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I have a HP Pavilion Desktop a1210n and use Windows XP. In the last two months I have been unable to get Windows to recognize my CD/DVD drive. Previously I could do a system restore and it would work for a day or 2 but now my system restores are …

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Hello. I'm in possesion of this laptop with an old Pentium Dual-Core T2080, of socket type PPGA478 (says Intel web). I wanted to upgrade it, and found a lot of processors called PGA478. So now comes the billion dollar question: Is there any difference? Can I use the PGA processor …

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Can get my hotmail from my outlook program with no problems but if I try to log into hotmail by [url]www.hotmail.com[/url] if constatly clicks from one log on to another every half second.whats wrong

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IT Prof. please help me..! I have encountered a problem regarding my ANTI-VIRUS... My Anti-virus is "AVIRA", and it keeps detecting a Virus that is said to be a "BACKDOOR"... It infected the explorer.exe. Whenever I open any folder, it will appear...And also if I will Move it to quarantine, …

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After the latest Microsoft Windows XP hotfix (the browser checker), I am unable to check my email in Microsoft Outlook (request times out). The Internet is very slow in IE8, and fails to load pages in Firefox at all. I have reinstalled IE8, Firefox, and Outlook to no avail. Have …

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I have been experiancing slow/intermittent browsing in IE and firefox since the recent KB976002-v5 (browserchoice.exe) hotfix. My pop3 email accounts also time-out when sending/recieving. I have reinstalled both IE and firefox. Specified DNS Servers on the router and problem PC. Fixed all registy errors, and performed a deep clean including …

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So this is a new spin on the missing CD-Rom/DVD-rom from My Computer issue others have had in the past. The problem: DVD-Rom and CD-Rom have seemingly gone missing from both Device Manager and My Computer on XP. Here's where its strange though: 1. I know they are connected just …

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I downloaded a self-extracting exe "py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.6.exe" from sourceforge. When I attempt to open this file, I get the following message "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect". I have successfully opened the file on another win-xp box but I need to have this on the …

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hi guys! just wanted to share that I've just grabed a trial version of NTFS for Mac OS X 8.0 Release Candidate from Paragon....and starting to try this... it provides support of Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard in 64 bit mode! you can have it from their site.

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I am building a website locally and I have a crazy problem. If I enter a path to the file in my browser like: file:///home/jcrider/public_html/site/assets/5182/sound/r_Fantasia_Chopin_44.mp3 It will play the mp3, but when I try to run it through localhost like: [url]http://localhost/site/assets/5182/sound/r_Fantasia_Chopin_44.mp3[/url] It does nothing. It did work once, but I …

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My machine will power up for a while, then it will start rebooting itself constantly. Some times every ten or twenty minutes while I am working. What is going on with it?

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hi can you help me with this i have a network of 3 routers he number of hosts on each network Net1 60 Net2 90 Net3 60 Net4 30 Net5 60 Net6 128 there are 6 Pcs how can i calculate the subnet mask and knowing the subnet ,default getway,,,

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i am running windows xp media centre sp3 on a p4 machine, this had been working fine up until malware infected it. Took the decision to format the hard drive and install from fresh. I am unable to do the 30 day registration a network connections not allowing a LAN. …

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I am using a Dell computer (model information can't get specific with for now, my mom would flip on me) running Windows 7. There appears to be an issue with the keyboard as if the left arrow key and the up arrow key are pressed down, making it impossible to …

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Hello, I would appreciate some help on this. I'm quite the virus noob so my luck has been limited. My problems started four days ago when I got the wmpscfgs.exe virus, which I think I've managed to remove since. At the same time also, I started getting these errors which …

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Win I try to start server services I get this, it is also set to automatic. Error 2: The system cannot find the file specified. The srvsvc.dll is present and the srv.sys is present. I can view all 5 computers on my net work, but can't share any of mine. …

