I find that when I cancel a message I've posted on a newsgroup, it disappears from the group. However, the message is still visible when viewing the newsgroup from another computer. How does one completely cancel a message that they're written? Thanks! Scott

I recently dropped Comcast cable and changed to BellSouth DSL but cannot change the start up page (home page)in IE vers 6 can anyone tell me how to do it. I even went into registry and changed or deleted everything I could find that said Comcast and it still reverts to it. I am lost as what to do...

I just bought a Gateway Notebook from the boss. Its a 7320GZ as far as I can see. It wasnt loaded with anything so I reformated the D drive and loaded Windows XP. Now I have a blank Windows XP and nothing else. I cant get it to connect to the internet. I plug a Ethernet cord in the back and it...

Hello to all I am trying to change(delete) some items on startup on my gateway 4028 gz laptop. Everytime I try and change something, it tells me I need to sign on as administrator account. I havent used msconfig in a while, but I used to be able to make changes with no problem. ...

Hi, I'm troubleshooting sluggish performance with the most recent version of Street Atlas (2006), and as always, the video driver is always a possible cause. The system is a 2.2 GHz Pentium 4 700XL, purchased in spring of 2002, with 1 gb RAM, and ATI Radeon 8500 64 mb videocard, currently running...

Go into any Best Buy, Frys or Circuit City and buy a new Gateway desktop and you'll find advertised on the box PCI Express and PCI slots. However once you get your new system home you'll find a foil seal preventing you from opening the case to make ise of these slots. Should you decide to break...

Question I have is I have two cd players one is a Mitsumi CR-48X9TE dvd/cd player read write/cd and the other is a Mat****a DVD-ROM SR-8582. Both will read and play music files, both will read and play media files but neither will read my disks that have my data files such as freeware or rar files...

The CD on my Gateway 200X (ARC) laptop suddenly quit. When the computer starts, the CD light blinks; when a CD is inserted the light blinks. Windows XP Pro Device Manager says the device isn't working (no joke, batman!) and also that it failed to load the driver. I have searched Gateway and...

I have a 700XL running Windows XP Home. When I try to copy CDs from Drive E onto CD-Rs in Drive F, I can usually copy one or two successfully. On subsequent attempts to copy other CDs, after it seems to be writing for a while, I get an error message that says "Cannot Complete the CD Writing Wizard...

I have a copy of office 2000 installed on my system and the original disk. I plan on getting a new system and would like to install it on the newer computer and uninstall it on the old. The problem is I can not find the CD key. Is there a way to find out what the key is before I uninstall...

Hi Group can anyone offer me some tips on CD recovery software that works? I have tried about 8 (trial versions) so far they all say they can recovery if I pay anywhere from 29.95 to 59.95. If anyone knows of one that really works please let me know. TIA Ray

Win 95. Device manager sees the cd rom (Mitsumi yada) but it doesn't play. Don't hear anything running. All the connects are good? My other machine is a monster........

My daughter purchased a Gateway Desktop and has been using it for about a month, even though she bought it around Christmas time. The R/W CD drive stopped working so she called tech support. I can't give details about the failure because I have not seen it myself. However, in the course of...

Can I fit a CD writer in my p5-133? All the specs seem to require 166MHz. Thanks. It would be really handy for photographs.

I have 4 Gateways that have the very same piece of software and cd medium that I am trying to use to backup digital photos to cd's. 3 of the machines and writers work just fine. The 4th, keeps giving me the following error message when I try to write to a cd even though I burn cd's through...

I have a 2 yr old Solo 1450 with an XP operating system. For some reason the CD-RW part of my drive stopped working. It still plays DVds but it wont recognize the CD-R part. I removed and re-installed the drives and the Roxio 5.0 Easy Cd creator. I went back to a previous recovery date but that...

I have a GW Performa PC with Sony CD-RW CRX 215E1, and Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1212 which few days ago stopped performing and according to Device Manager is no longer recognized. What might be the problem, and how to correct it?

Hello all, I'm having a slight problem with this Gateway PC. On boot-up (cold or warm) the BIOS isn't picking up the NEC Model NR-7700A CD-RW drive. Changed CMOS battery with new one, no joy. If I go into the BIOS, under IDE config (drive is set as secondary master) and set params to auto...

I have a CD-RW that I burned as CD-R (no multi-session) and I can read the disk in my cd-rom drive. However I can not get the disk to work in my burner so that I can erase it. This is not the first time that I have had a CD-RW fail. I also had a CD-RW fail when I was using it as a floppy...

Hi I'm about to get a dvd/cdrw for my Gateway 400SD4 but the drive I'm getting it's made for the 450 series (SX4, ROG ecc..) P/N 5502497, I was wandering if there's any way I can make it fit, they look soo similar... Please help!! Alex