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I am not new to the business but I am definitely not advanced in any way, also I am new to daniweb and am not sure if this is the correct forum. I am trying to create a batch file in XP that clears the IE cache, temp internet fils, …

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i just recently upgraded to vista from xp, and getting everything set up, i can't sync the time with the windows server, i tried to download spybot, and i can't connect to that to download the setup files, i can download the installer, but thats it. I have utorrent and …

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Hi All, Im currently running Vista 32bit on an Core 2 Duo PC. The other day, after installing and uninstalling my anti-virus software to update and change i noticed some of my web pages were refusing to load. Sometimes if i closed the browser 3 or 4 times it would …

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I am running MS Win XP SP2 on a Dell GX745 Intel Core 2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40 GHz with 2 GB ram. Starting this afternoon I have had a problem that when I right click on the start button, or on a file in a folder, explorer.exe hangs. I …

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Oh god, someone PLEASE help me!!! Certain websites aren't working for me via Fx & IE, but they are working for others. In fact I had just installed AVG, thought that was part of the problem & uninstalled it (I'm going back to Anti Vir), but it's still a problem. …

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I am using Windows XP currently. My computer has been working for some time already. However, I'm not sure what did I do to my computer. My taskbar does not display any of the programs that are I am running. The start menu works, the icons work, the desktop icons …

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HELP, my PC has always been virtually virus and spyware free because i use avg annti-virus & spybot. but recently ive had some real serious problems with my pc. I get these "Buffer Overrun" errors in "explorer.exe" which causes all programs and the task bar and desktop to close down …

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Recently on a 2 year old Dell 3000 the system would lock up on this "Windows is Starting" screen forever. Safe Mode (with Networking) worked OK. Running Windows XP SP2 with current updates. An external hard drive using usb2.0 was recently connected but all the usb ports were 1.x. Hence …

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I Get this error message once in a while. What does it mean? Does it has to do something with Adobe Acrobat/Reader or any Office related product? How can I solve this issue?

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Is it possible to add a wildcard onto a string? eg: IF /I '%input%'=='hi'[COLOR="Red"]Wildcard here[/COLOR]

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So this morning when I turn on my computer, everything loads and I get to my wall paper, except that is the only thing that loads. my icons, my start bar, my system tray, all gone. I can manage to open the task manager and run explorer to access files …

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A neighbor's husband died last year. He ran a business from his house. She gave me one of his disktop Gateway computers (which had a dead power supply) that I replaced. [URL="http://support.gateway.com/s//MOTHERBD/INTEL/2517815/2517815nv.shtml"]Here[/URL] is the motherboard. Upon booting, I notice that it is set to run on a domain. It has …

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I am having an issue where the the option for network adapter is not being displayed in the device manager. I've alway had a network adapter displayed in the task bar and out of a sudden I can not see this display. could it be that my NIC card may …

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I need a freeware program besides bootskin to change my boot screen. a cia screen would also help.

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Hi I have had an unusually high cpu usage for the past 2 days. Especially when using firefox or safari or similar programs. I have over 300GB of hard disk space and almost 3gb of ram. I have never had over 80% cpu usage even even using high-end games but …

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Hello everybody, i'm in desperately in need of help. I have recently acquired some kind of virus/bug/nasty. There is a "VIRUS ALERT!" Warning appears in my system tray. I am unable to access most things in my start bar, and I cannot access control panel or my computer. Also, when …

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Hello Last Wednesday my computer became very effectively infected. My desktop became a selectable icon, (a version of the SmitfraudFix icon), the C drive had disappeared, was unable to access the display icon (came back with administration privilege required). The system was constantly accessing the internet, the antivirus soft, Avira …

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Im making a network of 10 computers using an office station device to create a terminal connection type or what others call as "DISKLESS NETWORK" where i have only one computer running on XP and the others are just connecting via office station device.. when i setup the security to …

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Hello, is it possible to resize partitions under win XP using Disk management tools, or I need special software for that? I know there are couple of software tools such as Partition Magic. However, I'd like to know if this is possible to be done in Win XP itself. Regards

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A huge advertisement pops up as a web page on my screen randomly, and my current antivirus and antispyware, etc, programs aren't able to find the virus. I don't know what to do! Help?

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I have a relatively new (couple months) Dell XP Pro laptop (Precision M90), current on patches, up to date AV (AVG Network Edition) that after the user attempted to install some software on, and it went to hell. There was an error on boot up from TCSD_Win32.exe, which apparently a …

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Hi there, Here is my problem: I get this message "Windows/System32/Config/System file missing or corrupt". I have tried this so far: -Using my Windows Installation disk to try to repair my registry, using the windows tutorial [URL="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us"](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us)[/URL], but when i try to enter the first line (c:\>md tmp) i get …

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how do you make a computer like at a library, where the start button shuts off the computer, and only the card catalog is available?

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Up until now, I've been able to login to update a Web Site I have with [url]ftp://www.sitename.ca[/url] as the address, Now, all I get is [B]"Windows cannot access this folder. Make sure you typed the filename correctly or have permission to access this folder"[/B] There were a couple of Automatic …

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I am having problems with games and other aspects of my computer graphics not loading properly and taking more than 10 minutes to load at all. Also games can become very slow and lots of the graphics incomplete on screen. I have a Packard Bell computer with Windows XP service …

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ive done the search and looked at the other threads, but mine seems a bit different, i got infected with the "AnitmalewareGaurd" guy, and i managed to get rid of most of the problems with spybot S&D, but i still have a few problems, on my taskbar it says "VIRUS …

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Why does Vista seem to suddenly have problems with some programs? I understand when something isn't compatible to begin with but often I'll have a game or program work perfectly fine for a week or two and then suddenly stops working. Anyone know why this would happen or if there …

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hi, got a couple of problems with my desktop which came loveingly installed with windows vista . . . my sister has installed and "apparently deleted" a webcam that needed registering, and it constantly pops up that you need to register it . . . regardless of if you register …

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Yesterday I was able to listen to music, and when I log on today, I'm not. I try to use the volume controls on my keyboard, and the sound bar comes up but nothing changes. I've tried the troubleshooter and all I've managed to do is get even more confused. …

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When you move your DNS ([url]www.mysite.com[/url]) to another provider, the servers placed in your network can not recahed the web-page as well. So I try to fix that in the DNSMGMT tool tab forwarders, to include the new DNS, even that was made, the user inside the network can not …

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