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Hi folks - I apologize if this has been answered elsewhere, but I am having trouble finding exactly what I need so I'm hoping someone can help me here. I have set up a new wireless router, and when I try to connect wirelessly I am told that I have …

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im not sure if i am in the correct area - I am not technical -- I am having a problem in MSN hotmail with forwarding emails. Whenever i forward a perfectly clear email each line start with > and if the eamil is forwarded more than once it will …

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Hi Even though I signed up here 4 years ago I know squat about tech stuff, so Please: speak slowly...lol My computer old, ancient really, a Heinz-ish, but we've gotten along with each other fine until: -scan on Primary drive C: first took 3 hours, then 3 days even after: …

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Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help. My PC has an inbuilt microphone (according to Properties, it's Realtek AC97 Audio). I never had a problem recording with it before, but now suddenly it no longer works. I've tested it with Sound Recorder and the Control Panel testing thingy, but …

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About 2 months ago my printer, a Hp Photosmart C6380, out of the blue turned itself off and tried to re-boot. When it tried to re-boot the little screen on the left went blue flashed an error for a couple seconds, then went white and all the buttons began flashing. …

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Hi, ive had a little problem tonight, for some reason internet explorer opens and displays ads and its getting pretty annoying. im running firefox for my browser and theres no problems with it. just IE keeps messing about. i have done a full scan with AVG and a full scan …

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Ok, Not sure if you require specs, but a few main ones are; Dell XPS M1530 Windows Vista 32-bit This problem started a few days ago, i can honestly say i don't have a clue how it started. I lent my laptop too my brother one day... day later suddenly …

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Hi everyone.. I am using 2 hard disks.. I have also posted a thread that my 1st hard disk is sloooo.. This problem is from second hard disk(brand new 250 gb).. I have installed windows xp in 1 partition..When i tried to install windows 7 from bootable usb in another …

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I am having a major problem with my vista laptop. It's refusing partly to connect to my router. There's no problem with the router, because my desktop is linked and everything is as good as usuall. However when I try to set up a connection with my laptop it throws …

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Last night I turned my laptop back on after it was off for approximately 2 hours. It started, loaded up to the desktop screen and then stopped. It showed the desktop design but none of the icons, start menu, toolbars...nothing. It worked fine the 2 hours before. I contacted Dell …

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Not really sure if this is the appropriate area but I just couldn't put it on windows... ^^'' Anyway, is there anyone willing to give me a hand as to restore a register I accidentally deleted? Specifically for the HDD Protection by Toshiba for an M900-00R006 laptop. Before anyone else …

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Hello, I was trying to help my friend fix her pc, I'm usually fairly decent on working on them,but this has me stumped. Her son is trying to load his club penguin, and on IE 8, after he logs in and selects an area to play, it crashes and reloads …

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It seems that you cannot really hibernate in Win 7 Pro 64 Desktop. It simply sleeps and if the desk shakes it wakes up. I have gone through various procedures that I seen on he web as PowerCfg -h on Disabled Sleep Hibernate There is a Hibernate file. Hibernate shows …

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Every time I run Skype on my Windows 7 Desktop PC, it says that it wants to install an update. When I allow this ... it fails. It says that I must uninstall the older version first. Now I know that it [I]shouldn't[/I] say this. The Skype on line help …

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Hey guys, I have had a problem with my laptop where when started up the screen remained blank however i fixed this problem via a post on the forum so thanx for that.... ....but now when the laptop is booted up it goes to the Toshiba screen where you can …

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I am running Windows xp service pack 2. I recently got a broad band connection via Wimax,I want to share this connection with 3 computers on my LAN I have already installed the extra NIC and configured it to(IP 192.168.0.1 gateway:blank dns:Same as the one given by my ISP).The computer …

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I also posted this thread in the Windows NT/2000/XP forum, but I just wanted to post it here as well since it may very well be a hardware issue. Hello all. I've been having sound trouble with a newly built computer. About 2 weeks after it was built, the sound …

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hey friend i need some help here since i'm new to ubuntu(to linux also)...this is the problem. i installed wine on ubuntu 10.04 and install [URL="http://www.programarts.com/cfree_en/index.htm"]c-free[/URL] 4.1 .The installation is completed with no errors.and [URL="http://www.programarts.com/cfree_en/index.htm"]c-free[/URL] is working perfectly except its unable to output any thing to terminal.Is there any way …

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A friend's computer. He downloaded a bunch of crap in an attempt at antivirus protection. Clicking on malware popups. He paid money to RegTool. Can someone please assist this aspiring PC/Security nerd in cleaning his dirty logs? :) It would be greatly appreciated. I am currently running Microsoft Malicious Software …

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i have Toshiba NB 205 netbook. It is pre installed with license windows xp. The problem occurred when i tried to install windows 7 to the unit using pendrive. After formating the main partition leaving the recovery partition, the laptop does not boot anymore. I tried to use the recovery …

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hello can you help me please i have 2 operating system in 1 pc dual booth...how can i uninstall one operating system...hoping for your positive responds...thank you in advance...

