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I am working on a Dell Inspiron 1545 for a CUSTOMER, vista basic. It will not allow me to use windows update at all, shows in the network and sharing center that i am not connected to a network, but can ping google and surf the internet. I have found no solution what so ever can anyone help? thanks in advanceYou may be INFECTED which is a common symptom if trying Windows Update...
Try this:
In IE go to Tools/Internet Options/Connections/LAN settings and uncheck "use PROXY"...
Reboot and try Windows Updates.

Other than that if it resets itself that WAY travel to our Virus and Spyware section...that was one of the first THINGS i checked, going hit the virus thing again with a different program and see what happens

I am working on a dell vostro 1000. There are 2 partitioned drives, C & D. C has 31.2 gb.....D has 68.3 gb. I am doing a reinstall with the recovery disk. My prob is that when I do the reinstall, C is smaller than D, and once I add all the new updates and etc, C gets full. I need to make C drive partition bigger but when it via the recovery disks, thats the sizes it makes the drives. Can someone tell me how to partition them or maybe another option? Thanks!You can use a third party utility such as Easus Partition Manager: http://www.partition-tool.com/The Best Partition editor/resizer is GParted
It's bootable
go here to get it
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
click this to get it
GParted Live CD/USB/HD/PXE
Browse Stable releases of GParted Live hereQuote from: DTMidian on July 09, 2010, 07:27:17 AM

The Best Partition editor/resizer is GParted

In your opinion

In your opinion

No, it's not his opinion that it's your opinion that gparted is the best partition editor/resizer. It's a fact that it's your opinion.

It's my opinion that it's his opinion.

Hello everyone, I haven't been here in ages. It's good to see theres still a community here! ANYWAY, I am sitting here pulling my hair out trying to figure this one out!

I am Dual Booting XPsp3 and Windows 7. XP works perfectly. I recently installed windows 7 and started updating my drivers. THATS when i noticed my chipset doesn't seem to be installed. I have onboard 7.1 Realtec Audio that suddenly stopped WORKING last year so i disabled AC97 in the bios and popped in a pci soundcard(Creative Labs Model CT4670). The soundcard works perfect in XP, devices are installed in device Manager, but windows 7 DM doesn't see anything but
-PCI Input Device! and
-Multimedia Audio Controller !

Windows will not update these, I have been to MSI support for latest mobo\bios drivers, NVIDIA support for latest chipset drivers, Creative for the drivers to the soundcard, AND installed DriverMagic, and Driver Genius. Everything says I am fully updated, but I still dont see the chipset in Device Manager.

SPECS-
Custom Built
mobo- k8n neo4 platinum AMD NVIDIA Chipset
CPU- AMD Athlon 64 4000+ 2.40 GHZ
RAM- 2.50Gb
Hdd- (5)
Audio Card- Creative Labs Model CT4670
Video Card- NVIDIA GeForce 6800
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I am Dual booting 32 bit windows xpsp3, and Windows 7 Ult 64x.
I cannot find ANY drivers pertaining to my hardware and Windows 7 64x.
so i tried
-x64 vista drivers (the setup failed because it claimed the installer was 32 bit.)
-Windows XP x64 drivers (said the same thing)
-32 bit XP and Vista drivers (failed because installer is 32???)
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When I run the Creative drivers (32bit? because the 64 setup claimed it was 32), it loads the installer successfully, but tells me there are no creative lab devices connected. This tells me that the soundcard is not an issue, but the pci slots are not recognized. I checked everything in the bios. and again,
Everything works fine when i boot into xp, so this problem is IN Windows 7!!

Please Help?!If you are running 53bit Win7 then if there are not Win7 64bit drivers you're next best choice would be Vista 64bit drivers...not XP.I am running 64 bit, but 64 bit installers are failing, 32 bit are not.
The 64 bit installers claim
" you are running a 32 bit application in a 64 environment"Then you mistakenly installed the 32bit ver. of Win7...Take a look at these pictures, let me know what you think



www.dtmidian.viviti.comWell according to the pics it is Win7 Ultimate and is 64bit ver....

But i know of no existing glitch in Win7 that blocks driver installs....this is provided they are the correct drivers.

Puzzling that it's more than one though...

1st thing i would do is try uninstalling both of those "driver tools" you have installed...re-boot and try agaim/The NForce 4 has been in Legacy support by manufacturers and Nvidia since before Windows 7's release. There are no Windows 7 drivers.

The Message you receive is actually not accurate. it's a catch all "version mismatch" error. The drivers were released for Windows Vista- and they check windows Vista. When they don't find Vista, they display that error (or so it would appear judging from people with similar problems). You could try setting compat mode on the installer to Windows Vista.


You were right on with the compatability mode, chipset installed, but pci input and multimedia are still in DM still no sound. I am beginning to think that i have tried everything i can but this audio card will not work with windows 7. guess i'll have to get a new one. Thanks for your input guys

I'm pretty sure I found out why I had bluescreens, and how to fix it.

The thing is, I have to update my BIOS. I acquired this file "G60J207.T10".

Where the *censored* do I put that thing? There seems to be absolutely no info on google about this subject. I feel kind of stupid now.

Edit: Maybe this would need to be moved to "Drivers" section?You put it on a bootable DOS floppy along with a flashing program. There are about a zillion "how to flash your BIOS" sites out there, which explain the process much better than I can, but I will say that if you don't know what you are doing, or if you have the wrong file, you can easily brick your motherboard.
You usually are well advised to download the BIOS updating program from either your motherboard or BIOS manufacturer. Some MB's like ASUS have a crash free capability letting you recover from a botched flash, but if you're not sure what you're doing, get someone who does to do it.. That is unless it's a PC you can live without..Quote from: obchris on June 26, 2010, 01:04:13 PM

You usually are well advised to download the BIOS updating program from either your motherboard or BIOS manufacturer. Some MB's like ASUS have a crash free capability letting you recover from a botched flash, but if you're not sure what you're doing, get someone who does to do it.. That is unless it's a PC you can live without..

Oh stop. Flashing a bios is no more dangerous than than turning on a television.

