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i recently installed zone alarm a few hours ago and it has blocked[B]1180[/B] intrusions and 10 of which were serious... all from diffrent IP's what the heck should i do

My laptop with Vista has just gone nuts. It will not boot except in safe mode. When trying to boot in normal mode, it will not finish the boot and when I try to execute an action with a mouse click the screen will dim(actually turn a soft white). I …

I reinstalled my friend's machine. She is missing a DVD decoder now and cannot play DVDs. Tried downloading the K-Lite Codec Pack and VLC player, but when she plays a DVD with either of those, the video opens in a full screen on her monitor but then she is unable …

Hi! Help! I have an HP Pavilion with XP Professional purchased in '06. AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor. I goofed it good! First got a few pop-ups from Trend Micro with "risk warnings" about unauthorized changes to security, to which one of my responses was to accidentally block …

After I changed to a newer video card, shut down and started again my monitor has been dark, no display. RAM, processor, drive are all OK; the video card is in its slot and I have confirmed that all cards are firmly in their slots. Does anybody have an idea …

How can i get more than one web page open at once. As soon as I go on another, the first shuts

The windows folder in c: is not visible in my computer... it opens through run.. its not visible while trying to go through my computer or explorer.. when i checked the properties for the windows folder.. it shows that hidden is checked.. but it doesn't allow me to remove the …

Hey guys, I am beyond the point of despair now. Let me explain what happened: Just several hours ago my AVG detected ardamax keylogger. I quarantined this keylogger and rebooted my computer. Upon start up, my computer no longer works. If I open internet explorer for the internet, I see …

I am a former Microsoft Tech lady, MSN and all than jazz. I am in need aof a product key code for XP Home edition for a PC I am repairing. The PC had a Trojan which wiped it out. I have repaired the problem and by the way watch …

i closes U3 and got the message "Shutdown failed Use the Force Luke!" what should i do

I'm not new to the world of computers, but I am new to a lot of problemes with windows vista. With my bitdefender, I learned that I have a trojan.qhost.akr trojan, and I tired finding a solution on the web, but was unable to follow up on the instructions since …

Dear All, It seems Firefox 3 and IE 7 in my pc DOES NOT accepting cookies. All required steps have taken by me to enable but still has same problem Even re-installing does not solve :( Please please some one help me :'(

Hi - Brent here. I am running Windows XP Prof. I have a partitioned hard disk with two partitions c and f. I am running out of space in "c" and am having difficulty doing a defrag. I am getting messages appearing at bottom right hand side by clock advising …

Whenever I click on a download button, the downloading thing pops up, everything is normal, but... Estimated Time: Download To: Transfer rate: Is all empty, and usually there would be numbers. After like 2 minutes a new window would open and say(exact words): Internet Explorer cannot download (whatever it is …

I share my laptop with the GF and she uninstalled some Java items from it. We have an old IBM thinkpad wih Windows XP and we seem to have lost Word, Excel and probably a few other ms applications. I have spent a couple of days searching the web and …

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to recover a file that was replaced (overwritten) by a file with the same name moved from another folder? Thanks.

my friend accedently deleted her profile in xp..now all her mails & datas are missing.Can someone help me to recover those datas for her.. thomas

Hey Guys in a nutsell.Ive connected two household desktop machines running windows xp. Ive networked the two machine with a crossover gave them IP addresses ie 192.9.200.20 and 192.9.200.21(their random)Both link speeds are the same 10mbps(full)Ive changed it to different links speeds also.Anyways Ive disabled all firewalls.The thing is theres …

Greetz, I'm facing slight confusion over permissions on a Fileserver running Windows Server 2003. I've created a number of new shared folders and moved data across no problem. The share permissions are set as 'everyone' having full control and since the most restrictive permissions are applied I've allocated individual NTFS …

Hello everyone, My main computer is a windows XP.I don't know much, if anything other than a few basic things,I do Interior Designer/Decorating work,not anything computer related. When I am running this computer, the start menu will pop up out of the blue and windows related to start and shut …

I have loaded windows SBS 2003 several time each time with different levels of partition removal and format. I have tried different installation CD's. Each time I get the same result. Windows SBS loads and all the standard questions are answered. Windows starts and everything appears normal, [B]BUT[/B] the management …

i restarted my computer and got the messege 'ntldr missing press ctl +alt+del' to restart I inserted the Windows XP pack 1 CD , and booted from the CD and in tried to repair the missing files by running this two lines from the command line C:\WINDOWS> copy e:\ ntldr …

I have XP Home My computer just recovered from PSU failure. Now I click on the desktop icons and nothing happens - no hour glass no starting of programs. The Icon dims. I have made new icons and the same thing happens to the new ones. The icons on any …

Problem: Windows wont finish booting up after Windows Load screen after I restarted for network controller driver update. I went to boot up in safe mode so I could just do a system restore but when It boots up in safe mode my mouse and keyboard is not responding so …

After I changed to a newer video card, shut down and started again my monitor has been dark, no display. RAM, processor, drive are all OK; the video card is in its slot and I have confirmed that all cards are firmly in their slots. Does anybody have an idea …

Hi, This is NOT an Internet Explorer question. I do not have access to this machine. I loaded Windows XP Media Center Edition on a 1 - 2 yr old Gateway PC using the supplied Gateway recovery CD. I downloaded the [color=#e10000][b]correct[/b][/color] chipset, nic, video card, sound card drivers from …

