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Ok, I need help please....here's the rundown. I have a laptop running vista. I became infected with "windows security suite" that I have found out is a spyware/virus. It bogged my computer down really bad, internet explorer and all the other functions would try and run, then just lock up …

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My laptop, Acer Aspire 5100-3949 cannot start, when I tried again, it suggest me to Launch start recovery, then I followed the instruction and tried to load the drive from the website to do system recovery,it still not work. I tried to start in the safe mode, did not work. …

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I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate RTM on my system and had a peculiar experience. I was running Windows 7 Ultimate RC and decided to blow it for the RTM. My first hard drive is 250 Gigs with one primary partition (40 Gigs) and the remainder in the second partition. …

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I have a older Dell Latitude that won't recognize the hard drive. When I run diagnostics, I get the following: Start DST Short Test Test Results: Fail Error Code: 1000-0141 Message: No Drive Detected

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Hi, I have two questions (Win XP): 1) I accidentally set a file's extension to open with the option "Always open with this app", or whatever the text is. Anyway, you can change it in the file's property dialog, but you cannot remove it. I want to remove it so …

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I've run CC cleaner, that seemed to help but it still seems slow. Firefox is very slow to open. Here's my system info. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 7:42:57 PM, on 8/13/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Boot mode: …

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hi i'm a newbie so i hope i can get this right ... i've just bought a new motherboard to replace my old one i've moved all my bit's and bobs to the new motherboard and attached the cpu , graphic card , atx cables and memory , dvd drive, …

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Does anyone know of a software to make slide shows simpler than Powerpoint and Memories on TV? With the first one I can't insert music because it's too complicated and it only accepts MP3s and Wave files (too big). The latter has also become too complex. I'm following all the …

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Has anyone ever heard of a virus or spyware that would cause identical problems on 2 different machines at the same time? I have recieved a call about a XP based machine not being able to connect to the internet. At the same time I was told their laptop (Vista) …

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Hi, Problem: black monitor. No visibility. MSI manufactured motherboard for Medion pc, onboard video. 1) swapped in a known working monitor. No result. 2) put known working video card in a pci slot hoping compute would bypass the onboard vid. No result. 3) tested power supply voltages at the mainboard …

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Hi all, I need to set up three different sites with different domain names using Windows 2003 Active Directory. How many routers and switches do I need? Each domain will have 6 Windows 2003 servers and the three domains are two trust-relationship. I know how to create a LAN/Wan using …

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i am using lcd Monitor .My sound card is not working.Kindly let me know the idea.Any help would be highly appreciated.

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Hey guys whats up? I myself am pretty good with all this and actually know what i am doing here but... Having an issue that is bugging the crap out of me. I can not figure it out for the life of me. (either im to frustrated, or missing something …

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when my computer turn on a pop up comes up and says.. C:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile\desktop is not accessible access is denied i tried system restore but i dont have a restore date.. so somebody help me

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I am having a problem on my Dell XPS 400 desktop with getting my wireless to work for me. I have downloaded and installed the network driver from [url]http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&ServiceTag=&SystemID=XPS/DIMENSION%20400/9150&os=WLH&osl=EN[/url] but I still can't get it to work and I'm not able to have my router in the same room as …

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Recently bought a new PC Motherboard= MSI 770-c45 VGA= ATI RARDEON HD4870 PROCCESSOR= AMD PHENOM2 X4 2.6 GHZ QUADCORE 6 M CASH RAM= 4G KINGSTONE HARD DISK= 500G POWER SUPPLY= 500W But i just keep getting BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH every time i do anything !! Even if the pc …

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I restored my boot.ini file by opening windows pss folder and copying boot.ini to drive C. I renamed file and rebooted and everything went well except the boot.ini file disappeared. I retraced my steps and tried again. I rebooted with no problems except the boot.ini file disappears, vanishes. Temporarily I …

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I have a 250 gb hdd which had two partitions, a primary partition containing 50 gb of space where my OS (win Xp-sp2) installed and an extended partitions containing two three logical drives. When the hdd was partitioned, the name of the drives were C, E, F, G respectively. And …

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I've just bought a new laptop for my wife and the wireless connection is not good and keeps failing even the same room as the router, so she spends her time connected to the router by the LAN cable which is unsatisfactory. I'm in the next room through a thick …

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Please if I have 2 Opering Systems running on a laptop (i.e Windows XP and Windows 2003) and I intend to remove/uninstall Windows 2003 from the system. Could you help me with the procedure. I remember doing it one time but forget how now Remember that it will not appear …

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Hi, helpers: I have a Sony Vaio laptop running XP Pro and the Fn key has stopped running functions with the F-keys. It must be still working since it will toggle the scroll lock but it will not bring up the other functions like sound on/off, sound level, brightness, and …

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I need help with a trojan downloader virus I just obtained on my PC. I purchased the full version of exterminate it, and every time I deleted the files it would come back. Exterminate it eventually stopped working and will not even open now. I included my hijack this log. …

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i'm going to overclock my Intel Core Duo 3.0, apparently you can get it to 3.6 without breaking a sweat. i already have five fans running and its well ventilated but i need some settings for the BIOS, the motherboard is a ASUS P5Q-E, i'm running windows XP Pro, SP3, …

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can someone help, how do i make the McAfee On-Access Scanner running/Enabled becoz it the play button is on default gray/disabled.

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AMD athlon 64 X2 7750+ (2.7 Ghz and 3 MB L2+L3 cache), ECS A740GM-M motherborad, 2GB PQI DDR2 800, GeForce9500GT, 500W PS my computer doesnt boot. the monitor displays nothing. what's wrong? help me please. thanks.

