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| | Hey everyone, I'm new to this site and I had a few questions. I've been trying to clean up several things on my computer, spyware, adware, and trojans or whatever. Every time I use spybot I get a reacuring theme. It tends to be Avenue A, Inc., Double Click, PSGaurd. …  |
| | I want to get a 256MB Video Card that is less then $200 But will be good for gaming in the future. What should i do? Any Ideas? |
| | What would cause Photoshop 7.0 to refuse to open completely? I have uninstalled it and reinstalled it. It shows up in my programs but when I click to open it, only the load up page shows then reverts back to desktop. I am using Windows XP and have had PS7 … |
| | My grandma has been having problems with my grandfather's computer. I went up there and it would boot to a screen saying Boot Failure: System Halted. I immediately go for the CMOS battery and get a replacement. Teh next time I booted the computer it worked fine, but a few … |
| | My beautiful HP Media Center desktop has stopped working. When I turn on the computer, fans start revving fast, but nothing happens. The fan will simply continue to rev. I have tried all electricity sources, plugged and unplugged everything, but to no avail. I have WindowsXP installed, my computer is …  |
| | i get a lot of "this page cannot be displayed" messages and i have a list of possible causes. i wish to check the winsock and i am hoping to get guidance by someone who is knowledgeable. from my research i should do this: command prompt type in Netsh winsock … |
| | Often as soon as windows starts to load, screen goes black, LED goes orange & screen reads NO INPUT SIGNAL & then POWER SAFE. I have checked connections to & from PC. Any ideas s to cause/ solution, please. |
| | Hello, I've had a problem with my laptop for a few months now and have been unable to find any clues as to what is wrong with it. It is a Compaq Evo N800c and one night, while watching a dvd, the white areas of the screen began to flicker … |
| | hi ive just gotten this new hijack called home search assistant. I heard that its the son of the cool web search hijack. anyway its destroying my computer. i cant do aim or most of my other programes. any help would be VERY helpful . here is my hijack this … |
| | Hello everyone, THis is Azam from karachi ( Pakistan ). I am working as a network engineer in an ISP. Acutually, I having a problem when i boot a system from network card so plz give me an idea or solution that how i can boot system from network. DHCP …  |
| | Everyone with a similar problem has a module specified. When I start up Win XP I get this message: RUNDLL Eroor loading. The specified module could not be found. But no module is listed!!! Since this error has appeared, I have been unable to connect to wireless internet or disable … |
 | I Know i post alot about problems but most of my problems are curred now. but know i have a new problem. Here goes- I reinstalled windows xp professional but it wont let me connect to my local area connection (my clearwire(broadband)). Ive tried to set it up manually but …  |
| | Hi guys i have a problem with my computer. When i switch it on at the wall my computer boots up staight away without me pressing the on button?? it then brings up a black screen with the following message: Performing automatic IDE configuration... Drive 0: Disk drive Drive 2: … |
| | I had some work done on my old computer and now it will only boot up part way and stop. Since it has a lot of info on it that I want to access and is the only machine I can print from, I would like to have it available …  |
| | Hello....I run Windows ME, on a Dell Dimension 2100. Every so often, I'll be in the middle of something, and wothout warning, the screen goes off, and the computer does a restart. It's happened over the last several months. I was wondering if there is anything I need to do? … |
| | My emachines w4682 socket 478 stopped working on me and I bought a new asus 478 socket motherboard. When I plugged everything up it would not boot to windows. It was reading the c: and d: but would not boot to windows so I reinstalled the restore discs that came … |
| | ok heres the deal i got 2 harddrives on my computer whe with 14g and another with 140 or somting. the on with 14 in now full causew i was load things to that dirve not hinking well now its full. so is the hardrive really one and splut into …  |
| | I just shut down this computer and at first when i pressed the power up button. I would hear fans whirl, and start up(never got to boot screen stage or anything). I pressed it like 3 times at 5,10,15 minute intervals... thinking oh, it might be overheated, what I did … |
| | I have a good interest in learning LINUX. I have a very basic knowledge of it and have also installed it a couple of times,but still i would want to learn it from scratch and become a advanced LINUX user. Do ineed to join any 'Linux courses', or is it … |
| | Got a friends Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop. p3 700mhz 256mb ram Win XP Before windows can even load, it displays the following: The amount of system memory has changed. F1 to continue or F2 for setup Windows loads just fine passed that point. (as well as can be expected on … |
| | Help I just had the thing on eariler. Now when I turned it on the monitor flashes and green, blue and red message. I tried to hold in the power button to shut it off and the only way I can shut it off is to unplug. I unplugged it … |
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| | I have been trying to do a remote assistance with my brother in law but have not been successful. We both have followed all the steps that it requires and get close to having an established connection but it says remote assistance connection could not be established because the remote … |
| | i have used adaware and avg detected a few baddies have remove but system tray still have this annoying pop up triangle exclamtion mark icon and once a while will say your system alert: malware threats ,,, please help me... i have hijack this log below much appreciated. Logfile of … |
| | If you have a widescreen monitor why and what size? I am thinking about a 22" Samsung. Any recommendations? |
| | Hello, I get this error when I play a dvd....I have a gforce 4200 with 128meg,120 gig harddrive,winxp with all updates,1.0 amd cpu,512 meg memory...My dvd player will play in any other dvd software I use.Thanks Ernie Windows Media Player cannot play DVD video. Open Display in Control Panel, and …  |
