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I recently sent in my laptop to HP to replace the battery. When I finally got it back after about 3 months, my antivirus subscription had finished. Now, it seems like I have a trojan or virus on my computer. A program called "Auto-Protect Results" (I think it's part of …

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I can't change my background, all i can do is change the color. There's nothing in the Web page background thing. I recenlty installed AVG, Spybot, and HijackThis. I ran avg until there was nothing left that it could pick up, and I immunized with S&D, but i don't know …

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Hi, can any one give any idea on how do we implement "Print All Text In Black" feature in rendering plug-in of a Unidrv printer driver.

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Hi all, This will sound a little silly. I bought a lightly used, older HP tower a while back, which was being used as a small server and had both XP and Linux installed on it. The PC eventually stopped working, probably just a power failure, so I removed the …

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Microsoft Update [B]KB951748[/B] is known to cause loss of Internet access for [B]ZoneAlarm[/B] users! I suggest either Option 1 or Option 2 in the link below: [url]http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/pressReleases/2008/LossOfInternetAccessIssue.html[/url] [url]http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=cfg&message.id=52727[/url] PP :)

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i am unable to access the items in my control panel such as add/remove programs etc. please help! there seems to be some sort of trojan at work. here is my hijackthis log and my combofix log. i'm not massively technical so basic instructions would be much appreciated. many thanks, …

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:'( Ok I am having a host of problems with my computer. First before i can eve log in on to my page there is a box that comes up and says that the iinstruction @"0X7712492 memory cannot be read click ok to terminate! Then there is another one that …

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I have a mess on my hands, and I hope someone can help me!! Machine: ThinkPad T43p; Windows XP Pro SP2 ( but I can't find my OEM software anywhere. :$ ; we do have a CD from XP Pro SP2 for my husband's Dell laptop, however.) My original problem …

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Okay, after booting up my vista based notebook, it runs like an angel. Only problem, it takes 65 seconds to boot up, from the older 45 seconds. I performed every single tweak i could get my hands on. about 55 to 60 of those seconds are spent on the vista …

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I recently purchased a new computer with Vista Home Premium. During the time I am setting it up, I attempted to set Windows Update in order for it to automatically seek the newest updates. I am unable to do so because the selections are grey out. There is a message …

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Hello, i have been using AVG antivirus and its been picking up infected files wmedia.exe, Windows Firewall.exe, firefox.exe in my WINDOWS folder. Yesterday it picked up firefox.exe in my local disk drive and AVG deleted them. However they came back and moved to my WINDOWS folder. I have deleted them …

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Hi All On my HP Pavilion laptop with XP Pro, I installed SP3. All 4 USB ports quit. In device manager under USB Controllers, there are now just 4 entries, all of which are shown as fault: -Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller -Intel 82801EB USB Universal Host Controller …

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My computer screen keeps randomly blacking out and I have no idea what to do. I'll start it up, use it for a while and then it seems to still be running but I cant see anything but a black screen. I have tried everything to get it to go …

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I have a Memorex 1 GB flash drive and a Maxtor 500 GB external hard drive. Whenever I disconnect them and reconnect them, I either get an error saying "Can not find script file "<drive letter>:\nar.vbs"." or NOD 32 comes up and says that nar.vbs is a worm. I found …

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Well over time my cpu has slowed down and I have followed all of the cleaning and virus/maleware/trojen cleanup procedures and I am clean as a whistle, but I have a very slow boot up. My question is, can I just reinstall windows and not loose any files or important …

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I have cleaned and recleaned and followed all the forum tips I can find, and my cpu is still slow at boot, and just acting funny. Heres my system if this helps also. Windowsxp Service pack 3 Tower CASECOOLERMASMaster Power Supply PSU OCZ|OCZ700GXSSLI 700W MotherBoard ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe Processor AMD|A64 …

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I have installed many anti-virus for protect my computer but no one it's working its good. i want to know how to come virus to my system somebody told me that its coming through USB and Internet and also i want know which one is better protect from virus ???

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I'm really sorry to ask this but, I'm a complete noobie when it comes to computers. I won't go into too much detail but, basically I was force to reinstall my OS and I'm missing three drivers for it. I am unable to connect to the internet and my other …

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I've been getting a lot of popups and trying to use symantec and spybot to deal with it, but that's not working. Today, when I tried to log in as Administrator to my computer, it did not load the toolbar or any icons, just the desktop background and a cursor …

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I copied photos to desktop and now cnnot delete them. In fact, they are multiplying! I delete the icons and they deep coming back. Up to 11-12 copies to this point. Anyone know what is going on? Jack

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help! i have a assembled pc with p-4 processor and 512 mb ram and 1.87 ghz with win xp sp2 installed.recently it crashed and i had to reinstall it again but now prob has appeared when i try 2 install or run a prog / app the application window appears …

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i hv a assembled pc with p-4 processor 512 mb ram and 1.87 ghz with win xp sp2 installed in it. recently it crashed and i had to reinstall xp on my system after tht a queer prob has come up whenever i try installing some app/prog or using applications …

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When I had XP, I found it incredibly easy to get my microphone to pick up good, high quality sound. However upon getting Vista, I'm having trouble getting it to pick up anything quieter than shouts. I thought I'd fixed it yesterday when playing Team Fortress 2, as it seemed …

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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 12:08:14 PM, on 4/27/2008 Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.2600.0000) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware 2007\aawservice.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5\guard.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgamsvr.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgupsvc.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\PSIService.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe …

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All of a sudden, my computer won't load certain web pages. Pages like Myspace, my hotmail account (stops working after I try to login), the google page loads but won't load when i try to search, yahoo won't load, the list goes on. Other pages do load like this for …

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Hi, am using a Unidrv printer driver for printing. When i give a print using my Unidrv printer driver to a printer which is there in the network, am able to get the print done. But interestingly , when i connect my own printer to my computer , and when …

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I defragged my hdd (1tb in RAID 0), and it used to have 718gb free, now it's 680gb free. The amount free kept going down when the defragging was in process. What happened?

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Is there a safe way to remove windows apps and certain components eg IE7, defender, firewall, mail, mediaplayer, messenger etc on windows Vista I have used vLite, I was just wondering if there are other ways to remove these components on an installed version of windows vista

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I have a dell Inspiron 1000 that I recently installed 1 gig of RAM to. After installing the new memory it loaded perfectly fine twice. After shutting it down and restarting again it said that I need to press <F2> for setup or <F12> for one time boot menu. If …

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I copied Photos to my desktop and now I cannot delete them. My desktop is filled with photo icons (flower pot) and when I try to delete them they keep multiplying. Any sugestions? Jack

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