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| | Earlier today i got a virus at work that was pretty bad, changing the background on my desktop and slowing down my machine incredibly, while pulling up popups telling me to download and buy some bogus antivirus program. I approached the problem like i normally do by running MalwareBytes, which … |
 | Hi there! I excitedly got a refurbished Linksys WRT54GS2 V1 router. I am fairly well experienced in software and got a little over confident with my router, and now have some how turned it into a pricy paper weight. I followed an internet guide to put VxWorksKiller-GS2V1.bin firmware from dd-wrt.com … |
| | When I am running any program that uses the whole screen, vs. window screens, aprox every 2 minutes the game stops and the screen minimizes to the desk bar. It doesn't have to be high end games, even happons on web games such as Diner Dash, Command and Conquer, etc. … |
 | Hello I have recently deleted my icon cache and recreated using some steps found from a tutorial, but I've noticed that from then on, my windows takes a long time to load completely, that it from the welcome screen to the final loading process. When I log in, it takes … |
| | I have a dell mini inspiron 1011 running windows xp OS. I have had this for roughly 11 months (has 30 days left on the warranty). I turned my computer on the other day only to be confronted with the black screen explaining that windows has encountered a problem....etc and … |
| | I have something weird going on with my pc. Internet Explorer opens by itself, usually some kind of advertisement. Also, I never use IE...I use Firefox. Any help would be much appreciated. I have downloaded HijackThis. Here is the Log. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 9:40:31 …  |
| | wht can i do ?..............i had inserted usb in my pc .but i cant able to eject it .pc shows the message that file has already opened ,pls close all the files otherwise you lost ur data.can any 1 me wht is d reason for this? |
| | I need help: a message appear when I start the computer saying: "there was a problem starting winry32 the specified module could not be found" as much as it is disturbing I do not know why it appears, its effect, and how should I remove it? |
| | I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop running Vista SP1. A month or more ago it stopped being able to read any USB flash drives. They all work in my other laptops, but in this one machine the autoplay dialog box has stopped popping up, and when I click the drive … |
| | Dear All, How do I display the pathname to the BASH shell of the Linux Terminal? Cheers,  |
| | Hello all.. I am a new user of Windows Vista (came installed on my new laptop). Which Microsoft Office Suite is the best version to run with Vista. I want to install one that does not hog all my resources and take up too much space. Also, when you install …  |
| | A friend of mine brought me her Toshiba Satellite Laptop and im trying to get in to it but it wont let me boot safe or last good know config or normal.. nada. I have tired F1 to change boot option to CD to go in and boot directly from … |
 | Hi I dont think I ever untapped the powers of Excel for advanced analytics. Thus, as Im going through these tutorial books, I do wonder what are your tips to help you analyze data quickly and efficiently. Help! |
| | Hello All, This is my first time on here. I just started building a computer, I have an ASUS A7V600 motherboard and a Athlon XP 2500+ "Barton", AGP video card, 80GB hard drive, 512mb ram, copper heat sink Ok that said, i had no problems initially, the computer started was … |
| | Unfortunately need some help here with what probably is a simple problem. Recently my son turned off his desktop at the wall while it was running. Since then when we try to restart the computer it will not boot. The screen remains blank, the hard disk does not start, and … |
| | I am attempting to fix a computer that was attacked by a nasty virus. I have recently zeroed the drive to wipe it clean. I am now trying a fresh reinstall of windows XP and the computer will not recognize my hard drive. It also will not recognize my second … |
| | i have vista on my dell latitude D260. i wanted to 'upgrade' to ubuntu , so i downloaded and burnt the image onto a cd . when i try to boot via the cd nothing ever happens. in this lappie , when i go to bios tit asks me to … |
| | Hello Last year I tried Ubuntu on a live CD on my mother's laptop that had Windows Vista. She didn't like it, so we didn't install it. For some time we had been thinking about upgrading to Windows 7, and yesterday we did. So her laptop has Windows 7 now, …  |
| | Thanks in advance for any help... I have an HP DV2000 laptop, the screen likes to start flashing, scrambling and usually goes black. The laptop is still running, but the screen won't come back on. This also happens to the external monitor. I have tried reinstalling drivers, even different version … |
| | I'm trying to get away from Windows, and maybe go to Linux...but I would like to experiment a bit, before I commit to a total change of OS's. Is it possible to run 2 different OS's on the same computer? If this is too vague, I can give you more … |
| | Ok, this is a new one for me... One of my clients is saying that when she writes a new email in Outlook and send it, then goes to her home page (Google) that her subject line from the email shows up in the address bar of her google. She … |
| | I am attempting to start/stop services via a script. The command is sc stop "service name" It is failing with this error {SC} OpenService FAILED 123: Any assistance would be appreciated. |
| | I have a 2007 Sony vaio model pcg-7154l that won't let me restore it to factory default. it all started when I took it off the internet then when I tried to put it back it would freeze. When I tried to so a cold boot it took more than … |
| | [B][I][U]Hey Guyz I am currently using :-[/U][/I][/B] 1. WINDOWS 7 32bit x86 intel 2. WINDOWS XP SP2 2002 32bit x86 intel [B][U][I] MODEM :-[/I][/U][/B] ZTE ADSL Modem Model : 531B Splitter : 4KHz [B][I][U]The Problem :-[/U][/I][/B] 1. There was no problem till today morning...I faced some problems after 12am today.. … |
| | I've been trying to upload pictures from my C drive to various websites. Everytime I attempt to do this, I get an error message such as "file not valid". These are normal jpg. files (not huge). It's happening with every photo. I would like to attach these photos to the … |
| | Hello everyone! My friend had a strangest laptop problem ever. It started he was updating the avast anti virus that whole computer froze and he did not know that it because it is because that avast is updating and I have been using avast no problem. However; it was expired … |
