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I keep trying to install service pack 3 and it fails with a message that a windows folder for installation doesn't have enough free disk space and I need to gain 4 mb more space. The drive it is on has about 300 GB free but I went ahead and deleted about a GB of stuff anyway and it still gives me the same silly message. Can anyone please advise me on what is going on and what I can do about it? Thanks for any advice.

At location A I use SJ4850. At location B I use SJ8250. I use the same laptop (HP Pavilion dv9000) at both locations. This system has worked well in the past. I’m now at location B. Suppose I scan a fully printed A4 sheet. I see an A4 image, but the printed sheet has been “pushed” to the right and upwards, lopping part of it off, while leaving corresponding blank space at the left and the bottom. Have tried reinstalling the HP drivers to no effect. The defect seems to be at the HP end as four different software scanning programs give the same result. Is there a way of regaining congruence? Is SJ8250 dying?

Re: File and Transfer Wizard Woes Brutal does not describe the XP File Transfer utility. I ran the utility on my XP machine to output all my settings to an external drive. I then installed a new laptop hard drive and re-installed the same version of XP with SP3. When I tried to run the utility I got the message that the Migration store was created with a previous version of files and settings. How am I supposed to go back and create the export with a different version of the utility. as an IT Software Developer I can't imagine how non IT people would feel about this brutally bad utility. This is beyond Frustrating. Fed up with non user friendly issues …

For three days now I have been having problems with viruses. I find stuff and remove it, (just a few minutes AVG 8.0 finally found a trojan and moved it to quarantine, and that seems to have fixed one problem), but each time I find and remove something, something else pops up, so I don't have a lot of confidence that this is the end of it. My wife bought Kaspersky with a three machine license, and anti-virus software is always very difficult to uninstall. So instead of trying to uninstall AVG 8.0, I think it would be easier to rebuild my system. What I'm going to do is format my hard drive and reinstall Windows 2000 and reinstall my drivers, SP4, the …

I run XP Home SP3 and IE7. I was just exiting Hotmail when my pc started to reboot - no message on screen. I found this in the log: Event Type: Information Event Source: Save Dump Event Category: None Event ID: 1001 Date: 03/10/2008 Time: 11:57:35 User: N/A Computer: Description: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x1000000a (0x0000001c, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x8053c56d). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini100308-01.dmp. Unfortunately the dump seems to have been erased by Ccleaner. Can anyone interpret the bugcheck references please.

Hello Folks All was working fine until I installed a new sound card. My machine will no longer auto shut down, It just gets to to stage of 'Windows is shutting down' etc. and at this stage I have to turm it off manually (hold button in for 5 secs). Please could you advise on restoring to normal. Your help is and always has been very much appreciated. Thanking you in anticipation. -- <-><-><-><-> Big Rick

I have 2 internal hdd's working on a newly installed motherboard. 1 older hd is an old XP Home version that is now Drive F: The other is a new hd (C:) that has fresh XP install. Two Users on the old hd were not set up with a password login and I successfully transferred files to the new hd. One User had a password for login on the old hd. I have tried to access the User's Documents folder to copy/transfer from the old hd to the new and get "Access denied" I've tried to change the User to login with the same original password but folder is still not accessible. I assume the error is due to the folder having password protection that my XP cannot access due …

Dear Friends, In windows server 2003 there is no system restore point utility as windows XP has. Is it possible to install system restore in win 2k3 or is there any other utlity,after using that we can restore O/S in the case of small problem related to software or registry. Thanks in advance Gaurav Mathur

Win XP Is it possible to add to the menu which appears when the mouse is right clicked? It would be very useful if an entry on this menu was "Insert (my) E-mail Address" donwb

Hey All, My first time asking a ? yet l read this this group daily, so be kind. I have both a desktop and laptop running XP Pro with Media Center Edition 2002 OEM's, both SP2-fully updated except SP3.(3gigs of RAM) I want to have it but I don't have the CD's for either to slipstream. I've got AutoStreamer but it won't see the recovery disk that I created when I got the systems or the recovery thats on the hard drive and I have d/l SP3. I'm concerned due to if I run sfc /scannow, there will be a problem. How would I handle this?? I know that the slipstreaming process will eliminate some time and that's what I want...or is my only solution is go throu…

All of a sudden our win98 [Pll] machine gives the following error message when starting up: "A FATAL EXCEPTION 0B HAS ACCURED AT 05AF:0000138B. THE CURRENT APPLICATION WILL BE TERMINATED." the system then starts in Safe Mode. I'm not sure what is going on, or what I need to do to fix this. We rarely use this machine, and when we do, it's only used to browse the internet, and we do not, I repeat do not download anything on it, as we try and be v. careful, since it's an older OS. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, JHB

it appears that after installing service pack 3 site such as http://www.yahoo.com and http://www.msn.com do not recognize that my computer is running ie7 and want me to download the latest version of explorer --- 7.0. any one else seen this and is there a fix???

