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installed the latest update from Microsoft on Tuesday, December 11th and now Postscript OpenType fonts have disappeared from applications. View the thread

I have completed a reinstall of Windows XP on an Inspiron 1150. I now find that the CD/DVD drive is misbehaving. Specifically whereas the drive accepts CDs OK it refuses to recognise DVDs. What's going on? I suspect some problem with the device driver or the decoder. View this thread

I'm retiring a HP laptop with VISTA (installed at factory). Can I legally use the VISTA software to upgrade an older Inspiron laptop with XP? I'll NOT be using the HP computer anymore in the future - so the VISTA would be used on only one computer - although not the original one. View this thread

The gamespy server was shut down Dec 19th and the multiplayer option is no longer useable in Flight Simulator X, and we cannot fly on line. Does Microsoft have any plans to provide an alternate server for the game? Reference: www.poweredbygamesph.com/blog. View this thread

Cierro la sesión de Windows Vista y no puedo apagar la PC se pone la pantalla negra y no me da opción, sólo se apaga despus de presionar el botón de prender View this thread

screen resolution 800/600; text size smallest. icons are very big and users wants to make smaller. is there way? View the thread

I purchased online and have downloaded the Windows 7 Pro upgrade (3 files: exe and setup1 and setup2) but when I run the executable I receive the following message "Unloading the Box - We are unable to create or save new files in the folder in which this applications was downloaded. Please check the folder properties to make sure that you have security permission on the folder to write files and that the folder is not read-only" I have changed the folder securities permissions but still keep getting the same message. Please advise what I may need to do to complete the installation. I View the thread

can anyone help me?Thinking i was deleting things on a flash drive to make room i deleted off computer instead. Now i can't open anything or use a cd or the flash. Everything says server execution failed. I feel such a doink View the thread

i recently installed defender went into program instrutions added run at startup but dose not happen View this thread

I've tried every instruction given from helps, hints etc. and still can't get any envelopes to print. My OS is windows 7 with Microsoft Word 2010 and the printer is an Epson NX400. I've made sure everything is updated and connected correctly, too. Please help. View the thread

dear plz help me when i start my computer the msg show on screen Pri aster Hard Disk:S.M.A.R.T status BAD, Backup and Replace Press F2 to Resume [moved from virus and malware to Windows/Hardware forum area] View this thread

I recovered my windows 7 64bit laptop from failed RAM and now have a error that says MSVCR80.dll file missing. The laptop boots and the OS works fine but I can not update. I have spent numerous hours on google, you tube and microsofts tech net and I am not getting anything that helps. Can someone help me stop this insanity? Please? I Thank you now for being my hero, who ever answers this post!! View the thread

HI ,After the upgradation of windows xp sp2 to sp3( At client side ) i unable to access network drive or unable to mount network drive . it showa error" network path was not found " View this thread

mcafee total protection is incompatible with my volstro 260 home desktop from dell manufaturer please help View the thread

All I want is to use email. How do I delete facebook, twitter, etc. from my system? View the thread

Windows XP had the drop-down at the top with the options, but I haven't been able to locate it in Win7. How do I access the print, print preview, edit, etc. on Win7?? Please help!!! View the thread

On other email accounts I can find my sent email. Where is sent email in hotmail View the thread

When I send and email with an attached document is downloads as a zipped document. People with MAC computers can't read/open it because it looks like spam and they don't get it or their system is unable to open it. I would like to discontinue the zip format when I'm attaching documents to be downloaded from the email I 'm sending. How do I do this? View the thread

my computor is telling me to use an ethernet cable what does this mean ? View the thread

I did a quick search on the forums, and couldn't find any thread similar to this one. I apologize if this is the wrong the thread group to post this in, and for the generic thread title; I have many different questions pertaining to this subject however. Video app - Is there anyway I can generate a playlist for videos such that a video will play automatically after one finishes? If this is not available, is there an autoplay next file function? How do I get files that have different codecs and containers like mkv to be recognized inside the video app? When I go into my videos, I see all the files contained in my entire library joined together, ignoring which folder they belonged to. Is there anyway to display the proper folder hierarchy reflecting the folders the files originated from? Music app - My computer's display will turn off while I am playing music, I feel that since the computer is producing activity (playing music), an idle state should not be triggered. Is this not possible to achieve? I have album art embedded into each of my .mp3's or .flac's, but the music app does not seem to be picking it up, why is this? On the now playing section of the music app, there is no search for quick finding of a song. There is a scroll display where you can seek specific songs in some order, but if you have say, 700 files, it can be unruly to search. The same goes for looking at the my music part of the music app. What alternatives are available to me? View the full article

I have a Advent 7083 Laptop,Windows XP,with AVG anti Virus Protection(which has lapsed). I want to install Norton Gold Edition. When I tried to install Norton on myPC (eMachines) Vista Basics, my PC turned itself off and will not let me restore or do anything else. A message comes on PC screen to say:A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your PC. If this is the first time you've seen this STOP error screen, restart your computer. Check to make sure any Hardware or Software is properly installed..... If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed Hardware/Software. Disable BIOS memory options such as Caching or shadowing..... Technical Information: Stop: 0X0000C1F5 (0x00000000) (0x00000000) (0x00000000) (0x00000000) I have used F8 and safe mode, to no avail. PC returns to above screen. Any ideas? So hence my insecurity about installing Norton on Laptop. If anyone can with either of the above, i would appreciate it. Thanks Alemap :) View this thread

Why am I getting an important update message however, I am also told the updated is no longer available when I am prompted to install? The message reads I need a disk for Microsoft works9 where would I be able to find such a disk? KB2754670 Security Bulletin MS12-028 It states 64bit is vunarable but I,m using 32bit. I do not know what to do View the thread

Hi as above I am currently running Vista Ultimate 32 bit,And have just purchased a new computer that runs a 64 bit system I have a genuine windows OPS product that contains both 32&64 bit disk.How do I deactivate the 32 bit to install a clean 64 bit on a new HDD.I am planning to use a kill disk to wipe the HDD on my old computer but have read other people have had problem reinstalling the 64 bit version as windows will not activate the licence,Any help or advice on this would be really appreciated. View this thread

Hello. I repeatly have the Errors 8024200D and 80070002 for KB2769195 and "Intel Corporation driver for Mobile Intel® 945 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.0)). I'm not able to install this two updates since a few days (I've already tried reboots, fix-it, fix-it aggressive, manual fix-it) - but all the patches from the last patchday I was able to install successfully. I would have CBS.log ans WindowsUpdate.log (abaout 11MB), if somebody is interessted in. Many thanks in advance Hausi View the full article

Installation responds that my updates are not up to date. Automatic updates are turned on. Windows XP. Review of past updates shows six that failed to load. All on 14 April 2010. KB981715 KB979683 KB980232 KB978338 KB977816 KB981832 They still will not load and update.?? View this thread