I have an older (purchased in January 2008 - so it's technologically ancient)Toshiba Satellite A205. It runs Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit. I've tried to add memory up to 3GB (because I know you have to have a 64 bit OS to access more than 3GB RAM) but the system still doesn't recognize the...
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You have just installed some Microsoft updates on your computer, which is running the Window Vista operating system. The updates required you to reboot your computer immediately following their installation. When the desktop appears, the sizes of the icons and other elements on your...
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I have been having a very bad boot problem lately its been around 2 weeks now and now its taking a right mickey
So every time i Boot my computer it load and logs me in after a little while it just restarts automatically
After it restarts it won't log me in also the screen would...
I've completed a new build. I'd like to be able to boot up with XP Pro/Vista64/Ubuntu or similar distro.
I have two HDDs (750 GB and 500 GB). Ideally I would like to be presented with a boot choice menu - I don't think I could be bothered going into BIOS every time to select the boot disk.
I...
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I've been having this weird problem with my Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit system since I installed it. Pretty much, when I run cpu intensive programs like iTunes, the computer slows down significantly to the point where the mouse no longer moves smoothly (it jumps every so often)...
OK... had C: and D: drives (PATA both). Nephew shut down pc during windows updates installation, corrupted XP Pro SP2 install. Decided to upgrade to Vista. Bought a new SATA drive, installed with other two drives. Installed Vista. Vista installed on SATA as F: drive! Still have corrupted XP on...
Hello everyone i am loooking to install windows xp and windows vista on the same computer.Now i will be using two hard drives will each version be on each hard drive, i dont know, i am new to this and really need someone to walk me through this procedure.All advice will be very helpful...
This is pretty low level stuff, but worth checking out.
Right click on "computer" and select properties. On the lower left corner click "performance"
What's your score?
Mine was rated about as low as you can go. 1.0 out of 5.9 and it's a brand new build with close to top of the line gear.
If...
Overview: Using IE7 (32-bit) on 64-bit Vista Ultimate Notebook. Don't ridicule me; I HAVE to use IE7 to access my course website at UC Berkeley to do my computer labs because Firefox DOESN'T WORK on their site.
Problem: IE7 crashes DAILY!!! It's somewhat shocking to see your Reliability...
I would like to disable the validation of user action popups. They annoy the hell outa me. I didn't know how to search for this. sorry if it is a repost.
I have XP Pro now installed, i have a XP home cd if necessary, but can i just install home premium over pro or is that not even allowed by MS
thanks in advance
k ive been reading some stuff and it says i must do a clean install does that mean i have to buy the full version and not hte upgrade...
I want to create a boot disk to reformat my hard drive. Windows will not let me reformat one of my drives becuase it has an operating system installed. I tried using my old xp disk but my computer doesnt recognize it as bootable any more.(Maybe becuase I'm running vista now. Also, I dont have...
My PC has only 1GB DDRRAM. I wonder if this shortage is the cause of random crash. I check the event log which showed boot file degradation. How the heck can it degrade?
I was playing MP3 on window media player while running word 2007 and browsing the web. Could all these applications used up...
I have two upgrade Vista disks. One is from Dell and is tied to the system, but the other one came with MCE05, and I do not want to change that one, it goes on a DVR. I do want to put it on my DX-10 gaming rig, probably dual boot. I have a new XP Pro to use on that system so can I upgrade XP Pro...
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i tried to play an .avi file, but it said a codec was missing. gspot said
it's "ac3 (0x2000) Dolby Laboratories, Inc", and is meant for the audio. i
saw it was asked twice already, and that the suggested solution was...
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XP workstations with SP2 on a Win2k Server network (Gigabit).
Printing PDF docs takes extremely long time and printers spit out one page
every few seconds as opposed to one after another.
Tested a 20 page basic Word...
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i have freeagent500 gb harddisk but i cant access it anymore, previously when i started or attched it to my computer it shows freeagent like name but now it shows localdisk and i cant access it.when i open it it takes long time and ask for format,when i try to check its property it shows...
Have switched from Hotmail to the newer Outlook on my PC (running XP). For the life of me, can't find "contacts." Need to add names and edit info in my contacts lis, but can't get to it. Ideas?
Thanks!