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My friend has a HP pavilion zv6000 with windows XP home edition. The computer starts up then shuts right down. Does anyone have any thoughts on what might be wrong? Thanks.

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I have this file named Blocks on my hard drive that only appeared after a full system restore. It takes up a lot of space and I was wondering if I can get rid of it.

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My computer was getting fatal errors for about a week now, getting progressively worse as the week went by. It would keep doing physical memory dumps and what not, but would always work on the second or third boot-up. Last night it completely died and just went to a blue …

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Hello, I'm new here and I have read all of the threads about the same problem as mine i.e., making my netgear work. However, after doing all the solutions offered, I still can't connect to the internet may it be via lan or wireless connection through my router. I have …

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I have a problem with virus Alert on my toolbar, and i don't know how to fix it. I go HiJack this and i want to know what do i do from there. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 19:45: VIRUS ALERT!, on 9/27/2008 Platform: Windows XP …

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Hello all good folks at Dani Web !!!!!! I have an Emachine, W3050, Windows XP Home edition. It had MANY viruses,maleware etc... I got it clean to where SpyBot and Super Antispyware gives me a clean report ! Yeah ! I ran quite a few "cleaners" , including ComboFix. Now, …

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Hi guys and girls here, my new acer aspire 5315 laptop running windows vista suddenly stop working as i was installing a software downloaded from lphant. i switch off and on again but can only run at safe mode, it doesn't longer run in a normal mode. i run some …

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Hi everyone. One of the users who has called in for support says that everytime he boots his XP machine he gets a message. "Preboot assessment build selected press escape to abort testing". He presses ESC and machine boots normally. Does anyone have any ideas? There is nothing in MSCONFIG …

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My two year daughter was typing while our computer was booting up. When it came on, all the images on the monitor were huge! It is not the monitor, it's something in the computer as we swapped the monitor out with another one. I'm thinking my daughter must have changed …

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What happens if you install 2 servers on one machine eg: pws and apache - which one is localhost?

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i got myself a big pile of components yesterday, an amd dual core procesor, a new motherboard (biostar ta770 a2+) and a new graphics card, nvidia(club3d geforce 9600gt overlocked). so now i've put it all together, the computer starts normally but i don't get any output on my monitor, the …

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My laptop and desktop were already connected (i can even view all computers on network) Now I wanted to share files but the problem is when I right click the folder I want to share I cannot find "sharing" option even in the toolbar... Please help me how to configure …

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This small annoyance is something I get as XP finishes running its scripts after booting. Unfortunately, that is the entirety of the message. No clue as to what the problem might be. It is not a problem per se, but it IS an annoyance that I would like to be …

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Hi folks ... im in desperate need of some assistance. Somehow (all of a sudden) my Office 2007 doesnt work and I get the following message when trying to open Word, Excel etc... "The command cannot be performed because the dialog box is open. Click OK, and then close open …

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Hi All, I am working as a Unix admin and i will be sending out emails to my onsite departments for server maintenance.What i want to do with Outlook is If i insert an email ID say [email]server1@cmp.com[/email] in the TO box, can i set in the Outlook to auto-insert …

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A couple days ago, I inadvertantly downloaded Micro Antivirus 2009. With that, I had all sorts of issues with pop-ups, programs being blocked, etc. I was unable to do a system restore (first the Help icon was gone from my start menu, then when it came back, the System Restore …

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Hello, I am using windows XP SP2 and I am having trouble with explorer.exe, it keeps restarting every 5 seconds and comes up with an error message saying it cannot find winlogon.exe in "C:\WINDOWS\winlogon.exe". Here is my hijack this report: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 00:47:34, …

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I'm having problems whenever i click a result in google or yahoo, where i get redirected to other pages and advertisements. Also a lot of sites it try to visit will not come up and spybot and ad-aware and my antivirus cannot connect to update. It's really frustrating. I've been …

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hi,I have benefitted a lot by elove's thread,thanx a lot.I have some other problems too.When I start up windows,I get an error mssg saying "Windows cannot find regsvr.exe. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search a file, click the Start button, and then click …

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Hello, I had a Spyware few days ago and after I removed it by AVG, My computer gets stuck after few hours of standby. When I play PC games sometimes my computer sends keyboard presses by itself. Please return ASAP and I will appreciate help,

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hi guys. i have a problem with my computer. i can't show hidden files/folders on my computer. i've even tried showing them through the registry keys related but somehow the values i change seem to default to their previous values. I've also noticed a file in my flashdisk even after …

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hi guys am looking fowrd to get to kno a website like w3schools where i kuld learn networking for free

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This is kinda embarressing asking other people for help but i haven't got much time, my friend has a medion md95400 laptop and it has a 1.7ghz cpu (centrino) and we thought that my 3.2ghz cpu (pentium 4) would be great, then it didn't work out as we thought it …

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I had a power pin fault (had loose connection with board circuit) and managed to fixed by removing the board and rejoined with soldering iron. then it works ok but the lcd display became blinking and then turned into negative film like colour (like a film negative shading-no original colour), …

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Hello Dudes can anyone tell me how to view hidden files (of system) in vista & also how to get permission to open and read it.

