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After I turn on my computer all my browsers work well. But after a couple of minutes things start gettig crazy. In order to access a website i have to click about 10 times, websites won't load fully...especially those in flash or with images... I am working on Mozilla Firefox …

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Hello. I have a dell latitude D531 series Laptop and it will not boot up at all. There is a blue screen of death with the message of 'unmountable boot volume'. When I boot into windows repair mode, the operating system is not shown. I cannot boot into safe mode. …

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Can someone please help me with the viruses I have on my comnputer. I have tried to change the permissions on them but nothing works, I cannot delete them or anything. I recently tried to download another anti-spyware and root syste, but it fro\e my computer and went to a …

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A few hours ago, I posted "[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story263673.html"]Is Microsoft the New SCO?[/URL]" but now I realize, after a little research, that [URL="http://www.amazon.com"]Amazon[/URL] and [URL="http://www.microsoft.com"]Microsoft[/URL] are in this patent agreement for one reason: so that Amazon can abandon Linux on its Kindle in favor of Windows 7. Crazy? Nope. It makes perfect …

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I recently got an OLD computer from a friend and before i reformat it i wanted to post a [B]hijackthis[/B]. The computer is all screwed up but it has some music on it i wanna keep. The catch is it's SUPER SLOW. I just wanna use it to browse & …

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Ok. My computer does not even do anything to reconize the microphone. the microphone is old and my computer is new. Nothing is muted and i've looked in your other forums and nothing seemed to help. My microphone is a QS-5841 by QuickShot and i'm using an Alianware. I have …

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I built this computer earlier this year (early spring), and it has been running fine since (i had absolutely no problems with the initial build). Now, however, it has started having trouble staying on. It will randomly turn off, often quickly after i turn it on (before boot or even …

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I recently purchased a used portable 500gb Buffalo Metro HDD. I attempted to access it and found it had a password on it. I contacted the seller and they don't have it on record. I was wondering if there was any way to reset the password so that I can …

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Specs: HP dx2300 -- XP Pro SP3 -- Logitech Trackman Wheel USB mouse (wired) Problem: Applications constantly scroll up and down (intermittently will stop for a period of time then start scrolling erratically again). This happens in all applications; FireFox, Notepad, Task Manager, etc. I have not changed anything in …

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Please can someone help me to stop a programe from running at startup. Farstone instant burning (part of Virtual Drive pro 11) loads on start up and clicking on the instant burning window causes an error message to appear that says DCTryShl_Rc.dll has caused an error and needs to be …

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I was able to get to my task manager and deleted av.exe several times and it finally went away. My friend helped me delete some stuff in the registry but i don't know if it is gone or not. I had Kaspersky Lab AntiVirus 2009 installed and i updated again …

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My computer has been infected by many viruses and spyware to the point of no return and has been partitioned many times. So now I have taken my computer back from my very irresponsible roommate and want to rewrite to zeros and start over. Can someone tell me how to …

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emachine no signal on, turn on shows no sig and goes straight to sleep. computer type emachine T3304 desk top pc AMD sempron 3300+, optic drive DVD/cd-rw, Hard drive 100gb ata, 256mb ddr sdram modem 56k, video nVIDIA Geforce 6100 pci express slot available. this originaly had windows xp. upgraded …

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Hello, All, Thanks for the help in advance. My husband's computer had attracted a number of viruses - Virtumonde, Zedo, etc. - that I've since removed. However, yesterday, a "sever busy" pop-up window started appearing, and windows would freeze after about 3 minutes of normal operation. At that point, no …

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Okay, here's the scoop. I have a Compaq Presario R3000. I have a virus that infected my UPnP drivers, so I can't regularly use UPnP. Everytime i do, there's a decent chance of getting the blue-screen of death and I don't appreciate that. So. I need to restore the factory …

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I recently had trouble with the avsoft malware and would appreciate it if someone could look at my logs and tell me if I need to remove anything. I have run malwarebytes 4 times and have found something each time. I have posted my most recent logs from mbytes and …

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I am curious about the theoretical bandwith of 802.11G device. I understand under normal network conditions and 802.11G wireless adapter will never reach 54Mbps speed. However say these speeds are attainable (out of luck) would and usb 1.1 Wireless adapter be limited to 12mbps speed or the speed of the …

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:idea: Can someone help me please I have a linksys 2.4 router I have two conputers hooked up thru it now via ethernet cable. Trying to hook up third using wirelees have a linksys adapter on third pc keep having message saying cannot associate with access point. Have tried reinstalling …

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Hi, I'm hoping someone on Daniweb may be able to help me out with this problem I'm having:- Since Thursday, people have not been able to access their work computers from home over a VPN connection. Users can authenticate through the firewall and register on the network (the server gives …

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hey guys, I have a 2-3 pc home network all running xp, I'm using an old dynalink router which is connected to a switch(cheap no brains switch) and my pc's run from there. Is there a command line command that allows each pc to get an ip/mac address from each …

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Hello, I have three Hard disk drives on my laptop. The details: Hard disk C has a total 15 of GB space, Partition D has 268 GB space and E has 181 GB. All the work I do goes only to Hard disc C and space in Hard disc D …

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Hi, I have pinnacle tv tuner card installed in my machine. I have a dual boot machine (win xp & Ubuntu 8.04). Earlier it was working well in both (with tvtime in ubuntu). Recently I have been facing a problem in both OS - in Windows, the sound control is …

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Hi all, I have a PC (E-Machines T3065) to be exact. Running WinXP I upgraded the mem to 2 GB. It has an AMD Athlon processor. My problem is I fire up the puter and it runs and loads OS, sometimes I have to restart many times to get it …

