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I've been having this problem on my Dell Vostro 400 XP SP2 for around 3 weeks now. The PC boots up fine and then functions well as it has always done for a random period of time. Then it starts slowly freezing eventually giving me no control at all over …

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Hello I am new to this community and I know a 2400 is a dinosour. Some time back the system began to take forever to boot. I had all the usual virus protection and so on. I performed regular clean ups. Finnally it just crashed. I reinstalled the entire OS …

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Hello! I have an old PC, running Linux Server(ubuntu) 9.10. I cannot connect to the internet, when I plug in the cable I don't get lights in my port(you know the green and yellow lights). Can I somehow tell myself that there is internet? I tried to connect with SSH, …

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I'm not sure how to word this but here it goes. I made some changes to a wireless connection and instead of overwriting the changes it became a new connection. I now have what I want in terms of settings but I want to delete the old connection. How do …

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Hey, I have four hard drives in my computer; 2 by sata and 2 by ide. The two that are attached by ide are connected using an ide card. However, once I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7, my computer is suddenly unable to find the two hard drives. I …

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Hello everyone. I'm here to put in my pleas for assistance. I tried posting information on another website and they gave some good advice, but the problem seems to have not been solved. Before I start describing my problem, I need to say something. I am using Windows 7 Professional …

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Thank you in advance to anyone who can help me with my problem. I'm running an HP Pavillion 725n with Windows XP Home Edition and Service Pack 3. This morning, my mother visited Facebook with MS Internet Explorer. She reported to me that her browser window suddenly disappered and up …

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Hi all, I'm having a bit of a problem. My computer has started hanging on startup at 'detecting IDE drives' screen. It will not go past there and I have to shut down the PC and then start up again. When the computer actually does decide it will boot properly …

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[QUOTE=Demi.Moore;1083382]The Best Way to Remove Viruses, Spyware and other Malware Much of today’s malicious software features very technically sophisticated defenses against detection. The method for you remove virus: boot the infected computer using a CD, DVD or USB flash drive and run another operating system off the bootable media.[/QUOTE] Crunchie, …

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I have a Studio 1735 Dell Laptop... hard drive failed, had it replaced but they forgot to do something that allows my computer to read anything (memory stick, IPOD, etc) plugged into my USB ports.... under Device manager my Network Controller ion is flagged... have no idea what driver I …

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Hello! I'm running a dedicated web server and I'd like to use APF to block HTTP(S) access to certain PORTS from all IP's except from mine. Anyone knows how to do that? Many thanks in advance!

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Hello! I have an old PC, usually it works just fine. No problem at all. But today I wanted to set in some new harddisks, it had a capacity of 60GB before and now it has ~ 400GB space. But when I boot my PC I get 3 beeps with …

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Hi guys.. I have this really weird problem. I am using Acer Aspire 4310. Whenever I play movies or audio, the volume is very low even on the highest settings. I even checked the audio settings in the control panel and everything was in its highest settings. When I restart …

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Good evening you all, Today and after having several problems with Vista I finally was able to downgrade to XP. I was able to find the drivers wich was a really hard task although right now the problem is, as said, that I am not able to connect to the …

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For some reason no sound recording programs or other recording devices that incorporate sound recording can find any sound devices. Sounds play perfectly however, as previously stated, recording does not. Here's a screenshot of my Recording devices list. [URL="http://ihost.nervousnetwork.com/up/6497soundshot.jpg"]Recording Devices Listing[/URL] (Please note I have set Vista to show all …

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Hey I was wondering, is there anyway to restore my hard drives to the way they were hen I bought them? Because they are all split into partitions and stuff

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Hi there. my mum has a Fujitsu-Siemens laptop with Vista Business installed. Now, she did a computer course and everything was carried out on XP. At this stage she couldnt handle the step-up just yet and so I was wondering how I would save the current installation of Vista, as …

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my windows vista ultimate restarts randomly, often immediately after login. just solved an earlier problem of just the cursor and a blank screen after login using a rootkit recovery tool, but then this new problem occurs, if this is relevant. a blue screen sometimes appears before restart, but am unable …

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I've moved from one apartment to another...Before the computer was working fine...after I moved it won't start...no beep...it is completely dead... I've checked the connections...everything OK... I've checked the power supply...OK... I've checked the ON/OFF buton...OK... I have 2x512 RAM and 2x1048 RAM... Does somebody have any ideea what else …

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I need help deciding between two 13-in laptops to buy: - HP Pavilion - Toshiba Satellite Laptop price and warranty are about the same ($650 Ca). The Toshiba has more L2 Cache, but the HP seems to beat it in everything else (CPU Speed, RAM, Hardrive size and speed, etc...). …

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OK, so it might not be quite as talked about as the mythical [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story245295.html"]Apple iTablet[/URL], but the [URL="http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/11/23/239414/Google-Chrome-OS-A-threat-to-Windows-7.htm"]Google Chrome[/URL] OS-based netbook is also creating quite a stir. According to the [URL="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/20091227/google-chrome-based-netbook-tech-specs-are-out.htm"]IB Times[/URL] the Chrome OS netbook will have the following tech specs: An Nvidia Tegra chipset (given the late 2010 …

