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| | [COLOR=Magenta]Trying to simply change the colour of my desktop is causing a real problem[/COLOR] I select this [via Rightclicking the desktop> properties> desktop> colour] the screen greys out (as normal), like it's thinking of doing something, but then hey presto - nothing happens and i have the same desktop EXCEPT … |
| | My computer has worked fine for the past few months, but all of a sudden it has started restarting randomly. Sometimes it will boot into Windows and run for up to a few hours, other times it will restart during the Windows loading and sometimes it won't even POST. The …  |
| | originally i have a windows ME with 16mb ATI Rage Ultra video card. now i upgraded the sys with an upgrade cd of windows xp cd, now i had a problem with the sys because its running slow. now i tried to reformat the hard drive by installing the windows …  |
| | i am now having issues with popups coming up.. its ridiculous how many come up... first it was when i was using ie so i downloaded friefox, but it still comes up is there a way to fix this and is there further info u need? |
| | My son is visiting from his Navy station in Sicily, and I bought him a laptop. Although we had turned on Firewall Protection and activated Norton Antivirus, and he was trying to be careful with the sites he was visiting, he still managed to pull in some spyware. We bought … |
| | I have an IBook G4 933 and since it was brand new it randomly freezes. I sent it back to Apple and they have found no errors and suggested installing more memory. I installed 512 Mb RAM and it suddenly stop freezing. Two year later (February 19th) it freezes again …  |
| | Looking for a good music downloading program compadable with a mac, something like how napster is set uop, were u pay a fee per month for unlimited downloads, or something free. |
| | help me please!!!! I am having problems with my windows system 32 folder always opening up when ever I sign on to my computer. I don't remembe having this problem until I downloaded my aol security system check. Is there ayway I can stop my system 32 from opening everytime … |
| | I'm new at this! I have a Mac OS 10.2, my browser is Explorer 5.2.1. Evertime I attempt to download video streams I get the following message. "You do not have the proper plug in. It will then take me to a plug in page of which there is nothing … |
 | I'm buying a new PDA phone (Not that I ever had one). I have a Cell phone and a PDA, and I think it's time to consoladate. I'm looking into the following two models by Verizon and MS Windows: [URL=http://palmtops.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=palmtops&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fvzwshop.com%2Ftreo700w%2F]Treo 700W[/URL] and [URL=http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=570]Audiovox PPC-6600[/URL] I find that the Treo is …  |
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| | I have a relatively new (Aug '05) Sony Vaio S460 that has a nasty habit of crashing. It follows a relatively predictable pattern in that it will crash soon after powering up, displaying a blue screen for a split second, before restarting. Afterwards, it is stable for days. There is …  |
| | Hi All, new to forum. I've searched previous posts and cant find a similiar problem so I'm getting really worried. about 5 seconds after booting my computer it powers down. I have disconnected all the drives and PCI cards to see if I can isolate the problem but even with … |
| | My computer is seriously messed up..it's full of unwanted pop ups...winfixer pops..you name it, i have got it :rolleyes: someone told me to use HIJACK THIS software..and delete the unwanted mess.. can anyone have a look at it! Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 5:58:25 PM, on 13/02/2006 Platform: … |
 | Hello. I hope someone can help. Apple can't. Expose' intermittently just stops working sometimes. It may happen after a pop under occurs, but I can't pin it down to that. Apple (tier one) wanted to do an 'Archive & Install of course. Instead they said to switch to test user. … |
| | When I flashed the bios using Compaq's SP file in XP, I received an error message "Unable to write block 4". The computer then shut down and will not post. I can get a new bios chip and have it written, but I need the binary file with 512K. Compaq … |
| | Hi folks, I have just built a new system (specs below) and I've hit a snag. Since I put it together, the system will not shut down when it should, so I decided to get chipset drivers and BIOS up to date. The motherboard came with BIOS 1005 installed so …  |
| | [url]http://cgi.ebay.com/ASUS-CUV4X-REV-1-03-INTEL-MOTHER-BOARD-W-P3-CPU_W0QQitemZ6849910024QQcategoryZ42006QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/url] this link is to a pic of a mother board thats somthing like mine if you look at the top left hand side of the board there is a small brown dual input slot in between the the long white one and the longer black one to the far … |
| | My norton subscription recently ran out and I constantly get subscription renewall popups. I don't want to renew it. Can these popups be eliminated without uninstalling Norten.  |
| | I cannot download the WP for Mac and make it work. I have am iMac G4. Thanks for any help, Alberto |
| | I had 2@256MB Dual Channel on my WXP SP1. Removed the two memory chips replaced by single channel 1 GB memory chip The system at startup recognized the 1024 Memory BUT WXP w'not BOOT. Any suggestions. or explanations. Do I have to reinstall WXP because I upgraded memory!!!!!! |
| | I have a 1998 CTX EZBOOK laptop. When I turn it on I get an error message that reads "Operating System Not Found". When I insert my Windows 98 CD I get the same message. When I inserted my CTX Restore 98 CD I gotthe message: "Checking HD partitions... Invalid … |
| | i'm urgent to get any help i can get. my photos were in a file listed by dates (altogether 15 days, that is to say, 15 subfiles there). they were in Drive c and i tried to 'move' this whole file to Drive D. i clicked 'move' and it began … |
| | I am working on a compaq presario 700, when it powers up it runs fantastic. However, once you shut it down it will not start back up. This does not happen all the time, it happens about every other time. It is getting power, but aparently not to the board. … |
| | Hi There, I'm new to this and I have been trying ( for 4 days)to get rid of all the symptoms on my computer from a huge virus/spyware blast I somehow picked up. The last thing I have is that horrible guard.tmp which keeps on coming no matter what I … |
