I just finished reinstalling XP Pro SP2 (original recovery from Dell) on an Optiplex 330. Now at bootup it is showing 2 "Windows XP Pro" and is asking which one to run. I followed the directions when I started and I thought I had deleted everything listed. Can I solve this without Zeroing out the HDD and starting over?
View 7 RepliesI tried to partition my hardrive but did the wrong one nad deleted my bootup, so when i try it jsut goes to the (safe mode, last good config ect) screen. so tied to format and got up to 40% It took a while to get to format because said invalid drive specification, and also bad command. Then tried to install windows 98, adn got to blue screen where it goes to format, then says insert disk, b ut disk was inserted.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI rather foolishly deleted several fonts from XP. How can I restore them?
View 8 Replies View RelatedOnce the Deleted File has been emptied can we get all that I deleted back?
View 6 Replies View RelatedCan I recover messages I accidentally deleted in Outlook Express of Windows 2000XP? These messages were in their own file but somehow got moved to a subfile of the Deleted Items folder. In trying to removed the Deleted Items folder the sub-folder went with it. There were a large number of messages I had received via e-mail that I intended to keep.
View 1 Replies View RelatedFirst I booted from the Windows XP cd because I wanted to format the C drive. I had forgotten I had my external hard drive still plugged in and I accidently deleted the partition for it and created a new one. I didn't FORMAT it, but then when I started up my computer, all the files were gone. So does that mean my files are premanently deleted or can I save the files somehow?.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI accidentally Deleted a partition how can i get it back?
View 13 Replies View RelatedA way to recover deleted files that were deleted from the recycle bin.Maybe someone has a favorite utility that they've used with success.I am using Windows XP.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an entry in the Control Panel called "Viewpoint." Also under Add/Remove Programs I have a "Viewpoint Manager" and "Viewpoint Media Player." Viewpoint is not listed as a program. Can someone put me onto a reference that will give me a good explanation of this so I know what I have? So far I've learned that it's an intrusive piece of software put on my computer by something I've downloaded.
View 6 Replies View RelatedRecently I had to replace my primary (master) HD, my 2nd (slave) worked fine and has data on it. I reinstalled windows XP home and the master HD seems ok but my slave doesn't appear under "my computer". If I use "device manager" it is listed, and says it is working properly: however, the "device usage" area at the bottom of the window is grey and has nothing in it. When I look at my master, the "device usage" area gives me a choice: [1] use this device (enabled), [2] do not use this device (disabled). I have tried everything I can think of, I might even try reformatting the drive if I could sellect it.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have tried to use the Repair in the Windows recovery console, but everything says when you get to /windows, you enter your password yada yada yada.In the recovery console, under repair, I only have C:/>, there is no C:/>Windows at all.I ran fixboot anyway, now I am getting a NTLDR is missing message when I try to start. Before all of this I was stuck trying to boot up and it would not even let me into safe mode.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI ran a program called trend micro[housecall] and it scanned only d drive,so I thought this was funny,so I opened my computer from the start menu,and no c drive is listed there. Thinking back I had noticed in downloading programs,there was no entry option for c/program files either?My P.C seems to be running fine,other than my OE often hangs on checking mail,and needs a reboot to function correctly. W/XP/Pro - I E 6. I have kaspersky running on my P.C and no virus problem detected? I am not very P.C literate,but hope this great site can assist as in the past.Dark.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI had a crash and felt like I had to reinstall XP. Obviously I didn't know what I was doing, but I did get the system installed and put programs back on that I had disks for. The problem is that I now have Norton, Nero and others on the hard drive that do not show up on the computer but when I do a scan I have to check through all those programs and they are taking up space on the drive. I cannot access any of them.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIn WinXP Home SP3, I use Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3.In Windows Explorer, are my Firefox bookmarks listed anywhere? I've checked in multiple places, and have found only OwnerApplication DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesmi7len3s.defaultookmarkbackups.json files are listed.Are Firefox bookmarks listed as URLs in a Windows Explorer folder?
View 10 Replies View Relatedin the picture below where the bluetooth and the control panel are listed... is it possible to add a shortcut there somehow?
View 7 Replies View Relatedinternet explorer sometimes isn't listed in add/remove. Try going to add/remove windows components and unclicking internet explorer then click next then go back and reclick internet explorer and click next again. If it is listed in add/remove than just click the hange/repair button
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhy do I have a big break in dates of emails listed or displayed. I go from July 13th to the next being June 11th. Is there anyway I can display all posted emails from this date back to say the last 300 emails posted sequentially? I tried unsubscribing and then resubscribing, but still have the same problem.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI understand that if I remove a USB drive without going through the process of using the "Safely Remove" icon I run the risk of getting a 'phantom' drive listed in Explorer. I have found this out the hard way! I have several partitions on the main drive and also other external hard drives - in getting these 'phantom' drives the drive letters somehow got reassigned without my intervention so now cause a problem accessing from my network. All my efforts to remove the entries have failed - I have tried through Device Manager but cannot figure out which entry would apply to the ones I have. I have one from a U3 drive which uses 2 drive letters and another single one. If I click on the "Safely Remove" icon I can get them to disappear until I reboot. I tried using those 'phantom' letters for other drives - again all goes well until I reboot and I am back to square one. I have searched the registry for the entries that set the drives but cannot figure that out either. Various trial deletions have no effect.
