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EFS Encryption key lost! Help!
Name: Jamie S. I have some files that I used EFS to protect some time ago. The problem is that I’ve since formatted and I don’t know the password or key or whatever it’s called. Is there a program to crack this? It can be something where you boot to linux to do it or [...]
BIOS flash corruption
Name: Ron Henderson The power went out here while I was flashing my BIOS. The computer will not start now, it only comes to a blank, black screen and sits. I read that some modern BIOSes have a fail safe option in case something like this happens. They leave a bit that’s still there and [...]
Style XP corruped my login screen!
Name: Ramos E. I have style xp installed on my computer. what this software does is change the way that windows looks like and changes the way that the screen you login with looks. every time i boot the computer the style is different but i put a new style on and now it give [...]
How do I fix Windows XP’s startup
Name: Amy Janis Hi, my husband installed another operating system on our laptop and now the laptop doesn’t startup right into Windows. How can we make Windows come up again? Sounds like you need to fix your bootsector. Installing other OS’es will inevitably mess with the bootsector on your primary (Windows) drive. If they didn’t, [...]
CD Drives – Will not open
Name: Jeff I have two cd drives in my computer and neither one will open when I press the eject button.n when pressed the led flashes and it sounds like it wants to open but it will not? They may be jammed. The easiest way to check is to take a paperclip (or pin, whatever) [...]
Dell Inspiron 6000 Display Driver & Hibernation Issue
Name: Amber Hi I had to reinstall xp on my dell inspiron 6000. Now I cannot find the driver for the display and don’t have the original driver disk. The specs(excuse the novice approach) are as follows:liquid crystal display [bezel]15.4wxga no spwg, quanta display inc. Also computer nolonger has hybernate option do you know the [...]
This copy of Windows is not genuine – how to fix
Microsoft, in a rather brilliant move, has released an update that checks your OS serial against a list of known leaked serials (corporate edition keys, etc). If your serial matches one of them then it puts a darling little message on the bottom right hand of your login screen, and also a system tray icon [...]
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL – IRQL no es menos o igual
El problema más molesto. Jamás. Usted está trabajando feliz cuando, de repente, BAM, la pantalla azul de la muerte aparece y la frase muy prominente “IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL”(IRQL no es menos o igual) aparece. Generalmente con un pequeño error hacia el fondo de la pantalla. PARAR: 0x0000000a, o algo del estilo. Tristemente, cada vez que la he [...]