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| | My computer's motherboard got toasted so I replaced it with new one. Everything is still attached just like before. The hard disc(with windows XP installed), CDROM, same 1gb DDR RAM(checked the new motherboard's compatibility and it should work fine).. etc. Now, whats interesting is that I checked CMOS setup and …  |
| | If I have a hard disk with more than 50% free space, will it become slower if I consume 30% more disk space? Why or why not? It never made sense to me that more free disk space would equal better performance as long as programs aren't running in the … |
| | Alright...I have many different types of spyware removers on my computer including Microsoft AntiSpyware and Ad-aware. All of the programs I use have been updated and ran. It's telling me it gets rid of the problem but of course...it doesn't! I don't mind a few pop-up's here and there but … |
| | i keep getting popups advising me to purchase the perfect cleaner/spy away and my laptop background will only show a warning about spyware and another link. i can't seem to remove it by myself any help would be much appreciated. i'm not sure what all i'm supposed to do in … |
| | I've searched all over this site and found simular problems like mine but not exactly so I thought I would ask. When I turn my computer on (I have XP ) it takes forever to load and the hard drive is going ninty miles an hour, I get an error … |
| | When I plug my wireless mouse, iPod, tablet, guitar processor, etc. into my laptop, they WORK, but they don't show up in [icode]lsusb[/icode]. I just get a blank output. Anyone have any idea as how to fix this? |
| | can user accounts be deleted to return my computer to how it looked when it was running as administrator only (no log in). Directory is now a mess with duplicate files all over the place. Want my old look back. Scared to delete files under my name in case i … |
| | Before I get flamed, Yes I Know/Knew this was a bad idea, but I did it anyways, now i pay the price.... Here is whats going on, Custom Built Computer (by me) Drive 0 (Seagate Barracuda 7200 IDE 200GB) Partitions 2 ("Old C" - 1 , "Old D" - 2) … |
| | Hi, my computer has been running extremely slowly in the past couple of days. I have all the proper programs, but the errors they are deleting do not seem to be fixing the computer. Instead of a hardrive as my C drive, I have a red X. Many spybot errors …  |
| | I have a compaq Presario SR 1230Nx with 512 mb ddr-333 pc2700 ram. I was thinking about going up with ram to speed the machine up. Will that help?? Or does anyone have any suggestions that will help me. I have the Windows defender that eats machine time. I could … |
| | I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 that had a hard disk failure (read: locked spindle and fried motor due to spindle locking) and am in the market for a new one. I have seen the wealth of new and refurbished hard disks out there, all the form factors needed, and … |
| | hi, i'm running 2003 Sp1 in my system. i want to connect it wirelessly to my linksys wrt54g router using netgear wg111v2 usb adapter. but the netgear drivers are not working in 2003 and netgear has no drivers for 2003. if anyone knows a workaround, pls help thanks in advance … |
| | How do I define whats in my computer- motherboard, ram, hard drive,graphic card and sound card as i need to sell it with all its internal information . |
| | os windows xp sp2 display ati radeon xpress 200m series Hi have a equium M50-244 with a problem. Seems to work fine but suddenly goes to blue screen with message: A problem has been detected has been shut down to prevent damage. The problem seems to be caused by following … |
| | Hi, Im using windows XP home edition at the moment. Recently I use bit torrent and download like 3GB files everyday which is stored in my C: drive. 2 days ago, when i tried to move the file i just finished download from C: to my external hardisk but windows … |
| | I have Microsoft Outlook 2003. When doing a "reply to all", it automatically puts my e-mail as one of the recipients. This doesn't happen to my colleagues. Do you know how to stop this? Thanks so much! Lisa |
| | Is there a way we can have Power Users defrag their own hard drives in Windows XP?  |
| | When i try to click on any drive C, D,E in My Computer , the drive doesnt open . Instead .."Open with " dialog opens...with the list of s/.w in system... |
| | the other night i did a search on google, i went to one of the links expecting to find what i was looking for, instead i found a nightmare. my homepage was hijacked, my ie doesnt even work anymore (the computer doesnt recognize the program), my desktop is very faint … |
| | Hi Guys I need your help on this one. Everytime my PC is connected to the internet using a wireless adaptor my windows xp freezes and I have to do a hard reset manually . I have two USB wireless adapters (Linksys wireless G USB and Netgear G111T ) and … |
| | Although my problem is similar to others discussed here, it's a bit different. I have two disk drives on my Dell 8300. They play CDs and DVDs fine. But, when I put a blank CD-R or DVD+R into the drive, I get (on the E drive) E:\ is not accessible. … |
| | I am a novice and I need some big help. I can no longer use IE as no matter what site I try to access I am redirected to either "http:///" or "http://ca.search.yahoo.com/search?p="NAME OF SITE ENTERED"&fr=chr-nick I downloaded Hijackthis and the following is the scan results. Can anyone please help … |
| | Hi all, Just trying to expand the range of my home wireless network. I am currently on a Telstra Bigpond Cable modem (Motorola Surfboard SBG900 Wireless) and running a 2 desktop PC's and a home laptop. The modem is at the other end of the house and one important note … |
| | HI I see by looking at these threads that I am not alone! However, this doesn't make it any less irritating. I would really appreciate any help to get rid of this! Here is my Hijackthis log: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 10:08:07 PM, on 2008/03/19 Platform: Windows … |
| | Hello. I have a year old laptop, 1.7ghz, 448mb Ram, windows xp home edition. Its not really had a problem like this until few weeks ago. First of all, I used to connect to the internet through an ethernet cable, but now the laptop doesnt seem to recognise the cable … |
| | I need to reinstall windows using the original Windows XP Pro Service Pace 2 but I have lost the license key. Is there anything that I can do? |
