft Laser Key board 6000 v.2.0. It correctly goes to my documents in my C Drive when I press the button for it. However most of my documents are not in C Drive but in My Documents K Drive. I want to place a shortcut for it in one...

I recently bought a used/refurbished Dell Optiplex with Windows XP Pro on it as a backup in my home office. It was working fine but now, I can't get it to come on. It sounds like it's booting up but I only have one light on the front, and it is...

What would an optimum size to divide up SAN disk space for Windows 2008 R2 OS's? 100 GB?
Thanks.

Hi experts. I have a 3 year old emachine e527 Windows 7. When the laptop boots it has constant short beeps (over 20) until the Windows logo appears. The OS does load, I can access apps and the internet. What are some tests I can run to hopefully...

Some advice please. I am confused by the barrage of interfaces and cables these days. I need to get a new windows laptop and as it happens I need to get a new monitor as well. One thing that is important to me is that I can attach a second...

I currently have a server with 18 memory slots

 DIMM_A1  DDR3-Registered 4096 MB
 DIMM_A2  DDR3-Registered 4096 MB
 DIMM_A3  DDR3-Registered 4096 MB
 DIMM_A4  [Not Occupied]  
 DIMM_A5  [Not Occupied]  
 DIMM_A6  [Not Occupied]  
...

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A rather silly question I must say. One of the users using Windows XP and Lenovo laptop who is in a remote location told me that he has 5 GB left in his hard drive. His Hard Disk capacity( C drive and no other partition except...

Reinstalled OS.
Now Dell USB mouse doesn't work.
Downloaded optical mouse driver for this computer.  Still no help.
Have removed the PS/2 Compatible Mouse (which is what shows up in Device Manager every time) and let the mouse reinstall.
etc....

I have a system running win 7 32bit.  I changed the hard drive to use the box for another purpose.  When I put the drive back in and tried to boot, it takes me into the recovery console.  I tried to do a recovery but it didn't work.  I tried a...

I have a Server 2008 r2 sp1 Hyper V 2 node cluster. All software is up to date.
We are connected to our Netapp SAN via iSCSI.
Historically we had our Virtual guests in a 1:1 vol/lun ratio, each volume on our storage contained 1 lun and each lun...

Hi all,

I was working on an xp Dell inspiron mini 9 that frequently had a bsod. After removing about 20 viruses, including a rootkit, I figured it would be ok. However,   after booting up about ten times the solid state drive failed to the...

Hi guys,

I have about 30 Win 2003/2008 servers which need to have Disk Capacity monitored, the snag is, heavy corporate IT policy governance towards third party applications.

Is there any bolt-on services/scripting I can use as a...

Can anyone tell me what the icon to the left of the battery status icon on this Dell Venue Pro indicates, (small box with arrow in)?

I have also seen this icon on an HTC WP7 Mozart.

Thanks for assistance.

Hello.

I have the following setup.  

1 PowerEdge T410 Server
Windows SBS 2011 x64 OS
4 500G RAID 5 7200 RPM Drives
8G DDR3 8500 RAM (upgrading to 16G soon)
1 XEON Dual Core Processor at 1.86GHz
Had I investigated further and found out...

The server only has one sata hard drive no raid. we keep getting these errors The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0. I have done some research on them and get directed to this MS solution...

I am attempting to reinstall XP on a Dell system.  The first part of the install seems to go fine (reformat hdd, create NTFS partition, install files)... and then the system reboots and attempts to load Windows (Windows logo appears), but then I...

Worker gets a new Win 7 Pro computer. Same office, same RJ45 jack, same port on the corporate switch. No errors on the port, all looks good. No mapped drives to servers at this time. Problem: open any software application and chose: file, open:...

It powers on, the caps light starts flashing, power light is on, hard drive activity was on for maybe a minute and then turned off, but the screen is completely dead, it did not start at all and as I can hear windows won't load as well. I tried...

Clocks on remote PC's connected to the domain server match, but I can't change the time.

These PC's are on a VM-ware PC which the clocks are sync'd to NTP servers.

The time on the VM ware is correct.
The time on the Servers on the VM...

Have new desktop (Win7). Want to add second SATA drive which was removed from old PC
(Xp). That old drive has the Xp boot/registry/data, but want to move my docs, my pics, contacts, & Programs. Yes, I suppose I cannot move Programs or that it is...

i have a server cabinet earth bonding kit http://www.comms-express.com/products/cabinet-earth-bonding-kit/ but I dont know how to install it.
would anyone know how to install this so that the cabinet is earthed?

