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 | Re: error on boot up Is this a corporate (business) laptop? Because for obvious reasons we prefer not to advise on those. The Intel Management Engine Interface or IME is used for remote management, it controls boot security via password and access to some hardware systems as well as the OS. Can you turn it …  |
| | Try downloading AdwCleaner from www.bleepingcomputer.com. Run it, and delete all that it finds.  |
| | And you are sure that file is where that message says XP is looking for it : C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\DLCJtime.dll ? The message pops at system start? Maybe something that that software depends upon has not also been started; it's a Dell software, go into Services, find Dell printer entry and set …  |
| | There was no need to put your product key up [a moderator should delete that ,please...]. When you install Windows and enter that above product key a Product ID will be created. You can find that by looking at My Computer properties... it is in the registration information. You don't …  |
 | In safe mode? Monitor the CPU temp and its performance. Scans can load things up at times. Maybe open the thing and clean the blanket from the heatsink. |
| | Hello, Ann. Just to see if your problem derives from a Chrome extension, you might run ADWCleaner from http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ It is simple to use, just press Scan, then when it finishes press Report; post that notepad content. |
 | Finally, eBay are realising the consequences and possible damage to their reputation and bank balance, and risk to clients' digital security.... "It said it would be contacting users to alert them of the issue via email, its website, adverts and social media. A spokesman added that the firm's engineers were … |
| | That BIOS setting about restarting after power interruption (if you have it)- it should not be the problem in your case, but try turning it off. I don't have it set to auto restart because if a power outage is bad the power line auto-restart system will try to reconnect … |
 | That message sounds rather suspicious, and I'm not altogether sure that Windows could run on 1/2 Meg of RAM anyway. I've seen it manage with 128 MB, but 1/2? I think you need to do a scan, and for that you will need a bootable cd or UFD.. may I … |
| | It often is the result of spyware, etc, ravi. Try this, too: ==Please download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from: [url]http://www.majorgeeks.com/Malwarebytes_Anti-Malware_d5756.html[/url] or: [url]http://www.besttechie.net/tools/mbam-setup.exe[/url] =Dclick that file, mbam-setup.exe, to install the application, -ensure that it is set to update and start, else start it via the icon, and UPDATE it. Select "Perform QUICK Scan", … |
| | Re: 100% cpu usage Looks like MBAM solved your problem. Nothing else shows after a quick glance at logs. |
| | You only need the HKLM value to launch explorer. Will it run at all, ie. can you launch it from Task Manager, or cmd console? ...just enter explorer.exe. If you use internet explorer to navigate to the /Windows folder, does explorer.exe exist? Will it launch if you dclick it? Enter … |
| | Couple of things... you either have a redirector malware which is just not good at its job, or, more likely, a failure of some of your system softwares involved in rendering pages. Me, I'd grab my installation dvd/cd and run in a command window: sfc /scannow That will replace any … |
 | " ...see if something got me...." -chances are it did. Do this for a start... ===hijackthis: [url]http://216.180.233.162/~merijn/files/HijackThis.exe[/url] -install it to a new folder alongside your program files -in that folder start HijackThis by dclicking the .exe; now close ALL other applications and any open windows including the explorer window containing … |
| | Yeah, HijackThis is over. Trend bought it out and a year later allowed it to languish, no further development. And in this case, it shows no malware indications. I'm afraid malware has moved on; it's shamefully poor stuff that is picked up by such a simple scan. John, you copped … |
| | If it's a broken shortcut in W7 loader that you wish to remove, then use BCDEdit via the cmd console. It's a pest to use, because you need it so rarely, and the command structure is obtuse, hence I find I must look up the guide every time. But there … |
| | Try the memory diagnostic.  |
| | Well, you go and torrent it somewhere. You won't get any advice from here for that cracked OS. Other than that, I spose... And if you get burned with something nasty in it, you won't get help with that, either. More advice. Sigh. |
| | With dual booting XP and W7, it is best to install XP first; W7 will then overwrite the boot secor with its own files, which it MUST have available. W7 can then be directed to locate other installations, eg. XP, and set its loader to boot them. If you install … |
| | There is this to read.... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753525.aspx Else you could just run this... icacls "C:\Program Files (x86)\CrossTec\CrossTec Remote Control\Support" /grant everyone:f But you must be an admin to run it successfully. Why? Because you took away everyone's permissions. If you are a User, then you have now no permission to modify …  |
 | Clean. But... -Remove all old Javas with JavaRa [free] and update to 7.51 [or go to the Java site, update and then run their test/old Java uninstaller tool]. Old Java installations are one of the two greatest security issues. -Clear your MBAM quarantine. |
 | A first for me, also. You could try Adwcleaner from http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ - run the exe, hit Scan. When it completes you can press Report and post the result here for advice. Review finds carefully if you wish to Clean unaided. As an aside, Ghostery will block adcash and similar sites … |
| | Uninstall Java again, then run the Java removal tool from Sun Java site, run Malwarebytes from the .org site, then try to reinstall Java. https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/uninstaller_toolinfo.xml "but thats not my problem " Right. |
| | Total the ones (or the twos) with an IF statement (or both).. IF(SEX=1;M+1;F+1). That will give you the ratio of M vs F; ratio of Ms and Fs in population is straightforward from there. An average does not strictly apply in your case. |
