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i really need help very badly,my acer laptop has startup or boot problems.i cant access,log on windows.before putting in the shop for repair i wish i could save my files to a cd,dvd disc or usb.could there be any chance that i could used the command prompt to copy the …

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I ran the vista Memory Diagnostic Tool on my PC and while it was running the computer shut off. Now it will not start again. The fans and lights start and run for a second or two, then it shuts down for a few seconds and then it attempts to …

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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 13:23:48, on 09.01.2009 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.20935) 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\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\ekrn.exe C:\Program Files\Spyware Terminator\sp_rsser.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\igfxtray.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\hkcmd.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\GrooveMonitor.exe C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET …

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Hi. I have software with the name "Locked Programs" that appears under "Currently Installed Programs:" in "Add or Remove Programs" in the Control Panel. It does offer the change/remove option. (But no "Click here for support information" is offered) My sys. is Win XP. Have Googled "Locked Programs" to no …

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Okay before we begin, I shall start off by posting my PC's specs along with the situation that hapenned before the problem. Specs: XPS 410. Roughly two years old. 3 GB DDR2 Ram. ( x2 512 Kingston, 2gb Patriot) nVidia 7200 LE GFX Dell Motherboard 2mb cache. Vista Home Premium …

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HP, Compaq, eMachines, Gateway, ViewSonic, Alienware, Best Buy, MicroCenter, Dixon, ZT Group, Seneca Data, Tatung and many more are part of the SoftThinks family of OEMs. SoftThinks manufactures the program "P. C. Angel" installed on my computer. This is a one time run option to burn recovery disks to CD's …

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hi! there everyone, im not really quite familiar in threadposting.since its my first time,ill try to post every detail i can, to find out any solution and gain any help from anyone who`s generous & considerably enough to help.and my problem goes like this; i bought an acer aspire 5710 …

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I need some help-I dont know what to do! I'm trying to remove the spyware program "Spyware Guard 2008", and I've been reading on the internet about it for a couple of hours. The problem is, the virus? won't let me run the MBAM program. I have downloaded the exe …

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Hello, I think my PC might be infected with something again. ...moving real slow....here's my HJT log. BTW, I finally switched to Firefox....so hopefully I won't be asking for help as much on these nasties...thanks for the help in advance.....JD Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 19:17, …

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Hi, I came home yesterday to my computer doing weird things, including opening up windows explorer and lots of tabs on Mozilla. I realized it was a virus and did a virus check. I run Windows XP SP2. I went to safe mode. I use AVG for anti-virus, it found …

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my computer is doing some weird thing were ill turn it on it will start up and get to the screen with the windows xp logo then a few seconds later it restarts and brings me to the screen telling me windows did not start up correct last time would …

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Folks, For a few weeks, my computer (XP Home Edition) tried and failed every day to download/install updates upon shut down. So I decided to download the updates myself by visiting Microsoft Updates. Upon doing so, I got a response telling me that I need IE 5 or later to …

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I am trying to work on my cousin's computer remotely. It is running Microsoft Windows XP-Home Edition-Service Pack 3 Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor 3400+, 2.21GHz, 384mb RAM My cousin says that her PC is running very slow all of the sudden, I noticed when I was working on it …

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Ive just bought call of duty world at war for my new pc but when trying to play it everything is in slow motion. My graphic card is nvidia geforce 8200. Can anyone help me . My os is vista

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I believe I might have a hijack on my web browser here's my Hijack This log Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 9:56:05 PM, on 1/6/2009 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 …

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Hello, I recently purchased a new graphics card and have now decided to upgrade my computer's memory as well. My PC is a Gateway FX530XM with motherboard model OEMD975XBGG1. With the help of a computer scan by Crucial, I was able to determine that my current memory is DDR PC2-5300. …

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hi im a beginner at hardware in PC's and i started to think about building a gameing PC but i dont know much about motherboards, i was wondering if i could have some information about them. I'm thinking of spending £600 - £700. At the moment im looking at AMD …

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Hey, Currently my computer has one 40GB hard drive in it, and my friend has an old computer that he never uses with an 80GB hard drive. Is it possible just to take that hard drive and plug it into one of the connectors in my computer? Thanks!

