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hey guys, ummm im not that gewd with computers, but ummm ive been trying to copy movie files (mostly .avi) onto a thumb drive then copy them from the thumb drive onto other compters. everytime i do it the movie wont play on the computer. ive tried using a few …

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Hi all! On my XP machine most of my USB drives do not show up on the My Computer list of drives. I know it can be seen because it shows up on the 'safely remove drive' list and I can get to it via msdos (ewwww). I fixed this …

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hi to all. i have a file in my usb flash drive that was accidentally cutted by my friends to his local computer. His hard disk was bad now and not detected by bios anymore, i also tried to put the hard disk to another pc but it doesnt work …

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Anyone that can offer any assistance to this thread please do so soon. :( I am running Windows XP Pro w/SP2 - Custom built system Last week I unfortunately caught a bug - (google / maxfiles) pop up virus of some sorts. I have McAfee installed but it did not …

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I got a new camera and docking station and after installing the software things have gone wrong with my PC. The PC boots as far as the login screen, i click on my profile and the profile begins to load but soon after the PC reboots before the desktop is …

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Ok my computer had lot's of viruses and trogans so i used my windows xp system reboot cd to erase everything so it look like i just got a new computer but now none of my hardware is working All my speaker wire's is plugged in but when i watch …

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I recently received a Dell Dimension 2400 with Windows XP Professional from my work. The problem is it is setup for my work and it is one of the old computers so we no longer have any of the disks. I have to log in as a former employee and …

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Hello, my name is Juan, I'm new to the computer repair industry, I would like to know how to make a Windows XP bootable and how to boot install windows from command line. Thanks

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So I got a new computer but the guys installed windows to the wrong Hard Drive. I ordered three with the computer. Two 500 gigs which are raided and an 80 gig which I planned on taking out and replacing with a 300gig that has all the files from my …

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Greetings, I'm a software person but a total noob when it comes to hardware and getting things to work within the spatial dimensions of our universe. That being said, I've had a HP Pavilion notebook computer for about a year and a half now. It has two internal harddrives at …

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I have a Dell Dimension 2400 with Windows XP Professional from my work and it will only let me log in as a former employee. It is an old computer we don't use anymore and I am wondering what I need to do to get the ability to access the …

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Hi everyone. Alright, so I got parts for a completely new system this xmas. I spent all of xmas day building it and checking everything and by night, I had xp professional sp2 installed and running. Everything was going great until yesterday. I was messing with some system files around …

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I have an E-machine that is about 3 1/2 to 4 yrs old. As of recently, my computer will start to boot up and then just freeze. If I play around with it, starting it and stoping it I can get it to finally load. It also will not fire …

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A power outage shut down my Dell Latitude D800, running XP Sp2. When I powered it back up, it won't get past the black Dell initialization screen. The progress bar gets nearly to the end as usual, but stops short at about 95%. Before, it would complete the bar quickly, …

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Please help! All of a sudden I am seeing red squares where my advertisements on web pages should be. This is on all web sites I go on and I don't know why, but it's really annoying! Can anyone tell me how to repair this problem? I would be extremely …

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my windows 2000 pro has corrupt its ntoskrnl.exe, and i run recovery console hoping to fix my prob... but when i reboot, the error says "i/o disk error please ctrl alt del".... i already tried to slave my windows 2000 pro in other working computer but theres an error "drive …

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After a reboot/restart it says: The instruction at 0x00000000 referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "written". It takes me a long time to get an Internet connection often and some of my card games (from a Hoyle CD) take a long time to open up. I am …

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This is my first post to this forum. I have recently purchased the compaq presario V6409TU laptop. When I wnat to reinstall windows xp professional (service pack -2)in it.I am not able to do so some one told me to first disable SATA drive, then reinstall windows xp professional and …

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Recently I noticed that my hard drive seemed to be running excessively and slowing my computer down. Using Process Explorer I noticed that I had Hardware Interrupts using up as much as 50% of my CPU. I have scanned my computer with Spybot, Adaware and Symantec AV and everything was …

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Does anyone know how to restore the LPT1 port in Windows XP/SP2? triend reboot and restore and no go.. somehow uninstalling 2 printers caused LPT1 to be deleted from the System.. in addition the printer spooler is having issues re: parrallel port Jack

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I had a new call stating that they lost thier profile on a windows XP machine networked to a Win2000 server. They stated when they shut on friday everything was ok. Then on Monday when they opened thier profile was gone and in its place was user.servername.001 (I took a …

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I need help removing the Installshield wizard for Redtube Movie Ripper I have uninstalled the program and removed everything else associated with the Redtube Movie ripper. But the Redtube movie ripper appears on my add/remove programs list in The control panel even though it is not a program. Please i …

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Ok, thanks in advace for any help anyone can give me. I am not to good at computer things so sorry if my question is a stupid one. Ok first off I am in Japan so the computer that I am having problems with is running Japanese operating systems. I …

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Last nght i just shut off my computer after playing some world of warcraft, turned it on this mroning and it just got stuck at the blue bar loading screen. I can boot in safe mode, but I dont know what to do to make it load. I do not …

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Hi, I've been having this intermittent startup problem and and I haven't found a solution yet. Once I start the Windows XP SP2 computer, everything looks normal as I can get to the log in screen. I then log in using an Admin account (the only user available) and the …

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When I start a TFTP server on my laptop (Windows XP), I can get a file from it from the same host but can't if I try to get it from other PCs in the network (request time out). What kind of security options I need to change to make …

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In the past two days I've been trying to login into my ftp server, but just nothing works. I use Norton Antivirus, but I can't find nothing that helps me solve the problem. This is what I get I use Cute FTP Proffesional [COLOR="Green"] STATUS:> [12/25/2007 5:31:05 PM] Getting listing …

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Going back over the last 10 years of daily computing, it seems that around every 3000- 5000 hours of use my computer (there have been many ) reaches a point where anything it does is considerable slower then when a fresh install of windows occurred. Looking at my hijack log, …

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Hi, I am seriously considering the purchase of EASEUS data recovery wizard or Partition Table Doctor and have some questions, I will give you the background of my problem - I was loading Password Pros (password recovery software) and during the loading process (when it was in the middle of …

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I was wondering about getting a new video card for my lap top and i was wondering what will be the best for me I have a Pavillion dv4000 a processor of intel(R)Pentium(R)M processor 1.60GHZ and DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904). I was wondering what video card would work the best on …

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