Glitch while updating

My daughter's computer was recently doing an update. We were at the point where the computer was rebooting and had the screen "do not turn off your computer, updating......" etc. Unfortunately, our ISP went out at that time, and the computer was left in that limbo for over 24 hours. I finally just hit the power button to turn it off, and now when we turn it on it is in a continual loop of rebooting itself. I've tried putting in the Windows disk and it reads it okay, and will get so far to reinstall, but then it does the same thing and reboots itself. I don't know what to t

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cannot send out email..I do receive mail. err msg. says comcast is rejecting my username even though I can sign in?

Can't resize windows manually

Today I have lost the ability to resize windows manually, every IE8, email and program windows. If I moved the mouse pointer to the corner of a window I could resize it manually. Now any window just appears maximised and if I click minimised it just reduces to the task bar until I click maximise again. If I move down the screen I can resize the taskbar but nothing else. I have googled which wasn't much help and was generally about resizing partitions. As far as I am aware I haven't changed any settings. Does anyone have any solutions please? Many thanks Andrew Wilson

windows xp boot problem

Plz help me , i installed tune up utilities ,i changed my logon screen through tune up and then rebooted my pc now when i start xp a blank screen appears plz guide me ,what to do now. -- DINESH4033 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DINESH4033's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/239100.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-xp-support/1350168.htm http://forums.techarena.in

sound problem

a few months ago i installed xp on my dell 2650 it stuck at 33 min but i finally got it to install but i ended up with a new problem my sound driver freezes my computer so i had to go into safe mode and disable the sound driver and the modem both are dells latest drivers i tried other drivers but get the same results. so when i boot up my computer it freezes in the black part of the screen. any suggestions -- danielamay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ danielamay's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/238840.htm View this threa

XP Home Edition Start-up

My computer will not start up normally. When I try to start up it works only until the welcome screen and restarts. I have to start in 'safe mode' and use 'start up with last settings that worked.' The only visible change after start up is that the tool bar on the bottom of the screen is white. Also, I have tried the system restore, but get a premature shutdown, cannot restore message. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank You -- Fred

No early system restore points

I've had an EeePC netbook with Win XP Home SP3 for just over 2 years. A long time ago, hibernate stopped working -- I was told to do a system restore, but that never happened as I was then only using it intermittently. Now that I'm using it more regularly, hibernate still does not work and the computer is gradually but inexorably slowing down, to the point that it is now very frustrating to use. Is System Restore likely to provide a solution? Why do I not seem to have any System Restore points that are older than 3 months? Lindsay Graham Canberra, Australia

"Reboot and Select proper boot device....." NO HARD DRIVE IN SETUP

Help, please! I posted this earlier but couldn't find in search so reposted. I turned on my computer and got a black screen with the message: “Reboot and Select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key” I had no prior warning or problems with my computer. I hit F1 for the setup menu and there is no hard drive listed under channel devices on the main Tab! It says [None] for First and Second Channel Device 0 and 1. The CD and DVD drives are listed under Channel Device 0 and 1. For Installed Memory it says “1024 MB/PC2-3200 and Memory B

Home network problem

Home network with usually 5/6 pc's connected (it varies by what kids home :), all XP except one Vista.. All works fine except for two pc's running XP (one Home other Pro) that can see each other but will not connect to a shared folder; in either direction. Yet, 'Home' can print to 'Pro' shared printer. Both pc's however will connect to any and all the others so as a workaround have to copy thru a intermediary pc if want to transfer anything between these two specific pcs. All settings appear to be the same across all the pc's running XP. Google led me to "irpstacksize" se

Please Help with Windows Defender Error

Hi, I hope someone can help me. I have read so many documents and tried so many things that do not work. When I turn on my computer I get this error message about windows defender. Error Code 0x800106ba Application failed to initialize.... I found this article "Article ID: 931849 - Last Review: May 4, 2010 - Revision: 3.0" . I tried everything and nothing worked. I got to the last option, #4 and this file wuaueng.dll was not succefull in running. Here is what the last option # 4 says to do. If this issue is not resolved after you complete step 3, follow this step: Click S

IE8 new window help

Hi all, when I open a new window from a previous hyperlink click ie right click and "open in new window", it has a small screen size one that I dont like, I need to know how to make all future windows to open at a custom size but not full screen. im using Internet Explorer 8 and win XP Pro with SP3. Thanks all GK

Internal Error 2356. Data1.cab

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0022_01CB1518.77DC8450 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've recently formatted my PC and when installing ACDSee 5.0, I'm = getting the above error message. I'm awaiting an answer from ACDSee after an exhaustive but fruitless = search on-line. In the meantime, any ideas? Declan ------=_NextPart_000_0022_01CB1518.77DC8450 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C/

Fueling your car with natural gas from home

Dear Everyone, as you know the price of the Oil is more and more increasing, while the oil supply is decreasing. Moreover Oil is causing wars, terror, oil spills, a lot of greenhouse gases. Do you know that there is plenty of natural gas ? The supply will last for many decades, probably for hundred years. A lot of methane (natural gas) is found as shale gas, a lot more will come from methane hidrates. Natural gas is causing much less greenhouse gases and since it is found locally, it will not cause any wars or terror. It will create jobs in your own country and not in the middle east

