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Hi all, hope you are well. I own a Toshiba p100 notebook with vista business. The GPU is an nvidia 7600 geforce go and I have noticed that the fan for the GPU only spins when booting up. The moment Vista begins loading, the fan stops and doesnt come back …

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Can someone tell me whether I can customize this highlighted part in the attachment ( using Windows 7 )

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Hey, I just put together my first custom built PC. I ordered all the parts from newegg, just for reference. Everything was going fine, put it together with little to no problems. Turned it on,it posted, and I started to install windows 7 on it. About a quarter of the …

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I loaned my laptop out to a friend and when I received it back he said the internet didn't work anymore. I opened IE and also tried Chrome and it would give me a pop up saying your computer is infected and would try to re-direct me to a site …

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Due to where I live I can't get cable/dsl but we have a wireless service, its not a cell based service, its an antenna with a line running directly into my house. If I plug the line directly into a computer I get service. When I have it plugged into …

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I got this new laptop with windows vista home basic on it....I wanted to install bearshare onto it but the newer version would not let me search for anything else than videos or music and the older version would not work on vista for some weird reson...what is the possible …

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[i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Correcting System Hang at Startup [/color][/size][size=2]If your system hangs about 2 or 3 minutes at startup, where you can't access the Start button or the Taskbar, it may be due to one specific service (Background …

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Hi everyone, I've been having some strange activity with my laptop the past few days and came here with the hopes of figuring out what's wrong to hopefully fix it. Let me try to give you a brief rundown of the problems that started popping up as I realized something …

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When I press the power on switch absolutely nothing happens. No power light comes on. The power output shows the correct 19.8 volt output so do you think this is simply a faulty on/off switch or something more drastic. Is it likely I can replace anything or, as I suspect, …

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i am using my campus internet connection where i should configure proxy to access to the internet. how of i want to hide or maybe change my ip address so that the universities admin will not see me.. :) thanks in advance. i had tried using software, but it failed …

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Hi i have a dell Optiplex F160 and the hard disk is locked and i do not know what the user or master password is. Does anyone know what i can do to unlock this drive or somehow reformat it? thanks

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i tried to update my ipod with new songs etc and i turned it on and it just says Do Not Disconnect.....It WONT GO FRIKING AWAY HELP NOW! :twisted:

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hi everyone, I have Windows Vista (32-bit) Home premium. Connecting to the Internet had never been a problem - until this morning. My laptop still connects to the internet - it says so in the Network and Settings. However, no browser is able to display any pages - be it …

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Hi Friends, I have a weird problem with my system. Whenever I Type IPConfig in Command Prompt. I got error of Media Disconnected. If I tried to ping to any site it gives me error that requested host is not found. But the most weired thing is I am connected …

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Right, here's the history of this horrible mess..... My PC Is a Dell Dimension 2350 OS : Windows XP Home Edition , Version 2002 , Service Pack 2 My PC doesn't recognise any Plug N Play USB Devices. I initially had the problem with an external HD - but eventually …

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hello every1.. I was really sicked of trying to scan for hosts on my wireless network but the only ip that appears is the router ip address... i used ettercap on linux ubuntu and used cain on windowsXP but even this didn't work... any ideas?!!

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I have a Gigabyte MA790X-UD4DP socket 3 board with AMD Phen II X2 550 cpu, 2 x 2 Gb Kingston ddr2 ram and ATI 4750 1gb card and OcZ modstream power supply, all less than 12mth old. Suddenly went black screen on me and now won't boot up. Won't even …

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My friend has an HP Pavillion and recently the computer stopped booting to windows. When you turn it on it just shows a screen with a flashing command prompt-style cursor. I was able to get into the system set-up and re-arranged the boot order and therefore could boot a Windows …

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What do you guys think? I have a ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 in my Laptop. I know in the newer versions of Ubuntu and such, you can no longer use the proprietary driver, which I remember to be fairly good, when it worked at all. However, I know you can …

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pls help me! i cannot load SOME websites in my laptop. i can load facebook fine and google but when i try to visit one site displayed by google its always problem loading page. i can also visit youtube but i cant load a video its always an error occured. …

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My outlook at times does not receive all e mails, in addition, it held on the password section...The ISP told me that I should look into un installing outlook.. Is there any type of thing/program that FIXES it or can someone advise how to un install and re install? Thank …

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I have run into a very strange problem with Microsoft Word. Here's the background. I am running Microsoft Office Professional (fully updated) on a machine with the Windows XP Home (fully updated) operating system. My wife has a folder on the desktop where she keeps her business correspondence. This folder …

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I recently baught a pocket portable hard disk drive which is a Toshiba MK8025GAS HDD. I have lost the cd with the drivers and I cannot get my computer to recognize the HD. I am running XP PRO SP2. I wonder if anyone has a driver that will work or …

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Stand up if you like paying your income tax. To all of you who have remained seated, which I will assume is indeed all of you, I have some more bad news: the bogus tax collectors want your money as well, and now they have botnets helping them. [attach]15770[/attach]According to …

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Working with a Toshiba A40 Laptop. CDs and DVDs play but now disc formatting efforts fail. Never been a problem before. Event viewer shows "bad block". Don't know if this refers to the drive itself or the disc. attached please find image of the immediate error. Below please find text …

