Home Madness / Regular Reinstalls
Aug 23, 2005
in the last month I've had to reinstall xp because my pc would stop booting and give the error message "windows cannot start due to missing or corrupt system file confid.sys." I've done fdisk 4 times before being told I should Format so the last time I had to reinstall I formatted. I have 2 problems righ tnow. First, in my craziness I had xp install twice today and have 2 versions on NTSF so I don't know if I can uninstall as it doesn't allow thru Add/remove Programs...Second problem. I'm told by some techs at work that I must have a virus in my mbr. I used the command fixnbr without really having more of a prayer than knowledge. I run antivurus multiple times a day because of my probs. What prg do I need to find a problem in my MBR? This pc is less than 5 months old and Dell is not very helpful on the phone.
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Aug 13, 2005
Why does "Domains," with urls of sites I never visited and do not want contained in my Registry, repeatedly reappear after I have deleted the "Domains" key? Deleting the �key� has not affected my computer�s operation nor my browsing. But the �key� reinstalls itself!
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Jul 6, 2005
I have a friend using a dell laptop, which she carries from home to office.She has a Compaq printer at the office, connected via usb.Every time she plugs in the usb cable for the printer, her laptop installs another instance of the same printer. Annoying as heck -checked once and she had a dozen or so of the same printer.Any ideas how to get rid of this? I think she said that it only happens if the laptop is on and then she plugs in the printer. If she remembers to hook up the usb cable before booting the laptop,
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Jul 8, 2005
My fax printer driver must have become corrupted because the console said there was no printer driver installed. I went to Add Windows Components, added Fax again and nothing happened. Went to Printers/Add Printer and let the wizard add a fax driver and it came up with a Microsoft Office Document Image Driver on LPT1. Fax Console still complains there is no fax driver, so I'm assuming that's the wrong printer driver.I'd like to force the install of a printer driver but I don't know what port it's supposed to be on and where to go to look for the driver.
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May 12, 2009
This problem is now resolved: here is the fix that worked for me in case anyone else can use it. I tried a fix I found by Googling, applied it, and it did not work. This morning I called the Microsoft toll free number for Security issues (on their web site reached.Go into add remove programs and uninstall the msxml update kb945530. Close and go to windows update (start, all programs, near top of list). Click on express update: the update should now show on the list. Reinstall the update, then restart your computer.This worked for me and I hope it helps someone else who has the problem.
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Oct 13, 2006
I was just at a site where i wanted to enter a competition, and therefore had to send an email.I clicked on the 'send email' link, i received this message: you need to create an account before proceeding, would you like to create one now?'I clicked on 'yes' and was asked, 'what type of account would you like to create?' the choices being: regular email[pop]IMAP,news,import email opera web email[ i use the opera browser.The only one of those that i understand is the opera choice, so i clicked on that. That took me to my opera email account, i thought,fine.however, there was no sign of the email address that i need to be able to send them a message.now i'm sure you've come across this yourselves, it crops up for me every so often, when it does, it puts me off whatever i was trying to do, and i give up.what should i do? what does regular email[pop] mean?should i click on these other choices?why, when i click opera, am i not given the email address?
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Sep 20, 2009
how do i reset my page file back to regular it wont let me do it again it says its too small for the operation
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Mar 14, 2008
I have Windows 2000 with the normal administrator id setup as well as one other. I logged in today and noticed I had no background which tipped me off. I tried my email program and it was asked me to set it all up. I then went into mydocuments and it was empty. So if I go into my drive and look at Documents and Setting I normally only had Administrator, AllUsers and my other ID motopsycho. Now I have the following....Administrato Administrator.Chris
Administrator.Chris.000 AllUsers AllUsers.WinNT motopsycho Now if I go into just the regular Administrator I can see all MyDocuments, MyFavorites etc. but I seem to be booting up with the Administrator.Chris.00
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Oct 5, 2010
Trying to remove my raid0 install and restore windows to a regular installation.
I deleted my array but my boot menu is not picking up either of my hard drives, however they are still showing up in my raid config window.Its been a while since I've done this but I don't recall any hardware alterations being necessary to switch back.Im obviously missing something, can anyone point me in the right direction? as it stands when I try to install xp now it is giving me a blue screen with 7b error
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Dec 13, 2005
When I start my computer Iget only 2 or 3 icons in the taskbar and then nothing else happens. When I put the cursor on start I get the hourglass,and the icons on my desktop dont respond either. Ive gone into the task manager and ended the explorer.exe process and then re started it, and this works sometimes. Ive done system restore with 3 different dates and the problem still comes back. I use McAfee antivirus and get regular updates daily and hevent found any viruses.
