Windows XP
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Drop my Rights
by Guest aafroz- 5 replies
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I am trying to install Drop my Rights Software. I get the message "installation successful". But when I click on it to run the program I get a "commnad line window" for a split second. I tried after disabling Fw, AV and anti-spyware products. Can someone advise me on how to run this program?
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XP end-of-life
by Guest matt_heff- 9 replies
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Does anyone know when Microsoft will ending the production and distrubution of XP and only make Vista available? Thanks, Matt
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Anything that does this?
by Guest Mark G.- 4 replies
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Not sure that XP Pro can do this, but if it can, then great and please explain how. If not, does anyone know of any good, free utilities that do so? What I am after is something that can do two things. First, give me a list of the last XX (being 50, 100, etc..) files that have changed including their paths and date changed. Secondly, something that will and can monitor specified folders/files for changes and then alert me via pop-up and/or email alert. I believe these two functions are something we all can use. I did some Goggling and ran across something that does the first tasks, but looked like spyware so I passed on it. Any recommendations? Thanks much…
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My CPU is sometimes strangles with some process
by Guest Mario- 5 replies
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In last few months my laptop sometimes become strangles with some process without any particular reason but I can't figure out which because it is uninusable so much that I can't even ctr+alt+del. I think that some malicious thing will always slow down the laptop. The other thing is that on my 3 machines the startup and shutdown time can be "too long". I know that it is relative thing but with the fresh installation of everything (always the same applications on all machines: XP, avast, winamp, bsplayer, autocad, 3dstudio, office) everything works well for a few months. After that everything slows down despite the defragmentation and all other preventing thing.
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Restoring data from an old version of Windows
by Guest Sitara Lal- 7 replies
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I urgently need to transfer some data files from an old PC, vintage 1992, which is mainly used to run a DOS programme. This PC came with Win 3.1 loaded and has two drives - one for 5.25" floppies and the other for 3.5" floppies. There is no CD drive (and it is not possible to attach an external drive) and no USB port of course. Does anybody have any idea on how I could transfer the data files, all of which are of course well over the 1.44MB capacity of the 3.5" floppies? I tried backing up the files using the Windows 3.1 backup utility, but these backup files (named CC21021A.001, CC21021A.002 etc) cannot be read by the Win XP backup utility. Any bri…
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pop up across desktop
by Guest Steve T- 11 replies
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Don't know what this is or how to get rid of it. Started popping up across my desktop over the weekend after, I think; downloaded some videos from Youtube with a converter. I have removed the program and Google's IE bar as I thought that was the problem. I have run my AV, Ad-Aware, Spybot and AVG's anti rootkit. Task manager shows it as a running process when it appears. I can shut it down, but after a while it pops up onto the desktop. It appears as an ad and sometimes just an advertisement for a product. Here it is translated with IE 6: You have an Internet site, a blog, a myspace page? You want an address short, original and sympathetic? http://www.C…
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BSOD stop error 000000c5 pls help
by Guest Pool- 7 replies
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Hi Everyone, While i was online tonight i got BSOD with error code 000000c5 this is the first time it happened to me.I would very much appreciate if someone could tell me what might have caused this error and what to do. I use windows XP professional edition with pentium 4 3.0 GHZ, 512 MB of RAM The error description is Error code:000000c5, parameter1 00000027, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000001, parameter4 805395e5
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Where is the User Guide to "Phone Dialer"?
by Guest retread- 6 replies
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I have installed "dialer" in my Start folder as per post under Q285920. The only info I can find about it is under Product Documentation and is very general (and short). The link to http://www.activevoice.com/dialer is a dead end. ActiveVoice doesn't have any info on their web site about it at all. This is a program that has been around since 1998, but I can't find any help on how to find the details of using it. I want to use it to dial a long list of phone numbers I have in an excel s/s. Any help would be appreciated.
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Internet connection times out?
by Guest Charlie5- 10 replies
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I have DSL from ATT. I must of changed something by mistake and now after a few hours of use, after a reboot, the systray will get a icon that is for connection disconnected. It appears in "Network Connections, LAN or high speed internet. Local area connection 8 disconnected. Firewalled Realtek RTL839 Family PCI Fast Ethernet ". I do not have a network and assume that this still needs to be in Network Connections? That is the item that gets disconnected and of course I can do nothing but reboot and start the process all over again. Seems like it is on a timer or I do something that activates the disconnect? Can someone advise what I should check a…
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A buddy reloaded XP Home and other software including Verizon DSL Help files. Every time he starts XP tow screens appear- Router Error please enter the user name and password for your router, then click ok (no router has ever been installed for this PC) and Welcome to Verizon on line updates -to see a list of installed updates click Installed Products. How can I stop these screens from appearing? Also, I forgot how to access the Startup Screen from the run line. Thanks, Mike
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SATA Support in XP
by Guest Ender14- 11 replies
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I am currently running Vista Home Premium, but want to set up a dual boot with XP. The problem I'm running into is my XP Pro disc is so old it is not bootable. I attempted to create a bootable CD, but the program I used required an XP disc with Service Pack 1, which I do not have. I have the floppy discs that will allow me to install XP, but since my version is so old, will it recognize my SATA hard drive? If not, is there any way to install the SATA drivers prior to running the XP set up? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Installing IIS Without SP2 Disk
by Guest John- 6 replies
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I want to install the IIS on my XP Pro machine with SP2 installed after a dwonload some months ago. When I go to the Control Panel and select the IIS from the Windows Add-ons, I am prompted to put inthe XP Pro Disk with SP2. I downloaded SP2 from the web many months ago. Why cannot I install the IIS?? Is there a link for the install for those of us who downloaded SP2 without a disk?? Thanks. John
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slow clock help
by Guest JS- 12 replies
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Greetings, Since I can't seem to figure out why my clock is losing a couple of hours per day, is there a way I use the "scheduled tasks" to update my clock every couple of hours? Thanks, Jim
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Active Voice Dialer 1.50
by Guest edki- 1 reply
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How do I get rid of this product from my computer? Because of it, I cannot plug my phone into my PC. It keeps “answering” my phone. It does not show up in “add/remove programs”. I have been told it is buried in my Microsoft XP Home Edition. The “About” screen says it was developed by Active Voice for Microsoft. I have spent 12 hours on the phone with Microsoft Support and they cannot figure it out. I spent $279 on a professional to get rid of it and it keeps coming back.
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unable to copy from one HD to another
by Guest Chandra- 2 replies
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Hello! My house was struck by lightening, causing a PC to be rendered useless. I installed the hard drives into another computer to retrieve the data. (the data is ok! yay!) When trying to copy files & folders from the OS drive (my documents, etc) onto the drive it used to live with on the old machine, i keep getting an error: "Cannot copy XYZ file: Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use" So, there is 100GB free on the HD its being moved to, 79GB free on the drive the files live on. The files have never been opened on this machine. SOME of the files are marked as "Read Only" but It…