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 | Hi! I have a big problem that I really hope experts from this sub-forum would make it small. [B]Scenario:[/B] The new PC (see specs below) was recently been installed with the OS and I gave the user a limited account (administrator accounts are password protected for my use). The machine …  |
| | Hi all, I just learned that I can edit the Windows (Vista) host file to assign IPs to domains (host) so that the local system checks the domain against the host file before going through the DNS. My question is: is there a way to redirect an IP instead for … |
| | If I install Sp2 in my Windows will this affect any of my files on existing Sp1? Will I lost something? |
 | I'm helping my daughter set up her computer at a new home, and she has forgotten her password. When I go to the Accounts in Control Panel it, of course, wants an Admin password. How do I reset this so that I can work in her account? Any thoughts appreciated. … |
| | Hi everyone. First i'd like to thank jholland 1964 for the assistance in tryin to resolve my problems with the desktop.ini virus. As was suggested I downloaded the newer version of HijackThis, ran it and the hjt log appears below. I have not done anything to try and fix this …  |
| | I have a network with 2 desktops running Windows Vista, 1 desktop running Windows XP, and 2 laptops running Windows Vista. I have a Linksys NLSU2 disk server with a 250 Gb drive attached to it. This drive is shared all over the network. From one of the desktops running … |
| | I want to know how to get the IP ADDRESS of any website.... Hope you reply soon.. Thank you.. |
| | Hi! I have the same problem... my taskbar changes and my volume doesn't start if I use another program that has sound (eg. if i listen to winamp, and i decide to go on youtube or a web page with sound it doesn't start. it works vice-versa as well. I …  |
| | Hello, how do I fix a "missing hal.dll" error at boot when I cannot use the disk to get to the recovery console because I do not have the administrator password, and I cannot use the repair feature after (f8) the EULA agreement because the option is not there. Because … |
| | HI I am wanting to restore my Compaq Presario V2000 Laptop. However I do not have the restore disk or any disk that came with the computer for that matter. Is there a way any one knows that I can restore without spending money? I know some compaqs you can … |
| | I'm not sure if this is the right forum, i have a flash drive what id like to keep some information on permently is this possible and if so how can it be done. |
| | Here's the problem. All of a sudden the IE tabs function stopped working. I've made sure and set options to allow tabs, but when I right click on a link, the only option available is to open in a new window. Also, I can no longer change my background. I've …  |
 | I have a flat screen HP vf15 that I fixed, I have been using My gateway VX720. Question is, which is better. I would be loosing some size going with the flat screen, but any thing for speed and quality if thats what it took. I play online games and … |
| | Now, I know darn good and well to keep open containers away from my laptop, however, as I was walking into my room, mug o' coffee in hand, it splashed a tad. I squawked and promptly wiped it up with the nearest available absorbent material (my t-shirt). It was just … |
| | I have a .w4v video which plays on either itunes or Quicktime for Mac. I would like to be able to play it on a windows based computer. I was told to just change the .w4v to .wp4 and it would work (but it didn't). From my research, I now … |
| | help please - i have a problem with my graphics firmware my laptop is a sony vaio vgn-tz21wn running vista business sp1 i think the cause is as follows - a few days ago i was changing some display options (left click on an empty part of the screen) and … |
| | Hiee I have got a weird problem in my System.When i start my pc all works fine but there is no display and the led of monitor blinks. I tried to restart again and again upto 4 or 5 times and finally it got started but only once and now …  |
| | Hi all my daughter has a Asus x8ol laptop and started to do a system recovery with the disc provided with the laptop, she followed the instructions and now has a white screen with the word ERROR (in red) accross it and in the top corner is says error 23 … |
| | [b]Hi, I am the newest member in your site. I want to learn everything here. My first question here is that where i should start from in Linux. What version i must install on my computer. Where i can get the tutorials. etc.. Waiting for your suggestions. Tahir[/b] |
| | Well i have some logitech x-530 speakers and im having a few issues. My first one was with my front left speaker when it stopped working but after a day it just seemed to get itself sorted out and started working again but now my front forward speaker and both … |
| | Infected? The computer restart by it self. and say it recover after a big fail and its save a log file too( minilog) Possible virus ,But j cant find anything. Windows XP SP2. Avg antivirus 8.0 Windows built in firewall J have run this programs avg fullscan eset onlinescan spyboot … |
| | Hi. I'm new to daniweb and i saw that people had the same problem as me and they got their problems fixed. I ran HJT and got this log. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 12:02:59 PM, on 4/12/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet … |
| | I've been testing a few PHP scripts on an Apache server with Apache 2.2, the latest version, and a PHPMyadmin. Currently I'm running MediaWiki and a PHPbb board, with testing content. I want to prevent access from the outside world, how would I do this?? Currently typing my IP address … |
| | I have two adapters in my machine on a ASUS mother board, and I have had the two adapters bridged. I have the latest drivers and all the easy stuff, but one of my adapters will say, "A network cable is unplugged". It might stay working for five minutes or … |
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| | Hi everybody, I'm planning to upgrade my Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit to either Windows 7 Ultimate beta or Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. I ain't quite sure if I could upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit. Can anyone help me out here? Anything I need to know before I go … |
