No matter what I do "Windows Installer Box" appears upon booting up and will freeze all other functions. Happens in normal or safe mode. Need to retrieve some documents or I would just let it go. What is the answer? Box does'nt say it is trying to install anything. If I hit cancel, it grays out and freezes everything else. Tried running msconfig but as soon as I hit OK, the box appears.
View 2 RepliesI have windows xp2 home and use outlook express and in Nortons I just disabled MSN/Windows Messenger thinking it has nothing to do with Outlook Express, I am not restarting my computer until someone here tells me it is safe.
View 1 Replies View RelatedThe computer will not boot. I have tried boot disk and it goes right to the A drive...I can run a diagnostic which passes all test. I can not go to the C drive or the CD drive but I can access the CD drive through the F12 which allows me to use start options. Nothing in the CD drive, except Norton Utilities, works and Norton only works on Drive A...Drives C & F are not there. They also come up as invalid drive specification in the Dos mode which is where I am stuck. I want to format the entire HD and repartition it. The message is invalid partition and the blue screen tells me there are too many partitions boot.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedHi, latley my computer has been acting slowley, I've noticed i've been getting these bogus pop ups telling me to buy this latest anti spyware program. It has a set a backgroudn which i cannot change, it says the same thing and takes me to the same site. I've tried several anti spyware programs, but it hasn't helped.Also, when i try to access my task manager, it says task manager has been disbled by your administrator.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedMy system uses a SiS650 onboard graphics solution on a Windows XP computer, which obviously shares my main memory, and so i recently tried to fix this by installing a NVIDIA card.
I had problems with the NVIDIA card, and so decided to remove it and go back to the onboard graphics.
However, the onboard graphics card was listed in the hardware manager, but was said to have a fault and could not run. Another graphics option, Video Graphics Adapter, was listed beside it, and according to its properties was conflicting with the SiS.
So, I did the really smart and clever thing to do and disabled the Video Graphics Adapter, thinking that it would therefore allow the SiS to run without a conflict, and so restarted.
I imagine many of you are now rolling about with laughter,the OS wont be displayed at all, due to the fact i have most likely disabled ALL VGA cards...
I have tried booting in Safe Mode, but it doesnt work, it hangs, and i have tried booting in VGA mode, but again, it doesnt work.
Is there anyway to perhaps re-enable the VGA from the command line interface or something?
IE7 - Is there anyway to permanently get rid of the yellow "Internet Explorer is currently running with add-ons disabled" bar under the status bar at the top of the screen? I don't want to just disable "add-ons" - I want to get rid of that bar so it will stop reminding me.
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View 7 Replies View RelatedAfter reformatting the HD and reinstalling XP, I find that my Inspiron laptop doesn't have Stand By or Hibernate options. When I close the lid and re-open it it's nonresponsive on a black screen until I turn it off with the Power button. I thought HAL.DLL was missing -- I got that error message once -- but it's there in SYSTEM32 and the bootlog shows it installed as a driver. Is there another driver missing? (I can't decipher all those short file names.) Might it be the wrong HAL, a generic one supplied with the XP Re-Install CD? How do I find out?
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View 6 Replies View RelatedSP3 disabled the DVD functions on my Averatec 3200 series XP laptop. The DVD drive is made by QSI. I know this is a world wide issue, but have not found a recovery. My Hard Drive failed and I replaced it and have re-loaded XP using the supplied recovery disks. The DVD functions still do not work. I'm starting to suspect that the Bios or maybe an e-prom on the DVD drive board may have been buggered, else the re-load should have brought back the DVD functions.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was working this morning and I tried to put a flash drive in my usb port (one that I've used forever) and I got the following messages:"Administrator has restricted this computer to access usb/1394 mass storage devices"and "G:/ is not accessable Acess is denied" This is especially troubling for me since I've got to finish working on my syllabi and lessons for school and can't use my flash drive, plus I can't use my ipod, which is really irritating. I thought I was the administrator. I certainly haven't disabled anything at least not on purpose.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have tried to follow instructions on loading my drivers for the Dell E153FP flat panal monitor.I did it once before and it worked.When I did a clean install od WinXP,when I get to the properties tab in the Monitor section,the tab is disabled and the monitor is not listed in the system devices.In the display section of monitor it is labeled as (Default Monitor),and will not let me in properties section.
