Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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Restore Points
by Guest Leasee- 6 replies
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Hi. I hope someone can help me. I am at the max space allowed, 12%. If I free up some hard drive space will I be able to use the function again? Also, why does it not let me restore, is it due to the space being limited? Also, I am getting an error MDATA.DAT not installed. Does anyone know what that is?
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windows activation
by Guest Christoph- 3 replies
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Hello, I have with vmware converter a physical machine convert to a virtual one. But now comes the windows with the activation and says the key are wrong. but this is a legal volume license from our company (eds)... You have any ideas, whats wrong? Best regards Christoph
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Hard Drive Backup Problems help!
by Guest Nut- 2 replies
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I am a computer novice. I don't have any backup for my information or system programs. I downloaded "titan" backup software from " Give away of the day"....and the program keeps stopping at a particular point and doesn't continue. I now want to go buy a external harddrive to transfer my computer contents to. I was told just transferring wont backup my programs on my computer. 1) is this true 2) what is the best way I can back up my computer so I can stop worrying about a crash and loosing all my families memories and my programs. Thanks to all that respond to a basic but essential need of mine. GC
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HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Guest Rhonda- 8 replies
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About 2 weeks ago my OS crashed. Took it in and they reinstalled Windows XP. Since then my computer will not shut down on it's own--it will not restart--when I turn the computer on it asks me to pick which OS I am using--and it gives me an error message. Network Error: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. Winsock Description: WinSock 2.0 Winsock Status: Running giFT is not running! Can I fix this on my own or should I take it back?????
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Blue Screen
by Guest slpsht- 1 reply
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After XP boot I received a blue screen message. Spooldr.sys file causing error PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA I had to disable the print spooler in safe mode in order to allow boot up. Ant idea how to repair this Thanks slpsht
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It's July 14 and I have these DEP messages going back to July 6. I got tired of having to hit enter twice, once for the error message and once to send a report to the oblivion of Microsoft. I learned that I could get on with using my computer by just moving the error message to the bottom of my screen and ignoring it. I've been reading the posts and I may have figured out how to resolve my problem with yet another Microsoft download. In fact, my problem may have been resolved, but Windows seems to be unwilling to let go of these error messages. Is there anyway I can flush these out of my system, or am I doomed to hitting the enter key about…
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Multiple Monitor Support
by Guest Derrick- 3 replies
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Does anyone know if there is a way to specify which programs open into which monitors in Windows XP Pro without having to use any type of third party software. I work for a medical institution and we cannot load any additional software on these machines but we need a certain application to open in certain monitors. The problem is that we are using 2-3 video cards for up to 5 monitors, the program that we are working with has the ability to open in 2 or 4 monitors, what we are trying to do now is to add a 3rd or 5th monitor to work on things outside of that program. But everytime we add the 3rd monitor and restart, when the program restarts it opens in the …
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Cannot Boot Sony Desktop Computer
by Guest ColTom2- 1 reply
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Hi: Apparently I have done a dumb thing. I saw some files when I opened Windows Explorer at the end of Local Disk(C:) that had never seen in this location before. I made a new folder on my desktop and cut and pasted these files into it. One of which was "ntldr" and others as well. Now I cannot get my computer to boot up and am getting a black screen with the following: "DR missing" " ss Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart" But when I hit the above I get the same error and cannot boot up. Hopefully there is a way out of this mess that I have made short of reformatting. Thanks, ColTom
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Unable to format a disk
by Guest Lindsay- 4 replies
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I have been attacked by the trojan CIA.Door and my PC is controlled by the trojan. I want to format my hard disk and re-install windows xp. But I cannot format the disk. I have tried by the command prompt also, but no result. Please help me to format it.
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fat32 to ntfs. Label problem.
by Guest Jumbo- 5 replies
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Using "convert x: /fs:ntfs" I converted three usb flash drives to ntfs without problems. However when I tried to do the same thing on two usb hard drives the dos window asks for label name which is apparently is not the name asigned to the drive e.g. Backup. Where have I gone wrong. Googled and searched MS for solution but no help. Tried suggestion to find label for each volume and told syntax is wrong. Any ideas welcome. TIA Jumbo -- Silver Surfer
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hi, I'm trying to fix a problem on my girlfriends computer - XP Home edition. During boot up something is changing the screen resolution to an unsupported screen resolution such that the screen goes blank. Of course I can't do any troubleshooting because the screen is blank. Any ideas how I can fix this without a having to reinstall the system because she only has dial up internet and it's very hard to update her system after a system install? 1. System Restore - I started the computer in Safe Mode and tried System Restore. However, the System says System Restore was not enabled and could not be enabled in Safe Mode. I tried enabling System Restore b…
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File order
by Guest JohnF- 4 replies
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It seems that when I browsed files the folder would have them in alphabetical order. Now they are to jumbled and I have to specify I want to see them in alphabetical order. and if I'm selecting several files I have to keep specifying. Is there a way to set this so that the files are always in alphabetical order in the folder? Thanks John
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Causes for failure of return from hibernation
by Guest Jeff- 0 replies
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I'm wondering what are the common causes for the failures of return from hibernation in XP SP2. I have a one year old notebook that runs XP MCE and I have it set up to hibernate when I close the lid. Despite hearing of people having problems with hibernation in XP, I have rarely had problems with the PC restoring itself from hibernation - till recently. As of a month or so, it has become not uncommon for the notebook to try to restore itself and after reading the file (progress meter goes to the end) asks me to delete the saved file and restart Windows. I would not complain except that this is a change for my system and I therefore wonder why the hib…
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Acronis Disaster Recovery
by Guest Edward W. Thompson- 13 replies
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Acronis True Image software is regularly recomended in these NGs. What are opinions of the Disaster Recovery feature of True Image, is it worth implementing?
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CD NOT ABLE TO READ IN THE DVD AFTER REINSTALL
by Guest solon- 4 replies
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hi i just got my sony notebook reinstall the xp fm the recovery cd, & found out that the cd writer only able to read dvd but not vcd any more! or even play vcd movie on it! only dvd working anyone met this problem before & anyone ca help me on this case? -- solon