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I am running windows 7 professional with 8Gb ram. With only aol open the system is usung 1.6Gb ram (svchost takes 190Gb - in total 13 svchost.exe running taking about 350Gb and AOL takes 102Gb! I have run numerous malware and spyware checks yet no probs. Also, IE8 is slow to open pages. Any...

After wasting 2 days with Microsoft Technical research staff trying to resolve an XP udate conflict I decided to do a total clean reinstall. All went well until the last update installing security update KB973869 issued 11/8/09. This appeared to install OK and is listed in the add/remove...

I am running windows professional 64. I suddenly got this error:- "Windows Update has encountered an error and cannot display the requested page." Can anyone help?

Is there any practical, performance, flexibility (other than running older 32 bit legacy systems) or system security benefits in installing this on a quad core system running Windows XP Pro 64 bit?

I have installed xp pro 64 on a new workstation. The HP laserjet 4 driver installed ok and print is ok. However, at start up it says 'found new hardware - unknown printer' and in 'systems, devices, device manager, other' it shows 'unknown printer'. Neither disbaling it or removing it...

Having read the threads "what do you like & what do you not like about Vista" the balance is unclear. If you woere configuring a workstation which OS would you pick and why? XP Pro 64 or Vista Ultimate 64?

I have just got a new system with the motherboard Supermicro mbd-c2sba+ii. It was installed with win xp 64 and worked ok. I decided to go back to Win XP pro 32 bit. I downloaded the SATA drivers from Supermicro and tried reinstalling XP (pre Service Pack 1). At the prompt for additional...

my workstation started freezing. This is a dula boot and dual disc system. When I try to reboot the first boot screen is OK. The second bios boot screen is the one with the menue for the recovery console and the 2 options of which version to boot into. When this crash occurs this second boot...

Every so often my PC just freezes up or the screen goes off and short while later comes back on again but still frozen up. Motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X2 with an Athlon XP 3200 processor and Dual channel 200Mhz memory. If I then force a manual reboot it sometimes boots in to an Athlon 1100 and...

This is major problem with AOL and the solution I have found just today (having wasted best part of a day's work trying to resolve this issue!!!). It may help you! Please pass this onto your other AOL friends, A few days ago I noticed problems with CPU resource demand going up and the system...

A few days ago I noticed problems with CPU resource demand going up and the system freezing. Had to manually switch off to reboot. Eventually I found that when logged onto AOL the WAOL.EXE was demanding 60-70% plus of the CPU resource. Numerous calls to AOL tech help: first to use the quick...

I changed some IE6 settings and then set them back to default. I now cannot log in to my hotmail account. I get the following error report:- Cookies must be allowed Your browser is currently set to block cookies. Your browser must allow cookies before you can use Windows Live ID. Cookies are...

Sudenly lost my ability to print from the USB port. In Systems/Device manager the two NEC PCI to USB open host controller entries have yellow exclamation marks. Tried deleting them and reinstalling them but to no effect. Simmmilarly updating the driver had no effect (Said no better matches...

My daughter is at University and has a Lynksys g router and adapter. The router suddenly stopped and all connections lost. After much tech chat to Tiscallu got the router working but cannot get the adapter to link up with the router. I'm not familiar with this and did what rmote diagnostics...

I have just downloaded and installed all the latest XP security patches and IE7. I now have two problems:- Firstly, I now get an alert saying:- "Windows - corrupt file C:\ $Secire is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the CHKDSK utility" I have run CHDSK on reboot and all is clear yet this...

When I installed a new creative sound card and software the installation leaflet advised uninstalling Quicktime. I don't recall this being installed but it was there. I uninstalled via the control panel. Then every time I open up AOL a dialogue box asks if I want to intall Quicktime. I used...

Just installed a new plexxtor PX760A DVD/CD and a sony CRX320EE DVD/CD. Both play CDs and load software but get the following error message when try to load a DVD 2Windows Media Player cannot play the DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer." I upgraded to...

Does using the windows file encryption prevent a virus attack from deleting or corrupting them?

There are now a huge number of XP updates - even after XP SP2. In my windows folder there is a directory called "$hf mig$" This has 122 folders (over 120 mb)and appears to have all the downloaded updates. Question:- If one has to reinstall XP and all the updates can one use these rather...

Tried to install the Recovery Console as a startup option using the following commands 1. With Windows running, insert the Setup CD into your CD-ROM drive. 2. CLick Start and select Run. 3. Type the following where D: is the CD-ROM drive letter: D:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons 4...