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Hi, For some reason my usb keyboard and mouse has stopped working within windows. I have tried going in through safe mode with the same problem the wierd thing is the keyboard works in BIOS. Any of you guys had the same problem or have any ideas on how to …

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Hi, We have an office of over 150 employees on several occasions i have had to reinstall windows XP Pro on PC's, Due to an infinity boot loop - we use AVG as our antivirus and today after updating AVG to 8.5 it began to run a virus scan - …

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Hi everyone, A few days ago I decide to reload XP on an older desktop. Dell pentium 4 with 1gig ram. Backed up data and started. Went part way through with the format and power glitch??? Now I can get to the set up menu but the cd drive does …

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I mistakenly downloaded a peice of software that was full of bad things like win Anti Virus earlier today. Once i realised this i ran SuperAntiSpyware which seemed to get rid of most of the problems but now when i load up internet explorer i get the message that 'action …

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Windows Defender has been reporting this trojan for about an hour now. I use eset's smart security center and it has not found any trojan present in my computer. I cannot start up spybot s&d at all (renaming spybotsd.exe doesnt work). I also cannot use the hijackthis program without renaming …

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i scanned my computer and yahoo anti-spy found these problems: Comsa B (backdoor) Refpron AO (trojan) Routekit (the trojan that downloaded the other trojan) i think i have managed to remove it from my pc with yahoo anti-spy but then my Nod32 keeps detecting a virus on my pc.. pls …

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I have the following problem: I have brand new Fedora 10 installed and everything works file except one thing - I cannot mute my speakers when I plug my headphones. It is not just that Linux does not automatically detect that my Headphones are plugged in and mute the speakers …

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i am trying to view online free movies from bharatmovies.com,the display opens but the video does not start but a sign appears on the left top with three colors in it red,blue,green.i cannot understand what it is and unable to findout what is missing in my pc.

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Hey I have a question. Can I connect two routers though a an Ethernet cable and be able to use the 3 remaining ports on each one. For a total of 6 ports available. Thank you in advanced.

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I see lot of people talking about Avast. but if i could purchase Symantec 2009. would that protect me better then Avast ? Some smarter geeks at my work keaps argueing back and forth between symantec 2009 and Avast i want your opinion please

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Hi All I have been directed to your site via pcw.co.uk. and wondered if you can offer me any advice. A member of my household is tracking what I am doing on my pc. (I know this because he tells me and thinks it is clever) I know that he …

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[COLOR="Green"]Hey all! Wondering if anyone knows why my pc has the flashing green power light and I can't start it? I unpluged it to move it and now is dead:'( [/COLOR] Any ideas will be MUCH ApreciAted!

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[QUOTE]Windows xp/Vista crash[/QUOTE] I am reparing a friend's Dell xps and I've never ran onto a hardware problem. When he brought it to me, the computer would start with the [QUOTE]windows did not terminate correctly, Start windows normally or on safe mode blah blah blah[/QUOTE] I tried to start windows …

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The company I work for currently gets it's internet connection over T1. The T1 comes in straight to a Netopia router, and from there is plugged into a Dell Powerconnect 2716 gigabit switch. We are planning on purchasing a cable internet subscription and adding a cable modem to the mix …

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I have a Dell Dimension 4550 that had a power surge hit it. The case fan would run at wild speeds but nothing else would work. The light on the motherboard would light up. I replaced the power supply and it fried the new supply. I have tried 3 power …

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Hello I have Gateway MX6447. The problem I'm having is the power will short out. I thought it was the adapter so I bought a new one and I still have the same problem. I'm not sure if it's the battery is finally shot or/and if my charger port is …

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Okay so, Rogers online protection detected a bunch of trojan.Win32.small.bxz and also a few of trojan-PSW.Win32.Kates.c. It also qurantined them automatically, but once i remove them they would come back. I then installed avast to full scan my computer, but it didn't detect anything. Then i quick scanned with SuperAntiSpy …

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Hey All, I have purchased a new PSU for my computer which is running on an Intel D845GVSR with Intel Pentium-4 Processor. The Problem is that , When I power up my computer The Fans(Ventilation Fans ) spin once and stop. When i contacted my vendor regarding this. It seems …

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When I try to run ACROBAT 9 PRO EXTENDED in 64-bit Windows 7, all features seem to work, but then it just closes itself after 5 seconds or so. If anyone knows of a solution please post. Thanks so much!

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Hello, I am facing a problem for a couple of days now that seems impossible to resolve... WinXP SP2 machine I was using outlook and had the preview pane enabled. as soon as I opened my inbox folder the first email appeared. for my bad luck, it contained a virus …

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Can anyone provide guidance to resolving a BSOD? The BSOD screen prints: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA STOP: 0x00000050 (0xAB71C9F0, 0x00000001, 0xBA6F57E5, 0x00000000) jraid.sys - address BA6F57E5 base at BA6F2000, DateStamp 49C21E82 Output of Everest System Summary --------[ EVEREST Home Edition (c) 2003-2005 Lavalys, Inc. ]------------------------------------------------------------ Version EVEREST v2.20.405 Homepage [url]http://www.lavalys.com/[/url] Report Type Report …

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How can I prevent users from running portable applications on my network? I work at a school and students are bringing games in on their thumb drives to play during class. Is there a way to disable executables from the thumb drive? What if they copied the files to the …

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Hello! My brother was using my laptop the other day and downloaded this "Win PC Defender" nasty. I thought i got rid of it, and i no longer see it, but now im unable to access the internet, and when I try to use Malwarebytes', it won't even load up. …

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a NASTY NASTY ok this is the deal. I am by no means an expert nor am I a novice. I've fixed built and repaired many pc's and have usually succeeded in in all of them... til now. I was in the process of removing spyware from said pc but …

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Hi, I've a *ix machine and I need to share some folders with Windows users. I use samba for this purposes. Samba is set-up and works fine. All windows users use one id to mount (net use) samba drive. But the problems is that when user tries wrong password 3(or …

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Hi, Just wondering if anyone could help me completely remove adware and potential viruses from my computer..I have run Ad-aware Spybot-search and destroy, avast, and AVG- all up-to-date. They find problems and I remove those, but It seems new ones appear, ie Ebates, Dyfuca, FastClick, etc etc..Please any help to …

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allright, hi guys, I have a problem there's this toshiba notebook, satelite A105. the keyboard stopped working added external keyboard + mouse, works fine now what could be the problem?

