I uninstalled all versions of .NET Framework earlier than 2.0.Afterward,could not access the My Videos file. No matter what program tried to open it would crash.I reinstalled the earlier versions of .NET Framework,but no change.
View 10 RepliesI have been installing each and every update from microsoft. I now get the Windows Update to install a security patch for Framework.net. It fails to install every time and comes back again and again to install. I did a very quick search on this problem and it seems there are problems concerning how Framework was loaded and what versions youo have.First of all, as far as I know, I have only loaded a new Framework version because a program I downloaded informed me I need this new version. I do not keep track of how I loaded Framework, what versions or anything. Looking as some of these proposed solutions require knowing a lot more about how you loaded them and what versions you have.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen booting up, I'm presented with a timed screen with two options : Windows XP home edition build 2600; and Windows XP home edition build 2600? I have a feeling that this has occured from having to re-install XP due to a mysterious file becoming corrupted (HAL.dll in SYSTEM32 folder).
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have been a user of XP Home SP2 for a number of years, and I have a legitimate OEM install of that on my machine right now. I want to purchase XP Pro SP2, but there are a lot of versions available. The cheaper side of things have 'OEM XP Pro SP2 Upgrade' in the range of $60-$80.Then there are Upgrade versions which do not mention OEM.And finally, there are Full Versions at the most expensive level.To make it more confusing, there are vendors which have listed "OEM XP Pro SP2 Full Version Upgrade"
View 4 Replies View Relatedwell let me start, te last version of windows i baught was 98SE since that date i stoped buying software from microsoft as i felt i don't get what i am paying for, and after almost 6 years useing unofficial versions of microsoft i said ok it is time to give it a try again, i baught a new notebook which comes with Russian xp and i say it is ok i can call and ask to get it in English as i understood i paied for that windows too, so i called Microsoft office and told them the story and all i get was (sorry we can not help you) so i told the lady who answered me this means that i should go to any market and get a $3.00 version of windows xp and i am realy sorry to say the answer was yes.so now i think microsoft should not be so unhappy about how many people use unofficial versions of there os, as it is our right to get it in any lang we want chinese. indian, Russian english as long as we pay
View 20 Replies View RelatedI'd like to know if it's possible to install both 32- and 64-bit versions of XP on the same disk, separate partitions. Which of them should I install first if I were to choose to do so? And, about how much space should I make for the Windows installments? I'm planning to install and store every other possible thing to a 3rd or 4th partition. How much programs/drivers/ other random stuff will I have to install to the same partition as the XP installment(s)? If I install for example a game while working on the other XP, how can I have it marked/merged into the other XP's registry?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhy do some versions of Windows XP Home edition cost ~£60, when others cost ~£170?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a .mov on my system that will play on a Mac, but not on a PC. I've tried it on various Windows machines, various Quicktime versions, and I have tons of codecs. The error I get when trying to open it in quicktime is "Error - 2048: the file is not a movie file" Trying to open it in Media Player Classic tells me it cannot render it. I also cannot convert it to another format. VirtualDub, among other converters, won't pick it up. I can't tell you the Mac version is plays on, but I am confident it is at least a year or two old.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a question regarding downloading trial versions of software. Once the trial period is over, does it automatically cancel or do I have to cancel it somehow in order to not pay the purchase price?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am curious to the whole 4 Gig issue with 32 bit versions of Windows XP. I understand that 64-bit versions of XP/Vista support more than 4 Gigs, while 32-bit versions only support like 3.5Gigs (recognizable, while the rest is used by the kernel). My issue is, I currently purchased a new system and am trying to figure out which Windows OS would be the best for me. This new system will have 4 Gig's or RAM along with a 64-bit processor, so I guess the question I'm asking is should I get a 64-bit version of XP Pro or look into Vista.
This new system is a gaming machine. Currently I am on Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 32-bit and I love it, but since that will not suffice for the new hardware I'm looking for recommendations. Whatever I can get closest to on those terms would probably get best for me.
