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Name: Chani Slaughter
Hi, and hoping you can help.
We had a bad thunderstorm two nights ago, with a lightning strike that seemed to be right above the house. There are two computers in the house, both plugged into surge protectors. My cable connection is okay but a room mate has DSL and now cannot connect to [...]
Name: Vanessa
I was recently given a great Sony Vaio laptop from my professor who says she
had it examined by some tech guy who broke it. The mouse works but the
keyboard won’t connect to the screen. I use a wireless keyboard instead,
which is a pain, but workable.
My question is this; is it worth putting [...]
I saw your web site regarding BAD_POOL_HEADER. I don’t have problem booting rather…
I was getting the “blue screen (BAD_POOL_HEADER)” every time I put in CD. Microsoft said it was the Sonic DLA, but Sonic does not have an update. I removed Sonic DLA from PC and no more problems.
Now PC doesn’t recognize [...]
Name: Harold Caller
I’m using a notebook-PC with single read/burn CD drive. The MS install stuff is on a cd. Should I swap out the original MS cd with a blank while PEbuilder is creating the ISO-image, so it’s ready to burn when the image is finished?
I don’t actually think that it accesses the CD during [...]
Name: Eric
Hi Guys,
When I boot up my computer, which has been going slower and slower, I get this error message “Secondary drive 1 not found. Strike the F1 ket to continue, F2 to run the setup utility. What do I need to do to fix that? Then there is the problem that [...]
Name: sydney collins
Halo:Combat evolved is not running on my system because of my incompatible graphics drive. I learnt that there is a patch available but I don’t know where to download. Pls help
First Recommendation: Get a new graphics card. S3 has been out of the mainstream since, well, the days of 3DFX. That’s been a [...]
Name: Frank Ferus
The windows on my PC are huge, like in safe mode.
How do I get them to normal size?
Your display resolution is set to a low level, likely 640×480 (if it’s just like safe mode) or 800×600.
To set them normal do the following:
1. Right click on the desktop
2. Click on Properties
3. Select the Settings [...]
Name: Machelle S
when the computer was restarted the screensaver came up but nothing else no shortcut icons or start toolbar cannot retrieve any files
By “screensaver” I assume you mean the desktop background based on what you’re describing.
What appears to be happening is that your Explorer Shell is not loading, or not finishing loading. Windows is [...]