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My command prompt at work is all screwy. 1 - It doesn't seem to use the Path variable. For example, ping results in "not recognized as internal or external command". Strangely I can click the Environmental Variables button under the Advanced tab of System Properties, then click OK in the …

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I am in the process of trying to fix a friend’s laptop. He has Quick Books Pro 2007 installed for his business. His laptop had problems that I don’t think were related to the QB software. Long story short, I got the laptop to boot up and run stable. I …

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Can anyone out there help me....Please! I have a laptop with windows XP and the wireless modem says that I have a strong connection to the internet but when I bring up internet explorer to get to various websites the error: cannot display webpage or address not valid keeps coming …

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Hello, I am experiencing a slight problem managing user accounts in Windows XP Home Edition. When running in an existing account, non-administrative, I run into an IE script error and am unable to view the User Accounts dialog found under Control Panel. I am unable to run as Administrator unless …

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Hello Judy and Jazz83- I am dealing with the same issue here! I followed your directions Judy and have the following logs to show you. Any help would be apprecaited! Thanks so much. Eric.

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Hi all, I'm new to this forum, but I was hoping somebody could point me in the right direction. I have a P4 system running Windows XP sp3 with a ATI Radeon 9200se card. After the last round of updates, my shutdown screen has the "Standby" button grayed out. After …

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I hope that my title isn't going to throw you off. but i was wondering if anyone else has this problem and how can i fix it. i have windows xp sp2(is there an update for that? i read something about sp3) and i want to view my file extensions. …

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Hello I am new here can anyone help me. OK about two months out of the blue I am not able to access Internet Explorer or Firefox pages. I have contacted Verizon and they did a ping test and I am able to access the interenet and get email in …

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Is there an easy (and free) way to copy just the audio portion of an .flv file to another file? Or is there a way to get PowerPoint to play just the audio portion of an .flv file. A co-worker made an .flv video of an event on campus. I …

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I like the look of [url]http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=226448&source=1[/url] I already have a case from my old PC i have this case... [url]http://www.bbcs.biz/pc/CASE_XBlade_Pic.JPG[/url] if i wanted to install the gaming bundle is it easy enough done? Any advice or anythin?

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got ubuntu harried heron on CD and ran it several times love it! finally installed it after setting up new primary partition with win 2000 and ubuntu each 32 gb Everything works fine except when I boot into ubuntu I need a password and never had the chance to select …

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Hi all, I have to install a software in linux from a .bin file. But firstly I have to extract .rpm files from it to proceed. Please guide me about how to do it. I haven't worked on a linux machine before. Its my first attempt. So please explain in …

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The problem from the beginning. The system was being slow in general so I knew something was wrong. I had AVG anti-virus. I found AVG to be a pain because I had to update it manually all the time. I download and install Avast antivirus. I scan with Avast finds …

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Ok, this scared the crap out of me - remember this is a laptop and I was watching this on a macbookpro on my lap - exploding batteries etc: [URL="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops/the-mysterious-macbook-pro-noise-198298.php"][COLOR=BLUE]http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops/the-mysterious-macbook-pro-noise-198298.php[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://www.youtube.com/v/uwuMcFt07x8"][COLOR=BLUE]http://www.youtube.com/v/uwuMcFt07x8[/COLOR][/URL] :eek: One explanation was that it sounds like a fan - I didn't think the macbookpro has a fan... …

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Hi there, I had several problems with my laptop and at somepoint I couldn't even get into windows. I installed avast and started getting weird virus messages (I had AVG before). I run a Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware scan that found 79! infected files. Deleted all of them. I now can't update …

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I am trying to build a new computer. I will mostly be using it for gaming (RTS games, World of Warcraft, etc...). I have so far come up with a cpu and motherboard cpu: [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103249"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103249[/URL] motherboard: [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131291"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131291[/URL] The problem I am having is i don't really know anything about graphics …

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I have Windows XP. The problem started a few days ago, 2 or so. I downloaded a game from Kazaa and Unzipped it. Now I keep hearing a sound effect from the game a few times every minute. I tried uninstalling the game but it never really installed properly the …

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I've been reading the threads about this malware and followed the instructions in removing it, unfortunately, i still have the same problems. Help would be very much appreciated. Here is my hackthis log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 23:00: VIRUS ALERT!, on 9/26/2008 Platform: Windows XP …

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Here is the log from my main system. I have no idea, but it seems longer than the others here. Any advice? Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 8:01:58 AM, on 9/26/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16705) Boot mode: Normal Running …

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I have a Dell Inspirion 531s desktop.I want more storage.A friend left me a Hitachi model number HTS542525K9SA00 5400 rpm 250 gig laptop hard drive.will it work on my computer.It uses SATA connections and I have empty slots on my motherboard to connect extra hardware and I have the correct …

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[COLOR=Blue]I am about to order parts for building a new PC and I am a bit confused as to which set up would benefit me the most. I am looking to buy on of the following motherboards (I've not made up my mind what one yet): ASUS P5WD2/premium Skt 775 …

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Hey I turned my PC on today and got the following error Windows could not start because the follwing file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM You can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using the original setup cd-rom... I turned my pc off and then back on …

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basically i want to set up a LAN to share files and play games between my laptop and desktop. both have built in realtek network adapters. i could ping both machines from each other and found out i was using a patch cable. i went out and bought a belkin …

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I've been looking at numerous threads throughout the internet, and have found, and tried nothing that has worked for me yet. So this is my first attempt at a post to try and get some much needed advice. Ok here it goes... SPECS Motherboard - ECS K7S5A Processor - 1800Ghz …

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