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My Windows XP icons became generic on desktop and start bar. Is this a virus? Is there a way to fix this? Thanks, plarsen111

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I am constructing an Intel sysetm: Intel D945PSN/Pentium D, D945 3.4 Mhz processor, Windows XP Professional (will not load). All components check out as compatible. System boots to bios, no problem. All components register, but after the boot to bios, CD spins with XP installation disk, but all I get …

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HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dell Optiplex 150, computer only recognises Primary channel for hd and doesnt pick up the cd rom, tried several cd roms and still the same, it only comes up as unknown device, got bios A05, any help much appreciated before it goes in bin lol tia Wayne

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Allo-ha, friendlies! This was a custom-built job completed at the end of last year. It had been working absolutely fine, booted up with no probs at all at least three times already today. No internal changes. The only change made was to plug a dvi-vga cable into the extra monitor-out …

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hey everyone, i've had my toshiba satellite a215 for about a year now, and its been through a move as well as ONE drop which happened not to recently. when i turn it on it goes through the start up menu and just as its about to go to the …

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Hello everyone, My main computer is a windows XP.I don't know much, if anything other than a few basic things,I do Interior Designer/Decorating work,not anything computer related. When I am running this computer, the start menu will pop up out of the blue and windows related to start and shut …

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Hi Everybody, I need a Guide For helping in my Linux Programming. I am interested to kernel development Programming. I done B.E-Electronics and Communicatiion Engineering. I know the Basics of C. So Help Me to Step by Step On my new programming like how to compile?, how to debug?, which …

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I have loaded windows SBS 2003 several time each time with different levels of partition removal and format. I have tried different installation CD's. Each time I get the same result. Windows SBS loads and all the standard questions are answered. Windows starts and everything appears normal, [B]BUT[/B] the management …

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So ive been wanting to re-vamp my computer for a while, but logged on today to find that explorer wasnt even starting up. I manually started it though the task manager and got my main interface up and running, but about 70% of my programs wont even open. I then …

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Hello All, I thought I would try to post here as I am stumped with this problem. I have a Toshiba Satellite M45-S359 Laptop. It is in good condition and worked perfectly for about a year with no problems until last week. Best laptop I have ever owned. Last week …

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I have a tv that i lost the remote for and standard controllers dont work to switch the tv/video (thats what i need). So i decided to find a program that would let my laptop be the remote control for my tv through its ir port. However, i havent found …

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I am very happy with my Mac book and I am also happy with the dual boot (boot camp/Leopard) generally but... I have recently tried to use a Windows sound recording program, well, actually three different ones, and none of them are able to identify a source for inputing streaming …

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i restarted my computer and got the messege 'ntldr missing press ctl +alt+del' to restart I inserted the Windows XP pack 1 CD , and booted from the CD and in tried to repair the missing files by running this two lines from the command line C:\WINDOWS> copy e:\ ntldr …

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I;m facing weird problem, I can connect to Wireless Internet fine, can logon to Yahoo Messenger just fine, but cannot Browse Internet using MS-IS, Firefox, Safari etc. Issue started after I removed creepy NORTON 360. FYI, I've switched off Windows firewall etc. Reset Winsock, tcp/ip etc Your help is much …

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hi guys! I have a prob regarding port forwarding of port 3690 from linksys RV042. Here's what I would like to do: There's already installed in our of our linux servers a svn that we locally access using this link [url]http://ip_of_the_server/location_of_repo/...Now[/url], what I would want to do is to be …

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I have XP Home My computer just recovered from PSU failure. Now I click on the desktop icons and nothing happens - no hour glass no starting of programs. The Icon dims. I have made new icons and the same thing happens to the new ones. The icons on any …

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Can someone help? Trend Micro PC-cillin is giving me messages that I've attempted to open dangerous Web sites, although I haven't tried to go to those sites. They include codecservice1.com and us01.xmlsearch.findwh. My HijackThis log is: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 7:22:51 AM, on 7/18/2008 Platform: …

