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I'm having trouble while on the internet on my computer. After about a half hour to an hour of being on the internet, my task bar changes gray...to the old Windows, or Windows 98, and my internet disconnects. When I double click on the little internet icon at the right …

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a friend of mine has 3 computers where he recently installed xp and after 1 to 2 days he sees this error message on start up(on all 3 comps)-THE INSTRUCTION ( OX01830781 ) REFERENCED MEMORY At ( Ox018d256C ) the memory could not be read.press ok to terminate program. he …

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Hi All, I am running a W2k Domain and i want to know that is this possible that we can disable CD-ROM drive on all clients (member) through Group Policy in windows 2000. If yes please let me know that which option to select under MMC snap-in to implement this …

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Hi, I have some propblems with the computer at the moment. An error message 'Buffer Overrun Microsoft C++ occured in WINDOWS/explorer.exe. Explorere crashes when you click ok, the pop-up is not triggered by anything in particular. I have tried: Re-installing windows McAfee Virus Scan Spybot 1.5 Ad-Aware And still no …

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Sorry, but I'm not sure if I posted this in the right forum, I looked for a forum to post this in, but I can't find a more suitable one. Well anyways, I just ripped my DVD, with Virtual Dub. I want to know how to cut my file into …

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I'm trying to install some .jar & .rar applications on my laptop (XP Pro, SP2) and/or Dell Axim hand held and applications fail to launch. Any suggestions for a technical illiterate?

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I have reformated my hardrive and installed Windows XP on it. Unfortunatly I still have NO sound on my computer! My onboard audio device ([I]C-Media AC97 Audio Device[/I]) has a yellow exclamation mark next to it in Device Manager. When I look at it's 'Properties' the device status is listed …

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Hey all. For a while now I've been having trouble with my Dell Inspiron 600m and networking. Before I formatted it yesterday, I was running Ubuntu off an external drive because Window's networking didn't work, wireless or wired. So I finally found my XP Pro disk and reformatted the thing, …

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Trojan horse BackDoor.Generic8.ZST Dear fellows I should be grateful if anyone has a cure to this. I have an external hard disk which shows an infection with (Trojan horse BackDoor.Generic8.ZST) when scanned with AVG 7.6.516.After healing is carried out and the scan made again, the trojan horse threat shows again. …

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Hello all, First post, thanks in advance for your thoughts and help. I have a Panasonic CF-TF Toughbook with XP SP2. The problem started about a week ago when I used a flash drive to transfer info at a printing store. My AVG software caught the Trojan on my flash …

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Hi everyone, I would like to request assistance if ANYONE can help me. Recently, my grandpa passed away. I had taken a picture of him and my father before his death and had kept putting it off to save it to an external drive to show my father. About 3 …

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Hey every one .. I have a Toshiba - Qosmio Laptop ... it's origin software is windows MCE .. so yesterday after completing updates for windows i restarted my pc .. but it stops in windows loading screen ... i tryed to use ( Last known good status ...) option …

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My parents have been compliaing of a slow computer... they used to have many viruses so can someone please take a look at the hi jack file below and let me know what can be removed and what else i can do to get their computer working better THANKS in …

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Hello Again, I managed to fix my hard drive problem, but now i'm having issues with this executable file. At random times it decides that it is going to take up 99 - 100 % of my CPU. I had this issue before. So I reformatted my computer and put …

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Hey guys and gals ... looks like i'm 'it' again. I was just getting ready to teach kids a nature program when my boss tags me and says your "it". They bought a new computer for one of the other teachers a month ago and were having problems. It connects …

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Hello, and thanks in advance for any help. My PC got infected with what appeared to be two viruses simultaneously. Norton identified the first as some Vundo. I ran VundoFix, and it seems to have taken care of that one. Then Norton discovered what it calls Trojan.MetaJuan. This virus keeps …

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when trying to upgrade from windows 98 se to xp it tells me there isnt enough room on hard drive. i have an 80 gig drive half full, i tried defragmenting and got the same problem. i dont understand whats wrong, theres almost 40 gigs left on the drive. im …

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On this 6/8 months old Tevion Laptop athlon 2g, windows history clears itself automatically about once weekly. I cannot find any way to extend the time before it clears itself, which can be a nuisance. Could anybody help ? Thanks Angoose

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OK - I keep getting the dreaded explorer buffer overrun message and Internet explorer periodically opens up new windows for me to all kinds of interesting sites, so it's pretty obvious I've managed to get my PC infected. I've updated definitions and run Spybot, Windows Defender and Norton, attempted to …

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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 2:21:07 PM, on 2/3/2008 Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINNT\System32\smss.exe C:\WINNT\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINNT\system32\services.exe C:\WINNT\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINNT\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINNT\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINNT\system32\regsvc.exe C:\WINNT\System32\SCardSvr.exe C:\WINNT\system32\MSTask.exe C:\WINNT\system32\tlntsvr.exe C:\WINNT\System32\WBEM\WinMgmt.exe C:\WINNT\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINNT\system32\faxsvc.exe C:\WINNT\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINNT\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Video Add-on\icthis.exe C:\Program …

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Hi, I am currently facing difficulties in sharing files/folder over the network in WINDOWS 2003 domain environment. PROLEM is easy to understand. I want to enable File/Folder sharing but restriction applies as one department can't access other department's shared folder. First of all i can't understand two tabs one is …

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Hi, My wife's laptop started playing up and wouldn't load past the XP logo, it just keeps rebooting. I've tried all the usuals, last config etc. Now it won't even let me boot in safe mode. We got the laptop econd hand with no cd's so cannot perform a repair/recovery. …

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Hi, I have got a problem on preloaded Windows vista home edition on my laptop. Actually whenever i try to burn dvd it complets the burn process sucessfully but unable to play that dvd on computer neither on dvd players. When i noitced the space of DVD actually windows vista …

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I am supposed to upgrade my boss's computer from the worthless Vista Home Premium to Vista Business. He purchased the upgrade disk. Is it necessary to do a clean install? I ask because of some time constraints. (Bosses think everything can be completed over a lunch hour, and he will …

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I have ie7 and windows xp. I have a problem with opening and closing windows(links etc). Any time I open a new window I have to do it with a tab, if I don't and a new window opens it will not close without closing everything? I have upgraded, cleaned …

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Hey everybody, I am new to this computer stuff and lost too. My problem is: I d/l a tax program, unknowingly came some security center for spyware and viruses. Now it won't let me access my control panel to delete it, not even through my computer or start menu. can …

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Hi, Hope someone can help me, I have a HP zd8000 laptop which has started to run very slow when connected to the internet. I have AVG 7.5 full edition on laptop which often finds cookies etc and removes them but nothing ever serious. I also have AdAware loaded on, …

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I have a question that may be dumb to some, but i will ask anyway, since i don't understand it fully. Can i install an upgrade copy of windows xp on a blank, self built machine, if i borrow a windows 98 disk from my friend as a "verification disk". …

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