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When logging on to internet I get the message "The connection was reset The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." with the following details. * The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. * If you are unable …

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i have been using an external usb keyboard on my laptop. i do this cause my laptop dose not have a keypad. i have a gateway running vista home. when i take off the keyboard it is as if my function button has been reversed. example if i push m …

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So I am pretty sure I know the answer to this but just want to check. I run a Debian GNU/Linux at home and I have set up the necessary port forwarding for Apache and SSH. However, I have been planning to enable FTP and of course I did not …

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This is very annoying, and it only recently started happening, and I'm not sure why. Everytime I go to open a new link by right clicking it, and pressing "open in new window", the window that opens, opens the webpage, but the window size takes up the top 4th of …

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I have a 1GB 'Creative Nano' MP3 player - Is there any way that I can use a USB memory stick to carry additional MP3 files and load these directly onto the player from the stick without going through a computer? Naturally I would have to delete the files on …

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I am not able to connect to many sites. When I tried to download the software you mentioned like atf-cleaner, gmr and dds Cannot open those websitse :(. I cannot connect to windows live to play games and there are many other sites. I am in need of help badly. …

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Boomerang Data Recovery [url]www.boomdrs.com/[/url] WARNING do NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE. I did and got burnt. It’s bugged and crashes. I was trying to recover a 1T drive so the scan would take over 8 hours to get 50% of the way, then crash. I tried repeatedly before contacting tech support. …

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Pleae help screens lock up. Ie 8 closes slow like unpainting Scan saved at 8:29:11 PM, on 7/8/2010 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) 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:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG9\avgchsvx.exe C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG9\avgrsx.exe C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG9\avgcsrvx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\AOL\ACS\acsd.exe C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG9\avgwdsvc.exe …

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I am running XP Home on a motherboard with code M811 VER 3.1 using an AMD Athlon 1.33MHz chip with a VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8367-8235 chipset (I think!?) I have run Belarc Advisor & got info below; Board: VT8367-8235 Bus Clock: 133 megahertz BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 09/10/2003 …

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... is missing or currupt: \windows\system32\config\system Having loads of problems with my Compaq Mini 700 Notebook. My OS is Windows XP Professional Home Edition. Tried numerous times to reset it from the F10 Bios area but this is the message that keeps coming up. What to do?

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hi My environment is windows xp professional and internet exploror7. i am having problem during surfing internet, my web page automatically changes to another site, its happened if I pause for some time to surf net. Looking for your help thanks

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A Dell salesman misrepresented the Dell 968 AIO printer. I just bought the printer for my wife who is a Dell user. Upon questioning the Dell salesperson about Mac compatibility he said there would be no problem getting the driver for my Macbook Pro. Now that I have the printer, …

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HELP ME, I accidently ended explorer.exe (my shell) in Task Manager. I went to New Task>explorer.exe>run and it only opened windows explorer but did not open my shell.

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My daughter's Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop screen went blank. The problem was not the backlight, so we installed a new screen. When turning the laptop on, the screen slowly flashes from red to green to blue etc. When using an external monitor, we can see that Windows always starts in …

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hi there can you explain the meaning of command prompt to me??? thanks

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Strange question I know. But I'm working on a removal tool for this one piece of malware alone. Reason being this is becoming a problem with some computers my company supplies as I work in IT Support. A lot of people may argue it's better just to use a malware …

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My laptop is VGN-CS17G . It automatically shuts down as soon as i switch it on. I am not able to view its first screen. It just shows the safe mode option screen. [email]piyushisgenius@gmail.com[/email]

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Hi can anyone solve a very annoying problem for me I have brought my first laptop and when I using it at random the computer opens a blank internet page (nothing but white) it happens even when I'm not using the internet the only way to get rid of it …

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Hi Folks, If anyone could give me a fix with this i'd be eternally grateful. For the past few weeks every time I use keystrokes I am redirected to my yahoo account. I initally thought that my facebook account was infected on account of only using this. I have installed …

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Hi I am having trouble installing Windows XP on a new hard drive while connected to a computer i have and was wondering if there were a way to install it using a usb storage adapter for an IDE hard drive? The computer is a dell optiplex sx260 (workstation computer) …

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Hi, I have a Humax FOXSAT HDR PVR which can only export recorded files through its USB 2 to an external storage device that is formatted FAT32 or EXT3 (not NTFS). Can anyone kindly advise me are any of the large storage HD’s compatible with that requirement? What is the …

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I'm trying to transfer files from my old pc to my new pc. Both use XP. I have a crossover cable. I need a site to go to that has step by step instructions if possible. Thanxs

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I have the AV security suite virus, and I am trying to remove it. RIght now I am using my sister's laptop. I tried starting it in safe mode with networking but Cisco is retarded and wants me to enter a password that I don't know, so I copied the …

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In the latest episode of the [URL="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179007/SCO_appeals_ruling_in_Novell_case"]story that never ends[/URL], [URL="http://www.sco.com"]SCO[/URL] filed an appeal in the [URL="http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=2153"]closed[/URL] case against [URL="http://www.novell.com"]Novell[/URL]. Everyone in the Linux and Open Source Communities thought the case was finally brought to a close when the judge declared that Novell is the owner of UNIX copyrights. The …

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