20 Most Recent Dell Inspiron 530 -Intel® Pentium® dual-core processor E2180 , Genuine Windows Vista® ... PC Desktop Questions & Answers

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I use the VLC (videolan) player, it is free and has all the codecs built in.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Go here, and click the email icon (upper right)... http://bigpondmovies.com/television/uk-tv or you should just be able to go to the site you normally use for this.

Open "My Computer".
Insert a CD-disk into the drive, while holding-down the LEFT-SHIFT key.
Does the label under the CD-icon change?
Remove the CD-disk.
Does the label under the CD-icon change?
Insert a DVD-disk into the drive, while holding-down the LEFT-SHIFT key.
Does the label under the CD-icon change?
Remove the DVD-disk.

If no changes in the icon, after the above, it's time to spend $40 to replace the "dead" drive with a new CD/DVD writer.

Scroll down.

Open Control Panel select Display click the Appearance tab then click Effects and uncheck the Use Large Icons option.

Click on your "Start" icon and then select "Control Panel". Look for "Programs and Features" and click on that selection. You will see a list of all programs installed on your computer. Here you can uninstall a program or application.

If your computer came with a motherboard disc the sound drivers could be on it Click start control panel administration tools computer management device manager scroll to sound video and game controllers you might see a yellow question exclamation mark? ! or a red X Right click to reinstall drivers if you don't have a motherboard disk you will have to download the drivers http://download.cnet.com/2000-20_4.html Tick in either the all software or windows software box On the home page you should see a search tab just type in what you are looking for IE: motherboard name audio driver you might have to try a few times to get it right Click start control panel sounds and audio volume advanced speakers make sure you have selected the (appropriate speakers) also audio you will find 3 drop down lists make sure you have the selected correct speaker settings there Click start control panel sounds and audio devices select advanced there might be a tick in the mute box untick it If his does not fix the problem Click start control panel sounds and audio devices you can adjust the volume there also select speaker volume you can change your settings there you can also tick in the box place icon in taskbar for any further volume control settings you will need to right click on the speaker volume icon system select adjust volume Click start control panel sounds and audio volume advanced speakers select the appropriate speakers from the drop down list or navigate to the device manager scroll to system devices + to expand system speaker right click properties then select use this device (enable) also you might check the speaker plug/outlets is usually at the back of the computer you will have to open up the computer to check the lead attached to the rear of the input plug make sure the connection is good with no dust as dust causes static electricity. Clean your computer of dust using a fine air blower from a compressor making VERY sure that there is no MOISTURE in the air line or use a can of compressed air specifically around the sound card and the CPU central processing unit dust causes static to build up in a computer

Hi Deborah,To gain access to the PC once again without losing everything on it, you will need to supply the correct password. The eaiest way to do this is to CHANGE the password on the machine. Doing this is pretty easy, but does require that you have a working PC with 1) internet access - preferably a fast connection, 2) a blank CDROM, 3) a CDROM recorder. You can use a neighbor's PC or a PC at work for these parts if you need to. You will need to download a program called Hirens Boot CD to the machine with the CD ROM recorder. It is about 600 MB (yes, megabytes). The latest version of this writing is 15.2 and it can be found here. The page containing the newest version is here. Below a video that explains the process from this point on:http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_343643&feature=iv&src_vid=zSlZiZuC16A&v=Ejtm7J7WqykI hope this helps & good luck!

Dell system includes a restore utility called 'Dell Symantec System Restore' to reset or restore your Dell system to factory setting. This utility is convenient because you're not forced to use the Windows startup CD to restore your computer. Step 1: First backup all your important data and restart your computer. Step 2: Press 'F8' if you are using Win7/Vista or 'Ctrl + F11' if you has Win Xp. 'Advanced Boot Option' menu options will be opened. Step 3: Choose 'Repair your computer' from the 'Advanced Boot Options' from the menu and press 'Enter'.Step 4: Select language setting and press 'Enter'. Now Login window will be appeared. Step 5: Now login as administrator to continue the factory reset process. Step 6: Click 'Dell Factory Image Restore' followed by the 'Next' button. Step 7: Choose the check box marked 'Yes, reformat disk drive and recover system software to manufacturer condition'. Once the check box is chosen, simply select the 'Next' button and your Dell computer/laptop is renewed to factory setting. Step 8: Press 'Finish' once it has been done. ... This process will erase all your previous changes that have been made to the Dell computer and reset the configuration settings to factory setting.Feel free to get technical assistance anytime at http://www.vtechsquad.com/dell-support/

Updates immediately take over if you boot in safe mode? Try turning the machine off in the middle by just hitting the power button to see if it will go to the Startup Repair screen so you can get to the Recovery Console. Let the startup repair run, then if it says it couldn't fix it, get to the Recovery Screen and see if you can run a System Restore and select a Restore Point (date and time) before the update was downloaded. System Restore does not delete your data, documents, music, pictures, videos or programs (unless the program was installed after the restore point you selected). System Recovery on the other hand Deletes Everything and sets your system back to when you first purchased it.Try running the check disk utility.

To run the check disk utility you will need a repair disc or a operating system disc. Put the disc in the cd drive and boot from it. You want to get to the Dos Command Prompt (Black screen with white letters) and type the following command: chkdsk /r Check disk will run well over an hour or two and you will notice the percentages going from high to low, this is normal. Let it run to completion. Then reboot machine. If check disk fails to solve your problem you might have to reinstall windows. Try doing a Repair Install that way you don't loose your data, documents, music, pictures, videos or programs. In windows xp you get to the dos command prompt by selecting R for repair when the options appear. In Vista and Windows 7 you want to get to the recovery console and look down at the bottom of the window for the Dos Command.

If after the check disk utility you are still having problems then you might have to reinstall your operating system.

A question for a question---were you having problems turning the unit on where it took several tries to get it to power up and then boot up?

It sounds to me from reading all of this information you may need to re-install your operating system again and go with Win 7 and not Vista that would be my advice. 3rd party programs always create havoc on some machines. Stay away from that kind of thing and just use your machine as if you just bought it after re-installing the operating system again. You really do not need all that cleaning and just software **** on your machine. Just a good suggestion for the indigestion. John

Maybe the record is not public!!!

Carefully press the battery release lever away from the battery and the battery will pop out.

chk if you have installed graphics drivers

Reboot

Hello,Download the latest version from the Vendor's Website and reinstall it.Reboot your PC/ComputerThat should take care of it for you!Hope this helps!Best Regards,James

Boot up as normal and go to "Run Box", type in MSCONFIG and then enter. Msconfig will open, when it does, go to the STARTUP tab, navigate down the list until you see that program..Desktopagent, then uncheck the box next to it and disable it. Reboot. Then when you are at desktop, go to control panel and open Add/Remove programs and uninstall that program entirely, or go to the programs directory or Start Menu tab & Un-install it from there. Once that is done Reboot again. All should be good. Msconfig will ask you if you want to make permanent say OK. Now if you want, you may install that application again & know what to do if it mucks up again.