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[QUOTE=ricosapphire]I tried searching for this topic but couldn't find anything posted about this. When I make new favorites, sometimes the site has a custom icon and is then shown in the favorites. But, they seem to disappear on me, and now I'm back to all of them being the default …

[quote="hunter007"]My first question here is: where I should start from in Linux?[/quote] I recommend [b]Knoppix[/b], since there's no need to install. You can get your feet wet and garner a basic understanding of Linux BEFORE going through the process of installation. No matter which distribution you wind up going with, …

[QUOTE=Blue29]I am looking to either buy a new computer or have one built for me. Can you tell me what computer would be best or where would be a good place to go to have one built for me? I know I want a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM. It will mainly be …

[QUOTE=FSUchucky3]...when i put a CD that someone has burned for me, it reads it as a blank CD.[/QUOTE] Does it do this with all CD-Rs, or just this one? It may be a compatibility problem. Another possibility is dirty optics -- you could try a CD cleaner disc.

[quote="vintage"]I just installed winxp to try it out, and for some reason it hates my video card. the screen flickers and craps out. if i turn off hardware acceleration it works fine. i downloaded the new drivers for the card. it works great under win98, redhat 8, and slackware 7. …

[QUOTE=INut0nU]Motherboard - ECS K7S5A PROBLEM I have expericened random system restarts since installing the new hard drive, and also have ruled out a RAM problem.[/QUOTE] There are a couple of possible problems and solutions here. A main one is the power supply. Adding a high-capacity hard drive can increase the …

[QUOTE=viperman224]I just received a computer from a friend. It is a PII 300mhz with 64 megs of ram, 3.2 gig hard drive. My question is how do I identify my motherboard. I have a feeling it is a very good board. It has an Award Modular Bios v4.51PG (29-may-1998), on-board …

[QUOTE=Zoogies]..the entire contents of My Documents (and my wallpaper folder, and C:\Programs\Terragen, would be nice too...) HAVE to be recovered...it is absolutely critical that the files in my Documents be recovered in some way[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.ntfs.com/boot-disk.htm[/url] has a free-download floppy disk image that, when expanded to a floppy, creates a bootable …

[QUOTE=killa62]My friend sent me his Hp pavilion ZT1000 for me to fix... 1. laptop randomly crashes whenever it feels like it (1 sec- 3 hrs) 2. While it's crashed, the lcd still displays the last image, but no form of imput works. 3. Sometimes, it boots up to a blank …

[QUOTE=Tekmaven] It seems that all the images that I see are severly pixelated. Like, the quality is very low, that I'm noticing artificats in the images. For example, the techtalkforums.com logo is very rough around the edges.[/QUOTE] Does the display resolution match the LCD? For example, graphics on a desktop …

[QUOTE=B00ster]I get red Xs instead of the pictures, I know they are there as when I reload it or right click show picture it's there.[/QUOTE] Your HjT log looks clean. It would appear that your problem lies elsewhere. Note that one image [u]did[/u] load. To start with, check [URL=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=883BD884-3C14-4F91-B96C-593AE7B9905C&displaylang=en][b]this link[/b][/URL] …

[QUOTE=pravesh18]Error msg 'Operation Aborted' when accessing some websites. i'm using I.E 6.0 and whenever I try to access some specific websites like 'www.teamtalk.com'. I have a Win XP operating system.[/QUOTE] More information would be helpful, like which updates you have installed. [b]XP-Service Pack 1[/b], for example or which patches have …

[QUOTE=StinkyTurd]I'm supporting a user who is having a weird issue. When he opens Windows explorer, the left hand side, which usually displays the folder view, is gone.[/QUOTE] One suggestion, though not a direct fix, is to use a free replacement for [b]Windows Explorer[/b] which is better anyway: [b]AB Commander Lite[/b] …

[QUOTE=mikeandike22]i have a dell dimension 8300 with xp how would i overclock it. The processor is a pentium 4 ht 3ghz (and something about 2 cpu's it said in dxdiag but i do not have 2 processors).[/QUOTE] The "two processors" sensing and the "ht" reference is because of [url="http://www.intel.com/info/hyperthreading/"][b]hyperthreading[/b][/url]. As …

[QUOTE=smoky]MSN Messenger 4.7, "On-line" users appear "Off-line"[/QUOTE] [b]MSN Messenger 4.7[/b] is hideously out-of-date and 100% deprecated--I'm surprised that it even worked for you as late as it did. The current version is [b]6.1[/b]. Get it.