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Newbie problem. For some reason, I can't get this to work: [CODE] FOR /L %%A IN (1 1 23) DO ( if %%A==1 set drive=C: if %%A==2 set drive=D: if %%A==3 set drive=E: if %%A==4 set drive=F: if %%A==5 set drive=G: if %%A==6 set drive=H: if %%A==7 set drive=I: if …

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This machine started locking up randomly and even during boot up - then quit booting at all. When powering on, I hear the hard drive activate and a fan like sound running, but nothing else including a blank screen. I noticed the cpu fan not running so I replaced that. …

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Hello all, I hope all is well! Firefox will load my homepage without a problem but when I click on a link it just will not load. Now this forces me to use IE which I do not like. I didn't change any settings on the firewall or AV so …

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I recently wiped out my hard drive so I could reinstall everything to start fresh. I was having problems with the RAM running at 100% only when I was online doing simple games. I replaced the video card, I've added memory and even set up page file to try to …

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A while back, I had to replace a motherboard on a Dell Inspiron 8200 that had been dropped. [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread53965.html"]Here's the story[/URL] if you're interested. Anyway, all's well now except the new mobo reports the wrong service tag in the BIOS. I found some information that says you can short pins …

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Last night during the Oscars, Apple debuted [URL="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/03/07/apple_posts_surprise_ad_for_ipad_during_the_oscars.html"]its first iPad commercial[/URL]. Steve Jobs was even at the awards ceremony and [URL="http://www.tipb.com/2010/03/07/steve-jobs-oscars-red-carpet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheIphoneBlog+(The+iPhone+Blog)&utm_content=Google+Reader"]reportedly walked the Red Carpet[/URL]. The iPad is due out the first of next month and many folks have already announced plans to run out and buy one the second …

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[I]The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think. Oh by the way, which one's Pink? ~Pink Floyd, Have a Cigar[/I] In the classic rock tale, the young, talented musicians are exploited by one of two entities: the unscrupulous manager or the greedy record company. This week Pink …

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I am not surprised that the Trademark Office has refused the application filed by Google in respect of the Nexus One smartphone trademark. What does surprise me, however, is that Google went ahead and chanced its arm with the application when a cursory search would have shown that a similar …

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I am currently searching through Google results but I was hoping someone would be able to assist me here too. I am looking for a VB script that will stop more than one service on a Windows 2003 server then set it Disabled. We are using System Center Configuration Manager …

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While iam lasing my boot infront of windows its not wrking. tried 7 times since last two hours ..my boot purchased from Reebok and it have 7 month garantee also. what will i do ......

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Hello, I'm a newbye in here and I would like to know how to run a command, when in a cmd.exe window in vista, without to go first in the directory where that command is located. In other words, when I run cmd.exe it opens up in a default directory …

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Hello all, I have an office network of 6 computers or so running Windows XP. Sporatically 3 of them now will not perform search. They will start up the search program, but they will run and run and never find anything, even if I search the exact file name in …

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I cannot print unless a print link button is on the material i wish to print...the task bar with the print button and the history removal tool, etc is missing from the top of the home page...How do I replace it? ( i have windows 7......64 bit)

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Hi, I have a problem with signal handler algorithm in linux. My code is hanging ( It is continuously looping inside the signal handler) . I am pasting my code here... any help is appreciated [code] #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <signal.h> struct sigaction oldHandler; void myHandler(int sig, siginfo_t *siginfo, …

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can anyone help on getting rid of xp internet security 2010 virus or whatever it is. ive done a bit of research on it and it seems its going around to everyone and ive come up with installing MBAM and running that and removeing it that way but it didnt …

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What has proven to be alien to Apple and Microsoft may be just right for Android. Search giant Google this week announced that it is working with Sony, Intel and computer accessory maker Logitech on technology to bring Web searches and applications to the television. Efforts by Google's predecessors--Apple TV …

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Hi everyone, Very frustrating for me since I use Norton, I keep my system updated from Microsoft, and I have both AdAware and Malwarebytes on my system, I don't fileshare or go to gaming sites. My IE is now unusable. It immediately gives me popups or shuts it down without …

