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   Curious boot failure I have a PC with a corrupted XP installation but I can no longer boot from either of the two CD drives or the floppy. This prevents me from reloading the OS, naturally. A very strange behaviour is observed when using the Windows Explorer. Any CD-ROM or floppy that is a bootable medium will not show its contents; any non-bootable media does show its folders and files as expected. My ... 4 17.04.2007 18:42:59 Windows Registry The Windows Registry is a central hierarchical database in Windows used to store information necessary to configure the system for one or more users, applications, and hardware devices. The registry contains information that is constantly referenced during operation, such as profiles for each user, the applications installed on the computer; and the types of documents each can create, propert... 2 20.04.2007 13:33:39 slow computer I had to format my computer a few days ago, the cause was because I had been playing a game and the computer froze and I had to restart the computer. When it came to the screen where you have windows XP written and there is a tab at the bottom with blue lights coming and going, a blue screen came with an error message though I do not remember what it said. I tried every possible way to t... 4 20.04.2007 11:02:00 Lock in middle of screen I have a blue box in the middle of my screen with a lock that opens and closes. I cannot get this off my screen. I am able to work around this and it doesn't affect my other work. Does anyone know how I can get rid of this?... 2 20.04.2007 05:41:17 utility to tell what's accessing the disk? In diagnosing systems it would be great to have a way to see what programs or processes are using the disk. In Task Manager you can see which ones are using the processor the most at any given time. Sometimes I'm on a system and the drive is running a lot and I can't determine what's using it so much. I check network access, internet activity, the Task Manager list to see if any programs are ... 4 19.04.2007 23:56:23 Windows XP slow Sometimes by Windows XP is extreemly slow I am wondering if there is any smart way to see which application or where this comes from? I am running a 2G bytes mem, 2 x CPU Xeon 3 Ghz (1 core) so the hardware should be fine. Process mniotor can show which files and registration entries are used http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.mspx This debug view ca... 3 19.04.2007 19:35:34 help with cleaning up speeding up windows xp we went from dial up to DSL and have no faster speed can u tell me how to do a cleanup of the pc get rid of unneccessary or misng files without crashing the computer please and thankyou. -- Message posted via http://www.windowskb.com ... 7 19.04.2007 16:20:56 recovery of files I had 2 hard drives in a pc, I ghosted the first that was my windows drive, and my second drive is my data drive (docs, app installers etc) and after I ghosted the first drive using nortan ghost, used it many times and works great, I did a repair on my system to have it recognize the new hardware and after that was done when it rebooted to come up after the repair to come to the login sc... 1 19.04.2007 15:20:04 Lack of space to communicate? Come in,please! If you have something good and want to show or share it with eachother ,what would you do then? Send it one by one ?It's so slow and boring that you will be tired and have no interested to do that again.The buoyant you will be lost,are you ? http://support.forumgogo.com this is the place where can provide you all things and functions what you want. The forum is free.It's a very good Platfor... 2 19.04.2007 13:04:39 No sound My IT friend gave me a computer he built and it works fine except the sound has never worked, I bought some speakers today and they aren't working. The speakers don't need a driver, so how do I figure out what my sound card is or troubleshoot what may be wrong with it. I am going nuts! Thank you!... 3 19.04.2007 06:12:01 Where to find a Professional and a lovely forum ? If you have some questions to ask ,you may go to somewhere as Yahoo for a answer.Yes,maybe you can ask and can get someone's answer ,but you can't discuss freely with them if you don't agree ,can you ? If you have something good and want to show or share it with eachother ,what would you do then? Send it one by one ?It's so slow and boring that you will be tired and have no interested to... 2 19.04.2007 02:42:45 Problem with Duplicate Icons in control Panel Not quite certain where to post this question, so you may find it in an additional section... Thanx! I did a clean install about a month ago and I religiously scan for viruses but everything's started running slow lately—accessing the internet, system loadup, switching between and saving programs, etc. Today while online, there was a power outage. I have a powerstrip, so no biggie bu... 1 18.04.2007 22:46:02 defrag doesnt work defrag won't run in safe mode. windows xp sp2. fat 32. analyze works but when defrag starts, it stays at 1% compacting files. any ideas? i've even tried a clean boot, same problem. thanks... 