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I am currently on a Gateway laptop because I cannot boot my other computer. The problematic system is running WIN XP w/SP3. I somehow picked up a virus called Win32.virut.ce. As I was trying to extract it by running Norton Internet Security's Anti-Virus, Spy-bot Search & Destroy, MalwareBytes and Panda …

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I have a dell inspiron E 1705 with a nvidia geforce go 7900 gs. I believe the problem is with the graphics. I have recently downgraded from Vista to Xp pro. Everything worked great for the first 10 hours. Now i cant boot into the operating system. When trying to …

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Hello everyone! Can someone please help me find out how I can have a desot.exe virus removed from a PC. When I log on; Window is runnning okay, but I get a message box with the desot.exe message and I cannot remove it from the desktop. I have tried to …

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Hi I wonder if anyone can help. I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 with an Intel Pentium 3 processor, 601 MHZ. 128mb of RAM and Windows XP Professional. I bought this cheaply recently on EBAY just as a project to play around with. I have never worked on a laptop …

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Hello, my name is James. I recently had a virus, which i believe is gone *prays*. It would not allow me to access my task manager, but I've already fixed that. The problem i'm having now is I can't change my background. It is completely blue and when i right …

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Dell Inspiron 6400 starts to load Windows XP for a few seconds then goes to blue screen unmountable_boot_volume. Cannot even enter Safe Mode. Any Suggestions?

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a few months back i noticed the light for the power button had stopped working, but the comp turned on. this happened on and off. a short time later, the button stopped starting my computer reliably. but heres the strange part...i could press the button and the comp would start …

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I have ran into a few issues. The first issue, is that some websites work fine (IE. Yahoo, etc.) while others (IE. Daniweb.com, Avast.com, AVG.com) will redirect me to some weird "browser" websites I've never seen before. It will send me to a different one each time. Also, even when …

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Hi all, I hope you are well. I am trying to remove the Trojan "win32 cutwail.j" from a friends computer, the first step I have taken was to scan with Spybot S & D which removed some malware. I believe that the payload is still prevalent in the system though. …

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I posted a thread a few days because I was experiencing a couple of different Blue Screens of Death (see: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post949427.html#post949427)[/url]. Well, I have not experienced a Blue Screen of Death since switching to a new anti-virus program today (Avira - which found three new problems and quarantined them). My …

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Hello folks, I need some advice. Looking to upgrade my cpu, mobo and ram and I'm starting with the processor as it's the most important item to me. I'm steering away from the extremes and i7's due to limited funds. Was thinking possibly lower end quad core or upper level …

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hey guys hve a problem with ma mail server in that i can send mails to outside but i can't recieve mails from outside......what could be the problem?

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My usb just have recycler, and whenever recycler comes back, i dont even try to touch it, but my friend accidentally click recycler even though he knows that it is a virus, and he proudly says that it doesnt work out on Mac. and the disadvantage for me is that …

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Hi everyone! Well, I found out that there is a way to remotely shutdown a computer on a workgroup using the command prompt. I've been putting in the following sequence: "shutdown.exe -s -m \\[I]computername[/I]" like it says to remotely shutdown a computer. Well, when i hit enter, it seems like …

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My Toshiba Satellite laptop has a broken screen, but is being used hooked to a monitor. It opens only in safe mode, however. Sound issues from the laptop itself when logging on to Windows Vista, but no sound is available when on internet. Also, the dvd player seems to be …

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Basically while I was away some malware infected my computer. My girlfriend was unable to enter gmail.com and there were various popups advertising 'Windows Security Suite'. Using Malwarebytes I was able to get rid of the Malware and am 100% sure that my computer is not infected anymore - pop …

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Hi all, I just upgraded a 5 year old HP Pavilion from 2-256 MB ram to a generic 2-512MB ram and had to reverse them in order to install alreadt a bad sign. I statrted the PC the first time and nothing happen, I statrted it again and it did …

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Hi, I reinstalled windows xp on my computer but video controller(VGA compatible) and audio device on high definition audio bus have big yellow question marks next to them. The computer is an ei system e205a. pls does anybody know where i can find both drivers. Thank you in advance for …

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Hello Guys, I badly need assistance with a problem am facing with my HP laptop. I jst acquired a new laptop but the problem is that its Vista is in polish which requires me to re-install the OS. I want to downgrade to XP but it crashes whenever i try …

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greetings! i just bought a new samsung 320gb 3.0gb/s HDD. unfortunately, i didn't know that my MB only supported SATA-I. i connected the HDD to 2nd sata(primary) slot, turned on my computer, but when i checked my bios it said that it didn't detect any hard drive. so i placed …

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Hey all, I bought a fairly decent laptop recently (2 months~) and because i recently finished school i started using it for recreation like playing games and watching movies etc. The problem is that whenever i do any of these the laptop will freeze completely after 5 or so minutes …

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This is my first laptop, came with Vista preinstalled. There is no recovery disc. I tried shutting down normally earlier, and it got stuck. I was in a hurry to leave the house, so I took the battery out, so that it would shut off. I replaced the battery (same …

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I am using FF to logon. I have to try multiple times to get on DSL. I need to find out the proper settings, DNS, etc. From reading some of the posts here I have learned to use the CMD prompt to display the settings I have so I can …

