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- Windows XP MovieMaker >> No Firewire and unreliable WMMI bought a lead for firewire connection, connected and was instructed through
a series of steps to capture video from a Sony Digital video camera - great!
After playing about with the clips and getting my head round WMM I decided to
repeat the process of capturing the video from the Sony device. When i
plugged in the firewire lead i noticed there was no 'new hardware' message
and when i try and use WMM to capture the video it tells me it cannot see it
and to make sure i am plugged in/conected etc. Now i cannot capture video at
all, nothing happens when i plug in the firewire and WMM keeps sending the
same plugged in/switched on/connected type of message.
I have managed to download from a sony Digital Video camera and have some
clips on my WMM collections to fiddle about with. Sometimes WMM lets me open,
adjust, play, create and record all the usual you might expect and other
times it does not and if i persist it sends an error message and crashes the
program.
All i want is to be able to capture video via my firewire connection, and
use WMM to edit videos.
Any assisstance greatly appreciated.
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- Windows XP Support >> Problem with holding key down..........see insideWhen you normally hold a key down, it will type the same letter
[number] across the whole page. Mine won't.. it types it once, then I
have to let up on the key, wait a second or so and press again, etc.
If I am typing along using different letters, it goes right along, but
with a word like "room", then the two o's get hung up, in my having to
wait inbetween. It's the same way with the backspace key.. one at a
time, with a second in between... any thoughts?? TIA
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- Windows XP >> Need help fixing unstable systemHi, first here is my current configuration, then I'll tell you what my
problem is.
AMD Athlon XP2000+ processor, 1.67 ghz
512Mb ram
Nvidia GeForce 4 TI 4600 video card, 512Mb video ram
WinXP Home edition, SP1 plus a bunch of update patches
Directx 9.0b
Nvidia detonator 44.67 video driver
Media player version 9.0
Late last summer my system started flaking out and crashing. I first
thought it was software problems, so I browsed the Microsoft Update
site, and that's where I picked up the variety of update patches. (I
had installed SP1 about a year prior with no major problems.) The
problem got worse until it finally became obvious that my RAM was
dying. I replaced the ram and that fixed the problem for the most
part.
However, since then my system still crashes when I try to run The Sims
or when playing DVD movies in Media Player. It's fairly stable as
long as I don't do those video-intensive things. That tells me it's
some sort of video problem. I asked for advice on guru3d.com.
Someone suggested I upgrade to the current versions of directx and
nvidia drivers. (I was at directx 8.0 at the time.) Of course that
didn't help and AFTER I had already done it, someone else posted that
older video cards like mine don't work well with Directx 9.0b. And I
saw where it says you cannot un-install directx 9.0b. Doh!
I'm now at a point where I'm pretty sure I have a good version of the
video driver. I don't know what's the best next step to take, though,
which is why I post here. SHould I attempt to remove the directx and
reinstall 8.0? Should I attempt to remove all those sundry update
patches (leaving SP1 of course)? Should I wipe the machine and
install everything from scratch?
Basically I'm still not quite sure what's crashing my system, although
I have it narrowed down to those three possibilities. I'd rather not
wipe-and-reinstall if I don't have to, but I can certainly do that if
you think my system is pretty well hosed.
- Sharon, limping along with this box
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- Windows XP Perform Maintain >> HIbernate problemsIn standby:
does not wake up on keyboard or mouse, must restart with the power button
(I tryed all options on bios)
In hibernate:
when waking up (with the power button) after hibernating more than 5 (?)
minutes, the mouse is
hung (kbd is ok)
I run XP.All worked well some weeks ago. Moouse+kbd are wireless.
Any help ? Thanks
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L.S
ng@00000.cjb.net
(If u reply, pls forward me a copy if possible bcs my ISP usually has NG
out-of-date.)
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- Windows XP MovieMaker >> Video transitionsI use Movie Maker 2.1 and have the following problem!
The Video Transition Effects only work sometimes! Usually only one time
after I start the programm. After that I just can't drag them anymore. Has
anyone experienced this problem and how can it be solved?