...Now on the ASUS website, there was the file "AFLASH 2", I'm guessing that's the BIOS flashing program.
I've read a few articles on how to flash and most of them refer to a floppy disk. However I'm on a laptop and I certainly don't have one. I'm guessing I can mount it as an image on a CD?

I just INSTALLED a new mouse onto my computer. I had to shut down in order to do this. Now when i TURNED it back on, my screen has a strong yellow tinge. I know it isn't the monitor itself, because when i had on just the monitor, the color on the color CHECK BOX was normalCheck monitor cable. Such kind of effect may be caused by lose, bad cable, or bent pin.degauss is HELPFUL, in my case it was caused by having a subwoofer to close to the screen! (magnets around monitor)

My COMPUTER does not recognised my password, I am the administrator, what can I do?http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS312US316&q=reset+admin+password&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

This may be kind of a stupid question, but here it is anyway. My C drive just bit the dust. I have a 1TB drive that I was using to BACK up PHOTOS. My question is... if I install windows on that drive, will the files on the drive be bothered at all? I would think not as long as I don't format??Quote

will the files on the drive be bothered at all?

if I install windows on that drive, will the files on the drive be bothered at all? I would think not as long as I don't format??

Alright let me explain and give a example of my problem. For some reason my file sorting wont sort correctly with numbers Example: 1.mkv 11.mkv-19.mkv, 2.mkv, 20.mkv-29.mkv im sure you get the idea, this occurs for Explorer and programs like torrent clients EVEN Media Player Playlists. I try sorting in explorer and thats how it sorts the files, same thing when sorting by name also.

Please help me! my OS is Windows7 32Bit. Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Thanks to ANYONE who helps as per the filenames you give in your example, try changing the filenames 1.mkv to 01.mkv and also 2.mkv to 02.mkv. It should now be sorting as such:

01.mkv 02.mkv-11.mkv, 19.mkv, 20.mkv-29.mkv


THOUGH I'm using windows vista, I bet windows 7 works just the same.Quote

1.mkv 11.mkv-19.mkv, 2.mkv, 20.mkv-29.mkv

I have a problem that is doing my head in, i ran windows upgrade and next morning my computer (toshiba satellite) had crashed, on start attempt i got the blue screen and it attempted a restart, this just goes on and on. I disabled restart and the blue screen remains.
I cannot boot in safe or any sort of safe mode, still get blue screen

I also had a problem previously with my disk drive not reading disks so cant boot with a disk.


this is the text from blue screen

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer
an attempt was made to write to read-only memory
blah blah bla the usual stuff.


technical information:

""" STOP: 0x000000BE (0x826C0354, 0x02F7B121, 0x8039977C, 0x0000000B)

""" iastor.sys - address 826C0354 base at 82605000, datestamp 45d0d237

collecting data for crash dump ...
initializing disk for crash dump ...

I have a SUSPICION that the updates tried to install and there was no room for them . (my drive is pretty full)

I have bought a download of windows 7 and was wondering if there was any way i can install it over the VISTA, using usb, i have tried but it doesnt boot, maybe i have the files in wrong format as they seem to be in BOX ? files.......im getting more and more confused and would be APPRECIATIVE of any advice from you guys.

thanks beforehand.
Willie From MSDN :

Quote

0x000000BE: ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY
(Click to consult the online Win XP Resource Kit article.)
A driver attempted to write to read-only memory. Commonly occurs after installing a faulty DEVICE driver, system service, or FIRMWARE. If a driver file is named in the error message, try to correct the problem by disabling, removing, or rolling back the driver.

When I go to Internet Explorer to check my earthlink e-mail I get a POP up that says a
website wants to open using this program on your computer-Adobe Flash Player.

I CLICK do not allow, it goes away for less than a second and it is back and continues to do this MAKING it next to imposable to read my e-mail. How can I get rid of this thing?



try going to

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

and install it then see what happens in your EMAIL

Ok, i play World of Warcraft a good amount, and i wanna get a nice monitor and keyboard and mouse, that kind of thing, to make my DESK look nice, and that really has nothing to do with the questions, but i wanna make my computer run better in WoW, MEANING i wanna run it at higher SETTINGS, with less lag. I have a laptop btw, so I cant PERSONALLY put new parts in it, as im not farmiliar with opening laptops and stuff, So heres some information..
Specs for WoW.. http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/faq/technology.html

Specs for Laptop
HP pavillion dv6..
Intel core 2 DUO processor P7350 (2.0GHZ)
500GB harddrive..
6144MB DDR2 Ram (6.144 gigs)
Random on-board Video card..
Hope you guys can help! thanks in advance!! Looks like you and I run the same family of PC's

Unfortunately because it's an on-board video card you have little hope of upgrading it(dv6 = dv6000 series of laptops?) . But you can go to your BIOS and increase the amount of video memory for your video card to utilize. I increased my laptop from sixty something to 128MB of memory and it's doing a bit better on my MMO games.

Good luck!

Hello everyone,
first time poster long time reader...

I have Windows Vista INSTALLED on my Sony Vaio lap top and I am wanting to format to get rid of all the junk that came already installed.

I have already backed up all the media i want to save on an external hard drive, and im pretty sure i have two hard drives on my lap top but i have no start up disks (i do have blank disks though).

My questions are:

A: what is the easiest way to initialize a format on my hard drive?

B: How can i reinstall windows with out all the junk it came with? I have all the programs I would like backed up.

C: is this possible to do without a start up disk(s)? I have an extra hard drive on my lap top and also blank disks but i would like to do whatever is easiest.

Im pretty novice overall and I would appreciate speaking in lamens terms.There are only two ways to reinstall Windows:
1. Using Vista DVD - no junk, but you'll have to hunt for some drivers
2. Using recovery DVDs, or recovery partiiton - junk included; no need to look for driverslooking for drivers doesn't sound very fun but at the same time i have to get rid of all these different Vaio programs. I dont need all the EXCESS downloaded hidden junk either.

Do you think going through and manually removing all of them through add/remover programs and them maybe doing a defrag would give me some results?

i feel like im at a loss at this point. If i had to search for drivers i would be on this FORUM for the next 3 months. Hahaha....
If you want to use recovery PROCESS, so you don't have to look for drivers...
Download, and install Quick Startup: http://www.glarysoft.com/qs.html
It'll show you all startups.
Use these sites to determine, if you need particular startup, or not:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/
http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
You can disable unneeded startups using Quick Startup.

