Hardware Discovery - Free Application?
Sep 3, 2008Is there a free application that would give me the name and model of the mainboard I have so I can download the drivers for it?
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Discovery - Failed To Boot Up?
Feb 21, 2009Got the dreaded "Windows failed to boot up. Desperately searching for some way of getting into WinXP Pro but had no success until I tried the following, which I have written for our users: winxp pro on one of my XP machines would not boot into windows. Tried the "usual" steps to boot, including use of the winxp cd and the win boot up floppy. No luck but I was able to get into Safe Mode using the floppy and then hit Start>Run and typed in the run box "msconfig" (without the quote marks). When it opened, I noticed in the the bottom of the window had this Launch System Restore words so I clicked it and was able to restore the computer system to a day before the last restore, let it do it's thing and when it was over, winxp booted up and I was back in business.
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Nov 8, 2009I need to go to turn on Network Discovery. I have WinXP, everytime I do a search everything is coming up about windows vista which I do not have. I am trying to see other computers on my network and i CANT and really dont know how to.
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Sep 11, 2005my xp sp1 athlon suddenly was stuck on startup with something causeing the busy pointer to never stop-i couldnt get into anything except by repeated ctrl/alt/delete to turn things off one by one-discovered it was svchost=ssdp discovery service?-disabled it from services and everything was fine again, but what was it doing there in the first place? i like to keep things at a minimum on my pc and try to turn off everything i can-went into add/remove windows components and saw a bunch of new things that were never there before-distributed transaction coordinator,wmi and com+ wont let me remove them? i'm just a home user not on any network, so i dont need/want any of the network tools/stuff.- i dont remember downloading or turning on anything new, but that doesnt mean i havent, if you know what i mean-awhile back, i did some tweak from kellys corner to add something to windows components, but i dont remember what it was now-if anyone knows what i did or whats going on, could you tell me how to turn it off again, or whatever suggestions there might be-i almost was getting ready to do an xp reload, as i hate when after awhile, you get all those extra undeleted temps, registry stuff, etc. that bog down your system-but if i can clear this up, i dont think i'm there yet
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May 7, 2010I have a Windows XP PC dedicated to a machine that is constantly sending data via a serial port to the PC. When we power up the system the PC will sometimes think that the serial data coming in is a "new device" and installs it as a serial mouse. When the boot process is complete the PC runs a program from the Startup folder. When this program tries to open the serial port it is blocked by the "serial mouse" it thinks is there.
We have tried many things to prevent this problem. Disabling the mouse in Device Manager works for a while but eventually XP decides there is something wrong and does things like disable the COM port. We have tried disabling the Plug N Play services using MSCONFIG. This does not seem to prevent the detection of the "serial mouse" on boot up. We have a fixed set of hardware and software for this system that will never change. So I'd like to just disable all (or serial) device discovery on boot up. How is this done on XP?
No Usb Discovery And Cd Change Detection Auto Insert?
Mar 13, 2007Working on xp box, wouldn't backup data from qbpro directly to cd, uninstalled nero, realplayer and other extraneous items, rebooted and wala! No problem, cd writing wizard popped up after backup, did probably 10 backups. She also mentioned that her accountant couldnt get her flashdrive to install anymore. I plugged in usb device. No sweat, popped right up. Today she called, same problem, have to shut machine down completely to resolve it now, windows restart won't fix it. (which sadly, I realize was the case yesterday) She was atttempting to make multiple backup cd's, so she checked burn same again. It comes up with insert writeable cd. Doesn't recognise swap, after exiting cd wizard one time, it did pop up with the contents of the cd, but only one time. Also figured out that if I insert usb device after restart, it recognises it correctly, but then get write error (insert writeable cd) when attempting to do a a backup. If I start doing backups, can do them fine, utnil trying to write same file to another cd. Have found many referneces to autoinsert errors in the registry etc. but auto insert appears to be working after restart. Am confident complete reinstall will fix the problem.
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Aug 9, 2010While troubleshooting a problem that prevents the picture download software that came with my Canon camera from working, I discovered that the SSDP Discovery Service is not running. Efforts to start the service failed with the following error: "Error 1079: The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running the same process."
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Mar 13, 2005I 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, 2006does 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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Jun 29, 2006I 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 ?
Free Disk Space Message To Free Up Disk Space?
Aug 20, 2006At 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 24, 2010When 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, 2007Ive 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, 2007I'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, 2005I 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, 2005My 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, 2005Trying 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, 2008Received 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, 2009I 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, 2006I 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, 2008Nothing 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, 2008I see AVG no longer supports 2k, does anyone know of a good free AV program for 2k now?
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Jun 10, 2008Being 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, 2006Anybody 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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Oct 15, 2010how do one find usb 2.0 drivers fro his xp sp2?
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Aug 29, 2005I am seeing 9G usage on C, and I checked Windows Explorer for a breakdown; but the tally comes no where near 9G. Is there another way to determine disk usage?
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Mar 6, 2008I have been running an AMD 64 bit processor now for some time, but it really never occured to me to look into running a 64 bit operating system. That is, until yesterday.
My friend works for Convergys, a Microsoft call center and sent me a free copy of Windows XP Pro x64. I immediately put this thing on my hard drive and was totally impressed with the speed and stability etc, but then I looked into some of the downsides of running a x64 bit and it made me wonder if it was worth it. (I put my Windows XP Pro x32 back on in the meantime)
First of all, I just want to make sure I understand all of this, before I do commit. And, by the way, I don't want Vista x64!...Anyway, as far as I can understand so far, the x64 will run x32 bit applications, but does that mean every single x32 bit application I ever used will run on it. Will a defrag utility, Winamp, Acoustica CD and Label Maker, things of that sort run?