Search results for query: *

Hi! I have a laptop computer running Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Pro - How do I remove the XP Home from the laptop without re-installing everything? Is this possible? Thanks in advance for any educated advice.

Hi - I'm running a laptop with ME and when the computer goes through the startup you can briefly see the wallpaper that should be running on the desktop. When the computer finishes booting up the wallpaper is replaced with the gray screen that says "click here to restore active desktop". System...

Hi! I have a computer with ME installed on it and am having problems preventing teenagers using MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. [I apologize if this is the wrong forum but as I am using Millenium this was the only forum that seemed appropriate.] I have tried using the zonealarm firewall...

Hi! I have a computer with a BX chipset and 2 harddrives - the old drive is a 5 gig and it defragments ok - the new drive (which had to have ez drive installed so the bios would recognize the drive) is a 20 gig drive. When I go to defragment the 20 Gig drive,in either normal mode or in safe...

I am working on a WinMe computer for a friend. The computer was taken to a computer store and fresh installed with WinMe. The install looks OK - but every once in a while a blue screen comes up and gives the following message: kebugcheckex called by c 0029e58 error code is 44 parameters...

Hi! I'm installing WinXPHome on a computer (pentium 400) with Win98 loaded on it. I boot from the upgrade CD and the install begins. It goes through a couple of screens and comes up with an error message that says - it cannot mount the boot volume. I've run scandisk on the drive and it's OK...

I have a harddrive with either Linux or Unix on it (I don't have much experience with either Linux or Unix) and need to remove the partition on this drive, re-partition the drive and format it so I can install Win98 on the drive. As expected fdisk sees the partition as non-dos. I have had...

Hi! My windowsxp home edition crashed after a year of use. I get a message that the windows\system32\config\system is not working or us unusable. Booted from the CD and went to the repair console - ran chdsk - it fixed some things but the system still won't start. Is there anything else I can...

Hi! I have 2 laptop computers, 1 with win98 and the other with winxp home. I want to transfer some of the data from the win98 computer to the winxp computer. What is the easiest way to do this? Can I use a parallel cable and, if so, what program is used to set to the transfer? Please help...

Hi! I have a computer with an Abit KT7 mainboard with onboard ide raid. Have 2 maxtor 60 gig hdd's and want to set up a raid 1 (disk mirroring) with the drives. Am installing Win2000 with an NTFS file system. I followed instructions and setup the raid in the BIOS - choosing drive, raid type...

Hi! I'm wondering if there is a way to interface the harddrive from a laptop computer with my PC. I don't want to link the PC and the laptop - just the drives from laptops. Thanks for your help in advance. %-

My windows Me computer keeps giving me an error message -- regenv32.exe has caused a page fault in regenv32.exe. What I would like to find out is what regenv32.exe does. This will allow me to track down this error. I have tried replacing the file but the message and error persist. Went to...

Hi! I am using XP Pro and have a plextor CDRW that comes with an MP3 Player (MPV 2000) which i quite like to use to play my mp3 files. Although I have set the file association for the mp3 files to open with the plextor player the windows media player overrides this. When I double click on an...

Hi! I am trying to share files and printers between 2 computers. One uses Win98 SE and the other computer is using XP Pro. Details of the 2 computers are as follows: 1) Asus A7V mobo, 512 RAM, 1 GHZ Athlon CPU, Video - 32 mg ATI Xpert 2000, Sound - SB Live. 2) 450 AMD CPU, FIC mobo (socket 7)...

My computer won't start with a floppy disk. It is a pentium 111 - 500 MHz computer. I have checked all the connections, the BIOS, have replaced the cable (tried 3 different ribbon cables), have even replaced the floppy drive and still get the same result. When I try to start the computer with...

Hi! I want to be able to run Win XP and Win 2000 on the same harddrive. Do I need any special utilities to accomplish this? I had heard that it was not advisable to run Win XP Professional with Win 2000 Professional on the same drive - would like an informed opinion. Thank you in advance for...