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When people experience problems and post them on TechTalkForums, they often have a hard time describing the [i]entire[/i] situation. Including information about basic things is very important; nothing about your computer can be assumed. Information that should [b]always be include in a post:[/b] [list] [*]Your Operating System Version and its …

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I have had trouble with the virus w32/[email="w32/sobigf@mm"]sobigf@mm[/email]. I think I have gotten rid of it. I recently used spybot and hijackthis to further clean up other problems. Now I am unable to access my email. I have msn9 and use their email. Now when I click on the icon …

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I have this very annoying problem. Every time when I log on to my WIN XP, a InstallShield Wizard will load for a while, telling me that its installing my Chipset Inf Program, and it will close by itself and goes into a blank screen before the desktop shows.... I …

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HI. We have a Win 2003 server standard edt. It has dual Xeon 2.4G processors for multithreading. It should see 4 (2 physical and 2 virtual) processors. It sees only one processor. One in the task manager, and in device manager the HAL is set to standard PC with no …

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Hi guyz, Well to make a long story short, I've been having this dialog box poppin up evry 10 mns sayin cannot open file c://WINDOWS/dlm.html .... I ran about 10 different virus scna and nothin is found ..I know there are some registry key and other touchy files i should …

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I have AOL 9.0. An earlier version lets you go to Control Panel and click on Modems to disable the dialing sound AOL makes when you're going onto the web. I don't need to announce to everyone in the house every time I want to go to Rachel's Juke Joint, …

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Recently, some of my desktop icons have stopped working. When they are selected all the icons and toolbar disappear, leaving the background picture in situ and then they come back on the screen, but the programme has not been entered into. The same thing happens when you go into start, …

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I have the following graphics card and system: nvidia Geforce FX5200 P4 3.06GHz Asus P4S8X-X Motherboard 80 Gig HArdrive SOUNDMAX Soundcard I seem to be having problems with my graphics card. While im working on the PC my monitor screen just suddenly goes blank i can hear PC running via …

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My PC has been getting slower and slower lately so I thought reinstalling the OS would help clean things up. I forgot I have an encrypted HD so it crashed halfway through. Now I am still running on the old Windows 2000 but the failed new one is lying around. …

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I currently have two Hard discs on the same IDE channel thingy. One's 120GB, which I use for my current OS. On the Slave, I have a 40GB harddisc, which i don't really use at all. It seems logical to me to move the Swap over to the 40GB one, …

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Turned on my puter today and every setting is gone. OutLook Exp. is not setup. IE bookmarks are gone. Desktop settings are gone. Even the NumLock was unlocked. Everything has reverted to XP's default settings. It's just like a newly installed OS. Running XP Pro, Only one account. What happened? …

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iam going to get the following P4 2.8ghz 800fsb 1mb cache ASUS 875P either the ATI Radeon 9600xt or the SAPPHIRE 9800pro (i think i should go with xt i dont think sapphire is good) kingston 184pin 512mb ddr pc-3200 (speed DDR 400) later on iam going to get another …

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[font=Helv][size=2]:idea: Hi All, I am currently have W2K clusters in our customer sites but need to monitor these clusters so that alerts are gathered and sent to the appropriate people. Basically if we have an IBM cluster I want the alerts sent to IBM Director then forwarded to the Ops …

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Hello, Im new to this post and frankly im not as comp litterate as I'd like to be. I have 2 problems and think both may be related. here are my syst specs before I state the probs. Win XP pro (upgraded from 98 SE 3 weeks ago) Amd Athalon …

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Im having a problem since a week about a week ago with windows xp home edition. One day everything goes smooth the next day internet explorer doesnt open and my computer(the computer icon) what caused this problem, I have tried to overwrite the xp version but it failed. I have …

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System Specs: AMD 800 mhz Atholon 512 ram Nvida geforce 2 video card Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Plat. Windows XP Professional I have contacted creative many times on this problem. These are the steps I have taken over the past few months to try and fix this problem. I don

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I just bought a new lap top with winxp home from HP and only 3 days into it I have gotten 2 viruses and a ton of spyware. I have got the who Messenger and stuff diabled and have stoped it but am finaly getting things cleaned up. After deleting …

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hi, im totally not a computer guy and have no idea how computers are run so if you guys out there can help me, i'd deeply appreciate it. i got this error about this thing called bridge and have been looking at other forums about it so i have this …

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whenever i start up my computer, my sytem 32 folder pops up by itselfs and it ALWAYS slows up my start up. how can i stop this folder from popping up?

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sry im not sure if this should go somewhere else, but i was wondering where you would edit your sound information. whenever my speakers play a sound the sound echos a lot and makes certain sounds very fuzzy. im not sure if their set to echo or what but where …

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Greetings, I have Keylog Briss and I think I got rid of it quick. HOwever, worst case scenario is that I may have logged on to a few of my important sites and used my names and passwords. Like I said, I think I got rid of it. Do I …

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[font=Arial]Ran into a website that installed a Casino program on my computer. I removed it my Internet Explorer has not worked since. I can

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Is this a virus or an important file? I have received two e-mails telling me to delte it because it is a virus and two more e-mails telling me it is a hoax and actually an important file. Does anyone know for sure if it is good or bad? This …

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I changed the computer driver from uniprocessor to multiprocessor. However, system properties still only displays the name for 1 processor. Is it only suppose to show one? I did a render test with studio max, and it's quite obvious that it's using the second processor. (turned a 1.42 minute irender …

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:cry: [font=Microsoft Sans Serif][color=mediumturquoise] When i restart my system i get an error that says data1.dat can not be found,can someone tell me what that is?[/color][/font]

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:cheesy: I going thought the web looking for a fix for my Xp system with boot section of my hard drive and I found a real good web site for tech support then help me to fix the issue. It is whatwrongnow.com.

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~Hi Friends In my computer, installed with win 2000 (adv. server), with 40 Gb H.D.D. I can see the 20 Gb space free in my harddrive under Disk Admin. (primary partion and rest is free allocated to another partition. Last day i have added new 2 H.D.D of 40 GB …

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This is an area that I am not entirely familiar with, hence the following question. I have a service customer some of whose problems can be traced to a bootleg [b]Windows XP Pro[/b] install. When I apprised her of this, she "did the right thing" and obtained a legal OEM …

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Hi. I've been receiving that same message but with a bit of a different circumstance. I use Windows XP and Meditech, and I can access Meditech via either the internet or dial-up. Sometimes the internet is bogged down and slow, and it is at those times that I prefer to …

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Ok. The school I go to has a program called Websense. They have since blocked my access to many sites including my Cox high speed internet webmail and hotmail accounts. any way to get around websense or am i totaly stuck?

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