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I have a 'little' laptop connected to a larger monitor. When ever I wish to play a music video, media player appears in the laptop screen, but completely fills the large monitor screen. Naturally all 'work' is done on the large, easy to read monitor. With the large monitor 'fill' I am snookered, and unable to do any further work. Is there any way I can have the music video playing solely in the laptop screen? Thanks in advance - plus I hope this is clear.

When my friend's computer was using Windows ME, it displayed true colors (32 bits). Now that I "upgraded" it to Windows 2000 Professional, it will display only 16 colors. I don't know where to look for the driver. The system is as follows: *Motherboard *– AMD Jetway 861CS KLE133 Chipset: North Bridge VIA VT 8361 Apollo KLE133 VIA chip VT 82C686B *Display PCI/AGP Video* – Trident CyberBlade-i7 Video adapter I tried the AMD and VIA sites, but couldn't find anything for W2K. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Ray

I have XP HE on each of two partitions. Can I uninstall XP HE from one partition without having to reformat that partition? -- Call me Old Surfer - Wet or Dry

My computer started doing this thing where my screen goes black. It used to be that I could turn the monitor off and on a couple of time and then the screen would stay on. Now when I do that the screen goes black a second later. I am thinking about using my recover disk and see if that will work. Any ideas?

OK, it was dumb. I lent my laptop to my friend - Honest! In any case, all of a sudden I got virus alerts, I tried to clean with my AVG and Spybot - Not! Tried a SYS-Restore - Nope. Couldn't even launch Taskman. Installed Panda - scanned - it helped. Installed KasperSky - helped even more. Eventually, I got the system to the point where all is well - except the following: 1) Any Microsoft site (Win Update - either typing in the url or the shortcut from the menu bar) redirects to some random site, 2) I can hit my home page of Google (ca, us or any) all is well. When I enter a search, it seems to be fine, then all of a sudden redirected. Usually the…

Read all about it here: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/10/23/windows-vista-service-pack-2-sp2-pre-beta-600216489-released-to-selected-testers/ Of course, hackers have already managed to create a registry hack that allows you to download this risky and unstable download. I won't post the web page where that modification is made public, it might even cause a further damage in the stock market and worldwide economy or a distortion in the space continuum! ;) Carlos

Hi, I have three computers in my home and two of them download and installed sp3 without any problem. The third (all of them are using xp pro) downloaded the sp3 update and when the computer was rebooting, the message came up "set up was interrupted. Restoring prior configuration." I tried disabling my antivirus program and installing sp3 again that the same thing occurred. I ordered the CD from Microsoft and tried installing sp3 again. Same thing happened again. I went to C:/windows and looked in the spv3 file and found the following: 449.656: Service Pack 3 installation did not complete. 250.297: Service Pack 3 Setup encountered an error: Th…

hello. i downloaded some songs in my PC from a friend's cd and some of it are not playing in my WMP. when i click on a track, i have this: Error ID = 0x80040255, Condition ID = 0x00000000. i clicked details and it has a list of supported files for WMP. and it says that i must have this "mp2.exe". how will i make it play on my WMP like all the others? i've checked the file format and it only says "cd audio format" and has 1KB per song. i have winXP SP2 and WMP10. hope you can help me like before. TIA! p.s. i asked here instead in the WMP support coz no MS MVP seems to be there. :-)

Hi I am not sure what is wrong with my computer. But everything has been extremely slow to load recently. I have tried restoring the entire computer, but it is still slow. I have no idea what it could be, I have run my virus programs, and there was nothing found. Someone suggested I tried to defrag my computer? I was wondering how I do this?? And will this possibly help?

I have a multi-boot system and use Win98 for software testing. I installed a new motherboard and now 98 won't boot. I get this error message: http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/3423/win98p1040147mu2.jpg I have 4gig of memory so it can't be insufficient memory. There is no Autoexe.bat file, and the Config.sys file is blank/empty. I did an install over but nothing changed. Anybody know what's wrong and how I get it to boot? jim

Re: Creating a LAN on GateWay Laptop? I have a device, essentially like a camera, that needs a ethernet port and address, 10:0:0:0. I've created a port on W2000, and can successfully use it there. I did it years ago by assigning the device to a LAN. How do I do this in XP Pro? I tried something like Network Connections via the Control Panel, but it seems intent on having me deal with a printer or files. On my desktop with XP Pro, it looks like using the CP will get me to a LAN. Using Help gets me to two icons, one of which is for a LAN. However, this is not the machine I need to have the device. -- W. eWatson …

Hi Folks, I'm using XenServer 4.x for almost a year now but want to migrate to Hyper-V RTM for a number of reasons. Moving the VMs (W2k3 R2 SP2) from XenServer to Hyper-V works well, different methods are possible (SC VMM 2008 Beta P2V, Ghost Corp. Edition, other tools). However, the migrated VMs boot enormously slow on Hyper-V. It takes 30 minutes to hours until the logon screen, again 30 minutes to hours until logon completes. However, explorer.exe doesn't start. In taskmgr.exe and compmgmt.msc I can see, that not a single service was started, not even eventlog! I haven't found any information on the web with a similar behaviour of Windows! It …

Hi for the past 2 days my comp has been turning itself of and on, barely getting to start up and if it does it goes of again. Im not having enough time to run a virus check so ive tried to system restore but no matter what date i choose it want restore. anyhelp would be gladly appreciated many thanks Nikki

Good Day: Yesterday, I posted a question and I received a 'notification' of a reply this morning so I clicked on the link within the message. A new window opened but it was blank-Does the cache or something need to be 'cleared?' I had to go directly to the Microsoft Discussion website, log in there, and then view my message.

I have been getting this error each time I have scaned my desk top computer. What does this mean. Here is the full code: 0x800704b8 decomposing "Workgroup". should I be worried? if so what can I do about this? I have tried to find this file or what ever it is but can't. Please can some one help me!