I have latest video drivers and everything else.Its actually a duel boot system and on the other install on windows prof.everything displays fine. If anyone could shed some light on this that would be awsome.
Is there any reason the hosts file should not block sites properly?Certain sites I have put in there aren't being blocked, and this is a problem. Also, does it only block the major site (just the www.badsite.com) and not all subdomains of that? (for example "signup.badsite.com")
I'm really clueless as to my next, step possibly a re-install of windows, i have a laptop and another PC both networked to my PC using crossover cables. 2 network cards in my computer bridged and ICS shared over the bridge. Both can access the internet with no problems using internet explorer, MSN etc. open web pages using Internet Explorer or Firefox sign into msn has once or twice since this problem started I have scanned with ad-aware and norton 2007 both up to date, found some things and fixed them but still not working.
when out of no where, I received those weird progams on my PC which are those fake Virus scanners and such. i then deleted it from the source, and ran my Nortan scan and my spysweeper, and they found nothing wrong with my pc. Now, the PC will NOT let me go to "important" sites. For example, Bank of America, Paypal, anti-virus sites, Ebay, etc. But will let me go to sites like Myspace or forums. I had my favs on my toolbar as tiles so its easier to access them, i had about 10 of them, and now only 5 remain after the whole thing happened, and the 5 that were removed were "important" sites. Almost every thing on my tool bar was removed, including File, Edit, View, Tools, and such. My search engine is still displayed though.
One of the kids downloaded rapid antivirus and it's screwed everything up. I've managed to get rid of therapid AV, but it looks like I've got some malware/adware of some sort running. Attempts to get to symantec, mcaffee, avg, etc give site not available results in IE 7 - includes techguy.org!!!!, but non-"fixit" sites like google and everything else in the world I can get to. Every few clicks, the url is redirected to an ad site. I've run adaware and trendmicro which found Troj_vg_fcx and removed it, but the problem persists.
i have a problem with taking a screen shot i recently did a destructive recovery and i think it got my configurations out of whack its a small problem actually there is two but ill start with what i think might be the simplest one before when i pressed Ctrl+Alt+prt scr to do a screenshot it would capture it as a bitmap and now after the recovery it captured on my clip board i think it simthing to do with thr registry how can i fix that. and the other problem is when coloring with paint the colors are wrong something wrong there.
I just got a new computer from HP, it's running Windows XP Media Center and is an Athlon X2 4200+ with 2 GB of RAM, right now as seen in the screenshot there are over 60 processes using 50% of my CPU, just while idle...i literaly just got the computer 3 days ago, so i haven't installed any random programs and i am annoyed that all these processes are running
While trying to rename a particular floppy disk, i kinda. changend the name of the drive. I tried to change it back, but it still doesn't look right. It doesn't really affect aything, but it'd be nice to have it back to looking the way it should.the screenshot better describes what I mean.
I looked for this but found nothing. My mouse goes way off the side of the screen and when I take a screenshot there is extra space, almost like my vid card is set up for wide screen, but its not. I already have the newest drivers installed for my nvidia gfx 5500 and it is set to only one monitor. it also detects the cureent monitor and i think it should know its not a wide-screen. please help, this is really annoying. heres the screenshot, i can only see the main part of windows and not the extra part on the right.
I ran into a problem today with my XP system. While browsing the web, the graphics on my screen seemed to go crazy. There were all different colors of what appeared to be little tilde's (the character) on my screen. They generally were present where there had been a window that was open, and they would mostly be confined to the place of that window. e.g., if I opened the start menu and closed it there would be a patch of disfigured color in the rectangle where it was.
Anyway, I rebooted my system thinking that would fix it and saw a bunch of disfigured characters on my BIOS screen and while it booted in general (I included a screenshot of the character disfiguration at this point). It gets through to the Windows splash screen with the loading bar, and from there the screen goes black. The system and monitor are still on. I had the latest video drivers for my card.
I had a boot issue I couldn't fix so I took it to a shop. Now whenever I boot I get a system configuration tool popping up. Saying I can factory seal, extend grace period, ect. What should I do with this. FYI: The store did re-install windows.
acer aspire 4520, windows xp newly installed, formatted twice. No software installed-claen install.Ok, my cpu usage always hover around 48 to 70percent. and the cpu fan air is damn hot. but system idle process is 99% percent.reformatted my laptop twice already but problem still persists.
I run dual monitor at work, which is actually consisting a laptop (secondary) and a 19" LCD monitor as primary. Is there a way to have different wallpaper on each? There's gotta be a way, but I don't think you can using built-in Windows stuff. maybe there's a prog out there that would let you? Right now if you apply a wallpaper, applies to both screens.
I need some links to some sites that will provide information and also fixes for blue screen errors in Win NT/2000/XP. I will be using them on my website, which in turn will be used at my workplace. Thanks for any help that you can offer.
I have a client whose computer has stopped reacting to "alt-tab" hot key (ie. switching between screens).Let's say you are in IE (any app does the same)Currently, if you hold down Alt (like you are getting ready to hit tab), it will highlight the File option from the menu screen. It acts just like it would if you clicked on "Alt" once. If you hit "Alt-Tab" it doesn't do anything different.Things we have done: 1. Tried using the other alt button - same thing 2. Tried installing MS Power Tool for Alt-Tab - same problem 3. Tried installing an app called Alt-Tab Thingy - this was interesting but I didn't catch the full message. It said something like Hot-Keys not enabled or cannot access Hot-Keys. 4. Reboot - same problem..Since then, we have uninstalled the Alt-Tab Thing application and are still stuck with this strange issue.
i have a collection of pictures on my pc,tranferred on to hard drive from a digital camera.they cover sep-dec'06. i have put them all,individually, in a folder,having renamed them to a,b,c, --- etc,to get them to burn to cd-r in sequence. i use xp's 'burn to cd' facility.however,they still come out jumbled and not in sequence as desired. i believe there is a way of correctly renaming them for this purpose but i can not remember how. i seem to remember some article suggesting using 0000/0001/0002 numbering etc to achieve this.is this correct/ correct numbering sequence?
