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Hi all, Please can someone give me some advice here... I recently tried to upgrade my XP pro with service pack 2. The windows update icon appeared in my system tray and i began to download. However, after the downloading finished my computer suffered a crash. After rebooting my machine...

Hi there, Any advice or tips on this would be most welcome - I've been scratching my head for ages... Sometimes when booting windows XP pro I get to the welcome to windows page and then the computer restarts itself. This may happen 2, 3 or more times before I get into windows. However...

Hi All, Please can someone offer some advice... I've been having a couple of start up issues with my system - so under the belief that it could be a some form of spyware conflicting with my system I downloaded and installed Ad-Aware SE. Unfortunately this caused more problems - firstly when...

Hi, Please can someone offer a novice some advive... Lately my computer has been loading up to the 'Welcome to Windows' blue page and then reseting itself and rebooting. This can often happen 2 or 3 times before it actually manages to load into winodows and when it does I get the message -...

Hi there, I have a slight problem with my MS Works. Whenever I try and open a saved file it crashes my computer (blue screen). I have tried opening the same files on other computers and they open fine. I think it must be a problem with my MS Works itself. I have tried uninstalling it and...

Hi please can someone help... I have a file which ends in the extension .wdb I think this is a works database file. However, whenever i try and open it with ms works it crashes my computer?!? - I get the warning this is read only then I get the blue screen of death. Then I have to reset. Can...

Hi, please will you advise me... I intend to purchase Norton Gost 2003 today. Before I do though can I just check a couple of things with you experts... 1) I have 2 physiscal hard drives - using the Norton Clone function I wish to Clone my master drive to the Slave drive. When I have done...

Hi, I'm about to adjust my hardware configeration and I would really appreciate some expert advice. Currently I have one master HDD on EIDE1 with a CDR as the slave. On EIDE2 I have just a master DVD drive. I want to add another HDD so as I can backup my windows and all of my files. I'm...

Hi there, Please help. My dads windows ME computer is suffering continous regular crashes and I've come to the conclusion that I need to format and reinstall everything for him. Is there any way I can back up everything onto CD and then reinstall it all sequencially. I.e. simplify the...

Hi I was using XP pro yesterday to copy some CD's, when all of a sudden I tried to access my C drive and I got an error message: C:/ is write protected or corrupt - can not access. I immediately decided to restart the computer, but when I tried nothing happend. So I decided to restart using...

Hi, I am very much into my file sharing at the moment. I use Imesh and Kazaa and sometimes WinMX. All these, in my opinion, are great (despite the spyware;). Anyway, my question is.... does anyone know of a P2P software programme that searches all other P2P programmes? I.e one piece of...

Hi, I've recently purchased a new motherboard: VIA P4B400 FL (a P4 board). This board is meant to support USB2, however when I use sisandra to analyse my system it says my USB ports are version 1 with speeds of 42 I have windows XP pro and I have updated using the service pack 1. Please can...

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help with this somewhat simple yep impossible task... I was using WinMX to download some music files yesterday, when all of a sudden my internet connection crashed. After re-booting my connection (NTL broadband) and my machine I noticed that a dozen or so of the...

Does anyone know how i can check to see if I have DirectX8.1 on my computer? I am currently using Windows XP pro. Thanks.