I'm cross-posting this, as it's germane to this thread as well... [b]Knoppix[/b] is a CD-bootable Linux distribution, so no installation is required. It includes Internet, graphics ([b]The GIMP[/b]), office software ([b]OpenOffice.org[/b]), games, and more. If you can access the BIOS to set it to boot from the CD, you're all …

[QUOTE=hookette]I keep getting a DRWIN error...anyone know what this is?[/QUOTE] The only reference I have found on this is related to [b]Sony[/b] CD burners and their bundled software. What CD burner do you have and what are you using to record CDs?

[QUOTE=providox]I'm having the same problem with IE its saying the page cannot be displayed. [/QUOTE] The follwing are hijackers and troublemakers: New.net, jbeakuoo.exe, searchxl.com, and mysearchnow.com You need to use Hijack This to remove those. Go to [i]their[/i] forum and post this list for further help.

[quote="cranusfreddy"]...for some reason I am getting lots of problems with this one...The problem is when I try to play 3d accelerated video games such as GTA: Vice City and Elderscrolls 3:Morrowind. The computer will load the game then the game will crash and take me back to Windows after slight …

[quote="trigrand"]...the computer must be booted twice to get the monitor to turn on.[/quote] Go into the BIOS. Turn OFF everything related to [b]ACPI[/b] or [b]APM[/b]. It's a good start. Another thing to try: set the resolution to [b]640x480@60 Hz[/b] and see if that helps. It's possible that the monitor is …

[QUOTE=bclark21330]Got an ATI Radeon 9600SE for x-mas. However, when I opened my computer up I found that my AGP slot is 1x,2x and the new card will not fit. The new card states 4x/8x. Any suggestions on what I can do to upgrade my graphics so I can get directx9.0 …

[QUOTE=djanit]OH MY GOD I HATE MY COMPUTER!!!! so i ran CWShredder and spyware and adaware and spyware blaster and hijack and my computer has been crazier than ever... things popping up all over the place... i tried to delete the microsoft java vm, i read thats where all this crap …

[QUOTE=bluedos82]I have a computer that will boot (I think) but it requires an admin password to even allow it to boot. The screen is black and there is nothing on it but Supervisor Password: Is there anyway of changing this without knowing what the previous password is?[/QUOTE] Yes, but it …

[quote="rouge"]if i were to choose a programming language for a thesis level project that uses a fingerprint scanner, what would be the best choice: 1) Java 2) C++ 3) VB6[/quote] If you are interfacing with a piece of hardware -- a stand-alone fingerprint scanner -- [b]C++[/b] would probably be best, …

[QUOTE=LoriL1212]The above is just MY technical assessment on your issues... Get a second opinion if that makes you more comfortable since I am new to this forum.[/QUOTE] I second your evaluation, and add one. Unless you have a strong need for it, disable or remove: O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [IMONTRAY] C:\Program …

[QUOTE=jwcpa48]I have a Dell E770s CRT monitor purchased in 2000 with my Dell Dimension XPS T500 system, all of which have run well until recently. A few weeks ago one of my kids said the display went unstable, and after she shut everything down and restarted the computer system, the …

[QUOTE=EmpireD]Is there any way to make a game think my graphics card supports T and L (Texture and Lighting) even though it doesn't?[/QUOTE] The short answer, [b]NO[/b]. It would require more power to emulate T & L on a card that did not support it natively than such a card …

[QUOTE=xwait]I just tried out hijack this..please help. Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 8:52:51 AM, on 3/5/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)[/QUOTE] What is this computer being used for? About half the garbage looks like it's server-related, but the other half looks like a home PC. Your problem …

[QUOTE=ballin4life637]Yahoo DSL... same thing[/QUOTE] What you are probably experiencing is resource depletion. Are you running [b]Windows 98[/b]? I have [b]SBC Yahoo! DSL[/b], and have installed it for others. The main problems: The Yahoo! browser is a front-end shell that uses [b]Internet Explorer[/b] on the back end. This means that you …

[QUOTE=ian_tec234]ok since last week my other computer can't open webpages...it keeps on saying canot display...and it says sometyhing about my server and a dsn...but i tried refreshing reconnecting to the net...i checked my connection and its all fine[/QUOTE] Who is your provider? [b]SBC[/b], for example, just changed their [b]DNS[/b] setup, …

No video signal on my monitor. Every time I boot the computer, green lcd's come on for a while and then turn the power lcd to yellow. Nothing happens after that. Thisis the right area for this question, since it is independent of the operating system involved. It could happen …

