Threads Replies Last Post 23 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23   Using Quicktime on a PC is a Bummer for Me I put this program on to accommodate my camera and decided to view the National Geographic video clips. The program performance was the slowest, most unfriendly and buggiest I can recall since the days of the 386 PC! Is this because the code is running on a PC? Do I have to burn sheep guts to make it work decently? I cannot believe the program runs this badly on Macs or they'd be ... 2 09.05.2007 13:35:24 Slow document opening when LAN enabled Documents of all types open very slowly ( 5-6 seconds ) when the LAN is enabled. When disabled they open instantly. I have tried another LAN card/cable disabling the one on board - no luck. I have even tried another LAN - have also stopped all services starting up in msconfig. AV and firewall have been disabled - still the same. Nothing appears to be using CPU time and there is plenty of a... 5 09.05.2007 06:26:02 Screen Resolution Prob The display size on my pc is looks a little stretched on the side but is also too large for the monitor. Also, when the pages are pulled up the sides of the page are curved. I've tried adjusted the screen resolution and have not seen a solution yet? any suggestions. ... 2 09.05.2007 03:10:53 restore factory settings I want to restore my factory setting on my pc. How do I go about it?... 6 08.05.2007 20:44:58 Blue Screen Error. Windows restarts randomly I just reformatted my computer to windows xp and with the window updates, motherboard, and graphic card drivers installed. For some reason,my computer restarts by it self and with a blue screen error. This is what the error code said, Error code 1000000a, parameter1 00000001, parameter2 0000001d, parameter3 00000001, parameter4 806e4104 Any ideas on what might be wrong?... 2 08.05.2007 19:46:04 cannot re install windows xp need help badly,computer would not start up (windows xp)so tried system recovery only got 27%done when it came up ,windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: windows root\system32\ntoskrl.exe. please re-install a copy of the above file i've tried re-installing windows xp but no go and i bought spotmau power suite and still unable to get going ... 2 08.05.2007 19:23:40 Will Windows updates slow a pc? I have a user with a marginal pc - at best - running XP SP2 and Office 2003. It's got 256 MB of mem, 700 MHz processor, and a 40 GB hard drive. the auto updates are set to download but let me choose when to install. she has trouble every once in awhile with it freezing up. when I've taken a look at it there's always updates that need to be installed. after the install it runs ok unt... 3 08.05.2007 19:18:50 Slow Serial Communication with XP's command prompt Hi, I've written many DOS programs using Borland's C compiler and serial port driver's that I wrote back in the 80s. They have worked on every MS operating system since DOS 3.11, and continue to work under XP, however, when transmitting data there are long (just about exactly 100 ms) between groups of characters being transmitted. How does one remove/reduce these pauses? Thanks, S... 1 08.05.2007 18:13:17 Registry Repair, Clean Up and File Fix for Windows Every Microsoft Windows operating system has a registry. Your system registry holds a wealth of information about your computer, which is why we constantly hear from users that after using their PC for a short length of time, it no longer works the way it used to. This is due in part to invalid entries that exist in your system registry, that might exist because of software you are no longer ... 2 08.05.2007 14:26:47 windows slow to start up I am having trouble with windows. Every time i restart the computer windows takes from 20min to a couple of hours to load. what can i do?... 2 08.05.2007 11:41:41 In Major Need of help/Losing all hope Ok so yesterday i was testing out some stuff in the controll panel/files when i seem to have changed the commands for all my file folders so now i cannot open them so i cheked the commands to see it had been replaced with search so i tryed to get the open command back but it wasent listed so i resorted to system restore i tried many dates but on each one it gave me unable to restore to t... 6 08.05.2007 05:45:01 Problems PLEASE HELP I hope this is the right forum. For 2 months now, whenever I try to save a picture, it just freezes up and it won't save. When I open My Pictures, after I open a few folders, it just freezes up and explorer.exe is reloaded. Whenever I check on task manager System Idle Process is always around 90% cpu usage and if I'm having problems related to My Pictures, explorer.exe jumps to 99% cpu u... 5 07.05.2007 23:47:05 format hd with no disc drive? hi i have xp pro which was already installed on the computer when i bought it but the computer has no disc drive is it still possible to format it?... 5 07.05.2007 19:40:51 Shut down hangs Hi, I know that this is a tricky one, but I'm at a loss! When I do Start/Turn Off Computer/Turn Off, the following happens: 1. The PC shuts down correctly (v. rarely!) 