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Ogt a 1tb western digital 1tb and tried to install ubuntu on it, but got an I/o error. It didnt tell me what i/o error but it would not install on the hard drive. I tried connectiing it to the Mybook case and it said the drive was locked. But …

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No matter how I turn the system off OS wise the laptop restarts in 5 secounds every time even from safe mode shutdown.Now if I wait till the leds all go out and the screen goes blank and use the Power Button on the laptop and hold it down till …

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Let me warn you I'm in a bit of an ornery mood today. So when I learned Microsoft is coming out with a refresh of Hotmail this week, you can understand I was less than enthused. Every time Microsoft refreshes a product, the technology press gets all excited about it …

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I just re-installed Windows XP Home on a Emachine EL1200. It istalled fine and runs fine. It's a bit slow in booting up , for being a fresh and new installation so I looked in MSCONFIG, to see what I might find. All the tabs across the top are there …

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A study by a computer security lab has found that porn sites "harboured malware or used "shady" practices to squeeze money out of their visitors," according to an [URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10289009.stm"]article [/URL]by the BBC on the study. (In other news, rocks are hard and water is wet.) Researchers from the [URL="http://iseclab.org/about.html"]International Secure …

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The long-awaited iPad, the tablet computer from Apple had its coming out party this afternoon and for a while, I wondered if the event was even worth watching. For the first half hour, Jobs droned on about web pages, video and email like they were some fantastic new phenomena we …

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ive tried enabling telnet on windows 7 by doing the following: 1.Open control panel. 2.Then go into programs. 3.Then in programs and features there should be a part that says ‘turn windows features on or off ‘ . 4.Click ‘turn windows features on or off ‘ then on the list …

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[b]I use MSN and for some reason whenever I try to check my email it takes forever and a day for it to open, everything in the email section is extremely slow to open. I have tried everything from removing the Firewall but nothing seems to work...everything else opens basically …

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i just got my laptop in 2008 and i want to completely reformat it to where it is exactly the way it was when i got it....system restore doesnt seem to work. Any help would be great! oh and its windows vista!

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hi all.. i'm a newbie here, so pardon me.. i'm looking for a topic for my final year project .. my teacher wants me to do something that relates to VPN but i just can't get any idea ! and the deadline is veryyyy soooon.. can any VPN experts here …

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Adobe Systems, Inc. the San Francisco-based software company, that has been heavily criticized recently by Apple, Inc CEO Steven Jobs, [URL="http://www.macworld.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=3227682&blogid=14"]announced yesterday[/URL] they were releasing a mobile version of Flash, starting with Android cell phone OS. Adobe states in the press release that Flash is already one of the top …

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A few days ago I was reporting that people were [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story291008.html"]unable to buy an iPhone 4[/URL] even if they were an existing customer. It gets more complicated. The story now is that O2 and other UK carriers are accepting orders only from people who are existing customers. (Except me, as …

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Dear All, I'm developing a small Java application which will use Espeak to speak certain text. Now I pass the test as command line argument [I]$espeak -s 50 "a for apple"[/I] It works perfect on command line Now in my program, I've used [I]String cmd = "espeak -s 50 \"A …

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Hello, I'm an intermediate web designer and i've recently put up a site for my business but for some reason i can't figure, IE won't display images that other browsers will... [url]http://www.19grams.co.uk/Pub/pub.html[/url] Any ideas?

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Hello everybody, I face some problems in installing some libraries which are (libpthread, libltdl, libpcre) using yum install command but it says that these are not available??? what is the problem, I have installed other packages successfully, but don't know what the problem here?? thank you

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I want to unpack tar.gz file Where should I locate the package I want to unpack??

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Hi, Popular memory leak detection tool like valgrind ,etc is simply crashing in our customized linux environment (montavista hardhat ,etc) , is there any other good memory leak detection tool which can be used on the target but which does not consume so much RAM like valgrind ?

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bought a used dell, (xp) want to clean it and reuse it, but it has a winXP logon, anyway to reset for myself?? thanx

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Hello Everyone, I have a home business network with a PC and two laptops. It would be helpful to use the Wake on LAN feature to boot my PC from my laptop (useful when I'm in the field adand n convenient when I'm at home). I've tried a couple of …

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Get flashing amber light and nothing else,tried battery alone and ac alone but still won't come on,any ideas?? Laptop fell off bed but nothing more than that.Any assistance greatly appreciated.Thanks

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Hey Guys! I have a windows XP computer that I have setup for my mom. She is not very computer savvy and sometimes clicks on things that she is not supposed to and get virus/malware installed on her machine. Even though I have an antivirus etc, I am constantly having …

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Windows XP system was running fine until IE (6) stopped working. On a fresh logon from powerup - IE will open like normal - but hangs up system and IE freezes if i clink a link or change the page. From then on I can't open new IE, I can't …

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Hello, im running windows XP home edition, and i dont have much IT knowledge, but recently, whenever i log into my computer, whatever the user - in this case it has administrative rights or whtever - i get 2 error messages, 'error loading C:\WINDOWS\kbdmsy.dll', and 'error loading C:\WINDOWS\aralaquv.dll', for both …

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i'm looking for a small form factor PSU that will still give me ~500W. I have a computer installed in a medium-large guitar amp, and it's not very deep. i don't have much in there, just the motherboard mounted to the front surface. i hook an optical drive up only …

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Hi, I've had 108 port scans performed on my machine since yesterday. My firewall has pick it up and seems to have prevented access. My back trace tool has identified the IP addresses these port scans have been conducted from. Additionally I've reported this issue to the IP network owners, …

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Okay, this might take a moment to explain, but... I'll do my best to be as precise as possible. Roughly a month ago I found myself, rather out of the blue, unable to connect to the internet. I have never had a problem like this in the past. I got …

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My desktop computer is running Windows XP and my laptop is running Windows 7. I went through my desktop and created a network disc (on a jump drive). When I initially run this on the laptop, it sees the desktop, lets me access everything on the desktop that I need …

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