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Hi i recently upgraded from Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium. Since Windows 7 no longer includes Windows Mail as an email client, i downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird and love it. I pinned it to my start menu as well as my task bars and about two days …

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I have instant DVD2.0 hardware When I try to install the program, I get the message that the file is "not a valid Win32 application." Any suggestions?

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I was wondering just exactly how to bridge two internet connections. My friend wants to get a second internet connection so that his family can use the netflix they signed up for and he can play games and torrent files without interrupting their streaming. What do I need to do …

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ok....now this could sound a bit too lame but guys i'm really losing my head.. ............... the speed i get on my 64Kbps connection is 6-8 Kb/sec for a p2p or any non p2p download ....does this KB/sec represent kilo bits per sec.......or......kilobytes per second........acc to me it must be …

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Hi there, I'm new to the site and have been having a problem with my Presario 2500 laptop (Compaq). When I turn it on it starts up normal and all, I get the windows logo with the loading bar beneath it. As soon as it goes to switch screens to …

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I've changed the name with which i was currently logged on. After changing the name I try to open task manager but it respond nothing. I tried to play a song but it showed message that "File is not accessible on this location or you may have not rights to …

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Hey everyone. I woke up this morning and turned on my computer and everything worked fine. I realized that my computer was displaying the wrong date and I remembered my old computer's BIOS having an option to change the system date. With that, I restarted my computer and opened up …

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Hi all, I have a dell inspiron 8100. I was having troubles with it starting. It would boot up and get a screen that said it could not locate a boot device. It would not find the cd rom drive or locate the hard drive. This is after an extended …

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I think similar threads have been posted about this virus. It disables your sound, flashes 98 theme then back to XP, sometimes it stays on 98. I've also discovered that it disables all processes that run C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs. It doesn't seem to activate immediately in fact it activates randomly, …

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Survey: Hello everyone, Which of the two os do you think is better in: a. affordability b. graphics rendering c. media playing d. multi-processing e. gui f. support

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My specs are AMD Athlon(tm) 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.20Ghz 2 GB Ram ATI Radeon X1550 series I know I can Run it but isn't 64 bit if you plan on installing more than 2 GB Ram? Wouldn't it be useless if I don't buy more ram? If …

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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 8:16:28 AM, on 11/28/2009 Platform: Windows Vista SP2 (WinNT 6.00.1906) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6002.18005) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe C:\Windows\RtHDVCpl.exe C:\Program Files\Acer\Empowering Technology\eDataSecurity\x86\eDSLoader.exe C:\Program Files\Acer\Empowering Technology\eAudio\eAudio.exe C:\Program Files\NewTech Infosystems\NTI Backup Now 5\BkupTray.exe C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\Windows\System32\hkcmd.exe C:\Windows\System32\igfxpers.exe …

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Hi I have been having serious problems trying to get rid of the win32.netsky virus.. My task manager is disabled and I cant use my restore function.. I keep getting warnings of the virus when I boot up and pop up windows when I try and use the internet! I …

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Hi I have got domain environment (AD win2003 server) under Event Viewer (Application and DNS Server) I have got couple of Event IDs. I know that Google is our friend but I got confused which Event IDs should I examine The error message that I have been experiencing is the …

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Im Having a problem when my computer starts until bios setup and when I continue to load the windows the computer will restart in loading the bios setup. When I choose to run my computer in safe mode, many codes will appear then the bios setup will again restart. I …

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hi friends, can you tell me what is OSI layer and what role it performed in networking ?

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Hi, I'm no hardware genius so I hope I can communicate what I'm wanting to do. I currently have two HDD on an ASUS P5K SE motherboard and a 500w PSU. I have three partitions on the first (500GB) drive, C: (Win XP Pro), D: (Documents), E: (Somewhere to put …

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Hi I bought a new laptop which came with windows 7 pre-installed. I am supposed to have a 500GB HDD space, but when i view "Computer" which also displays the available size, it says i have 11GB of 40 GB left! but i have a 500GB hard drive. when i …

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Please help me ... a NullPointerException appears here's the codes import java.util.Random; public class Dice { Random r =new Random(); int sides; //constructor public Dice(int s){ sides = s; } //roll method depending on sides on top public int roll(){ return r.nextInt(sides-1)+1; } } // end of class public class …

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Hey! Looking for some news! I've got no access to wpa2 wireless security after installing xpsp3. It can't connect to an existing wpa2 network, and wpa2 is not even an option in the Wireless Network Connection properties. I've researched and seen lots of complaints about this problem but no solutions. …

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Hi, I am a trainee System Administrator in my company and still a newbie. How do I set the cron job to only show the current week's backup (in the database backup directory) and remove the previous week's backups. One week would mean Monday to Saturday. Pls help. Tqs.

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Ok here is the what has happened... In the past few weeks, I have noticed that everytime I start my PC I have to change my CMOs. It kept telling me that it couldn't boot from the Floppy drive, the thing is my PC doesn't have a Floppy drive and …

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I have recently (within the last day or two) gotten a virus on my computer that seem to be pretty stubborn and nasty. It willnot allow me to use any other browser except Mozilla and now I can't log onto my company's exchange server either. I've ran my anti-virues scans …

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I get this as I try to boot up my dell inspiron 1525 stop: 0x0000007e (0c0000005, 0x8a61dbcb, 0xba4f769c, 0xba4f7398) Can any one help?

