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- Windows XP Setup >> Ad-Aware Doesn't UpdateThanks to PA Bear for link to this software. So far I have used this with
the May definitions issued with the original download.
Anyone know why this software won't get updates?
Configured to our internal proxy, it shows "retrieving" in the status box,
but doesn't get past 5%.
We have a 512Kb leased line so speed should not be an issue.
TIA
Phil
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- Windows XP Support >> USB Device Not Recognized - is there a basic reset?My computer almost always fails to recognize USB devices when they are
plugged in to any of the USB ports. I get the "USB Device Not
Recognized" message. Some, I can get to work if I power down, plug in
the device, and reboot. Others, like a thumb drive that works fine on
several other computers, I can never get it to recognize. They alsways
show us as UNKNOWN DEVICE in the Device manager and no amount of
troubleshooting or web searching has helped. Device manager shows 5
root hubs, and 5 host controllers - but I can't tell what is what.
The USB wireless mouse/keyboard and printer work fine but no other
devices ever have worked without a hassle.
I've had these problems with 2 external drives, two different digital
cameras (Canon's help couldn't figure it out either), and flash drives
that work fine on similar computers.
Suggestions for a fix?
My Dell computer is 3GHz Pentium4, 2G RAM, Windows XP PRO, SP2.
TIA
Steve
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- Windows XP >> CD ROM problemWhen I double-click on my CD-ROM, I receive a messege that says "E:\
Application not found". I have to right-click the icon and click on AutoPlay
to use my CDs. What is the fix for this?
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- Windows XP Update >> sp2 and 1e6I get a message every day that I have updates. These are for sp2, if i accept
them, I go through the "I accept etc" I am told that My upgrades are
succsessful. every day. My pc tells me If I ask, I still have sp1.
I also have no virus protection as my ie6 will not accept activeX controls.
I have gone through the cookie delete and set all that I am asked to by
mcaffie to no avail.
I have found that there are 2 files missing "iecont.dll and iecontlc.dll"
from ie6 HELP!
Replies to rtarchibald@lineone.net please robert
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- Windows XP Security >> Error in fast user switchingI have fast user switching enabled but when I try to use
it without logging off the current user, the desktop
flashes then the user is back to the logon screen. I
looked in the Event viewer and found this error for
starting the Terminal Service
The Terminal Services service terminated with the
following error:
Terminal Services is not a valid Win32 application.
and this one under the fast user switching
The Fast User Switching Compatibility service depends on
the Terminal Services service which failed to start
because of the following error:
Fast User Switching Compatibility is not a valid Win32
application.
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- Windows XP Support >> Can't update Program Files folder - XP Home SP2My wife and I both have administrator accounts on our home computer running
XP Home SP2. My account works ok. Her account will not let her or any
application she is running modify anything in the Program Files folder. Can
anyone help resolve this problem. Is there anything in the registry we can
change to fix her account. I have tried to create a new administrator account
and it has the same problem.
Thanks Steve
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- Windows XP Hardware >> Digital CamerasI've recently bought a digital camera, and have installed the software that comes with the camera. However when I've gone to add the camera to the computer using the USB port it won't recognise the camera and says that the drivers aren't installed. I have contacted the makers of the camera but they as yet need to find an answer to my problem. Can anyone help please?
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- Windows XP Network >> Internet Connection Sharing problemI have recently purchased a notebook and I am now trying to share the
Internet Connection on my desktop PC (which is directly connected to
the ISP) to the notebook via a hub.
While the Internet connection on my desktop PC has always been normal,
I found that I am unable to access SOME of the websites on my notebook.
For example, I can access www.google.com but not hk.yahoo.com. I would
access www.bbc.com but not www.nytimes.com.
I am also unable to access hotmail.com
I have already turned off the firewalls on both of the computers, and
have also tried to use Firefox instead of IE, but the situation
persists.
Do you have any clue about what's happening?
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- Windows XP Basic >> Problem installing Bluetooth USB dongleHi,
Yes I should have known better but I plugged my Bluetooth USB dongle into my
pc before installing the software and now I can't get it to work despite
un-installing and re-installing the software, rebooting etc.
