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Recently I picked up some kind of malware or something and it's been annoying me to no end. Everytime I click on a folder a Critical Error pops up that says the following: Critical Error Attention, {username}! Some dangerous viruses detected in your system. Microsoft Windows XP files corrupted. This …

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Hey everyone, I'm having some trouble with windows vista, specifically with control panel and windows update. Basically, I've had a problem with windows update for awhile now; it just freezes every time I run it. I remedied that by scheduling auto updates, somehow if the computer initiates Windows update itself …

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it all started about 4 months ago on a thursday.at first,when i powered up my pc the motherboard cooler started rotating with an incredibly high speed making noise like the turbine of a plane.along with this my computer just wouldn't boot or anything. after turning it off, i tried again. …

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Can any of you tell me how to exactly change titles of USER Definated fields in this software? Also how do you delete columns in this program...Personally I thought it was like excel only to find that it is not..Any help is greatly appreciated.

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10:59 AM 7/26/2008 I have a number of shortcuts assigned to open windows I'd like to use every time I start WinXP, (with size, position, bkgd & text color). These are auto-ping (verify WiFi link status) and Notepad docs for log files I maintain and want immediate access to. To …

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So I have recently been getting a popup from AVG saying that an infected file has been detected. When I check the virus vault it shows two file labled I-Worm/Nuwar.U, I have tried healing the files but no luck. Windows firewall has also been dectecting a virus. here are the …

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my desktop computer wont give any signal to my monitor. when i got it it didnt come with a monitor so i hooked it up to my tv. It worked...... then i found a spare monitor and tryed it on that. It didnt work...... so now i am trying it …

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A couple of weeks ago I reported that my PC shuts down. It is still happening, but now to my other PC as well. I appears to mainly happen when, when you go to a secure site - internet banking, ebay, paypal etc. The moment you start typing in account …

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my background tab is gone and stuck with a blue screen with a warning on it from some spyware or something my brother did. I cleaned with adaware and spybot S&D, ran AVG there were no viruses, but a ton of adaware. checked hijack this all was ok. I had …

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hello i'm new here, i have a dell dimension 3000 here, it belongs 2 my aunt, during a bad lightning storm, she turned her pc off by the power button, the next morn, she tried 2 power it up, but no power.. The light on the board is lit but …

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Our nonprofit recently purchased InDesign CS3 and installed it, but the program won't launch. It has been uninstalled and reinstalled - with the help of Adobe support - and still won't open. Along the way, we purged all Adobe/Acrobat components before reinstalling. A friend who specializes in Macs thinks we …

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Hi, I get the following error when I type make in the command line of windows: 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. How do I do this in windows? Thanks

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I began having this proble recently. When I start my computer, I get the welcome screen. When I shift to the desktop, only the background is there. There is no desktop icons, no windows menu... NOTHING. The thing is I cant link this to anything because I reinstalled windows and …

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I am having pretty much the exact same problem in that mozilla and ie work sporadically, but messengers such aim and download programs like soulseek work perfectly fine. i dl'ed and ran hijackthis as the person above did. below is what hijackthis logged after scanning. any help would be appreciated. …

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my computer keeps restarting by itself when I open any internet browsers, I run avast to check at start up and it came up with nothing, ccleaner, regcure and tuneup utilities, and checkdisk at startup, here is the log file from hijackthis, please help, thank you in advance. Logfile of …

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I am SO needing help here.. this is what has occurred so far.. we fdisk.. due to the error about the himem sys file.. now can't format the drive.. still getting error.. then get this.. There is an error in your config.sys file on line 1 i have downloaded the …

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Background, Sony Vaio, Windows xp, IE6, using remote computer on my home network...I am not very computer savvy... while in AOL I will need to go to a secure web site ie; online banking etc. which requires an Internet Explorer connection...frequently, all I get is "can not display page" (cannot …

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Hello There, I have a server running Windows Server 2003 Enteprise Edition and I need some help on how to deploy windows xp sp3 I have no knowledge of deployment of software and im only 15, im doing this for a project :) Cheers

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Started a McAfee Manual Scan at 6pm yesterday and went out for the evening. At midnight it was churning about 1/5th of its way through all the files. It had reported two(2) "Items Detected" and two(2) "Items Quarantined." I disconnected my internet connection and went to bed, letting it run. …

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I've once installed alienware theme and it changed all windows components. but i uninstalled it afterwards.... the problem is the realtek audio control panel is not launching and it shows error as "HHCTRL.ocx has occupied memory that is allocated to user32.dll contact dll dealer for new dll file" i've reinstalled …

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Hi, Can we set a schedule for Mysql triggers in "Scheduled tasks" of Windows XP. Thanks

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I upgraded my wife's Dell laptop from XP Home Edition to XP Professional. The computer works except for the web browser. Now, the Google home page won't completely load up. Also, when she tries various websites, she gets the message "Can't Find Application". Any ideas about what might be going …

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This has been happening a lot. Everything keeps closing (desktop, taskbar) i can only see the current windows i have open. When i got to task manager it says explorer.exe is running and i can get it back for a bit by going to the file tab then run and …

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Hi all, i just got this 256mb flash disk but have a problem! when i insert it it doesnt show up in my computer, however when i type "F:\" into the explorer window it shows the relevant files! one time it automatically scandisked before windows booted, and started to work …

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Hi, everybody. I m newbie here, alright I gonna tell you something serious. I reformatted my computer in few days ago, everything goes well, but I found a stuff call mIRC located in my computer after installed winrar and it is screwed up my internet explorer make me exasparate. Now …

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Hi to all I format my computer without back up my outlook mail Then i want to recover the outlook mail What can i do?

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Whenever I go to arcadestreet.com and play traffic slam, it would work for a bit, then after a couple of games, it would crash. When i right click the game window, and hit restart, I get a message that says "no float no ir" (see attachment). Can some1 explain why …

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Ok after i got rid of this other malware/virus. I see this other person having the same problem [url]http://ask.metafilter.com/81308/Why-does-my-desktop-keep-crashing[/url] . It starts at boot time but usually when i open up ie explorer, opera it seems to close. If i go to CTRL+ALT+DEL menu to processes explorer.exe is still there. …

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Hello, I'm new here. After days of searching the web, I have found nothing that specifically tells me how to completely wipe the memory of my laptop. I have a Toshiba Satellite 2805-s202 with windows ME. I do not have any recovery CDs nor do I have the oem disk, …

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can anyone help me identify a few of the usual culprits worth removing from my task manager list because i think they're really slowing my computer down. I'm running windows XP thanks in advance hetixo

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