In setting up my first home network, I decided to update to XP. My new computer had SP Home preinstalled and I bought and installed XP Pro SP2 on my older computer. I lost my way somehow in installing XP Pro on my older computer and in frustration tried to overwrite the first install with a new one. Unfortuantely, that didn't work and resulted in two versions of XP being active.On boot-up I was presented with a choice of "Windows XP Professional" or "Windows XP Professional". Despite the identical nomenclature, the first one in the boot sequence was my original attempt at XP and the second in the sequence was my second XP installation with which I had hoped to overwrite the first I decided to go into the Documents and Settings section (and anywhere else that seemed logical) of XP and delete any references that I could find to the first installation of XP.
View 6 Replies View RelatedOn one of my computers, the "Remember my ID on this computer" checkbox on Yahoo! Mail is replaced by "Keep me signed in for 24 hours unless I sign out".Next to that, there's a "feedback" link and a question icon.What is this? Why is this different from what appears on my other computers?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm looking to free up space on my hard drive. Is it OK to uninstall old .NET versions, old java versions, and old windows updates? The old versions occupy tremendous space on my computer and if they can be safely removed I'll love to remove them. Is it safe to remove old versions of .NET framework, java consoles, and windows updates?
View 9 Replies View Relatediv got msn explorer as my home page but its the usa version how do i chage it to the uk site cheers x
View 14 Replies View RelatedI read somewhere in this forum that if you had a CD Key stuck on your computer you could install the Windows XP CD of your choice.What I mean to say is this: I have an HP Compaq computer that came with the Windows XP OEM bundled version and its own product Key stuck to the computer. So after the 90 day support with HP, I got rid of all the crapola that comes with their bundle, (AOL, Disney Channel, Silly things, etc.) and reformatted with a copy of Windows XP OEM, using the Product Key on the computer. NO Problem. I have done this several times before and only had one problem, which was resolved through phoning Microsoft Activation Center.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to help a friend out.His XP crashed - says it is missing some config files etc.I cannot boot up in safe mode, can not repair via the recovery console and when I try to reinstall, it says there is an installation in progress and it won't go any further. (My friend tried to reinstall somehow, and has a few 1/2 installed versions accross his different hard drives.I want to restore from a ghost image we have, but the problem is, there is 7 months of data files (not backed up!) that I want to get saved first.I can boot up via a win98 boot disk and see the files, but I can't work out a way of getting them accross to another hard drive easily. In the old days, I'd use xcopy with the "/s" switch to take all the sub directories etc, but I can't find xcopy in XP or get any copy functions to work
View 3 Replies View RelatedI recently recieved my new seagate 160 gig HDD to replace my old one. According to the instruction manual, any versions of XP prior to sp1 and 2 will detect the drive as 137gig instead of 160. The install disk I have, however, is for XP without sp1. What would be the best approach? The software included with the drive gives you the option to transfer the boot info to the new drive (but i doubt that installs windows), and to format it to 137gig and later "expand the partition".
View 10 Replies View RelatedI installed an old game, and it ended up changing a lot of my icons back to the 95/98 versions of them, and I don't remember/know a way to get rid of them and replace them all with XP's again.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI have been experiencing random crashes, freezes and especially error messages for a while now.I ran and reran updated versions of ad-aware, spybot, Norton, hijack this, a million times,defragged and did a couple of files clean-ups to no avail.
I posted my problems on various boards and nobody that helped did fix it
(Thanks still to these kind people) so I used the last resort and reinstalled XP pro.Well after reinstall, problems are still here but worse, upon reinstalling my first program which is thesygate firewall,I got my first error message telling me the program had to shut down.
Following that I was told
I hate service pack 3.All its done is take my Superduper 2 gig system and turn it into an 8088 xt system.Is there anyway to remove service pack 3, or do I need to do a complete and utter reboot and reinstall of Windows, including all the updates etc?And is there a way i can save the existing updates so that I won't have to download them all again? If I have to do a compelete reinstall, im looking at an 8 hour job or more.
View 10 Replies View Relatedthis had happened to me a month or so back ....sometimes when im online for more than an hour....then when i try to open IE or anything else...nothing opens...i even tried opening the taskmanager but that too does not open.....nor does the start button...it only becomes ok when i restart the computer by hitting the reset button on the cpu...i had got rid of this problem for a while when i uninstalled NAV...i assumed the problem was with NAV...but the problem has started again....
i ran TDS 3 and it said that there were no trojans found. But it says i have to update it althought i have the latest update installed.
