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I have had this problem for awhile now but didnt know what to do until recently I learned how to make the blue screen appear since it was turned off. So now I will try and fix this problem. Im not sure what information you will need but I copied …

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i have a new hp pavillion laptop intel centrino 2 core two duo 2.26 ghz 64 bit cpu. i have a cisco 32 bit vpn software which i cant run on this machine. how can i get it to run?

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My Dad used Netgear to block it. When I go onto the site it says: Web Site Blocked By NETGEAR Firewall. Proxy's won't work, I can't reset the router (he would notice) and I have absolutely NO idea what the password is. He has changed the password from the default. …

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A few days ago my computer starting starting slower than it used to. At first I thought it froze during startup. So I turned it off and back on again, but after 5 minutes it finally moved past the start-up screen. Even after startup it was still running slowly so …

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Hello! I need alot of help with cleaning up this hard drive, Its a friend that said he needed some help with cleaning up his computer so i brought it over to my house and to my suprise it barely even starts up. (at first it did not) so i …

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i bought a cable net connection 2weeks back from the local Cable Guy. It was working fine on my Desktop PC. But yesterday i connected my Laptop and i was not able to connect, so i called the Helpline [yes these Cable Guys have a Helpline :)]. The guy there …

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Some games have started not loading there is no error messege.it effects games that i have freshly installed as well as games that have been left on my system unused for some time. it does not do this to all games and there is no problems in the install of …

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are the processors in my USB network adapter card useful at all? do they help out the CPU in any way or not really?

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A friend of mine has a HP pavillion 700 that just won't boot. When I turn it on, it won't post and the monitor isn't getting any type of signal. [I]The system is an Athlon XP, ASUS A7N8X-LA MB with 256 MB PC2700 RAM, built in audio, video & LAN.[/I] …

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I have an Acer Aspire 5610Z-2762 and it desprately needs to be wipped out and rebooted. I have the recovery discs from Acer, however I am trying to follow the directions from them, but it seems to not be working. Is there a simple way to wipe out and reboot …

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I'm running Wins XP with SP 3 on a 64 bit AMD machine. Out of the blue the desktop icons will not stay put (but do not disappear). At the same time I noticed this was occurring, the Quick Launch bar stopped appearing at start up requiring me to open …

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I'd be grateful if anyone could help. I have a 3yr old dell inspiron 8000. Couple of days ago, internet explorer froze, so switch laptop off by pressing power off button, This usually works, but this time scan diskdidn't work. Ran Dell diagnostics which reported a few ?disk areas were …

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I pluged in my modem and it came up with an unidentified communications device. I have tried another modem. All three the same. It can't find a driver because it can't identify the device. I tried it in another computer and the same thing. By the way, I am using …

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OK, So I was using Qwest DSL internet...that only provided a speed of 1.5mbps, which for running 2 desktops and sometimes 2 laptops at the same time was real slow...So I switched to Comcast with 12mbps, and bought a D-Link DIR-628 wireless router. That is the best I've seen so …

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This seems to be my problem and It appears to be an easy fix. However, I cannot enter in to safe mode on start up. My keyboard is not on/recognized until XP starts and then it's obviously too late. Any suggestions?

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I am new to Linux.I don't know anything about Linux . I have recently installed Fedora 10,I heard that files having extension .exe are invalid or can't be opened in Linux, but I also heard that there is a program in Linux which can open those files called wine.I want …

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Hi , I have a user is using MS Entourage on his MAC and connect to Exchange server but He always have a problem that frequently the system prompt and ask him to login again... Is there anyone know or have simliar issue which can share with me? Anything where …

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Hi all, Im having some problem with my DNS. We are using a Linux web server as one of our web server which runs some live websites.When I trying to get the status of the DNS (NAMED) it comes the following error : [root@ns milindras]# /etc/init.d/named status rndc: connect failed: …

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Ok, I'm not that PC savvy, but I need some help! Our PC crashed and I'm afraid we will loose all our data. Not sure if we got a virus or what? Here's what happened: My husband has created and maintained several small websites using FrontPage. He was updating a …

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Hi, I'm new to this forum, but I cannot find any posts related to my question. When I open a spreadsheet, or, when I open a blank spreadsheet, the toolbars that are checked in the View menu are not displayed. For each toolbar, I have to uncheck and then check …

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When closing down Windows XP Home I have the message that it is having problems closing down the above file/program ccSvcHst. I belive it is a Symantec program and I do have NIS 2009 installed. I'm just done a complete reinstall of everything so it is annoying to have this …

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Hi guys, am running xp pro and having problems with pc going into sleep mode when i open microsoft office outlook, sometimes it will open but as soon as i try and open a folder it shuts down and the only thing i see is a small window saying attention …

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Hi all im new to this site so i apologise if there is an error where ive posted this but... i received an infected file ( stupid me ) i managed to get rid of a couple of infections but have 3 left tht i cant get rid of soon …

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Hi, Im new here and really really in need of help This morning, my computer got a virus, I have tried all sorts to fix it, heres what is going on -In task manager, without opening internet explorer, it is already sitting in the processes, if I kill it, it …