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Mar 28, 2007
I have windows xp. Somehow I inadvertedly put an image from space.com on top of my regular background picture. I've tried everything I can think of to get rid of it like restore computer to earlier time...changing background..etc. nothing works. It ruins the beautiful background picture having this smaller picture overlapping it.
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Mar 11, 2010
The CPU usage spikes to 100% regularly according to the windows task manager. It causes sound to shudder. I thought it might be fixed if I updated the sound card drivers, but I made a bit of a mess of it, and there was no sound until I managed to resurrect the previous driver. The computer is quite old, and I have added ram (1.43GB) I've scanned using AVG with no results. I've also defragmented using Smart Defrag.
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Feb 27, 2005
Im trying to boot a Win2k computer... It hangs at the Windows 2000 prompt with the blue bar going across the screen... I can boot into safe mode but not regular mode...
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Sep 4, 2005
I had right clicked on the taskbar, then clicked on cascade windows.Now I can not get my internet explorer window to go back to regular size when I click on the internet explorer E (not sortcut) on my desktop (I have to manually resize it).I want to be able to click on it & have it open to max size How can I get it back to normal?
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Oct 19, 2006
I am having problems with video playback on my comp. I have two dvd drives,a LiteOn DVD reader and a new Samsung DVDRW w/Lightscribe.I have had no problems in the past, but now my movies look really poor. I tried the disks in my laptop and they played fine. What is the prob? I've used Windows Media Player, Nero Showtime and PowerDVD and all three had the same playback issues.
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Jan 28, 2008
There is a computer at home which is booting very slowly now. Besides doing the regular checks (anti-spyware/malware, HijackThis, etc.) I want to be able to look at a log (or a log viewer) after boot to know exactly what in the boot process is taking so long, what exactly is being run/loaded and how long it is taking. Is there a way I can see that in Windows? Or any reliable Freeware/Shareware tool?
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Oct 6, 2009
I'm trying to get into Safe Mode so I can do a proper Defrag, but I get the Windows logon prompt...problem is it does not accept my normal Password ( I have no problem logging in Normal mode).... What's up with that, would there be 2 different Passwords?
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Sep 9, 2010
I have a old Dell computer which I brought a 24" Dell HD monitor. I upgraded it with a new graphics card which has both VGA and HD capability hook-ups. Now we have a new tower to go with exisiting 24" monitor. My problem is I can not get a old standard VGA monitor to work with the old system listed above. When I plug in the the VGA monitor plug in the VGA outlet in the old computer I get no signal to the monitor. What do I need to do with drivers or other wise to get the old computer back to being able to be used with the old VGA monitor?
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Jul 9, 2008
I have a corrupt user profile. A program would not work (Avery DesignPro 3.5) and their support told me to create a new user profile.I did, and the program works under the new profile. The problem is that nothing that I use all the time is under the new profile. How can I uncorrupt my regular user profile, or do I need to switch back and forth when I want to use that program?
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Sep 14, 2005
I am trying to set up a home network to connect my laptop (with xp pro) to my desktop (with xp home) i am using a 3com office conect router as a hub. With the fire walls on each machine switched off I can see each of the machines from each other.I can share files on the laptop with the desktop, but when I try to access the desktop from the laptop I get the following message : xxxxxxx is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource.
Login Failure : the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.
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Jul 2, 2009
I'm trying to share folders between two laptops set up on a home wifi workgroup. Currently, both laptops are "seeing" each other's share folders (as mapped network drives), and both laptops have full internet access I have allowed simple file sharing on the XP Pro system. I have also set the firewalls to allow access, and I'm using AVG firewall instead of Windows firewall.However, only one of the computers is allowing access to the other. The XP Pro computer can access the share folders on the XP Home computer, but not vice versa. When using the XP Home computer, I can map the shared folders on the XP Pro computer, but when I try to access them, I get denied access.
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Aug 27, 2006
Is there a difference between buying Windows Xp Home from a store and using the reinstall cd that Dell provides with thier computers?
