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Data files seen, but will not allow to copy?
by Guest tlc_13200@hotmail.com- 10 replies
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I have a strange problem. A customer called me on Monday, visited him. His hard drive will not boot up, but when I attach it to an external hard drive, it will see the drive, read the read in fact. I can see all his word document files, and spreadsheet files, etc. But, when I attempted to select and copy or to even open the file in the application a message reports back stating... can't read the file, a hardware problem occurs when trying to copy it to the computer, or when attempting to open it in Word or Excel, it states the file name is not present or missing can't open? Has anyone seen this type of message before, is there a way to retrieve this dat…
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Kelly, Pls help w/your reply
by Guest Judy- 1 reply
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Hi Kelly, On 7/14 I asked about my start/search having no search results. You replied on 7/15. But I have a couple questions which I posted on 7/15 and 7/19 to your reply in that thread. Subject was: “No Start/Search Results”. Can you please help me? Thank you. Judy
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HIDING RECYCLEBIN
by Guest |-| oo K- 2 replies
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how can i hide my recycle bin from xp desktop.
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Where did restore points go?
by Guest KG- 5 replies
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System has been running great, XP home SP2, setting system restore points every 5 days using the reg hack, then BLAM, after the last windows update they are all gone, nothing, nota. It looks like with MS I must start backing up the backup. MS is getting almost as good as BUSH at screwing up. ***************** Thank You kGbAT@msbx.net To reply to this email please remove the AT after the kGb in the reply to address as shown above.
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Print function does not work on new printer
by Guest Guy DeStefano- 6 replies
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I had a parallel connected Laser Jet connected directly to my computer. I was able to use the function ( C:\print [filename] ), and all laser formatted documents printed correctly. Printer broke, today purchased a new HP 2600n. It had no parallel connector, so I used a cat5 cable and connected to my home network. Now, I can not get ( print ) to work. The only option is /D:( device name ). I need somehow to tell the system that < HP LaserJet 2600n > is really my lpt1. This, I do not know how to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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question
by Guest john marsden- 4 replies
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would someone please answer" rich 7/24, windows xp keeps freezing up" i have the same problem, thank you. john marsden.
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"invalid base 64 character"
by Guest Tolstoy- 2 replies
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Recently a dialog box from Spy Sweeper popped up today that says I have a bug on my computer. Mostly it contains gibberish that I don't understand. I quoted one line of it in the title of this post, "invalid base 64 character." Lately my computer has been operating very slow, and I was wondering if it has anything to do with this "bug" discovered by the Spy Sweeper program. A few days ago, I did a full reinstall of the operating system with the recovery disk that came with the computer. It didn't make any noticeable improvement. I have a 6 year old Toshiba Satellite. Apologies in advance, I'm going to cut and paste the whole Spy Sweeper message here. Is the…
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User Accounts Issue
by Guest Daddio- 3 replies
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Two instances of logging onto my computer has started happening: 1) I had Administrator and only Guest (Guest Off) and then all of a sudden another user account appeared all without passwords. 2) The I booted up and this time the Administrator was gone leaving this other user account and only Guest (Guest Off) all without passwords. All of this disrupted my ability to log on to the administrator side of the computer rendering the computer useless as none of my administrator side programs appeared. I went throught every possible step to recover this issue, except System Restore in hopes of finding another solution. Lastly this is XP Professional ve…
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Problems booting after installing new hard drive
by Guest Flauros- 2 replies
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Last night, I installed a second hard drive on my system, (making sure to set it as a slave drive). I then used the included software for that hard drive to format/partition it, and rebooted to start Windows. I noticed that during the POST it lingers for a while on certain parts that it didn't used to, and then after a while it will tell me something similar to "BOOT ERROR, INSERT SYSTEM DISK IN CD-ROM DRIVE AND PRESS ENTER". My computer came with Windows XP (Home) pre-installed when I bought it two years ago, and the manufacturer did not include a Windows CD, so I borrowed one from a friend. After inserting the CD, it briefly gives me the option to "Pres…
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Default view in windows explorer
by Guest JB- 0 replies
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I have read many of the articles and posts on how to change the default view for windows explorer using the command line options. I have also seen the info about updating the registry but all the ones I have seen talk about updating HKCU. The issue I have is that the default has changed for all users. I want to be able to set them all back to the original default view, which was the folder tree in the left pane and my documents open in the right pane. I am not sure how it happened but I think it was after I installed a piece of software that needed to reboot to complete the install. Is there a way to change this back for all users without doing each one at…
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USB Device stops working every shutdown.
by Guest Gilera- 7 replies
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I have a Flight Simulator controller that is recognised, shows up in (Game Controllers) and works 100%, that is until shut down of computer. On boot up the device does not show up in (Game Controllers) until i remove and then re-insert USB plug from device. I have checked it in all my USB sockets, all same. I have unticked allow the computer to turn off this device to save power, same. Any suggestions please?
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How to clean a virus file.
by Guest test- 4 replies
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Hi I have a Gateway PC which runs window xp professional. Currently i ran a full scan of symantec anti virus program v8.1 which has detected a virus called "backdoor.trojan" for a file called c:\windows\system32\gilsoh.exe. And it also mentions that clean failed,quarantine failed. And when i tried to delete, it is also failed. So i am not sure,what i should do to clean this virus. is this file part of the window xp OS, or was it created by a virus program? is it ok to somehow delete this file ? What i should do clean this virus. please let me know asap. Thanks.
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Copying old files to new drive
by Guest John- 3 replies
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I have just done a new install of XP to a new 500gb sata hard drive in the same system I had before. The old drive is a 120gb sata hard drive and I need to copy all my files from this to the new drive. When I connect this old drive back up to the second sata port and I am within windows, I go to drive D documents and settings and try and go in the John folder to get to My Documents to copy them across but it comes up with an access is denied error message and wont let me into the John folder. Does anyone know how I can undeny the access? ;) It is windows xp pro sp2. I was set up as administrator on both machines, same name, same computer name, same password e…
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Tapping noise coming from speakers!
by Guest ED- 11 replies
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Has anyone had this problem? About every hour or so for no reason a tapping noise comes from my speakers. It is the same number of tappes and rythem everytime. It is really drving me crazy so would appreciated and help at all. Thank all, -- ED
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Wireless Networking
by Guest Don- 3 replies
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I have a desktop running Windows XP Home Edition (with SP2) and am networked to my laptop using a Linksys router. I have enabled laptop access to my desktop files in My Documents. I have just added an external hard drive to my desktop for backup purposes. My questions are: 1. Is there a way to enable access to this external drive from the laptop? 2. Is there a way to enable the use of this external drive as a backup for the laptop files? If either of these are possible, would appreciate instructions on how to implement the changes. -- Don