On a top of it, go to "Programs & Features" and uninstall all garbage, you don't need.Quote from: Broni on June 24, 2010, 07:48:31 PM

On a top of it, go to "Programs & Features" and uninstall all garbage, you don't need.

A: what is the easiest way to initialize a format on my hard drive?

B: How can i reinstall windows with out all the junk it came with? I have all the programs I would like backed up.

C: is this possible to do without a start up disk(s)? I have an extra hard drive on my lap top and also blank disks but i would like to do whatever is easiest.

Hello
I am trying to import my yahoo acount thrue a popthree port I keep geting an error Invilit Port number
I am trying to make my hotmail Acount Import messages FRUM my yahoo Acount Can Any one help?
Thanks.

Excessive REPETITIVE LETTERS removedDo you have a Yahoo! MAIL Plus account or a basic free Yahoo! Mail account? Do you view your hotmail via web browser or an email client?Do you have a yahoo! plus acount or a free yahoo? basic acount?
Free yahoo! basic Acount.
Do you view your hotmail via web browser or an email client?
Both Windows Live MailYou need a Yahoo! Mail Plus account to get a Yahoo! Mail account that will work with a POP3 email client. The free Yahoo! account does not work with POP3 email clients.1. How can I tell if I have A yahoo! +?
2. I tryed Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Internet email and it will still say Sum errors akerd wile Processing the requested tasks
This time I am not trying Pop 3.Quote from: Carlos Medrano on July 08, 2010, 01:31:29 PM

1. How can I tell if I have A yahoo! +?

2. I tryed Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Internet email and it will still say Sum errors akerd wile Processing the requested tasks
This time I am not trying Pop 3.

To make Vista, Microsoft OUTLOOK and WORD open in full pageis it office 2010, 2007, or 2003-older?What do you mean you WANT Vista to open in full page?

I apologise for my post.. seems more prevention the cure. My bad

I got this "Security Warning" message on my laptop. Right now I am using my desktop b/c I cannot get online. I am using Vista on my laptop. This is the message: "Application cannot be executed. The file googleupdater service.exe is infected. Do you want to activate your antivirus software now? Yes or No. If I click No the message will not disappear, when I click Yes, it takes me to a SITE to purchase software called "AV" not AVG. Help me please. This is my first time on this site, WOW I read other postings and I am impressed. Thank you.Looks like you have one of those FAKE Anti viruses.

Those things are a pain to remove based on my experience. If you have a backup or a system image, you COULD attempt to recover your computer to an earlier time.

if not, you MAY need to use an anti malware like malwarebytes and go into safe mode and try to remove it.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/uninstall-antivirus-2009

Hi I'm new to your forum. but I have an interesting question!
I own a Dell Dimensions 521 Computer with AMD 64 and windows Vista.
Last year my computer when turned on went right to Energy power save.
I just took her in to get her fixed and found out that I need a new mother board. The computer has hardly been used so I am get a new mother board for her. Now my question is when I get her HOME which modem should i get for internet access from my cable company?Your cable company can furnish one for you but there will be a MONTHLY fee. If it fails the cable company will generally replace it for free assuming normal use.

If you decide to buy one, I would find out what brand your cable system uses and be INCLINED to buy that brand. Otherwise, Motorola is a safe choice.

You just need to check modem prices versus the cable systems fees and SEE which way you want to go.

Hi i have a second hand DELL laptop in which my hard drive failed. Windows XP was installed on it.

I have just bought a new hard drive: Samsung IDE MODEL HM160HC

I have fitted the hard drive and im trying to install Windows VISTA

Im getting the error message : No drives were found. Click load driver to provide mass storage driver for installation.

Basically i think the computer is not recognising the hard drive

Does anyone have any answers, the hard drive type (IDE) is the CORRECT one as verified in a computer repair shop to the previous broken one??? So you have only one drive installed - the new one, correct? If so, boot to the Vista cd and begin the installation process.Yes just the basic new correct replacement internal laptop hard drive, for a DELL laptop that is capable of running vista.

The error message comes up shortly after loading the Vista CD ROM, just after you choose the required language & click install.

It will only allow me the custom option to install windows (pos because brand new drive). I click on this & it comes up with the error message:

"No drives were found. Click load driver to provide mass storage driver for installation".

Clicking on load driver doesnt seam to work either.

No driver disk came with the hard drive & i do not have the original laptop untility cd roms as its second hand.

I`ve done some basic checking on google & others have reported similar problems with SATA drives, fixed by changing the jumpers.
Being IDE without any jumpers this fix will not work in this situation.

This may be a hardware issue as well???Go into the bios and see if there is a setting called: SATA Configuration. If so, set it to IDE, save the change and reboot.chers i thought the answer could lay there,

Can you be more specific as to where on the BIOS screen i will find this please?It may be in the Advanced section - but just look around, you'll find it. Be CAREFUL not to make any other changes.Problem solved

It was a missing interposer board that connects to my hard drive that was missing.

The computer now recognises the hard drive

Chers Thanks for the update.Excellent !
\Glad to HEAR you're fixed

Mail disappears from in-box as soon as it is opened. It is completely gone, not in the deleted items, nowhere. What is wrong and how can this be fixed? I have Vista using WINDOWS mail...What mail app would help...I said in the post it was windows mail using Vista..Windows has a few mail apps...Outlook...Outlook Express...Live Mail etc.I'm not using my Windows Vista laptop now so I'm talking from a general point of view. Have you reviewed SETTINGS in Windows Mail? I don't recall whether it has a setting to delete messages as soon as they have been read, although I would THINK no such setting EXISTS.

Quote from: obchris on June 26, 2010, 06:55:30 PM

That just means that the file is likely LOADED upon boot so when you try to delete it, it's actually open and in use by the operating system.

If that subdirectory will really get you a lot of space

Sometimes badly written install routines do not conform to the standards, and they install their application in a subdirectory not under program files. As long as it seems that the files in there are all related to the moviemaker application and you don't see other obvious program names or directories, you should be ok per my last post.

