my wife has a fairly new iMac and I was trying to set up an older external hard drive for her, which the mac wouldn't recognize. Well, I went to my trusty xp PC and downloaded some drivers that I was doing to expand onto a usb drive. Some how, gasp, d@%#mn, they must have loaded onto my system and now when it starts, it does so in DOS.
View 5 RepliesWhen I try to run command line utilities such as ipconfig, netstat etc.. on
the command line interface I get message such as like that:
C:>ipconig
'ipconig' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Previously I have been doing work that requires me to unplug my network connection and I need to check my IP address each time I plug it in again. I guess it's not set for static IP.Anyways to do this I usually go into Command Prompt and type 'ipconfig'Now however I just get "'ipconfig' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file".The directory is the same as its always been, I can change it but it doesn't seem to matter what it is.I've checked many other posts and is there something possibly wrong with my PATH variable? I used the command 'echo %PATH%' and it works, the list it gives is very garbled however.
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I am trying to install some software but I keep getting the message that windows does not recognise a filename extension msi. I have also had the same message with scf and url extensions. Is there an easy solution? My OS is XP.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI would like to know if this can be done in win xp environment. say I have a folder, A, of pictures only and they all have file extensions jpg eg abc.jpg, xyz.jpg. say I have a second folder, B, which contains all the files of A(if you ignore extensions) and more(but all are pictures.) But all the files in B has extensions NEF instead of jpg eg abc.NEF, efg.NEF, xyz.NEF. My idea is to extract all the files from B that has the same the name as A(ignoring extensions) and either move or copy to a separate folder ie if A contains abc.jpg, xyz.jpg then abc.NEF and xyz.NEF will be extracted and moved/copied to a new folder. I'm not sure where to start. is there a program out there that can do this? or there's a special command to type at the command prompt?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI noticed a lot of services running under one of my svchost.exe processes when I ran the "tasklist /svc" command in the Command Prompt.Here's what I got: AudioSrv, BITS, Browser, CryptSvc, DHCP, dmserver, ERSvc, EventSystem, FastUserSwitchingCompatibilty, helpsvc, HidServ, lanmanserver, lanmanworkstation, Netman, Nla, RasMan, Schedule, seclogon, SENS, SharedAccess, ShellHWDetection, srservice, TapiSrv, Themes, TrkWks, W32Time, winmgmt, wscsvc, wuaserv, WZCSVC I'm not at all sure if any of those are real threats
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View 1 Replies View Relatedmy computer just started having boot problems. I had not used it in a while because it was a backup. My primary has been totally taken over by a spyware program so I need to use the backup and now it won't boot up. All I get is the PXE_E53 no filename received message.
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I have Windows XP Home installed and my dvd/cd burner is a Device Description SONY DVD RW DRU-530A. I have burned many files,photos,and music on this unit using cd-r discs. I am now using DVD-r discs and the burner will not recognize the disc. I tried DVD+r discs and have the same problem. Attached is the statement I get when I try to burn a disc. Should I go back to a CD-R disc or what could the problem be? I have tried to burn using Windows and using Nero with the same result.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have been using this pc with windows xp for about a month now and up to now I have had no problems, but for some reason my drive has suddenly stopped reading dvds...My drive is an Optiarc DVD-RW AD-5170AI can insert a cd and it recognizes and reads the disk perfectly, but when I insert a dvd windows appears to start to read the disk, but after a few seconds nothing seems to be happening except that the read light on the drive is lit and the drive makes a few strange sounds. I have left it to load for a few minutes but still nothing happens.After searching, I have found 2 possible solutions:The first was to uninstall the driver and restart. Upon restart windows will reinstall the device.I tried that twice, still experiencing the same problem.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen I first got the computer, when I plugged in a digital camera, I got a "found new hardware" pop-up, thereafter when plugging in the USB cable, the XP camera wizard popped up and the pictures were downloaded without a fuss. At some point it stopped working, and I've ended up using Picassa to get the images d'ld, but it won't let me add photos to an existing folder. I want the Windows wizard to work again, that was better.My new camera is not recognized at all, and if anything pops up, it's Explorer. I tried to install drivers from the disc that came with the camera, but keep getting a message that says I don't need to. I've tried to manually add the camera with the "add hardware" function, but it won't work.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedWhat would cause a relatively new HP Media Center computer to recognize other things inserted into any of the USB ports in the front (for example, a jump drive), but NOT recognize one device (a Lowrance iWAY 500c GPS car navigation device) that is readily recognized when it's plugged into a different computer?The HP computer is a friend's. The "different computer" is mine, a custom machine from Puget Systems with a P4 on an Asus MoBo. On the friend's computer, we get a "bubble" message from the taskbar to the effect that the device is not recognized -- so it knows something is plugged in, but apparently doesn't have the driver for it.
Her system is running Win XP and I assume (but don't know for sure) that she's kept up with Windows updates.
When I check MyComputer, the Lowrance isn't on the list. In Device Manager, it's listed as "Unknown device".I'm wondering about things like the HP lists a pot full of drives because it has all the camera card slots, etc. in the front panel (I think the drives go all the way up to J:, almost all of which are "removable drives".
I recently changed processors - nothing too technical -except now 5 times out of 6 , my PC will not recognize my DVD drive.There was no problem before.
View 7 Replies View Relatedon another thread, i'm looking for an answer to a problem with my daughter's computer and her dsl connection i was asked to run ipconfig/all on both my computer, that works well with dsl modem, and her's, which doesn't. the command prompt brings this error message "'IPCONFIG' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."
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View 7 Replies View RelatedI have an HP Compaq 6515b and after I deleted Nero (could have been before that) I noticed that it only recognizes my drive as a CD Drive and no longer my DVD drive. It won't let me burn DVDs so do I need to search out DVD software? I have gone to HP and the only thing that they say about a DVD (drivers wise) is for a WinDVD program. What do I need to install to get my DVD burner back?
View 13 Replies View RelatedWhenever I try to use a usb device in xp pro it always shows up as unknown device or the usb device not recognized pop up comes up. It happens with everything, memory stick reader to a gaming controller. My specs Aopen AK79D-400 MAX mobo ,512mb ddr, 160gb western digital, xp pro .
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