Recent content by thuffner3

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    Task manager has been disabled by Admin

    Can't anyone touch this, two days now.????????????????????? Help
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    Task manager has been disabled by Admin

    Morning all, and Merry Christmas. It seems I've acquired a virus or worm. The first thing I noticed was my system running slow, so I pressed Ctrl,Alt,Del, "POP UP" TASK MANAGER HAS BEEN DISABLED BY ADMINISTRATOR. At this point I run CA, it tells me there is a worm and a couple of other...
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    Making floppy drive a usb drive.

    The DTX-200, Is a board configuration that needs to be built custom requiring the old floppy to model from. The guy said it would run roughly 500-800 Euros/ I think this would be the same company Husqvarna uses, as my quoted price from them for the same darned thing was 500- 600 dollars...
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    Making floppy drive a usb drive.

    This looks like an interesting device. Waiting for price and compatibility. Thanks Guys
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    Making floppy drive a usb drive.

    This is a seemingly impossible task for the general DIY guy. Could I conceivably make it a CD reader?
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    Making floppy drive a usb drive.

    Hello all, My wife has one of those really nice electronic sewing machines that embroiders all kinds of stuff. My delema is this, it uses old 3.5 floppy drive media. I want to convert the old floppy port to a USB drive reader, can this be done. Something similar to an old cassette player...
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    Radeon 9550 -w- ATI TV tuner Ve

    I don't see a code 10 error anywhere, Unless of course it is the truly dreaded ID-10-T error. No really everything seems to be working fine. I just get not video in TV mode. Peace
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    Radeon 9550 -w- ATI TV tuner Ve

    Hello all, I have a Radeon 9550 series vid card. AGP, with a ATIwonder TV tuner VE card. Up until just last week the TV tuner was working fine. Now I have no video. I thought that perhaps one of my software installations had updated itself and caused a Malfunction. So I went to the ATI...
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    NTLDR is missing, Problem, can't reinstall WinXP

    Hello All, I just recently acquired a Toshiba A25-S307. I was having trouble reinstalling WinXP. I would recieve the error message, NTLDR is missing, Press Ctrl, Alt, Del, to restart your computer. I tried an older Win98 boot CD, This didn't work. I tried a commercial WinXP cd. THis...
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    Xp, and administrator rights

    I tried this, Initially it seemed to work. But when the program asks for additional files for patches and such the program tells me it can't fine the needed info. I went so far as to drop the program folders in the shared folders for all users. Still no help. TIA for any help Neil
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    Xp, and administrator rights

    OK, I know I should know this by now, But. I setup an older system for my boys with XP-pro. I gave them each their own user name. How do I give them access to programs I install? Mind you. My user name is the one with Admin rights. They want to play warcraft. It seems warcraft only...
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    Chkdsk from WinXp, starts at start up.

    If chkdsk stops at the file from within windowsXP, why would I believe that it wouldn't stop from the start up? There are multiple copies of the file MXVCR71.DLL on my system, Attempting to rename or delete this file yields the same message. FILE IS CORRUPT OR DAMAGED. TIA Neil
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    Total disk copy, for new operating system

    SO, Clone or Ghost will make an identical disk that can be swapped for my old drive? I like my system just the way it is, but I;m afraid my hard drive may be nearing the end of the road. The Vista upgrade compatibilty utility is nice, first off it told me that I could install. Then told me...
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    Total disk copy, for new operating system

    Morning all, I guess it's about time I do a total reinstall of WinXP, Perhaps even to Win Vista. 1st ??, Can one take and copy and entire disk so it is exactly like the one removed? Also, What are some of the drawbacks to installing Win Vista on an older machine. I have an AMD 1 ghz...
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    Chkdsk from WinXp, starts at start up.

    Morning all, My system just started acting up. During a system start up WinXp wants to run the chkdsk utility. I bypass this as it has seemed to do things in the past that I was not happy with. Anyway. Once into WinXP, I see that Chkdsk stops at a file called "mscvr71.dll" It is a file...