I've even tried a system restore only to find I can't get it to do that
either.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
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- Windows XP Support >> DisplayAll of my programs that appear on screen have shifted right;which makes it
difficult if not sometimes impossible to work from the right side of the
screen. Is there anyone out there that might help me resolve this issue?
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- Windows XP >> JavaI have just got XP and don't have Java plug-in. Where
should I download it from.I know there are lots of
download sites, but where is the best?
Thanks
Vanessa
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- Windows XP >> MSPaint auto-resizeIn previous versions of mspaint (98se and earlier) mspaint.exe would prompt
for confirmation when pasting an image from the clipboard which was larger
(width and height) than the current open image. With XP, and possibly 2000,
the resizing happens automatically. I was wondering if there was any way to
disable the autoresize and have mspaint popup the confirmation dialog.
Thanks
--lhach
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- customize >> Sysyem Back-upCould someone please in form me of the easiest way to back
up my files.
As information would be lost if the computer was stolen or
a virus wiped my drives.
Cheers
Jim
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- Windows XP Hardware >> ata 100 or ata 66I have a spare hard drive which is ATA66 which im thinking of installing as a slave. The only problem I am worried about is my master drive is ATA100. Will the slave drive bring the master drive down to ATA66 or will it remain ATA.?
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- Windows XP >> Internet Explorer 6Out of nowhere, my IE takes forever to fully load a
page. When you finally load it, then it takes a long
time to process a command from that page. I have deleted
my temp files, my temp internet files and history and
have tried to install a patch which did nothing.
Does anyone have any ideas what this can be from? I
didn't install or delete any programs to change my
computer's config. and from one night to the next, it is
giving me this grief.
Thanks.
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- Windows XP Hardware >> "Format did not complete successfully"Anyone ever receive this error message in Windows XP?
Please bear with me for a long story, I'd like to see if I
can get this resolved.
I bought a LaCie external Firewire drive a few months ago,
and for awhile it was working fine. Well, almost fine. I
used it for storing digital video for a video editing
system, and from time to time I had playback problems
where it would inexplicably stop in the middle of the
edited video (on the timeline, in Adobe Premiere 6.5).
So, I got on the Adobe forum, people said I should try
disabling the write caching on the drive. So I went in
and changed the radio button to "Optimize for Quick
Removal". Ever since I did that the drive slowed down
considerably, just chugging along and slowing the computer
along with it. I tried changing that setting back again,
but still slow and I couldn't access any of my files on
the drive. I then figured what the heck, I'll just
reformat and start over. It's just video and audio files,
and I have the original footage on DV tape anyway; I can
simply redigitize the media.
Well, I tried over and over again to reformat the drive,
and here's what happens. It goes to formatting, counts
the percentage, and everything, then when it reaches 100%,
it then gives an error message saying "The format did not
complete successfully". I tried deleting the partition,
recreating the partition, making it active, and
reformatting again, still same thing. I shipped the drive
back to LaCie (the drive manufacturer), they sent it back
saying they replaced a bridge board, tested the new board,
and everything's fine. When I received it back a few days
ago, I had to re-initialize, re-partition, and reformat
the disk, and I still got the same formatting problem.
Before I had sent it, the help desk person on the phone
said the problem might be my video capture card, which is
an ADS Pyro For Notebooks DV card. But my computer is
able to certainly talk to the drive and attempt to format
it fine, via the Firewire connection. So personally I
don't see a communications problem. Neither ADS nor LaCie
had anything in their documentation about the other
manufacturer's incompatibility.
Anyway, I was able to format the drive when I first got
everything (card and drive), but I don't understand what I
could have done in Windows XP to cause this latest
problem. My system consists of the following:
Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop w/700 MHz PIII
512MB SDRAM
Windows XP Professional
ADS Pyro Basic DV card For Notebooks (part of Platinum DV
package)
LaCie d2 External Firewire Drive 120GB 7200RPM
Please help! I fear by the time I get this resolved my
products will be out of warranty!
