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| | Hi, Does anyone know if it's possible to find ALL duplicate files on any hard drive without installing specific software for this task? Terry. |
| | I have IE -8 under vista business and my IE started going into a web site search after I go to main site. 1st site comes up and as soon as you hit some button to go to another place on this site, IE goes into some kind of search … |
| | I donot understand this problem, I use internet on my IBM laptop, I browse many websites but when I access [url]www.hotmail.com[/url]. my CPU usage reaches 100%. I go to Task Manager and forcefully close this hotmail.com site and then CPU usage drops down. Is their something wrong with this CPU?  |
 | I've found that Combofix eliminates the autoplay feature in XP. I've seached for a way to re-enable it, but all anyone ever says is, "You're better off without it." I can understand that, given the potential for infection there, but I would still like to know if there is a …  |
| | I have Vista 32 Ultimate with Outlook 2007 w/Outlook connector. I have 2 Windows Live email accounts. I was able to synchronize both accounts with no problems up till a few days ago. Now Outlook will not download any of my Windows Live email. I have repared the Office Install, … |
| | Issue # 1, I travel fulltime and had issues with my laptop hard drive not booting up, so I bought a new one and exchanged them out because I could not be shut down while at a clients site. now months later I bought a hard drive case and put … |
| | This is an older computer: a P4 1.7 with 512 MB RAM. two physical HDs [C and D]. Running XP Pro SP2. Comcast's online McAfee AV allegedly running. OK, here's what happened: I downloaded an mp3 via uTorrent. Immediately got [I think] a system32.dll error and the computer shut down …  |
| | Hi First post so be gentle with me cos when it comes to IT I am about as sharp as a sausage!! Someone has hijacked my contact list in Hotmail on my XP machine and is sending out weekly recommendations of sites to visit to buy goods, nothing harmful but … |
| | will the core i7 chipset spoil if continue using for one days? |
| | This follows on from my closed thread Dual Boot 3. The Windows XP Installation I didn't want was on my D Drive. The one I kept is on my C Drive. Having fixed boot.ini to stop dual boot - thanks mainly to sknake and also to Fest3er, I searched D … |
| | Hey DW peeps, Got the audio/video stuttering thing on my XP computer that started randomly - after I installed Debian 5 (though onto a diff HD to what XP is installed on) ;) Didn't think my dual booting should have anything to do with it and so I've posted here. … |
| | Hello, long time reader first time poster. I ran into a problem today with my XP system. While browsing the web, the graphics on my screen seemed to go crazy. There were all different colors of what appeared to be little tilde's (the character) on my screen. They generally were …  |
| | I have had an HP laptop for almost two years. Last night it was working fine, i put it to sleep, and fell asleep myself. This morning it never came back. The battery charging light comes on and when i hit power all the lights go on but the screen … |
| | my windows is having some problem, my antivirus unable to scan my computer. it will say finish scanning in 10 sec. and unable to update my antivirus as well. ( currently using panda total protection 2010 ) I able to enter other antivirus site but unable to download them. i … |
| | I am using windows xp SP-2. The problem is, when I start my computer it boots and perform chkdsk but after this it restarts again and again but don't show the desktop. What may be the fault? Either I have to reinstall my windows or any hardware problem occured. Please … |
| | Hi, I need a social network site built using PHPFox. I want all the components , video, pic, chat, forum, blog etc setup. Required skills: * Software engineering education * Social networking API experience * SMTP/POP programming experience * Web services * LAMP or .NET (you convince me which) * … |
| | My friend installed Vista over Windows XP. The system gives the option to boot either from Vista or XP on a SATA HDD. I tried doing the reverse. I have an HP Pavilion with Vista pre-installed. I changed the HDD Controller from BIOS to IDE from SATA. After installing XP, … |
| | My house has two computers both networked together. The one upstairs runs vista, and the one in the basement runs XP. Recently the printer we had hooked up to the XP computer broke, and I am trying to network the printer upstairs (Lexmark Z611) to the one downstairs. I am …  |
