Computer ExpertWannabe Needs Help! Free Beer If Solved!
Dec 5, 2004
I bought over a year ago and could use some helpful advice to help fix some problems ive been having. I really do not know much about computers although im taking classes to get my knowledge up to par in spring these problems need to be handle as soon as possible so i can work on some family projects. Just to give you an idea i would start LimeWire or IMESH and start downloading stuff then all of a sudden boom it hangs and doesnt respond and screws my whole system up. Not only those programs but games as well. Ive tried everything i could think of, PCBugdocter, Registry Cleaner, Adaware, Spybot, and PCBoost and nothing gives. My hardware all checks out ok on the service manager with none errors that i can see. My hardware also has the latest up to date drivers.
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Jan 10, 2007
I have just reinstalled the OS on my computer and i am having a problem with the video display. When i go into Control Panel only 16 colours are available; my computer is a HP Vectra XE310. I have checked the HP website and have downloaded the drivers available but it hasn't solved the problem
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Dec 18, 2006
I forgot where to look for how much free space I have on my computer. I use IE6 and XP for OS. My 81 year old mind blanks me once in a while.
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Sep 16, 2006
I had dreams of networking the 2 computers together. The library computer came with Windows 98 on it. In my ignorance I took my Windows XP disk that came with my current computer and loaded that onto the library computer. I thought it was like a music CD, where you can use the same disk in all the products that you own. I found illegal to load one operating system onto 2 computers using the same disk. I bought a Windows XP upgrade from Office Max yesterday for the library computer. I have been told though that I need to have Windows ME or 98 or some older version on the computer for the Windows XP upgrade to work. Since I've already put the XP on the library computer it doesn't have 98 on it anymore. win ME or 98 disk from a friend that has upgraded to XP if they have one laying around.
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Feb 27, 2007
I have 432MNz 192MB I have done disk clean I have done defragmented. and it said that I needed more space to do defragment properly. I was told that I had 5% free space. After defrag I did not gain any free space. I don't have much on computer to delete, Please help. I am not to computer literate.
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May 13, 2007
My computer has 66gb of space. a few days ago, when i checked,it had 33gb of free space.since then, i updated my adobe reader, and i also upgraded my antivirus to Norton Antivirus 2007. Now there appears to be only 22gb of free space.Is this normal? Now( i think As a result,of this upgrading), my computer now is really slow to startup,and just as slow when reloading from a hibernated state. is there anything i can do to speed up the computer startup,or is there something wrong?
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Jan 17, 2010
I have lost the Software/Driver software for my webcam and now that i made my new PC cant gt the web cam to work, my cam's name is TREE and i m bying from united kingdom.Is there any way i can find out the name of my cam or use some other driver ect.
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May 25, 2006
My computer seems to be getting slower and slower....I have a lot of hard drive space left, and have a decent amount of RAM. I was wondering if anyone might be able to help me figure out what's going on, and fix the problem?
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Jul 23, 2005
How can I make my computer administrator free. I have no need for an administraor as my computer is used only by me and has no very personal info.
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Dec 9, 2006
Hey guys, I don't have the computer in front of me, but my mom's computer is working really slowly, and it's had the defragger ran on it, and according to Ad-Aware and AVG it's clean, so what could possibly be making it run so slowly? If you absolutely have no idea, I'll try to get a hijackthis log for it, but as I said, Ad-Aware and AVG didn't find anything wrong with it there, and I ran the defrag on it the other day and it didn't help at all. Plenty of space left on the HD, so I have no idea what is going on....except that maybe the computer is a lemon. They've had problems with it since pretty soon after they bought it, but it's just progressively gotten worse.
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Aug 14, 2005
To free memory, I right clicked on the recycle bin and slid the slider bar from 10% to 1%. However, when I check hard drive space in Windows Explorer, the freed memory isn't there, even when I restart the computer.
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Sep 29, 2007
Computer running very slow I have 97 % of my hard drive free...Msconfig has only about 5-6 items booting up.Ran avg and A-square and defrag...
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Mar 13, 2005
I have a client that for some reason AVG will not update except manually going to the grisoft site and downloading the update. I have tried every thing including installing from a CD, Installing from the Grisoft website, updating manually, and for some reason the AVG update manager will not work. Can someone recommend another Free Antivirus that is as easy to use and as automatic as AVG is, that I can install on her computer. This is an elderly woman that needs things as simple as possible. She can be taught to follow prompts but I would like to keep things as easy as possible. for example I send her emails regularly to remind her to run Adaware and Spybot,
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Jan 30, 2006
does anybody know why i have 1.10 GB free space in Safe Mode and 804 MB free space in Normal? thanks. and i know that 804 MB free space isnt alot, this is a pretty small harddrive from what the computer says it is .
