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Hi My computer… Dell XPS. Windows XP Pro. Dual Core 3ghx. 2gig fast ram. Nvidia 7800 GTX video card. Everything clean and spy-ware free. Defragged no Registry Errors, no unnecessary start up items. Every time I try and run a complete scan of my computer or even drive C using AVG my...

Logitech Head Set: Recognition not automatic anymore? Hi Both my wife and I use Skype a lot. To do this we both use a Logitech USB head set. On both of our computers it used to automatically switch over to the headset when we would plug it in. My PC started not doing it first and I just got...

Hi When I run AVG Scan it says that it has found the bat/deleter virus but it is always unable to remove it. This is the only virus that it has ever found and it can't get rid of it! The location according to AVG is in the folder C:\Dell\RecourceCD\html folder. When I look at this location...

Hi This is a problem that I have been having for a long time and since it’s not that big a bother I kept putting off posting this. When I run applications that take a long time, such as my AVG virus scan or Spybot eventually the graphics become corrupted and the computer grinds to a halt. The...

Hi My friend tried to run defrag on one of the 3 partitions on his hard drive. He got a message that said that he needed to run Check Disk first. He selected Check Disk and rebooted the computer. When it restarted check disk came up and did it's thing, it didn’t report any errors. The...

Hi This is what I need to do... I want to do a simple animation of a talking head that I will roughly sync with a voice track and have some Christmas music in the background. The voice track will come from a voice program that I have that speaks with a British accent. Nothing complex the...

Hi Today I started getting a message at startup just before the Windows screen while the screen is still black that says "Invalid boot.ini" The computer then boots up as normal. I have a back up of my boot.ini file so I thought that I would just replace the bad one. I have view set to show...

Hi I have been having problems for months, some that I have posted about here, constant freezes, crashes to the blue screen etc. I have reinstalled (repair install) 3 times previously and seem little or no improvement. Finally for no reason that I really understood this is what I did and it...

Hi I just connected a Lacie d2 Quadra 500 gig hard drive to my computer, running Windows XP. It formatted fine and is connecter via a Fire Wire connection. The drive is working but during the initial start up I got a message that said that the hardware was not installed properly and may not...

Hi I have an Nvidia 7800 GTX video card in my Dell XPS computer. I have been keeping my video drivers up to date, I thought. After updating to the latest Nvidia drivers 1.63.71 I went in to properties and looked to see if they were listed as the correct version. To my surprise the properties...

Hi After failing to rectify problems with Windows properties dialog box that I posted about earlier on this forum I did a repair installation of Windows XP. Happily this fixed my old problems and everything is running fine. There is only one new problem. Windows will not install the updates...

Hi For quite a while I have been getting error messages that say something to the effect of "This operation can not be completed because of a program error”. This can happen just trying to drag a selection around an area, or using the paint tool, lots of different things. I have the feeling...

Hi I have been struggling with my Dell XPS since I bought it over a year ago. It would freeze; it ran slow, it crashed. I was using the McAfee anti virus, that first came with my computer, and then was supplied free by Comcast, my Internet service provider. I have reinstalled Windows several...

Hi As long as I have been working on computers when I right clicked on the desktop I could access "Properties" and get to the setting for all the normal stuff, reselution, desktop, screen savers etc. All of a sudden it has changed and when I click on Desktop and then Properties, I get a window...

Hi My friend Paul has a Cannon I900D inkjet printer. It quite working and after not being able to get it working he called me and we tried together. He has a Dell computer running Windows XP. Here is what I did. I uninstalled the printer and all the software. Ran Registry Cleaner and removed...

HI I'm looking for a way to pan and zoom on still photos ala Ken Burns "The Civil War". I'd like to be able to define start and end framing and the time required to complete the pan or zoom and have it save to a high quality video file. For instance: start with and area on the left side of...

Hi After about 8 years I have finally decided to upgrade my Adobe Illustrator from version 8. All my other Adobe software is CS2, Indesign, Photoshop etc. I don’t use Illustrator a lot but the time has come. I went to the company web site and found that I can't upgrade to CS3 unless I have...

Hi I have a job that I'm doing for a silkscreen printer. The job is 3 pantone colors. Black, Yellow and Red. Without having to do it manually is there a way to print the colors out as 3 separated colors, all as black PDF files. I have looked at the help files and I can only seem to find how...

Hi This is something that has started happening since I reinstalled Windows MCE a few weeks ago to correct some other problems I was having. This isn't a serious problem but it is something I haven't had before. In several of my 2D applications my display will blink. The whole screen will go...

Hi, Every one. This is a problem that I have run into for years. I think that I even knew the answer at one time but I can't remember what it was now. Occasionally when I am typing I get a mode where every key stroke erases the character ahead of it. So if I am trying to make a correction I...