Pentium III 512mb RAM
I have an old Compaq desk pro (museum piece), Pentium III, new 512MB Ram, new 180GB hard drive that was given to me by my employer years ago. I recall when the machine was new she was relatively fast....
View ArticleWhat will happen to Windows XP activation after April 2014?
It's not news that Microsoft will discontinue support for Windows XP in 2014, but I've found no clear answer whether activation of Windows XP will still be possible. Back in old days, I've purchased...
View Articleerror 2000: Stack Overflow
I've been running a trusted old dos program on my new WindowsXP Professional Service pack2 Dell for a couple of months. I just upgraded to Service Pack3 and now it won't run? It get this error....
View ArticleWindows XP: No sound and cannot install ac97 realtek audio driver
Please I been fixing my PC for 3 days. I reformatted my PC because of virus issue the installation of OS went fine until I found out I don't have any driver installer for my PC. So I used Driver Robot...
View ArticleMy Network Places missing
I have a Win-XP Pro problem which has existed for 3 years. The My Network Places icon on my desktop used to blink on and off. Now is is missing entirely. When I use windows explorer the icon...
View ArticleCannot delete files - file name is too long
My system lost its motherboard. I recoevered data from the hard drive and saved recovered files to my file server. I back up my server every week. When I had to delete some back up copies becasue of...
View ArticleMapped Drive with password
Is it possible to set up a mapped drive to auto connect on start but require a password if someone tries to open the drive?I have software that requires a mapped drive I can put user and pass in...
View ArticleRDP sessions crashes with MSTSC.EXE - APPLICATION ERROR
Hi I am using XP SP3, RDC 7.0 and my terminal server is Win 2008 R2.My rdp sessions got crashed every time with an error message as "mstsc.exe- Application error " and some memory could not be...
View ArticleHow to get the schema in a windows machine?
In Active Directory, we can see the schema using AD schema snap-in.The following link gives the step to be done to view AD schema :http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732110.aspx Similar to...
View ArticleWindows media Player
I must have ripped music to a flash drive or hard drive which I cant seem to locate. Now, whenever I try to rip a CD Windows media player cannot rip it because there is no rip location shown. When I go...
View ArticleLogon if domain does not exist anymore
Hello,PC with Windows XP SP3 (x86) was in "OLD" domain and we used "OLD\User" to work there. Now we have another domain "NEW". This PC is in this "NEW" domain, and"OLD" domain has been deleted with the...
View ArticleClock problems
We have a strange issue on some of our older XP workstations. We have been getting errors in one of our programs because the clock keeps changing. At very random times the time and date will jump...
View ArticleHelp, me find my IP address please?
I was needing help in finding my own IP address as I have never attempted to do this before, as well as how to remotely connect to someone else's computer with their permission of course as it is my...
View Articlerestrictions
how to disable the download folder restriction in windows xp by the system administrator
View ArticleKB2863866 Windows XP MS Office 2003 Security Update failed
We are trying to patch all of our Windows XP SP3 machines with the MS Office patch KB2863866. We are using Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 SP3. It is being loaded onto a typical desktop...
View Articlesquawking on mp3 micro chip.
I shuffled my music using Windows Media Player. When i played songs beck on my mp3 player , i hear a squellching or squawking sound on every song . Anybody have any idea whats happening ?
View ArticleInstallation problems with win XP`updates
I've had some issues in the past three days with XP SP 3, in portuguese, as follow :1) All Updates not installing since last october and 2) svchost using 100% CPU and3) not being able to iniciate BITS...
View ArticleWin XP New CD writer not burning music to CD - Codec problem?
Hello, I replaced the CD re-writer burner with a Samsung Superwritemaster SH-224 24x on my Dell Dimension 3100 (Windows XP) but it will not burn music to CD. It reads and RIPS ok but will not burn...
View ArticleNetwork is not Accessible
I have a workgroup environment having 3 winXP machine.i shared my printer over network on one pc. when i try to access from other computer it give an error "network is not accessible"i set my guest...
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