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Hi, I am having problems with Outlook 2000 ([URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/post347611.html#"]PC[/URL]). Often, I have to restart my computer 3 times before I can get Outlook to launch! Either the program hangs/freezes on the splash screen when i try to launch it, or it freezes when I try to switch from 1 folder …

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Well, I just retrived my old pc from my parent's house, it's a hp pavilion 5210la, the deal is that I can't remember the password of the bios setup, it's a phoenix - award I think, so if someone can help me reset password or remove it would be very …

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Hello fellow dani webers, I have a old system at my house: Dell dimension 5000. it has been running for 5 years without any problems. I wanted to buy a new motherboard for this computer which is 64-bit enabled. It got to be at least a core 2 Duo. Any …

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After the computer completes start-up, I get the following error message: "RUNDLL: (Error loading C:\windows\system 32\bridge.dll. The specified module could not be found.)" I'm not sure, but I believe the problem may have started after installing and running the latest versions of "Ad-aware 6.0" and few similar like that then …

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Hey, I’m new at all of this so try to explain this to me easily. Heres what happened, About 3 weeks ago I got 2 Trojan viruses and they wouldn’t let me do anything such as get on the internet or go on any of my files. I had about …

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I currently have my website running on a host: combell but over a half-year I have to upgrade; caus I think it costs very much (although for a student) I'm thinking of start an own server on my laptop; some problems: [LIST] [*]I guess it's not good to turn of …

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I have a Toshiba Satellite A55 laptop, which I used for 2 years without any problems. Last month the system began slowing to a crawl and then either freezing up or crashing completely. Hard drive was making all sorts of scratching noises, and one time I got the error message …

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I recently came across some malware, my computer was heavily infected for about four hours. no pop ups or anything like that but it was a major cpu hog. It would also start several different .exe 's in task manager such as................ <msa.exe> <a.exe> <c.exe> and the heart of this …

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Hi, I've installed Netbeans 6.5 which is for JAVA with apt-get and want to uninstall it. How do i do it? Thanks

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hello i downloaded a rmvb file and i cannot convert it to any popular format. i have tried mostly all video converters and they all come up with an error that they cannot decode it can anyone help me?

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Ok I am building a computer and it appears I have everythng plugged in ok and then when I go to turn the power on, it only stays on for about 30 seconds and then turns off. What would I be doing wrong? Is there something I need to do …

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Hey everyone, I am having issues with my laptop computer. The problem is that it is dead sans the blinking yellow power cord looking light in the front the machine. I tried unplugging, replugging, taking out the battery, etc. etc. Well, when I took out the battery and unplugged it, …

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If you weren't already familiar with the likes of GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, Enlightenment and others, what would you like to see in a Linux User Interface? Whether you call it a desktop manager, a window manager, an XGUI or user interface; what do you think it needs to be …

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Is there anyway I can use web address from excel / notepad and run through the program and look the servers address. Thanks

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I have an emachine T5234 that I brought from Circuit City just over a year ago. The warranty recently expired, less than 2 weeks. I have a blue screen, no error message, no activity at all. The fan in the hard drive is running, but that is it. I am …

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Hi guys and gals, just installed Windows 7. Coud someone please recommend the best free e-mail program for my Windows 7. Do not want live mail or Gonzilla. Which is the very best? HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL Raya

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Hello, Just found this forum, very useful info. I'm not a huge tech guy, but I can follow instructions quite well. I'm just trying to get my wife's computer to behave. 2 things, It is getting dog slow and it occasionally turns itself off with a black screen stating that …

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I've been getting a large number (150,000/day) of DNS quereis in the form of A record searches to IP addresses (i.e. 192.1.2.3.domain.org). My best guess is this should be considered a UDP Flood Attack. Can anyone confirm if this is accurate or not?

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Hi All, I have not been using unix itself for long I usually just brows the file system via the window ui, now I know how to change directory using the cd command, but how do I move backwords. Say i go to documents/applications, what command would take me back …

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I have to buy a laptop for my friend. She's going to Cambridge university for some graphic designing course. Obviously, the university has asked for a high end laptop and 1.5 TB portable HDD. firstly, would it be better to buy from here itself or buy from UK?? one of …

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At first, i can't log in to my comp. then I had to use WinPE disc to go on a safe mode and just delete and transfer files since my C: drive is apparently full. After doing all those stuff, I noticed that my volume icon on the task bar …

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I have a office across from my yard. It has my linksys router in it. The router is wireless. I have an alfa card to connect to my wireless router. I want to use 'server3' and plug in my usb alfa card. Then, output the data and share the internet …

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The UK has finally ratified the 802.11n standard for WiFi at last. Although we've had '802.11n-ready' kit on the market for a fair while, it hasn't been official as yet. I can only hope people in stores will be able to explain what people are buying. I say this because …

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when i tried to open my folder.i got strange things.[COLOR="Red"]is it virus ?[/COLOR] or anything else.Kindly let me know the idea.Any help would be highly appreciated.Kindly find the attachment also.

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Hi I am getting this code from doing a update from hp bios now i get a blue screen saying "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart …

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which software is used to make mp3 song by joining several mp3 songs by cutting them as i want and then make a full song by combining them. plssss reply

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Hello, all. I have a new computer running Windows 64-bit Vista. I would like a good registry cleaner, one that would also be able to run with Windows 7, should I use my free upgrade to W7. BTW, SHOULD I use my free upgrade to W7?? Thanks for your input!!

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