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Hi there, I am new to use unix operating system, and I was wondering where can start learning the main commands in the unix, as I am working on server that is unix, tutorials or links that can help, when I need some functionality or a specific command I search …

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I put in a DVD and I noticed right after I put the DVD in, the computer was running slow. I removed the DVD rebooted and ran spyware detection software(fix-it) I had problems restarting my computer and now it is finally working but still extremely slow. I'm not sure its …

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this stupid virus suddenly came up and it is not stopping even it it is deleted its coming back again the bit defender box keeps popping up plss help me i alrdy tried malwarebytes its stil there plss help

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I'm running XP Home SP3. I rebooted my computer this afternoon only to be presented with an NT login screen when the machine came back up. It had my name and it lets me leave the PW blank and still logs me in (which is good, b/c I've never had …

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backup an unusable HDD. I don't know what happened to my external, probably disconnecting it without having the computer off. But I have ruined it so hardcore that when I plug it in it says "windows must format (instert drive letter here), before it can use it." I have a …

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I have a Gateway GT5018E with Microsoft Medica Center 2004 Service Pack 3. The drive works sporadically. I spoke with Gateway, and they said replace the drive. Took it in for a new drive, and did not fix the problem. The repair specialist said he repaired the software. I have …

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I have a dell 1000 Laptop it wont let me boot unless it have a bios password. I try taken the battery out and still nothing I even try the backdoor still nothing can you pleasseeeee help me

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Whats up guys & girls i have a sony ar150g with a 17" hd screen and it had those color lines going from the top to the bottom and now just last night the whole screen went black i have no idea what to do about it? the laptop turns …

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Recently my internet explorer will not connect to the internet, then opens about 5 more pages by itself, all blank. I get an error message but its just a bunch of symbols. Here is my HJT file log. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:42:56 PM, on …

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Hey guys sorry am not exactly sure how to explain my problem so will try my best to explain best I can. First off my keyboard started to open up my web browser useing the control key and a few other keys although never noted them as it was mainly …

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Hi All, I run Windows XP and everything appears to work fine, I can surf the web at will, all is fast and easy EXCEPT that I cannot access ANY Mozilla sites whatsoever unless through a proxy browser. I have tried so many different methods and still have not come …

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Hello people, Am trying to set up Windows live mail so that I can send/receive emails. Thus far I can check my emails but cannot send any. The configuration I am using is: Incoming POP3 server - smail.warwick.ac.uk Outgoing mail server (SMTP) - smtp.virgin.net Incoming mail port - 995 SSL …

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Hi, I bought my HP pavilion lx 2000 in August 2008 and everything was working fine until about a month ago. It started seriously overheating and would turn off at random times. I'm assuming this was not good for the hard disk and all of a sudden a couple of …

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Hi i was wondering if anyone knows of a free program that checks your computer for errors and viruses and fix them for free. i have searched online but every time i find one that says its free i can only scan for free but not fix all error.

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Hi I am trying to upgrade my video card so I can play the Sims 3, but I'm having the hardest time trying to figure out what kind of video card I need, Dell Tech support was no help so I was wondering if anybody could I.D. what kind of …

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Hello, I've recently setup samba to run on my server, and it works perfectly well within my LAN. I can access all the shares.. However, I cannot access the shares over the internet. I've tried connecting by IP and by name, but it fails either way. The ports are forwarded …

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Hi to my great family at Daniweb !!! I have a Toshiba Satellite A105-S1712 laptop , with a 1.6MHz processor in it and I'd like to find out how big of a processor I can put in it. The processor thats in it now is a Intel Celeron M 380 …

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Hi guys, can you give me some help? It all basically started some times ago. I don't remember doing anything but suddenly my IE stopped working. Everything, and I mean it - everything opens in Firefox. It may be OK in 90% of cases, but I want to be able …

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I'm 2 semesters away from getting my AA, then i'll be transferring to USF to pursue a BS Computer Science degree. So i'm about 3 years away from starting my full time career. Here is a list of certifications i would like to acquire. Comptia: A+ Network + Security + …

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HI, Waht would you all recommend for for an entry level user to monitor packets? What's most user friendly? TCPdump? Snort? Wireshark? Thanks.

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The dreaded blue screen. I've got a windows xp and here is the deal. When I start windows normally I get the Unmountable_Boot_Volume blue screen. I can't open in safe mode, it simply starts and stops at the same place. Where it sais system32/DRIVERS/agp.Cpq.sys. Everytime it stops there. I have …

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Am running IE6 SP1 on a recently installed version of XP Pro version 2002 (No SPs). Have little software on machine except McAfee Internet Security and various device drivers. Whenever I right click on any web page using IE6 SP1, I get an Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and …

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Well i have a windows xp and linux (fedora 7) partition . and now i have found a new distro of linux which is called Belinix . its not very famous but has a lot to offer . Well my problem is i want to install and run belinix , …

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2 computers vista & xp...Problem is sporatic on BOTH computer., sometimes things function fine...Very odd...on the XP computer at times ., specifically sites like MY SPACE. Windows freeze., I dont know if the 2 things are related.. Input is really appreciated, I do clear temp files, de frag and I …

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Hello, I'm not very computer savvy and was hoping I could find someone to help me with this problem. Whenever I go to a webpage that has music in the background or some type of flash, a box pops up and asks to run activex. I click the OK button …

