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The windows folder in c: is not visible in my computer... it opens through run.. its not visible while trying to go through my computer or explorer.. when i checked the properties for the windows folder.. it shows that hidden is checked.. but it doesn't allow me to remove the …

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Hey guys, I am beyond the point of despair now. Let me explain what happened: Just several hours ago my AVG detected ardamax keylogger. I quarantined this keylogger and rebooted my computer. Upon start up, my computer no longer works. If I open internet explorer for the internet, I see …

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my comp has just started to randomly restart on me. it started over the weekend whn my manager was on the comp and tried to access another computer on the network (the comp was a mac running os 9) and it restarted. it has now just done it to when …

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I am a former Microsoft Tech lady, MSN and all than jazz. I am in need aof a product key code for XP Home edition for a PC I am repairing. The PC had a Trojan which wiped it out. I have repaired the problem and by the way watch …

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i closes U3 and got the message "Shutdown failed Use the Force Luke!" what should i do

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I'm not new to the world of computers, but I am new to a lot of problemes with windows vista. With my bitdefender, I learned that I have a trojan.qhost.akr trojan, and I tired finding a solution on the web, but was unable to follow up on the instructions since …

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Hi - Brent here. I am running Windows XP Prof. I have a partitioned hard disk with two partitions c and f. I am running out of space in "c" and am having difficulty doing a defrag. I am getting messages appearing at bottom right hand side by clock advising …

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Whenever I click on a download button, the downloading thing pops up, everything is normal, but... Estimated Time: Download To: Transfer rate: Is all empty, and usually there would be numbers. After like 2 minutes a new window would open and say(exact words): Internet Explorer cannot download (whatever it is …

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I share my laptop with the GF and she uninstalled some Java items from it. We have an old IBM thinkpad wih Windows XP and we seem to have lost Word, Excel and probably a few other ms applications. I have spent a couple of days searching the web and …

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Can anyone tell me if there is a way to recover a file that was replaced (overwritten) by a file with the same name moved from another folder? Thanks.

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Hi. I first posted this in the Windows XP Forum, mistakenly. 7 days ago, we started getting redirected to arbitrary websites, our 'Windows XP Home' computer (with 6 separate profiles) suddenly got very slow, and we crashed alot. Norton Systemworks 2007 did not stop initially whatever hit us and could …

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my friend accedently deleted her profile in xp..now all her mails & datas are missing.Can someone help me to recover those datas for her.. thomas

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Hey Guys in a nutsell.Ive connected two household desktop machines running windows xp. Ive networked the two machine with a crossover gave them IP addresses ie 192.9.200.20 and 192.9.200.21(their random)Both link speeds are the same 10mbps(full)Ive changed it to different links speeds also.Anyways Ive disabled all firewalls.The thing is theres …

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Greetz, I'm facing slight confusion over permissions on a Fileserver running Windows Server 2003. I've created a number of new shared folders and moved data across no problem. The share permissions are set as 'everyone' having full control and since the most restrictive permissions are applied I've allocated individual NTFS …

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My Windows XP icons became generic on desktop and start bar. Is this a virus? Is there a way to fix this? Thanks, plarsen111

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Hello everyone, My main computer is a windows XP.I don't know much, if anything other than a few basic things,I do Interior Designer/Decorating work,not anything computer related. When I am running this computer, the start menu will pop up out of the blue and windows related to start and shut …

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I have loaded windows SBS 2003 several time each time with different levels of partition removal and format. I have tried different installation CD's. Each time I get the same result. Windows SBS loads and all the standard questions are answered. Windows starts and everything appears normal, [B]BUT[/B] the management …

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So ive been wanting to re-vamp my computer for a while, but logged on today to find that explorer wasnt even starting up. I manually started it though the task manager and got my main interface up and running, but about 70% of my programs wont even open. I then …

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i restarted my computer and got the messege 'ntldr missing press ctl +alt+del' to restart I inserted the Windows XP pack 1 CD , and booted from the CD and in tried to repair the missing files by running this two lines from the command line C:\WINDOWS> copy e:\ ntldr …

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I have XP Home My computer just recovered from PSU failure. Now I click on the desktop icons and nothing happens - no hour glass no starting of programs. The Icon dims. I have made new icons and the same thing happens to the new ones. The icons on any …

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Can someone help? Trend Micro PC-cillin is giving me messages that I've attempted to open dangerous Web sites, although I haven't tried to go to those sites. They include codecservice1.com and us01.xmlsearch.findwh. My HijackThis log is: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 7:22:51 AM, on 7/18/2008 Platform: …

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Problem: Windows wont finish booting up after Windows Load screen after I restarted for network controller driver update. I went to boot up in safe mode so I could just do a system restore but when It boots up in safe mode my mouse and keyboard is not responding so …

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I've tried scanning my friends computer with CCleaner and Spybot as well as anti-virus and nothing was solved. The computer prompts "Application Failed to Load" errors upon log in. Then a program called PhotoGallery tries to install automatically but fails repeatedly. There is no internet connection either. The wireless signal …

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Hello some unknown thing is causing my AV(kaspersky 09) from not enabling and performing updates please help here is the Hijack log : Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 10:00:37 AM, on 10/08/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16674) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe …

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I need help describing my problem. What is the name of the screen that you see with the various users listed as Vista Boots? I need to know that because whatever the name of that screen is, it is the last screen I see, for about 5 or 10 seconds, …

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I recently wiped my laptop hd clean and reloaded windows xp pro. when I reloaded windows update and got the downloads there were about 14 or so but no (0) bits of info on any one of them. But, suggested installing them, did so and got error message (0x80072EE2). I've …

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I keep trying to download and install sp 1 for vista. My system says everything is ready and I down load it. Then the trouble begins. First It would install part 1 but then would crash and I would have to reboot with install disk. ( tried 3 times) So …

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Hello there, New Member- Not completely clueless needs some help please, I've obviously picked up some sort of nasty which is mucking up my browser (both IE and Foxzilla) , it keeps redirecting me, and won't allow me to access , even when I type in the URL, any sites …

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Hey guys, I've been trying to battle against spyware, malware, falware, and all types of ware and parasites!! It seems i win some battles but i'm losing the war. My biggest problem these days are massive pop ups from random sites, when I run spyhunter, i usually get an average …

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