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I recently have "crashed?" my computer....:cry: . it happened when i was closing internet, just msn and then AOL mainframe. then it froze.. so i rebooted manually with the on/off button. and window will not load properly. It first appears up to the start up screen, with 5 options : …

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Hey guys, Im trying 2 re-install winxp and when it goes through setup it displays a message saying "setup was unable to read from or write to drive c: If a virus scanner is running, disable it then restart setup"? I disabled everything and still wont work? and tried to …

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I am trying to fix a computer that won't start hardly at all. Sometimes it takes right off. I have change the power supply and power switch but it made no difference. Does anyone have any ideas.

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Can anyone help me? Iv been trying to boot from cd but i cant press anykeys to allow it to boot? and cd it first priority in bios?

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Hi, Well it seems to be a virus or maybe I deleted something important from my computer by accident but each time I try going on a site that has music or a video an error message comes up and I don't really have a choice except to click on …

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I need help.Can u please look at this and tell me whats wrong.Thanks! Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 9:26:03 PM, on 8/20/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\AOL\ACS\AOLacsd.exe C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\aswUpdSv.exe …

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I have a Sony Vaio with a 120 gig C/D drive. The C drive only has 13 gigs for programs, etc. D is full but I can move stuff over to a 300 gig Maxtor external. The problem is, there's nothing to delete on C and I'm at times under …

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hi. how do i know whether my motherboard has a PCI or PCI express slot. i dont have AGP , but not sure whether its PCI or PCI express

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Hello First of all I want to thank every one working to keep this great community alive. I would be grateful if some one can help me with some :idea: ideas :idea: for a final year project that is related to networks. My background: I am currently studying [B]Network Management …

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Hi Yesterday a friend of mine loaded some files from a cd. After that every folder has a similar folder inside it. For example if the folder name is bon jovi then inside the folder there is another folder with the name bon jovi. This happened to every folder in …

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Hi. I correctly uninstalled Norton Anti-virus and restarted my computer but am encountering problems. Whenever I open a word document or any MS office document Windows trys to reinstall Norton and gives error messages saying it cannot be completed. I can close about 4-5 error messages and only then will …

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:cry: hi i just bought a brand new compaq presario sr1850nx. here are the specs: amd athlon 64 3700+ 1 gb of RAM 250 GB HDD Windows XP MCE 2005/SP2 D-Link dwl-g132 wireless usb adapter smc wireless g router so i plugged in the usb adapter for the wireless...followed the …

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I am trying to map one of my LAN drives from a remote location over the web, through my router. I have a LinkSys BEFW11S4 wireless router. I am able to PCAnywhere in through the router, and I am able to get to the routers maintenance features over the web, …

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I have a new laptop computer. i am having several problems that i think are all related. one issue is a searchingbooth program that keeps popping up ads and ie unprovoked. the other is that i keep getting a rundll error when I start my computer. i've run spybot, adaware, …

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Hi, my computer recently was infected with some sort of virus. I've read here that others have suffered from the same sort of infection. Whenever I connect to the Internet, my computer starts trying to send a flood of random emails that seem to fail. I hope they fail. Anyway, …

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Hey does anyone know how to install this eval copy (iso image) of serer 2003?? I am having the hardest time running this. It says app not supported by win32 :mad:

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My IE page keeps getting redirected to a critical alert page and I have a critical virus alert pop-up in my task bar. I had a friends request on myspace and went to there page. It said to download the new myspace IM program and then my computer went to …

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I'm planning on buying a computer before I go off to college this summer and I'm not sure what the best way to go about that is. I'm looking for a computer with at least 512 MB RAM and a 128 MB video card, so I can play middle of …

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Ok, im 16 and in the UK. We have NTL 1mb Broadband and i have a router and an old server which has apache running on it (FC4). The server and broadband are slow (266mhz and 1mb) but it will at max have 2 or 3 people visting it each …