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Hello all, I've been using Firefox for over a year now I think, ages anyway, and ever since I've never really been able to view motion-media on it (i.e. videos on YouTube, adverts and banners, websites with a flash intro, etc). So if I go to YT for instance, I …

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Please Help Me. Yesterday my Norton Personal Firewall gave me an alert saying "avgcmgr.exe" is trying to do something. I allowed it thinking it is a process of my AVG Antivirus. Right after that my Spybot Search and Destroy gave me an alert saying AVG....... (cannot remember the full name) …

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Hello all, Thanks to anyone who can help me in any capacity. I recently bought and attempted to install a RAM card (1 GB DDR 180 pin) that was incompatible for my computer. Apparently the card I bought worked at 400 MHZ but my computer can only run 266 MHZ …

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i recently hooked my old comp (dell dimension L1000R) back up and when i go to start it seems like it is going to boot but stops at a black screen with a blinking - in the upper left corner....no clue even where to begin. i do have an emergency …

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Sometimes my pictures will not come up, I get the rectangle block with the RED X What is this, how do I fix it?

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Hello, I have recently been getting the Blue Screen of Death Stop Error. I believe that I have narrowed it down to SCSI/RAID driver. This error occurs at random times, but mostly while playing GTA IV. I have tried pressing spacebar during the blue sceen but nothing happened. I have …

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I've been messing around with the bios on this piece for the last hour and can't seem to find the clocking set. Does anyone know if acer's can be overclocked? Because I know for a fact this processor can handle up to 3.2 ghz, and it's stock speed is 2.6. …

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hey pipo i really want to know how i can scan for open ports on a remote computer running windows platforms preferrebly xp. thanks in advance

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When you right-click in Windows Explorer and scroll down to the New option you will see some options to create new files. I want to know if anyone knows how to edit this menu. I know how to edit the Send To menu, but I have no idea how to …

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Hi I need to upgrade my PC's RAM. The motherboard is the MSI K8N Diamond - SLi [url]http://www.trustedreviews.com/motherboards/review/2005/02/10/MSI-K8N-Diamond-SLi-Motherboard/p1[/url] Could you please tell me if it supports the Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x2GB)? [url]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-148-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=817&name=Corsair%204GB%20DDR2%20XMS2%20Dominator%20PC2-8500C5%20TwinX%20(2x2GB)%20Supplied%20with%20Airflow%20Fan%20(TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF[/url]) If not, what is the fastest/latest type of memory that I can use? Many …

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Hi everybody, I am Sophar a new member. I wish to seek you help from whom who can solve the XP error message: "Abnormal program termination: Stack fault CS:EIP = 000Fh:00001373h". I found while running the old DOS exe file. According to WIndows, this caused by the XP security patch. …

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Hi everyone, and Happy New Year. I've been having a problem with my HP Pavilion a450y that I bought off the HP website about 4 years ago, and I hope that you'll be able to give me a hand with this! I performed a system restore a few days ago …

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System stopped working ~4 monthes ago-- wouldnt boot, after power on it goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor at the top left corner of the screen. Fan on/power on. 1st time: Recovered with recovery DVD, started from scratch. Seemed back to normal. About a week later the …

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I think I've half fixed a virus/trojan. I got spyguard on my system which kept reinstalling itself, windows explorer -> tools didn't give folder options, got pop-ups and slow-down I found a file called csrssc.exe whcih I think was the main culprit, got rid of it using OTmoveIT, also ran …

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Something very strange has started happening to my PC recently. For some unknown reason at completely random times, for example when clicking a hyperlink or when changing window, the computer just turns off. Then the front power button won't turn it back on again. You can hear the computer still …

