| Subject | Date Asked | Expert |
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| Switch user causing Blue Screen of Death | 12/2/2008 | Lenny |
Q: Here's my issue. I recently had a computer custom built for me. Often (probably about 2-3 times per ...
A: Too bad then.Well, I am afraid to say this but the problem most assuredly has something ...
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| Intel Bus driver | 12/2/2008 | Lenny |
Q: what is a "Intel(R)8280 1 EB SM Bus controller"? It is showing up on my "Device manager" and the ...
A: An important driver responsible for data transfer is missing or rather corrupt. It requires re ...
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| Switch User Causing Blue Screen of Death | 12/1/2008 | Ashit Gajwani |
Q: Here's my issue. I recently had a computer custom built for me. Often (probably about 2-3 times per ...
A: Could you please get back to me with information on (1) Whether or not is your operating system ...
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| Uninstalling Office 2007 Beta | 12/1/2008 | Lenny |
Q: I am having a huge problem. I downloaded (yes, I did it!) the Beta version of Office 2007. I needed ...
A: Luckily, Microsoft has a step by step instruction on how to remove traces of Office 2007 in the ...
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| Switch user causing Blue Screen of Death | 12/1/2008 | Lenny |
Q: Here's my issue. I recently had a computer custom built for me. Often (probably about 2-3 times per ...
A: The flicker on the screen is the installation of the Microsoft utility program and is not in any way ...
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| Switch user causing Blue Screen of Death | 12/1/2008 | Lenny |
Q: Here's my issue. I recently had a computer custom built for me. Often (probably about 2-3 times per ...
A: The problem you are having is your computer's inability to maintain user sessions when you log off ...
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| Read-Only Files | 11/30/2008 | Jeffrey Bradley |
Q: I have a Compaq Presario SR12320M computer with Windows XP Home. 512 MB Ram, AMD Athlon XP 3200+ ...
A: The path is simply another name for the location of the file, if you look at the properties box ...
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| XP Sound Volume Problems | 11/30/2008 | Jeffrey Bradley |
Q: I went into my registry to try to find out why I have no sound on my computer. Going into the ...
A: It looks like your audio driver decided to take a vacation. :-) Get the make and exact model ...
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| data lost | 11/30/2008 | Tom |
Q: how can i get back my data wrongly deleted by formatting
A: this can only be done with special recovery software look here ...
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| Reformatig windows xp pro | 11/30/2008 | Ashit Gajwani |
Q: i am trying to reformat my computer but when it comes to deleting the existing Partition. it comes ...
A: That's a safety measure built into Windows Setup. Try the following (1) Boot the computer using ...
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| boot-up dramatically slower after power down | 11/30/2008 | Jeffrey Bradley |
Q: Jeffrey: I hope you can help. I am using a Dell Inspiron 1501 running XP sp3 a semrpon 3500 ...
A: All techs were "new" at one time (although some do tend to forget that :-). I was doing some ...
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| boot-up dramatically slower after power down | 11/29/2008 | Jeffrey Bradley |
Q: Jeffrey: I hope you can help. I am using a Dell Inspiron 1501 running XP sp3 a semrpon 3500 ...
A: Hopefully you haven't tried chkdsk yet because if you try it the normal way, Windows will advise it ...
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| XP Home Edition | 11/28/2008 | Lenny |
Q: I use a Dell lap top as a back-up computer.I recently removed the Norton virus checker to install ...
A: Please go to Control panel and click on Regional and Language Settings.Then click on Languages tab, ...
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| PC will not reboot | 11/28/2008 | Lenny |
Q: While in the process of doing a check disk on my desktop, one of our circuit breakers tripped that ...
A: There could be a couple of reasons why the computer is not detecting the disk: 1-You might have set ...
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| Swicthing back to windows OS | 11/28/2008 | Jeffrey Bradley |
Q: Actually i loaded solaris OS in free space of the computer....can u tell me how to switch back to ...
A: It depends upon which version of Solaris you installed, if it was OpenSolaris the installer should ...
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| booting the computer | 11/28/2008 | Lenny |
Q: My Operating System is XP Home Edition. My problem is booting the computer. When I turn on the ...
A: I cannot say this has anything to with the Operating System but it seldom has something to do with ...
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| Error loading message upon start-up | 11/28/2008 | Jeffrey Bradley |
Q: C:PROGRA~1MYWEBS~1ar.barM3PLUGIN.DLL ANSWER: Hi, Looks like you got some spyware on your ...
A: Ahh.... USB keyboard with an older computer? I hate that! :-) On older computers USB keyboards ...
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| boot-up dramatically slower after power down | 11/28/2008 | Jeffrey Bradley |
Q: Jeffrey: I hope you can help. I am using a Dell Inspiron 1501 running XP sp3 a semrpon 3500 ...
A: First about the battery, try charging it with the computer completely powered off, when the battery ...
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| PC won't restart after power failure | 11/27/2008 | Jeffrey Bradley |
Q: While in the process of doing a check disk, one of our circuit breakers tripped that supplied to ...
A: Hmm... Normally when setting stuff up like this in BIOS the boot order should be CD, Floppy, Hard ...
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| PC won't restart after power failure | 11/27/2008 | Jeffrey Bradley |
Q: While in the process of doing a check disk, one of our circuit breakers tripped that supplied to ...
