I have just purchased a secind hand laptop and it has Windows XP Professional with SP3 installed on it. When I try to play a movie DVD in the DVD player that is installed within the laptop it...
My laptop suddenly attacked by several spyware or malware yesterday, even though all my computers are supposedly protected by McAfee suite. Only one laptop was heavily damaged. I managed to ...
Twice I've tried to install security update KB973768.
Is there an application I can use that will reveal why this update wont install?
The following is the error message I received after t...
I am trying to install SP3 to a copy of Media Center SP2 on a Dell Inspiron E1505.
I get the following messages: An Internal Error Occurred. Service Pack 3 Installation Could Not Complete....
Randomly upon startup today my computer tries to install Roxio Media Manager. After a minute of chugging, it says "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailabl...
Is there a way to "Run as administrator" via cmd prompt, basically I want a program to run on a computer, where the user isnt a local admin. I need it to run as administrator for it to work ev...
How can I make Windows 7 32bit recognize all 4GB memory? I know it can be done on Windows XP.
I have a HP Pavilion dv6-1230us that currently has Vista on it. I would like to install XP on this machine. HP does not support installing XP with this model so there are no XP drivers on th...
I was getting the BSOD caused by a driver for Alcohol 120 for a virtual CD drive, so I uninstalled that and everything seemed to work fine.
Now I'm getting the BSOD for something different.
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We have a custom Visual Basic application which uses the MDIVWCTL.DLL file provided by the Microsoft Office Document Imaging 2003 Viewer Control, to make a scanned image available to our end u...
I know this has been asked a lot before, but I can't find a clear solution to my situation. Two computers (that I know of) are taking a long time at "Applying Computer Settings" while the comp...
I seem to have a brand new virus that nobody seems to have and there doesn't seem to be anything on Google whatsoever. When I do a scan from various virus and malware scanners, I get the same ...
Hello,
What are the following two files and what do they do?
searchprotocolhost.exe
searchfilterhost.exe
My computer is using between 40% and 60% of its cpu power running these two p...
In the C:\windows\folder is a folder called $hf_mig$. The folder in my case contains 746 MB of files, mostly in KBxxxxxx folders. Can the $hf_mig$ be deleted or can its contents? I delete all ...
I have a Dell XPS 710. Everything is factory installed blocking the video card and, of course, the hard drive. This is a NEW WD3200KSRTL hard drive, and I am attempting to install Windows XP S...
Is it Possible to change the userinterface language in windows XP ?
It got win XP danish know, and would like to change it to english.
Regards
Hi guys
I have got this message coming up when i try to start my pc: FILE IS MISSING, <WINDOWS ROOT>\SYSTEM32\HAL.DLL PLEASE REINSTALL ABOVE FILE
Ive managed to get a copy of the missing fil...
I was trying to connect my boss's home PC to our Wireless network. I wasn't sure how to
go about it and I used the Wireless Network Setup Wizard to create a network.
Long story short, tha...
Hi, I am trying to install Magicdisc on a fresh install of XP Pro SP2 Retail and keep getting the following error, "magicdisc doesn't detect driver mcdbus" I have tried reloading multiple time...
First, off this is a brand new computer, only about a few weeks old. So I feel that these issues should not be happening. It will randomly freeze to the point where keystrokes do not even regi...
hi experts,
i have this HP Pavilion desktop which for some reason wont allow me to write anything to a cd or dvd. The PC has a DVD-ROM and a DVD+- writer, when ever i try using a program to...
stop: 0x00000050 (0xf8727096, 0x00000000, ox805de701, 0x000000)
Occurs very early in the boot process. Boots fine into safe mode.
Dell Latitude D610 1.60Ghz, 512k RAM
System was infe...
I have a customer that for whatever reason got afflected with the Windows Protection Suite today on her Windows XP Home system. I downloaded Malware Bytes and run it; clearing up most of the ...
Hi!
HP computer will no longer start. It freezes after the XP-logo with a blue screen and a mouse cursor (Not BSOD). The mouse did work from start but not anymore when I moved the computer to...
"Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you on with the default profile for the system.
DETAIL - Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service."
On...
