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| | in the past 2 days i have kept getting a little symantec email proxy pop up box in the bottom right hand corner when i start my computer up. more and more keep adding on top and my whole desktop is full of these pop up boxes. i am using …  |
| | When I turn on my pc nothing happens apart from the lights coming on? I have no idea of where to start looking to fix it and am not sure how to get the information off the harddrive? Please help. |
| | Well, I'l start off with my system specs... I have an Acer Laptop, Aspire 3100 2.5GB Ram, AMD Sempron 3500+ 1.79GHz, Windows XP Home Service Pack 2, version 2002. Now onto the problem: I have a wireless internet connection and I am using the Belkin Wireless G Router #F5D7230-4. I … |
 | Hello all! I stumbled upon this site because I am having strange problems that I suspect were caused by spyware. My desktop is GONE, when I attempt to print something nothing happens, no error message or anything. There are other problems but one thing at a time! I am running … |
| | I have a home network with 2 computers connected - the first runs xp2 and connects with no problems. The second is a dual boot vista/xp2 which I have recently set up. Vista connects to the wireless again with no problem but the xp2 boot does not. I have disabled …  |
| | Hi there, I looked through some of the other threads and it looked like running hijackthis and generating a log for analysis was the procedure. Here is what I came up with, could someone please lend a hand. Thanks Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 11:04:07 PM, …  |
| | I just formatted and reinstalled Windows XP Home on my PC. after doing this i have an annoying little prompt that pops up as it is booting up. It asks me to choose an operating system to load. My choices are: Windows XP Home Windows XP Home if i choose … |
| | Hello, I'm having a major problem with Windows XP boot-up. Yesterday I downloaded a recent Windows Automatic Update. As soon as the download completed, the computer froze and he restarted. The computer then booted up to the login page and after loggin in, you hear the music telling you that …  |
| | Alright, I'll explain what's been happening. My friend is always going on about how his windows explorer is always freezing up, and he keeps having to restart his computer. He gave my a .mp3 song to listen to recently, but it never played, and it refreshed (perhaps rebooted) my explorer.exe. … |
| | Ok, where do I start, long story short, we had Vista, it sucked, formated the crap out of everything(including the recovery) yep, not a bright thing to do, my bad. Anyways xp is up and running but know the sound isn't working at all. I go to the control panel … |
| | When starting up my computer, my start up task bar, icons and anything else related to the desktop do not show up... The only way I can open things is through control alt delete. I downloaded virusterminator and it detected something in my startup labeled hmk.. I removed it and …  |
 | Hi, [B]I am using windows Xp home edition. I need to activate the Windows-xp within 30 days. So, to overcome this problem i took the drive backup where i had installed windows Xp. But, when i restore it back in DOS mode the number of days left for activating is … |
| | Hi, I forgot my local PC administrator password is there a way to reset it without reinstall my whole OS. Thks |
| | I am receiving the null parameter/serializationStream error message when I try to access my hp Imaging Gallery on my Dell Dimension 4600 computer on which I have Windows XP Home. |
| | Hi. We use IIS 5.1 on Windows XP pro to serve a simple website to our office. We need to secure it so that only our team has access. Have tried unchecking "Allow Anonymous Access" in IIS, but this causes windows vista machines to require a login with a username … |
| | Hello I am trying to set desktop background on multiple machines. I can not change gpo to do it so want to run to machine. I just can not remember where to put bitmap to have it overwright existing backgound. I browse to user profile I want to change but … |
| | My wife's computerhas been hijacked and is now almost unuseable with the pop-ups and pop-unders. With the system idle and no browser running, 39 seperate bvrowser widows opened today. I can't even type a complete sentence here with out another window opening. It gets so bad that all the icons … |
 | [QUOTE=crunchie;479132]Hi and welcome to Daniweb forums :). Let's see what we can come up with. Please [b]download[/b] this file - [url=http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/Beta/ComboFix.exe][color=red][b]combofix.exe[/b][/color][/url] by [b]sUBs[/b][list] [*] [b][color="#FF0000"]Save it to your Desktop[/color][/b] [*] Now [b]physically disconnect from the internet[/b] and [b]STOP all your monitoring programs[/b] (Antivirus/Antispyware, Guards and Shields) [*] Click on your … |
| | Hi, I need a good book for studying Windows XP Professsional should have everything Thanks, T.Mathavan |
| | For some reason I can not open more than one window in internet explorer. If I click on a link, it will open a new page in a new window, but close the window I was in. Any direction for help would be great. Thanx! |
| | I have a Dell laptop, Win2000, Linksys router, wireless card. All have worked and connected perfectly from January until Saturday, Dec 8. I ran a full virus scan on Dec 7. It found a couple things, fixed them, and I went on like normal. I played online for a little … |
| | I recently got a new computer equipt with Windows Vista. My last computer used XP and I was very competent using a variety of bit torent programs. With Vista I've successfully downloaded several torrent programs that are Vista friendly, I've even successfully downloaded things using the programs, but when the …  |
| | Hi all, I am new to this forum, but it looks like a good forum. I purchased Windows XP x64 Pro(OEM) a few Months ago and I think I made a big mistake in not getting the regular XP x86 Pro version. I am a Home user that just put … |
| | Is there any way to get rid of that annoying music-store avatar to the right? My friend's computer doesn't have it. Also, and the basis for my thread, for some reason Media Player 10 refuses to play files which are stored on my external hard-drive. WMP 9 didn't have a … |
| | "Dell pc with Windows XP Home Edition when booting up, screen goes black, then reads: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \Windows\system32\config\system You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows Setup using the original Setup CD Rom select 'r' at the first …  |
| | Is it possible to reformat a hard drive but leave the OS on it ? Im expecting a big fat "NO" on this one, but I hope I am wrong. Thanks in advance for the input. I should add that this comp was custom made, and that I am looking … |
| | ok ok. the first thing that would come to mind would be that this would be a hardware problem, but i just want to be sure. about four weeks ago, my cd drive started opening and closing continuously. it got annoying after a while and so i disconnected the cables … |
| | I believe I'm having a spyware issue, but I'm not certain. Here's my hijack this scan. Hope someone can help. Thanks all! Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.0 (BETA) Scan saved at 10:08:51 PM, on 12/9/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\csrss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe … |
| | hello everyone....well, weird things have happened to my computer recently n just a day ago i was alarmed by my zonealarm firewall of a spyware so i removed it...it seemed to be multiplying in a folder so i deleted the folder (of sum toolbar called my web search) n there … |
| | New member. Got to this site by Googling "programming vista C++"; wild thread exchange from a couple of weeks ago with implications that some folks might have the answer I need. Basic question is whether my partner & I can adapt a longstanding, robust C/C++ program we've been marketing so … |
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