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Hello everybody, Sometimes after I open Steam, it crashes, leading to a blue screen of death that says "page fault in nonpaged area." Strangely enough, it only happens randomly when I click on Steam. Sometimes it would go days without crashing. This BSOD only happens only when I start Steam at...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?) Having searched under Temporary Internet Files - I have opened the Windows\system32\config\ one and found within a folder entitled Content.IE5 This contains over 4300 files in 4 coded sub folders, almost all of them...

I just built a new system but am reusing my old drive with Windows XP installed on it. The system will boot to the screen that asks which mode I want to start in. I have tried all of them. It will also go to the advanced options mode when I hit F8 and I can go to the operating system screen and...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) I cannot get that check box to stay checked. Don't know what caused it, just stopped working about a week ago. I searched Google and found a reg "fix" which did nothing - the check disappears when I click ok. Is...

hello, i have a huge problem with my notebook mitac 8640-D, which is not repairable as it looks. any internal harddisk get up to 55 Degree Celsius (which is the allowed absolute max) withing 20-30 minutes. i then have to shut off the notebook in order to keep harm from the hdd. it has been...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize (More info?) Is there a way to set the desktop background to be the same for all users? The way I have my setup is that each user's profile is deleted when they log out, and when they log in they load from the default users. To...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?) I am trying to deny access in a folder to avoid my brother to use it. No matter what permissions/denies I use he is still capable of listing the contents and even delete files. He cannot open or run the...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?) I am trying to copy my resume to cd rw drive and the file is html file the cd is a rw 650mb cd and file size that I am trying to copy is 14.1 kb it is a new cd every time I try it give me an error message.

I HAVE INSTALLED A SAMSUNG DVD WRITER SH-S223L ALONG WITH NERO 8. WHEN I CLICK ON THE NERO 8 ESSENTIALS PROGRAM IT TRIES TO START UP THEN STOPS. CAN ANY ONE HELP ME?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?) guys i need info regarding this "unmounted boot volume" ---> what does this mean??? this appears when i reopened my laptop... then a blue screen appeared saying "unmounted boot volume" even the safe mode in windows...

I don't have a wallpaper anymore. It says: "Active Desktop Recovery". Then a message appears: "Internet Exployer Script Error". I click "yes" and I am still at the "Active Desktop Recovery".

i have an x700pro 256 mb stock clocks 425/432 i got it clocked to 435/526... not a huge jump but its pretty good adds abotu 300 in 3dmark05... but i noticed that 60C is when my card starts to crap out and get artifacts, i know 60 is pretty hot, this is under intense stress tests probably nothing...

hello friends!!the other day i bought a powercolor 9600 xt 256 mb.i´m planning on overclocking and considering stock speeds go for 500/600 cpu/mem.i don´t know why,but in doom 3, i can´t overclock much,i get artifacts.this don´t happen to me in any of the benchmarks i´ve had running for hours,so...