| | I have used Incredimail on XP for many months OK. Recently, when attaching a photo to an email, when the photo is found in My Pictures and clicked, Incredimail freezes and the following error is shown: Runtime error C:\Program files\Incredimail\Bin\Incmail.exe Abnormal Program termination It then closes Incredimail down, deleting the … |
| | So after installing a 1 GB stick of RAM and taking the CR battery out and in my Dimension 4500 will not boot. I get three beeps and then nothing. No output to the monitor and no detection of the keyboard. I've checked and double checked that absolutely nothing was … |
| | I recently purchased a Linux VPS the following specs. Operating system: CentOS Linux 5.5 Webmin version: 1.520 Kernel and CPU: Linux 2.6.18-028stab070.4 on x86_64 Processor information: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5630 @ 2.53GHz, 16 cores Real memory: 512 MB total, 361.74 MB used Local disk space: 30 GB total, 3.62 GB … |
| | I have a Dell Dimesion 4550 and have intermittent problems with the start up. I get the Dell logo flash up then the pc beeps and a message saying 'the system memory has changed' pops up with other stuff on a black screen. The options are F1 to continue ot …  |
 | I am running Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP2. Something regarding Windows Defender happened out of the blue recently, with a System Tray Icon and Message: "Windows has blocked some startup programs" ... I fiddled around with the options presented through this icon, including opening Windows Defender Software Explorer and … |
| | I am having trouble with an old machine. It's a hobby. I have an old Acer Aspire Desktop. It is running Windows 98 now. It has an onboard ATI Mach 64 video card. I installed an ATI Rage Pro 128 PCI graphic card in the first PCI slot. When I … |
| | hi I'm new to this so please bare with me, i recently installed w7 ultimate on desktop with 1gig ram and 200 gig hdd. mother board is ABIT UL8 all ok till restart now all i get to is a screen that says do i want to boot up alternative … |
| | First let me say that the computer works fine when not trying to play anything game-related. It can sit here at my desktop for weeks and be completely fine. The second I try to play any video game it leads to trouble. Also, Please read the whole post before answering … |
 | I have a hp a6750y that will not turn on. I've plugged it directly into the wall to bypass the surge protector. I already replaced the power switch on the tower (not the prob). The light on the back of the power supply remains steady when plugged in(not blinking). I … |
| | Hi, I desperately need help to fix my computer since it's currently close to impossible to work with it. I use a HP Pavilion DM3 (which i regret I ever bought) with a AMD Athlon Neo X2 1.60 GHz and 4 giggs of RAM. The machine is running Windows 7 …  |
 | Hi all, I have AVG installed w/constant updates, I run spybot - S&D on alternate days with ad-aware, I have spywareblaster and spywareguard loaded. AVG now takes over 18 hours to run. Switching from one tsl task to another can take 10 minutes. And there seems to be no let … |
| | When I was trying to return to 10.2.8 after working in 9.2 for a while- the computer froze up and nothing worked to unfreeze it. When I tried to reboot- I got the blinking question mark folder icon. I believe this means the computer cant find the operating system to …  |
| | i have a vista based system, i had recently downloaded a corel draw software with a keygen. and made the mistake of opening the keygen with internet explorer, now all my .exe files are opening with internet explorer accomnpnied with a download window, regedit is not opening and i cannot … |
| | Hello i need help to switch one operating system to another one just by clicking the switch button . I saw that in a video long time ago where we can have a button to click to go one system to another . Can anyone guide me how i can … |
 | hello all, the company i am working for (quite a small company) are looking to host our web applications suite on our internal server running windows server 2003 and IIS 6 and allow external access to it. We have a static IP from our ISP and currently can access the … |
| | When under Windows 2008 Server with my C++-program (with a cicle) many directory are copiing, then the memory is increasing and remain at a high level. Waht can I do?  |
 | so I worked on an older hp for this lady, i did full backup with a dvd set, but nasty viruses and trojans screwed up the back up set. She did not have an xp install disk with media center, so I installed xp with a random xp disk. I … |
| | Hello All, I'm wondering if someone may help me interpret the report that Windbg has generated? This box doesn't crash very often, but it seems to if I really drive the CPU. If I'm making a dvd file from an avi which I often do with DVD flick it nearly … |
| | Thank you so very much for having such a great web site! Easy to register, easy to navigate....this is wonderful! Here is my problem: When I use my IE 8, I keep getting re-directed when using the search function. The websites I search for come up on the search page … |
| | I have a customer that needs a Thin Client replaced. We have a spare, however the technology is so out dated I can't seem to find any of the information I need. this thing has been on the shelf for years. It seems to be in good working order. I … |
| | Hello I'm trying to write a batch file to clean up my pc. But I'm having a bit of trouble. I try to delete a hidden file and I don't know how to use the attributes to do so. Just for an example I try del /s /q /f /C:\Users\Phantom\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary … |
| | Mozilla Firefox is a great browser, but one of its greatest features is one that few people bother to use - keyboard shortcuts. Spending just a few minutes learning the most common shortcuts can greatly increase the speed at which you browse web pages. To go to [url]http://www.google.com[/url], for example, … |
| | I can't seem to find the information on the motherboard in this server. cRUus E139765. I need to know if it will support a RAID system or not and how to do the initial setup. I have 2 blank 500G drives installed. When I tried to boot and get into … |
| | Yesterday, I had some Windows Internet Explorer browsers open and all of a sudden about 9 or more of them popped opened, minimized and all containing the same website (which was one of the websites I had previously had open). I'm not sure if it was a virus, spyware or …  |
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