| | Re: Swapping Systems "What Have I missed." -nothing, yet, but it's coming.... "I have all the tools for any trouble that may occure" -roses?  |
 | Do you have sufficient space on your W7 lappie to image the W8 hdd? Then use Minitools Partition Wizard (free, download it): first of all, use it to scrunch up the files on your W8 hdd into the smallest partition(s) possible, next to create contiguous unallocated space on your W7 … |
 | To check when last copied or viewed.... without accessing the file yourself you check its Date Accessed attribute (just go to its parent folder, or the root and check from there). Of course, all these attributes are metadata, and being such can be manipulated at will... so a canny file … |
 | Re: Spambot Problem Hello, Lynn, and welcome. From what you say it appears that you have been infected by malware which has read your email address book and then proceeded to use those addresses to spread itself via infected emails. But you knew that... Anyway, that makes it a trojan (just an industry … |
| | Things like this serve to support the notion that Apple users are more intelligent. As far as I am aware, it is not recorded that anyone has gone to a greengrocer for Apple products. Ok, there is that brilliant BBC skit with Ronnie Corbett....  |
 | diskpart? Set it back to type 07 |
| | 9) But I haven't a clue how to recover the drivers for my keyboard and mouse, which work so flawlessly in POST operations. 10) It seems what I need is a bootable short program that will install my keyboard and mouse USB drivers, and have wininit accept that installation, restoring … |
 | And some trojans are capable of self repair - they already download portions of themselves to complete the infection, so repair is quite straightforward. Viruses? Nope, that's not how they work. |
| | For a start, HijackThis is pretty much out of its depth with W7. And malware is generally too smart now to appear in a simple scanner like HT, which has not been maintained/updated for years. A waste of time. Your multiple explorer.exes... I see that you are running BitTorrent - … |
| | In the Windows startup options screen ( http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/advanced-startup-options-including-safe-mode#1TC=windows-7 )set the system so that it does not automatically restart upon errors such as BSOD. Then next time, give the error code so displayed. Likely there will be a faulting process listed also. If you often get "a black screen that says … |
| | Do a hard reset while it is powered up. Wait for the lamps to flick off, then release the button.  |
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| | If you know what you are doing, then open a cmd window as System and run delete file from there. So, in a admin cmd window, enter: at 12:34 /interactive cmd.exe where 12:34 is, say, one minute ahead of your current time. |
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| | A few things on this page are of some note: http://www.prolific.com.tw/US/ShowProduct.aspx?p_id=225&pcid=41 Correct version of software driver, correct hardware chip for W8/8.1, not counterfeit chipset... if none of those appply then the installer should work. Note that you can download and install directly from Windows Update. |
| | vino, the field separator in libre office is a semicolon " ; ". So... IF(C2;"";"";TODAY()) Openoffice is absolutely strict about formula formats, I do not know about Libre. OO would throw an error message into the cell [all cells]. PErhaps you could show a screenshot of the formula in an … |
| | Here is something else to learn. Users with lower permissions can use cacls to restrict permissions, as you have so done, but that user cannot grant more relaxed permissions. As you have seen. To reverse what you have done, you will need to have an administration-rights account. And then it …  |
 | with an AMI BIOS, pressing Delete a couple of times as soon as you turn on the system should get you into BIOS Setup where you can alter the CMOS data. F8 you press for the BBS popup just after drive detection; any later and it will give you the … |
| | "the installation put a new DLL on the system that replaced one of the standard ones" That would be just too naughty. I thought M$ and the industry had stomped that path to hell looong ago, and sorted it. Maybe not. But if your suggestion is the case here, then …  |
| | I can understand your post, boris. Coming from Greater Tian Chao, you're doing okay. As regards M$ security patches well, yes, your computer can survive without them as long as you don't happen to stumble upon an infected website and suffer a "drive-by" download of a trojan, or open an … |
| | Happy, Idly reading articles about security, hacking, password use, hash thefts, covert surveillence, leaks.... and trying to put it all together with the public's rush to divulge all on Facebook, to be part of anything on Twitter, to be a friend of anyone and everyone, to like strangers and unknown … |
| | Hi, John. To stop Outlook (Express?) freezing, use Explorer to navigate to your Outlook account; change the name of your Inbox.dbx to Inbox.old. You should now be able to start OE without it freezing. OE will create a new Inbox.dbx file. Go to Tools, Options and check Read messages in … |
 | May i inquire as to why you don't wish to use TOR? Speed? In that case a paid VPN service will get you more. |
| | Re: Soundcard check Hi, Rik. So I got a simple audio sinewave generator off the web... and my on-mobo soundchip {realtek] gave up at about 12KHz. It ran up to 11600, but 12000 gave too much of a background rushing sound, not just a clear tone. Viewing it on a realtime analyser [shareware … |
| | Hi, Kristen, just as a quick test start explorer.exe from Task Manager [File, New Task... explorer.exe] or from the cmd prompt [TM again, File, Ctrl-click New Task.. explorer.exe]. That should give the desktop back. If that is the case, then please show me the content of this registry key by … |
| | Not a user of W8.... but it seems that you have lost your system's password AND confused your Windows Live acount? Hmmm.. busy mind. Okay, I understand the Petter Nordahl-Hagen's Offline NT Password & Registry Editor works with W8 to reset the password. You can then start the sys and …  |
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