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Hi guys For diagnostic reasons I think it would be really useful to be able to somehow get a log showing each file accessed when running anything in XP. The TASK MANAGER seems to go a little way towards this but I don't want to get a defined output such …

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Oki this is a weird one... My Sony VAIO NS140's dvd was screwy so I told the computer to shut down and then proceeded to take it out to look at it...anyway, apparently it wasn't properly shut down and it didn't like that. After rebooting, Vista took me to a …

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Hello, I just formatted my computer and I have to start with Windows Me then upgrade to XP Home. As you see I have plenty of steps to do without putting back the programs on the computer. The last time I did this I made a s master dvd with …

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Hi all, I hope you are well. It's been a while since I posted anything on here but I now have a question. I am currently in shared accomodation, with shared internet access using a Netgear wireless router. One of my housemates has taken it upon themselves to configure the …

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I am using windows xp... I need to know what architecture (little or big) my machine is using...??? I have read that xp is always based on little Endian.. Is it true?? plz help..

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I have a problem with my tv capture wdm card when i saw it in device manager having an yellow exclamation mark on it. In properties the details shown are: [B]Under general tab:[/B] Device status:"This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. …

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I am tasked with monitoring a comptuer lab of 30 computers, and at what seems to be random times, anywhere from 1-20 of the computers will lose their internet connections. People using the computers cannot access the internet or send any print jobs to the central printer. Sometimes this happens …

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I did a reinstall of win xp media after backing up files with Ghost. Now all the user accounts and data are listed in explorer. Can someone please tell me how to make user profiles for these existing accounts? I would like them to appear on the logon screen. Thanks!

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I've been using a My Book 500GB hard drive as a slave drive for a while now but today it suddenly wasn't appearing. For a while it would appear on My Computer every few minutes then quickly disappear after it went through the files for a few seconds so I …

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I just got internet on my windows xp and I'm trying to share a connection to my brothers computer and his computer is a windows 2000. We had interent on his comp for a little bit, but now we are not able to get it connect. I was hoping if …

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Hi - I installed windows XP onto a scsi drive via a pci hdd host bus adapter card but bios , while detecting the adapter controller, would not detect the drive as a bootable option. My guess is this card is a oem with boot option disabled (I have read …

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I've currently got a wired router (which has no wireless capabilities) and a IBM r51e laptop which also doesn't support wire less.. Are there any adapters I can buy so that I can start a wireless network at home without buying a new router and/or laptop?

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Hey, just reinstalled XP and was wondering what security and other programs are worth downloading any suggestions?

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Hello. I am wanting to share a printer between to laptops. The are both vista and we have wireless router that we use. The printer is hooked up to his computer and i am sick of always waiting for him to get off the computer so i can print or …

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ok, so i downloaded a bunch of smut with limewire, and now I can't delete it. please help. after reading other forums, i have tried: deleting in safe mode deleting in dos deleting in dos in safe mode deleting with the following software: dellater.exe eraser v5.7 killbox moveonboot all to …

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My IDE hard disk capacity is 160 GB.When i tried to make partition using XP PROFESSIONAL CD it shows to me 130 GB total but when i tried using Windows 2003 SERVER it was 180 GB. So i made NTFS partitions using 2003 CD like this C:20 GB D:20 GB …

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Please see all the details from hijackthis: Your assistance is very much appreciated: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 14:59:24, on 19/05/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16762) 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\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Symantec\Symantec …

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Unable to uninstall Internet Explorer (8) Windows XP PRO SP3 I am unable to uninstall IE8 and go back to IE7. In control panel>Add\Remove programs Ticked Show updates> I cannot see IE8 > Instead I see IE7 (Windows internet explorer 7). NOTE: Within Internet explorer (in help>about> show IE8 version …

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I have a Dell laptop (which are apparently notorious for this problem) and recently the mouse has had a mind of its own and has started moving by itself. Occasionally it will drift to the bottom or top corner of the screen and stay there and its really hard to …

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Alright, so admittedly I don't know much. But, my mother's computer has been having an issue shutting down. She's running Vista Home Basic, Intel Dual Core processor (It's a pentium dual core... I can't remember any other details other than that), 2gb's ram. Anyway, the problem is that when she …

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i cant install my network card its give an error [B][COLOR="Red"]"the system cannot find file specified"[/COLOR][/B] plz help me on this this is very argent

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Hi, I have a Packard Bell Easynote W3 Series Laptop and need to upgrade my graphics card or replace my system (which I dont really want to do). Is this possible? The card in it at the minute is an ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Thanks in advance.

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It does go to BIOS SetUp and runs cd-rom when I insert operating system installation cd. The problem is: when i start the laptop, there's very strange noice going around the hard disk and it shows the following error in red "Hard drive not installed... If operating system not found... …

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Hi all, I have a friend who is having troubles with her computer. She has told me that it keeps shutting down for no reason and only started doing this recently everytime she opened MSN. She has done a registery clean, virus scan and defrag and the problem still persists. …

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Hi all, I have a problem and am hoping someone has some idea how to fix it. Earlier, I connected my SONY VAIO PCG-K25 laptop running XP Home to my monitor using a Trendnet two-port KVM. Now that it's disconnected, it acts as though the fn (function button) is being …

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