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Problem: Windows wont finish booting up after Windows Load screen after I restarted for network controller driver update. I went to boot up in safe mode so I could just do a system restore but when It boots up in safe mode my mouse and keyboard is not responding so …

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I've tried scanning my friends computer with CCleaner and Spybot as well as anti-virus and nothing was solved. The computer prompts "Application Failed to Load" errors upon log in. Then a program called PhotoGallery tries to install automatically but fails repeatedly. There is no internet connection either. The wireless signal …

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Hello some unknown thing is causing my AV(kaspersky 09) from not enabling and performing updates please help here is the Hijack log : Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 10:00:37 AM, on 10/08/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16674) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe …

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I have a gigabyte 915 motherboard, an intel p4 2.66ghz processor and a ddr1 512mb memory single stick on my system.. the system was working fine until a few days from today... the system does not boot when the memory is inserted in the slot ( I tried both slots …

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Hello there, New Member- Not completely clueless needs some help please, I've obviously picked up some sort of nasty which is mucking up my browser (both IE and Foxzilla) , it keeps redirecting me, and won't allow me to access , even when I type in the URL, any sites …

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Hey guys, I've been trying to battle against spyware, malware, falware, and all types of ware and parasites!! It seems i win some battles but i'm losing the war. My biggest problem these days are massive pop ups from random sites, when I run spyhunter, i usually get an average …

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I have a 2yr. old dell desktop and I cant figure out what is wrong with it. I can't get it to start back up, when i plug the power cord in the power light just blinks very fast then slows down after some time. Please help!!!

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Can i buy an attachment to hook my older video camera up to the computer directly. It currently has the plug in audio and video cables for tv etc. Is there some sort of adapter and is it worth doing so i can put my videos direct onto DVD.

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I removed the CMOS battery trying to clear charge but now I get this message when I try to boot: CMOS Settings Wrong CMOS Checksum Bad CMOS Display Type Wrong Unlock Keyboard Press F1 to run Setup Press F2 to load default values and continue ================= This system was my …

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I've got an issue with my computer that I suspect is something along the lines of a trojan.BHO. I downloaded an infected file and received a pile of trouble with it but seem to have cleaned out several with the exception of whatever's causing this: Currently apparent effects on this …

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Hi all, I installed apache 2.2 on my home computer running windows XP. I want to use the server for intranet. I can access the server from other computers on the network by typing in the ip address of the server computer into the browser address bar. I would like …

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Hey guys I'm having a problem with my new XFX 8600GT 256MB PCI-E Card Basically i'm getting no signal from the 2 monitors that i've tried, i know they work because i'm using on now, but not with my other computer Current Setup Asus A8N SLi Deluxe board with ATX …

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I just installed apache 2.2... i had a dynamic domain name with dyndns.com after configuring apache,, if i typed [url]http://localhost/[/url] on my web browser, the files shows.... however,, if i typed my ip or my domain name, it can't find it. anyone knows why?

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I have a client that I am hosting DNS for and their ISP delegated part of a /24 block to my dns servers for reverse dns. So basically I have a block of x.x.x.64/27 delegated to my dns servers. I'm not sure of the syntax for the zone for a …

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After I changed to a newer video card, shut down and started again my monitor has been dark, no display. RAM, processor, drive are all OK; the video card is in its slot and I have confirmed that all cards are firmly in their slots. Does anybody have an idea …

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I have an old 366 MHz clamshell Indigo iBook, and it's got OS 10.3.9 on it. There's a Firewire port on this clamshell, but no DVD, so to try and put OS 10.4 on it I wanted to use Target Mode, which seems to be pretty straight forward, and use …

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hi friends.. i had one problem..my windows xp didnt boot bec of viruses.. now i have installed ubuntu in my laptop.. i want to install windows xp again.. but the cd's setup.exe file doesnt run in ubuntu.. how can i fix the problem? whats the command for running cd in …