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- Windows XP Network >> Networking Troubleshooter contradicts Internet Explorer TroubleshoHi there,
I receive a "The page cannot be displayed" message (because the proxy server
was down, but that is another story). I started the Internet Explorer
Troubleshooter within the Support Center. I told it "Yes, I've tried several
different Web sites and I cannot view any of them" and I told it to
Investigate. The investigation result is that it cannot ping the default
gateway. However, the Networking Troubleshooter shows that the
DefaultIPGateway test passed. The results are somewhat contradictory. Huh?
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- customize >> Folder Thumbnails and View Settings Not Consisitent & LostHi all,
I find this very annoying and a big problem:
I have lots of family photos organized in many folders. Each folder, in
thumbnail view, is customized to have a certain picture to represent it and
it is set as a Photo album. Whenever I copy the whole Pictures folder to
someone, or even if I just move the whole folder to another location, my
settings get lost, that is, the thumbnail photo is gone and folder view is
Documennts now. Then I have to reset each individual folder, which is almost
impossible now because I have about 300 folders. I tried to copy Thumbs.db
system file on together with the folders but that didn't work either. Would
you know of any fix for this please as I would like to give people the
folder the same way I have it customized, or to be able to move it on
another harddrive with all the settings remembered?
Hope you can help,
Thanks a lot and sorry for trouble
Igor
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- Windows XP Network >> Setting up a VPNI am trying to set up a VPN for a remote domain. I can set up the connection
and it connects fine but I cannot access any resources nor can I run a login
script. When I reboot I do not get an option to login using a Dial-up
connection because this machine has never been joined to a domain before.
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Mike Roti
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- Windows XP Update >> RWW TimeoutI'm attempting to RWW from a laptop using a Verizon air card. It's only
running in the national access mode, just a little faster than dialup. I
choose the 56K connection speed when I log on. Both client and server
desktop time out.
I use this laptop from home to access my desktop and server all the time,
then it's on cable wired or wireless. I need to have this ability as I'm
planning to be away for almost two weeks and I bought the card just for
this. It appears I'll have the same connection speed where I'm going. Am I
missing a setting somewhere? SBS 2003 Standard. Laptop and all clients are
on XP Pro w/ SP2.
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- Windows XP >> How to get (in Touch with Pegasus re) Help with XOSLPegasus,
Please help me with this installation opf XOSL as you offered previously:
>If this was my machine then I would get a free copy of a boot
>loader called XOSL. I would then do this:
- Create a 15 MByte logical partition at the far end of the disk.
- Install XOSL there.
- Clone the existing WinXP installation to your spare partition.
- Add the two OSs to the XOSL menu.
- Password-protect your own WinXP installation in XOSL.
- Selectively hide various partitions from each other.
As a net result would get two completely independent and
mutually invisible OSs, one of which is password protected.
There are a few gotchas in this method. Post again for
further details if you decide to follow this path
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- Windows XP >> backupi have windows xp home and is trying to run a scheduled back to an external
HD. but during the scheduled time nothing happens.i have the password set
alone with date and times.when i check the status it says could not start.
can anyone help
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- Windows XP >> crazy TRACERT and PING reporting (introduced in latest critical patches)I'm seeing whacky results since the last Microsoft Critical Update
(late April or Early May 2006)
The times it's reporting here and there are impossible, so it's leading
me to believe it's reporting it incorrectly.
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms c-65-97-0-123.hsd1.va.comcast.net
[65.97.0.123]
2 10 ms 9 ms 15 ms 73.142.104.1
3 4294967283 ms 9 ms 8 ms 68.86.174.89
4 10 ms 9 ms 17 ms 68.86.172.34
^C
H:\>tracert www.biznet.net
sometimes:
Tracing route to biznet.net [65.246.56.24]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 4294967275 ms 4294967275 ms 4294967275 ms
c-65-97-0-123.hsd1.va.comcast.
net [65.97.0.123]
2 9 ms 4294967282 ms 4294967288 ms 73.142.104.1
3 4294967284 ms 4294967288 ms 4294967282 ms 68.86.174.89
4 4294967284 ms 4294967286 ms 4294967282 ms 68.86.172.34
5 4294967285 ms 4294967284 ms 4294967286 ms 68.86.172.81
6 4294967284 ms 4294967284 ms 4294967284 ms 68.86.172.122
7 4294967291 ms 4294967292 ms 4294967290 ms 12.126.174.21
8 4294967289 ms 4294967290 ms 4294967291 ms
gbr5-p30.wswdc.ip.att.net [12.
