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I'm using Windows XP Pro SP2. My primary hard drive's SMART system tipped me off that failure was near, so I bought a new Western Digital, partitioned, formated, and mirrored my old failing drive to the new one. When I swapped the drives, it brought up a boot screen with …

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Hi , i Have a Flash or Jump or Stick Removable disk and i want to make installation from that disk , I want to know is anybody ever do this ? Do i need to set additional boot setting ? or not ? I never boot form Removable disk. …

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Hello, I need help, after dust cleaning my computer with celeron466, 256RAM, it will not boot through post at all, it will power up and just stay there with no screen and nothing. re-sit RAM and try different video card with no luck. Can anyone please help!! It is a …

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Hi Group, I have a simple question I hope. Should I have 2 office 2003 software packages load on my system? When I look at the add/remove programs I see office 2003 standard and office 2003 professional. Should I remove the standard? I also see .net framework 2.0 and .net …

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Hi I am new to this site i joined becase iv been readin all these threads about how popular this problem is and it seems that every one has to do it a certain way. if any one could give me some pointers on how i get the proces of …

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Hi, I hope I`m right here with my question but if not sorry, anyway here it is: The company that I'm working for, small one no IT department, want to buy an encryption software (we found on Google CompuSec, DiskProtect, DriveCrypt Plus Pack...) to fully encrypt the OS partition and …

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I'm relatively new to the world of computers, so bear with me if I don't understand your terminology. Please advise.

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I've got a system with windows xp sp2 on it and the desktop background has been changed to a html page thats like some kind of collage of animations and web pages. Selecting display properties from the desktop or control panel to change the background will not work cause it …

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Every so often my mouse will just become really slow. i go into control panel and printers and other hardware but it shows no mouse options. how do i fix this?

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Starting yesterday my laptop's internet browsers decided to stop working. Aim works, WoW works, everything that doesnt connect to a website works. If i type in an address it changes it to [url]HTTP:///[/url] or something like [url]http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=www.myspace.com&ei=UTF-8&fr=hp-psnb[/url] I tried downloading firefox to see if it was a problem with IE, …

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I am a new kid on the block. I sent this to another thread in another forum from someone with Win 98se. I think it should be posted here. I have Win XP-2 on a Dell Inspiron 7500 I asked Goggle and Google referred me to a site that said …

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I continue to have problems and have Netzero Dailup.It seems nothing works to fix it. .Before I post my logs,I forgot to also speak of an error message I get while attempting to connect to the internet.My internet shows connection but a square box ask me if I want to …

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Windows Explorer seems to be missing. I found the a Short Cut in C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories and when I click on the Short Cut, it brings up My Documents. It is not visible in the Program Files, and I have configured the Folder Options to show All Hidden Files. …

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So, someone pretty much gave me a laptop a while back...a dell latitude... anyway, i was using it, and on the 3rd day, the screen went white and it froze. I turned it off, and when it went to boot again, it froze at the DELL "bios" loading screen, and …

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I Have two windows XP computers 1 is hard wired to the router/modem, the 2nd one is wireless. Have a windows Vista wireless, all three can connect to the internet. I am new to networking and have setup a network and workgroup. The two XP computer have no problem with …

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[B][/B]I have recently downloaded and installed m$ virtual pc, and installed vista premium on it. this means i have 2 vista versions on one pc! but i have a couple of problems. i have no sound, and it can only give vista 8mb of video ram, which makes the virtual …

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My cousin has a computer full of viruses and junk. well she asked me to clean it since she couldnt get a web browser open. I deleted all the viruses and spyware with Kaspersky, and spybot. I dont want to reinstall windows since she has a lot of things on …

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Norton Antivirus keeps detecting a certain file as a virus (a trojon horse to be exact). Is there no way to add exceptions? i.e., to manually mark a file as 'safe'? I'm using Norton Antivirus 2004. This is really quite annoying. The file it keeps picking up is a crucial …

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As the title suggests, XP freezes seemingly randomly. One time it froze a few seconds after logging into my XP account. Other times its frozen with the screen saver up, and most recently it froze while web surfing with firefox. After the latest freeze when I rebooted 3 command prompt …

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Hello, I am having some trouble creating a personal network at home. I don't have internet access (shocking I know) and I am unfortunately not very IT-savvy (my bad). Perhaps someone can help me... I have a macbook with OS X, a laptop with Windows Vista and a lovely pink …

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...because I can't access bank a/c's, credit card logins, My eBay etc. Mostly it's the HTTPS sites, but not 100%. Have tried the solution posted May 2nd, 2005 (re HTTPS access error) about entering info (beginning - regsvr32) into DOS box. Didn't resolve the problem for me though. Have also …

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So I'm Pretty Sure I Got A Virus, Either From A Music File Someone Sent Me, Or My Brother Downloaded Something He Shouldn't Have...my Home Page Which Is Yahoo Is Now Blank And A Security Balloon Keeps Poppong Up That Says The System Has Detected Spyware, So I Ran A …

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Hi Am new to the forum and hope that you're all really nice and someone can help me out! I've just bought a new computer which has mcafee installed on a trial basis, but i have no idea which antivirus, firewall, spyware etc software to install once this trial runs …

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Hi there im new to these boards, and I was hoping to get some help. I am unable to open control panel and some other things because of the Restrictions it says my computer has even though im the only user (and admin lol).....I guess this is what happens when …

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Occasionally after rebooting my laptop from sleep, I'll get an error reading "Win32 Services Error" rendering the laptop nonfunctional until I reboot. Under event viewer I see: [ICODE] The Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). For more information, see Help and Support Center …

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I got a virus a while ago (months ago) and ever since my Freedom telus antivirus helped remove the virus i keep on getting the rb4.tmp files in my recycle bin, rb26.tmp, rb4f.tmp and many more different types. I think there might also be more hidden viruses on my computer …

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First off I am not too good with computers but I am learning so bare with me please. Ok when I first turn on my computer I get 2 messages here they are in order. During a scan of files at system startup, potential errors in the system registry were …

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I do not have sound. It just happened. There's nothing wrong with my speakers. I took a look under "Device Manager" and noticed that all my "Other Devices" have a yellow question mark with an exclamation mark. The "Other Devices" are: 1. Ethernet Controller 2. Multimedia Audio Controller 3. PCI …

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hi my pc has been running a little slow recently it may be a virus ive run a scan and everything didn't find anything anyway can someone please check out my HJT log thanks in advance Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 23:15:47, on 20/02/2008 Platform: Windows …

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