Windows Definition and 443 Threads

I have a computer dual booted with Fedora Core 5 and Windows XP. I only have Fedora on so I can learn how to use Linux and XP is my primary OS. Whenever I boot up it gives me a few seconds to choose between XP and Fedora otherwise it loads Fedora by default. How do I change this to have...

hello guys,i get this error:VmVyc2lvbjogV2xGQlhVSlFWRlphUkU1RFJrTlZKQ2xTT3lRN1ZpQXN.. very long error code. anyway this error ONLY appear when i access my E: it doesn't show anywhere else. It get really annoying. it keep coming bak when u click submit error to microsoft or exit. It doesn't seem...

Fake Windows Xp software... hey guys, i have had my computer for 4 years now and due to a recent crash due to virus attack i had to delete all the stuff on my computer and get windows reinstalled at a local computer store as i did not have enough money to buy the genuine software. A year has...

Hello everyone, Anyone know a good book for programming a windows mobile device?? I'd appreciate it.

Apple now supports dual booting on their new Intel Macs. http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

I accidentily deleted the icon which opens the search folder so I can view files. Can someone tell me how to find the program (i.e. location in system files) so I can restore it? Thanks. Pete

Windows Sofware To Graph Electric Field Lines ?? Hi Everyone, Does anyone know of any Windows software out there that will graph electric field lines? I recently did a physics lab where I determine point charges of some "x-rays" and from the data I gathered I need to graph the electric...

Here is the official press release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/mar06/03-21WindowsVistaDeliveryPR.mspx Businesses will be able to get Vista this November while everyone else will have to wait until January 2007. It was supposed to be released in the fall of 2006, just in...

:rolleyes: What is the world coming to? Hackers have managed to get Microsoft's Windows XP operating system running on an Apple Mac computer. The success ends a competition started to see if the feat was even possible when Apple unveiled computers that used Intel chips. The pair who...

I haven't run into any instructions for how to make foreign diacritical marks such as the lovely German Umlaut or the French accent aigu. I used to be able to do most of these with WebTV, and the instructions were easy to find. Where does windows xp keep this info?

Does anyone know of a good laTex2html program for windows? Thanks

Andrew Sullivan From the March 2006 issue of PC World magazine Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 ! http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,124510,tk,wbxnws,00.asp

I've got an image, GIF, JPEG or other ( I can easily convert between most formats) and I want to insert it into a Latex document. Could someone please give me instructions on how to use this. I'm using TeXnicCenter on a Windows system.

My laptop doesn't have a windows key? What's going on here! Is there some sort of reason IBM doesn't have a windows key? I was tryen to use the start menu and I keep clicking and I'm all "is it freezing up already?" and then i realized i was hitting the Ctrl button and that...

I want to purchase Mathematica (student version), but I plan on upgrading my OS to Windows Vista once it is released. If I buy the program for Windows XP will it work on Vista? Are operating systems backward compatible like that?

You can find the new site here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.aspx Microsoft seems to set on the whole glass look because they have plenty of screenshots.

Anyone here has tried it? What do you feel? Very excellent? Is your hardware "strong" enough to satisfy it?

"Line in" vs "Microphone" in Windows Hi all, I have a PC with windows XP in which I regularly use Skype (which allows you to make phone calls). The computer has both a MIC and LINE IN entries, but only the MIC is "heard" by windows. Is there a way to configure it so that it listens to LINE...

I managed to setup Windows XP reinstall and everything was good until when 13 minutes left and this error message came up: "unregmp2.exe - Entry Point Not Found The procedure entry point GetIUMS could not be located in the dynamic link library MSDART.DLL. " This message came up...

I have a question about album art in windows xp. A lot of my music was taken from backup disks and didn't come with album art, they were burnt under windows me. I've went ahead and searched a P2P network for album art and retrieved most of what I need. The problem I am having is that quite a few...

I'm trying to reinstall windows, but on reboot I can't start from the particular CD-rom (other CD-roms do work on reboot, but I need this one). It says: Boot CD-ROM type: Non-Emulation Booting Press a key if you want to start up your computer from cd-rom... and then it hangs, the cd-rom...

I'm running Windows XP on a PC. How do I format the C:\ drive so I can wipe that drive clean and then reinstall windows XP?? Pete

Are there any good programs that allow for overclocking via Windows?

Screenshots can be found on microsoft's site: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/windowsvista/default.mspx Here is the fact sheet: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/winxp/VistaBeta1FS.mspx

Windows Vista is the official name for the next version of windows. More information can be found on microsoft's site: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx

I recently installed WIN XP on a system that had 98 previously. The last thing I did before that was to go through the "Wizard" for uninstalling Norton Internet Security for that version, as instructed. All seemed to go well, according to indications, so when finished, I installed XP. When I...