When I print from MS Word to my "Acct-ITSharp__3Part"
using "Copies=1" three copies print which is good
since I have the driver setup to print 3 copies.

When I do the same thing on my ERP app only one
copy prints since this ERP software...

I have a laptop that is running Windows XP. It will not resolve DNS for the internal server names when connected to the wireless network. When plugged in to the network it works fine. This is the only laptop that does this, other laptops don't...

I have a client who has a production area using several independent Windows based PCs to control various items of machinery. Each PC has unique software and settings installed and although we can backup data and settings the prospect of setting...

Hi Experts,

I tried to extend the disk space to a Virtual Machine on VMware environment as usual. Unfortunately, I got the entire disk unallocated on the VM after I did the command
“1>diskpart;
  2>list volume;
  3>select volume 3;
 ...

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 I am lucky to have a  Microsoft Presente Notebook 8000 Bluetooth Mouse.  Recently the range which was about 50M has dropped to about 5, I have tried new batteries and turing off other bluetooth devices to see if that was the issue with...

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  I am currently working with Falcon Techs on a few issues with my Falcon.  It is running Win7 x64 and has lost the driver(s) for the Microsoft Natural Keyboard 4000 (USB).  We keep ending up with a can't find drivers error.

We...

I'm trying to reformat a Dell Poweredge 2950, the RAID configuation is attached. I downloaded what I believe is the correct drivers from the Dell website. I attached a USB floppy disk and pressed F6 to load a driver during the setup. The driver...

I admit I am still new to hyper v, VMware etc. . Though I am learning as quickly as I can. I lost a server and had to do a flight of the bumble bee install of Server 2008 SBS.

Looking all night through the internet and every subject...

Hey all, I have a Dell Latitude E4300 with a missing "network controller" driver in device manager.  This handles the wifi.  wifi works fine when i swap out the hard drive and use windows xp hard drive.  I've looked up the driver on Dell via the...

An XP Pro PC SP3 with all Windows updates installed and all mobo drivers installed. Was working fine, then the DVD/RW drive no longer reads CD/DVDs. I checked device manager and it had a yellow exclamation mark on the DVD drive. I tried to update...

I have a Sony Handycam DCR-TRV22 and I want to upload video to my computer. There are no drivers for Windows 7, but I do have the CD with XP drivers and have installed the driver in Windows XP Mode (Virtual PC). I'm trying to get the camera to...

I've got a WHS that has been running flawlesly for several years now.  But it's starting to fail and because there's no monitor plug, I don't have much time to troubleshoot it.

It boots up fine, I can access the WHS via RDP.  Then after about...

I would like to be able to clone and change out the hard drives in a mission critical PC in our mill.  The PC is running XP SP3.  When I attempt to change the hard drives, it triggers a Windows re-activation.  Is there any way to "normalize" the...

Hi Experts. I would like some advise on our current exchange 2010 topology and the best fit for us moving forward.

We are a relatively small company support 150 users, mostly in one location. We have a main site and a disaster recovery site...

I am building out a new 2008 Server, Primary Domain Controller.  It will pretty much just be a domain controller, dns, dhcp, etc.  130 users.  I am wonder what most of you would recommend for hardware?

Hi Experts,

I have a Windows 2003 R2 server with the following break down of disks:

Disk0 - Basic - has C: 12GB (Primary Partition) and E: 56GB (Logical Drive and Extended partition)
Disk 1 - Basic - has D: 68GB (Primary Partition)

The...

I have a HP/Compaq 6730s laptop that uses a Synaptics ps/2 port touchpad for the mouse. Recently the touch pad has stopped working randomly. The touch pad will work for a certain period of time and then almost as if it was shut/turned off, stop...

I have 4x DroboS (all latest Firmware)  on a W7x64 (all fully updated) installed.
I just did a complete new install and even booting up with the W7Install disk it took my desktop (HP xw6200) 16GB RAM about 10 minutes to get me from the WINDOWS...

Hello,

My laptop is getting restarted very frequently, WIN7 OS

can you please advise some one how to trace this issue

Hi,

A client of ours have an sbs2003 server running exchange etc all in Raid5 but before we took over the contract someone configured the C drive to be just 12GB so it is Raid1.

