Windows XP
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"Insufficient system resources" messages
by Guest Robert S- 2 replies
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Several times I have either received the above message - or "insufficient page file space". I've very rarely seen this in the past with XP which makes me think something's wrong. When I open up the task manager I get: Physical Memory (K) Total 523760 Available 185000 System cache 255084 Kernel memory 44396 Paged 30362 Nonpaged 14124 The Page File Usage History is running fairly constantly just over 50% When I open MS Word and Exploror the Page File Usage History runs at about 60% At the moment I'm running ESET Smart Security, Outlook Express and Firefox. Are these figures appropriate? What is the best way of debugging these problems?
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SupportSoft on an XP. What is it?
by Guest _Who- 7 replies
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Anyone know what SupportSoft software on my XP might be for? I know of their site but I've never purchased anything from them. In ProgramFiles there is a folder support.com which I'm guessing belongs to it. All the sub folders are empty except that bin has 3 .dll's It also appears in me Add or Remove Programs list. === A maybe related question: What is the name of the Roadrunner magic software? The dialog box use to pop up when my service was not good. I no longer need it but don't know where the file is. === I'm having trouble with the computer hanging on boot and like to get rid of anything I don't use - especially the services. Thank
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booting
by Guest jeem- 3 replies
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Need some direction here. My Dell XP (a few years old now) locked up last night while in a EA hockey game. I manually shut it down. When I started it up this morning it began the normal boot cycle and then went to chdisk. It fixed a few things (no idea what) and found orphaned file (same as before no idea what), and then it re-ran the same cycle restartign the boot up. It never starts, but reverts to the Dell screen and the xp screen over and over again. Is my PC dying or is there something I can do to get to my desktop again?
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CD Rom will not read/write
by Guest Flip- 2 replies
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After installing SP2 the CD Rom will not read/write and freezes the computer for a while. Then the CDR will disapear from the MY Computer till I reboot. How do I fix this?
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windows did not start successfully
by Guest Venky- 3 replies
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Each time when i power on my laptop i get a message as mentioned below we aplogize for the incovenience, but windows did not start normally.......... .................... and it displays a list of option to boot as safe mode, last known good configuration etc. i don't know why i get this message. please help me to rectify this problem Thanks
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Univerisal Serial Bus (USB) Controller Driver
by Guest Neil- 4 replies
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Hello, I have just reinstalled Windows XP on my computer, however I cannot get any of my USB peripheral to work. I checked the device manager and it says that I don't have the Univerisal Serial Bus (USB) Controller Driver, I have been looking around and I have been unable to find a driver. I am using USB 1 still. Can anyone point me in the right direction of the relevant driver? As this is really annoying because I have a lot of my files on external USB Harddisks and at the moment I can't access any of them. Thank you Neil.
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Update text file batch file
by Guest Richhall- 3 replies
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Hi I have an application on a number of users workstations on the network, and want to amend an entry in a text file e.g config.ini on all workstations. Can i connect using a batch to delete a line and add a line or find text and change it within a file if I know all the IP addresses? i.e [parameter 1] Item=Y [parameter 1] Item=N [parameter 1] Item=Y [parameter 1] Item=N [parameter 1] DNS=test.systems.co.uk i want to change to: [parameter 1] Item=Y [parameter 1] Item=N [parameter 1] Item=Y [parameter 1] Item=N [parameter 1] DNS=test2.systems.co.uk Cheers Rich
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Loads up muy docs at startup
by Guest pengi- 3 replies
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on startup my docs automaticaly loads for all 3 users on the laptop. Was fine until a few weeks ago but now loads up all the time. How do i stop it? NB I am not very good with these things so please explain to a novice.
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Notebook Win X Pro cannot detect HDD
by Guest Jimmy Hsu- 4 replies
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I have an old 3.5" Internal Hard Disk Drive (IDE) with a lot of data that I wanted to access from my notebook (Fujitsu Lifebook). So I bought an USB external enclosure for the Hard drive. Howevr when I plugged the USB into the notebook USB port, the notebook did not detect the hard drive. I reboooted the notebook and tried again. Still didnt work. I'm running Win XP Pro on the notebook. Any advice?
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window position and size is saved
by Guest b11_- 2 replies
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When the computer is shut-down, the size and position of any opened window is saved. Where in the registry can one turn-off that feature?
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XP 'hangs' at shut down
by Guest computerchallengedcc- 7 replies
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When shutting down, pc starts to shut down normally, goes to black screen, and then starts over with ssaving settings, shutting down,etc. and is taking much longer than normal to shut down even at this point. I only see two errors in the Events Log, and the time frame is not corresponding to the time that I shut down my pc. Red warning in Event Log says: "Service Control Manager".... The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: SASKUTIL For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. The above link does not work! The yellow warning has to do with Windows Defender: Windows De…
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Internet connection lost!!
by Guest bill- 3 replies
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I have XP home and my dial up connection just disappeared! The following is what now happens. When trying to re-establish a connection I go through the following errors. Network Connection Folder unable to retrieve Network Adaptors. Make sure Network Connections Service running. ( this refuses to start ) Could not start Network Connections :- error 1058 disabled or has no enabled devices. Clicking on 'Setup an Internet connection' has no effect. What on earth have I done?? Any help appreciated. Bill
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Another SP3 install error
by Guest operaflute- 6 replies
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Auto-update downloaded SP3. Before I agreed to install, I (wisely) backed up. After the install, I get the error msg: "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt <windowsroot>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe" After restoring said file from my backup, I still can't boot. I just get a black screen. Admittedly, I forgot to try safe mode before just restoring my entire drive from the backup. (Why not? That's why I did the back up in the first place.) MS says the file is not corrupt (which would explain why restoring it didn't solve the problem) They also say that the file is unchanged in SP3 (which tells me that redownloa…
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Windows freezing in an odd manner
by Guest Nick B- 6 replies
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We have an XP SP3 computer that freezes after a while of sitting there. For instance, in the morning, often we will sit at the computer and we are able to move the mouse around and single click on different icons in the Dekstop. But if we double-click on something (like and Internet Explorer shortcut, or even a folder), the Desktop seems to freeze -- we can still move the mouse around, but nothing else can be higlighted and we can no longer create "boxes" by clicking and dragging. Interestingly we can often then hover the mouse over the arrow that expands the system tray and it will say "Show hidden icons", but if we click on that, that task bar will fe…
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Error Message on Closing
by Guest HankL- 1 reply
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Does anyone know what this message means and if so is there anything that can be done to correct it. Almost each time I close Outlook 2003 in Windows XP SP3 I get an error message Unexpected Memory Leak. " An unexpected memory leak has occured. The unexpected small block leaks are: 13-20 bytes: TObjectList x 2, Unknown x2" Any suggestions would certainly be appreciated. Thank you in advance for your support. HankL