I have an E6600 Dual core CPU, 2 gig ram and 36 gig raptor drive and an Antec True Power 550 watt PS. Everthing seems to work great but I can't seem to get my comands to work correctly when programing in VB4.My old computer had Win XP Media Edition and it worked well. Is there any way I could run this computer with only 1 Core. The intel Motherboard has Single Core disabled?
I'm trying to install MS Office Home and Student 2007. Right away it says I need SP2 installed correctly before it allows install. I'm pretty sure I downloaded SP2 correctly as it's in my program list.
I currently have windows xp on my laptop, however when I turn it on , it opens to my desktop, but nothing works, All the programs are appearing as links, and when u click on them nothing happens,I tried opening a word file and it said windows installer could not be found.I tried doing a system restore but as mentioned it looked just like a link and when I clicked it nothing happened.No programs are loading at system start up, these include, my antivirus, network connections etc.
I was aware that Windows used to have limitations on the size of Hard Disk Drives for file sizes etc. but I had thought that these had now been fixed with XP & XP PRO. I installed a new 250GB into a friends machine about a month ago & this went without incident. Yesterday I just put into an external caddie a USB2 drive of 300GB into my machine. XP Pro recognizes the drive & it will work but my computer displays the size as only 127GB which is less than half 's true size.
windows explorer XP Pro.Instead of there being a forward slash in the title there is a strange looking W with a slash through it.Also typing Forward slash generates the funny W in windows but types correctly in IE8
I just put this system togethe (specs are in profile) and I am having a problem, that, XP Home is only recognizing 3.25Gb of the 8Gb I have installed. Updated BIOS and am about to update chipset drivers. BIOS also recognizes that all sticks are working correctly.
I've just recently purchased a system within a week only to find that my wired optical mouse has stopped working correctly. It sporadically moves from place to place and at times is completely unresponsive. The weird thing is that every once in a while, the power on the mouse completely turns off (no light coming from it). I am certain the USB mouse works as it has been tested in another computer.
I have a new HP m1070y media center computer that came with the OS already installed on it (XP media center edition 2005). I was looking at the system event log and I see scores of errors with the event ID of 7011. I could not find information that was detailed and specific enough to help me. Out of curiosity, I ran SFC /scannow to see if any clues would arise from that. When it got near the end of running it discovered a half-dozen DLL's that were missing that "may cause windows to not function correctly". No details were given as to what DLL's were missinng it simply asked for disc 2 of the XP Pro set. I do not have a XP Pro disc set because the OS and recovery partition are pre installed. I did not see any way to browse for the files that are missing. Is there an alternate way of replacing those missing files without having to purchase XP pro? Perhaps the DLL's are missing by design since the removal of of domain capabilities in MCE2005? Are there other utilities that can pin-point exactly which files are missing so that I can replace them manually?
I have a very specific issue here with user wallpapers. I have about 20 remote offices or so that are set up with a company wallpaper and we are using BGInfo so they can easily tell us the info we need to support them. Many computers are on sales floors and we need to keep them from changing the wallpaper for obvious reasons. I have tried the solutions of using a Group Policy, changing the registry keys, denying permission to registry keys, etc . . .
All of these solutions either have the problem that the user can still right click an image and set it as the background (IE, Firefox, Paint, Image Viewer), or it does not let BGInfo work correctly. I have spent a couple days searching forums everywhere and cannot find a a solution yet.
I installed 512MB PC3200 to my Windows XP Sony Vaio PC. The little white clamps clicked into place. when I right click to see the system summary, it still says 502 RAM. I thought it would read 1 gig (?) Is there something I need to do? Do I take ut the old memory and then add two (new) more memory chips to increase the memory? Or do I just put in an additional memory chip?
hello fellow CNET members, I am in a fix.I have a Dell Dimension E510 running on Media Center Edition 2005. I also have a certificate of authenticity with the XP key on it. This past thursday, I restarted my computer, and it gave me the good ole Windows did not start correctly and gave me an option to start in Last Known Good Config, Normal, or Safe Mode(s). I entered Last Known Good Config, and then it restarted, and then it came up again. It seems I cannot boot into the OS at all. I have been on my old WinME(!) system looking up solutions, and some, if not all of the suggestions have been to Repair it, etc. However cheap ole Dell has not provided me with a XP CD, and I am unable to access the i386 files in the systems. Boot Disks will work, however they only setup the system for a CD install. The BIOS is fine, i believe, as a Ubuntu CD will work fine. There are some vital files that are on that hard drive, and i can't access them. All the other computers I have are not as updated as the E510, so the SATA hard drive will not connect to the ATA motherboard (Dimension 4100)as a slave.
I'm running windows xp home edition. I don't know what happened exactly but for whatever reason, the computer simply restarted itself for no apparent reason and then it wouldn't boot the operating system correctly so I tried to get into safe mode to try and diagnose the problem. I checked the bios to see if any error messages or a log had been recorded but found nothing. When I finally got it to go into safe mode, My user name was gone and it just said "Guest" and wanted a password to log on. I am the only user of my computer and was the administrator until this happened. Even when I tried to log on as the administrator, it still wanted a password