It sounds like you're system is in a bit of a death spiral.. I would 1st and foremost be totally sure you have all your data backed up because at this point, one of these times it just may not start up for you.

Generally, because of how poorly windows cleans up after itself due to both windows and bad application deinstall routines, if you use your system heavily, especially if you install/deinstall programs somewhat often, it's just a good idea to re-core your system every couple of years, or more frequently.

As was posted earlier, if you're only running 2GB ram, your system is probably caching a good bit, and with the disk so full, if you don't regularly defrag, the caching will really bog down performance. To run windows with any decent performance, I never let the boot/caching disk get below 25GB free.

If you have not defragged, I would certainly try that, it alone may help the speed due to the above.

Don't know about the space issue, but i have an idea about why your coputer says you only have 2 GB ram instead of 4. If you have a 32-bit OS, it can only read 2 GB ram(and only use 2 GB), so even if you have more than that, windows won't use it. Also, i dont think 10MB is a lot of space, its probably like 0.1 or something like that of your hard drive space, so deleting it wont help much. Someone experienced correct me if im wrong

How do I move data from one drive to another? Thanks.

You may also have a virus attack running in the background that replicates thats why you have a fluctuation of memory space. You mention you have a current antivirus. You may try to download a free antivirus(Avira) and rescan your hard disk to make sure. Just diable temporarily your antivirus before installing your downloaded antivirus.

1) I'm not aware of any virus that would cause only half of installed ram to be recognized (and present NO other symptoms)
2) I would not install a second AV, but there's never any harm in running a full system scan with you current antivirus software AND with MalwareBytes (which can be installed along side of your av sw)

I get a BSOD with the error code STOP: 0xC000021a with the PARAMETER 0xC0000006 while playing Civ IV.

I think a possible reason might be something to do with power issues, because my sister and I share an outlet (from a power bar in my room) and I have no problems after she's gone to BED. I wasn't sure, though, because I haven't found anything through Google search about this error with Windows 7 (Windows NT problem seems to be something to do with printers, but I don't have a printer connected). Any insight would be appreciated.

Specs:
Windows 7 Home Edition 32-bit
AMD Athlon II X2 240 2.8 gHz Regor
ASUS M4A785-M motherboard
Sparkle nVidia 9500GT Graphics Card
2 GB A-DATA RAMFrom MSDN:

Quote

0xC000021A: STATUS_SYSTEM_PROCESS_TERMINATED
(Click to consult the online Win XP Resource Kit article, or see Windows 2000 Professional Resource Kit, p. 1561.)
This occurs when Windows switches into kernel mode and a user-mode subsystem, such as Winlogon or the Client Server Runtime Subsystem (CSRSS), is compromised. Security can no longer be guaranteed. Because Win XP can’t run without Winlogon or CSRSS, this is one of the few situations where the failure of a user-mode service can cause the system to stop responding. This Stop message also can occur as a result of malware infestation or when the computer is restarted after a system administrator has modified permissions so that the SYSTEM account no longer has adequate permissions to access system files and folders.

I'll see if my sister would be up for the adapter idea.

Turns out those adapters are illegal in Canada due to two-prong outlets being illegal as well.


I'm not sure what course of action to take though. I just bluescreened when my entire family was asleep and there was very little running. It was another 0x7a KERNAL_INPAGE_DATA_ERROR message.

Should my CPU frequency be that low?

And the 5v rail is displaying my -5v rail's voltage, should it be -12.22?

hello my key board lost connection to exporer after restarting it the letter L had changed to the letter k can any one help me get it swapped back to how it was,im not to good with laptops so try to keep it easy for me please,if it helps im on vista,using a advent c900,very frustrating when you have a live . uk email

i tried changing this in the control panel.cheers im one fed up man Is it possible that someone physically switched the letters on the keyboard. make sure that your second row LOOKS similar to this.

a s d f G h j k l ; '

Yes...that's entirely possible...
Any pranksters at Home ? ?
Have you tried another keyboard ? ?
That would be my 1st move...thanks for answering ,still no use the l is still a k ,i found a remapping key board site would this RESTORE it?http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Remap.htm.
I'd still GO with my FIRST move...Patio had a good idea. Try another keyboard. That might solve the problem.

-ILikeComputers!

One of these may help:
1. Uninstall the drive through Device Manager.
Restart computer. The drive will be automatically reinstalled.
or...
2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
Restart computer.
or...
3. Download, and run Restore Missing CD Drive patch
Double click on cdgone.zip to unzip it.
Right click on cdgone.reg, click Merge.
Accept registry merge.
Restart computer.
or...
4. Go to Device Manager, click a "+" sign next to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers.
You'll see two items:
- ATA Channel0 (or Primary Channel)
- ATA Channel1 (or Secondary Channel)
Right click on each of them, and click Uninstall. Confirm.
Restart Windows. They'll be automatically reinstalled.

Hello:

I'm USING win 7. Somehow all my programs got renamed with an .LNK extension. If I TRY to open ONE, I get a microsoft PICTURE program. Thoughts?

Well, not really for nothing. So i have a laptop, and its kinda slow when playing GAMES. I have 2 GB ram but half of it is used for another user that's logged in-my brother. He does a lot of stuff and asks me not to log him off. But, he has so many programs open(usually just a lot of IE tabs+windows, like 20 tabs!!)that all of that takes near 1 GB RAM. Is there a way i can free that ram without logging the user off? Thanks.No...Kind of SOUNDS like you have two choices. Either GET more RAM or have your brother get his own computer.Windows VISTA... What can i say?

There is no way to free up RAM from your brothers User Account. Sorry

..::Merlyn::..Ok.. thats sad.. well i gues its sadder for my bro cuz im logging him off Another solution might be for your brother to use Firefox. When it launches, it can be SET to open all previously open tabs, Then you can log him off, and when he opens Firefox he is back to where he was before.

And you can use IE, or whatever you like.There is nothing wrong with Vista and 2GB of RAM is plenty.

