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Started having trouble with Windows not recognising my digital camera but now it won't recognise a USB scanner or the firewire input for the camcorder. What can I look at to find out why this has happened and how to repair it? thanks in advance. -- Regards, Peter Macphail

I am setting up an HP Laptop with AMD Turion processor which didn't have a Windows CD when purchased. During initial setup, I selected the Windows Vista 64x option. Later, I faced many compatibility issues and I want to switch back to 32-bit Vista. There was no cd supplied for HP or Windows. How can I re-install the 32-bit option?. I selected the recovery option of HP but this just wiped off the disc and installed the same 64bit os.

Hi, My pc keeps shutting down without any warning or anything and when I try to switch on the cpu again, it doesn't even get through the booting process. After sometime, when I try it, it works for about 15 mins and then shuts down again. The temps have been normal cpu - 41 Ambient - 43 remote - 66 HDD - 43 temp1 - 41 Previously it used to restart/show the bluescreen. But, after some days without any problems, now it just shuts down. It can happen any moment now. How can this problem suddenly occur? What do you think I should do? Is it hardware or software related? Do you think reinstalling xp should work? How will I reinstall if it keeps s…

The Sun web site says not to delete older versions of the Java Runtime Environment (I currently have version 1.4.1.02 on my XP system) before installing a later version (I want to install Version 1.6 -2, the latest version), but I've seen others post that you should delete the older version before installing a newer one. Advice, anyone?

I have just installed Windows XP Pro and all the associated updates on my PC. I have also cleaned up my user associated start menus by moving the short cuts to the user accounts I want them to reside. I now notice a 5 second delay when I try to select the All Users\start menu folder from within My Computer (i.e., selecting My Computer, then C:, then Documents and Settings, then All Users, then Start Menu). If I go to it by right clicking the Start menu button on the lower left corner of the screen it is instantaneous. I also get the delay when I use the back arrow key to come out of the Start Menu. This phenomena does not happen with any other user specifi…

I'm using an Amd X2 cpu with a hitachi hard drive 2gb ddr2 ram. I'm getting screen freezes and program crashes regular? If i leave the pc on and walk away 9 times out of ten when i come back the screen has frozen and the mouse is stuck forcing me to reboot? Is it possible these problems would be occuring due to my last installation which went bad, when I tried to fix that installation i used the fixboot command in recovery console could this command have altered my pc's stability? I'm finding alot more crashes on this AMD system compared to previous intel cpu's? Is anyone experiencing the same problems? Is it possible I need a better heatsink? Maybe I shou…

Hello, I have a user that has XP SP2 in a Windows 2003 server environment that has to reboot her PC every morning to reconnect the printers and drives. Does anyone know why her PC would be dropping network shares like this? Thanks, Steve

I have a 2003 server. I can backup anything locally e.g. from one directory of the server to another using robocopy or NT backup. However when I try to back up to either a USB drive on the server with Robocopy or NT backup or using Veritas onto a tape drive on the server or NT backup or Robocopy to a remote computer, the backup fails and all users on the network can't log in. The server is still functional other than it can't see the rest of the network.

These monitors are supposed to be easier on the eyes. I find quite the opposite and not just eye strain but headache, mild nausea and mild dizziness. I have heard many people complain about adverse symtoms from these LCD monitors. Anyone else suffering? Any ideas on how to make viewing easier and healthful. These anti glare screens on the market are of no help.

Hello, I need to buy a high-end Asus mother board, 1333 fsb. The motherboards comes with either Intel or NVIDIA chipsets. Is one better than the other? What are the tradeoffs? Thanks. Talal

I would like to know how to remove an item and update still listed in add/remove programs after I have delted it from my system.

Opps, using Tweak I turned off the only name used on computer, thinking it would avoid this screen which started turning up and requiring me to click on the user name. So as you can guess this dimwit gets the To Begin Click Your User Name screen, there is of course, no name to click on, sooooooo, how do I get around this screen block and get onto the computer so I can go and put Tweak back the way it was. Please do not note this dimwit's error on his personal record! Now if you can tell me how to get past the block, perhaps you can also tell me how to correctly avoid having the To Begin Click Your User Name screen show up. It didn't used to do that…

Hi, My name is Sarah. I received this computer as a gift that my friend picked up at a yard sale .I just plugged it up and was fortunate to get AOL free for 90 day's . I am Disabled and waiting on my Social Security to begin .. I was just clicking around and found the Microsoft update site and was excited when I started updating and my computer started working better . Then I received a message that said "This copy did not pass genuine validation" . WOW ! So I read up on the situation a bit and learned that I needed to contact you . Please help ! I don't know what to do . And please tell me your not going to take my computer away because it's the best thin…

Hello. I am attempting to setup file sharing on the following 4 home computers: 1) Main (computer name)- Windows XP Home Edition. I have run the Network setup Wizard and have enabled file sharing on several drives and folders. Norton 360 is on this one. 2) Kim (computer name)- Windows XP HE. I have also run the wizard and enabled file sharing on several folders. Norton 360 is on this 3) Kids (computer name) - Windows XP HE. Run the wizard and enable sharing on several folders. Norton is not yet set up here. 4) Laptop (computer name) - Windows 2000. I have not yet attempted sharing yet. On the Main computer, I can see the shared folders set up …

when I right click on my desktop or any folder and select new shortcut, a generic icon is created, but the new shortcut wizard does not appear. So, I am unable to create a new shortcut on my desktop or any folder except by sending to desktop(creat a shortcut). This started happening short;y after doing a clean install of xp-sp2. How do I get the new shortcut wizard reinstalled/reactivated? -- Bill