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All righty then... Dell Opti.GX1 (yep I know, a dinosaur), suppose to be W98, shows NT 4.1. Purch. on ebay for a steal. Assured it worked. Yeah, right. Well. I did only pay $5.50 . Sounds normal. No unusual beeps. Inside appears secure & proper. [B]1)[/B] F2 gets you into …

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Hi all, looks like this problem with [B]lost internet connection[/B] showed up some days earlier here in Europe. This issue seems to be related to a newly discovered security hole in XP, which has been adressed by MS already. It doesn't seem to be clear what exactly causes the [B]Generic …

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Hi I have tried some software to clean my computer... Adaware, SpywareBlaster and more... seems that I could need some expertise to solve my problem.. [U]Pleeeeeeasssseeeeee [/U]help me could really need a clean computer! Well here is my hjt logfile: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 22:48:48, on 18.08.2006 …

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when i surf on the internet, there are always pop-up ad windows which seemed auto-pop-up by some viruses. Actually I have turned on pop-up blocker. I have scaned my computer by symantec and found some viruses, (such as AP5.htm, AP4.htm, AP3.htm, AP3.enc, .etc). And i have removed these items but …

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Ok, so I wanted to help my friend out with her computer that was messing up... cleaned out spyware and all that, then was installing SP2 and it bluescreened... did a hard drive diagnostic and it found a bad sector.... it gave the option to fix the sector, so I …

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I am having wuite a problem with Windows 2000 laptop. I reinstalled Windows 2000 after another unfixable error, and now its stable and good... but i dont know why the DVD decoder is not on my computer. It played DVD's perfectly fine before, and after the reinstallation... there is nothing. …

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I picked up a virus which NAV did not detect-ran Kapersky which did detect. Now when I open IE6 and Win Media Player and the WIn search function they all close immediately on opening. Using Firefox now so able to et onto the net. Running SP Pro SP2. Tried to …

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I was trying to "clean" up an old emachine. It has Windows ME. I was deleting stuff and obviously went too far. It shut down. When I start up again it gives me the desktop with my regular background and picture, but nothing else. Is there a way to type …

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Okay...so I stupidly clicked on the AIM myspace link, and now I have the virus. However, I think the AIM virus opens the door to many other viruses, since I'm now getting pop-ups and trojan alerts. I attached my hijackthis log below, if someone could walk me through a clean-up, …

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When i open a video of something and it is a .wmv file or the video is opened in Windows media player the colours are different to what they should be. i cant get a pic to show but the colours are brighter and more faded than they should be. …

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I've ben googling this question for some time now and your website keeps poping up so I'll ask the question and I hope someone can help... My computer is not allowing me to open links how can I disable this? I try to open a link to say target and …

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I've looked and looked. Changed hostname files, nodename, played with init.d/network, sys-unconfig etc... I'm using Solaris 9 on an x86 laptop. Here it goes: I had booted Knoppix with the laptop. I took the hard drive out and installed a new one to use for Solaris (the point being this: …

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Have a wireless network set up - Netgear Dg34G v2 router. Has been working well (over 18 months) - today all fine on main PC but cannot connect to the network via PDA or laptop (laptop will connect to other wireless networks). Have rebooted and reset router. All lights on! …

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I installed Airport Extreme and connected an Epson 2200. I can print from my iBook to the Bonjour 2200. However, when I try to print from my MACMini, it tries to add the printer (It sees it) and then goes into an endless loop and becomes non-responsive. I have reset …

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Hello I did an antivirus scan the other day, and here are my results: [url]http://us.mcafee.com/root/runapplication.asp?appid=73[/url] McAfee Antivirus scan August 7-06 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DHTMLAccess.dll Downloader-DA.dll C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\EGHTMLDialer.dll Downloader-DA.dll C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DialerOffline.dll Adware-StripPlayer C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\GirlControlCom.dll Adware-StripPlayer C:\WINDOWS\SCANREGW.EXE Downloader-SS C:\WINDOWS\...\backup-20060729-140418-210.dll Adware-HungryHands C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\dialer.exe Dialer-gen C:\Program Files\...\SearchUpgrader.exe Adware-KeenValue C:\Program Files\...\DemoDerby\GameSpy.url Adware-Url.gen C:\Program Files\180search Assistant\180sa.exe Adware-180SA C:\Program Files\MaxALERT\SaveNowInst.exe Adware-SaveNow C:\Palm\tess\Install\casino.exe …