123.9.66]
9 4294967291 ms 3 ms <1 ms tbr1-p013301.wswdc.ip.att.net
[12.122.11.1
69]
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When the problem occurs, my ping is reported to gaming servers as way
to high and I get bumped off of the server, though my throughput is
truly ok...
It seems that there is something corrupt...
Here are the things I've already tried:
1. reinstalled XP from scratch... Probablem did not resurface until I
applied the latest critical updates. Microsoft ignores my information
and will not ackowledge the issue.
2. bought a totally different NIC, thinking maybe it was the onboard
ethernet controller.
3. run network without router connected directly to the cable modem.
4. did a traceroute to 127.0.0.1 and saw the same results
intermittantly.
5. do a ping, and it reports negative numbers as the max ping time, and
millions for the average.
6. updated all NIC drivers.
7. ran with and without microsoft's firewall.
8. ran it without any other programs loaded or running (again, note it
did not resurface in a fresh install until the critical updates were
applied).
If anyone has seen this before, please let me know. (email:
jeff23@wadasia.com) j e f f 2 3 @ w a d a s i a . c o m
any help is appreciated,
Thanks,
Jeff
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- Windows XP Security >> Service Pack 2 could not backup registry key (still having a problI attempted to change the security through regedit and it won't allow me due
to insufficient permissions. I even tried via safe mode.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
John wrote:
> I am trying to apply service pack 2 to an XP Home edition OS. I am getting
> the following error for multiple registry keys so I have to abort the install.
>
> Service Pack 2 could not backup registry key Access denied.
>
> Any ideas?
Hi
You can trace which registry key is causing the trouble using the
setupapi.log in the windows folder (this log file is updated during
a service pack installation).
Here is a previous post about this:
From: <stephensrob1@hotmail.com>
Subject: XP SP2 "Access Denied" & the Fix
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 08:22:57 -0700
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
<quote>
As with SP2 RC2, I am having the same problem with the GA
release of SP2. "Access Denied" during installation.
This is error can be worked around by reading the
setupapi.log under the windows directory. I am
posting this to see if others are having the problem. For
some reason several registry keys related to windows media
player and a few others do not have any permissions set
for admin and system.
Specifically the following need to have permissions set to
full control for admin & system:
HKCR/vnd.ms.radio
IP6FwAPI.NetFirewallV6Manager
HKCR/WMPlater.OCX/EditFlags
HKCR/Software/Classes/UICTL* may vary
HKCR/Software/Classes/ADDC* may vary
you may have others so check the log for "Unable to delete
registry , Access Denied"
You may need to go thru the install a few times, as you
may fix one set, the next time you run it you may
encounter a new set. The best thing to do is check the
first 3 listed above and the set full control on
permission to HKCR/Software/Classes and its child objects
for Admin and System only.
</quote>
The above might be a very laborious if there are several registry
keys that have a permission issue. In that case, it would be
better to reset the security settings back to the defaults for
all registry keys.
More here on how to do that:
How To Reset Security Settings Back to the Defaults
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313222
If you only want to reset the registry permissions,
add this to the secedit command line:
/areas REGKEYS
--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx
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- Windows XP >> External Hard Drive will not be release by XPI have a new WD 120gig external hard drive with a USB connection. I plug it
in after the computer is booted. When I attempt to stop and remove it using
the safe removal icon on the lower right of the screen while the computer is
still powered up I get a message something like this "The 'generic hard
drive' can not be stopped now as it is use by a program. Try again later" I
have no program running at the time. The only way I can remove is to shut
down the computer and unplug and then restart the computer. Very time
consuming. Any solution?
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Thank you
Hal
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