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My girlfriend has a Gateway tablet laptop and we're trying to get some XP themes from http://www.customize.org to work. Unfortunately, anytime she tries to install one it just shows the old theme. There is no choice for her to use the new one. When I download them I just unzip them and double...

I've had my desktop for a few years and after a bit decided it was time for a laptop. Haven't touched the desktop since... Had to replace a fan in it but it's otherwise in great condition. I want to sell it but I obviously need to erase the hard drive of anything personal. I took it to a mom...

I think im gonna dig a hole put my computer in it poor some gas, throw a match and then just burry it.... its pissing me off its not a bad computer its just overheating... and even when its not it randomly shuts it self off :\ id ont knwo whats wrong

Hello all, Recently my computer screen is going fuzzy, then to clear, Just goes back and forth. Its not that bad, but its noticeable then it changes, and tends to be very annoying.. Any Ideas? :(

Okay...well the last couple of weeks have been absolute Tech Support Hell. I've probably spent close to 20 hours waiting or on hold with tech support and I'm about to eat my own eyes. First I was getting disconnected from FFXI every hour at the exact same time for a month - but I think I've...

After cleaning up my computer a bit, I went to restart it... After logging back in, I get an odd popup... An error with dvrtap.dll... It cannot be accessed? Hmm... Odd. Thing is, I have no idea what this is, nor does google. But I do know one thing. Its keeping my laptop offline. lol...

Earlier in the week, my computer blew up... well kinda =\. I am taking theories if anyone cares to speculate as to the causes, but first let me share my story. I had just gotten a TV Tuner card from my friend at work to which I had slapped into my PC. It was seated properly and all that jazz...

about a week ago, i added more ram to my computer. would have been a total of 2 gigs. i boot up my computer and windows comes up to tell me "there have been major changes to the hardware in your computer, you must reregister" so i let it attempt to finish booting and it hangs at the splash...

I'll admit it. When it comes to computers, I am basically retarded. Anyway, on to my problem... When I run FFXI, everything seems to run fine at all times, except the occasional lag and whatnot, but thats expected, but for some reason, when I party in C.Mire, my computer won't go more than like...

So I can't decide what the hell to major in in college. I'm kind of interested in computer animation, but don't have much artistic talent. Any computer animators here that can tell me stuff about the job? I want to do something I enjoy, and I can't find motivation to continue going to classes...

Okay, so hi. I built a PC for somebody as a gift, and of course, they live a good 6 hours away so I can't really just hop over and help, so I need some advice or something. So anywho, apparently when he starts it up, it says that it's missing a critical system32 file and he needs to have the...

This also would be toward the 360 as well cause I'm curious if it could to (but from what I read about the way the hardrive's used it seems it couldn't). But.. here we go. I was wondering if it's possible to use computer games on the PS3 (360 as well though I stated again I don't think it...

Well a couple days ago I had to restart my computer to update windows. Than for some reason when it restarted , it desided to basically not. Ok , basically for HP labtops you have 4 screens you see before you see your main screen. You have the setup screen(f10) than the blank screen , than the...

Alright, I've had this problem for a few months now. My computer will randomly shut off on me. However, this isn't a complete shut down... it will just crash and restart itself. The temps are fine(usually around 100-110F), and I just installed a new 580W power supply. I thought those were the 2...

since friday, my computer has been crashing on me everytime i load onto FF. Usually about 10 min into FF my screen freezes and my display goes low res, low color, saying, The ialmrnt5 display driver stopped working normally. Save your work and reboot the system to restore full display...

My baby is broken and needs some nerdy lovin'. Sooo it started last Sunday, Easter, I left IE open (my first mistake) on myspace (my second mistake) and go eat breakfast. I come back maybe 30 minutes later and I have about 30 pops ups and Lord only knows how many virus's and spyware made it in...

Alright, I have a 5 month old HP with an AMD64 running Windows XP. I turn it on today and for some reason it was in 600x800 resolution, so I switched it back to 1280x1024. Now I've noticed that things are moving slow. When I scroll through a page it skips, when I move window across the screen it...

I don't know what it is, I don't know what it's supposed to do. I get this error every time I start any program. Itunes, MSN Messenger, Firefox...anything. It started appearing after I ran a Chkdsk. It kept appearing every time I started up my computer since I got it back from some place my...

I don't like not being able to turn all the options on high quality and I haven't done an upgrade in 2.5yrs. So I think it's about time anyway. I want my computer to be Vista and DX10 ready as well, even if I don't plan to upgrade to Vista for a year. This is the research I've done today...

MY comps been freezing up when I'm in party's . The screen gets all blocky and nothing works short of shutting down the comp. I'm not using windower or anything. I ran the benchmark and that said I was ok there. Any help qould be appreciated.