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Is there anyplace to get fdisk and format that is on cd,and will work? i want to redo a dell laptop that has no floppy!.No place to hook 1 up. can the programs be used on cd?. Thanks. CableRat.

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I have a PC with on-board nforce Ethernet controller and a Acer 4736 laptop with Atheros Ethernet. I have connected my computer and laptop via cross cable Both systems has win xp sp2 and workgroup as 'WORKGROUP'. And Firewall is Turned off on both machines. Computer's ip - 192.168.0.1 Laptop's …

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Hi, was wondering fi anyone could help i'm having problems with what i think is a browser hijacker, as currently there are 7 versions of mshta.exe in my processes which really shouldn't be there. Here is the main DDS log and in the attached .zip are the other one and …

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Hi. I had spyware and viruses but I got rid of them. Right now I'm using safe mode with networking in order to access the internet. The reason being is, no matter what I do, my computer freezes up when I load it normally. I don't understand what's happening and …

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I went to start up my computer today, and then suddenly LSASS.exe came up with a error "Insufficient resources exist to complete api" It then froze my mouse, and forced me to reboot. I tried Safe Mode, came up with a bluescreen and a fatal error, I tried last known …

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My friend has a Computer which has WinServer 2003 R2 installed in it. When he try to install Win2000 on this machine, he is not able to. When he boots the computer in WinServer 2003 ,he inserts the Win2000 Bootable CD into the CD-ROM and and tries to run the …

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Can anybody tell me .Why i am getting error . F:/Is not Accessible.or Incorrect Function.Kindly let me know the idea.any help would be highly appreciated.

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Hey ya'll sorry if this is a noobish question but I just downloaded a game which requires 1.8Ghz and 512MB RAM. I only have 1.3GHz and 384MB RAM. My question is, what happens if I install and play this game? How will it affect my computer? Does this destroy my …

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Hello. I'm joining the forum to seek help for my Gateway laptop. My problem is all I'm getting is a black screen -after bootup and logging on. Safe mode works fine and I've tried a system restore with no luck. Anyway, I hope this forum will help me with a …

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Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to change an exe settings through dos? For example, instead of right clicking and going to settings to change the settings I would like to right a bat file to do that.

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well, blue screen sucks.. i just dont know why sometimes when im starting to open my laptop, blue screen appears..for no reason... may be there is but i really dont know why or what is it. i've searched a lot of possible reasons for this and these are hardware drivers …

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Can some one help me HELP!!! Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 22:33:20, on 01-08-09 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (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:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\ConfigFree\CFSvcs.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\DVDRAMSV.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\nvsvc32.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TOSHIBA …

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hi, i have a problem with opening my control panel and other things too. I am running Windows Vista Home Premium. When i click on START > CONTROL PANEL, it opens for 1 second then closes. I also cannot open computer properties, Right-Click MY COMPUTER > PROPERTIES nothing happens here, …

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Hi all. I want to set up a small array of linux servers on a couple computers I have.. I'd like to use virtualization software and set up 2-3 VM's on each computer. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to what software and OS to use i.e. …

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Hello, I am new and appreciate being here: I Purchased a brand new ATI HD4350. The machine I am putting it in will not boot when It is inserted. (running XP Pro service pack 3) The machine is a IBM Thinkcentre Model M51 #8141. I was wondering if the card …

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Hey I currently have Ubuntu installed on one of my PC's, and it's the only operating system on the PC, and was wondering how do I take off Ubuntu and install Windows XP to it? Whenever I try to install Windows XP it gives me some error that it can't …

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Hello people :-) I'm having a problem here. And I'm hoping someone can help me. I have downloaded Windows 7 on my PC and it works fine but I need a driver so that my internet can work. I have downloaded Driver Detective to find out what driver I need …

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Hi there, I am trying to delete all internet temporary files but when i go to internet properties and attempt to do that, it says "Windows Host Process Rundll32 has stopped working". I have run HijackThis and am posting the log here. Could someone please help me? Logfile of Trend …

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Hi, We currently use lame.exe command line to do .wav to .mp3 conversion. Lame is called by another program and most often, the conversion just works. Except for .wav files recorded in ADPCM format. Does anyone know if there is a command line converter that will throw up an error …

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I was just trying to get a recomendation on what size power supply I needed for my system. AMD Phenom XII 940 3.0 GHz /w. factory heat sink GIGABYTE GA-MA790GP-UD4H AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX SAPPHIRE 100259-1GL Radeon HD 4870 1GB 2 Sticks of DDR2 1066 2GB RAM Western Digital …

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Sorry if i am asking a question that might be already treated on this forum. Here is the situation: I have an workgroup about 5-6 computers (Win XP Pro) and one printer. All the computers are conected to a network that has internet access. The printer is an HP MFC …

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Can anyone tell me why appointments in outlook exchange 2003 would have the right time when I send them, but the receiver's time is one hour behind. We are both in the same building.

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I am running a new Dell laptop with Vista. For three weeks, I consistently get "Server not Found" with a number of addresses but can connect if I persist. I upgraded my Netgear WGR614V5 router but am still experiencing the problem. Any suggestions would be helpful.

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Ok I have had a Dell monitor for about 2 or 3 years now, and when it's turned on, I guess about anywhere from 5-30 minutes after it's turned on it will start like flickering and looks like the light in it is about to burn out or turn off …

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Hello I have an antec power supply. When I turn on the computer it seems to start powering up but then I get beeping. It one long beep followed by 3 shot ones the the computer shuts down. The Monitor starts to turn on, the hard drive does as well. …

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