4 18.04.2007 22:29:54 Disk cleanup - compress old files When I run Disk Cleanup, a pop up box appears which list the files I would like to delete. One item listed is "Compress old files". 1) How do I find out what these "compressed old files" are? 2) I check off the box for "compress old files" but these files could not be cleaned up and removed. Please advise how I can resolve this problem. ... 4 18.04.2007 21:14:59 XP shuts down critical services Ive got a rather rare problem that I cannot figure out. On a Windows XP (with all updates) laptop on an SBS 2003 R2 Domain, out of no where one of the client laptops shortly after boot; it begins to shut down services. Many of which include the DHCP service, the Browser service, Windows Firewall, and MANY other auto start services just stop. So i went in and looked through the process... 3 18.04.2007 20:30:01 Cursor locks While typing in any program from Word to E-mail the cursor oftens locks and disappears until I left click the mouse. How can I fix this?... 1 18.04.2007 14:52:02 Windows xp help file error?: Power schemes notice If I understand the intent of this file correctly, it is misworded and should indicate that the monitor be disabled before the hard drive. Is this correct? See help & support\power management\power schemes\Notice as follows: NOTICE: If you set the hard drive (hard disk) to time-out before the monitor, your computer may appear to be locked up. To recover, press any key on the keyboard or c... 4 18.04.2007 14:11:52 Slow Display Framerates Just built this machine...Intel D864gsa board, 3.3 gig Celeron Prossessor, 1.256 gig Ram. Running Flight Simulator X, Framerates drop to 2 or 3 FPS. Ran the sam program am my 6yr old Compaq w/ 1.6 gig prosessor and 1 gig ram framerates were 17-20. Got Norton running on both machines, have defragged, updated drivers, scanned with Norton, shutdown startup programs....no improvement. Used t... 2 18.04.2007 14:06:12 Lenovo Startup - 2nd Try A few days ago, I posted a message about a laptop that has a problem. Obviously no-one knows a solution. I will try again, and see if any of you answer: "Hi, I have an Lenovo / IBM Thinkpad X60s with a fingerprint sensor. It is connected to a domain. When it is switched on at the office, where the ethernet is plugged in, it comes on normally. When it is switched on when it is not pl... 5 18.04.2007 06:31:11 OXA error troubleshooting My computer continually crashes and I get a 0XA error message. I have checked the RAM, the hard drive, erased recently added programs, repaired the XP installation and nothing has solved the problem. Any suggestions??? Would a clean install of XP be likely to help???... 7 17.04.2007 22:52:04 Run a DLL as an APP I get an error message at start up. > Run a DLL as an APP has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. < I have sent an error report to Microsoft several times. I do not know what is causing this . Does anyone have any ideas ? Thank you ... 3 17.04.2007 20:10:02 SQL Server PLease help me a message comes up on start up SQL Server(SQLEVN70.RLL) could not open please uninstall anad reinstall help 1 where is it was is and where and how Please!... 1 17.04.2007 17:46:03 question on local disk c and d what I hope is a simple question, what is the difference between local disk C and D? I notice my C has about 35.1GB of the 51.6 available. However the D only has 1.65 GB of the 4.21GB available. ... 3 17.04.2007 14:18:26 To Scan, Clean and repair the registry. To scan, clean and repair the registry of my machine I visit onecare.live.com but, Is there any system tool in Windows XP Home Edition to scan, clean and repair the registry? Greetings. Eric.... 3 17.04.2007 12:58:46 Color lose I am having problems with colors when I use Office 2003 and Monies. In Office when I change from black to a color it shows the color then returns to black. If I check Print Preview it shows the color I have change to. With Monies I have set up for my charts to show color, which it does for a while then it goes to black and grey etc. Can anyone help. -- Valeron... 1 17.04.2007 10:10:03 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