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My wife uses her computer only rarely. Every time she tries to sign on, her password has expired. I know there's a way to keep the password from expiring until I (administrator) tell it to. I'm darned if I remember how to do it and looking through "users and passwords" …

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My friend has a HP pavilion zv6000 with windows XP home edition. The computer starts up then shuts right down. Does anyone have any thoughts on what might be wrong? Thanks.

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Hello I have no knowledge about writing things. Can someone help me write a very simple bat file that [B]kill[/B] speedfan.exe just the way [B]Task Manager[/B] does? /BVG

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I have this file named Blocks on my hard drive that only appeared after a full system restore. It takes up a lot of space and I was wondering if I can get rid of it.

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I am interested in getting a copy of TinyXP but do not know how. Not even sure if it is legal and how to pay or even if it is free? I have searched and searched for any information but had no success. Tried Bittorrents etc, but no luck. Does …

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My computer was getting fatal errors for about a week now, getting progressively worse as the week went by. It would keep doing physical memory dumps and what not, but would always work on the second or third boot-up. Last night it completely died and just went to a blue …

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I have a problem with virus Alert on my toolbar, and i don't know how to fix it. I go HiJack this and i want to know what do i do from there. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 19:45: VIRUS ALERT!, on 9/27/2008 Platform: Windows XP …

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Hello all good folks at Dani Web !!!!!! I have an Emachine, W3050, Windows XP Home edition. It had MANY viruses,maleware etc... I got it clean to where SpyBot and Super Antispyware gives me a clean report ! Yeah ! I ran quite a few "cleaners" , including ComboFix. Now, …

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Hi guys and girls here, my new acer aspire 5315 laptop running windows vista suddenly stop working as i was installing a software downloaded from lphant. i switch off and on again but can only run at safe mode, it doesn't longer run in a normal mode. i run some …

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Hi everyone. One of the users who has called in for support says that everytime he boots his XP machine he gets a message. "Preboot assessment build selected press escape to abort testing". He presses ESC and machine boots normally. Does anyone have any ideas? There is nothing in MSCONFIG …

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HI Problem is whenever I open my gmail account I get a continuous loading in FF with a "page load error" after a long wait. I open it with IE7 and it works. Strange thing is a user comes to me this afternoon and tells me she also cant access …

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This small annoyance is something I get as XP finishes running its scripts after booting. Unfortunately, that is the entirety of the message. No clue as to what the problem might be. It is not a problem per se, but it IS an annoyance that I would like to be …

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I have some questions about Windows Task Manager in WinXP. I have seen Commit Charge in Windows Task Manager ,what does this Commit Charge refers to? My total physical memory in the WinXP system which is 512MB. But the PF(page file) usage in Windows Task Manager was 128MB but now …

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Hi, I have the same problem. While looking for solutions online, I stumbled upon this forum and tried to do all you said, like looking for the things in the HJT logfile and all. I practically did not find any one of what you have mentioned in my logfile. I …

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Perhaps this forum is not for novices but thought I would give it a try. I have a problem which I have Googled, written to the company about and still no answers. I am running Vista Home Premium. I've been using BitDefender Internet Security for some time now and suddenly …

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Hi All, I am working as a Unix admin and i will be sending out emails to my onsite departments for server maintenance.What i want to do with Outlook is If i insert an email ID say [email]server1@cmp.com[/email] in the TO box, can i set in the Outlook to auto-insert …

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A couple days ago, I inadvertantly downloaded Micro Antivirus 2009. With that, I had all sorts of issues with pop-ups, programs being blocked, etc. I was unable to do a system restore (first the Help icon was gone from my start menu, then when it came back, the System Restore …

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Hello, I am using windows XP SP2 and I am having trouble with explorer.exe, it keeps restarting every 5 seconds and comes up with an error message saying it cannot find winlogon.exe in "C:\WINDOWS\winlogon.exe". Here is my hijack this report: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 00:47:34, …

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I'm having problems whenever i click a result in google or yahoo, where i get redirected to other pages and advertisements. Also a lot of sites it try to visit will not come up and spybot and ad-aware and my antivirus cannot connect to update. It's really frustrating. I've been …

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hi,I have benefitted a lot by elove's thread,thanx a lot.I have some other problems too.When I start up windows,I get an error mssg saying "Windows cannot find regsvr.exe. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search a file, click the Start button, and then click …

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Hello, I had a Spyware few days ago and after I removed it by AVG, My computer gets stuck after few hours of standby. When I play PC games sometimes my computer sends keyboard presses by itself. Please return ASAP and I will appreciate help,

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hi guys. i have a problem with my computer. i can't show hidden files/folders on my computer. i've even tried showing them through the registry keys related but somehow the values i change seem to default to their previous values. I've also noticed a file in my flashdisk even after …

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Hello Dudes can anyone tell me how to view hidden files (of system) in vista & also how to get permission to open and read it.

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Hi everyone, I'm designing an Anti-Virus program for my own use (WOW!). What I need to do is to let my Anti-Virus change the State of "Virus Protection" in the Windows XP Security Center from "Not Protected" to "Protected by Drycola's Antivirus". I think it is a registry issue, but …

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My command prompt at work is all screwy. 1 - It doesn't seem to use the Path variable. For example, ping results in "not recognized as internal or external command". Strangely I can click the Environmental Variables button under the Advanced tab of System Properties, then click OK in the …

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I am in the process of trying to fix a friend’s laptop. He has Quick Books Pro 2007 installed for his business. His laptop had problems that I don’t think were related to the QB software. Long story short, I got the laptop to boot up and run stable. I …

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Can anyone out there help me....Please! I have a laptop with windows XP and the wireless modem says that I have a strong connection to the internet but when I bring up internet explorer to get to various websites the error: cannot display webpage or address not valid keeps coming …

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