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Hello. I thought I'd check the system files as something about the system has crippled the machine's ability to run .JAR files. Did SFC /Scannow from cmd prompt. 'Please insert your Windows XP Professional SP-3 CD now' I inserted the system disc ... The system is XP Home according to Control...

Hi Background: I bought Windows 7 Home Edition disc but then upgraded online to Pro so I don't have a disc for Pro Edition. When I got an error message about hal.dll not working, and could neither restore to an earlier point nor get the OS to fix itself, someone in another Forum told me to...

I'm using a Toshiba Laptop(L750-X5317) with windows 7 home premium. Last week while starting the laptop, it got stuck at "Starting Windows" screen. I then switched it off and restarted it again. It asked for "Start up repair" or "Start windows normally". I chose start windows normally. It...

I'm sorry if this is a bit long, but I would like to provide as much detail as possible. I've searched high and low and found no solutions. I decided to finally take the plunge and install Windows 7 64-bit. Win7 32-bit worked great. I've tried installing 64-bit via both CD and USB and they both...

Hello. It seems as if my command prompt will not let me do any simple system commands such as ping, ipconifg, etc. And it will also not let me use commands for my compiler. The paths are set properly in the environment variables, but it still does not work. See the screencap below...

I have an HP g60 windows 7 Home Premium its almost 3 years old. I started a program (Adobe Flash CS5 portable, I believe) and then I hibernated the laptop. It was taking a longer time than usual to do this so I did a force shutdown by pressing the power button. After an hour I decided to turn...

Hi at all, I'm a new entry in the forum. As by topic title I'have a problem with environments variable in windows 8. In practice, I installed MinGw a c/C++ compiler and when i use the command gcc from prompt it response me with the following message: gcc is not recognized as internal or...

​Installed Win 7 Ultimate on a HP Pavilion g7 that was running Win 7 Pro. Everything runs fine, but for the f8 key. Regardless of when I depress the key during initial start-up, all I get is 9-10 loud beeps and normal start-up. I realize that, if all I were looking to do is use safe mode, I...

I have seen this issue on the forum before, but I have yet to find a solution. Hope I'm a lucky one. I turned on the computer this evening and it gave me the "Windows was not Shut Down Properly" message followed by the options to start in Safe Mode, or Start Normally. I started it up...

Any help would be greatly appreciated Here's the scenario... PC crashed, I get Toshiba splash screen at start up then nothing. With recovery stick I can get tools but cannot use them... I get either missing partition or hard drive locked message. I can get to command prompt though where it...

When i go to make a new folder it does not show up when i right click in empty space. It shows up on the top bar and i click on it and it won't let me make a new folder. Is their a command i can use to make a new folder? I do appreciate all the help you guy's give me.

Is it possible to change the default mount options for NFS mounts under windows 7? I have my mp3s on a file server, and windows likes to 'lock' it, and I can not play my files if its mounted with the lock option, so I have to disconnect, and go to a command prompt, and remount to play them...

I'm stuck at this screen. Starting Windows normally sends me back, and startup repair "can not fix this computer automatically". Choosing the other modes sends me back as well. I don't have a restore point, and I don't want to reinstall windows and lose all my files for a 2nd time in just a...

I apoligize in advance as I am new to this forum if this is not the correct location to post my issue. I am currently working on my fathers desktop which is a Dell XPS 400. He had a recent power surge which killed his power supply. We ordered a new power supply installed it and now once we boot...

I would love to know if there is a batch file command, or set of them, etc. to have the batch file input a command into another command prompt already opened. Specifically, I mean having it use the 'kickall' command on a minecraft server's command prompt. I would prefer something that is in...

I would like to Querying the Index Programmatically (Windows) and I found this link that shows several ways to do it. Basically, I have hundreds of ten-digit numbers and about 300 excel documents. I want to know which documents contain which numbers. I don't care if the output goes to a terminal...

hi i bought and installed a sabrent wifi pci card into my computer. this is the card (Link Removed). my computer runs windows 7. the card installed properly, no warnings or anything. i've done my best to ensure i have the most updated drivers. the card is terrible at identifying networks. it...

Win 7 64 Bit OS. If I cloned a 64GB SSD to a new 128GB SSD and find the system could be bad can I use the system recover disk created with the 64GB SSD to try to correct a problem in the 128GB SSD? I ran sfc/scannow from cmd and one or more problems was corrected but I still cannot install...

This is another follow-up thread but I need to know how to use it (easily) I have tried to use the normal routine to recover my profile: 1. create a new profile 2. Copy every file from the old to the new with the exception of: ntuser.ini ntuser.dat ntuser.dat.log However this does not...

I am using the only account in my Win 7 system, which is an Administrator acct. When I open the CMD window (right click - use as administrator, just to be sure) and type chkdsk I am denied access and told to "invoke this utility running in administrator mode," but it already is in that mode, as...