Some posters need to do more reading: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/09/why-does-vista-use-all-my-memory.html

I have a new computer with Windows 7. My old computer has Windows 98SE. I have an ADSL CONNECTION to the Internet. I will have both computers connected to the Internet during a change over period as I have a D-Link 512 router. I will be transferring selected files and folders from the old computer to the new. I welcome advice as to the best means to do this.Quote from: denisaf on July 03, 2010, 10:54:26 PM

I have a new computer with Windows 7. My old computer has Windows 98SE. I have an ADSL connection to the Internet. I will have both computers connected to the Internet during a change over period as I have a D-Link 512 router. I will be transferring selected files and folders from the old computer to the new. I welcome advice as to the best means to do this.

My laptop (dv6647cl) came with a 32bit OS but I wanted to see if it's possible to run a 64bit OS on it. I checked with HP support and they gave me conflicting answers on it.

Here are my system specs:

System Model: HP PAVILION dv6500 Notebook PC
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-55 (2 CPUs), ~1.8GHz
Memory: 2048MB RAM
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M

Would I get any better performance from my computer by switching to 64bit?Most if not all hardware from the last five years should support 64 bit, so hardware shouldn't be a problem. Some software might not support it HOWEVER. Go over the PROGRAMS you intend to use and do a search for it.Quote from: foxhound on June 28, 2010, 02:26:27 PM

Would I get any better performance from my computer by switching to 64bit?

Thanks for the response guys. Fortunately, I'll be upgrading the ram soon( 4GB max ). I really do a lot of multitasking, hopefully 64bit will be of some use.

Windows x64 doesn't take any more memory then the 32-bit versions. As I've noted previously, the fact that handles take 64-bits rather the 32-bit is hardly even relevant.

Can't believe you said that.
So then, a 64 bit handle is no bigger than a 32 bit handle?
Smoke and mirrors!

Does ANYONE know why my screensaver starts for about 2-3 seconds and then the screen goes black. it is as if there is something blocking it. I am running WINDOWS Vista with Windows Professional Academic. Thanks for any suggestion.
cheers,
BabsSee if you have the DISPLAY set to power down at about the same time the screen saver kicks in (Control Panel - Power Options)HI Allen,
thankyou, I have changed the power setting to never turn off. I will let you know how it goes.
regards,
BabsHi Allen,
thank you so much you clever man. when I checked the setting it was, as you thought, set to the same time as the START time for the screen saver. it's now working a treat!
cheers,
Babs

I have windows7 professional m/c, issue with this m/c is when i TRY
to connect to domain using VPN i am not ABLE to connect.
but when i try with LAN it JOINS domain with no problem.
any suggestions pls help..

My monitor is showing flickering lines. When I play Age of Empires the flickering CONTINUES and, after a while, the AOE screen disappears and is replaced by a black rectangle at the top left of the screen. Pressing the Windows BUTTON on the keyboard temporarily returns the AOE screen but the problem recurs a minute or so later.

This happened originally in January but I was able to fix it by DELETING a line in the registry and restarting the computer. Unfortunately I didn't KEEP a note of the line I deleted. I am assuming that Windows replaced the line when I REBOOTED. I should mention that in my attempts to fix the problem back in December I was able to determine that the problem related to DirectX 11 (I have Vista Business).

Have Dell INSPIRON LAPTOP running Windows 7 and the user after having Norton 360 v4.2 installed can not access the internet (yes, I have tried shutting down the norton firewall and it seems to shut down but, still no connection). Also every time you try to open a browser you get window asking if you want to use Internet EXPLORER or windows meda center. If you pick explorer you get pop up window asking if you want to run, save or cancel, internet explorer. Pick run and goes back to first window. Pick meda and it opens up but, has no internet access. What gives. Note, can PING internet site IGOOGLE) but explorer says no connection. Yes you can get it up in around about wayTry another browser.

unistall IE8 and reinstall IE8

System restore to a day when all was well.

Run all anti virus and cleanup programs

Run sfc /scannow

Good luck

Hi, well today I was using disk cleanup, and it scanned for a long time. Then, the results showed up-and it SAID i could free up to 1.2 or something like that GB of memory on my hard drive. Well i thought thats weird because I only used disk cleanup 2-3 weeks ago, and usually in that time i get no more than 200 MB of space that can be freed. I looked through the checklist, and found that 1.0GB or something close to that is taken by "Hibernation Files". Most of the other files don't take much. Well, i remembered that I HAVE done hibernation in the last 2 weeks, but not more than 2 times- and both of those were because my battery was almost dead so it automatically hibernated.(its a laptop)Now I ticked all the boxes in disk cleanup, and clicked delete or something dont REMEMBER what.It CLEANED surprisingly fast.(10-20 SECONDS!!) Hmm, i thought that was strange, so not waiting i scanned it again. And it came up with "You can free up to 1 GB". So, 200 MB or something like that got deleted, which probably were the internet explorer files, and now only the hibernation files are left. I tried only ticking the hibernation files, cleaned but when scanned again it still said there was around one GB of hibernation files.How can I manually delete the hibernation files or why isn't disk cleanup doing the job? How can i fix it? Thanks for any help.Just delete the hiberfil.sys file in the root of c: driveHey can you give me the exact path? I can't seem to find it..You can't delete hiberfil.sys file in Vista.
You can remove that file by turning off hibernation: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/25/how-to-turn-off-and-disable-hibernation-in-windows-vista/Sorry - your are correct of course Broni - missed the Vista part.No problem

Here is my problem, I have a desktop running Windows 7 home premium 64bit and a Samsung N140 netbook running Windows 7 home premium 32bit.
I set up a homegroup on the desktop and attempted to join it with the netbook so I COULD share the USB printer, after entering the password from the desktop homegroup into the netbook set up it says it cannot join.
So I read SEVERAL how-to's on various forums and found out that on the desktop IPv6 was disabled, but it has a tick in the box for it under properties and the only option is to install or uninstall, no enable option.
Am I missing the obvious, or is this a common problem.
Any help will be much appreciatedAre you FOLLOWING instructions like these?
http://www.home-network-help.com/disable-ipv6.htmlI have followed various instructions over two days, enabling SERVICES, registry alterations, and then I find after e-mailing Belkin that my router does not support IPv6 although it is only 6 months old.In the end I did it the old fashioned way through a Network and no problems, but It has TAUGHT me something new.Thanks for posting back

Hi
I'm inherited a dell inspiron 9400 laptop with 1gb Ram running Wondows vista, and i'm trying to get it running smoothly but running into loads of problems.