I want to increase the size of the C Drive and i have looked...

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i am looking for a tools to scan the PCs of my staff to make sure that they are not vulnerable and their security level is accepted..
is there any tool that can help to do such work?

i do not mind if it is free or need to pay?

How can xp home connect to a shared domain printer?

I am attempting to install windows XP on a Dell Dimension 4400.  It copies the windows files fine, but when it attempts to install the drivers it stops with this error:  "Windows could not load the installer for CDROM.  Contact your hardware...

Windows Xp how to block USB Storage?
Via GPO is there any settings?

I am trying to wipe an Acer Inspire  netbook wit DBAN and it keeps crashing.

ERROR/dev.sdb (process crash)

Linux is on the HD currently.

Would like to install XP.

Continually getting blue screen for format process.

Tried to use...

i install bootcamp 3.3 and all drivers is ok no comflict all ok
the audio is working but only using headset, and still not sound in internals speaker.
but is working fine usin Mac OS x lion only in windows is the internal speaker is not working.

We are having an issue with one user who after digitally signing a form and saving back to his My Documents, which automatically syncs to a network share, the file becomes corrupt.  Many times it is cut in size by half and at some points only...

In most notebooks, the microphone boost level is set to +20.0 dB. I need to be able to automatically change this to +10.0 dB, but am having a hard time find any information on how to.

Ideally, I'd like to do it in .NET, but if there are any...

We have a Microsoft 2003 SBS Server and 12 workstations that are a mixture of Windows XP Pro and Windows 7 Pro clients. We also have a Canon iR C5058 copier/printer with a static IP address on network. It is shared from the server. Up until...

I have just purchased a HP d2600 Disk with 12 x 2TB SAS drives.
I want to get the most capacity from the devices so I would like to set it up with a RAID 5 w/ Hot spare.
I will be letting the Hardware handle the RAID and then create a Disk on...

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In my windows registry i see the device map for SCSI as follows.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\Scsi\Scsi Port 5\Scsi Bus 0\Initiator Id 255

I want to understand what do the sub keys SCSI port 5 and SCSI Bus 0 mean. Are these...

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I have a windows 2000 server that is currently having some NIC issues , The problem started about a week ago . We got complaints about the server being slow and we notice that it was only set to run 10/100 but we changed it to run...

Will not operate away from ac power. Have replaced ac charger and battery with known good units. Anything else to try before replacing the motherboard?

Go figure, it is a Microsoft product.

The F1-12 keys work fine in Windows 7 for my Microsoft Digital Media Keyboard 3000, but not in games.

It is setup correctly in the game. (Doesn't work for both Battlefield 3 and Bad Company 2). I've...

When entering a wireless key into XP it requires that you type it in twice. How do I modify the built in wireless zero config to only have to enter the key once? I am looking to do this with WZC and not install a 3rd party utility.

Normally I'd just reboot the router but this has already been done.
can't open www.adobe.com
can't log in to Charter.net web mail.
Have run a variety of parasite removers and have found not much interesting or a solution.
Have checked...

I get an error message when installing Windows 7.  Right when it's about to finish the installation an error comes up with:

Windows could not update the computers boot configuration.  Installation cannot proceed.

I looked online for support...

Hello experts,
I have this problem with one of my friend's Toshiba satellite p205-S6347 laptop.
1) I recently upgraded the memory from 2GB to 4GB (Toshiba web site said it support up to    4GB).
2) upgrade the BIOS to the latest version....

I've written a C program under Windows to receive data over a COM port.  I'm doing this in C to be able to reuse code from an embedded system that defines the packet structure and reuse the functions for processing the packet.  In general it...

My computer is acting strangely and I am getting out of memory errors at line 46 or whatever line.

There is a website called speedmaxpc.com that has a tool that can be downloaded to fix this problem. Does this really work? It claims to...

Hello,

I realize the answer can be, "it depends" and I know that this is somewhat of an open question.  

I am trying to size domain controllers for an office that currently has 30 people but I want to allow growth for 50 people and I want...

Hi Experts:

we have a dell poweredge 1900 server with 2 x 160gb SATA 2 hard drives mirrored

c: partition is running out of space

what is the best way to put 2 x 500g SATA 2 hard drives mirrored with all data and programs  'ghost' over?
...