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My motherboard recently died without notice, so I bought a new one. Since my motherboard died all of suddenly I was unable to back things up from my windows 7 installation, and I really need to be able to my current installation working with this new motherboard. The only part …

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A quick question about the contacts in Hotmail.com Once I delete a contact... How do I stop their email address from showing up as soon as I go to compose a new email... I have deleted a contact, and I do not want their email's to show up evertime I …

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After a swirl of rumors that Apple was in talks to acquire music-streaming service [url=http://www.lala.com/]Lala[/url], the [url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704342404574576544196064138.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection]Wall Street Journal reported[/url] yesterday that the companies had reached a deal. Exact terms were not disclosed. Lala, a four-year-old private company, offers a terrific Web-based [url=http://www.lala.com/#howitworks]music streaming and download service[/url] that lets you …

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I have a question, how come in WindowsXP the Drive is H: that Windows7 is installed on, yet on Windows7 it decided to rename H: to C upon installing, I wanted to ask this weeks ago :)

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Hi, new here and relatively terrible at computers. The problem I believe is something attacked svchost.exe and AVG picked it up and I ended up deleting it. After my XP laptop seemed wonky afterwards, I decide to restore svchost.exe. It shows that svchost.exe is back but on start-up, it gives …

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i need your kind help to solve this problem when i open my messanger it comes : try installing windows live programs again programs were not installed because the installations was canceled aborted 0x80004004 thx and best regards

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Dear Sir, I have recently reinstalled Windows XP on my PC, having Intel D945GCNL motherboard. When I am installing the Drivers all the Drivers are installed normally but Audio Drivers are not installing from the Driver CD, it gives a message that the audio failed to install. Please let me …

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Hello IT and Moderators... I consider myself as end-user..Please help me with my problem.. My windows vista OS is gone..Because I tried to change/downgrade my Windows Vista SP1 to Windows XP SP3... But when i tried boot my PC to the Bootable Disk of Win XP SP3, after the setup …

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Internet explorer has started opening by itself every few minutes and my computer is running slower than usual with a virtual memory is running low message popping up. I do not know what website it is trying to access because i have gone over my internet quota and it doesnt …

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Mike Elgan, the veteran technology journalist, mused last week in a [URL="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141437/Elgan_7_reasons_why_e_book_readers_make_lousy_gifts_this_year"]Computerworld article[/URL] that eBook readers would make lousy gifts. I don't necessarily agree with all of Elgan's points, but it got me thinking about how useful a one-trick device is for users. If you think about it, we began …

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I have a pretty new Toshiba Satellite laptop. When I first go the thing I noticed that in the middle of me typing something on a text based document that the cursor would jump to some random position in the text document. This of course caused what I was typing …

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Mixer devices are not installed & I can not see speaker at quick launch. I can not configure it to hear sound from my speaker. I can only see the RealTek speaker but I can not adjust sound. I receive message no mixer devices are installed

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Hi I'm looking for some help with a computer that appears that has video card problems (internal) I have a computer that when connected to a monitor wil start up but nothing will appear on the monitor and a 'no signal' or equivalent message appears. I've narrowed down the problem …

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I have read all previous posts on this topic but the help provided did not work. SVCHOST.EXE using 100% CPU svchost.exe is using 100% cpu usage an making it hard to do anything. I have reinstalled win xp that did not work. I have formated the comp an that worked …

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Hello i am having a problem with my friends computer. When I boot the computer everything seems OK and the windows loading screen comes up, but then it says "Setup is being restarted" then it goes to a blue screen and says "STOP: c00002la fatal system error". There's no valuable …

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I've cleaned a computer of viruses and malware. The computer is now working great. All software appears to be running fine. This computer is running Avast Antivirus. The problem is that I noticed that Avast cannot update it's virus definitions. I would think this an Avast software problem except that …

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I have been getting these random popups occuring on my computer when I do searches on google and try to click on what I need. Any ideas? here is my hijack this list Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 4:16:35 PM, on 12/6/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP3 …

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I have similar problem where I keep getting redirected to other pages but not from every page and not all the time. It seems to be happening when Java applets are loaded, like when I'm playing chess at [url]www.flyordie.com[/url], and it's horrible because I would be in the middle of …

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It's been almost a year since I[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story220028.html"] last interviewed [/URL] Joe 'Zonker' [URL="http://www.dissociatedpress.net/"]Brockmeier[/URL], who is the community manager at [URL="http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_11.2"]openSUSE[/URL]. I sent him several questions to answer by email. I was curious about the new version of openSUSE, 11.2, along with his increasing use of social media to promote it. …

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Good day everyone, I just have a little problem to share hoping anyone cold me with this. I am currently using Windows Vista Starter edition and has enjoyed using it, except only for the fact that I can't find any ways to remove the logo on the lower right corner. …

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went over to my mothers for thanksgiving.. scanned her computer with malwarebytes and it picked up 327 "errors" i got rid of those and its not picking more up but we are still having a few problems.. if someone can look over my log i would greatly appreciate it! Logfile …

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Here's the story... My room mate decided to download an [I]illegal[/I] torrent of osx 10.5 (my Mac was running 10.4.9 just fine) and tried to install it and got frustrated. He found a web tutorial on how to back up your drive using the Disk Utility restore feature. He "figured" …

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Hello! I use a Mac; however, I downloaded an avi file that uses the Indeo 4 (IV41) codec which is unavailable for Macs. Do you know of a software program that can convert the file (re-encode? if that's the proper term...) to another codec that will allow me to view …

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