The most annoying one at the minute is video playback when trying to watch streaming videos and movies online. The files buffer REALLY quickly and seem to play ok but the SOUND is really choppy and crackly. If I scroll down so the video is still playing but not on the screen the sound is fine, but of course i can't watch anything.

I've run ccleaner and superantispyware but another thing is that I can't seem to update superantispyware.

Another annoyance is - I can't boot past the welcome screen without hitting ctr-alt-del

I know, one thing at a time.

I have another laptop running perfectly ok on the same internet connection so the speed my broadband shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks for any advice or help you can offer me on this

CheersYou may want to try PRESSING CTRL-SHIFT-ESC and then looking at processes running whilst trying to play videos.
You may be running to much RAM especially if your running a web-browser like Firefox. They can be hogs when it comes to memory.. see what is taking up memory and work from there.Might be your audio card lacking performance. I remember having the same problem on my old Dell.

If you lower the volume, do you still get a CRACKLING sound? Try DIFFERENT volume levels and see if the problem persists.Quote from: DivineRage002 on June 28, 2010, 02:15:37 PM

If you lower the volume, do you still get a crackling sound? Try different volume levels and see if the problem persists.

I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that it must be ram too. But why would they make and sell such a system?? How could dell sell a product that you can't even watch online videos with?

How much memerry does your video card has?

I have a Sony VGN-AW190U Laptop, running Windows 7. It came with Vista, but we installed 7 (the full version with license) in November when the computer crashed. Two weeks ago or so, Windows did an update, and when it restarted, everything was all wonky, my files were in a different place, some were missing, ITUNES was GONE, along with all of my music and videos. Some of my document for work were gone, etc. I had to set up Mozilla Thunderbird for my email again, and then when I shut the computer down and restarted it, it was like anything I had done was gone. I had to do it again.

The other thing that happens is that sometimes the computer won't even restart at all. It gets to the welcome screen and just waits and waits. It did that for thirty minutes before I got it to start today. I can't imagine what is wrong this time. I am running Avast Virus protection on it, and do not FIND any viruses. I also thought maybe I COULD restore to a previous DATE, before the update, but there aren't any restore points, it is like they were wiped out too.

Please, any advice will be appreciated!!!

Thank you so much!

Quote from: AngieG24 on July 05, 2010, 01:15:10 PM

It gets to the welcome screen and just waits and waits

When Windows is first starting, the screen is blue and it says "welcome" before it loads the windows icons....that is where it locks up. I don't know if I am using the correct terminology. But I double checked to make sure it hadn't reverted back to another form of Windows, because to be honest, I wouldn't be surprised at this point. But it says it is running Windows 7.

we installed 7 (the full version with license) in November when the computer crashed.

Hy,
I am having problems with windows vista NVIDIA keeps making
vista crash Can any one help?
Thanks.
Carlos
Can you please provide more info. As in your full system specs and what you are doing when the system crashes.When I log of sumtimes
sometimes when I watch a Vidio on youtube
sometimes when I first logon to the computer
sometimes When I awake the computer
I don't remember anything els when it crashisCan you please provide full system specs. And what makes you think it's NVIDIA causing the crash?I don't really kno It's dun it since they change my HDDNVIDIA has NOTHING to do with HDD's. They are a company that provide graphic cards. One feels you may be confused.Yeah but before they change my HDD it never did it and my Mbord is new.Always worth telling us everything that has happened from the beginning... it saves us time fact finding.
OK can you please please tell us your full system specs.. I have asked twice now.ok I've allways had windows vista it's never done it before
I use to do everything on the computer and it never crashed
and what do you meen about full system spec ;)s?OK please can you tell us your FULL hardware and software specs, for example. HDD size and make, operating system, how much RAM etc
Windows Vista
3GB RAM
300GB HDD
NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
Adapter RAM128.00 MB (134,217,728 bytes)
KeybordUSB Human Interface Device
Sound Realtek High Definition Audio
CD drive HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GSA-H30L SCSI CdRom Device
ProcessorAMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+, 3000 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/DatePhoenix Technologies, LTD 5.18, 9/5/2007
Total Virtual Memory5.95 GB
System ManufacturerHP-PavilionRemove and reseat the vid card.....then reboot.
Post back with results...Gise last night it got werse it crashed an it REBOOTED reboot... I stopd it by entering Safe mode when I letted the computer enter normal mode it was fine wierd Padeeo I Tryed that it SEEMED to worked
Thank
You'll here frum me if it ever happens again.

I always go to "my computer" to begin searching for files and always see the the FACTORY image listed next to the C drive. I've had is computer about two years now and will probably use it much longer. But, the factory image says 1.41 free of 10.5 GB. What happens when the rest of the space is used up?It doesn't fill up....
The file is a static size and does not change with PC use...
It's used to restore your PC BACK to DAY ONE status should the need ever ARISE...

OK. Just a few thoughts. They break down roughly into 2 categories

Human factors - psychology - it is a common human trait to refuse to believe unwelcome facts - that effort or time invested was wasted, e.g. this cool mouse that I spent three hours (!) choosing [for its appearance?] may be faulty. Or, I refuse to believe that this super pretty chick that I spent 3 weeks chasing might be dishonest, even though my bank ACCOUNT is now empty and my car is gone. Another human trait is what I call "hardware death denial SYNDROME". You usually find it with hard drives. "It can't be broken! There must be a magic software fix or some settings that need twiddling or - Hey! Reinstall the driver!". Yet another is "past performance syndrome" - "it worked OK for N days/weeks/months/years so why WOULD it fail now?" - Grandpa lived OK for 99 years so why would he DIE now?

