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I received a call from a family member, who forgot the password for her user account. She is running XP on a Dell Dimension, and that is the only account set up on the computer. Her password hint was no help. Is there a way to get around that to …

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Hey guys, for an enterprise wide deployment, what will you suggest and why among - Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux and Ubuntu Linux, also, do you think, we can negotiate the support pricing down?

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Hey guys, I'm having a problem with a laptop I just received a few days ago. The model is a Dell Latitude LS (P3/400 mHz/256M RAM/Win2000Pro) and to my surprise had Windows XP/SP2 installed running quite smoothly. I planned on simply using this machine to run older games/emulators so I …

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Hi all! I have this problem; When i turn on my laptop with win 2000, it loads everything except "explorer" i can see only my wallpaper, and then starts to heating up very fast. To solve temporarily this problem, i run ctrl+alt+del to open "task manager" and i close "explorer" …

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Can anyone give me any idea what i can do as my outlook express is not working. I click on the desktop icon and it starts to load then all of a sudden it will freeze and i will have to reboot my pc. I do have MSN Messenger which …

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I've had a [I]very[/I] strange incident with xp pro x64 today. I've had it for over a year, and today It kept crashing, and eventually wouldn't boot at all. Okay... So, I use Ubuntu (a linux distribution) instead. Towards the end of the day, I decide to restart and try …

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here's a hijakthis log of my system: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 21:22:05, on 12/08/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16473) 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:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Intel\Wireless\Bin\EvtEng.exe C:\Program Files\Intel\Wireless\Bin\S24EvMon.exe C:\Program Files\Alwil …

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Hey, uhh...Today I've come home to find that my computer is getting 15000000 pop ups telling me I have spyware, viruses, adult content, etc on my computer. All of them send me to sites where they prompt me to download some adware protector or whatever. I've run scans with Norton …

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Just wondering if someone could look at the following and give me some suggestions on how i can fix my problem. (PROBLEM.... my background settings seem to be locked and computer has been running slower than normal) i have run virus softwear and come across limited problems and fixed what …

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I don't know how, but it started unexpectedly and suddenly. Tried everything from my side but nothing works. I have Windows XP Professional Version 2002(i mean no service pack) Well the problem is that whenever I press CTRL + ALT + DEL a error message is displayed with this content: …

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Hi guys, My p.c isn't running any better. It's still booting up very slow. I've removed everything with the tools advised. Here are three logs, hopefully this can lead to the removal of this problem. Thanks in advance Atky [B]HijackThis Log[/B] Logfile of HijackThisv1.99.1 Scan saved at 17:23:22, on 08/08/2007 …

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I am trying to reinstall xp. I have an OEM XP disc. I boot into the disc and get a blue screen with white text that simply says Windows Setup. I left the computer on this screen for an hour and nothing happened. What should I do?

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My D drive is full. There's not even enough space left to defragment. I have 156KB free. My computer is SLOWER than molasses. I can't figure out what is tying up all the space. I don't have an over abundance of programs loaded. How can I see what's on D …

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My system will not restore (to any point!). The points seem to be present but the reboot finishes up with the message "unable to restore no changes made". As this was a problem on my previous machine, I assume I've got something wrong in the set up although it looks …

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Hey, Recently I've been getting messages saying that iTunes cannot play music files, and when I try to open the Volume Control, it says that "no mixer devices are installed." It then tells me to install new hardware...but I HAVE a mixer device attached, so why? Any help on this …

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Hi All, I have just reformatted this computer to the manufacturer defaults - IBM NetVista. Kind of old but we are going to use it here in the mill. My problem is that every time I plug in a USB be device, wither it be a USB Mouse or Memory …

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All of a sudden my xp home will not restart using the Turn Off Computer, Restart function. It shuts down properly, the blue power light stays on, but the screen remains black and it won't reboot until I power off and press the power button to restart. If I start …

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Oh my, I believe i have the same problem here is the hijackthis logfile Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 10:38:02 AM, on 8/3/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16414) 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\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\Program …

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I do not have a tech no for HP., there is one job stuck in que...it will not delete from que, my green light on the HP continually blinks, I have shut down & restarted, actually tried to un install hp too... it is kind of logged in there in …

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Hi I am new here and am not sure where to post this but anywayz i hope one of you can help me with this. I have made a site on my own server and since my ISP has blocked port 80 i had to forward the port but now …

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Hi there, first off I'd like to thank the 'tech gurus' who help people out. It's much appreciated! Anyway, I've been scouring various forums about ways to remove spyware, malware, adware, etc. And it has helped but there still seems to be some linger resistance lurking somewhere in my computer …

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How to set a image in to my computer-> properties window on the free space and logon screen. I am using win xp professional service pack 2. help me to fix this.

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Hello folks!!! I just installed windows xp sp3; but i was wondering has anyone else has done so too. If anyone has installed it, can you tell me of some of the major difference that you have notice.

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I should be running pretty clean, yesterday I did a Norton scan, Ad-Aware scan, and Spybot scan. Everything seems OK, but sometimes I get a "Server Busy" window, with a "retry" and a "switch to" option. Neither one will get rid of it. The only way to get it off …

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Using avast to scan my windows xp media centre laptop it tells me the system volume information on both C: (main) and D: drives is password protected. Anyone know why? Or if it matters? And the two files listed on the screen dump are corrupted. Any takers on explaining? Do …

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I just got a second hand laptop and I want to restore it to factory settings, it came with three "recovery cd's" which I can't get to work, and every online guide suggests going to "erecovery" on my laptop, the thing is I don't have this "erecovery", I have "emanagement" …

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I put a new BIOS battery in a Presario 42000NX. When I try to start it, it powers up for about two seconds and shuts off. Once I got it to start by pulling the battery out right after I hit start. HAve not been able to do that again.

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Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 4:48:45 PM, on 8/1/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.5730.0011) 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\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe c:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccProxy.exe c:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe c:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SNDSrvc.exe c:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\LEXBCES.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe …

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I bought a new pavillion -and love it and have no real problems with vista (**cough**yet) but I'm wondering what is making it boot so slowly? Any ideas? I disabled Norton and am running AVG. :D

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There is a pop-up continually appearing on my Laptop from the taskbar that states that my computer is infected with virus and it may cause critical system failure. :mad:. I downloaded Ewido and TrojanHunter and ran sweeps...however the popup still appears on the screen. My laptop is running relatively slow …

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