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Have you tried compatibility mode? Right click on the executable for the game and left click on properties. Then click on the compatibility tab. From here you can set the game to run as if it was in Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98, or even Windows 95. You can even tell the game to launch in 256 color mode. I hope this helps. Nothing is worse than getting a wild hair to play an old game and then having your computer choke on it.

That's not good at all. If you can not run ANY programs, your problem goes deeper than Norton Antivirus. I would suggest you do a repair installation of your Windows XP. Note, I said repair and not reinstall. If you reinstall XP over the top of its self it will erase everything on your hard drive. To run a repair install, boot from your XP CD. Then press enter at the first menu. Press F8 to agree to the terms and then press R when the setup program detects your previous installation. XP will then repair its self. Try this and let us know how it goes.

Typically, when a Symantec product fails to install it is because there are scraps of a previous Symantec program getting in the way. The SYMNRT tool will remove a lot of the scraps, but not all of them. Symantec also has a .reg import file to finish the job. It is also important to restart your computer 2 times after running the SYMNRT tool. I don't know why, but it takes 2 boots to get rid of everything. Once you have all of these old leftovers out of the way, the installation of your new Symantec product should go a lot more smoothly. You can read step by step instructions on how to do it here (including links to the needed files). You can also search the symantec website for the SYMNRT tool. It is a free download.

If you have lost your Windows XP CD or it is damaged, Microsoft has boot disk creator programs that you can use to create a 6-disk set. The boot is VERY slow, but it works. You will need a floppy drive, of course, and 6 floppy disks. You can search Microsoft's support site to find them. I noticed someone posted links to the download pages above, but the links are dead, hence my post here. They are pretty simple to use, .but if you need help feel free to ask me

Using our power supply calculator, I found that you only need about 300 Watts total to power your system. Rather than trying to "turn up" the wattage on a particular rail, you may consider distributing the power requirements more evenly. For example, a fan uses a lot less wattage than a hard drive. Rather than lumping all of your hard drives together on one rail, you might try coupling a hard drive and a fan, or some other combination to distribute the load. Hope this helps!

I think I am one of the reasons felix is asking for such a script. I own computer repair shops in Omaha and Lincoln, NE USA. We help a lot of people locally, and we get a lot of repeated questions. Rather than explaining the answer to each person over and over, we develop online articles, tutorials and the like to make the process easier. We make this information available on our website, and we also serve Google ads on our pages. I found this forum after becoming disgusted with the expert exchange. I have made 6 or so content posts answering people's computer questions. I have always provided a solution to the problem in the actual forum. In my posts I also post a link back to the tutorial/help article on our website. Felix has *politely* informed me that I am a spamming parasite. I would like to know what you think about this situation. If I am doing something that hurts your forum, then I will definitely stop at once. My argument is that I am providing solutions for your members and added content for your forum. Let me know if you have any qualms with what I am doing, or if my posts are ok.

Sorry if I offended anyone. We are a computer repair shop and we get a lot of the same questions frequently so we develop help articles to assist people. By definition, spamming is plastering unsolicited links on a forum to unrelated content. I have never and will never do that. In fact, if you read my post you will see that I offered the solution IN THE FORUM and then offered a link back to the tutorial IF the user needed additional help. I could understand your anger if I simply posted a link that said "go here for the solution" but that would be spam, and that is not what I did. A quick review of your recent post shows a small handful actually helped anyone solve a problem. Who really cares if you get 400 spam emails a day in you Yahoo in box? Who uses Yahoo anymore anyway? I checked my logs, and I have received a whole 13 visits from this forum, and I have posted about 6 times. If the moderator has a problem with me posting links to relevant content (like bootdisk.com, and yes, the schrock website) I am sure I will hear from the moderator. Until I am told otherwise felix, I will continue to help people and yes, post links to relevant content.

If I understand you correctly, your start menu links to the accessibility options are missing and you are stuck in high-contrast mode. There is another way to switch your color scheme away from high-contrast mode. Open your display control panel and change your color scheme. If you are not familiar with how to do this, we have a free tutorial on our website that walks you through the process step by step. You can view it at http://www.schrockinnovations.com/accessibility1.php.

It sounds like you need to prevent some unneeded programs from loading at start-up. Every Windows operating system since Windows 98 (except 2000)has come with the MSCONFIG utility. You can use this utility to safely stop programs from loading at start-up. If you prevent a program from loading that you later find you needed, the process is easy to undo. Ta look at our free MSCONFIG tutorial at: http://www.schrockinnovations.com/msconfig.php It will show you exactly how to keep those unnecessary bloat programs out of your computer's memory. Have a great day!

It sounds like you are getting your running programs/processes under control. If you need additional help knocking the number down, take a look at our free MSCONFIG tutorial at: http://www.schrockinnovations.com/msconfig.php But when it comes to RAM you typically either have it or you don't. I have seen some optimization programs and RAM defraggers out there, but nothing beats having more RAM memory than you need. Installing additional memory is not complicated and RAM prices are lower than ever. We also have a free tutorial on installing your own RAM. Feel free to take a look at it if you would like. You can view it at: http://www.schrockinnovations.com/installram1.php It will show you step by step how to install additional memory. Trust me, its worth the time and money!

Your computer is restarting automatically by design. Most BSOD errors are resolved (at least in the short term) by a simple reboot. We always turn off the automatic restart feature in the computers we build for our customers because it aids in providing support. First, you need to disable the automatic restart. To do this, you need to get to the start-up menu. This is the same menu you used to get into Safe Mode. If you don't know how to get there, we have written a free instruction article on our website that should help. You can view it at: http://www.schrockinnovations.com/safemode.php Once you are at the start-up menu, select disable automatic restart. With that out of the way, let your computer boot and write down the full error for research later if need be. To test your hard drive, boot from a Windows XP CD. If you don't have a windows XP CD, you can get one from http://www.bootdisk.com. Once you have booted from CD, press r to enter the recovery console. You may have to press enter a couple of times to get to the c:\windows prompt, but you should get there eventually. Once there, type in "chkdsk /p" (without the quotes) and press enter. Windows will now perform a quick surface scan of the hard drive. If there are problems, when it is done it will say "Check Disk found one or more errors on the volume." If this is the case, then type "chkdsk /r" (again, without the quotes and press enter. This one could take a while, but it will fix the problems on the hard drive if it can. Once it is done, then type "chkdsk /p" again and press enter. If it comes back with the same errors on volume message, it is time for a new drive. If it comes back with no error message, then try rebooting. Hopefully, that will resolve the issue. If it doesn't, you may want to check out the Microsoft website at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q297185

Norton problems are the most common issues we see in our service centers. So many of our customers ask for help with installing/removing Symantec products that we have assembled a tutorial to help. You can view our free tutorial, which includes steps that Symantec does not include in their removal process at: http://www.schrockinnovations.com/removenav.php After you have completed the steps in the tutorial, if you still have problems, perform the steps again, and then click on Start and type regedit and press enter. Click on "My Computer" then click on Edit and then Find. Remove any keys that contain the following values: syman norto liveupdate livereg Then manually delete the folder(s) c:\program files\common files\Symantec Shared c:\program files\Norton Antivirus(or Internet Security) That should take care of it. Reboot and then reinstall.