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When I try to install .NET 1.1 Service Pack 1, I get the following error message: "An exception 'System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException' has occurred in SL30.tmp." This happened with automatic updates from Microsoft and also when I try the install manually. The problem now is keeping me from running some essential new software. Any...

Hello ! Can someone help me: In Control Panel -> Regional Settings -> Language -> Details -> -> Text service and input languages: My Language bar is not active. How can I make it activ ? Thanks in advance

I am at my wits end with my acer aspire 1700. The cd/dvd drive failed a few weeks ago . I bought a new one . I have installed one and the laptop finds new hardware but has no idea what it is. A ? mark appears followed by 12 square boxes as a description. I have disabled it and tried again and I get the same results with the other new unit I...

access runtime error 3011 on docmd.openreport -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Access database (file format 2002-2003) generates reports with docmd.openreport but returns 3011 runtime error related to the printer. Switching Windows default printer is a work around but need to find out the cause....

hello i am samsung writer and win2000 prof OS, previously if i want to write a new disk from an existing disk i always to prefer ,copydisk option and every thing is fine. but now the problem is i am unable to write the disk if i choose copydisk option it is giving source not found error ,what may be the problem ,previously it was...

Will any one please tell me what is the name of video adapter that win 2000 is using.

Hello I ran across this site by accident & hope someone can help me. I know this sounds stupid .But I need to know how to type SCANREG in at Dos prompt. I know nothing about Dos prompt. I redid win 98 on husbands old pc from disk that came with pc.. (Done this before on another pc with no problems} However this time Pc comes up in...

Dear friends,actually, it is not possible to create a file with name con. but recently one expert did that through MSDOS. i too created.but i'm not able to delete that folder now.any guidence to remove this folder?

What are device drivers? Where can i get best materials for this?Is there any best website for learing more about these device drivers?

Hi friends after installing autopatch aug06 full on my computer i restarted my comp but it doesnt seems to start again. It only shows the win xp screen and reboots. I have tried 3 to 4 times to start it does the same. When i tried to start with safemode it reboots again....... plz help me what to do ............. Pentium D 2.80Ghz....

Can you create an animation in powerpoint? I know you can export it as a gif file, but can it be animated?

Hi All, I have a problem that internet explorer home page was disabled by a virus site. Even though I tried in i.e from tools menu -->internet options -->home page -- address is set by a virus. so when am using explorer that web page is automatically opening.

hai! everybody When naming a folder by pressing "Alt + 0160" gives a blank space, How is this possible and what it means? Is it legal in windows or an error?

H e l p ! My DVD-Rom drive door closes by itself while I am trying to open it. It looks like this: I press the Eject button, the DVD ejects half a way, then closes back in. Then I press the button again and so on, until finally it opens and stays that way. It happens with both of my DVD drives, one of them is new (the old one did the same...

Hi all, I want 2 change the Recycle bin name and Start menu name. plz tell me the process in detail that how can I change that one. thanks in advance

Please help, i recently install safeboot to a laptop, even though everything look fine and i was able to login with admin a/c, i couldn't login using an individual a/c. Anyone have a fix for this.

Hi All! I need to ask a question about windows 2003 server. I have my webserver configured on it and a domain registered. Now I put my whole website along with Access db file in specified folder. The problem is, I want to give rights to IIS user on that db file, so that my aspx pages can access the database. If I right click on the db file,...

I have IE6 with SP1 on my windows2000 . the problem is tht i'm not able to open "mail.yahoo.com/www.yahoomail.com" in IE6. But it works fine with opera9.02 browser which i installed . IE6 displays a message "The Page cannot be displayed" and all other websites work as usual. Even "www.yahoo.com" is working fine. What could be the problem?

when I enter a command or click the mouse button to open something, lately it has taken some time for the command to get a responce. It like the computer freezes up for 5 or more seconds.

Please help, got this error while trying to access an existing database "an error occurred attempting to connect to the database." 3024 could not find file error"

Hi all I hav a Windows NT Server 4.0 os running in HP NetServer E50 mechine and windows XP clients.Whether dis Win XP clients can be added into the domain of windows NT.I tried But its giving Error. If anyone can help plz. Thnks in advance Regards Shijin.

hello i am using IE 6.0 generally when we open html files w can find the source of that file from the view menu-->source but im my system it is not showing the source of the opened file ,instead it is opening some default folder which consists of text files .on my desktop. how can i fix this problem ,any there to help..

I am not able to find Internet options under Tools in IE 5.5. It apears, there is some virus in the system. In addition to this problem, every program in HTML, is appended with some stupid VB Script which got appended to it. Any solution for the above problem.

get the following message if I try to install to a office xp A portion of the folder path '' It is either empty or exceeds the length allowed by the system What causes this the error code list number is 1322. please help

Hey, dumb question - trying to write a short command-line script to launch a few programs using the Start command. Unfortunately one of them is in the "program files/" directory and I can't get it to launch by putting the path in quotes - Start just opens a CMD window with that title! How can I launch a file in the "program files/" directory? ...