A: Hopefully you know the password to the built in administrator account (just called administrator) ...
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| folder names not displaying | 11/27/2008 | Lenny |
Q: This is a relatively small problem but it's been bothering me for months and my annoyance is ...
A: Please do the following: -Go to "My Documents" -Ensure that the folder view is set to "Thumbnails". ...
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| Windows XP | 11/27/2008 | Arjun |
Q: I have a original Windows XP cd.I load it in my computer & activate it.When I load it in other ...
A: I'm sorry to reply you late, The Windows XP Which you are using i.e. the Microsoft OEM Licensing ...
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| did not work! =( | 11/27/2008 | Lenny |
Q: good evening Lenny, so this morning i was typing a paper and for no reason my computer keys (all of ...
A: As a last resolution, I would ask you to start in Safe Mode and run System Restore and take your ...
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| installing xp | 11/26/2008 | Lenny |
Q: I have windows 2000 and tried installing XP over it but all the icons are missing. Suggestions?
A: The procedure path you followed to install or rather format the hard-drive and get rid of 2000 has ...
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| security winweb | 11/26/2008 | Lenny |
Q: i keep getting pop ups every five minutes wanting me to buy it i would like to know how to remove it ...
A: You might be a victim of a very intelligent spyware and one thats hijacks your browser/desktop. This ...
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| Queries about Checkdisk | 11/26/2008 | Tom |
Q: I try and keep my comp as lean and as mean as possible and when my usual maintenance programs don't ...
A: sorry i can shed no light on this because i dont use any of this versions of chkdsk....i boot my ...
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| windows picture and fax viewer | 11/26/2008 | Richard Rost |
Q: How on Earth do I get rid of all the images in windows picture and fax viewer. It seems to have ...
A: You should just be able to click on them and hit DELETE on your keyboard. If not, browse to the ...
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| USB Device not reconized | 11/25/2008 | Lenny |
Q: Lenny, I just got a new HP Tower with physical drives as followes: A: Floppy C: Local Hard Drive ...
A: There could be a conflict of drive letter assignments.Please do the following; -Click on Start ...
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| Running A Registry Cleaner | 11/25/2008 | Arjun |
Q: I was wondering if you could tell me what the validity of these registry cleaners available for sale ...
A: They are worth, mostly they are AD WARES which says there is wrong registry entry, so xyz registry ...
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| NO keys whatsoever work!! | 11/25/2008 | Lenny |
Q: good evening Lenny, so this morning i was typing a paper and for no reason my computer keys (all of ...
A: You could be a victim of either a known piggyback infection or desktop hijack one. Please get a ...
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| Remove MSMessenger | 11/25/2008 | Lenny |
Q: I am running Windows XP Pro. with Internet Explorer.I would like to remove MSMessenger that came ...
A: Please do the following; -Click on Start -Click on RUN -Copy and Paste the line below and click OK ...
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| disc problem | 11/24/2008 | Jeffrey Bradley |
Q: I recently installed the Vista e-Machine.I originally used Windows ME.All my discs programs are not ...
A: Sounds to me like your discs may be formatted FAT, you may need to use a special program to re-sise ...
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| Error loading message upon start-up | 11/24/2008 | Jeffrey Bradley |
Q: C:PROGRA~1MYWEBS~1ar.barM3PLUGIN.DLL
A: Looks like you got some spyware on your system at one time but the spyware cleaners didn't finish ...
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| Video file thumbnail views | 11/24/2008 | Michael Tedeschi |
Q: I run XP Pro on one machine and XP Home on another. On the XP Pro machine, thumbnail views for ...
A: Sounds like a corruption in the operating system....no big deal.... Either Upgrade that machine to ...
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| Windows update problem | 11/23/2008 | Tom |
Q: I am having problems running cryptographic services in my computer. When I right-click on them in ...
A: This problem can occur if the Cryptographic Service is Disabled in services.msc or a file within ...
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| installing XP | 11/23/2008 | Jeffrey Bradley |
Q: I have an Emachines desktop that got slower and slower. I decided to reformat and reinstall the ...
A: First make sure that you are installing to the correct partition, some computers have a recovery ...
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| WIN XP startup Problem | 11/22/2008 | Arjun |
Q: Goodevening, I would appreciate if you help me on this matter. I have a let's call it specific ...
A: If you have the Eletricity Problem then Please always start using the UPS, which will try to avoid ...
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| No startup, shutdown, new mail sound's | 11/22/2008 | Arjun |
Q: Using XP Pro. Get ALL other sounds, just not the ones above. Have checked and rechecked "Sounds" ...
A: Ok Now check the below solution and restart your computer and check your Start up and shutdown ...
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| Sluggish Response | 11/22/2008 | Richard Rost |
Q: Whenever I sign on to Comcast, it sometimes take a long time for home page to download. Are the ...
A: Is it just their home page or is it just the first page you connect to? If it's the former, then ...
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| automatically sizing windows when a new window is opened | 11/21/2008 | Jeffrey Bradley |
Q: AMD Athlon 64 processor 3000+ 1.8 gig 3 gig ram windows XP home, service pack 3 IE 6 Hello I ...
A: I don't know about IE6 my system has IE7 (Not by my choice) but this may still work, it works on ...
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