View 10 Replies View RelatedHow do I pull up deleted emails once they have been deleted from the "Deleted Items" folder?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI seem to have run out of room on a Windows XP Pro system. I tried to defrag but don't have but 7% room available. I looked in Windows Explorer to try to find some huge files that might be corrupt and I see a few that are listed in blue.I have not compressed anything on purpose.
View 11 Replies View Relatedok i was wondering if a servie listed in the windows xp system configuration is stopped is it ok to uncheck it. an example being ati hotkey poller this service is listed as stopped on system configuration, and on services.msc it is listed as a startup item. so surely if its stopped is it ok to uncheck it on system config as well as disable it on services.msc?
View 6 Replies View RelatedFor whatever reason Notepad has started freezing whenever I try to save a document. This is incredible annoying as it's my favorite note writing program. Wordpad scrambles anything thats pasted into it. Control panel/add remove programs/Windows components doesn'twork. As Notepad is not listed in the accessories folder, even though it appears that way in program files/accessories. So, how can I fix this?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI found something in my Add/Remove Programs called "My Way Search Assistant", which I removed - evidently successfully,as there is no trace of it in registry or programs. My problem is, however, the entry in Add/Remove remains but only with the name "My Way Search Assistant" and when I click on it all that shows is "Used Rarely"It has no size and no longer has any option to change or remove.I have looked for registry entries there are none is there a program listed.
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Check it out, this website has over 16306 startup items listed in it's database and gives you in depth details about each file and if it is needed or not. I feel it's a valuable resource for the moderators and any user here at techguy.org. It also has a lot of other useful information as well. BTW, this is not advertisement. Just a reference guide for anyone here who wishes to continue their education with helping each other.
All of a sudden, the imaging devices attached to a computer with Windows XP Pro SP2 are showing up under the Unknown category in the Device Manager. The
devices are listed correctly by their names under Unknown, but the software won't communicate with them.Windows can see the devices, but it does not know what type of devices they are. It is only the imaging devices. One is a Canon 4200F Canoscan scanner, the other is a Sony Camcorder, and the third is a hardware capture device (Pinnacle Moviebox). The Canon scanner is a USB 2.0 device, while the other two are attached through firewire ports.
My primary hard drive crashed and my back up that holds all my pictures, mp3's and other important items is still ok. I reinstalled windows fine on a new hard drive with no problem. My back up hard drive is not showing in my explorer list though. Does anybody know how I may access it? I've installed all motherboard software and it still is not there. I don't wanna reformat that drive unless its the only thing i can do.
View 7 Replies View RelatedDid a fresh install of xp sp2, sp3Sound device not detected or listed.Went to dell dounloaded all drivers and installed Service tag JC3XDH1 Tried uninstalling and reinstalling to no avail Still nothing, Help
View 14 Replies View RelatedJust noticed the list of most recent programs opened on my XP Home Start menu is blank. Checked the settings and it should be listing the last 9 programs. Changed the number to 4 and opened a few apps, still none listed. I've used this a number of times in the past, but not recently. See the thumbnail.
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhat I want to do is this:
When I go to START>RUN>"msconfig">startup tab I have many listed entries that I know are no longer needed on my computer, but have yet to find a way to delete them.
For example: My mom wanted me to download this TalkingBuddy program for my son, I did it, thought it was stupid so I uninstalled it. To me all components should be removed from the computer. However, when I go to START>RUN>"msconfig">startup tab I still see an entry for TalkingBuddy that can be checked to run at startup.
There are several other entries like this that I know I don't need and would like to know how to remove them. I also suspect that there might be some entries on there that look like they are needed but actually belong to other uninstalled or deleted programs.
Secondly, if anyone knows how to find and remove files that go to programs that linger around after you have uninstalled the program can you please tell me how to do that also. By this I mean for instance, that I have uninstalled Norton and now use Mcaffee, but there are still files that belong to symantec on my computer. I suspect that there are many other useless files from programs no longer on my computer that can also be deleted as well.
Using WinXP Home Sp2. On my start bar I have lots of folders listed, and as a result, Win shrinks the start bar down to my recently used folders. This is really annoying because I always have to click the expanding buttons at the bottom of the start menu - see bellow. Is there anyway to have the start menu contsantly expanded by default so I don't have to keep manually expanding it?
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy home pc is running slow and i wanted to do some poking around and I checked the folder properties for My Documents folder and it listed something like 3000 folders. However when I open it up there is roughly 20, at the most. Where are these other folders coming from? I do have show hidden folders. I also have a decent amount of mp3's, maybe a couple hundred folders there, but nothing in the 1000s range.
- How can i found out what all these folders are?
- Also can anyone recommend a do-it-yourself site/guide to tackle slow pc issues? I want to go thru my pc and delete all the unnecessary garbage that comes with it and what i don't need.