When I go to start up my Windows XP, where there should be a welcome screen it reads:Unable to Locate Component This application has failed to start becayse SHLWAPI.dll was not found. Re installing the application may fix the problem.
View 1 RepliesI recently Installed it on my computer last night , and had it crash on me 6 times when trying to surf the web. Has anybody else had this problem?I had to revert back to firefox 1.5.0.7 because it just kept crashing.wait for the first update i think.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedWhen I install my BT Broadband PCI card (the one with an aerial sticking out the back), it crashes my system.Which is understandable because after a new install XP (recovery disk) on new hard drive, I am running on XP SP1 - and XP doesn't understand this new card. But should it crash in Safe Mode?If not, do you think this might indicate the motherboard is at fault?
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View 8 Replies View RelatedWhen trying to install SP3 I get the error "The file c:windowssystem32driversusbstor.sys is open or in use by another application." I know that usbstor.sys is something like the service that prevents USB drives from auto-installing or auto-running, but isn't that completely irrevelent if I'm just trying to install SP3?Anyway, I've pretty much tried closing all other apps, and even tried to install in safe mode;
View 1 Replies View RelatedTry to install new software Turbo Tax and the software for my new Epson Scanner. I get this application error message: This application cannot run. That is all it says. I've had this computer for three years and have installed software many times with no problems. There is plenty of room on the hard drive. I have tried installing in safe mode. I have tried to restore back. I have done a defrag.
View 8 Replies View RelatedOnly since I installed the game messenger has my computer been crashing. Tonight was the second time. It says my VTdisp display driver has stopped working correctly. Something like that. Then my desktop icons are huge and the color of everything is all messed up and I then have to reboot.Any advice, my computer runs XP is only a year old and ran perfectly until this happen. I forgot to create a restore point before installing the game. I am scared about what could happen to my computer.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWell I have a dell computer that crashed,and my intelligent brother thought it would be smart to use a emachine restore disc to fix it.Needless to say this did not help.
Is there anyone out there that can give me any info on getting this computer back up.When I turn it on it comes up to a screen that has 7 options:,boot from hard drive,boot from ide cd rom,ide diagnostic,and a few other choices.However no mater what you click on it comes up and says "trouble loading operating systems.I must say I do not know much about this.I guess my question is.Can it be saved with out changeing hard drive.
I have a disc from dell that is labeled "operating system"and another that is labeled.Drivers and hardware
I have exhausted all my normal possibilities and I could use some help. Anyway, I was installing XP on a wiped hard drive and the computer froze in the middle. No it will not start in XP.It just restarts.It will start in safe mode, but what should I do from there? I already ran repair, same thing happens.I tried to format and reinstall, same thing.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI need some real help here because I am baffled. I installed Panda Titanium antivirus 2005 on my bosses computer. When I went to restart it after the install it wouldn't restart it would get stuck at the blue welcome screen. Tried booting it into safe mode and it wouldn't even boot there. So finally I had to use the Windows XP disk and do a recovery. Well when I did that she lost all of her applications. I had to reload Office, Adobe, and it said that the Panda Antivirus was not installed correctly.So I tired to reinstall it and I get an error of Class not registered.I hoping not to have to do format and reinstall Windows Xp but I think there is some corruption in the computer.
View 6 Replies View RelatedGaming, music/photo storage, internet surfing, music making, and video editing just to name a few. Basically, what im saying is my computer is my "lifeforce" . I generally would claim i am generally computer literate. But, I cant find a reason for this to happen. ANYWAY!I turned it on one day, having done nothing to presumably harm a computer, and it goes to the windows loading screen with the blue bar and stay there forever, seriously i timed it the other day, from 1-9 pm it was "loading".I scanned everything while running in "safe mode". no problems. I tried restoring it to an earlier date said it restored successfully, but still sat at loading screen forever.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI cannot remember word for word as it came and went off that fast.This is what happened. I did the restart as told and it did come back but then it happened a third time and upon the restart the computer will not come back on. Or let me explain further...the actual computer will turn on when I push the button, but no picture or desk top or anything will come on on the monitor. I tried another monitor to rule that out and still nothing. I also was told to try restarting in safe mode but still get nothing coming up loading on monitor just a black black monitor screen. I really need to get this back up if not for anything else but to save all my lost stuff before I have to get rid of it.
View 12 Replies View RelatedLast night my girlfriends daughter tried to install a game on her PC (one of these tycoon games) it froze half way through installing and then switched itself off. When trying to restart it, it asks whether to restart in Normal or Safe mode etc and then it gets as far as the Microsoft Windows XP screen and then restarts itself again.It gets to the same stage everytime and restarts. It won’t allow me to start in safe or normal mode.