Help is very much appreciatet.
Tks and all the best
Tony
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- Windows XP Security >> Using XP-Pro firewall to prevent MP3 downloads??I have 12 new XP-Pro machines in a high school library. Despite
typical warnings some students manage to get an MP3 download running
in the background.
The school is mixed Mac/PC and the servers and system proxy/firewall
are Mac, with little/no active support person.
Can I configure the XP-Pro firewall on a per-machine basis to block
downloads of a particular filetype?
Any other ideas on how to block MP3 downloads?? Others must be having
this problem, and hopefully have some solution other than outmoded
approaches involving 30 Cm rulers (Here in Actually Metric Africa) and
knuckles, like when I was in 5th grade. That was a real long time ago!
Regards, Terry King ...On The Mediterranean in Carthage
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- Windows XP >> USB Optical mouseI'm using a Microsoft wheel/optical mouse and it seems to jump all over the
place. Top left of the screen. It does it off and on, during games and
normal browsing, etc.
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- Windows XP Support >> XP sound issuesI'm also having problems with my desktop machine. I recently downlaoded
an update for my intergrated VIA chipset, and since then the audio on some of
my windows programs won't run. The sound card still works, as I can play
MP3's just fine, but as an example, my shareware MVP Backgammon game with
.wav files won't play the files during gameplay. The files are fine, as I
can play them by selecting them in media player, but they won't play during
at runtime.
I checked to make sure that the sound was still checked in the game and
it was, so it's not a setting. I also tried rolling back the driver, but
that didn't work, either. Any thoughts?
Jim Comfort
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- Windows XP >> upcoming hard drive failureTwo days ago at work when I started my win xp pro system, it hung for a
while at the startup screen trying to find the primary master hard drive
then went to a blank screen that said press any key to reboot. When I did,
the system booted up ok. This happened two or three times (but not every
time I started the computer).
Then yesterday when I started the computer, the start-up screen found the
primary master quickly but a warning appeared that said, "imminent hard
drive failure- backup and replace hard drive- press f1 to continue.."
When I press f1 the system starts up ok and appears to work fine, but since
today, this warning message appears every time the computer is turned on.
The hard drive is not making any unusual noises (yet), and the system
finishes booting ok and appears to work without problems.
A co-worker seems to think that it has a virus in the fat tables, but this
is a standalone video workstation not connected to the internet.
I just rebuilt it three weeks ago when I upgraded the motherboard and I used
the 40 gig hard drive that had been my video drive as the c drive, and added
a new 80 gig drive as my new video drive. The 40 gig drive was partitioned
and formatted by win xp before installing the os.
I have built about 20 computers already, so I am not totally new at putting
computers together, but this is a new problem for me. In the past, when a
hard drive has failed, it has just stopped working and the computer wouldn't
even start.
Does this sound like a hard drive failure coming on or could it be some
virus type of corruption?
Would running something like norton utilities help me find out what's going
on, or even repair the problem?
And if I did a copy and paste of my entire c drive over to the video drive,
and then replaced the c drive, could I simply copy the files back to the new
c drive and avoid having to re-install everything from scratch?
Thanks a lot for any advice.
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- Windows XP Perform Maintain >> Windows Installer problemHi ,
Whatever I tried to install on my computer , I encounter following messege
"This installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package
exists and
t hat you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that
this is a valid Windows Installer package"
I already reinstall windows installer 3.1 package
I unregistered and reregistered windows intaller dll and msi files.
But it did not make any difference!!!
What am I supposed to do ,
Please Help me
regards,
Erim
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- Windows XP Setup >> Error code 6ba catalog file corruptedHello All, I am trying to install windows Xp Prof. on a
new machine. The machine was just built earlier today. It
has no software what so ever. I get through the initial
setup ok. Its when I boot from the hard drive for the
first time to finish installation I get some digital
catalog file could not be open I386/nt5.cat fatal error. I
hope someone else has had this problem anybody have a
solution?
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- Windows XP Support >> I thought the protection for a private folderHello everyone!