| | hi, i would like to ask u that how can we save our work by failure of power. actually i am a web designer and failure of power is beg problem for me. so is there any software which can help me. thx... |
| | I am a Web Developer and require Adobe packages, so I can't go for Ubuntu etc. Now, I am going to buy a notebook the next months. I have been using Windows all my life and have not had any issues with it. Also, in my budget, the MacBook that … |
| | I am trying to install FSX on my computer. I tried 10 times already, but still I get the same error for the same file. I get "File does not exist or is not accessible" or something like that. It does it always at file "D:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator …  |
| | today i got a nasty fake antivirus named "windows antivirus pro". i got rid of the virus but a few things still remain like i cannot open add or remove programs or display. here is my hyjack this: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 2:16:25 PM, on … |
| | hi....I use both windows server,03 and redhat-9(dual). on the bootloader windows is default loader. first i installed windows then on the remaining space installed redhat. For some problem on windows i have to reinstall windows. as a result linux has been lost from bootloader(Grub). Now I want to get my … |
 | New build. Win XP 64-bit on MSI-K9A2VM-FD with AND 5600+ and 4Gb ram, two 80Gb sata drives. Clean install, pc runs great. Install chipset drivers, display drivers, alls well. Install printer driver and now spoolsv runs amuck, hogging 98% cpu cycles. I can end process in task manager and things … |
| | Hi all I just bought an external 60GB HDD I cant say what brand name as it doesn't have one written on it. I know there are problems unmounting HDD's and then they do not spin down and I am having the same problem. It is in /dev/sdc and the … |
| | Hi! My problem is periodically I'll be browsing using either IE or Mozilla Fire Fox and it will suddenly give me an error page. I still have access to Ventrilo and other online games i.e. World of Warcraft. Once I reboot my computer though all is okay. My husband is … |
 | Hi, I am running Windows Vista. Sometimes my browsers will abruptly stop displaying webpages. The error on Mozilla says- Unable to Connect, on Safari - Winsock Error 10013 I am able to ping, my DNS servers are working (so its not a connectivity problem- other computers on the same network … |
| | I'm hoping for help from gemini4 as he was so good with Benyam Dessu and dougiedickson. But help is welcome from anyone. I have a similar problem to dougiedickson but in my case there are two installations of Windows XP Professional. I tried gemini4's solution for dougiedickson - to look …  |
| | A friend has a Compaq notebook with Vista Home Premium. Each time she boots up the On-screen Keyboard opens. It is not in the start-up menu nor is the program checked to begin at start-up. I have run malwarebytes, spybot, pccillin and adaware and none show it to be a … |
| | Hello, I'm not quite sure what to expect from this problem but here goes: I have an XP laptop and a Vista 32 bit home premium desktop. I can connect to my network with both, wirelessly. However, my vista computer will only give me local access no matter what I … |
| | Here is a weird one that's got me stumped. My parents computer had developed a weir issue. The graphics output doesn't work. I swapped the graphics card and still no fix. Not even the bios splash screen appears. The thing is that the computer actually boots up. You can hear … |
| | I have an old SATA HDD out of a Dell laptop that wont boot up windows anymore because of a missing file (hal.dll) or something like that. I have it hooked into my new tower and i have done every fix i could find online about it but none seem … |
| | I copied my 120g HD so I can put it on my new 500g HD but when it was all said and done my 500g HD now thinks it’s a 500g HD!! Where did I go wrong?!?!?!? I used the program Acronis True Image and copied my whole 120g drive … |
| | I bought a used gateway mt6840 laptop for dirt cheap off of Craiglist. And low and behold 3 weeks later the hard drive crashes. I'm in the process of getting a new hard drive, but, have some questions about the SATA connections. Can I install a hard drive with a … |
| | Hi All, I have been encountering a quite weird problem at my laptop for almost 3 days. Right now, I can’t visit any website via any kind of browser.Except http, all other protocols are working fine at my laptop.However in safe mode, http is working correctly. 1.Different anti-malware applications confirmed … |
| | Hi Today i downloaded Mozilla Firefox version 3.0.4. I installed it and no page is loading. It gives the following messages after failing to load the webpages. [COLOR="Red"]Redirect Loop Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page. This may be caused by cookies that are blocked. … |
