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i like to play a game called runescape, http://www.runescape.com and i used to be able to play it on the same computer i am on now. but now all of a sudden my internet slows way down to the point of where it wont load the game. and i have fast internet. dsl/cable. please help!!!

Hello, I am running windows xp......the cursor (pointer) disappears and remains hidden. After restarting several times it will appear for awhile but will eventually disappear again from the screen. As I move the mouse, things will be highlighted as if the cursor is there but hidden. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Hey can some one help with this I get this erroe message every time I try to open up my Windows Live Messenger? R6025 pure virtual function call. Thanks

im in the process of downloading a 4gb file from the internet, of course its taking forever, and i was wondering, if i were to set firefox's priority to "real time" would that help any? would it close firefox to start over? would it make the download any faster? im not too worried about slowing the rest of my computer down for the time it takes...

The Administrator of my Window XP Home denies access to many functions. How can I locate it and correct my problem?

Hi folks, Another strange request from me, does anyone have/have used a program to shutdown Windows XP on a timer? I have tried about four now (sorry I don't have names, I deleted them in a rage, most likely the 1st few off google search for shutdown timer) and none of them have worked. I like to watch films etc on my PC from my bed, but...

what are the reasons if a laptop is not detecting hard drive i tried replacing another hard drive it's working.. can any one plz... thanks in advance..techi's

Hey Guyz.... Have recently had to change Phone companies (old one stopped trading) in the UK and was given an advanced date (1st February) and two weeks warning. The old company had a small Box between the Phone line and my system (to detect calls) and to be safe I remove this early on the 31st January (before I reverted back to my old Phone...

Hi all, I'm just starting my server 2003 training. I have one server machine and want to set up a domain with multiple sub domains. e.g. myco.com, accounting.myco.com, sales.myco.com I don't grasp in the training materials how this can be accomplished with one server machine running as the domain controller. Is it possible? Regards,...

can any one please suggest me that how to get it back the laptop ide connector to working condition previously its connected to xp laptop and connected another hard drive, now its showig that driver is not installed for this, if i chek in device manager an yellow flag is showing, and i am getting option to reinstall, if i try also its not...

hi can any one help me if i ping from my server to local lan it's pinging but if i use to access one drive from server is not possible

Hello everyone, How do I rename a domain and remember I know nothing about Windows server 2003. but is that possible because I need to change the domain name e.g company.com. I need it to be company.local so how do I do that? Please help

hai every body. iam using windows 98se operating system.resently i found a problem. cut copy and paste is not working. any body pls help me waiting for u r replay.

I can't run IE6 on XP Pro SP2 apparently due to a profile problem. It began to hang ıp. When I create another user there is no problem; it runs fine. However I don't want to delete my admin user due to all the material in it. I want to keep on using it. How do I point the Admin user to a new profile in the same PC, and what shd the profile contain?

hi Last day i run a system restore because of some spy wares but after system restore i lost some of the important documents and excel files that i recently made Is there any way of undoing the system restore and get back my files ?

Iam Using Win2000 Service Pack4 I My System.programe's List In Add And Remove Programe Nothing Is Populated. I DONT WANT TO REINSTALL MY SYSTEM PLS HELP ME.

I know it's probably just a setting. We have Internet Explorer 7 and are running Windows XP. When I noticed the background color was missing, I was searching the internet and saving different .gif files that I had intended on using as part of a web site I am building. I have tried restoring the system to a previous date, but was told that...

My SOHO network has XP Home Edition clients (simple file sharing, of course). Now I need to bring an XP Pro laptop into the system that wants to connect to a domain controller. The two options I see are: 1) set up my XP Pro server to support both services or 2) set up the laptop to use simple file sharing at home and connect to the domain at...

Hello, I have a question: The OS is WinXP and user belongs to Administrators group. Why, on the Folder property, I can not see the Security tab? How can I make it here, near to share tab? I need it to give or take off folder's permissions for deferent users. Thanks in advance

To create a 'interactive' service on windows - we use a localsystem account ,with 'Interact with desktop' option. Is there any other account which allows a service to be interactive - e.g. can a service be made interactive while it is running under the credentials of a domain account in 2000/XP/2003 ? We launch an IE browser from the service -...

hi i have an error on windows xp when i try to start access 97 all other programs run fine in office 97 except access. these are the things i have done : i have boosted my virtual memory to 4000 i have reinstalled off 97 i have closed all open programs before i start the office 97 i have gone and changed the capability mode to run with 98 i...

Hello, Yesterday I backed up my documents and pictures onto 2 DVD's because I reformatted my hard drive. I double checked to make sure they were on the DVD's prior to reformatting. However, now, when I put the DVD's in the computer, the computer reads it as a blank CD and won't pull up any information. In the Device Manager, it has...

Is there any difference in the privileges of the 'localsystem' account under XP,2000 and 2003 server? We are launching a browser from an INTERACTIVE windows service (running under 'localsystem' account),and make it navigate to a url. The url in turns redirects to another page. This navigation/redirection is allowed in 2000 and XP ;but fails in...

Hello, I'm having problems with my vista account. I've lost password and don't know how to log in now. Is there any way to restore or reset password? My account is with admin rights.

Hi All I'm using exchange server 2003 sp2, on windows server 2003 sp1. I had backed up the MDBDATA folder. Is it possible to restore all the previous mailboxes from MDBDATA folder, as it contains priv1.edb , priv1.stm and all other log files with E000*.log files