| | Hi Everyone I'm running a legal copy of WinXP Pro SP2 with all possible updates on an nForce 3 250 (Gigabyte) Athlon 64 platform. Lately, every time I've been using Sleep or Hibernate, the computer freezes in the middle of the process. I do not know where to start looking … |
| | FILE BACKUP AND TRANSFER SOFTWARE - BEST...!!! Hi everyone...!!! WHICH IS THE BEST SOFTWARE (PREFERABLY FREEWARE) CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR FILE BACK UP AND TRANSFER...??????? (NOT SYSTEM CLONING but only data/file backup and transfer) Scenario: I am having one Hard Disk of say 200 GB with three partitions 20 GB; 40GB; … |
| | my cpu was running and it froze! I held in the power button to reset it. I press the button to start it back up and the fans run but it won't boot the monitor stays off. HELP ME OR I WILL GO BANANAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| | I have just reformatted my hard drive, however i now come to installing itunes which is fine then once i try and install the latest version it comes up with an error saying quicktime is not installed properly and itunes needs quicktime to run. i have tried un-installing and re-installing … |
 | Have an interesting question, in fact it seems to me to be quite the newbie question. I have a wireless D-Link router connected via RJ-45 (wired connection) to a another D-Link router (NOT wireless), which in turn is connected to my DSL router. After numerous problems on getting wireless to … |
| | my computer has been having less and less memory every day. Ive deleted programs that i dont need anymore, but i know there are tons of things still on my computer that i dont need. thats my problem. how can i tell if i need or dont need something, because … |
| | i have this mp3 player that when i upload music it works fine. I am able to see all the songs on my computer. When i check my MP3 it says NO MUSIC. I just uploading 80 songs and it says NO MUSIC constantly. My mp3 is connected by a … |
| | Been trying to find out which A7V266 I have here. See the link to an image below. Picture has a label that reads A7V266-C but I have found nothing that substantiates that. I need a manual and also need to know type of memory [ecc, non-ecc] needed and want to … |
| | A big thanks to anyone who's willing to help me with this. I've recently come down with some sort of Spyware thats doing the normal Spyware things, IE: Rushing my computer with pop ups, re-directing my homepage to "uptodateproection.com" and loading programs into my toolbar that periodically pop up to … |
| | I have an emachines 3210, I have loaded up Call Of Duty 2 for my sprog and it keeps saying Fatal Error, Error During Initialization, Video Card or Driver Doesnt Support Dynamic Textures. Any help would be appreciated - also talk in layman terms as I am not too hot … |
 | I have a dedicated box running Fedora Core 4/Plesk. I can receive emails just fine using the pop server: mail.domain.com (as directed by Plesk). However, when I try send mail using mail.domain.com (as directed by Plesk) I cannot connect to the server. I submitted a trouble ticket to my dedicated … |
| | There are six desktops in my office, and one printer, I wonder how can I make every PCs access to the printer freely, because all PCs are in a huge network, and IP address is dynamic. There is one way I know it works sometime. 1. sharing the printer, fix … |
| | A short question: Can Win XP act as a webserver or is IIS for XP only for developing purposes? |
| | Alright. So I download Visual Studio 2k5 in 2 discs from my college software site. (I don't particularly want to use VS2k5, but I want to have it around JIC.) I go and map them to my virtual drive, and they autoplay. Great! I'll install and be on my way! … |
| | FOREWARD: moderators, please read what i am saying before you yell "piracy is bad" at me......... My windows 98 media was destroyed but i still have all the COA and keys etc..... Would it be legal for me to procure a pirated version of 98 and use my (legally acquired) … |
| | Can anyone help me trough this problem? I've searched all the tech forums for possible solutions but still my pc restarts!:-| My computer restarts when playing in some online games Before it restarts, it either flashes a blue screen(BSOD) or wihout BSOD. (I've already unchecked the "automatically restart" in the …  |
| | I got the dreaded critical system error! message today after downloading a software. It takes me directly to [URL]http://www.virusburst.com/?aff=321[/URL] if I click on the bubble. Can anyone please help me get this off my PC. Any help will be appreciated!! Here is my hijackthis log: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan … |
| | Can't get into windows after i click close on the error message ,have run ewido and ccleaner and nortons to no avail still get error message .even extracted new dll with SFC . EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in module SHELL32.DLL at 017f:7fcc2479. Registers: EAX=00439cd1 CS=017f EIP=7fcc2479 EFLGS=00010246 EBX=00002025 … |
| | hi, i found this site on a search for finding if I can find out who is behind a nusance isp i wont say i know alot about computers i am a baord meber of a not for profit corperation that is being bombarded with harasing e mails, we are … |
| | Ok, so I have an ATI Radeon 9250 I got from wally world. It worked for like 3 months and all of a sudden stopped working on my computer... Now don't think i haven't troubleshooted, i found out it works just fine in my friend's computer, I've also tried updating … |
 | Hello everyone. I have an Nvidea GeForce 4 Ti 4200 card with 64 MB. The core clock is 250 MHz and the memory is at the same frequency, as standard for this model. Does anyone know if it is possible to overclock the GPU and memory? If so, could you …  |
| | I went to "Hijack this" and did a scan and for the life of me I can not find a button which would say "save" and would ask me to where to save. Sorry the most fundamental operation I seem to be having a problem. I read what to do … |
| | Hey, My computer [U]ALWAYS [/U]freezes when i do memory intensive stuff. (i.e. games and installing windows) This is a bad thing...so the other day i tried the memtest86, and in [U]THE MIDDLE[/U] (abt 20%) of the test my [U]COMPUTER RESTARTED[/U] without warning!!! I think this means that i fail the … |
| | Hi there SYSTEM: Windows XP Home edition. 2 Partitions (C: & D: (recovery)) SYMPTOMS: Can NOT open any file My computer>right click>properties>= error Start>all programs>= none of them open Add/Rem programs= does not open Admin tools= does not open Run= does not open any command CAUSE: Possibly Malware PrettyPark.worm ATTEMPTS … |
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