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Hi All, I have been experiencing a stop error from time to time which always seems to be the same culprit. It up to date has not followed any rhyme or reason, just occuring spontaneously. I get the following error codes after the usual XP Blue Screen preface, "have you installed new hardware, is...

I have just built a brand new machine, fresh build of xp etc and would appreciate any input on a problem that has come up. The Gigabyte motherboard I am using has a Realtek HD audio chip, and for the life of me I cannot get the driver into it. The build was all finished and I realised that audio...

Hi All I have recently installed Media Player 11 and have the following problem: I have two identical video files side by side on a drive, the first captured in DV, The second captured in MPG. MP 11 plays DV perfectly, but presents a flickering green screen when the MPG file is opened. VLC and...

I am presently planning to build a machine beginning with a Coolermaster desktop case. After some research I have realised that the PSU in this model is proprietary and a smaller size than general. I am aiming to have this machine fairly high spec and believe that an aftermarket supply will...

I presently have a small riddle that i would deeply appreciate some advice with! For a joke, one of my daughters young friends added a file to our Win 2K machine, causing it to do the following: When the machine is started it goes through the post test, past the black loading screen, then to the...

Hi All Am Just about to add an external 300 gig drive purely for the purpose of music storage. Am wondering if there is any advantage in partitioning this drive at all? It will purely contain wav and mp3 for archiving with no operating system considerations. I would welcome any opinions. Thanks...

Hi All Am Just about to add an external 300 gig drive purely for the purpose of music storage. Am wondering if there is any advantage in partitioning this drive at all? It will purely contain wav and mp3 for archiving. I would welcome any opinions. Thanks Steve

Greetings to all I have recently discovered after trying to open notepad with no success that the Add/Remove windows components seems to be inoperative. I get the error message as follows: "Setup was unable to open information file iis.inf Contact your System Administrator. The specific error...

I was recently asked the following question and have not had great success finding a solution:) I have an aquaintance who uses the english language versions on a normal office XP desktop arrangement of both Word and Outlook Express, to write emails in the german language. This is mostly...

Just recently my current XP Pro Sp2 build has developed a little quirk for no apparent or definable reason, well by me anyway........:) During the startup the desktop icons load, then the trays as per usual, then the quirk appears in the shape of the small shutdown screen that one observes when...

I am running XP Pro with a series of partitions on an 80 gig drive and have had something interesting happen, for want of a better word. When I first did this build some time ago the result was as follows in explorer: c: logical drive (Primary)NTFS d: logical drive Fat32 e: logical drive...

I have a win2k build with all service packs and current patches and have noticed a little quirk of 2k on a couple of machines I have been involved with, regarding the dial up modem. When the machine is booted and the modem is switched off power-wise, the modem driver fails to load and the modem...

I have a set of amplified speakers from an IBM Aptiva 2176-y65 and need an ac plug pack to run them, as they were originally powered by a socket in the rear of the case. All that is stated on the speaker rear and the machine is 12 volts, but no current rating. I have spent some time on the IBM...

I have just installed XP Pro and am receiving an odd message on the beginning sign on screen. I have the displayed "To begin click user name" screen displayed and underneath my name is a message saying, "11 unread mail messages". When the cursor is applied a conversation...

I recently purchased a gigabyte motherboard, ga8knxp. This board offered the ability to have more than the standard 2 IDE primary and secondary slots, by having RAID slots in the form of IDE3 and IDE4. As I have the primary hard drive on IDE1 and a cd burner on IDE2, I wished to add a simple cd...

In Win 2K Pro I naturally have a shortcut on the desktop to explorer.exe for convenience. This opens the explorer window default with the My Documents tree expanded and the My Computer tree folded up. All I wish to do is to modify it so that the reverse happens-when I open explorer the My...

I regularly use Disk Defragmenter within Win2K, and am always puzzled why the file WinNtShellIconCache does not defragment like the rest of the drive. Any suggestions are gratefully appreciated!

Am shortly to perform a fresh install of Win2k pro, and as the machine is a single stand alone/non networked machine, apart from a cable internet connection, which components are not necessary to install for this situation from the outset? Any help is appreciated.

Am migrating from Win98SE to Windows 2000 Professional. I partitioned my hard drive with 98SE to keep the FAT table size reasonable. I have been told that because I intend to use NTFS on the new build, partitioning is uneccessary because NTFS is much more efficient and the table does not become...