I've tried defragmenting my drives and stuff like that, but my computer doesn't seem to get much faster. Any other tips?

I've heard that the SP2 limits your connection when download from p2p software. Can anyone tell me in detail what has changed since it was released and how much of a difference there is between downloading with SP1 and SP2? Would you recommend editing the registry to download faster using...

which one do you like?

With Apple's move towards Intel processors there has been a lot of specualtion about the eventual outcome of this venture. Well, if M.Dell has anything to say---according to the Forbes article below---then we might just see stand-alone copies of OS X right next to the virus monster known as...

I have been using Windows Me for all these years, ignoring all the viruses, error messages, etc..., only Slackware saved me from throwing the computer into the wall. This past week, Win Me has completely given up, meaning as soon as I log on to Windows, it gives tons of error messages...

Of course on the same computer. By the way,which vesion of linux is fast and stable?

does Jscript on windows really exist?? I read on various web pages that jscript can be used on windows as a scripting language directly form the DOS prompt. But I couldn't find ANY working example on the internet! even a simple alert("hello") put in a hello.js file doesn't work! It says an...

Im trying to play with sockets on windows what lib do i need to link to make this statement work? Does it come with win or do i have to download it? WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(1,1), &wsa);

Usually when it is desired that an adjective be inserted between two words in context, the following noun moves along without changing; however, on some occasions the noun does not move along but its letters are replaced by those being inserted. It reminds me of the Pacman gobble-up of early...

Hello, I am using xp again, and I am curious as to what are the must have programs for it. From looking at another thread, it seems as ad-aware is still a must, but what else? I am wondering mostly about security, virus/malware protection, etc., or any other cool, must have, programs...

My hard drive died, luckily I have a second one (much younger and bigger), which I replaced it with, so now I only have 1 HD. Windows was installed on the HD that died, so now I've reinstalled it on my secondary, without fragmenting it. Thankfully most of my data on the secondary was saved...

Recently, my computer screen keep flickering when starting up windows, but fine when in the Windows. However, the fickering will start again if i open some programes, especially games. Just now, my PC hang again. When i in bios, i was alerted that my +3.3Volt has droped. What is the...

I stumbled across a useful site while trying to unravel the latest Windows XP malfunction. www.winguides.com - registration required (takes about 12 hrs to get password).

Yesterday, I did something really stupid. I deleted GDI.exe from my windows system folder. Is there anyway to replace it without reloading windows since I don't know where the disk is? I was deleting some virus that put in a hundred or so exe files with permutations of three letters as their...

This article was just posted on slashdot: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/02/04/notes020405.DTL With all the problems associated with windows why do you still use it?

Does anyone know of any Windows XP software that can burn Macintosh .toast images to CD? - Warren

How do I run a Perl program from a Windows platform? I installed Collie Perl Shell for the text editing, and I installed ActivePerl for Windows... but.. what part of ActivePerl should I use to give command lines to run a program? :rolleyes: I've been going through the user guide, but it's...

My friend came to me with a problem about his computer. He unknowingly had a pirated copy of XP pro 2000, and tried to update. Well needless to say, he cannot log on to windows now. He doesn't have anything on the computer worth keeping, so I am just going to give him another OS. Question is...

Modern operating systems are file oriented, so in Windows you can access documents just by double clicking them without having to worry about opening the program. But I don't know how this is achieved. Is is done entirely by the OS or does the application program itself play a role? So suppose I...

I'm currently running Windows XP on and AMD 64 with a 200 GB SATA hard drive. I would like to install Linux on a 20 GB partition, leaving what i already have installed on the remaining 180 GB, leaving that untouched. I have the install disks for Mandrake 10, but I'm not quite sure how to...

I installed windows xp on my D drive (2nd hard drive). Will this create any serious problems? I know that I will need to pay attention because some programs want to automatically install on the c drive, but will that be it? Also, will I be able to switch easily between Fedora and Windows...

This happened to my dad. When he turns his computer on, it now says "there is no operating system on this hard drive." What could have caused this? If he reinstalls windows, what can he do to ensure that this doesn't happen again?

My computer is fried. I can only boot up in safe mode. Otherwise as soon as I login to my computer after bootup the screen goes black, then a blue screen comes on saying there is a problem and it starts doing a memory dump to disk. I've tried fixing this all day long but am at a loss. Where...

I need to implement a sort of "framebuffer in a window" for a digital video application I'm working on. I need the window to be displayed alongside other windows (running Windows XP) and get along nicely with other windows on the desktop. The window will display the pixel data in an arbitrary...