View 6 Replies View RelatedA while back my computer crashed and I had to do a recovery. Now all of my pictures are gone and my wife is pissed. We did back-up some of the pictures, but were missing almost a year and halfs worth including my son's birthdays and first t-ball games. Is there any way to get them back?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI decided to run a defrag on my computer before going to bed one night. When i woke up the next day my computer continued to reboot itself. It would reach the windows logo screen and run that for a while then i would stall for a little bit and restart. I then would shut it off cause i didnt want to mess with it and it would continually boot itself up and start this process over again. I'm running Windows XP Pro with an Athlon XP processor. I have 2-120 gig hard drives on a RAID. I have tried to do a repair with the Windows XP disk but the disk doesn't recognize the version of Windows already on the drive like it would usually do.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI had a windows auto update shield icon appear I clicked it and downloaded the update. after it downloaded it said I needed to restart computer..click here. I did and my computer would not restart or start black screen would click down seconds and try again but it would not start. Im'SURE the update caused this, as I have not done any other thing to cause it.I had to use system recover and LOST everthing and now I can't get back online till Monday I need a internet tech to come out because I can't get back on.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy windows was not loading properly and so i used windows pro sp2 cd and repaired my current installation. Once that was done when i tried to update it didn't happened and so i went to microsoft.com and downloaded a fix patch and it worked. After that my ca internet security 2008 suite was not loading anymore with windows and so i just unistalled it and reinstalled it and windows started to crash. Now when it crash it gives me multiple of blue screen and nothing till i restart and same thing continues.
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy computer crashed and I had to set the computer back to factory default. Is there any way or program that will revocer these photos?
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy computer crashed and I rebuilt the machine using the old HD (with XP installed) as a second HD. I wanted to move Pics, music etc onto the new HD and then wipe it clean. I was able to move anything that was in a shared folder and anything in Program Files. Anytime I tried to move any file under a user password protected , I was denied access. I tried to reboot the computer using the 2nd HD. I got to a window that had the option of Safe Mode or last known good config. Neither of these would load Windows. I then tried to boot with my Windows XP disc. I entered the area for repair Windows, but have no idea what the Administrative Password is. I tried every combination I could think of. Last night a friend tried to move the files with DOS without success.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI expected the whole thing to be shot considering what the case looked like. I ended replacing the case and basically rebuilding it to see what all didn't work. Well, it ended up booting up just fine! Thing is, for some reason it seems to be running very slow. It seemed too coincidental that RAM was suddenly getting chewed up, but I upgraded to 1G anyhow, as it really needed it. It's still very slow, and seems to get hung a lot. Upon doing almost anything, the CPU gets pinned at 100%. I ran a little CPU test utility, and it comes back that it is running at that right speed, but it shows CPU to memory transfer rate at 340M/sec., which seems really slow! I'm not sure where to go from here. Is it possible that the mobo is damaged but is still working, only slowly?
View 3 Replies View RelatedCame home to a computer that has a blank screen. Rebooted and she goes through the bootup but remains blank. Restarted in safe mode and got the same results. This all comes on the end of battling a virus.
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy computer crashed and when it rebooted none of the icons were clickable on the login screen. I held in the power button and it restarted. When the login screen loaded the options were clickable but my attention was caught by the fact that the "turn off computer" option was labeled "turn off mine not yours!". So my question is, how alarmed should I be by this? I clicked on the option and turned off my computer and unplugged my internet cable.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI got the blue screen of death on my Gateway laptop. I tried every option such as booting to safe mode, last good configuration...etc to get windows to boot but no luck...once I get the windows xp logo it changes to blue death screen.I purchased a laptop hard drive enclosure and pluged the laptop hard drive into it. Next I attached the hard drive enclosure via USB to my desktop but good not read the data on the hard drive. The laptop has a Recovery Partition and Operating System Partition. I am able to both partitions as drive letter "f" and "g" for example, with drive "f" being the Recovery partition and drive "g" the operating system. When I click on the drive "g" the system locks up and I have to unplug the hard drive enclosure and start over again with no luck.
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy whole computer crashed..so I had to restore it to its factory default..I need to have xp pro and office pro on my computer for school...but I lost the product IDs...what can I do?? My university won't give me another office or windows xp disk and I have a paper and presentation that needs turned in on monday..and I can't open them or edit it...so does anyone know what I do if I lose my product id??
View 8 Replies View RelatedI've got a bunch of problems with my windows XP home right now:To start, the start bar (where it should be blue and bubbly) is the same as windows classic, which is odd.My computer crashed twice on friday (blue screen). My computer keeps telling me that I'm not connected to the internet even though I am (I use wireless cable internet). In the start menu, where it says "all programs" with the arrow, that wont show me all my programs.
View 14 Replies View Relatedmy brand new computer has crashed 3 times in 2 dayshere are the codes it is giving.
BCCode : ea BCP1 : 8725B670 BCP2 : 8AC14990 BCP3 : 8A9B5258 BCP4 : 00000001 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1 BCCode : ea BCP1 : 86E36488 BCP2 : 8AB91BE8 BCP3 : 8AC5B580 BCP4 : 00000001 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1
My mothers computer crashed. she gave it to some kid to get the itunes files off of it. the kid deleted all the files on the disk except the user profiles and their documents because Windows Xp write protects them. I need to get those files off of the drive. How do I go about doing this?
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View 14 Replies View RelatedI have a windows 2000 server crash. Assumed I had a power failure this weekend. The monitor also died. I replaced monitor. I hear the computer start up. Power to system, but no visuals.I do have a boot disk made on 3.5 floppy disk. What are some simple tips or things to do before I begin to restore the system.I have checked all power cords.Computer is AMD with raid system unsure of rest.
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