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Hi All M8 of mine is running xp pro and all of a sudden the system restore tab has disappeared from System Properties, if tried using start ,prog,acc it says that it has been disabled by system administrator same thing happens when using the command promt, forgot to mention that he is...

Is it possible,I have an extrnal pioneer 107d and an external toshiba 1612 and burning on the fly seems impossible, I could make both or either of them firewire ,would this make a difference or could I change some windows settings or nero settings that would make it possible

Im running xp pro with sevice pack 1 xp auto patcher and service pack 2 Question is if I need to reinstall windows would installing service pack 2 itself be enough to install all needed security updates or would I need to do as I did above :confused:

Can someone tell me if there would be any problem using 2 usb2 devices conected to a laptop at the same time, ie burning from a usb2 h/drive to a usb2 cdwriter or even a usb2 dvd to usb2 dvdwriter, Was looking to buy one with an athlon processor around the 2400 mark with 512 mb ram

Is there any program out there that can join 2 movies together on one disk with a simple menu to choose either movie 1 or movie 2 I've used dvd2one for this in the past but you dont get a menu,so you have to choose the second movie by title using the dvd player set up, Not to much of a problem...

I'm currently using windows 98 and use zone alarm as my firewall which I like cause it just tells you what programs are trying to access the internet and doesn't talk about packets and stuff of which I havent a clue, I want to install XP but heard that ZA doesn't work to well with it, can...

Everytime I burn a dvd with this drive there is a discoloured ring around the disk at about halfway through the burn, I was using the hacked firmware 1.07 but changed to the official 1.07 firmware,(fault still there) Sometimes the disk plays fine other times it doesn't. I've tried making it...

A m8 of mine is having bother with his pc running windows 98se Basically his pc doesn't recognise his cdroms anymore, if he goes to hard disk controllers in system properties his primary ide controller (dual fifo) and secondary ide controller (dual fifo) both have yellow exclamation marks next...

Tried to network 2 puters using a crossover cable, one running xp the other running windows 98se,the puter running windows 98 can't see the other puter at all, and the puter running xp sees the the one running 98 but cant access any files. :confused: Although The computer on XP sees my other...

Is my graphics card about to dye or what ? when starting windows I see the splash screen ok but when windows actually starts I'm left looking at a blank screen, I've got to restart in safe mode change resolution to 16 colours / 640x480 pixels and restart,that gets me looking at my desktop again...

hi all Running 2 pc's one on xp and one on win98 second edition both have their own printers and both share the same cable modem (I just plug the pc i'm using into the modem) But I would like to network them so I can transfer files between them what do I need ?would I get away with just using a...

Was wondering if the force x-box compatability option when burning dvdr's would affect compatability with normal dvd players or playstation 2 ? I never have a prob with nero when this option is left unticked, and the couple I've burned with this option enabled have worked fine on the 2 or 3...

Does using this firmware still allow 4x burning ? and does it work for both the a05 and the 105 burners

I was dual booting windows me (C drive) and xp (F drive NTFS) but had to format C and install windows 98 as me was giving problems My question is, as I can no longer access xp because it is hidden in my system Could I use a boot manager to dual boot again, The reason I'm not sure is that I...

I've got a 20gig h/d thats got a major fault within the first 2 gig,which makes it impossible to install an operating system, does anybody know of anyway where I could partition the first 2 gig and then hide it so that I could make the remainder of the h/d the c drive