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A few days ago, I got a virus in my windows xp home edition that was redirecting links on my browser. So I ran across a post that directed me to run AVG virus scanner in safe mode and then to turn off system restore, then restart to normal. I did as directed. I got the blue screen with the code c000021a. In my effort to fix this, I ran across a...

Is there a keyboard process to open a hyperlink in an e-mail in Outlook 2007? Thanks

Is there any way to turn (change) a virtual drive into a logical drive in Win7 ?

Can I transfer old laptop (personal use) XP license to new desktop?. Is it Ok for home use?

I want to get microsoft sam voice (he used to be in windows xp!) for the windows 7 text-to-speech service. thanks

Hi, Can I have two os unix/linux and window in one system and can both access the same file ex: abc

OS- WINDOWS XP SP3 some of my task-bar items are not being shown don know why even i have restarted my system many times then also it is giving problem recently i updated my windows and since then i m getting this problem icons like power,sound,antivirus etc are not being shown when i manually do it, then it shows but after restart its...

i am change the dvd ,dvd writer and do nacesary any thing

Hotmail closes automatically when I try to reply, resend or change to a another message.

Hi there, As you can see in the attached picture there is a blue color background on the name of the desktop shortcuts. How to remove this. (Should I say Plzzzzz ?) Thanks -ajaxrand

I have windows 7 setup with ip 172.18.28.65 I have also enabled the $Admin share. If I hit following command from my XP machine(172.18.28.59) net use \\172.18.28.65\Admin$ /user:Admin everything works perfectly. Now, if I telnet to windows 7.

Is it possible to change the date format in MS Projects to display as DD/MM/YY? The format that I am looking for is not available under the "Date Format" options tab.

hi, when i setup windows ,i face a problem this problem is the pc couldnot complete setup and going to start page which contain all information about cpu and other and tell me cpu over temperture error what i can do

hi, i have windows 7 professional with a fax pci connected to a line i can receive and send fax using a account now i need share that fax with others users in same computer the problem is that i can´t see the fax in other account. i have this working in the way i describe in winxp but in wind7 this dont´work at same way. it´s this possible?...

Ok I was thinking if we could redirect a site say > something.com/something.htm to a file on my computer say myfile.htm. I was thinking if we could do this using hosts, but haven't figured out yet. This is the Output: I want when I goto something.com/something.htm I should go to c:/myfile.htm. Thank You

How To Delete Administrator Pass Word In Windows Xp Giri

Hello, I am having a huge problem with one of our PC's on the network. When this PC is connected to the network, it is very slow to open or create a new file or folder. It doesn't matter if you are going through the toolbar and clicking File, Open (or new) or whether you right click on the desktop and click "new" - the PC will hang the second...

Hi there, can someone please tell me how I change the default file manager program Windows uses (Explorer) if the program I want to use (freeCommander) doesn't have an option to set it as the default manager? It can't be done via Explorer/Folder Options/File Types as there are no "Opens with" options for File Folder or Folder. I don't want to...

what do i do when the computer tells me that "works cannot start the OLE server

I installed windows 7 recently & I am new to ASP.NET. I installed visual studio 2008 for developing ASP.NET application. I created my web application on visual web developer 2008 & when I run my aplication, ASP.NET development server runs & my defualt browser opens automatically but it cannot show my web page. Connection error ocurrs. But when I...

I have a Dell Latitude 800 and it is about 2 years old. The left side of the screen is dim but not to the point that I can't see my work. It is almost like a shadow and it does NOT have a clear line of demarcation but instead appears to have a gradual darkening between the brighter Right side and the darker left side. Any idea what this might...

Can someone tell me how to get access to command line functions in windows xp sp3, when i run cmd.exe then ping ipconfig, telnet ftp etc from the cl i get the "is not recognized as an internal or external command...." error. commands such as dir, cd etc work, but progs in the sytem32 folder dont work. my path var is ok and when i type path in the...

This picture pretty much sums up my problem... Notice the display of the font size in the description on the side. This is occurring in just about every Windows dialog I use. This does not occur in any applications, though (such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, Skype, etc.) Any ideas? http://i35.tinypic.com/xgh27l.jpg

I'm always confused of the differences between incremental backup and differential backup. Anyone here could help me, and give me an easy way to understand it. Thank u.

dear all , i have acer aspire 5315 laptop , i have problem with my dvd combo drive , this is not showing in my computer as well as management ,while from bootable cd it is booting the cd ,when i am inserting any cd/dvd to drive then it is reading the cd /dvd ..but not showing in any location .. i have deleted the filters in registry but still...