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Hi, I have a Dell D600 laptop (windows xp sp2) - its been working fine for 4-5 years suddenly last week the screen froze and when I switched it off and back on the caps lock and scroll lock lights will blink for a while and then the whole laptop …

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I would like to upgrade the RAM in my Dell Dimension 3000 from 1GB (2x516mb) to 2GB (2x1GB). Dell quoted me AUD$220 each! The only info they would tell me was "DIMM,1G,400M,125X64,8K,184" So I got on the internet and found that Dell in Canada sell compatible Kingston KTD 8300/1G for …

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hi guys, do you guys know how i can configure a "cisco catalyst 3560G" switch to do mac-based VLANing? is this even possible with this series of switches? can it be done with an upgrade to the OS version? cheers guys

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My Internet Explorer browser window has "Hacked by pokemon" at the window title. This happens in all the internet explorer windows that I open but not in mozilla firefox. I also could not open regedit before but now I can. I scanned and removed something before and the "Hacked by …

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About every 5 seconds, my Windows Explorer malfunctions and restarts. It is actually very painful to even type this message as we speak. My start bar as well as all of my desktop icons all disappear and reappear as Explorer restarts. I believe the error may have come from a …

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Hi, I'm new in this forum. My old laptop (4 years) has developed some estrange symptoms. It turns on normally, but once it is on if I adjust the angle of the screen or move the laptop a little hard (the screen shakes) it goes black and appears to crush. …

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Hi, My computer developed an interesting problem. I have both IE and Firefox installed, but almost always use Firefox. However, every once in a while I must use IE. Last time I tried to use it, I found the following problem: IE starts OK. Meaning, the home page loads fine. …

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Hi, This is NOT an Internet Explorer question. I do not have access to this machine. I loaded Windows XP Media Center Edition on a 1 - 2 yr old Gateway PC using the supplied Gateway recovery CD. I downloaded the [color=#e10000][b]correct[/b][/color] chipset, nic, video card, sound card drivers from …

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Hello good folks at Daniweb !!!!!! I have a Dell Dimention 2350 , Windows XP Home edition, SP2. The computer just shuts down at time without error messages. I can be on the net or running any program. Then it just restarts as if I I pushed the start button. …

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hi, I am using Intel 945 motherboard . I am facing a problem of boot disk failure. when i keep dvdrom connected without hard disk,it is working fine. Similarly without dvdrom if i connect hard disk ,it is also working fine.. but I have not been able to connect both …

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Hi there! I haven't been able to boot my xp machine for a couple of weeks, and decided to "repair" it with the xp cd (SP1) And there wasent no problems at all until the computer restarted like it was supsosed to, and began to install some files, or something …

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Hey everyone I'm having a problem with connecting to my router with Ubuntu (the newest version). As well wired as wireless connection hass problems. I'm able to connect to the internet with the utp cable that comes from and goes to the modem (cable connection), but i can't connect to …

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hi, ive an intel 865gbf mobo. it supports 5.1 ch audio(or so is claimed i guess). i was planning to attach am TEAC amp to the pc. do i need a sound card if im attaching an amp? wouldnt my amp be doing the same thing a sound card does!?? …

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Hello all, I bought a new HP slimline with Vista. I installed Office 95, but found out it wouldn't open files I created with a later edition. I tried to uninstall it, but the software won't uninstall. I did have a Office 2002 Cd, so I tried to install that …

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Hi everyone, When my system connected to net, it asked to register my windows xp . i have registered and it has been verified my microsoft and declared that it is not genuine, and asking me go buy genuine. And iam not allowed to update my system. Later i bot …

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Guys 'n' Gals, A month or so ago I tried to plug my [URL="http://www.popvoucher.co.uk/cheap-sandisk-cruzer-micro-8gb-u3-readyboost-_lid-mmpcmmam.html"]USB PEN[/URL] into my Notebook (XP SP2) to download some photos. The PEN said it was being charged but the Notebook seems to have no inkling that it's connected. I can't force it to pick it up …

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