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NB: This Tip only works on Computers running Microsoft Windows XP (all versions) Also you'll have to enable viewing of hidden folders on the PC. (You can disable it when you're done.) STEP 1 Preparing the picture Of course, you must have a flash disk to do this. Once you …

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I can't goto any sites. My homepage loads, then I can go maybe to more pages before IE takes me to about:blank. It says the site is blocked, and wants me to goto another site and get their spyware. here is my hijack log. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 …

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How do I save a PDF Professional file so that others I send it to can edit it? Thanks

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Windows 2000 os, LG monitor. Turned off computer one day and turned on the next. No power light on monitor. Replaced monitor. Another LG. Worked one or two days, then turned computer on, no power light on monitor again. Bought third monitor, but have not connected until I can solve …

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The same error as in [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread187942.html"][B]this thread[/B][/URL] (except that the "word" with @’s is much longer) popped up for me just now and your post is the only occurrence containing this string found by Google. I am scared to see that your post is this old and had no answers... …

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Hi guys, am dual booting Windows XP and Linux Suse, but now i want uninstall linux coz am having space crisis. The only problem is that Linux is managing my Boot, i tried to uninstall it once but my computer couldn't boot, it was serious until i re-installed the linux. …

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I have [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story220053.html"]written before[/URL] about child geeks, such as M. Lavinashree from Pakistan who passed her Microsoft Certified Professional exam at the age nine. At the time of writing she was busy studying for the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer exams. However, I think I may have stumbled on an even …

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Hi guys, Please help me on this! i recently gave my laptop to someone for some work and wen it came back, there's this thing called security anti-virus running on it. i don't know how it came about but it's some strong Troja horse, i think. It has taken control …

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How do you get your recent vi command history to show up? I keep randomly getting like my previous 5 commands and can't figure out how I'm doing it. I think it has something to do with the shift key and another button. I know you can use the up …

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Hi I am using Vista Home Premium 32bit, last night I had to reformat my hard drive, I got a bad virus, that would not let me download any programs to erase it. I have two drives, 1 is a dvd rw, the other is a cdrom, the dvd says …

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Please help! My son has a Trojan virus on his computer. It WILL NOT allow connection to the internet. I don't know what to do. This trojan keeps popping up called the'32.dripper' and it's requesting payment in order to remove it. It will not allow me to pull up the …

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I apologize if this question has been asked before, but due to certain circumstances I didn't have enough time to do a lot of my own research. I'm trying to find out a way to know who is on my network. I know about angry ip and all other sniffers, …

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[I]Disclaimer: I did post this in the Windows 7 forum, I hope it doesn't break the rules to post it in both since it falls under both topics. Thanks for your understanding.[/I] Hi, hopefully someone can help me with this, since there seems to be dozens of threads similar to …

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i can use my usb moden in vista but when i plug in my usb modem to my windows7 it can't find any driver, how can i find the driver?...

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it has been just 20 days since i bought my dell inspiron 14.... n when i use the touch pad.. the mouse cursor gets stuck at times... and today... when i switched on the laptop.. i had a problem with logging in... the display got stuck and the music i …

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When a shortcut was added to the Desktop on XP it was placed at the end of list on the screen. Now, on Windows7, when a new shortcut is added it gets put immediately below the Computer icon at top left. Is this a Vista/W7 thing? I've tried changing the …

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According to figures revealed with the publication of the [URL="http://www.ibm.com/security/xforce"]IBM X-Force 2009 Trend and Risk Report[/URL], not only do web application vulnerabilities remain the largest category of security disclosure for the last year but, worryingly when you consider that the number of such vulnerabilities found by organisations has not decreased …

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Hi all, I think this is a pretty minor problem, considering that I bought my laptop only a few days ago and haven't really downloaded a lot (only programs that I trust) or visited many websites. Basically, everytime I run Spyware Terminator, it tells me that there is a critical …

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I have a Belkin N1 Vision router. I need to increase coverage. Can I run a cable from the router to an ethernet switch and then connect a wireless access point to the switch. I know the switch should connect to the router without a problem, my question really is …

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i want to upgrade my pc....i have pentium-4,160 gb hard disk,256 mb RAM.. which 1 is better dual core? core 2 duo ? or core 2 quad... i want to speed up d apps ..as requiremnts r incrsng,,need for more softwares has led my pc to go slowand hang up …

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Hi, Following on from my question, If my computer was infected with spyware, and all the other bad stuff, [B]how would I re-image my computer?[/B] I am part of a [B][I][U]domain[/U][/I][/B], and the admin has disabled system restore, which always results in me having to go and get it fixed, …

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Hi, I spent a lot of time searching for a solution to a problem I was having getting into CMOS with my USB keyboard, which is connected to a KVM switch. All of the USB options were enabled in Integrated Perpherals, but the keyboard wasn't functional until after the boot …

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I like to watch a lot of movies online. Well used to anyways. For some reason when I go online to StageVu or another site, even Youtube, my computer freezes during the movie/video no matter how long it is and becomes unresponsive. If I can get through a whole movie/video …

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In Windows XP, in addition to an administrative account, I have a limited account for the internet (to help safeguard against malware). Should I log off of my administrative account before accessing the net via my limited account? And is there any way for a website to infect you other …

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I have just finished building my second computer (the first ran beautifully for 7 years - only had to replace the video card after 5 years), and it doesn't boot up. No video signal what so ever. My question is this: is it possible that the power supply isn't strong …

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I'm trying to format my hard drive. I've created a boot disk and changed my bios to boot from a: (yes it's an old pc) when I type format c: /s I get an error "Cannot Format a Network Drive" how do I fix this? RJ

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