I recently had problems with IE8 so I Uninstalled and installed IE7. All my favorites are under my favorites folder: Document and settings/Dell/favorites.When I try to go to one of favorites it tries to print for some odd reason. All the favorites have the unknown file format picture with them. When I try to add a new bookmark it does the same thing. It adds it to my favorites but won't open the website. It's like the URL isn't there with the favorite. Please help this is a friends comp and he needs it tom for school.
View 35 Replies View RelatedI bought a new keyboard, and to install it I had to uninstall the old drivers (it was wireless, so is the new one.) After doing that and rebooting, it no longer picks up any keyboards once its in windows. It picks it fine in bios (and I can choose which OS to load.. I have fedora on a seperate HD, not the one I boot off of). This is true for every keyboard! Wireless or not! So I'm stumped.Either windows removed some file when uninstalling the last wireless software, or I donno what else it could be.Any ways I can this fixed? I was thinking if I bypass the password into windows then I can reinstall the drivers. I think a normal XP cd would work?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI tried using Ubuntu, uninstalled it, now i still see the .ini at start up
How do i remove it?
My Laptop XP Pro with SP3 is totally different to the same on my PC, where I upgraded the Sp's as they came out. So the format is different between the two.I wanted to un-install my laptops version and install the version downloaded from MS, but I don't have the option to do so in Add/Remove on the Laptop as I do on the PC. Its listed, but no option to remove/uninstall.Can I un-install this SP3 in the registry or anyother way or could I just install my version and overwrite the current SP3.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI tryed a firewall called Comodo. I was not impressed because I could not get it to allow alot of my apps access even after creating rules ect. I uninstalled it, which was a nightmare and took forever because their installer is bugged! anyway, I have gone through the Regedit and deleted all ref's to comodo, deleted the folders ect. Best as I can tell everythine has been removed. However I have programs, apps and games that used to access fine BEFORE installing Comodo that cant connect now! Should I do a reinstall of XP? or is there some other files that the firewall might of moded that can be replaced? Any thoughts or ideas? I have a post on the Comodo Forums, but after searching most of the day I have yet to find anyone with a problem like this after following the manuel uninstallation and I'm not to hopeful...
View 6 Replies View RelatedWindows Update doesn't download from MS anymore. When I try to manually update my comp opens a new browser, goes to Micorsoft Windows Update. In the browser it sez:"Checking for the latest version of the Windows Update software...Depending on your connection speed, this might take a minute. During this time, you may receive one or more security warnings. Review each security warning to ensure that the content is signed by Microsoft, and then click Install or Yes to install the software."But nothing happens. On the left side of the window, the Install Updates, View Installation History, & Restore Hidden updates is greyed out.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy norton antivirus kept pushing up warnings about mail not to go out.I tried to run a scan with norton antivirus and it kept locking up , so I uninstalled it and tried to reinstall it but it would not allow it to install.I uninstalled it again and downloaded rising antivirus and that froze up. I have a hp a530n 3200+ (2.00GHz) AMD Athlon 64 bit processor 1 GIG DDR SDRAM memory, Windows XP. I cannot access the tax program now . When I try system restore it just freezes up. I am not allowed in the help program. The computer is super slow in normal mode. I am running safe mode right now
View 1 Replies View Relatedi had kazaa like a year ago... and in the add/remove prog list, it says i use it ocasionally (uninstalled a year ago) when i click the change/remove button, it doesn't do anything.it's been there ever since.. but i noticed that the file size installed on my computer right now (according the the add/remove prog list) says it's [12,041 mb. the last time i lookedten minutes ago) it was only 11,000-something mb.the last time before that, it was only about 300 or 400 mb
View 8 Replies View RelatedMy windows xp has been freezing lately and before I do a clean install I uninstalled programs I never use.. did a disc clean-up Defrag
View 9 Replies View RelatedNow my videos and my music do not have any sound when I play them? How can i Install this again and from Where?
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