| | I recently got the annoying virus/malware which causes your Google search results to redirect to some random other website. Many searches later and I landed on this fantastic site. I did all the stickied stuff at the top of this thread and appear to be pretty clean. (On a possibly … |
| | The last time I attempted a major OS update, the world ended as my computer knew it, resulting in a complete clean reinstall of everything! Needless to say, all emails were lost. Everything else was backed up, thank goodness. I've finally gotten up the courage to reattempt the update but … |
| | I was using Mozillia Firefox but continued to get a crash report. Now I am unable to use internet explorer. How do I get another browser on my computer?  |
| | Ok it all started when i wanted to try AVG so i uninstalled Norton 360 and had a slight probem.. i dont remember the problem but norton was gone from my tray, desktop and program list no i was happy... i tried to install AVG free version... and i got … |
| | Hi all, sorry to bother you with this. After 1 month of going nowhere with their Tech support I decided to find the solution elsewhere: the web site: [url]https://www.rdprm.gouv.qc.ca/[/url] It's basically a governmental web site where you fill / send forms for vehicles reclamations, stuff like that. The web site …  |
| | Hi, is anyone here? Last post was quite a while ago it seems. Anyway, I have done much of what is posted...some of it I am afraid to do cuz I have some really expensive software on my machine and don't want to mess it up. I have a problem … |
| | ~~very sorry for the long post... My internet provider has notified me that I have a major security threat on a computer on my network. Unfortunately I am unable to figure out which one it is let alone how to fix my problem. History of problem: A couple weeks ago … |
| | I have got a weird problem with text terminals. When I am switching to text terminals 1-6 with key-combinations [B]Ctrl+Alt+F1[/B], [B]Ctrl+Alt+F2[/B] ... [B]Ctrl+Alt+F6[/B], I am getting on my screen only white blinking vertical lines. I have added a photo attachment here. I think, that this is a matter of graphics, … |
 | I haven't tested this on Vista, but it's working on Windows 2000/XP: There's a cheat in minesweeper to activate a pixel in the top left corner of your screen, when you move your mouse over the mine field the pixel will become black if there's a mine, otherwise the pixel … |
| | :rolleyes: I need help here, even e-mailing compaq isn't helping. This is ridiculous, I took over an old old compaq presario 4716 just to play around with. But I can't get into bios, I tried f10, doesn't work. I tried combo's of alt f10, cntrl f10, shift f10, esc, f1, … |
| | Hi, I've been having this problem in which when i click on any google search link, it redirects me to some other page. I am experiencing this both in firefox and in IE. I've serached and found out that people have overcome this by using hijackthis. I've downnloaded hijack this … |
 | Ok I am here cramming as much knowledge before this big job interview as I possibly can. Here is what I am trying to peice together most. Ok, so Ive studied HAL's, and more in regards to creating an image. Here is what the job is needing. Someone to create … |
| | hello So I log in jump on firefox get a little browsing finished and then i cant get anywhere else either home or to another site much les load the one im trying to get to Ive run my checks malwarebytes and the like nothing pops up. If i back …  |
| | I see that this is a subject addressed many times before, but it seems that each has a different solution based on the parameter listed. Background: Dell Dimension 4550 Pentium 4 2.0 ghz 256 mb ram XP (SP3) no new software installed except for installing new Microsoft Comfort 3000 Opti … |
| | Hi, I was wondering if I got an Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.6ghz, is that 2.6ghz PER core (5.2 ghz total), or is it the total for all of the cores? Thanks in advance. |
| | okay well i have to admit i downloaded somthing and it messed up mu computer. now i cant get onto vista only in safe mode. it will load and go to right before the users pager/ welcome page and it will stay black, somtimes it will restart itself.. i cant … |
| | Hi, Last night I picked up something nasty that has hijacked both my browsers (IE and firefox). When I click a link in a search engine (including but not limited to google), I get a new tab (or window in IE) which sends me to some other site going via … |
| | First let me describe my system in place... In the office I have two networks. (1) 6 - Wired workstations connected to a wired Linksys RV082 1 - Wired Cisco SR2016 Switch attached to the RV082 6 - Wired Workstations connected to the SR2016 switch The wired network works fine … |
 | Hi guys, I work at an internet cafe as a technician, and the own wants customers to be able to create their own Warcraft 3 games. I found the ports (6112-6119), but there are not enough forward spaces in the router (linksys) to forward every computer (not to mention i … |
| | I'm an IT consultant and aspiring blogger, and in a recent discussion witha collegue about security software I realized I really didn't have anything to go on but user reviews and popularity. I want to write an article doing a comparative analasys of different antivirus software by testing them on …  |
| | I just got a virus last night that would not let me log on. I had three users on my computer. Two were my roommate's, which didn't have their files marked as unshared. Mine however, I did not want to share. I got a new hard drive and loaded windows … |
| | So to get to the main point.. whenever I try to use the MSN emoticons such as a smiley.. this is what you type right > : ) when you type it out.. it's supposed to APPEAR as an EMOTICON like this>:) and not just in characters like : ) … |
| | i have this hitachi flora NB1/NB2 laptop that was given to my aunt,its quite old but i was hoping to make it work...at first there was no problem with the monitor when my aunt said she tried it out,but when i get to try it the montior just stayed blank,then … |
| | I shut down my pc yesterday and turned it back on today, I presssed the power button on the tower and the pc makes the hard drive sound and starts whirring but i see a black screen and it just keeps making booting up sounds without actually booting up. Also … |
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