After many many mistakes (apparently not enough) I kept all my data folders
on a separate drive letter on my system.
I just completed a full format on my C: drive.
Before starting the formatting, I took care of removing my user account
password, thinking that this would automatically remove any protection to my
files safely stored in D:
Surprise! My folder is now locked.
:-(
I'm sooooo worried that I will not have any access to ALL My files! ;-(
Can anybody help?
Thanks from a wary "not-so-new" user!
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Windows XP Perform Maintain >> Windows Update
Everytime I go to windows update and click on either option.....(express or
custom)I get an error message saying that my activeX is no longer installed
or is not signed.I allow the pc to register,which it says 100%
complete......but it contuinues to do the same thing over and over.I cannot
get any updates at this point.I am getting virtual memory low errors and my
pc is running extremly slow.
Windows XP1210
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Windows XP Perform Maintain >> Windows Update
Open internet options,settings,view objects,R.click on them one at a time,
select,update.
"pixiewingz" wrote:
> Everytime I go to windows update and click on either option.....(express or
> custom)I get an error message saying that my activeX is no longer installed
> or is not signed.I allow the pc to register,which it says 100%
> complete......but it contuinues to do the same thing over and over.I cannot
> get any updates at this point.I am getting virtual memory low errors and my
> pc is running extremly slow.
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- Windows XP Support >> FAST helpI did a backup with the FAST wizard and now want to restore the data to
a new computer. The 2 systems are connected with an ethernet cable and
on my old system I selected the folder with the *.dat files that are my
backup. When I started the transfer it started re-compressing the
files in my user account folders.
How do I transfer the files since they are already backed up and
restore them on the new computer?
Thanks!!
Eddie G
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- Windows XP Support >> Computer Startup?I recieved a request from a family member to help fix thier computer. The
problems simple, but the awnsers alludes me.
Each time the computer starts up (after the boot title and the WIN XP splash
screen)
The computer just resets itself. I've tried to access safe mode and the
command prompt, but to no avail. Each time I try to acces any part of the
WIN XP components it just resets it self over and over again.
I have the windows recovery console and used both virus/spyware tools along
with diagnostics but nothing. I even got desperate and use advance "bootcfg"
and "fixboot" among others. I gave up and reformated the hard drive and
reset the bios three times after I thought the problem was resolved, but
after only three or four days the same thing happens again.
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- Windows XP Support >> username on login wont changehad a bunch of laptops.
so i ghosted one image and dumped image to laptops (we had legal
licenses...)
i also created a template user account called "tempuser" for the username.
so i configured and made sure that the account works and stuff.
so when i went to each machine, i just change the username from
"tempuser" to their username.
but now, everytime they turn the machine one, on the login screen, it
comes up with "tempuser" and not whatever their last login was, using
their valid username.
HELP.........
thanks...
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- Windows XP Hardware >> USB kills Lex 83 in Sleep ModeWhen the Lexmark X83 goes into sleep mode, the USB
apparently shuts it down. I have to restart the system
to rerecognize the printer again. The USB Root Hub Power
Manager property to "Allow the computer to turn off a
device to save power" is NOT checked....
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- Windows XP Update >> NetscapeI am trying to download your free netscape navigator 7.2 download and it
gets to a certain point in the download with this error message:
"Setup has encountered a network problem and has paused the download.
If you've just lost your connection, please click Resume once your network
has been
reestablished". I've never lost my connection and everytime I hit Resume
I get this message again. What is the problem?
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When replying I need step by step instructions on what I need to do. don't
just say for example "That's usually a profile-related problem - dig around
in your
C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\ directory for the profile and rename it.
Or run Netscape's profile Manager and create a new one".
In this case, what profile? How would I run Netscapes profile's Mgr.?
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- Windows XP Support >> Finalizing my DVD-RW in Easy CD CreatorHi everyone! First time here, hope to get some answers.
I'm saving picture and video files on separate DVD-RWs. I have Easy CD
Creator 5x basic that came w/ the computer and updated it with the patch
5.3.5.10_basic. I pulled my first DVD from a year ago out and added pictures
onto it from this year's trip. Original files were there as expected and
additions were no problem. Secondly, I started a 2nd disc of all video wmv
files. I filled that one to the hilt and do not wish to add to what little
room is left.
