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Greetings, be warned that I am so far from being a compu-geek that it aint funny. Just a referrence to my lack of skills not meant as an insult to those more literate than me. I noticed an unfamiliar file on my PC that had only a date and the word lastWrite... I followed Google to you and am wondering what it means. The date was a couple weeks...

when i insert my cd or dvd in my dvd rom and try to open it tells please insert disk in to driver please help

I am trying to get Command Prompt to open with notepad due to i have neither "search" or "run" its not in the start menu and iv gone through the whole C: Drive looking for it, can anyone give me a helping hand here? Thank you. DCorp.

hi, can some please tell me how can i access my computer without my username and password.

how can I install winXP from the setup kept in harddisk.I don't have xp bootable cd but have win 2003 cd.there is no other os installed.

Hi can some one please help me install windows XP professional on my computer. At the end of the installation I get D:/386 error does anyone know what that means?

Not like it has a virus (in which I doubt because I have McAfee), but, when I shutdown, it tells me a program cannot write to a specific sector, mostly Windows programs. Plus, whenever I get back on after standby, it seems... stretched vertically... I have to go to the Display menu and change it. I can provide a Hijack this log if you want.

Hi all ....I read that Protools Program(for Audio production) was made specialy foe Macs...............Is there any mean to install&operate it on Windows If yes ..then What Soft&hardwares needed ....does this make any malfunction in the system thank you in advance.................Amr

Hi, How are the symptoms when a memory going to fails? tnx

Sorry if this is off topic, I haven't really used this forum a lot so I don't know where to put it. Anyways I have a game application that runs off a list games and users on a file, that I built in Visual C#. I'm running Windows XP Pro and I use the classic startup screen with CAD enabled. I was wondering if it is possible to start that...

Hi. I've been using two monitors on my computer for a long time, working on the primary monitor and watching video on the other. The problem is that when I switch out of Aero mode on Vista the video start to tear. Not noticably if it's the only thing running but If I try to run a game or any other resource eating monster I'm sometimes seeing...

Hi, Is it possible in windows to map to a drive that is already mapped ? I need to be able to map from a winxp client to a drive that is already mapped on a win2003 svr ... not sure if this is possible or where to begin ... cheers, Eddie

Problem:- Creating Windows ShutDown, Restart, LogOff, Run Dialog, Help etc Command Icons On Windows XP SP-2 Desktop.

Okay.. So I fixed one problem today and was told there's another. One of my users needs her "Notes" portion of her outlook restored. Now when i previously restored with a rather recent PST file, the Notes portion for some reason did not restore for some reason, but everything else did. Any idea's here? I'm kinda stumped on this one. Thanks,...

A place to look up stop codes I.E stop: 0x00000001 (0xf7301244,0k00000002, 0x0000000, oxf72d6480) any ideas?

Hi, I need to know how do i give multiple drive connection to users. Iam using windows 2003 server as my file server, right now iam able to give only one drive access to the users. but now i need to give multiple drive for the users for different purpose. Please let me know how do i do it regards Rajesh

Is it possible to use a port other than 21 when scripting ftp? I am trying to script a weekly download and the ftp server uses a different port than 21. Thanks, MD

This is a call to everybody in the forum. Please help me with interview questions for windows 2003 server, Active Directory and Exchange Server Thank you

hi i have a windows xp professional edition on my machine recently i formatted my harddisk and loaded windowsxp, but the date is fixed at 10-sept-2001, i am unable to chage the date either thru windows interface or even if i edit the date thru the bios setup screens at every login/ boot of the desktop the date gets defaulted to 10-sept-2001 ...

I am trying to design a network using Windows Server 2003 Active Directory infrastructure for the following company(below) and I was wondering if there was some sort of walk through available to help me throughout the design process, any suggestions will be welcomed. The company Technical Computing has acquired a set of new offices with the...

WHat can i do to change my windows vista in english to spanish? By changing language, i mean changing the whole PC software to Spanish? Can I change it without buying additional things (CDs)? Oh, I have Windows Vista Basic

Hai, In my institute 20 systems are working with winxp sp2.with lan we are having one HP laser jet 2200 printer which connected with HP jet direct.taking print outs with network. Last ten days ago it worked fine. now the problem is if the 330KB of PDF file is given to print it is taking as 48MB.And printing is very slow.it is caluculateing...

Hi Does anyone know were I can get some type of walk through? I am trying to set up a network from scratch (Physical, Logically) within server 2003???? any suggestions!!!

Hi expert, How the memory works? Explain how memory management works in details. What are the application or services make intensive use of the memory? What happens when OS run out of memory? How to resolve it? Another resolution other than adding more memory instead. thanks

Hi to everyone! I have a problem. There is a software that uses ocx files. Files are downloaded from server and registered on the client machies using a HTM page: <OBJECT classid="clsid:36752851-1999-4843-BE06-C013811149C3" codebase="http://192.10.10.07/files/work1.ocx#version=1.0.0.5" width=350 height=250 align=center ...