Hi, I have win xp sp3. Some legitimate apps like MS Outlook or NERO Buring ROM are creating unwanted fixed icons in My Computer and Desktop areas which I am unable to delete the simple way. How to delete any unwanted apps fixed icons from My Computer area and its fixed Desktop Shoutcut? I have no spyware in my system. Try installing Microsoft Office Outlook on ur pc, it creates a fixed shortcut on Desktop which could not be deleted? I am asking 4 dat kind of shortcuts; how can those fixed shortcuts created by legitimate software be deleted? Plz help me. Oc9ine.

Am trying to find the area/diag box where associations can be set for .wav files to be played when a mail comes into outlook xpress. Been to 1)C/panel Sounds 2)'' '' '' Multimedia Couldnt find much else in C/panel. Did a search for .wav's on my Cdrive,, found the one that my email uses at the moment, (it was buried so damn deep in windows,,, i mean, it took a lot of looking just to find it)(there are many other .wavs in that folder, dont know how outlook knows how to choose the one its using right now.?) Anyone know where I can choose another .wav file at will to associate itself with my email room? What folder should I put it in? Wh…

Well my cd rom and xp disk is fine just when it loads the setup it stopped after started kernal giving error message " line 55 not found bla bla" I couldn't continue the setup process and i can't startup windows so could anyone tell me how to format or reinstall the windows

I have a folder open called C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MAGIX\Movie_Edit_Pro_14_PLUS\VideoEffects\Collage (and that is shown in the Address box) But all that shows in the title is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MAGIX\Movie_Edit_Pro_14_PLUS\VideoEffects which is 99 characters. Is this some limit I wasn't aware of until now? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK

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Hi all, I have a small problem the startup order of my drivers, My Antivirus Software wants to download updates upon startup, however my wireless Driver hasn't loaded yet so the download hangs and stops the wireless driver untill I interseed. Is there any way I can change the startup order of drivers. TIA! Dan

Hi i am trying to burn music cd's from the windows media player. It does every thing okay ans says the disc is finalized but when i try to play it on the pc, it says "Blank Cd" and in a cd player it comes up with "Not finalized". Also when i try to copy documents to a cd it does the same, it copys them ok but when i put the cd back in to check i get the message " Blank CD" again. One more thing that may help i tryed a different make of disc and that comes up with "windows does not support this cd-rw format " yet i have copyed in it before in 2006! All the updates are up to date Please can some one help thank you Niall

we have a very small network. We purchased a new computer for one employee and took his computer and gave it to another. we have microsoft office installed on the 'old' computer but now when the clerk logins in on the 'old' computer she can not see the office programs. Help!

Hello and thanks in advance about my question because I know in this place i will have a solution of my questions like usually , well everytime I open my hotmail appeared or pop up download window of " WINDOWS LIVE MESSENGER" .....like when someone start to download or install a new program or software in the pc ... but I alreday download windows live messenger and I alreday have it ....why this is happen , please help .

Hello, I have a few computers networked and every other day or so, I have to reinstall flash player and shockwave as though it was never installed on the computer some of the computers, something keeps corrupting the software. Please advise Thanks. Paul

Right I have a work laptop that connects to a domain. When I am at home and connect to the domain over the VPN I can access the fileshare on my laptop. When I bring the laptop home and connect to my home network I cannot access the fileshare - I get the error message above. I can see the machine in the Network Neighbourhood - I just cannot see any of the fileshares or connect to them in anyway. (This happens regardless of whether I shutdown the laptop at work or I leave it running when I bring it home). The strangest thing is this used to work (ie. I could do the above and see the fileshare and access it no problems at all). Now it does not. Wh…

I'm using windows XP Pro high-end system and have a couple problems with various newsgroups or forums... I use the web interface instead of Outlook express; is there a newsgroup on solving problems concerning newsgroups? Here are the two problems: first one I subscribe to newsgroup and receiving e-mail there is always a link in the e-mail go to my post and the response. However probably 50% of time that link does not work on various Microsoft newsgroups. It opens an explorer and simply displays a blank page with the word done in the lower left corner. I often have to find a newsgroup by exactly searching on the title that appears in the e-mail in Goo…

Everything works perfect except when I go to start, turn off computer, standby, turn off, or restart none of the standby, turn off, or restart buttons work. I am running XP Pro with service pack 3. I have some security programs running that sometimes don't recognize that a particular program or file is safe to keep. I hope I didn't inadvertantly delete an important registry key? Has anyone seen this before or can anyone help with this problem?