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| | this is my first visit and i have been following what has happened to other people. i have run hijack and this is my log. please help me get rid of this annoying message! thanks Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 16:10:13, on 04/09/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT … |
| | My step father is having a problem with his computer. His computer keeps changing his IE homepage to [URL="http://www.gopher.com/"]www.gopher.com[/URL] even after changing it a billion times, and pop ups are taking over even tho a popup blocker is installed. Ran spybot, and virus scanner and nothing... HELPPP thanks megs |
| | Hi to all, I´ve got xp home edtion with serverce pack 2 and I´m having a problem trying to run defender from microsoft on my laptop, does any one know how I can run it? any help on this will be appreciated.  |
| | I'm not sure if I should post this in Windows Software or here, please move this if I did it in the wrong one, which I've done with like 1/2 my posts...anyways, my dad just got a laptop, and he has a lot of music, and 8 files on my … |
| | I am unable to browse My Computer or hard drive roots. I have followed many ofthe other threads for similar issues on this web site, all to no avail. when using explorer my system locks up while opening any drive letter. These drives can be opened from within programs and …  |
| | Hi Guys! Haven't been around here for awhile becuase I don't like to bother much with hijack logs, but I've been battling this for days and cannot get rid of ti with the stuff I already learned here, so here I am. This is the log I took before I … |
| | When I try to upgrade to OS X on my computer, which is a IBook G3, blue and white laptop, I get this message: "An error has occurred. Startup disk was unable to select the install cd as startup disk. (-2)" |
 | :rolleyes: when i try to backup my settings & documents to cd/r it shows at the bottom file window saying backup. i clicked to start the procedure & says that is not the correct file name. i have to do a backup to cd/r because i have alot of files … |
| | Hello, I am having a problem with my computer, as you probably guessed. I'll start from the top. I had just installed the Half-Life/Counter-Strike client, Steam. I have all the games on it, CS and CS: Source. Last night I was playing CS 1.6 perfectly fine all night. No problems … |
| | Hi All, Got a little problem that we have noticed. We get this at random times through our organisation When a user sends an e-mail and another user goes to reply the spell check will try and check in US not UK. It also automatically changes the spelling for example … |
| | [quote=dlenegan;237706]anyway guys you are the experts i m not really that good. listening to you guys ive learnt a lot[/quote] Thank you for your hints. I have now bought a New Graphics card, but have the same problem. I will be running the diagnostic tonight to see what it comes … |
| | I bought myself a Radeon card today, and everything installed and runs perfectly, except for one thing. The desktop is limited to a specific section to where i can drag and drop files! I can move the mouse all over the desktop, i can drag programs into the "dead" area. … |
| | It's running really slowly. I've done virus checks, I've run ad-adware, spy bot search and destory. We just add more memory to it and it's running much slower then it was before. Please let me know if you find anything, and understand I need things that can clear it out … |
 | Okay, I guess this is my question for all you internet gurus out there. Which is better? Firefox or the new Internet Explorer v7.0? I dont' want anyone posting about the older versions of IE, because I think we wall know they don't compare to firefox, but I must admit … |
| | We bought a Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 1000 a few months ago. It is working fine for my son but not for me. When he logs onto his account, the light on the receiver is on and he has no problems. But as soon as I log on, the light … |
| | Greetings, I have a dell latitude D610 laptop running XP Prof Service pack 2 with an Intel Pent M Proc 1.86 GHz with 2 GB of Ram. For what follows I note that my wife has precisely the same type of laptop. My wife and I work at a university … |
 | I am a (not so) happy user of the AOL browsing software, and, apart from the (not so) few times where I get, "GOODBYE... WELCOME TO AOL!" and have about half an hours history missing, so I have to track my pages down... *:mad: grumble:mad: *... apart from that I … |
| | I have a server, 64mb RAM, 233mhz PII with 3x 2.1GB hdd's, cdrom drive and LAN card. Can anyone reccomend a distro which will be suitable for turning this machine into a file server (SMB or FTP) for my network. It must have a GUI - although this doesnt nececirally … |
| | my laptop crashed today and the only way of turning it off to restart it was by pressing the power button and when i restarted it this screen showed up [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v370/minnimelisa/laptop.jpg[/img] ive tried starting it up normally and in all the safe modes but it just keeps leading me back … |
| | im about to invest in an amd fx 62 with 4 gigs of ram around 600 gigs of hard drive space a dvd burner and an nvidia geforce 7950 1 gig vid card only problem is i need a huge power supply and i have no clue how big or … |
 | Basically, i have created a list of components which i believe to be compatable, and should build a nice system. Please would you take a look, and feedback with any comments/recommendations you would like to make, even if it is jus to confirm the parts will fit together and run … |
| | I reinstalled Windows XP Pro SP2 today, and after rebooting and getting everything set up, I tried to use my BitTorrent client, "BitComet". The program wouldn't download anything, because there [i]wasn't enough space on the hard drive[/i]. I have 48 gig free! lol What's going on? My newsgroup software (NewsLeecher) … |
| | I have Cox Cable in San Diego County. Our connection drops three or four times a day and these are the errors: 2006-08-31 12:35:38 critical DHCP WARNING - Non-critical field invalid in response. 2006-08-31 12:35:26 critical Received Response to Broadcast Maintenance Request, But no Unicast Maintenance opportunities received - T4 … |
 | It's almost like firefox needs to warm up now or something. I open it and don't matter what page I try to go to I get the timed out or just a blank page. After closing and reopening about five times the page will load and I have no problems … |