Problems trying to replace Pegasus as the default e-mail program in IE 8

Running Pegasus 4.21c on XP Home, SP 3 w/ IE 8. Long ago, I had set Pegasus as the default e-mail program for IE, and it has worked fine for a long time, even through IE updates. Now, I need to set either Outlook or Windows Live Mail as the default mail program in IE 8. The options for these two appear when I go to Tools | Internet Options | Programs. But when I select either as the default, IE still tries to open Pegasus when I click on the 'Read Mail' icon. And it's not even trying to open it from the correct location. It's trying to open it from a different drive and giving me

Windows Internet explorer

I just installed I.E. 8 and in operating instructions for removing "history" files they say to click on the "safety button" on the menu bar. I don't see a"saety button" anywhere on the page. Someone here have any idea where to look? Thanks

Can't get Windows XP SP3 to recognise my Canon SX120 IS camera via

I can't get my Windows XP SP3 PC to recognise my Canon SX120 IS camera via USB. It does recognose other devices via the same USB port. The camera is recognised by other Windows XP SP3 PC's using the same USB cable. Any ideas, anybody?

Microsoft .NET Framework

Windows XP Home, Service Pack 3. The updater installed a new Microsoft .NET Framework this morning. Upon checking in 'Add or Remove Programs', I noticed: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP at 184.00 MB Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 SP at 178.00 MB Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP 1 at 28.49 MB. My question to the gurus: As the are very memory intensive, do I need all three or can I delete two? Thanking you in advance for your advice, John

HP WinXP Desktop Won't Shut Down

HP Media Center desktop WinXP MCE For about a month now, every time I go to shut down my PC (i.e. Start > Turn Off Computer > Turn Off option), it just restarts. It is the weirdest thing and I can't figure out why that's happening. Can anyone suggest some areas to check, or if that has ever happened to you and how you solved the problem? All feedback is appreciated. Thanks!

unknown cause of PC "Ignore Shutdown"

My Win XP (3) was humming along one minute and on the next it froze. All efforts to regain its use, failed. I restored and looked for cause. The result of "sc query" at the command promt brought two pages of: Display Name Norton Unerase Protechtion Type: 110 Win 32 Own Process 4 running C Stoppable, Not Pausable Ignore Shutdown Some of the other Displays: NSvc Log , PLFlash Device Control Service, Plug Play, Pmls Driver, Police Agent, Protective Service, Protective Storage, etc. Prior to this problem I installed no new programs, received no up-dates (knowingly), made no changes.

Can ping can't tcp /web

All right I have a WinXPSP3 box that can ping and tracert / resolve IP address / DNS but telnet into a specific port (80, 22 ,25) and choke. What is happening ? -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor@nl2k.ab.ca God, Queen and country! Never Satan President Republic! Beware AntiChrist rising! http://twitter.com/rootnl2k http://www.facebook.com/dyadallee Since 1 June 1995

Win XP Home SP3 svchost.exe

As the title says, I'm running WinXP Home edition, Service Pack 3. I'm having issues with my svchost.exe. Specifically, I've been getting errors saying that svchost.exe has encountered a problem and needs to shut down. I then have to go back in and restart various services thru the control panel>administrative tools>services. Also, I've had issues with various services connected with svchost.exe -k netsvcs not starting automatically, even though they're set to start automatically. The different services vary each start-up, but always include the DHCP client, Themes, and usual

RE RE: XP Install

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Start Up Problem

I'm using XP home SP3 When I start the computer it gets to the Windows XP screen and shuts down. When I restart I get a range of options including start normally, start using last known working configuration and starting in safe mode. The first two usually cause a repeat of the problem though sometimes it starts normally. Starting in safe mode then restarting the computer seems to work every time. Going back to a system restore point before the problem occurred just produces a message that the system cannot be restored. I thought about re-installing windows but when I found my

Paging File

I just installed an additional 2gis of ram for a total of 3gigs on an xp pro machine. I have two HDs and have the paging file on the second (non-booting) drive. I went to check the paging file and found that the "Recommended" size was 4606megs, but the "Allocated" was 3071megs. The file is set for "System Managed Size" Why is there a difference between the "Recommended" and "Allocated" amount ?? Which number should I use if changing to a "Custom" setting ?? Thank you for your time and trouble. --------------= Posted using GrabIt =---------------- ------= Binary Usenet download

Why suddenly is British daylight saving time not being applied?

Suddenly today I noticed that my PC clock is wrong and running an hour fast and upon investigation it appears that the daylight saving time which should be being applied for my time zone, namely - (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time: Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London is not now being applied even though I changed nothing and the option [tick] Automatically adjust clock for saving changes is still ticked. At this time of the year (April to October) British clocks are put one hour forward, to GMT+1 or "British Summer Time" and usually Windows XP knows when that is, and normally display