Practical matters - I really hate wireless mice. They tend to go to sleep to conserve battery life and need to be woken up, either by a movement or sometimes by clicking a button. The RF link can be problematical. I have bought 2 and each time gone back to wired mice. The fact that it seems to be satisfactory in safe mode (when the driver isn't loaded) makes me wonder if you have some kind of setting enabled to do with time-before-sleep or similar. Or the RF receiver could be overloading the USB port, or the port or USB chipset could be faulty or marginal. We do not know your motherboard brand or model. Or if plugging the RF receiver into a powered hub puts things right. Or a different USB port. Or if you have recently added USB devices. Personally, I would get a $10 wired mouse and see if that worked how I wanted. If it did, I would conclude that something or other in the wireless mouse setup was dodgy.

I will note that we have had very little in the way of description of the problem. Just that there is a "lag", whatever that means. Do you mean that the mouse pointer on the screen does not move straight away when you move the mouse? Or that it is jerky? Or what?This is really not called for....Im not here to troll, im here for help. . . Im obviously not going to get any.Quote from: oneano on July 05, 2010, 09:04:51 AM

im here for help. . . Im obviously not going to get any.

The fact that it seems to be satisfactory in safe mode (when the driver isn't loaded) makes me wonder if you have some kind of setting enabled to do with time-before-sleep or similar. Or the RF receiver could be overloading the USB port, or the port or USB chipset could be faulty or marginal. We do not know your motherboard brand or model. Or if plugging the RF receiver into a powered hub puts things right. Or a different USB port. Or if you have recently added USB devices. Personally, I would get a $10 wired mouse and see if that worked how I wanted. If it did, I would conclude that something or other in the wireless mouse setup was dodgy.

This is really not called for....Im not here to troll, im here for help. . . Im obviously not going to get any.

I was having trouble with my Printer Spool shutting on its owe. I have to go to CP, Adm, Serv and restart the spooler. I converted to WINDOWS 7 ult and still have the problem. ALSO, What can I do to get windows 7 to acknowledge I have 4 GIGS of MEMORY. It only shows 3 Gigs on my System
screen. to be ABLE to use 4 gigs of memory, you need to have 64 bit version of windows. Else you won't be able to.

Hi everybody. I recently purchased a NEW HP Pavilion Elite 210 and it came with Windows 7 Home installed. So far everything has worked well. However, I'm using the Microsoft Office that was installed on my older computer, which is Office 2003. I want to use the Windows 7 speech recognition tool, but it does not seem to be working correctly for me.

I have successfully completed "Set up my microphone", "improve voice recognition", and the TUTORIAL. Everything worked fine, the computer understood me and completed all my commands inside the tutorial. However, when I went to use it in Microsoft Word 2003, the speech recognition BAR will show what I said, but it will not insert my words into Microsoft Word 2003. I began to think maybe there was a compatibility issue. However, the speech tool doesn't seem to work properly outside of Office programs either. For example, I should be able to say "Open Wordpad" and the Windows 7 edition of Wordpad, should open. However, instead I will just see the words "open wordpad" in the speech bar. In addition, after using my mouse to open wordpad, I'll try to dictate. Again, the same thing happens and what I dictate appears in the speech bar, but is not inserted into the program.

I'm really confused. My first idea that it was a compatibility problem may still be correct. However, if that was the case, wouldn't it work fine when I use in outside of Office 2003 situations? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Again, I have a:
HP Pavilion Elite 210
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Microsoft Office 2003

I apologize if I left out important information, if any other INFO is needed please respond and I will attempt to provide it. Thanks again.opps, sorry. I forgot to include some information. This may not be helpful, but better safe than sorry, RIGHT?

When you right click on the speech bar, a menu appears. Under the "options" tab there are 4 available selections:
--Play audible Feedback
--Rum at start-up
--Speak text in correction dialog
--Enable dictations scratchpad

I currently have the 1st and 4th options selected only. At one point I unclicked the last option (about the scratchpad) but it didn't seem to make a difference.

Thanks again!!!

So I have WINDOWS Vista and a Dell ... Inspiron530s but I bought it about 2 years ago. At first it wasn't so slow, but recently it's occasionally gotten as slow as the computer which we owned for 6 or 7 years at that time. We use Spybot search and destroy and spyware doctor and both aren't finding anything serious. What actually happens is this.. just a few symptoms

-an online game i play doesn't load up (its java) and then it says not responding and I have to resort to unplugging it or powering down and restarting computer

-ms word and other programs randomly won't COME up (the ms word loadup screen appeared and then stayed that way, same happened to spybot search and destroy)

- interenet comes up very slow and navigation isn't very good

-some programs suddenly stop responding

And other THINGS LIKE this... I have no idea what the problem could be to be honest but if there's any typical solutions without paying someone it'd be greatly APPRECIATED When's the last time you did the housekeeping on that machine ? ?
Run Disk Cleanup from Control Panel...
Then defrag...let it finish...
Then re-boot and from a command prompt run chkdsk /r...
Let us know...all that stuff had been done

wait no the cmd part i cant do it because it says i dont have sufficient privliedges, but what does it doIt checks your HDD for errors...have someone log you on as Admin...

My COMPUTER use the swap FILE up to 15% (The total pagefile SIZE is around 5000 Mb and it is on Two Drives at System MANAGED settings) when it only uses 40% of my 3 Gb of RAM? Would the fix here be just to turn off the swap?No. Leave it alone. WINDOWS knows what it's doing.Grab the Adult beverage of your choice and Have a Read...

I have a Toshiba laptop, maybe 4 months old, running firefox on windows 7.I just booted up and I get the MESSAGE; Firefox is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs with 2 boxes to check: restore or start NEW session, neither of which helps. When I click on the icon for firefox, I get Yahoo to come on for about 2 seconds and then it's GONE. This happens no matter which box I check. What can I do to get back to the internet?What happens when you open IE?It works fine on IE.Then I suggest you reinstall Firefox.

I need to write a batch file that CHECKS to see if a process is running, and then either kill it or close itself depending on if it is running.

Not just once though, say I have 10 Firefox's up, I would want it to close one, and then check, close, check, etc. until they are all closed, and then close itself.

Even though I don't know the actual commands and how the errorlevels read, I would think it would look something like this:

@echo off
:START
check firefox.exe
if ERRORLEVEL ==2 goto END
if errorlevel ==1 goto KILL
:KILL
taskkill /f /im firefox.exe
goto START
:END

Any suggestions are appreciated!taskill /f /im [imagename] kills all instances of imagename. So you would only need to run it once.