Hello good folks at Daniweb !!!!!! I have a Dell Dimention 2350 , Windows XP Home edition, SP2. The computer just shuts down at time without error messages. I can be on the net or running any program. Then it just restarts as if I I pushed the start button. …

Hi there! I haven't been able to boot my xp machine for a couple of weeks, and decided to "repair" it with the xp cd (SP1) And there wasent no problems at all until the computer restarted like it was supsosed to, and began to install some files, or something …

Hello all, I bought a new HP slimline with Vista. I installed Office 95, but found out it wouldn't open files I created with a later edition. I tried to uninstall it, but the software won't uninstall. I did have a Office 2002 Cd, so I tried to install that …

Hi everyone, When my system connected to net, it asked to register my windows xp . i have registered and it has been verified my microsoft and declared that it is not genuine, and asking me go buy genuine. And iam not allowed to update my system. Later i bot …

I recently installed Itunes. Since doing this windows media player has added duplicates of most of the music files. I am running windows xp with sp2 which was upgraded from windows me. Computer runs fine but since installing itunes I noticed in windows explorer that itunes installed itself in the …

XP doesn't see cdrom drives after system restore. BIOS sees them fine, device manager has yellow flags on both drives, says drivers are missing or corrupt. Installed older cdrom drive, saya the same thing.

I got a nasty little virus so I deleted my hard drive but I restarted my pc before it finished formatting (STUPID) now I cant format it at all when I go into set up windows XP it believes the disc isn't in the machine when it is. Can anyone …

I bought half life that came with two disks.I run the auto popup screen that install a so called steam program.no sign of half life (original disks).after the install a run steam and it says cant find steam.dll.I download file and it says cant find steamUI.dll,I download and install the …

My mom give me this scanner, Visioneer One Touch 5300 usb, and the cd that came with it is win 98. Without using cd I plugged it in and used my subcription to driver guide.com to find the driver, it recognized the device and give me the driver, I installed …

I have got a nasty virus on my desktop running windows xp sp2 Basically, it has: - Disable mcafee services - Disabled all cookies - Hijacked my ie I have read countless forums and have tried what seems like thousands of methods All of the methods I have read about …

hi I run Windows XP SP2. Whenever i go to the "run" dialog box and enter "cmd", i get a dialog box that says [B]your system is shutting down in 49:59[/B]. I have to type "shutdown -a" to get rid of it, but i've got sick of it. Plus i …

I tried a repair install on Windows XP, but in the middle of it it tried to run rundll32.exe and is now asking me to choose a program to open with. I posted for help about the original virus on the forums, and got asked for a log. But, I …

Hello.. i have serious problem with games... on both OS xp and vista.. first i have xp when i play any game including CS 1.6 .. my fps goes down to 10 for 1 minute or more. and then go back to normal after that.. this repeats.. also when that …

My gateway 500sb computers hard drive recenlty crashed as in, its toast. I now have another hardrive- Western Digital 400- 40 gb. Now when i start to install windows XP it says "No hard disc found, please make sure it is connected blah blah blah." I made sure it is …

I have Norton Internet Security 2008 on my laptop. It automatically told me to download a file at start up. I followed Norton's instructions and downloaded the file, and ran the program it told me to. The files name was SymFix_1002-1.exe. I then restarted the computer as the instructions read. …

Hi all, I m using win xp sp2. Since last two weeks my ie7 started crashing regularly. so i downloaded firefox 3 and after working for a few days it also started crashing. Same story after i downloaded & installed safari. Finally i rolled back to ie6 and firefox2. But …

I am using windows XP and I am having probles with the Internet Explorer Address Tool Bar as when I do a search , usualy with Google when I click on one of the search results it initialy displays the correct URL address but then this changes to a copletly …

I am using Windows XP version 2002 SP 2 as i start computer a dialog box with title "Can't run 16-bit Windows program" opens in desktop and where "Insufficient memory to run this application. Quit one or more Windows application and then try again" is written. there is only OK …

I am getting an error that sais: The instruction at "0x636e315e" refrenced memory at "0x00c6c0b0". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program and a message like that comes 6 times for every time i close somthing. I need help on fixing this error please …

I recently formatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows xp pro. After putting on all my data and programmes i released i had no sound on the computer. There is no icon on the taskbar and device manager at the sigmatel high defination audio codec there is a question mark. …

Can anyone please tell me what they believe to be the BEST antivirus, anti-spyware and firewall....I have quiet a few virus related problems a year :S

Dear Friends Whenever i restart my pc it shows [B]press F1 to continue[/B] at startup screen How can i remove this problem and my pc is new hp brand pc (3 days old) Thanking you pardeep

[QOUTE] Hai friends , i have the HP laptop with Window's vista OS , while i am working in my laptop ,sometime it sudenly restart and show the physical memory problem in blue screen. is this my laptop problem or OS problem , please share your opinion ....... thanks in …

Ok I wanna play this game and its a culmination of a long desire to upgrade my new computer Called Age of Conan...My budget is about up $500 heres the requirements Required OS: Windows Vista/XP Processor: 3GHz Pentium IV RAM: 1GB RAM Video Card: Shader Model 2.0 and 128MB RAM: …