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Hi, while investigating a problem folder i enable the hidden files to be viewed in all folders a while back. well recently i had noticed these weird files that were exact duplicates of files in most of my folders except that they had a "._" prefix. i have been deleting …

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Hi, just surfed this site (and only this thread) since this morning because I have the same Trojan problem. It's really frustrating and, yes, lots of anti-virus and malware removal tools can't detect it (I'm using AVG 8.5). However, I just tried out Combofix, the latest solution provided by member …

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I am using Windows XP SP3. My Norton subscription ran out. So I downloaded the free McAfee software from Comcast. I had to adjust the settings as I wasn't able to receive ANY email to MS Outlook. Annoying, but fine. Since then, I have not been able to perform any …

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I need the most complex answer one can come up with for "how to restart the print spooler service". I have someone who thinks they know stuff asking how I cleared her stuck document, and want to make it look very complex. Thanks.

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Right so... SOMEHOW precisead got downloaded and installed. its not dangerous, but its annoying. Since its a program, non of my pop-up blockers block the pop-up adds and my 3 antivirus and anti-spyware programs fail to find it and destroy it. Well I found out, it was because in intergrated …

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i just installed a new 1gb ram pc2700 ddr (they said it was low density) memory in to my computer along with a 512mb pc2700 ddr sdram that came in it now i have problems with programs shutting down any help is great

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My parents have a Macbook and a wireless network. Rather than using their network, which I have setup to use WPA-PSK, the MacBook keeps jumping on the neighbor's wireless, which is named Linksys and is wide open. It does this any time the computer is woken up or rebooted and …

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When I enter a sub domain address "http://group.company.com" the address is changed to "http://company.com" and the company site is displayed instead of being directed to the sub domain. Any help will be appreciated.

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Hi all I just thought about backing up my home directory to a zip file so I used [CODE]zip backup-13-jul-09 .[/CODE] Then I read about the argument [CODE]-u[/CODE] so I found a file called readme.txt in my home directory opened it and added "Hello World" to the bottom line then …

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I can't, for the life of me, figure this one out. I have a 2 1/2 year old Gateway PC, which I just upgraded the RAM on. First I went from 1GB to 2GB, which was fine. Then, a few weeks later, I upped again to 4GB. This is when …

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I am being drive absolutely crazy with Firefox 3.0.11. 99% of the time I click on a link or put a url into the address bar to search I get “Address Not Found – Firefox can’t find the server at………..URL” I the click ‘Try Again’ and the site comes up. …

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Hi, I got an old laptop to play with. I noticed that C: shows only 17Gb. There in no other drive. it should be 30 or 40. When trying to enter my computer/manage/disl management, I got the above error. Please help, Izzy

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Hi there, my Acer Aspire 6920 running on Vista has definately been the victim of a virus & for the life of me, without reinstalling & wiping my hard drive, can I figure a way around it. It keeps crashing & pausing. When I restart it occasionally goes to Acer …

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I have Windows Vista I recently upgraded my Windows Internet Explorer. Now everytime I get on the internet this about blank keeps poping up and it says internet stopped working and then I get a dll error. I now have 24 about blank pages with erros in about 2 minutes. …

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We run a VPN network, we just purchased new Acer/Aspire towers w/Vista installed. We can see our network server but cannot map a drive to a network address on the server. We have no problem doing this with our XP machines.

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I have 1 windows 2003 server. I am looking for software that keeps track of any registry , files, and any other vital changes to my server. I have seen many enterprise products out there but are overkill for what I need. If anybody has any ideas, it will be …

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I'm formatting and setting up the partitions in a 500GB harddrive. Its not really going to be partitioned but I believe I need to leave a certain amount for the logical part of the harddrive? what sizes are best to use in this case? i'll be running windows xp pro …

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two files with names like these won't let me delete them, how can i go about doing it? ЃϵϳЅЂϿϽϯІχϯπρЂϻϵЉЃϵϳЅ they were left behind in a file i used for backing up stuff

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My PC now has winXP Pro. If I also wanted to have win98 installed for whatever reason, would that work? How would I install win98 separate from XP? Then how do I use one op sys at a time>? Is this an unusual situation? Am I being unreasonable? Thanks

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I have a HP Presario desktop with Vista. I have replaced the hard drive and get the following message after completion on the software: PXE-E61 Media Tet failure check cables Any suggestions?

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i just place sound card in one of the slot.and installed the driver but still not working .Kindly help me.any help would be Highly appreciated.

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Wirh my Compaq Evo 1015V laptop screen on its way out, I bought an Acer V173 monitor to use with it. But the native 60Hz refresh rate does contribute to headaches for me and I would like to increase it by unticking the "Hide Modes that this monitor cannot display …

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Hi All, Is there any Remote Desktop connection that is compatible with Microsoft's remote desktop? I won't Like VNC because it will force me to install in each PC I want to RLogin There is this but I guess it have no port for Windows [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/rdesktop/[/url]

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Have been hunting for a while, but keep coming up trumps. Am getting sick and tired of being limited to a 32-bit browser with the extra load it put on a x64 OS by one lousy plugin that's over-inserted itself into the market, all because the dev (Adobe) can't seem …

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