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ok .....i have done some research on my comp...i had a question before and could not find an answer.... ok i had and still have a problem with my comp, it reads and plays dvds but not reading or playing cds...not even antivirus software, so i decided to do a …

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Ok, so yesterday my computer was basically in the dump, it was crashing every 10 minutes, and i couldnt do much of anything on it. So i ran Memtest and received 54000 errors... this morning i reinstalled windows cleared the hard drive and now the computer runs better then ever, …

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Hi all, I was recently given one of these laptops and told 'if you can fix it, you can keep it'. Happy days! Anyway. The BIOS reports that there's no hard drive attached, the drive itself makes some odd noises during the boot process, and then the computer eventually reports …

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How do I start to find out why my new computer will not reconize the 8GB on the motherboars when the motherboard says it will accept 8 GB?

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Hi, I am Hizamri. I am from Danisco Malaysia. Currently I am trying to make a Ghost of my SATA HDD. We have Ghost2003. I have already view some comments on the ghost procedure for SATA HDD. But I am not able to make an XP bootable disk that recognize …

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Hi I bought a gaming computer awhile back like about 6months ago or so i'd say. When i first got it the hardrive which already had windows XP pro installed had trouble detecting the hardrive. Only after 30minutes or so of reconnecting the SATA cable that it was finally able …

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Hello! My mother recently got a Palm Zire 31 for free, which she passed on to me, as I am a PDA user. Now, the problem: I don't have the damn cable to plug it into my computer. My camera uses the same type of cable, and allows me to …

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Hi all, Came home from work the other day to find out that since I had accidentally left the windows xp student edition sp3 cd still in the drive, when my room mate booted it looks like he's decided to start reinstalling windows ontop of itself..... Anyway obviosuly I don't …

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I was hooking up another monitor onto my computer and went to the nVidiea control panal (I am a nube at this). My screen turned black and I tried restarting. The windows staring up works but... when it gets to the loggon screen it all turns black. All my important …

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Hey guys...Just bought a Razer Carcharias and it worked great the first day I owned it. Today I decided to down-grade from Win-7 to XP,SP2. Everything is working great in XP except the mic... I have it correctly plugged into everything,so that's not the problem. I have gone into the …

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When i start windows I get an Explorer EXE application error the instruction at 0x02f63c26 referenced memory at 0x02fb625c. the memory could not be read. then my desk top freezes along with the task bar. any thoughts?

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Hi there wonder if you can help? i've got a dell pc when started shows dell icon bar but then just: no boot sector on internal hard drive no bootable devices strike f1 to retry boot, f2 for setup utility Been into utility setup and checked all settings are on …

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I am new to linux so I used to use both Windows Xp and Ubuntu.But due to problem in Windows,I re-installed Windows,but While re-starting the system, OS choice menu lost from Boot, Windows automatically opens, and ubuntu lost..,How can I find it..?

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hello, im using ubuntu 9.04 and i was looking for a way to change my wallpaper randomly when the computer boots is this possible.. google was no help thanks in advance. benjdee

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Hi, I've recently lost sound in my computer. I have re-installed windows, re-installed my audio drivers, have gone to run: services.msc/ windows audio set my setting to automatic, checked to make sure sndvol.exe was in Windows/system32. When I click on volume control I still get no mixer device available. I …

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I have a connector ps2 to usb port. Can I use that usb port as a regular USB port? I know that they are for usb mouse and keyboard but can I use it for a flash driver or some other device? Are there any other types of devices that …

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Hi everyone !!! I have a Dell Inspiron 5150, with an A38 BIOS , a 2.8 GHz processor and a 60GB hard drive in it. I know that it calls for PC2700 RAM, up to 2GB. I want to know , since PC2700 is so expensive, if PC2100 will work …

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Hi, my PC is connected in a LAN where a static IP is given by my ISP provider. Obviously my router has given another IP address for our LAN. Now, my request is that there is a professional talk every walk and i wanted to publish over the internet by …

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Hi I bought a gaming computer awhile back like about 6months ago or so i'd say. When i first got it the hardrive which already had windows XP pro installed had trouble detecting the hardrive. Only after 30minutes or so of reconnecting the SATA cable that it was finally able …

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Hey something happened to my computer a few days ago. I haven't downloaded or installed any new programs for the past couple of months. My computer was working fine, when suddenly it reset itself. When i now turn it on I am given a screen which asks me to choose …

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Hi everyone, surely, there is someone out there that can help, no joy so far: since virgin installed their bb, my son is unable to connect to internet. he has windows vista and uses a belkin adapter that is getting as far as the router but no further. i have …

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Hi ! I hav two HD 1 Ide & other sata both 80 GB. I installed a third sata 250 gb segate HD but it dosent show in vist . I hav XP on drv 0 and Vista on the other. I tried many times changing the cables etc but …

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