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   Memory Upgrade, hibernation issues Hi, I've been thinking about buying more RAM for my PC (XP). It's got 256MB but available memory is only 192MB. My processor is Celeron 2.8GHz. Is it really useful to go for another 1GB instead of another 512MB? Is it worth the investment? I often use image and video editing softwares and am thinking of installing SAGE Acounting Software. And, my computer doesn't hibernate or go to s... 2 27.04.2007 20:54:30 USB drive woes I have a laptop that had a 20G HD. I hooked up a USB 60G drive and cloned the 20G to it. Took the 20G out, put the 60G in. Booted fine, everything looks OK. Then I wanted to clean off the 20G to use as a backup. The laptop won't recognize it. In device manager it shows up as an Unknown Device under Universal Serial Bus controllers. I figured it was not being seen because it had a system o... 7 27.04.2007 19:12:44 Error Message Please tell me how to get rid of this error message that keeps popping up on my screen. 'Windows - Delayed Write Failed' Running Windows XP HOme Edition Advanced System Error Log reads Thursday, 26 April 2007 Disk The device, \Device\Harddisk1\D, has a bad block. ... 8 27.04.2007 07:05:34 Device not working and cannot restore - damaged registry? I am having a problem getting a USB device to work, and I cannot restore my system to earlier checkpoints. This all started today when I plugged in a USB flatbed scanner I haven't used for a few weeks. Windows reported an error; when I checked Device Manager, it says: Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or da... 5 27.04.2007 01:44:00 unloader I know there is a program from microsoft that unloads a program that has not loaded properly/. I just forget the name and where to get it. Can anyone help... 2 26.04.2007 08:50:37 SoundMAX driver incompatible with XP? I have recently started getting error messages re: my audio driver is not installed properly, and my "PCI to CardBus Bridge" is not working properly. When I try to reinstall the drivers for these (which, by the way, were originally factory installed on my Pavilion dv4000 laptop) I get a message that says they have not been tested for compatibility with Windows XP and that I should not i... 4 26.04.2007 06:24:41 Laptop slow to start and slow to run - fltmgr.sys My Laptop has recently become very slow to start and very slow to run. Spyware/Malware scans have been done, defrag done, no viruses but BOOTVIS shows fltmgr.sys running for 4-6 mins during bootup and startup. I believe this is Microsoft Filesystem Filter Manager. What exactly does this do and why is it slowing my machine down so dramatically ? Can I remove it or stop the Service ? ... 1 25.04.2007 21:58:48 Network last to load Hi, I have a client that is having an issue with his laptop that I don't know how to fix. After logging onto windows it takes almost 2 minutes for the network connection to be established. Every other program loads in the system tray first before the network finally connects. Is there a way to control this? He wants the network to load before most of the other startup items. T... 1 25.04.2007 15:12:01 explorer.exe using a lot of cpu So about last week or so, explorer.exe would start, completely randomly using 50% cpu. It was about 20% on one core, 30% on the other, and i would have to log off, restart, or end the process. I tried linking it to one program, or doing one thing, but i can't. Also, my network adapters stopped working, so i ended up reinstalling windows. I ended up fixing the network adapters, but ex... 2 25.04.2007 13:42:42 HOW TO SLAVE A BAD HD? PowerSpec 9140a Desktop XP Pro w/SP2 and all updates nVidia card ti4600 120 Mb HD 1024 RAM... Hello, At 43% chkdsk /r I was informed that I have unrecoverable errors on my HD -- now I'd like to slave my data to my notebook (or other desktop system) to recover my data before junking it. Can anyone help me or direct me to instructions re how to slave a drive to another? THANKS!... 3 25.04.2007 12:20:05 finding invalid reg keys haveing problams with my pc.......I am afraid to mess with the reg to find invalid reg can someone help me so i dont delete nessary files to operate windows xp pro?... 2 25.04.2007 12:09:09 cannot delete empty folders after using Partition Magic Dear Sir, I also have a problem relating to 2 folders that cannot be deleted after merging 2 hard drive partitions using Partition Magic. I have Windows XP Professional. I merged the d and e partition to become a d partition that is double the size. Before the merge, I had 1 folder on the e partition. The folder contained a DVD movie and was about 4.3gb. Now after the merge, the d has the fo... 1 25.04.2007 05:15:20 SysMonitor.exe I keep getting "Application Error" on log in. The 1st part of the error reads - The application failed to initialize Properly (Oxc0000135). Any help or comments pse.... 2 25.04.2007 01:25:03 Backup Problems I am using an SD card to try to back up my files, but it wont work. Each time i try i get the message, " THE FILES FOR THE RECOVERY DISKETTE COULD NOT BE CREATED. THE OPERATION WAS ABORTED." I have also tried using cds but that won't work either, i just get a differnt message syaing the path is not valid and to check if i have access to the device. Any advice would be appriciated. thanks.... 