[QUOTE=mmdm]I am trying to install a new larger hard drive while keeping the smaller hard drive for backups. I ghosted the existing drive to the new drive and have them properly set with the new larger drive as master and the older drive as slave. All of my data is …

[QUOTE=gbrady28]Can someone tell me how to hook up my computer to my receiver so that I can play music through the receiver. Specifically I want to know if there is a wireless way to do this. I know that I could just run an optical with a mini plug on …

[QUOTE=cscgal]The number of pageviews to my site has been constant for quite some time. (Or rather, steadily increasing day by day). For some reason, the number of pageviews to my site doubled today! ...I've gone from 3,000 pageviews to 6,000 pageviews in a single day![/QUOTE] I Googled [b]Internet Explorer slow[/b] …

[QUOTE=SoloGarth]Sometimes it will simply shut down, going from running normally to completely off in an instant, othertimes it will shutdown and then restart, and then other times it just freezes and there is nothing to do but pull the plug, so to speak.[/QUOTE] Before you go yanking the memory for …

[QUOTE=drexel]It will not beep. It is getting power but no video signal and no post.[/QUOTE] Do the lights on the keyboard flash? That's the best indicator of system initialization. If not, it's probably the power supply or CPU.

[QUOTE=jreamy4]my girlfriends machine is a 1.3 pentium 3, 512 ram, xp home system. it work fine and then all of a sudden the scvhost will shoot up to 99% cpu usage and cause the system to slow to a crawl.[/QUOTE] I just noticed that you seem to be running [u]two[/u] …

[QUOTE=birdman1541]I found this laptop at my job. I turned it on first there was a problem with the bios time and set i set that all up,and then they said operating system not found,so i popped in my windows xp cd,but i dont think the laptop detected my disc drive …

[quote="holladaro"]I only checked the system with norton antivirus pro 2003 with the newest virus definitions. So which virus prog would you recommend ?[/quote] [b]Symantec[/b] software, in general, is among the worst resource hogs out there. It could even be part of your problem. I use [b][i]Grisoft[/i] AVG[/b] in my Windows …

[QUOTE=picto]I know this has been spoken about in numerous posts , and i have read them but none have been of any new help. Svchost runs at 100% and have tracked this problem down to when internet explorer hangs then crashes. Plus sometimes explorer won't display internet sites using .asp …

[QUOTE=oweri02]I want to be able to start these offline, so others don't see the automatic *x has signed in* messages and then I can choose whether or not I go on-line, or block or whatever. This would be useful at home on MSN6.1 but even more useful in work Windows …

[QUOTE=nopower]...I just thought i'd try posting this and see if somebody has any ideas at all. I've emailed tech support and everything as well, just considering my options at the moment.[/QUOTE] No options--warranty repair or exchange is required. Modern electronics don't [i]always[/i] stink, smoke, flash, or make noise when they …

[QUOTE=bluedawn]me have a similar problem, if im downloading stuff and leave computer 4 a while it crashs & me @ start again time, its really mashin me swede, so if u have any interesting & simple replies 2 ur problem do let me no. me running xp home.[/QUOTE] I'm not …

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[QUOTE=biru]I've got some kind of virus from Kazaa and I'm wondering if anyone can help. Basically, the screen is squashed horizontally and stretched vertically, i.e. you can't see the top or bottom of the screen and there are big black borders on the sides. I've virus scanned with the latest …

[QUOTE=caperjack]The iso image ned to be burnt to a cd using Nero or other software before you can install it .and i doubt if there is an evaluation copy of server 2003![/QUOTE] Actually, I'm pretty sure there is. It's a timed trial. An [b]ISO[/b] file is an [i]image[/i], a "snapshot" …

[quote="jabberwock486"]i have been toying around with an old [b]Tandy 1000TX[/b]. for those of you who don't remember, or were too young, it is a very old system. It is a 286/10Mhz, 640K RAM and CGA graphics.[/quote] Unfortunately, a 10 MHz 286 will run [b]DOS[/b] ([b]MS/DR/Free[/b]), but not much else -- …

[QUOTE=MiDude]I guess this is my log...what do I do?[/QUOTE][i]You need the new version. You can update before you do the fixes...[/i] Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 [i]Aaack! You are waaay behind on your patches. These are the original, unpatched [b]Windows[/b] versions--but let's clean up the mess, first.[/i] Platform: Windows XP (WinNT …

[QUOTE=meow]hey i have a problem. I know i have a radeon 9600 128 mb graphics card but i dont know what kind it is. Any way of finding out? My dxdiag says its the radeon 9600 series chipset but i dont know.[/QUOTE] As far as I can tell, it's a …