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Apr 15, 2006
Other than the 3 computers in my signature, (If you count the PPC), I have another, older, Desktop. A Dell Dimesnion. P II 387 Mhz, 97 MB RAM, 8 MB Video It is running Windows XP. I have all the visual displays turned doen and it is adjusted for best performance
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Jun 29, 2006
I currently have 13.0 GB of used space and 5.58 GB of free space. I would like to get more free space.
My computer is about 2 years old. In those two years, I had to re-install Windows XP and everything else on my computer...for reasons unknown...I recently performed a New Installation of Windows XP on my computer. I don't have alot of things installed on my computer. The total space all the programs in my Add and Remove programs file takes up is only 1GB. Since I had to start over and re-install everything and my programs only add up to 1GB, Shouldn't I have more free space ?
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Aug 20, 2006
At least once a week I get this message: "To free up disk space, OE can compact messages". I just click "OK". I have 132 GB available so why do I get a message like this?
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Sep 18, 2008
hard drive is 30Gigabytes. He only has 1.5 Gb free. Can you tell me where to look to free up some space? I mean, which folders would have the bulk of space? He doesn't download music or movies so I don't know where all his space went.
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Sep 24, 2010
When running a full scan it stalls at E:SMRTNTKYDEVICE The magnifying glass still runs, but the files stop. Any idea why ?
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Dec 19, 2007
Ive been told that AntiVir (the free anti-virus) has an outtanding detection rate and its supposed to be the best free AV for detection? is this right? Does AVG and AntiVir Free pass the VB100% tests? the reason Iam asking is because Iam about to setup my friends new laptop which he bought his daughters for xmas, I need to know which will be best for his Vista Basic Laptop.
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Jun 22, 2007
I've been using this utility for about 6 months now and its been sitting in my startup menu all this time. I'm currently trying to clean it out and leave only the important stuff. I'm wondering if i take AVG out will i take advantage of its features like the resident shield and email scanning, anyone know?
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Sep 8, 2005
I am running XP SP2 with all patches installed. I was wondering if the free version of AVG antivirus will work with an OEM version of windows I am running? I thought I read it would not but I am not at all sure. I am currently running Norton but it will expire soon.
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Sep 8, 2005
My computer came with an OEM version in it. It has a seperate partition for the recovery of Windows instead of having a CD to recover.
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Jun 29, 2005
Trying to delete AVG from my computer(windows xp)Get the message that if i do this, some programes may not work.Also tried change or remove programes. Get the message Initillitation failed.
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Apr 26, 2008
Received a message that a new updated versin of AVG was avaible from Cnet download.com. Tried several times to download this last night, to no avail. Error message, 'Download has reset".Tried again this afternoon, again to no avail. Same message. Useing windows XP-home withSP2, why can;t I download?
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Jan 8, 2009
I have tried to download avg free 8 the download is 51 mb the download reaches 40 mb and stops. How can I download this software in full?
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Feb 9, 2006
I was trying to backup some files using windows media. Everything looks fine until I press "copy" Then I would get a message saying "no files on disc". I tried DL'ing a newer version but got the same problem.
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Apr 23, 2008
Nothing else on the partition except XP. Swap file, different partition. Apps, different partition. When I loaded XP on this partition perhaps a year ago, it had plenty of space. Now it's full. I've run the usual XP disk cleanup helper, deleted everything in any temp file I can find, cleaned out prefetch, moved all the NTUninstall folders to a different partition. Uninstalled unused apps, since I know they leave stuff in C: even though I've installed them somewhere else). I gained nearly 400MB when I did that, but now the space is back down to 80MB in less than a week. Where is all this bloat coming from? What can I do to trim it back down to size? Yea, I have PartitionMagic (old, v8), but I'd rather just trim the excess, if that's possible. I get nervous moving partitions around.
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Jun 7, 2008
I see AVG no longer supports 2k, does anyone know of a good free AV program for 2k now?
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Jun 10, 2008
Being new to this computer DVD player business, I was wondering if anyone knows a site where I can get a FREE DVD player that is good? I will look in COSTCO and WAL-MART to see what I can find, but I would like the opinions on this forum.
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Nov 7, 2006
Anybody know of a good 'free' iso cd burner? I looked on google and i got one but it doesn't work. I don't remember what it was called.
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