| | This weekend that just passed me and my mom where at a cabin and it had wireless internet, so my mom connected to it and after a day we started to get a %20 whenever we tried to go to a website. i've read another thread that we might have … |
| | A dead PC, green mobo light on, VGA fan spinning, no processor fan I think I’m having a very serious issue. I've had my PC for 3 1/2 years, and it's been working just fine in this period. However, now it had absolutely no signs of life (nothing on the … |
| | Right... I really need your help guys... Here it goes... Last week after using windows vista basic for the past 9 months i decided to try the windows 7 RC after a week or so of using it just fine i got the dreaded unmountable boot volume error so i … |
| | My gateway notebook crashed recently and i have no back up files. all of my files will be deleted with the repair. how can i save the files? |
| | I just got done building a computer for the first time and every thing went smooth untill i plugged in every thing connected the moniter and then turned it on. the one quite significant mishap that i managed to have is, nothing will respond onn my moniter.The screeen will light … |
 | HI I'd really appreciate some help. My mother bought a laptop 18 months ago and I installed firefox on it for her and safer browsing. In February she suddenly found it did not work at all (the fox). An error message appears saying that the dll usp10.dll is missing. We … |
| | I ran Hijack this and this is what I got: 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\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\IdentityProtection\agent\Bin\AVGIDSAgent.exe C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgtray.exe C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\IdentityProtection\agent\bin\AVGIDSUI.exe C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jusched.exe C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\IdentityProtection\agent\bin\AVGIDSMonitor.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\ArcSoft\Connection Service\Bin\ACService.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgwdsvc.exe C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgfws8.exe C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\IdentityProtection\agent\Bin\AVGIDSWatcher.exe C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\CSHelper.exe C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\HPZipm12.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe …  |
| | Will run fine, then bang, it shuts down to data dump with the C000021a Fatal System Error. Replaced boot drive with a new one, fresh XP installation. Same thing happens. I've re-Installed XP 3 or 4 times now, but not complete installation - clicked second "R". Do I have a … |
| | For the last two days i have been facing VIRUS SCAN ALERT MESSAGE ON ALL THE COMPUTERS WHICH ARE CONNECTED WITH THREE SERVERS 1.WINDOWS SERVER 2003 (DOMAIN CONTROLLAR) 2. EXCHANGE SERVER 2003 3. ISA SERVER 2004 AND THERE ARE 20 WORKSTATIONS. ON ACCESS SCAN MESSAGES MESSAGE: VIRUSSCAN ALERT NAME: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\SVCHOST.EXE:KERNEL32.LOADLIBRARYA …  |
| | My pc: Intel core 2duo 8400 Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS (galaxy) Philips 200cw I got the video card from a friend after he upgraded his computer. It's not new but he didn't got any problems with it. I've installed it, got the drivers and put the monitor at 1600x1080, the … |
| | hello everybody , i wish i am on the right thread : here is my problem . i recentlty purchased an 80 GB second hand drive seagate model:ST380021A . when i first instlled it, it was recognized on the black screen as having 80 gb .i clicked on F1 to … |
| | So I've got this Sony Vaio with an Intel Pentium4 and it will not boot into Windows, it just restarts. On restart in brings up an error saying that the CPU temp is out of range and asks me to press f2. Press f2 and go into the BIOS, I … |
| | I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro L10 laptop and im tryn to setup WinXp professional sp 2 and the setup stops when is loading the drives necessary for run setup. the computer just freeze dont show any error message, and somethimes it freezes and the computer screen start to flic. … |
| | Dell dimension XP pro. Yrs ago on another computer and op.sys and ISP (peoplepc) I had apparently registered for outlook express. I moved some of my stuff to my new pc when I got it. That event haunts me today on my dell dimension XP and I can't get rid … |
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