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I'm very computer illiterate and hopefully it is a simple question. Over the last few weeks I have been receiving emails with word docments attached and when I save them they are being saved as Word Pad and not MS Word? Is there any reason why this is happening and can I stop it from happening. Cheers Dee

Hi, I am a bit interested to go ahead in System programming.Could anybody guide me over "How should I proceed for creating a driver "..? Any help would b greatly appretiated. Thanks!

Hey, Today i came across a computer with unspecified motherboard. Nothing in BIOS. I tried PCWizard, Sys Info and unknown devices. The motherboard model is totally unspecified. I checked the motherboard physically and nothing there. The problem is i want to install sound and i dont know the sound device. If you can give me some idea, the hardware...

I need FTP with the following functionality. 1. A FTP tool, which will automatically send email to people once download/upload is over. Is there any open source ftp available with this functionality?.

Hi, I have been searchin the internet for days now but didn't find a solution. I have around 100 computers under one domain and i usually have to go to each computer to install service packs and other custom softwares and it is kind of uncentralized and time consuming. I am looking forward to a tool, published by other companies other than...

Sir, In our company we are having around 75 computers. Out of these one of the client's computer having Win 2K OS installed. Nowadays whenever we switched ON the system, its hanging simply by showing 'Applying Security Settings' screen. But not logging in. Anybody have a solution please..... Prem TeamWork

I had a faded IE7 icon on my (XP) desktop. I restarted in safe mode and switched back, it turned to normal. Anyone knows what does a faded IE7 desktop icon mean? Thanks.

Windows XP Pro is a 32-bit op sys, right?

When I send a plain-text message using Outook 2007, I want hard line breaks to be added to my outgoing message. I cannot seem to make this happen. I have configured Outlook to Automatically wrap text at 69 characters on Tools | Options | Mail Format | Internet Format | Plain text options. Outlook does not seem to honor this setting. I...

Problem: Computer does not have an operating system and I cannot get it to install a fresh copy. What I'm looking for: A way to get the computer working again. My next step is to purchase a SATA drive to see if it is the hard drive. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. If I've left out useful information, please ask. Thank you. ...

Hi, Am getting the following error, when i double click on the datagrid element which is suppose to open a new UI Message: Error creating window handle. at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.CreateHandle(CreateParams cp) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateHandle() at System.Windows.Forms.Form.CreateHandle() at...

Hi, I have a computer that is running 24/7 which is connected to the internet and is accessed remotely. The problem I am having is that people in the office in which it is located are using it to browse internet. I cannot lock the screen as these people are supposed to be monitoring realtime data on it. Is there anyway which I can stop...

Hello everyone... When i try to access the site helm.manashosting.biz\ or http:\\69.50.194.212:8086\ The webpage does not display On clicking diagnose the problem link, It says cannot communicate with 69.50.194.212:8086/ it then asks me to repair the network adapter and but that doesn't help either. I tried to connect to the site...

Any body knows how to make bootscreens and logons for XP without using any software. And how to apply Help

I am attempting to automatically open .xml files with a .bat script when I open them. Microsoft XP 2002 SP 2 Ultimate goals: 1. Figure out how Open With list is stored. 2. Edit Open With list to clear old entries, and add new entries. Current: When I double click on xml files, they are automatically run with

Hi, I have got a Windows based software for which I would like to automate some tasks. The problem is that it does not have the ability to create Macros within the program. Can I use Windows Macros to Automate tasks within a Windows based software. Thanks

I'm not sure this belong here, or even on this site, but I need to know. I installed the Free Trial version of Office 2007 from Microsoft's site. I did not like it as well as Office 2000 or 2002. Because Office 2007 opened when I clicked a file from Exploring, I deleted it yesterday. Now 2000 Access, Word, and Excel are badly broken. I...

Hello everyone, I have a problem. I want to access the desktop of my Desktop PC(Windows XP) from my Laptop(Windows Vista Premium) and vice versa. But I cannot access the desktop even though I can access the "Shared Folders". I am using a crossover cable. Thanks in advance.

is there a way i could set that any application which use the internet to use a specific proxy settings. because i have an application which reads web pages it works fine but it does not have a place to configure the proxy settings (like in IE/FireFox) so is there any way that i can set proxy settings for the whole computer so any...

My server is running Windows 2000 (All latest SPs & updates) and I need to start a job in the early hours with a specific network account and in interactive mode. I have been using the AT command for many years now to schedule jobs when required. One of the restrictions of this interface is that there is no way to specify a user account for a...

In Window, I start up automatically Yahoomessenger, but in Safemode, I want to do so, Can any one help me? (must start up automatically an application in Safe mode) Thanks

I am having a curious problem with Vista working on a Lenovo thinkpad. To test and demonstrate this problem, I have a PHP script that does not terminate. It enters an infinite loop where it repeatedly prints out a line of data, flushes output buffers (with appropriate PHP functions), then sleeps for a number of seconds. In other words, this...

Hi, is it possible to set a hotkey for an application by doing some registry changes in Win XP or Vista?? For example if i press Ctrl+Shift+E i want MS Excel to open..something like that.

Our school is using Office 2007 on all computers, with Windows XP Pro SP3. When we try to search for clip art, using the Clip Art pane, it only displays the thumbnails for the local collections (be it already installed with Office or customized My Collections), but it doesn't display any of the thumbnails for the Web Collections. I have searched...

Hi Everybody, I got windows\system32\config\system....missing or corrupt file error. I tired installing xp in my pc (128 sdram, p3, ibm machine) but i get "IRQL_NOT_LESS_EQUAL" error. Tech. information as 0x0000000A. I tried all sorts of ways (found by googling) to overcome but nothing worked. So i took my hark disk to my friends pc (morden...