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I'm having some of the same problems as other people have been posting re; hotmail. I downloaded MessengerBeta a few weeks ago and it worked fine. Then yesterday it told me that there was a newer version to download, so I did. Well ever since then I cannot access my …

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I have encountered a problem booting up in Safe Mode. Trying to delete some pesky spyware .dlls, I tried booting up in Safe Mode. The computer booted up no problem, but after the 'Windows is starting up' screen, it went black, with a red rectangle from my LCD screen's interface …

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I have a Toshiba M35X laptop I would like to upgrade. I would like to know if I could replace the celeron M cpu,with a Pentium 4 M. Thanks in advance for any help.

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Hi I just got a Linksys WRT54G router from my employer so I can work from home. I connected it to my pc and typed in 192.168.1.1 into my browser so I could configure it. The browser just hung and then timed out. I also tried to ping the address …

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Hello guys, did you ever heard about hardware card (I think it goes into PCI slot) on which you can sav operating system files so that even If you delete some system files on system partition (where Windows is installed) every time you restart system files that were deleted are …

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My toshiba laptop has a black screen. It is on but nothing at all on the screen. It all started by trying to add a modem driver. The screen turned blue with a bad pool caller error and now nothing. I know it's probably not worth it to fix - …

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Hello, Firstly the machine in question is a Defcon(never heard of it either) ATX It consists of:- PSU model ATX-350 MOBO model L7VMM3 ver 1.0c CPU model Pro3100A+ (soldered on athlon xp 2000+) RAM model Spectek 256MB pc2700DDR (only the one) CD R/RW drive model GCE8525B Floppy Samsung model SFD-321B …

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Hello, Recently, i have been thinking about changing the look and style of my case. I've found some good looking ones but I need to know how and what are the steps of case switching. Would any of you guys please lend me a site or teach me about case …

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I want to know how you can get the web page font larger? I know I go to view and increase but how do I get it to stay larger. My wife doesn't see very well and doesn't want to have to keep changing it every time she goes to …

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Lots of pop ups and adware things installing themselves on my computer. I have ran ewido and ad-aware several times but i still have a big problem. Here's my HJT log: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 1:11:36 PM, on 8/13/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet …

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This topic is intended to be read by DaniWeb member 'dlh6213'. If you can help with this problem, feel free to post, but this was made for help from 'dlh6213'. Here is the Ewido Log (Done before running combofix): --------------------------------------------------------- ewido anti-spyware - Scan Report --------------------------------------------------------- + Created at: 8:49:39 …

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hi ok ive spent the last three days of my hols trying to fix my computer, and its actually working now but i had to reboot the whole thing. but the thing is everytime i turn on my computer it still asks for the reboot cd ( it used to …

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Everything is working fine, with one annoying exception. My IE home page is NYTimes.com, and it opens correctly as home page or when accessed from address line by URL. Home page has many links, and when I click on these links, I get following message: "Microsoft Internet Explorer has encountered …

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Hello, I just recently registered on this website as i have a problem. i used to have a nvidia geforce 5700 graphics card and i just recently updated to a nvidia geforce 7600 PCI-express graphics card and a 2.8ghz ASUS motherboard. All of my games worked fine before i got …

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:sad: All I have is a green light beside my power button.It is a windows 2000 Pro.The fans don't run,1 fan runs for maby 2 seconds.Floopy doesn't run,nor the cd rom,they have no power. The hard disk is ok,I tried it in another computor.:) Could some one please help me.There …

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