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Feb 27, 2008
Just got a new pc with windows xp home sp2... when I open up windows all the icons are really big! and when I go on the internet the pages are too big for the screen. this was not the case with my previous PC also with xp home sp2.
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Dec 15, 2005
I'm looking to buy a new PC and I see a good deal with one but it comes with SP2. What's the difference between XP Home and XP Home with SP2.
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Aug 20, 2010
Whilst attempting to upgrade Ad-Aware I clicked that button and was taken to Cnet. On clicking download a window advised that I needed Hebrew language to make the thing work. There was no option so I thought it must be part of the new version Ad-Aware but immediately I had accepted it, Windows File Protection said " files that are required for Windows to run properly have been replaced by unrecognised versions" etc Insert Windows XP Home Edition SP3 CD. Since SP3 was installed as an upgrade,Would System Restore mend this problem? I made a new restoration point this month. My last backup disc was 18 long mths ago. I don't know how to make a CD of SP3 so what's the easiest way of sorting this out. BTW, my pc hasn't been restarted.
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Mar 3, 2006
Alright here is my problem,i have 2 OS on my pc one is XP home which i use and XP pro which i dont use,the reason they are both on there is because i had a virus that deleted my NTloader and i didnt have my Xp Home editon boot disks at the time so i rebooted it with Xp Pro to get my NTloader back,now i have to choose which OS i want to start up with and its annoying so i was wondering if anyone could tell me how to remove the Xp Pro from my pc.
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Feb 20, 2005
I have xp pro on my laptop at work. I am thinking I need to do a clean install on a computer running xp home. We're on dialup and I'd rather not try downloading it again unless I have to. I haven't looked yet but I'm hoping MS put a huge .exe file on my laptop hd and it's still there. I used the MS update feature to automatically update it when sp2 came out.
where I could make a "slipstreamed bootable cd" with xp and sp2 for a computer. I was thinking this would be nice to have - my mom is not technologically inclined. The computer is a dell and I haven't thought til now to check with them and see if they made a cd available for it with sp2. If this works, though, I shouldn't need that, right? Wondering if I can do it for each machine running xp? On my way to face the blue screen on my mom's nonbooting computer. Maybe y'all will have some encouraging words for me on my arrival.
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Feb 11, 2006
I have a laptop running XP Home which until recently was working fine. It now boots up to the normal login screen but when the user is selected a straange dialogue box appears with no discription of what is happening in it. No matter whether the Yes or No button is pressed, the system logs back off. I have tried to log on using safe mode in its various guises but this dialog still appears and does not allow me to log on. I have also created a boot floppy but the same problem occurs.
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May 23, 2006
When building computers, opting for Windows XP Home saves you good money, money you can put into better computer parts (like that Thermaltake Armor Jr. case!). I'm building another computer, so does anyone know the differences between XP Home SP2 and XP Pro SP2, and if XP Pro is worth the extra $40-50?
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Oct 5, 2008
It's got to the time where I need to do this and I have done it numerous times in the past but this time I am having problems.
Last week bought two new 500gb harddrives and replaced my existing 300gb slave. Formatted and partitioned this and all was okay.
Today I have removed the 300gb master and installed, formatted and partitioned the new 500gb hd with PM8.
I have set the primary partition as active and all the others are logical which is asthe old hd was partitioned.
I have been geting a disk boot failure error on trying to boot from the CDROM with the XP installation disk. Having originaly had the bios set incorrectly I have now rechecked it and ensured the boot order is set to CDROM, HD-0 and the floppy.
I have ensured that the primary hd has been detected, detection is set to to Auto and Access Mode to LBA following the Seagate instructions. I have now also disconnected the secondary drive to exclude that from the picture until I get into the primary drive.
I have also reset the jumper on the new primary to Master having disconnected the secondary drive.
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May 31, 2005
Is this possible I was wondering, I have 2 sets windows xp pro. I use pro currently for 2 of my other systems. I want to downgrade to home edition ,cause pro uses more ram. Since my other system has only 128 sd ram, tends to be a little slow. I also have another comp bought from store that came with winxp home ed. instead its on a 2 restore cds ,using ghost. Is it possible for me to use the restore cds on other comp? or taking out xp home ed out of ghost files? or is this like a bad thing?. I also have the cdkey of xp home,cause it says on the cd jewel case.
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