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Hi there. I am new to this community. I am just wondering if there is any way at all to disable the force shut down feature (you know, when you press on the power button for 5 secs+ the computer will shut down by itself without closing any active programs). …

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I just build a PC, with spec: asus p4s8x-x motherboard, Celeron 2.4GHz, 512 MB, GForce 5200, 80GB HD, DVD and CD-RW. The problem was, after loading Windows the second time, it takes almost two minutes to load Windows, and the sound is bad; it sounds like have a lot of …

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My boss just bought a HP Pavilion dv9000 with Windows Vista Home Premium. I am trying to add it to the wired office network (all other computers are Dells running XP). After much difficulty and heavy drinking, I finally got the notebook to recognize the other computers. However, I am …

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Hi guys! ARRRRGGGHHHHH!!! need some help, i need to clear the history from internet explorer on my work pc; it's windows xp pro sp2 - but locked down. i've found the entrys i need to get rid of (facebook & daniweb etc lol) but the delete button has no effect …

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Hello, Seems a few problems have cropped up. I will list the symptoms below. I feel they are related, since they have all started concurrently. SYMPTOMS: * In Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs will start to load, then gray-out after several seconds. No error ever pops up. Only by killing the …

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Im trying to slipstream the SP2 with XP Pro and I need to enter some commands into the command line. I know how to get there but my default directory is my "mydocuments". I need to be strictly in the c:\ drive. I tried typing in the "C" prompt but …

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If I go to desktop properties or through control panel and click on desktop the browse button is grayed out and if I try to pick from the left hand box nothing happens. Also if I go to themes my desktop only changes to solid color. Ive tried changing the …

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I have this icon in my taskbar that keeps popping up and it really gets annoying it says system alert and when u click on it , it opens up a web page, I have downloaded HJT and here is my log,, PLease help as soon as possible,, thank you …

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Hey guys! I have a problem which I dismissed initially but now has built up and is ddrivin me crazy!!!! Whenever I play an online game or watch an online video e.g. in YouTube or wateva every so often the picture will freeze while the sound is continuing to function …

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my computer and monitor keep shutting down and restarting on their own, even if i am on the internet or not! I used to have dsl, but i am on dial up now(netzero premium) and it never did it then. I am running windows 2000 professional. Can somebody help me …

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First off I apologize if I posted this in the wrong place. I'm trying to find a way to run a downloaded game twice on the same computer at the same time. When I try to run the game for the 2nd time it detects it's self and says it's …

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I've run about a dozen different scanners all with results but there still seems to be no change! Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 20:01:38, on 13/07/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16473) 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:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\Program …

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right boys and girls, could do with some help ASAP here working on a PC and when i come to defreg the HDD through windows defragger it stops and comes up with this error 'the scan has been cancelled because an error occured on file: c:\windows\systems32\temppf.sys' does anyone have a …

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Hi, I have a personal PC at home running Windows XP, 3.06 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 with 200 GB hard drive space and 512 MB RAM. I bought this a year ago from PC world. I have noticed that my PC took about 3 mins to start so I decided …

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I have multiple viruses such as getting a white background, Windows security alert popping up and spyware alerts popping up and i cannot remover them using Ad-aware, AVG, trojan remover, spybot search and destroy, or norton free security scan. here is the Analization from Hijack this: Logfile of Trend Micro …

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I am getting a blue screen on my computer that says if this persists contact distributor and ask them for some files that may be missing. I'm thinking about reformatting my computer to solve this; but before I do I was wondering if anyone else had a quicker solution.

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Hello, I am unable to open my cmd.exe; it simply closes itself after no more then a second with no error message or anything. I have tried several solutions posted around other forums but to no avail. I have tried: - Virus removal (no viruses found) - System restore (didn't …

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ok, i've had it with this cloak and dagger stuff i have a hp pavilion xt928 with win xp on it i even wasted more money ordering the recovery disks i would like to go back to old win98se os and still be able to use the hardware on this …

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Hi there, I'm using linux for several years and i would like learn windows to get some new experineces in IT and ... get better salary :-) 1) I'm little afraid of it, because i have no idea how i can do something like package managment (easy install and automatic …

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I have a Sony dual-layer capable DRU-820A DVD burner and im running vista ultimate full version. my device manager is saying that the burner is installed properly. But not only does the burning not work, no CD's or DVDs are even detected by the drive when i insert one. The …

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Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 12:19:43 PM, on 7/13/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\csrss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\ibmpmsvc.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Intel\Wireless\Bin\EvtEng.exe C:\Program Files\Intel\Wireless\Bin\S24EvMon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\IPSSVC.EXE C:\Program Files\a-squared Anti-Dialer\a2service.exe c:\program files\a-squared free\a2service.exe C:\Program Files\ThinkPad\ConnectUtilities\AcPrfMgrSvc.exe …

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I have a challange for anyone who thinks they can help me. I have been trying for 8 months to rid my computer of the infamous NEW FOUND HARDARE WIZARD. I have tried everything i know and some of what others know and yet it still lurks on my computer. …

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Help, I have been trying to load Windows Vista Ulitmate to a new Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 SATA 320gb. H/D is plugged into the SATA 1 socket and all runs ok till it starts to look for a H/D driver ?? Vista does a search and tells me it cannot find …

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Blingo has hijacked my windows 2000 Dell Dimesnsion 4500S. I have followed lots of advice and still IE opens to it everytime. Here is the latest log. Please help. --------------------------------------------------------- AVG Anti-Spyware - Scan Report --------------------------------------------------------- + Created at: 1:19:34 PM 6/14/2002 + Scan result: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\AdultBar.AdultBar -> Adware.Adultlinks : Cleaned …

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I've been updating my tags in my pictures folder which makes searching for pictures very easy. However there are certain private pictures that I have set the file attributes as hidden, but when you type any of the tag names in the Vista search box it pulls up those hidden …

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sir the folder option is missing in tooles menu &control pannel . so i m not see my hidden files & folder pls help me

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my Add and remove programs will just sit there and says "please wait while the list is being populated." I have let it run for a long time and still nothing. any clues????

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Hi, I have followed all the steps in RUN this before posting thread and cleaning and detection thread posted before in the forums The Problems I have faced are IE and firefox windows and tabs open with links to sites like bonus.com, legaldeeds.com etc sometimes youtube files open on its …

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[quote]It’s official: We are now in the under-promise and over-deliver era at Microsoft. Just when Microsoft had customers, partners and competitors all believing that it was going to delay the first service pack for Vista — not releasing a first beta of it until just before year-end — the company …

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I'm a newbie so bare with me. I have been getting crazy amounts of popups. I've done all kinds of spyware and virus scans, even removing a lot that were found, but still the popups won't go away. Most of the popups are antivirus/spyware related. The most frequent ones are …

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