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I have been experiencing an error known as "VER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" and according to the reboot error report, the following is involved: C:\DOCUME~1\MICHAE~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER633e.dir00\Mini081409-01.dmp and C:\DOCUME~1\MICHAE~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER633e.dir00\sysdata.xml. Under my Event Viewer, I noticed an error stating that the boot-start or system-start driver known as Beep failed to load. I uninstalled Beep, but I couldn't …

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help me please... my nightmare begin when I smell something fried from my power supply, then suddenly my PC went off. I try to buy the new one, and I install it. first try switch on my PC, my monitor didn't response. I try to unplug my video card, clean …

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Hi everyone I have a INSPIRON | 510m. my memory was x2 256Mb DDR-333MHz-CL 2.5 PC 2700[COLOR="Red"]U[/COLOR]-2533-0-A0 i bought 2x 1Gb Samsung PC2700[COLOR="red"]S[/COLOR]-25331-z DDR 2700 CL 2.5 i changed the rams,the windows started up,everythings were fine suddenly it restarted with a blue screen and it couldnt boot up the windows,i …

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Hi and I have been searching for a ssh program with a graphical interface purely to upload and download files from the root of the server without ftp. Does anybody suggest any programs for this job? Windows XP Pro is my Operating System and Ubuntu versions are also welcome.

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Im on the internet and all of a sudden the text starts to disappear and then everything on the toolbar starts to disappear then the Icons on my desktop disappear. I noticed that some of the icon names turn black. It has happened to me twice Now when I reboot …

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I have a desktop computer and a laptop. Comcast is my ISP and I have a Belkin router. Recently, whenever you turn the desktop computer on, the internet doesn't work on the laptop. It says the connection is found but I can't use the internet until the desktop is turned …

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Have "Security Warning" pop-ups "application cannot be executed...do you want to activate your antivirus software now?" - which links to a fake-looking site to purchase the software. Also have sounds playing from my computer (usually ads) even when I don't have an internet browser open. I've run multiple virus, spyware …

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hello i am trying to save my self a little work. i have two computers at one desk with one cat5 plug in the wall. up until a week ago i just left it be and used the one cable back and forth. well i got a linksys router from …

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In my task manager a process called System runs at around 74,000K all the time. When I'm in a facebook game called farm town the fan on my tower like roars to life. Is that normal? And is the system file thing suppose to run that high.

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After a recent Senior Moment, I re-installed XP and have since encountered countless problems. The latest being that I have to press F11 on start-up and arrow down to HDD. How can I prevent this please. Also, when I go on to "Stand-by" mode everything shuts down but on restart …

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Can anyone help with this... Google is being very strange, won't let me log into iGoogle, all links opened redirect me to yahoo.de unless i 'open in new tab', overall just not working very well. My log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 15:19:36, on 15/08/2009 Platform: …

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A lightning strike fried my mother boad and I moved the hard drive to another machine about the same vintage. Yea it's kind of old. I was running 98se but now it won't boot to windows but I can access the hard drive. Problem is I am trying to backup …

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i have a gateway laptop that was installed windows vista business 64bit though its has no partition i have tried several partitioning tools like paragon ,partition magic etc at no luck please assist me what to do

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I inherited a Gateway 825GM Media Center Edition. It had Windows XP Pro installed from Gateway before that had become hopelessly corrupted. After reformatting and installing a new copy of the XP Pro, any further installations of software restarted numerous problems of such varying degrees it was incredible. Sent it …

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hi, another problem!. i have a computer that has worked flawlessley for years, all of a sudden it wont turn on. for a while it would do several power cycles and then turn off, but now it turns on but will not load the post screen or anything. the computer …

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So here is my problem so far: -When starting up the My Documents folder comes up instead of explorer.exe. I have read this boards posts to try and fix it, but nothing does. And my computer will not connect to the internet. In BWMonitor it shows some bandwidth is being …

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hi everyone! my gateway laptop got the blue screen of death a couple of times. i pulled the battery and plug and recharged it. the most recent time i did that was last night. today i open it and it wouldn't start it, it was waiting by the blank screen …

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I wonder if anybody can tell me what my problem is. I have a dell Inspiron 9300 and it was working fine until a couple of days ago when I was working and without any warning about 5cm of the screen suddenly turned white in vertical strip from top to …

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i want to create a restore point in vista and also tell how to enable it through group policy where i will get the group policy option

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Hello i have two sli bridged 8600gt nvida xforces they work perfectly fine with windows xp but in device manager they show two video cards under display devices. The problem is one of the video cards has 1gb of ddr2 ram and the other one has 512mb of ddr2 ram. …

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When I go to remove a program I receive this message, could not open INSTALL LOG program. Need help in how to proceed. Thanks in advance

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Hi, I am have had this laptop for 3 years now and suddenly yesterday it decided to die on me. When starting up and getting to the VAIO screen it goes black screen and says "Operating system not found". Using either F10 and/or F8 to get to recovery mode doesnt …

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i am planning to upgrade my windows sp2 to sp3 . But i already have fedora installed (dual OS ). will my upgrade from sp2 to sp3 crash my fedora ?

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