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my printer keeps saying Ihave a paper jam. there is no pap[er jamed in the printer but my computer keeps telling me that there is a paper jam.I have tried everthing I can think of but it will not print.

When there are more than 20 applications open, the taskbar overflows to the next line even when the task icons are not yet reduced to only the program icon. This is annoying, as there are now two or three rows of taskbar buttons which can only be found by scrolling with the up and down buttons on the right. I am used to remembering a window given...

i have always had xp but recently purchased a new computer with windows 7. I have tried to put in a tax program and message reads system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation.other times says to contact system administrator. never had these problems with xp. can someone help me?

The title says everything... How to run 32 bits windows XP applications on windows 7 64 bits?

Hello Everybody, Is it possible to run some applications which non-admin cannot close in Windows 7? Thanks.

I use windows vista 32 bit, and Ms office 2007. Each time you start an Office program, a dialog box for Windows Installer appears with the following message: I has been try like http://support.microsoft.com/kb/265194 but it still appear. thank you

Does anybody know what the difference is between the ctrl+V option in Windows 7 and the right click paste option? If I copy a password to my Clipboard and start a program with UAC Ctrl+v works though right click paste doesn’t. In Notepad both options return the correct password.... Please help...

I buy a laptop in which windows7 is already installed , I have around 320 GB hardrive but one paritioned that is c: show only 282 GB in which windows7 is installed and other partinoned d: is showing 2GB. Now, as at c: windows is installed so i want to put by data on other pariton but its too small. How can I enlarge my partion d: or create new...

I had just buy a HP Laptop. Shopkeeper told me that this laptop already installed with windows 7 and once you open the laptop then there is option to create a setup file for windows for reinstallation if needed. In simple words he told me that laptop already contain windows and there is no CD availble to install window Now, I had started my...

Hi, Sorry for repeating the question. I am facing problem when working in vba editor. I need to type single/double quotes twice and then delete one of them. One solution that's on the web is to change the Keyboard language in "Region and Language" to English (United States ) - US. I checked settings in my laptop and found that the keyboard...

Since 5 days ago, my screenpicture for my games, seems to be missing 2cm or more in each side of the pic. So if normal playscreen is 20cm, mine is only 16cm. Dont know what to do, but cant play when half the screen is missing. Please help Michael

How do I open old DBX files in Windows 7

When I try to play minecraft appears: Org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: Pixel format not accelereted I've tried everything! Please help me!

Hi I am trying to connect a VB6 exe which used rdo on windows 7 but I am getting the following message: Invalid procedure call or argument I added msrdo20.dll and it worked for me on one pc but it is giving problems on another machine even after registering msrdo20.dll. please provide some help.

How to Stop utorrent and download manager being installed in user account I would like to stop utorrent and download manager software's to be installed in my user account.. U can c the attachment, itz in user account and utorrent is getting instaled and also what "*.exe" file to stop runing from any usb stick.. plz help ...

How do I send a message from xp to windows 7 on a LAN like "net send" command in xp to xp?

I have a single user who is logged in with a domain account on a domain that I don't maintain. On that domain they are able to see all local resources but not on my domain. I have made sure on my domain controller that the users account is part of the domain admin group, have forced a policy update to all of the machines in my domain and even...

I had to restore my XP system to a previous date and now I cannot locate my data files on my externel drive in Excel and Word. The folders I ceated still exist but the data files are not in the foldrs. When I right click the folder and look in properties it does indicate there are files in that folder. Are the data files lost forever or can they...

Help me please. My PC is connected to a Olivetti printer through COMM1 port and I installed driver for the printer, but after do this, i can not program to open comm port in C#. The Error display: The given port name does not start with COM/com or does not resolve to a valid serial port (I use device manager to uninstall driver and can open...

Hi, I have automated an IE process using excel and it works perfectly. To help speed up a process that can take up to 8 hours daily, I would like to turn off the multimedia options in IE, but do not want to manually turn them off and on before and after the program runs. How can I uncheck the "Show pictures" box in the advanced tab of the...

am suffering with a peculiar problem, i have UBUNTU and WINDOWS installed in my harddisk, internet in ubuntu just seems to work fine, but when it comes to windows internet is not working, and a peculiar thing i have observed is, that the LED for LAN on the modem is also not glowing. At first i thought it might be the ETHERNET drivers problem...

Here's a demo of the Windows 8 user interface. What do you think of the interface and it's use of web technologies? How would you compare it to Chrome. p92QfWOw88I It's great both companies Google and Microsoft pushing web technologies as the platform for apps in the future.

Hi there, I have exported a link to my desktop of one of our databases that is stored in a server. This link does not seem to be working. To open that database, I have to open the Access database program first, locate the file then open it from there. Is there a way I can fix this? I have other database links on my desktop and they all work,...

Hope this is the correct forum for this question. We upgraded our PCs at Xmas and I have 3 PCs. 2 are running XP Pro, 1 is running Windows 7 64 bit. The 2 XP Pro PCs are in the Workgroup called 'Lytton' and can see each other and share files. The Window7 PC was set via 'computer', 'properties' to join the workgroup 'Lytton' The XP pro...

Hi, I generally use detail view in my computer for viewing my files. But, the font size of filename is very small in size so it generally hurts my eyes when searching a particular file quickly. I want to know that how can I increase the size of font in detail view in my computer for viewing files ?