| | I have just did a clean install xphome everything has gone well considering it was my first. I did all the stuff from the optimize xp linkhttp://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html#Tweaks I am trying to do a few things and getting nowhere, get to the point right. trying to load the drivers from creative … |
| | Dell 8300 xp home sp2 I was just tweaking and stuff, reading all your great info trying to speed it up. Well I installed a program that filters the start up's and running processes since I'm not to bright and didn't want to shut off the wrong stuff. I removed … |
| | I had a problem with my mobod and sent it in to gigabyte. They said 3 weeks turn around and it is now day 32 and no mobod. I was wondering if all places are that way or is there another company that will get it back to you faster. … |
 | Hello! I've recently made the switch from windows .... well technically i still run on both .... but anyway....... I'm having troubles with AmaroK 1.3 for SUSE 10.0 and the song will play... but then will not proceed to the next song!! It just stops playing all together..... so any … |
| | Hello, I'm having a problem with my computer startup. When the computer boots it stops saying FDC error, press F1 to continue. I get that it means Floppy Disc Controller error, but the funny thing is I don't even have a floppy disc drive. I have a feeling that this … |
| | Hi! My eMachine wont boot and hard disk wont run. As soon as it turns on it beeps 1, 3 times, 3 times and 1 more. The lights on the CD and DVD flashes and in about 30 to 40 seconds it goes off. What happened prior to this? I … |
| | Hi guys, I have a gateway computer. My problem is that the monitor does not display anything when I switch the computer on, even when the LCD indicator is on. It all started when the display started getting shaky and warped, threatening to switch off. I then switched off the … |
| | Hello there! I´m not exactly shure if I´m right on this page cause I´m not a Computer prof. but I´ve got a serious problem wich I can´t solve, so I hope you can maybe help me (also my english isn´t the best and I have to translate into English but … |
| | I am doing an independent study this semester for this startup website. They want me to do the code to run this quasi-blogging feature and they want parts of it to use AJAX (technology that gmail uses to be so cool). Anyway, I know little about the technology, much less …  |
| | Okie.. i tried to end some of the tasks that could of possibly been an act of a spyware or a virus. And well.. for some reason terminated the task manager.. FOR GOOD! Any idea how i can get it back? "I use Windows XP" |
| | I'm searching for info on Spyaxe. I don't know how I got it, but I'm doing some research on it. So far not much help. I ran HJT and here's my log. Any help would be greatly appreciated... Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 12:42:24 AM, on 1/2/2006 Platform: … |
| | Im not sure if I am under the right Thread! Im new so please excuse if i have some probs that are already on here. :o My computer is a complete disaster. I have did a complete system recovery on it. That didnt work. I could of done it wrong. … |
 | Is it possible to reformat a hard drive and install Windows XP using a windows startup disk (floppy)? And if so, how? Note: I cannot get the PC to boot from CD and thats why I was wondering if this is possible. Ive been trying to reforamt a troublesome PC …  |
| | I have a CD-ROM drive. All of a sudden the icon for the CD-ROM drive does not appear in My Computer and using the find linlk I cannot find any othere disc frive except for drive C. How can I get my PC to show my CD-ROM drive? Before this … |
| | I have an older computer, Compaq Presario 4770 with a Pentium 200 processor, 32 MB RAM, running Windows 98. I am looking for FREE firewall and antivirus programs that will run on my system. I have tried Avast, AVG, and Zone Alarm, but they all require a faster processor and …  |
| | Outlook Express wont send/receive messages sometimes. When i send a message window comes up and says 'Some errors occurred while processing the requested tasks. please review the list of errors below for more details' Then it says 'Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server … |
| | I have recently installed fedora 3 core after facing some problems as it was not installed on sata disk in enhanced mode.( I have changed the bios option to legacy and installed fedora). And after that recently i have again installed XP medial center edition in my system. There after … |
| | Hi everyone, it's my first post here, so play nice! ;) Everything was working fine on the computer (Win XP), and then all hell broke loose. I downloaded a video clip from a friend off msn, and then after watching it, I could no longer load up Internet Explorer, or … |
| | bought a new 7800gs...tried it in my pc and could not get it to work..was told it was faulty..so i sent it back. When i recieve the new one i was getting the same problem. Bios and POST will show..but when it comes time to load the windows screen, the … |
| | Please help me deleting this virus or trojan or whatever.Norton detects it mostly when I restart my pc, and can't access the file. Then I close the warning windows and continue working; every now and then, the warning windows appear again! Here it is my Hijack This log: Logfile of …  |
| | Hello everyone. My name is Anthony and I have a Sony VAIO, with Windows XP Home Edition. This morning I woke up and my computer had froze-up/was unresponsive. I had a peer-to-peer running and the numbers (speed I was receiving the files) was changing but I couldn't do anything. I … |
| | I apologize that I'm not a user that logs on very often. I've been doing this close to 30 years now, I just haven't kept up with newer tech. I have an old Compaq with XP Pro installed and a new WD 250GB drive which was working fine. In the … |
| | I havn't used this specific computer in a while, so I just wanted to double check it didn't have spyware before I started using it. No problems, just wondering if someone could look at the HJT log. Thanks. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 6:50:14 PM, on 2/17/2006 Platform: … |
| | i kept getting a "need to close error" whenever i tired to open WMP so i uninstalled and reinstalled WMP10 and now well basically have this this error: [IMG]http://img301.echo.cx/img301/6532/error10bl.png[/IMG] so i removed WMP from my add/remove progs. and installed it again but the thing is it says i have the … |
| | please help| I am no longer able to hear sound when playing DVD's (Intervideo DVD) or cd's with video ie on Wndows media player. The only sound we hear is an ordinary CD in windows cd player. We do not hear sound when starting up Windows or Chimes etc. I …  |
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