2. Hangs, at various stages of the shut down sequence (usually either at Turn Off or saving settings). Also, when I get Task Manager up, I can drag it around the desktop rendering out the screen as I go! 3. Once i... 3 07.05.2007 17:51:15 Error starting Server service (lanmanserver) We've lost visibility of a desktop on our home network, although it can see all the other PCs and everyone can ping everyone else. Think I've tracked down the problem to the Server service not starting on the desktop concerned. It is set up to start automatically. However, when I try to start manually I get "Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified". So which file is corrup... 4 07.05.2007 15:47:32 Drivers Hi, Everybody Recently I have tried to install a software come with the hardware but somehow failed and had to remove it manulally, after that all drivers from microsoft and others seems to be unsigned.In other words in driver tab shows to all drivers Not Digitally Signed. Any solution ?????Please answer at ionescu.v.valeriu@gmail.com ... 1 07.05.2007 12:13:01 Start up issue I have a problem on 2 computers one desktop and one laptop. On start up windows tries to install windows document viewer the install fails every time and when cancelled it just loops back and tries to install again. I have a work around by ending the program (windows installer) in task manager but this is getting annoying. This problem started on both machines after changing broadband supp... 1 07.05.2007 10:47:01 Userenv.log We have been having problems with slow login times on some of our XP clients desktops and laptops. To investigate this problem we have enabled user environment logging. Although we have founds a few issues and resolved we have the enteries listed below that we can't find out what they mean or if they are causing a problem. They appear in the userenv.log file on all computers we are monitor... 3 07.05.2007 08:23:04 memory problems on windows xp my computers hard drive memory is low, i have tried deleting unused files and have done a disk cleanup but none of this has increased the memory size. I cant defrag as i only have 7% of memory. please help!... 6 07.05.2007 07:11:02 Very slow write disc access with buffering Hi there, I experiment VERY slow write disc access. To narrow down the problem I wrote a small program to write a file by block of 16MB. The test program uses the Win32 API CreateFile/WriteFile/CloseHandle. CreateFile can have a flag buffering/no buffering FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING (FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH doesn't change anything to my tests). When writting : - with buffering it's ... 2 07.05.2007 04:51:21 XP logs off when activating product I have the exact problem described in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330136 Unfortunately doing a Windows repair as described does not fix it, and it does not list anything else to try. I can get into safe mode (without networking), but regular mode and safe mode with networking brings up the activation prompt. Clicking yes blanks the screen momentarily before returning to the logon... 1 07.05.2007 01:53:01 My music folder---too many copies How can I delete files from My Music folder without making tons of copies that fill up the folder? -- Alice... 4 06.05.2007 21:33:00 CURSOR DISAPPEARS While typing the cursor will disappear and typing stops until I left click the mouse, this happens repeatedly. Can anyone help?... 2 06.05.2007 19:39:01 pop up alerts I keep having a little yellow triangle with a black exclamation point in the middle show up on my toolbar at the bottom of my desktop page. When it appears it says "your computer is infected with a back door Trojan that allows the remote attacker to perform various malicious actions. Click this baloon to download malware removal software." I have run both Norton Antivirus and Spybot Se... 2 06.05.2007 16:21:15 Crash during Virus Scan This is a fairly recent development. When my AVG virus scan runs, the system ends up crashing with the blue screen of death. The message goes to Microsoft and I have pretty much gotten the message that there is nothing they can do. Recently however, I got something constructive: Article ID 884070 - Storage Medium Errors cause an unexpected Program Crash in Windows Server 2003 and in Wind... 2 06.05.2007 16:10:15 23 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23