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When I shut down windows xp I get a window saying "Shutting down Uipopuphidden" is this a virus or malware?

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hi all ,how are u? i want to ask a question ...what to choose as my antivirus ? is bitdefender total security better then avira ? i have these 2 and i don't know what to choose ....please help me ..and thnx in advance ..

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So my computer crashes during boot up and displays a BSOD screen saying DRIVER_NOT_EQUAL_TO..... something like that and the error says: 0x100000d1 (0x10f0e534, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x863738e7) PLEASE HELP! -also system restore to a month ago didnt do anything

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Hello.. I am having alot of problems.. i cant format my computer nor run antivirus programe i tried it in safemode even.. but nothing seems to work.. I tried SDFix.. And here is the report.. Help Needed.. Thank You Very Much.. [b]SDFix: Version 1.240 [/b] Run by Administrator on Sat …

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Hi everyone, I downloaded a newer version of Bearshare last night, and limewire - only to have it give me alot of viruses. I can't connect to the internet on my desktop anymore. I'm hoping someone can help? I saw an older thread that told me to use Hijack this …

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hi, i have just finished building my pc, it has a GF8100VM-M5 motherboard, AMD Phenom 8450 x3 processor and a geforce 9800gt xxx edition graphics card, i have a few problems the first one is i always have to turn my pc on and off a few times before i …

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Hi ! I have DELL Latitude Csx , which ( unfortunately) has its cd rom and floppy drive external (detachable), thus not allowing me to boot from devices other than hard disk. This is because , it does not recognize any device until it starts loading windows ( win 2000 …

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I would like to build a batchfile on my desktop to tune the access to my HDDs. There is a command to start within cmd: "fsutil.exe fsinfo statistics c:" Does anybody know the structure of an appropriate batchfile?

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We recently downloaded Internet Explorer 8 and in my profile only, I cannot click on links and have it go to a new tab (or open a window.) I cannot click on links in email, webpages, and I cannot figure out why :( My husband's profile (on the same laptop) …

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To all most honorable members, Thanks for the opportunity to join this community. Here is my problem message and a little background: [U]Windows cannot access the specified device. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.[/U] I run Windows XP Home Edition. I can't access User Accounts …

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I have an executive at our company that unfortunately uses the calendar reminders as a task manager. They have recently used the dismiss all button. I have been searching around for about two hours and have not found a solution yet to restore the dismissed reminders. I have tried the …

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I'm using FF version 3.0.2 on 64-bit Vista. Every once in awhile it will just simply crash. I can restart and it will take me back to where it was when it crashed. Anyone know why it does that?

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I have a network with windows xp workstations and a Windows 2003 server domain controller. One of the workstations has a printer attahced to it which is shared over the network. Everything works fine until the computer with the printer attached is off and on again. Every time it happens, …

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I have been reading some of the other posts because about a month ago I had the "free spyware" program that popped up on my computer and took over. I remember reading that it was some type of rootkit. I used several of the suggestions that were listed in other …

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Word 97/XP Designed a page for a poster, added border all round, which shows in Print Preview as OK but when it prints the bottom border is not there. I have tried adjusting the borders, and 'kidded' the printer that the paper is a different size but still NO GO! …

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I've got the same problem now as users with a thread 6 months ago. Following the advice of those who responded, here is my HijackThis! log. You can respond also firect to [email]airops@paonia.com[/email] TIA, Hugh Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:02:00 PM, on 4/18/2009 Platform: Windows …

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I have an issue where all of the links created by searched in Google (I tried other search engines as well) when selected redirect to an ad. The link starts with the web address of [url]www.go.google.com[/url].... and then redirects to a website usually completely unrelated to the initial search. This …

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Today I'm using AllWay Sync (Allwaysync.com) to synchronise "my documents"-folder between my desktop and my laptop over LAN. Since "my documents" contains about 50.000 files it takes quite a long time when AllWay Sync synchronic this folder - because it search through every file on both my desktop and laptop …

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Hello, guys I use an ADSL service (my connection type is PPPoE) but in Windows Vista I just can't connect please help me.. Thanks in advance

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We're wondering has anyone seen this type of virus/worm before? Our antivirus software (AVG-8) was not able to detect it. It occurred on an XP pro-SP3 workstation, (on a LAN, with internet access). The virus installs the following software, spontaneously: MS SQL server 2004, SQL server native client, native support …

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I have a Windows 2003 server R2 Sp1 and XP SP2 workstations with Office 2000. Occasionally 2 users are able to access the same excel 2000 spreadsheet at the same time without receiving a file open notice until the second user tries to save the file. Then they receive a …

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First id like to say hello to everyone im new here and hope to find the help i need. I recently aquired a Intel Dg915 Mobo with a P4 3g processor. I decided to start building it today so i tore my desktop apart and put the Intel together. So …

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I was checking Windows updates on Microsoft website and there was an update for "Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update (KB951847) x86". I checked the version of .Net Framework I have and I found several previous versions including version 3.5 listed above and …

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hi! guys I'm in trouble, i've forgotten my password and i can't log into my laptop now. can someone know of any mechanism to recover or reset a password? i desperately need some help.

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Ahoy there! Its been a while thank god, but AVG just spotted this... Trojan horse Downloader.Generic8.AFYY Just wondering if its really a threat or if maybe its scare tactics now that the free edition is running out..;) Anyway, I'd appreciate any help you can give!