I have installed the Hyper V role on our server running Windows SBS 2011.

I create a Virtual Machine using the defaults, I hae an iso of Windows 2008r2 i want to install on this VM.

I connect to the VM but when i click on start hit...

My MS Natural Wireless Multimedia keyboard has started doing some strange things today.

When 'a' is pressed 'wa' comes out, when 's' is pressed '\s' comes out. Most keys work OK, but a few do this strange stuff.

I have tried:
- changing...

I had some unexpected results and wanted some input on a better way of doing the following:

I needed to increase the size of a Win 2008 disk which is actually an iSCSI LUN.  I used the Disk Offline Command of Disk Management and took the disk...

I have an HP IPAQ 211.  I need to keep it connected to a network.  Occasionally it loses its connection and then connects to another network that is in the area.  Is there a way to prevent it from connecting to the other network or setting it to...

I have looked for the andwer elsewhere, but not found anything that made sense.
Windows 7, Pro, running HP D4260. All drivers updated. Usually happens somethime in the morning. A reboot fixes it, but it may (not) show up again not too long...

I have 64-bit Windows 7 clients that can't connect to older HP model printers (HP LJ 4100 & 4000).  Our print server is a Windows Server 2008 R2 and the only printer drivers that we are able to locate are HP Universal PCL.  We cannot add the...

Any way to do this?

I have a product key on a label stuck to the side of a server.  (White label, not a microsoft label)  I do not see any Microsoft license label on the case, but I'm pretty sure it has a valid license.  The RAID failed so there is no OS on the...

I have a Windows XP SP3 computer that I set the Display Resoultion at 1280x1024 while logged in as the local computer's administrator.  

This machine is joined to a domain and when I log on with a domain account, the resolution gets reset. ...

WPD FileSystem Volume Driver

Windows 7 x64 Professional

Cannot see a USB external WD hard drive and getting the error listed in the subject

I've tried going thru the GUIDS under the classes and removing the upper and lower filters.
...

I have a system right now with an AMD 1090T and an Antec 1100 Case with a 750 watt Power Supply and a Gigabyte  890FXA UD5 MB,  and looking at my temps now I am a bit concerned with Summer Coming...

CPU temp is  about 32 and I have seen it go...

Just tried to install a M$ mouse 3500 on Windows 7 Ultimate.  Inserted the USB key and it installed without issue, and then said your new HW is ready to use.  But the mouse doesn't move.  It's listed in control panel - HW- mouse.  It's turned on...

I have a user that needs to be able to paste some static (does not change) in multiple locations in web forms. Is there a way to assign text to different function keys? Such as F1=email address, F2=a paragraph of text, and so on.

Thanks in...

Hi,

What is the main difference between the purpose and functionality of a VSS hardware provider and a software provider?

My company want to change the whole entire network  range to  125.1.XXX.XXX to 192.168.XXX.XXX .now I am assign to this job ,I already plan to upgrade the firewall,domain controller ,mail server.may I know how to change the DNS server , active...

We are plannning to implement the Document Management System for our company. It will be using by more than 100 users approxiamely and for all types of file. We want to know what is the better software and the price is lower that support 100...

I'm dealing with an issue that I need a definite, documented answer on and I'm having trouble finding that answer...

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard w/SP1 virtual machine running on Hyper-V via Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise w/SP1....

This is for a customer; I fix PCs for a living. I have not been onsite and have no info other than what is here.

Mobo is ASUS M4A78T-E. Does it support Windows 7 64 bit and if it does could the AMD cpu (uknown model) NOT support Win 7 even...

I've gotten to be pretty good at finding drivers from the computer, card and chip manufacturers.  Yet I'd like the process to be more efficient.  This objective leads to two kinds of approaches:
- when possible, extract and archive usable...

Server is not booting up, it just keeps rebooting. I also cannot run a repair because it hangs during the repair. Probably damaged registry ans system files.  Worse case scenario, what if i install a frest copy of Windows without formatting can i...

I have installed the RAID card and ran the config to setup 2 drives into RAID 1 - Mirror

After which i have ran the install process of Win SBS 2003 and hit F6 to add the additional drivers for SBS to see the RAID device and the logical drive...

We're installing added security with an RFID proximity badge reader off of our USB ports.

We are WINDOWS 7 x86

what is the easiest way to DISABLE the USB power saving feature on all of our machines.

this is the registry area that seems...