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Not sure where this belongs, as there is no section for Domains, Terminal servers or Active Directory. Networking is the closest that I could find. We have a newly formed domain. So far we have 4 workstations that we have migrated onto it through active directory. We have been adjusting...

Hi Folks, I am having a bit of trouble with a users laptop. Its running very slow and everytime I google anything it takes me to some dodgey search engine or a website that is totally unrelated. I have HiJackThis results but have no idea where to start, could anyone advise which is the...

Hi all. I've been asked to fix a Dell Optiplex 330 (cringe) at work as it will not boot up. The user told be that it gone on to standby, and then it would not turn back on. Now I have looked at it I can see it power up with fan noise, and then the Dell splash screen loads. Following this it...

Just a quick question. Does any one know if a Intel Pentium4 M (3.6ghz) SL7DT will be compatible with my Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L7320 which currently has a Intel Pentium M (1.7ghz) installed. I do not know the specs of the motherboard.

Hey you guys! Does anyone know of any software I can use to change the login screen in XP? I have read several articles about how to change it but they all give details of searching through the registry. I have already tried a Vista transformation pack which changed everything but the...

Hi guys, Can anyone tell me why my laptop completley freezes up when I try and download anything through IE7. I get the download pop up window that shows the progress and after a few minutes the whole lot locks up. Also, I have tried Firefox but when I am browsing the entire page jumps up...

Hi guys, I have a laptop that I have salvaged from ebay. I bought in working condition but with no hard drive. I am trying to install a copy of XP home onto it which is currently stored on my PC's hard drive in daa. format (Don't worry, the laptop came complete with Windows Home lisence...

Hi guys! Can anyone confirm this for me? I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L7320GW (15.4" WXGA screen) which I have cracked. The direct replacement for this screen will cost me £300+ from Siemens! Will any 15.4" WXGA be compatible with my laptop as long as it has the same amount of pins on...

Hello me again, you guys must think i'm really stupid. Well here's another dumb question, I'm trying to make a back up of my hard drive using Nero and a DVD+RW. Everytime it starts the back up, after a few seconds it stops due to the DVD not being formatted. Now I thought this did it...

Hi, having more problems with the laptop I was asking about in the memory section. When I attach it to the mains it appears to be completely dead, no lights at all come on. Could it be something as simple as the power socket and does anyone know how I can test this?

Hi guys, Can anyone tell me how I find out what the maximum amount of RAM my laptop will take and what will happen if I go above this amount?

Hi guys, can anyone tell me how to get outlook data from a faulty hard drive which I have set up as a slave? I've managed to get all of the other data off it and on to the master drive but when I try to get the outlook settings I can't find any trace at all of them, I was looking for pst files...

Hello all, we have a network in the office which uses a HP PSC 2355 all in one printer. It is currently intalled on a XP machine but other users in the group want to share it. The other machines all run on 98. I have searched for the 98 driver to support this but all I keep finding and...

Hi All, At work we use Kaspersky for our anti-virus, works perfectly on all machines running XP and 98, but the machines running 98 won't automatically update. To get updates and run the scan we have to start them manually. Does anyone know of a way around this? Cheers.

Hi, a friend has asked me to look at her pc as she cannot install office 97. I have tried and I get so far and get an error message saying a file on the disk already exists, asks me to either verify that it can be read or cancel installation. When I retry the same happens again. It is...

Can anyone tell me of any software that can compress a 895mb home video clip so it will fit onto a 700mb CD-R. I've tried editing and and cutting bits out but its still too long. Cheers xx

Hi guys, Think my pc has finally kicked the bucket. It works but its not coping with my demands, firstly when I play games I get blank squares instead of pictures and I tried to have a look at the second life website and it said my graphics card wasn't good enough. Can anyone advise if I can...

For some time now I've been trying to connect to the internet through a proxy server. I've been told loads of scary stories about anyone still being able to access my private stuff just by having my ip address even though I have a firewall. I found loads of different proxy addresses to try but...

Hi all, I didn't know where to put this topic. How can I recode an Mpeg4 file so I can burn it to DVD and it will play on a DVD player. I have tried burning it as it is and it wont play, i've tried several pieces of recoding software but they all come up with errors. It plays in real...

Can someone please help. In my stupidity I closed a lot of stuff down using the task manager because my system was going really slow. Since then I've had loads of problems. Firstly I lost all my desktop themes which I have now got back. But now all of the services in the computer management...