| | hi i'm also facing the same problem in my laptop. i'm using windows vista. after every 5 minutes ie automatically opens & the page in [url]http://clickmanu.com...i[/url] can't change my home page even my taskmanager gone. pop up block disabled & it's not possible to enable. i'm doomed, man. what can … |
| | It seems that somehow some kind of spyware got put on my pc and now it keeps saying that I need to buy a certain program in order to get rid of it. When I run my SpyWare Doctor, it keeps saying: Malicious Action Blocked mgmrwmrv.exe is attempting to access … |
| | Hello 'CasperJack' once again, thanks for the help on the previous link [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread108331-2.html[/url] well, i used Host fix then i made a scan/save log with Hijack this, and the result was as follows: ************************************************************************8 Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 7:24:30 AM, on 3/20/2008 Platform: Windows XP … |
| | upon trying to boot up I get problem w windows-had to shut down. Underneath that it says Kernel_Data_inpage error stop: oxoooooo7A Windows will not load in Normal Mode or in safe mode it simply shuts down and reboots over and over. Recovery mode will not work either.... after the dreadful … |
 | I've looked at the manual and can't get a clue there. XP is not recognizing the Western Digital IDE HD. There is only one IDE connector and it connects to the DVD player which shows as a SATA drive in BIOS. There is a black (IDE looking) cable running from … |
| | Hello all If Linux is open source any one can know where the password are stored and if they are encrypted any one can decrypt it using source code. I am only familiar with paragent.com . its an open source project and works well for our company. Thanks in advance … |
| | HI! For my sins i have a vaio S1, It worked great for the first year and a bit I had it, but now, it has become unreliable! Sometimes it just will not power up! The leds at the bottom of the keyboard tells me that the power is on … |
| | My sony VAIO keyboard is not working properly. The keys that dont work are Esc, F1 - F12 NUMBERS 1-3 AND 5-7 AND 9 - + BACKSPACE AND THE HOME KEY. q w o p caps lock a d f h j l @ \ z c and the space … |
 | On my windows live mail email client, i can receive messages, but get this error (in the snip below) when i send an email. i can send fine with mozillla thunderbird. |
| | Hi I have an Omnibook vt6200. The other day I was using it and the screen suddenly went black. At first I thought it was just the power, but then I realised that the power was still on and the screen was still on but EXTREMELY feint. It is so … |
| | Hello all, I am lit bit confused to select the best open source for Alerts. Our company requires a proactive notification about computer hardware issues via monitoring of the processor, hard disk space, memory, etc. I heard that Paragent.com is the best for it. Any opinions about this would be … |
| | Hi! Today morning my friend tried to start her laptop(Acer Aspire 5100) and it did not bootup it just showed black screen with power light on...the keyboard also was not active. She did not know how to switch it off so she disconnected the power and then removed the battery … |
| | Whats a good temp for a PC to be running at, mine is currently at 84F. |
| | I've always had a problem with my laptop freezing. Sometimes I can be on it a while with no problem other times it constantly freezes. I have resetored it and reinstalled windows xp but the problem still exists. I have downloaded and installed all the updated drivers from dell.com but … |
| | Ok this is a first, i have Mcafee Enterprise edition with the firewall and Antispyware installed on the PC = XP Corp SP2, 250 Sata=(Bootable drive) HDD, 320G IDE, 2G RAM. my sun had a freind laptop connected to my Router (wired) i decide to share some files with him … |
| | Hey guys, recently my computer has been acting up. Im not sure exactly when it started, but for the most part i use this computer for gaming and my computer had been freezing when playing certain games like Team Fortress 2 and World of Warcraft.....these freezes however were infrequent, and … |
| | Hi, I have a problem with my computer where Internet Explorer keeps opening on it's own. I have tried: AVG Anti-Virus Ewido Anti-Spyware Spybot: Search and Destroy and so far no luck. I did solve the problem by forwarding the connection to a blank proxy. I am however concerned that … |
| | My store bought computer (emachines, 2004) wont start. There is no LED light when you hit the start button on the front, no noise, no nothing. The external power protector is working fine, the monitor comes on and gives the check your PC message... but nothing else. I bought another … |
| | Hi there, I've had troubles with my computer for the last three weeks or so, first background story. My hardware 3weeks ago: MSI pt890 neo Intel Pentium D 925 Geforce 7600 GT 2x 1GB DDR2 RAM My computer crashed three weeks ago, and had some motherboard/cpu related heat issues, the … |
 | Hi, I have tried and failed to remove CiD pop ups from a friends computer, even after reading through some posts on this forum and others. Can someone with experience please help me through the process? All help is greatly appreciated. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at … |
| | My wife in the spirit of being helpful scanned a 1700X2300 picture and attempted to install it as background. She was successful however it was really distorted as it was too large. I attempted to remove it with no success. In fact control panel+display+desktop shows browse grayed out or essentially … |
| | Hope you guys can help i cant get a default gateway on my pc and i think it might have had something to do with my internet security because i had a gateway before i put the security on. i am running a trendnet usb adapter and i have a … |
| | No, my machine did not die so far: HP Pavilion m7370.se Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition Version 2002 sp2 AMD Athlon X2 4200+ CPU, 2.19 GHz with a fantastic cooler when it works. During the two years that I have owned this computer it has been very good to … |
| | hi there, Im looking for a decent fan controller and cant find one for the life of me. What it needs to do/be: [LIST] [*]Black [*]Digital [*]Control up to 6 fans [*]Have four temperature sensors [*]Run on auto mode to keep pc at a certian temp [*]Have the ability to …  |
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