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I Just installed the Pioneer DVR-112D burner on my PC ( WinXP Pro SP2; Celeron 2400; 512 RAM ) . On my 2 years old Lite-on burner before the upgrade, it took 12 minutes to burn a DVD 5 movies at speed 6X . Now, this new Pioneer burner took 29 minutes to burn the same DVD 5 disc at 8X ...

My PC ( Windows XP Pro SP2, CPU : Intel Celeron 2400 Mhz; Mobo = MicroStar MS-6728) has been running well for the past few months. Suddendly, it just started restarting itself once every hour , approxmimately , without any particular load on the CPU or running programs ! 1) I wonder what...

I just bought a brand-new DELL E520 PC , pre-installed with Win Vista Family Premium version . I would like to reformat the HD ( 250 Gigs) and install Win XP Pro SP2 (due to potentential conflicts with available older programs which run well under Win XP Pro ) . Please advise : 1) Will I have...

When I run a small patch ( extention .exe) in my PC ( WinXP Pro SP2) , I got this massage: "Windows cannot access the specified device,path or file. You may not have the appropriate permission to access the item" How can I change the access protocol and run this patch . Please explain &...

My Lite-on DVD burner is about 10 months old in my WinXP Pro system . It run well until yesterday, when I put in all the DVDs that it used to read before , it did not respond. The system kept saying "please insert disk in drive." I am wondering : 1) Is this a hardware problem or software (...

After changing a defective power supply in my PC ( an old, desktop with Pentium III 800 Mhz CPU ), it refused to boot up . All I saw was the Hard Drive led was always red and the Power-on led was black ( this led is associated with the Power on/off Push button in the front panel of the PC . It...

Out of the blue, my system ( Win XP Pro + SP2) can no longer install programs with .msi file ! ). I followed method suggested by Microsoft Knowledge base but it still did not work . I did the following : 1) Re-register the Windows installer : _Check path to the file msiexec.exe in the...

I started to configure Win98 SE on a friend' PC ( mobo : Abit BE6-II, 128 Mb RAM,Pentium III 550 Mhz) from scratch after reformatting the HD. After installing various drivers ( i.e. mobo , video , audio, US robotics modem) , I opened the device manager panel and found out that : _Ports ...

I was helping a friend to reformat his HD and re-install Win98 SE ( Mobo : Abit BE6-II, 128 Mb RAM,Pentium III 550 Mhz) . The reformatting and re-installation went O.K. Now the problem is the monitor is kept at 16 colors for some reason. All the drivers for the mobo and the video card ATI...

I was helping a friend to reformat his HD and re-install Win98 SE ( Mobo : Abit BE6-II, 128 Mb RAM,Pentium III 550 Mhz) . The reformatting and re-installation went O.K. When the system rebooted, it went into safe mode and in the starting screen I noticed the bios did not see the HD . When I...

__The < recycle bin> in my system (WinXP Pro + Celeron 2400 Mhz ) did not seem to empty completely : the icon showed it was not empty even though there was nothing in it when I double-clicked the recycle bin icon ! __ When I actually deleted some files then emptied the recycle bin, there...

My PC ( Celeron 2.4 mhz , WinXP Pro SP2, 512 RAM ) freezes at its own will a few times a day . I could not establish what precipitated the freezes. The only clue I had so far was that sometimes when I re-started the PC, the moving blue dots in the Windows start-up screen ( i.e. during Windows...

I got a " BAD_POOL_HEADER" error and the blue screen when I copied a group of files and folders into another new folder . The size of this group was about 30 MBs . I had to shut the system down and start up again and things seemed to be back to normal. I got this issue twice in the past 3 days...

For some unknown reasons, the icons on the system tray of my PC ( WinXP Pro + SP2) become so large ! Adjusting the icon size from the desktop did not work at all. Please advise how can I adjust the icon size on the system tray. Thanks.

I just changed the HD in my system and had been installing programs for the past week . During this time, things went o.K. . This morning, it took much longer (i.e. more than 10 seconds as compared to about less than a second before ) to open a .txt file, or to open a .zip file by right-click...

I just bought a Compaq laptop (Model R3210CA , CPU AMD Apthlon 2.8 Ghz, 40 Gigs HD ) with WinXP Home Sp1 preinstalled. I upgraded to SP2 from the Internet then use PowerQuest Partition Magic v8.0 to resize drive C: from 40Gigs to 15 Gigs , intending to add 2 more partitions to the HD. After the...

IExplorer v6.0.2900.2180 in my PC ( WinXP pro + SP2; Celeron 2400; DSL connection) suddenly failed to open all websites ( i.e. "Cannot find server" message ) . I reinstalled WinXP Pro , checked IExplorer configurations, turned off firewalls etc... and nothing works yet !! If I used a...

All of a sudden, it took much longer (i.e. more than 6 seconds as compared to about less than a second before ) to open a .txt file, or to open a .zip file by right-click on a context menu etc... in my system ( Celeron 2400Mhz, Win XP Pro Sp1) . Other functions such as deleting files , cut ...

Currently, I am using WinXP on my PC. I want to upgrade to WinXP Pro . How can I do this ? Do I just install over the existing O/S ? Does it impact existing programs in the hard drive ? Thanks.

After loading A Tax 2003 Program, I was told to restart my PC (Win98 SE, Pentium III, 550 Mhz) . Suddenly, my system could not load Win 98 SE any more and gave the message " NTLDR is missing" and asked to restart again ??? When I did, the same error message reappeared . When I restarted, I...