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On March 10th Panasonic teamed up with Best Buy, DIRECTV and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to offer consumers a "Full HD 3D" home theater system. The set includes a 50-inch class (49.9” measured diagonally) [attach=right]14052[/attach] Panasonic VIERA VT20 Plasma 3D HDTV and a Panasonic BDT300 3D Blu-ray Disc Player …

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Hey guys, I have Windows XP Pro installed on a SATA drive and have now added a IDE drive containing Windows Server 2003 . Now the problem is, depending on the boot order of the disk drives, I can only load either XP or 2003. I do not get a …

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Hi, I was getting an intermittent high pitch hum from my PC as though something decided to kick in (fan?) with more revs. After replacing my 17 inch monitor (burnt out) with a new 19 inch widescreen, I now get the noise continually, and the text appears to be a …

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hello all, where can i get motherboard layout for dell inspiron 6000 " (dal30 ,la-2154) rev1.0(a00) comeq" i need detailed diagram , thank you

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Hi, I have a Virtual machine at xxx.co.uk with Debian Lenny and Apache2. I am trying to install SVN and have been following this guide: [URL="http://wiki.slicehost.com/doku.php?id=install_and_setup_apache_with_ssl_and_subversion"]http://wiki.slicehost.com/doku.php?id=install_and_setup_apache_with_ssl_and_subversion[/URL] The part where I get stuck is the virtual hosts. I have tried reading loads of guides/posts on this but everybody seems to do …

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Hi: I have a working samba file share server working ok. But all users have to join using the same login/password. I need every user have is own folder, unvisible to others users and password protected. These folders are used as backups, and added to shared folderd shorcuts. I use …

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I have a need to make my own .img file that can be mounted as a virtual diskette, but I do not know the command I need to use to do so. I've looked briefly at the man page for dd, but I can't tell if this can be used …

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Hi everyone, I am creating VM on Centos as a host and Ubuntu as VM , using KVM and Libvirt manger .. When i execute following command : [B] virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n r1u1 -r 2047 --disk vol=rf/r1u1 --disk path=/home/devang/ubuntutest.iso,device=cdrom,bus=ide,perms=ro --vnc --noautoconsole os-type linux --os-variant ubuntujaunty --accelerate[/B] I got Error …

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Greetings. I need to print an Excel document to a PDF with hyperlinks. Creating hyperlinks in Excel is no problem. If I print to a PDF (using Adobe PDF print driver), the hyperlink appears and works in the PDF. No problem. But I need to change the display text of …

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I have files and data backed up on a Maxtor external drive from my Windows XP computer. Can I copy this data straight onto a new PC running Windows 7?

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The MIX10 Microsoft Developer Conference is always good for a laugh or two, but just who was rolling on the floor after the IE9 preview code was revealed? Certainly Microsoft is deadly serious about Internet Explorer: The Next Generation. So serious that it has apparently created a new development team …

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Hi Guys, :icon_smile: I have a problem with my Internet Connection. Here is the scenario: My workstation (WinXPSP3) is connected in a Corporate Network and my IP Address is assigned statically and reserved in our DHCP Server. I am connected on a VLAN 27 so my Gateway is 192.168.27.1 and …

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Hi, Im not sure what I have to be honest...I was infected with a virus a few weeks ago and thought I had it cleaned up...but Im running so slow...and at times I completely crash and I just cant pinpoint the problem.....could somebody check my logs for me...I would truly …

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:o Hello everyone, Um , dont know whats happening. Could some one please help, thanks in advance. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 12:00:05, on 19/10/2005 Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: C:\WIN2K\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Kerio\Personal Firewall 4\kpf4gui.exe C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgcc.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgemc.exe …

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Hey guys! I need some help with this. Normally I've been able to figure out nearly every problem I've had with my comp, but this one just stumps me on how to fix it. Ever since I got Windows 7 (and I love it) it has this one problem, everything …

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Hi there, hope you guys can help. im at the end of my rope with this! I'm having some issues with my toshiba satellite laptop. Everytime I turn it on i get the normal windows screen with the progress bar at the bottom as if its booting fine, then the …

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