| | I have a Critical System Error message on my PC that I cannot get rid of. It flashes in the lower right hand corner of my desktop and when clicked on directs me to VirusBurst website. I ran the hijack software and my log is attached. I need some help … |
| | I havent been on this computer in a couple weeks, turn it on today and i noticed it took a while to start or booot, and soo i checked my run / misconfig and this " power reg scheduler" is on ...wtf i know i didnt install this and is …  |
 | Hiii I'm going to document a [I]very[/I] frustrating issue I've been experiencing here, and I encourage you all to read it and give any advice you can. I would really appreciate that, a lot. You'll understand after reading... I recently bought a new laptop, for $3000 -- the XPS M1210. … |
| | I have just set up cable internet broadcast over a linksys router. My Firefox browser works perfectly but everything based on IE does not work. It gives me " [B]The page cannot be displayed[/B] ". I havent changed anything since I had this set up at my old apartment. Got … |
| | hello. today i signd in my hotmail account at a friends comp. i did not sign out of my account and just closed the browser window. my friend can now access my hotmail account through his 'history' option. how can i stop that from happening???? PLEASE HELP! |
| | anyone can help me why everytime i install softwares on my computer it shuts down around after 7-10 seconds.. is it on my os? pls help.. |
| | Ok, I saw a thread somewhere with this problem, but it was getting a bit long, so I decided to post a new one (mods, sorry if i screwed up..hehe) But yeah, I click on IE, and it does...absolutely nothing. It seems to work in safe mode, and i did … |
| | Adapter is connected and AccessPoint status shows 76% "Excellent" but unable to obtain the IP address through DHCP, that prevents connecting online. Does anybody know what could be the reason? Thanks - |
| | i am using a sony vaio laptop.. which supports wireless... my problem is, i just moved into my new place a day ago.. i am able to access the internet wirelessly.. and i can access some sites.. [like [URL="http://www.google.ca/"]http://www.google.ca[/URL]] but i realized that a lot of the normal sites i … |
 | Hello everyone. Yesterday while uploading a file at File Factory,( I had Teamspeak running to), my computer's screen froze. No key commands would work, I had to shut it down manually. After shutdown, my computer failed to reboot. I used the floppy to boot it up successfully. About 1 hour …  |
| | hello everyone, this is my first post, and having searched the forums have not found the answer, hence a new thread... I am looking to update my VGA from a ATi Radeon X9250 (AGP) to a X1800XT (PCI-E) problem is, this means a new motherboard, which i dont mind, but … |
| | When I right click on my desktop nothing happens. I had no control over my desktop icons and I could not move them, add icons, delete icons and while trying to get control I accidentally turned off the icons. Now I cannot right click to get them back. What can … |
| | I have seen a large amount of post with some similar situations as mine but still no luck. i turn on my laptop and it does a POST then i get window with safe mode options and start from last known spot. But this is not the F8 screen i … |
| | First off, I have been reading the forums and have learned a lot, but nowhere near what I should know. So thanks in advance for any help you guys can provide on this one. When I ctrl+alt+delete my windows task manager will not stay open. This is also true for … |
| | Hi I have a Dell Pentuim 4 with 512mb Ram which i use every day , i have had the laptop for around 2/3 years now but in the last 3 months when ever i am doing certain tasks it just shuts off , it doesnt crash it simply shuts … |
| | ok...so i reformatted my hard drive and am trying to reinstall windows98. sounds simple right? noooo i am afraid not. after inserting my startup disc, i soon get this message: [FONT=Courier New]your computer may have a disc-compression program installed on it. Because this system may contain an existing operating system … |
| | my sony vaio laptop has suddenly started to run like an asthmatic ant, i have Norton Anti virus which from reading posts could be the problem but it has always worked OK. i have run AdAware, Spy-bot etc and found nothing... start-up takes 10 times longer than normal but eventualy … |
| | I think my PC is infected again,when I first turn it on a warning comes up that looks like an official Microsoft warning about my OS not being genuine. Then I get this star like icon in the sys tray that says I may be a victom of software counterfeiting. … |
| | I have just spent the past hour placing half the keys back on my laptop. I have three keys left and have no idea where they go. I have a Aspire 1710 and the keys left are as follow: Prt Sc Sys Rq, Pause Break, and the Scroll Lock If … |
| | Hiii I'm going to document a [I]very[/I] frustrating issue I've been experiencing here, and I encourage you all to read it and give any advice you can. I would really appreciate that, a lot. You'll understand after reading... I recently bought a new laptop, for $3000 -- the XPS M1210. … |
| | I recently purchased an HP Deskjet 5440 and am trying to find a way to access it wirelessly from my laptop (running Win XP Pro). FYI.....this laptop connects wirelessly through a Linksys router flawlessly. The attempts I have made to print from my laptop to the afroementioned printer include: (1) …  |
| | I'm using Win XP Media Center Edition on a Toshiba laptop, and there are some weird things going on here. It all started, when I installed a performance booster, after saying a thousand times to mysef, that i'll never use such programs... Anyways, I installed it, i made it boost … |
| | I have a client with a Dell GX-270 (P4, 256 meg, running XPP) that wouldn't start unless it was unplugged from the wall and then plugged back in. If she doesn't follow that proceedure she gets the Dell flash screen at startup for about 3 seconds and then the screen … |
| | Recently I downloaded the Ubuntu ISO (desktop version). It said something like 680MB file, but when it finished downloading, it was 715MB... I have two questions: 1. Why are they expanding? 2. How can I fit this ISO on a CD if my cd can only fit 700MB? |
| | I need help installing Windows XP Professional on a computer because every time I go to install it, it says that I have no hard drives installed. So could someone help me! Need many solutions! |
| | hey, I have a compaq and I must have deleted something becuase now all that shows up when I start up my computer is my wallpaper with no icons but i can press ctrl alt delete and run a new task from there. So I was looking around and found … |
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