Well, I still can't open any of those sony webpages (thanks for the suggestion, skeet - computer won't let me add anything without the prefix...
No, rsinfo, I've never opened up this computer, and am not anxious to do so. It's a skinny little thing and the monitor seems to be hooked up to...
rsinfo, you're a gem! Thank you! That's all I wanted tech support to do, but apparently they're only allowed to direct you to the help pages,...
I'm trying to troubleshoot a "hardware monitor found an error" message on my mother's Sony VAIO desktop computer, and the only thing the Sony...
When I review the update history on my mother's computer (XP Home), there are a couple of updates that show up as "canceled ". I'd like to...
SpywareDr: As best as I can tell, it's a VAIO PCV-W510G. How would I go about looking into BIOS upgrades? Thanks!
I've set my mother up with Thunderbird 1.0.7, but in order to make it user-friendly for her, it's all in Japanese. Unfortunately, her English is...
I'm visiting my mother, who has a Sony VAIO with Windows XP Home. When she first turns the computer on, she often gets the following message:...
Thanks, all! After following all of the above advice, we're up to 36% free space on this C: drive. Mission successful! :D
Thanks, rsinfo! I actually did defragment the hard drive last night, but hadn't known about chkdsk until a half hour ago (I'm still in the...
No, we didn't run an error check first - I'll give that a shot now. Thanks!
A friend tells me that when he runs Spybot S&D and/or AdAware on his computer, the programs find different things when they're run under different...
Ran defrag on a friend's computer (Win XP Pro), and noticed the following at the end of the summary: Files that cannot be defragmented:...
Thanks, Pete! The individual things you suggested each gave us 1-2 GB of space back. Running TreeSize showed us that there were some 20GB in...
I'm at a friend's machine (Windows XP Pro, 40 GB hard drive), and the hard drive is showing up as just about full. Owners can't think of how/why...
I used Click 'n Burn or Adaptec when I put those initial files/folders on the CD, but neither program works with WinXP. Dare I ask if there are...
I found a similar thread (http://windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=10104&highlight=delete+rewritable), but the solution suggested there was to use...
Ramona, The only two instances of the "FF can't find" message I can specifically remember were when I was trying to access hotmail.com and...
I've been wanting to comment that I've been having the same problem Westside mentioned from time to time (just since having installed FF1.5) - but...
I was going to post the same question, but fortunately did a search here first! Ran into exactly the same problem James had; when I followed the...
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