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Strange problem...Windows XP Home Ed...Last couple of days when double clicking on any desktop icons or trying to open My Computer or Control Panel, the desktop just refreshes itself and won't open anything. This is followed by an error saying the Active Desktop has been refreshed (basically...

Hi Guys. My Pc has 1 CD-RW drive, and 1 CD-ROM drive. Just recently both have been giving me problems, and both at around the same time. The CD-ROM will not read discs at all, the LED on the drive lights up when a cd is put in, but it will not read it. And if you try and access the drive from...

Hi Guys. I've got an older style 5 Mini Pin Keyboard, (It's like 14-15 years old..) anyways, just for the sake of trying i bought a 5 Pin to 6 Pin PS2 Keyboard converter, in hopes of getting it working on my Pc. But its giving me grief..It picks up the keyboard when i start up the pc (the lock...

Strange one. I've got a Iogear KVM switch (USB connections) at my desk. Its been working flawlessly.. Until now, One machine is now not picking up the USB signals from either the keyboard or the mouse... Other machines attached to the KVM switch are working fine. Now this computer WAS working...

Hey guys. My Pc is a HP dc7100 Series. The workstation didn't come with a floppy drive installed, so i took it upon myself to install one. Anyways i plugged in an OLD floppy drive, connected the ribbon cable and connected the power to the floppy. And tried to boot..... The LED lights flicker...

On one single Excel file, whenever the user tries to delete any comment in any cell, Excel just hangs and becomes totally unresponsive. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Hi guys. We're running Outlook 2003. But my automatic signature that i created is not consistent, by that i mean i attached the same signature to both NEW messages and Forward/Reply's. However the font sizes, and formatting are different on the forward/reply than the new messages. Any clues...

Hi Guys. Last week, a portion of our backups started failing. Basically there is a backup file of one of our database files that is not being copied to the tape. One thing that did happen, was that we changed the password for the administrator account (Domain Admin acct). We are running under...

Hey guys, Quick one, friend of mine has Windows XP Home Ed installed, and has had it running for about 2-2.5 years now... Problems have arisen, various errors/crashes/viruses/spyware.. It's BADLY in need of a reinstall.. However my friend has misplaced the recovery cds that came with the pc...

Hi Guys. Running ArcServe Bright Stor, Version 11.1 We have it set to do a database level backup of the exchange server, as well as all individual mailboxes as well. Last week i started getting a message saying one of the mailboxes has failed to backup.. Anyways, is there any way to tell...

Hi Guys. Here's our setup. We are running ArcServe BrightStor. The tape is setup to do a Full Backup of the entire File Server and the Exchange Server (2003) Database every night. We restarted all servers last week to apply security patches, and ever since all backup results are saying...

This is a strange one, i built up a pc installed 2000 Pro SP4 on it, and installed all the programs that my company needs, and attached it to our domain. Then i attached it a recently bought KVM Switch, and it proceeded to start behaving erratically after that.. Sometimes it wouldn't start up...

Hi Guys. One PC on our network has gone ahead, and updated themselves to an XP SP2 machine. Simple Question, whats the simplest way to revert it back to an SP1 machine, without doing a system restore ( i dont know when it was updated, and i don't want the user to lose any applications...

This is a weird one. Intermittently the screen on one of our Pc's will "shake" or "shift" kinda makes you feel like your in an earthquake... Then the display will right itself and center it back to the middle of the screen. So far i have tried the following.. 1) Changing the monitor ( Did...

Problems... Have a single CD-RW/DVD-ROM. The computer sees it as such, but when you put a CD in the Drive to burn, it reverts to seeing the drive only as a CD-ROM. I've tried to burn within ROXIO but it only gets to about 98%, then the drive spits out the CD. And says the following error...

Monitor is a ViewSonic E70fb. We sent this thing out for service because it was showing a long RGB line across the top of the monitor.. Now we get it back, and the screen looks like its sucked in on the left hand side, and the monitor will work for about 2 minutes before emitting an...

Hi guys. Just wondering, what's the maximum length that a monitor cable can be run ( Monitor to PC ), before you start to see problems with the video/dispay performance? Thanks for any replies.

Hi Guys. Is there a way to see the current BIOS version on a Windows 2000 Server without restarting the system? The System Information only shows me the BIOS Date. The registry only shows the BIOS date also... I need to document the Bios Versions on these machines.. Anyone have any ideas?

Hi Guys. Is there a way to see the current BIOS version on a Windows 2000 Server without restarting the system? The System Information only shows me the BIOS Date. The registry only shows the BIOS date also... I need to document the Bios Versions on these machines.. Anyone have any ideas?

Hi guys. Long story made short.. 5 Machines are now causing a STOP error randomly and they crash on the Mup.Sys driver all machines are Windows 2000 SP4. Microsoft has a supported hotfix for the problem, but another workaround is to find the Mup.Sys version 5.0.2195.6774 Small problem, after...