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We have an Acer 3860 laptop and can't remember the recovery password. I found this info and am not sure how to implement it. Can anyone help??? TIA Acer e-recovery passwords Acer has a nice built in backup/recovery tool. Only drawback: you need to define a password when making your …

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I've had this problem in the past with this HP Pavilion 7915 w/win XP and I would restart it and be fine. I decided to move the computer to another room now it just stays stuck on the HP start-up screen on boot-up. I've tried ubuntu 6.06 LTS to see …

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Hi, Finally it seams that vista 64 ultimate are unable to reboot, restore, run in safemode or repair. So probably I have to reinstall Vista. The symptoms that lead to that vista couldn't reboot was that it freezed. It has freezed 2 times. Each time I enable the total black …

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As most of you know Vista is crap and so on i have kept XP but when i turn my PC on somtimes it clicks out now most of you will know that XP does that somtimes on startup but just 10 minutes ago it clicked out 7 times and …

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Hello. I am new here and have been doing some reading. I downloaded and ran hijackthis and I have the log file. I can't find anything that really helps me figure out what shouldn't be in here. I've never used hijackthis before and hope I did it right. Anyway, whatever …

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Basically, I was browsing the internet, and next thing I know this Virus Remover 2008 thing pops up and starts saying I have a virus, I ctrl +alt + delete it, and the computer seems fine. I try to uninstall it and next thing I know the blue screen pops …

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I have a problem. I downloaded a program called OSL 2000, which is a boot manager, so that I could easily boot from my Ubuntu CD. I didn't know this at the time, but if my computer detects that there is a CD in the drive that is bootable, it …

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I have found some recent problems with my computer: 1. Microsoft update redirects to MSN.com 2. I cannot download the microsoft malware removal tool -- I get a "page cannot be displayed" error. 3. AdAware cannot update -- it says there is no internet connection -- while I am actually …

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Hello, I'm new to this board as well as new to this subject, so I've run into some problems. I'm trying to use wget to copy a webpage as described in this thread: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread159351.html[/url]. I made a .bat file with the following contents: [B]echo --------------- >>printer.txt wget [url]www.google.com[/url] >>printer.txt date …

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Hi there, :) I have one question related to IE. I want to have IE opened open only a blank page at the first start rather than start up with this below default link: [QUOTE][url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=76277[/url][/QUOTE] Where to set this setting. I'm not sure because I go to Internet Setting, then …

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Hi i hope you could help me with this humongous problem i'm having. It started after i downloaded some application. my antivrus (mcafee 9.0) shutdown and through a process viewer i could see it kept trying to get back on(since it was using up all of CPU) but it couldn't. …

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I just built my first computer, with some help from everyone on the hardware forums. Now, I'm trying to install some derivation of Linux. I tried installing Debian with the net-install, but everyone I try to it tells me my CD is corrupted. After trying 3 different Debian cd's, i …

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Hi all, I have a DELL Poweredge 2800 with a Raid 5 configrutaion of 3 hard drives capacity 73GB 10k Ultra 320 SCSI. Two of the hard discs started blinking 4 times per second which clearly states the hardware failure in dell systems. So 2 out of 3 HDs stopped …

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Hi I am new here but this seemed like a helpful site so hopefully you will be able to help me. I was told by someone that I could use headphones in order to talk to people on messenger so I did that and no one i was talking to …

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Here's the situation: I need to recover some files from a broken hard drive The hard drive is connected to my PC via IDE apaptor I cannot access the files I need because I don't have permission I can change the security settings of the folder in Safe Mode But …

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[I]Hellooo! I've been waiting for a chance to post a thread here, I usually have no issues fixing whatever virus may come up by simply reading these forums...but this time I feel like I've tried everything! The explorer.exe resets repeatedly before just not coming back, I can still start new …

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Hello everyone, This is a follow up post to my original one: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post768560.html#post768560[/url] I followed the latest suggestion and here are the logs from both malwarebytes and hijackthis. Please advise. Thank you in advance.

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