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I just bought a new Acer Aspire 7520 laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium installed. For some kind of reason the other computers I have at home which both run XP Pro SP3 cannot share the HP 1022 Printer I have connected USB to my Acer laptop. Printer sharing is enabled and Network discovery is...

Recently im experiencing a strange problem on WMP11 , when I play movie clips I only hear the sound but the screen is black. I didnt do any hardware or software changes on my pc recently so I dont see any reason why this is not working how it was ! Im running WIN XP PRO with all the latest...

Hi guys, the fan of my ATI 9600 XT card is not working. It first started to make a lot of noise than it stopped ! Do you think the gpu will burn now ? I only use my pc for internet browsing and emails. No games or any other graphic intensive programs. Shall I get another card or try to find a...

I have a problem with a P4 1.7GHZ PC. When WIN XP starts after about 5 mins the computer freezes. It does not respond to either keyboard or mouse. I suspected that it had some kind of virus and it was about time this system needed a format and a re installation of XP. Booting from the XP cd...

I just bought a brand new Acer Aspire 5630 with the following specs : Intel Duo Core T5500 1 GB DD2 Ram Nividia Geforce Go 7300 128MB 8X DVD Super Multi layer Drive 160 GB SATA HDD Windows XP Media Center Im experiencing a strange problem with this 3 week old brand new laptop...

A friend of mine has an Intel Celeron PC which has been swithced off for about 7 weeks. When I tried to switch it on I found that the PSU was dead. I changed it for a NEW one but now after switching it on I found im getting nothing on the display. I tried it on my new TFT and another monitor so...

I have a friend's pc which has been causing some trouble lately, like freezing in WinXP and shutting down etc,, so I brought to my house to format it and freshly install XpPRo (which was installed in it less than a year ago) and this pc is hardly used! When I tried to switch it on this...

I just bought a USB2.0 PCI card because I only had USB1.0 in my PC. My mother board fully supports USB 2.0 as I check on the manual! I installed the card in the PCI slot and the drivers but as I hooked up my pen drive the PC freezed ! I rebooted , all is fine until I hook up another USB device...

I just bought a USB2.0 PCI card because I only had USB1.0 in my PC. My mother board fully supports USB 2.0 as I check on the manual! I installed the card in the PCI slot and the drivers but as I hooked up my pen drive the PC freezed ! I rebooted , all is fine until I hook up another USB device...

Im on the market for a new monochrome laserprinter. I dont know anything about these. This is going to be for home use nothing specific. My nearest computer store has the following Canon LBP2900 Laser Printer and HP LaserJet 1022 Laser Printer. The HP is just a little bit more expensive the...

I need a program to resize and edit video clips that i shoot with my digital camera. Is there any simple program that does this job ?

This problem is happening to a friend of mine. About a week ago when he switched on his PC this note came up after the welcome screen " Windows needs to be reactivated in 5days due to hardware changes, Do you want to activate Windows now ?" He clicks yes to activate it and it says that Windows...

Im currently using an ATI 9600 XT 128MB on my pc and im quite happy with it for my needs. A friend of mine is selling his rig without 256MB Gainward AGP GeForce 6600. He is giving it to me for free ! Should i install it or stay with my faithfull 9600XT ? Is it faster than the 9600XT ?

In these last two weeks my MSN is taking ages to sign in and somtimes its saying that there is a problem with my internet connection. After several attempts it signs in ! It sometimes disconnects automatically! Im running the latest version on a PC running WinXP PRo SP2 and all the latest...

I just installed one stick of 512 MB SDRAM PC 133 on a friend's P3 800MHz. When starting up the pc is saying that I have a 256MB installed ?? Can anyone suggest whats going on ? Im sure that I bought a 512MB and it has written on it too !

PC Specs : P4 1.7GHZ GeForce 4 MX 440 768 MB SDRAM Generic PSU WIN XP PRO SP2 with all latest updates I have this 5 year old PC @ home which my dad uses for wordproccessing etc. When the PC is left on and unused for about 15 mins or more it freezes ! Red line s come on the screen and...

I have a 4 year old P4 1.7GHz which my mum uses regularly for word processing etc.. Today I went to switch it on as usual and when I pressed the power button it didnt start ! No beeps, no lights, just as if I didnt press the button ! I bet it could be many differrent problems.. But where can I...

I just bought a brand new Philips 190c6 19" TFT display. I need to know if there is any way or program so that I will set up the display correctly so that I will have the best picture the display can give. It is supplied with software which lets you alters colours etc. but I dont know which is...

I just bought Microsoft Wireless USB Multimedia Keyboard 1.0. Im having a problem enabling it in DOS mode. I re installed my old PS/2 keyboard enabling USB keyboard support from the BIOS but it doesnt want to work either. Im running a dual boot menu on my system and I really need to make my new...

A friend of mine just formatted his PC and installed everything from the begining. He noticed that without Norton Antivirus 2005 his system is running much faster.This is not the first time to hear that NAV slows down a PC. So now he does not want to install it and looking for another type of...