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My laptop went into a perfectly normal Update and restart, but it didn't restart right. When it did restart it was black screen and then a window popped up and tried to "repair" whatever it is that's wrong, when that didn't work it let me try a system restore and …

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I have windows XP and fedora 8 installed in my laptop. For some days evreything is ok, but suddenly when I try to open windows XP It shows the windows loading screen and then it showsit shows the error AUTOCHK.EXE PROGRAM NOT FOUND SKIPPING AUTOCHEK and then restarts. I checked …

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I have problems, usually in Safari, with the pinwheel/beach ball - I'll call it the pinwheel - It seems that I have to restart my computer ocassionally to get rid of all the 'stuff' on my RAM, otherwise I have very slow keyboard response, a pinwheel jumps in and I …

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Hello IT brethren, I am being requested to develop a website for a company. After spending a day with the company, understanding their problems and thinking about solutions, I came to conclude that more than a website, what they really needed was an intranet. Their final solution, I would say, …

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I have two pc's on my desk, one wireless and the other is totally isolated as it's for games and sims. I do need to use this pc for one game and need the internet, so can I get a wireless card for it also without causing problems with the …

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My IE 8 doesn't work or My internet Options either can someone help? I cannot connect to any windows microsoft websites either. updates so I had to download mozilla firefox and that browser doesnt work that great either, please someone help me. Karen1962

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I just got some audio software and my vista started not responding on my new computer, what is a hijack this and is there something I can do because this is the second computer because the first stopped working after 6 months of various not responding type things can bittorent …

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I'm looking for a Windows variable (accessible in c++) that contains the path to a user's my documents folder in XP, but the folder above that in vista. SO in XP: C:\Documents and Settings\Tom\My Documents Vista: C:\Users\Tom It is a program (AIM specifically), which uses this variable the directory and …

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My question is, what is considered high physical memory use. I have an HP laptopo with AMD turion 64x2 and 4 gigs of ram.My operating system is VISTA Home Preimum and when I look at Resource overview, it show that I am using 69% of the physicla memory. Is this …

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As soon as I start my laptop, the system tries to send 10s of 100s of e-mail messages with various subjects. Symantec seems to detect this and stops sending them. But it opens up a lot of pop-ups non-stop which prevents me from opening any application. (Including Norton protection center). …

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Please help me decide what is better now and 2 years down the line. 1.(Cheaper PC) Intel Core2 Duo 2.8Ghz E7400(3MB) CPU 2GB DDR2 RAM 250GB SATA II -7200RPM HDD Midi Tower Case DVD Writer +/_ ( 22x) DL (8.5GB) Onboard sound w/ speakers 17" LG LCD Monitor Optical Mouse …

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I have been getting the 0X000000C4 error now for days and I have resorted to eliminating nearly every piece of hardware in the macnhine and it now down to bare bones. I can not get past a recovery R option in windows boot. No matter what I seem to do …

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Hello everyone, I'm a newbie and in need of some help. My laptop was running really slowly, with loads of pop-ups all the time so I ran SpyBot Search and Destroy, and "fixed" the issues it came up with. I use Firefox, and also cleared the cache there and all …

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this is a very basic command prompt question (sorry if i posted it in the wrong place) is there a command for cmd to sleep/wait for say 5 seconds? like say i have a .cmd file that says "start www.google.com" but i want it to wait 5 seconds before opening …

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I have an Ambit Speedstream 60678EU Cable Modem router and I need to open some ports for the WoW downloader. My default gateway is 72.135.0.1, my problem is that once I enter this into the web browser is just takes me to Aol search and says it wasn't found. Help …

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hi guys, how to prompt users in outlook to change their password after specified date? is it possible in outlook or how to do it? thanks...

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hi guys, how to prompt users in outlook to change their email password after specified date? is it possible in outlook or how to do it? thanks... :)

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Hello to everyone...I'm the new guy in need of major help. There was quite a storm today and when I got home...the screen on the PC was black. I hit the reset button, thinking that it would just boot up and would be well. I built the machine 8 years …

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I have heard this phrase a number of times in technical forums, but I have no idea what it means, or why you would do it. Can anyone enlighten me please?

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Good day members. I want to know what are the shorcut keys in the Windows XP operating system. Thanks for your help.

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Hello, Im stuck on a question I was asked. Id like to know the process taken by the PC to display a character from the keyboard to the word processing package say. press H sent to the CPU sent to memory word SW reads memory tells the cpu where to …

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Recently, my computer's been having weird pop-ups about Windows Defender which I've never downloaded. I ran a virus scan with avast and such, adaware, stuff like that... nothing much at all. I noticed several posts about this Vundo thing and have been researching for hours. This post helped the most: …

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hello every 1 em new on dis site ..!! :D so actually my problem is that few days back i reinstalled windows and it was working fine.. but after when i installed by drivers and restarted, I just got a wallpaper widout icons and explorer.exe den i manually had to …

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[B]Disable indexing[/B] Description: Indexing creates and maintains a database of file attributes. This can lead to multiple small writes when creating/deleting/modifying files. Searching for files will still work. Instructions: Start Menu -> Right-Click Computer -> Manage -> Services and Applications -> Services - > Right-Click Windows Search -> Startup type: …

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This is a Samba Tutorial. Its for getting a linux server to replace a basic (windows NT4 level of functionality) server, perhaps in a costcutting scenario, to serve files to windows (nt4 to xp) clients. A good idea for a small home server (provided you have xp pro clients, home …

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