Code: [Select]@echo off
REM start 10 notepads
echo Starting 10 notepads...
for /L %%N in (1,1,10) do start /MIN "" "notepad"

echo Press a key to stop them all...
pause>nul

REM kill them all
taskkill /f /im "notepad.exe"


Code: [Select]Starting 10 notepads...
Press a key to stop them all...
SUCCESS: The process "notepad.exe" with PID 2208 has been terminated.
SUCCESS: The process "notepad.exe" with PID 1308 has been terminated.
SUCCESS: The process "notepad.exe" with PID 3480 has been terminated.
SUCCESS: The process "notepad.exe" with PID 1548 has been terminated.
SUCCESS: The process "notepad.exe" with PID 2644 has been terminated.
SUCCESS: The process "notepad.exe" with PID 3928 has been terminated.
SUCCESS: The process "notepad.exe" with PID 1200 has been terminated.
SUCCESS: The process "notepad.exe" with PID 3624 has been terminated.
SUCCESS: The process "notepad.exe" with PID 3528 has been terminated.
SUCCESS: The process "notepad.exe" with PID 1340 has been terminated.:O! You're right, I forgot it did it for all instances, but still.. say I wanted it to check to see if an .exe is running, and then open it if it isn't? Kinda the opposite, but I kinda wanna know how it works both ways. Code: [Select]tasklist /fi "imagename eq notepad.exe" /fi "status eq running" | find "No tasks are running which match the specified CRITERIA">nul
if %errorlevel% equ 0 start notepad.exe
Gunna go give it a whirl!

Edit: It opened another even if the first is still running. D:Quote from: JooseyJay on July 04, 2010, 05:58:30 AM

Gunna go give it a whirl!

Edit: It opened another even if the first is still running. D:

Hey, I have my vista 32 BIT pc; it has 2 GB RAM 320 GB Hard DRIVE Geforce 8600 GT.

I have a 2 TB EXTERNAL hard drive, but it doesn't show up as a DEVICE on Windows Media Player, so is there a way I can sync my music onto it?dont sync it just transfer your music files to it

I am using a Toshiba laptop and it crashed and gave a blue screen and after about 3 days have been slowly making PROGRESS recovering files using LIVECD's creating recovery discs and have finally got it to boot into windows, but in all safe modes and normal mode the computer is very unresponsive taking a very long time to log in and once loaded about 5mins just to load the start menu! so it is unusable, when i run SLAX (an operating system that boots of USB) it runs smoothly and i cannot restore the computer as i have no restore points and NONE of the options work, i created a recovery CD and the only option i have is to re-install windows but i need a Licence Key to do so, but i have lost it (has rubbed off the bottom of the laptop) so all i plan to do is use magicaljellybean key finder to find the key from the registry and re-install windows but cant as it is so slow, what is CAUSING this!

when windows is loading i will hear loading sounds from the HDD, but a repeated loading sound over and over again.

i really need help now, thankyou for your time.Run a virus scan and see what happens Do you have the receipt from when you purchased the laptop, as to prove you paid for the version of windows? If you have or not take it back to the place you purchased from and ask them to help.
If you did not get a CD with the laptop the recovery may be hidden on a partition on the HDD.
When booting press F8 repeatedly on start up before the Windows logo appears.

Go to ADVANCE Boot options

and then see if there is Repair your computer

If that does not exist then pls come back and we can try something else.
love ur animation u make it ur self Quote from: stevieboy on JULY 01, 2010, 07:23:58 AM

love ur animation u make it ur self

I am scanning a PAN Card which CONTAINS a PICTURE and text. How can I enlarge the contents so that I can SEND it via mail. I had simply scanned and sent it but to no avail. Plz, help me out.....Copy the contents to an empty directory and then use whatever editing tools are needed....SAVE the resized files with a new name.hi Sanrishra,
if you mean the actual size not the pixels, then it is fairly simple. Copy the scanned item into an editing programme such as picassa or windows word, crop out any unecessarry areas, borders ETC. click on the scanned image and drag it out from one corner until it is the correct size. then save it in a new name and copy it to your email as an attachment.
cheers,
babs

Yes for what i know there isn't... Optical DRIVES properly connected/reconnected are AUTOMATICALLY detected by the OS as Master or Slave depending on their jumpers.
Okay you know what, you're just posting nonsense.Quote from: Allan on July 04, 2010, 10:33:09 AM

Okay you know what, you're just posting nonsense.

I am having a problem with one of my clients computers that I can not figure out.

Windows Backup is continuously failing.
(If you know of software that works just as well, for free, I think switching over may be worthwhile if the fix is not simple)

Two errors have occurred:
Catastrophic Failure -- a very general error.
After we changed the backup destination to a blank CD instead, this CAME up after "Preparing for backup" :
Incorrect Function 0x8007001

I have already taken the following actions:
Ran the following: sfc /SCANNOW, scandisk (or whatever the kids call it now), did a computer and registry clean out with CCleaner (I do that to all computers).
Entered the Computer Manager, changed the service to "Automatic" and started it, restarted the computer, and it still did not work.

SPECS:
Windows Vista. All updated installed. Whatever the latest SP for Vista is.
Dell. Antivirus installed and running (Avast).

I swear, I may kill if anyone gives me a LINK to lmgtfy... I already tried to find a descent solution that actually worked.

Thank you for your assistance in the matter
- Jesse ZylstraJesse great to see you again Bud...

I recently tried /tested3 or 4 Free backup solutions and out of them all Macrium Reflect came out way on top...
You may want to take it around the block for a spin...

seeya.The problem, well, actually it's not really a problem...
The case is: The person who uses this computer only has about 1.19GB of data total in their Pictures and Documents folder -- which is all that needs backing up.

What about software specifically made for backing up only certain directories? It just needs to be automated. The ability to automatically PUT it onto a blank CD (after prompting the user for a blank CD, of course) would also be very nice.

I'm considering getting one of those aimable wifi things and pointing it to my house and selling disk space on my server to him for backup.. It certainly sounds much easier!