1 24.04.2007 23:04:02 IE Error Message I receive "Internet Explorer cannot display webpage etc." message on several sites, but clearly I am viewing the page. It seems to be in place of ads on the page. How can I get rid of error message, even if it means replacing it with ads which I can then make other arrangements to suppress? Thanks. -- noosaman... 1 24.04.2007 22:32:01 1607: Unable to install, Install Shield Scripting Runtime This is a message I'm getting now, I have and still getting the Windows Installer box that keeps popping up as if it's installing something. But it's not, it's just delaying my work. Because I can't do anything while this box is displayed on my screen. Plus, I'm trying to figure out how to re-install outlook express, somehow my program got messed up. Whenever I try to use Outlook, it po... 2 24.04.2007 22:26:23 HELP program dont work any more i have xp on my computer which came with it installed already my add remove program will not open any more and it disapared from my control panel ive tried several things and nothing im afraid if i keep messing around ill mess up the whole computer what do i do??? i dont have a disc to reinstall... 4 24.04.2007 19:47:27 XP can't find 2nd monitor after upgrading from 98SE Just upgraded from 98SE to XP (system not powerful enough to run Vista). In 98SE, had two monitors. Motherboard has built-in video, plus I added 2 video cards to support the 2 monitors I have (once AGP, one PCI). In 98SE, in Device Manager, had to disable (or uninstall, can't remember which) the onboard video to get the 2 added cards to be recognized and to get one of them to be the ... 14 24.04.2007 17:41:05 System Restore I'm running SP2... my HP laptop Pavilion zd8000 has been my primary production system for well over a year. As I do lots of software testing, I'm a frequent user of the System Restore feature. About a month ago I noticed that my attempts to restore started to be unsuccessful.... I've tried exercising the feature by taking it off, rebooting a bit without it, and then reapplying it. No lu... 8 24.04.2007 16:30:32 Resize the Icons in the taskbar I don't know what I did, but I made the icons big in the taskbar, How do I make them small again. ... 3 24.04.2007 15:48:02 Analyze performance monitor data in SQL database Hi, I have collected performance data from diffrent servers to an SQL database for some days and now I want to create reports. Can anyone please suggest som good and simple tools for this? Thanks!... 1 24.04.2007 15:02:03 Processor Patch I'm running XP SP2 on a notebook. For the past few weeks, something has been making my processor run continuously even when the computer is idle. I heard somewhere that there's a patch to fix tihs bug. Does anyone know where I can find that patch? I haven't been able to find it on the MS website. ... 3 24.04.2007 06:18:01 Graphic controller I have an older HP computer that I have upgraded from Win 98SE/ 64 mbs ram and Intel 82810 Graphic Controller to Win XP Home/ 256 mbs ram. I have Service Pack 2 installed and I can't update my Graphic Controller. When SP 2 try to update my graphic controller I had to roll back to the prev driver. Google Earth can not identify my graphic driver... 2 24.04.2007 06:12:01 scanning problems lines top of my pic hi, i have the epson stylus cx7800 .....however i not very smart the these new toys. if someone can help i'd be thankful...trying to scan ...theres a bunch of lines covering the pics only part of it comes out...please tell me to correct is simple...just a little dust or something...printer work fine...its the scanning the not...hands hurt have to stop for now try again later...... 2 24.04.2007 04:06:26 Display problems after using old game After using an old windows 95 game on my XP (even though it worked fine, and i checked the button to make it compatible etc) after closing it down I'm having weird display problems. 1. when i right click all the options in the menu look like they're double printed 2. Microsoft word looks really old school! Instead of white round the page it is dark black and all the buttons on the menu a... 5 24.04.2007 01:42:08 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