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View 10 Replies View RelatedMy usb hub had a power shortage and was disabled. I clicked on the details button and it said that USB #8 was disabled and that I should unplug whatever is plugged into it and reset it.Well I don't know which port is number 8 but I unplugged one of the ports that I THOUGHT it might be and pushed reset. Everything else that's got a USB plug seems to be working.I also noticed last week that the USB ports in back of my computer at the very bottom have stopped working so I switched certain peripherals to be using my front ports. (digital camera)What could be causing my USB ports to malfunction like this?
View 1 Replies View Relatedhi, i have a real problem, my video card is disabled so when i load winxp all i get is a black screen, It loads ok i just cant see anything any help apreciated. Thank you
View 14 Replies View Relatedwhen i restart my computer, before the login screen, it says that my user account has been disabled.and then only lets me login to the guest account, which doesn't have administrator settings.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI tried to enable "Remote Desktop" on my machine (running Win XP Pro Sevice Pack 1), noticed that it is disabled, i.e., "Allow users to connect remotely to this computer" is greyed out. What's wrong?("Remote Assistance" is OK.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI have a situation that I am not able to resolve.A friend went into the display settings and disabled the display driver which shut down the video output when Windows XP runs.After the bios does the boot process, you can hear the Windows start up sound but there is no desktop.There is just a blank screen.I have attempted to boot in safe mode and no luck.I have tried to boot to the last good setting.I have also attempted to boot with an XP disk and repair, but there is an administrator password preventing me from going any farther with this option.
View 7 Replies View RelatedMy Windows XP home dont open , last nite I was making a roll back of a driver of ULi sata 5289 and was ok , then I went to the device manager to chek the status of my driver and accidentally I disable teh device ( I know.... me bad ) now my windows give me the screen of safe mode choice , but when i try to open safe mode , it comes back to this screen , windows try to open but its on loop , how can I get there and enable again the device ? or I need to boot into my CD and fix windows?
View 14 Replies View RelatedTrying to increase my speed at startup by using Winpatrol and the "msconfig" interface for XP. I disabled too many functions and then I couldn't enable them again. I now cannot print, have access to USB removable disks, use my wi-fi connection, etc. I initially disabled programs on Winpatrol but I uninstalled it when things weren't running anymore, and when uninstalled, all options revert back to defaults
View 14 Replies View RelatedHowever, when I check the task manager it reports "VM Size" as at the same level or higher than "Mem Usage" for all process, e.g. firefox.exe Mem Usage 77,720K and VM Size 118,756K. This is a problem as my RAM (1Gb) seems to be filled up quite quickly because of the additional VM Size requirements - since I'm not using Virtual Memory, VM Size should be zero for all processes. Is this what it should do, or have I disabled Virtual Memory incorrectly?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've run into trouble recently with my NAV not auto-protecting (nor being able to auto-protect). I'm also received various messages when I start my computer up about "has encountered an error and will need to close." I get this every time, and the programs are sometimes the same, but I always have the same few pop up. I have run NAV, Ad-aware, Spybot S & D, and Microtrend Housecall. The last time I ran Ad-aware, it snagged an iSearch registry value. I will also get a message as such: the value "0x00000000" could not be referenced, I think at the place "0x00000000," and therefore could not be "read." I have also had www.clickbank.net pop-ups sporatically appearing. My browser will sometimes open 60-odd empty browsers, too.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedCan file sharing be temporarily disabled in windows without affecting any other services. I guess what I am looking for is an "on or off " - switch" without having to disable file sharing the tradional way (rebooting etc). Is there a cmd.com option? Windows service etc. I would just really like to know how to turn it off. lets say for 5 minutes or 10 minutes at a time and easily resume all shared folders and services.
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