My settings are set thusly: "The selected Record Method finalizes the
session. The CD itself is not finalized so additional sessions can be added
later. To change this setting click options."
Actually, this is the setting I prefer, but in the case of the second disc,
it's full for me now and if I wish to possibly play it on my DVD player it
needs to be finalized.
Problem is, this option isn't available (appears all faded-out) when I click
on file, and appears the same to the lower right when I'm looking at disc
properties. Only real option in bold black at these times is ERASE, and I
don't want to do that! The discs play great on my computer, all material is
recognized, etc., but this inability to finalize has me confused. Certainly
in theory, a RW disc by its nature will never be truly finalized. Is that
what's holding things up? I do believe I should be able to finalize these,
true?
As for now, I feel good having these files backed up, playable, etc., just
would like to possible have the option of popping them into my relatively new
DVD player.
Thanks a bunch,
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- Windows XP Security >> Remote Attacker?I was using my computer off-line when the phone rang and through my speakers
I heard the modem pick-up & a computer/fax signal.
(I have a Dell Win. XP SP-2, with a dial-up connection and CA eTrust
Personal Firewall.)
When I checked the eTrust logs, I found that several inbound communications
had been blocked including two attempts made (at about the same time as I
heard my modem pick up) originating from DNS source:
"dedicated67.fastcolocation.net".
I was concerned when I heard my modem respond without my log on.
Apparently, the etrust firewall blocked it, but why was another computer able
to call my machine and have it pick-up the phone? Is this a symptom of a
greater security threat?
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- Windows XP >> wminf.exeI am running Windows XP and after I log in my computer
tells me it can't find or load "wminf.exe".
What is it and/or how do I fix it?
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- Windows XP Network >> WindowsXPWhen I log onto AOL, I am getting poppups continually.
Internet Explorer keeps coming up and I am getting others
and I am wondering if there is a fix or a Web page to
browse through for answers. Am tired of trying to look up
something or try to read while on-line and trying to deal
with these problems. I have tried AOL pop up blockers and
does not seem to fix this problem.Thanks for your time
and help. I have seen ads for downloading products that
will fix the problem but am not sure if this is a good
idea or what exactly to look for. Thanks again.
Michael
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- Windows XP >> lost calendar entries in outlook?I have lost information in my calendar in outlook (XP Professional).
Prior to a certain date my calendar is completely empty. I don't know why
or what happened. Is there any why to retrieve it?
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- Windows XP Setup >> get win me from xp proi'm trying to get windows me back is there anyway that
you might be able to bring me back on windows xp pro.
when you put the cd in it says old version and setup
cannot be runed.
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- Windows XP >> stop laptop suspending when battery gets lowHi,
I have a sony TR5 laptop which is about 3 years old now. Although the
battery will last a good 2 hours, the battery meter drops to 0% after about
1/2 that time.
That's not a problem in itself - I've seen it on other laptops before. I
simply went on to the "alarms" section of the power control panel and made
sure that it didn't hibernate when the battery level goes below 3%. I have
to suffer the occasional unexpected shutdown when the battery actually runs
out but I can live with that.
That was fine until I reinstalled windows XP and now the PC always
hibernates when it thinks the battery is low i.e. after an hour, regardless
of how I configure the low battery alarms.
is there something else that is taking priority over these settings. It's a
PITA only being able to use 1/2 the battery life of the laptop.
TIA
Andy
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- Windows XP >> Cleaning Out Temp FilesHello,
When cleaning out temp files from my system, should I clear both the Temp
folder in Documents and Settings and the one in the Windows folder?
Are there any other temp or other files that should be cleaned out
routinely?
Thank you,
Sarah
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- Windows XP >> Media Player 9After installing media player 9 my cdrw has stopped
functioning properly. When I use the "send to" command
the computer comes up with 'unable to find shortcut' or
just simply does not recognize the cdrw drive. Any ideas?
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