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I work in the IT department. I have been given the task of compiling a list of all the Access databases we have on our server and creating an Excel spreadsheet (using MS office 2007) with certain data such as name of database, access date, owner etc. My problem is …

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Hello all. I am running Windows XP SP2. I got a new Seagate HDD 160GB and was doing a fresh install of XP. Everything was going well during formatting the new hard drive but at around 6% my power went out!!! Now I tried to do the fresh XP install …

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I recently accidentally broke my motherboard and now need to work out which motherboards I can get that are compatible with all the other hardware I have... Specs: Pentium 4 3.06ghz/1M/533/04a DDR2 RAM Thats all I know that it requires. Any help would be much appreciated thanks.

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Ok, so my PC has stopped booting 9 out of 10 times. When it does boot though it runs rock solid every time without issue. If I power completely off, chances are I won't be able to boot the PC, but if I hibernate, I can wake the PC back …

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Hello, never done this before so please be patient with me. I am looking for help with my mothers computer. It is a HP pavillion a1620n. It came loaded with "Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002 service pack 3. Intel Pentium D CPU 3.00GHz 3.00GHz, 0.99GB of RAM". It has …

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My computer recently came down with a plethora of problems and I can only assume that it is a trojan of some sort. I'm not very computer savvy, so I did a lot of Googling before identify one of the problems, which was Virtumonde. I tried running spybot and deleted …

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Hi everyone, Im new to this and im lookin for a bit of help or a shove in the right direction. Im looking for ideas for a final year systems & networking project. I am really stuck on this :?: and i really would appreciate any suggestions you may have..... …

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Here is my situation, every time I open Office word 2007 and work on it, in a matter of few seconds a get an error and it says ¨office word had stop working and needs to close¨ and then shuts down. same thing happens with excel 2007. I have a …

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Recently got a case of flash_updater.exe on my pc and seems that its the facebook virus. I can no longer user internet explorer, but can still access pcs on the network and download emails etc... Can no longer find any traces of said virus on the PC, downloaded malwarebytes anti-malware …

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Ive problems with viruses, namely: brontok.q and virut. After ive removed them from my system, i know they must have changed or modyfied my system registry. is there anyway i can repair the registry?? Can someone recommend some tools that i can get from the net to fix this problem? …

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This keeps loading in my IE6, It all started with a download of my identity defender to remove the Antivirus bug. After promting me for money I unistalled the software. I have contacted their tech support twice by phone and got no where. No one seems to be able to …

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I am running XP Home SP3 fully patched. I have some old software originally written for Window 3.1 that has continued to work quite happliy until now. I know it worked on 18 September as that is when the last usage of it was. Since then I have applied all …

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I have been advised that relying on daily incremental backups ( I use SuperDuper) are dangerous because any corruption could set me back to the last full backup, whereas a full backup (daily) means I can never be more than a day wrong. I would appreciate the panel's views, or …

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Hello.. I'm staring into my Vista 250gig Gateway GT5404..... comp was working till I turned it off one day....When i turn it on now i have No signal to monitor and the tower beeps 3x's...And the fan seems to be cranking a bit louder and wont settle down. I guessed …

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okay so i have been having all these crazy pop ups, from IE (not my main browser, i use firefox) but Firefox as well. Every time i click, or open the browser i get all these search, hornymatches, etc. pop ups. I downloaded SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition and it says it …

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Recently I tried to open my PC with Windows XP Home Edition and I got the above message saying it was corrupted. I tried to reinstall the OS and it would not work. I have stuff on there I do not want to lose so reformatting is out, for now. …

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After allowing a friend to use my computer, I came back to find it with antivirus pro 2009 on it. Woohoo! After finding fixes for it, they all seem to point to using Malwarebyte's anti-malware, but upon launching the installer, nothing happens, the "Loading" cursor pops up for a while …

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I'm using a asus p5gc-mx/1333 motherboard, and ive attempted to install the Realtek AC driver that i got from the packed driver, to no effect, ive tried to install it 3 times and I still don't have sound, ive already tried to download from asus site but still not working.. …

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Hiyas Warning.. not a strong tech background here. LOL So, I have been running here with 2 video cards, both are nVidia GeForce 7950 GT. I have it set up with dual monitors.. BUT with one card handling each monitor. I have loved this setup vs having one card power …

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my browser is running so slow it takes 10 to 12 seconds to open up the page. so i think i have some virus,spywear or malware issue... can some some one please take a look at this log below .... Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 1:16:55 …

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First, my specs: ASUS PQ5 Pro Q6600 2GB Corsair XMS2 Windows XP SP3 Wifi: TP-LINK TL-WN620G latest drivers. Router: Linksys WRT300N My PC keeps hard freezing/crashing when using torrenting programmes and connected via my USB wifi dongle. It will only crash when torrenting programmes are running but it does not …

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Im starting to collect a rather large photo collect. Especially since I started taking pictures in RAW. Well I decided I should look into an online backup service or sorts. Dont want to lose all those memories. So what services does everyone use? I want something that offers some sort …

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I got XP Pro SP1 and my wireless connection is slow. How can I increase the speed? It's weird but on ubuntu, my wireless connection is fast. Anyway, how do I increase my wireless connection speed? I got the latest drivers installed, by the way. .

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Want to try raid on my system, got two 80Gb 7200rpm drives waiting. The aim is to stripe Vista across them mainly to see how it works. My mb doesn't have RAID built in so will need a card, I've got a PCIe free and a bunch of PCI, question …

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Hi guys! So I'm looking into upgrading my RAM from 1GB to 2GB of RAM. I went to the crucial.com and scanned my system using their scanner. When that came back with a message saying they couldn't recognise my system properly to give me a good advise, I sent one …

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Hi Everyone, My name is Phil. I am currently taking a networking class for my computer system managment degree. In our class we are supposed to go and find forums in the IT catagory so that is why I am here. I am supposed to ask a question to the …

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Hi, I Flashed my BIOS for my ASUS P5E motherboard from the initial BIOS to the 0607 update. After a successfull Flash and rebooting, the second time I rebooted, the computer would not POST. Reseting the CMOS (removing and re-inserting the battery) works, and the computer posts, BIOS loads (asks …

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When starting up I'm getting a blue screen which says Stop: c0000021a (Fatal system error) The windows Logon Process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0x0000005...the system has shut down. What's up and how do I fix?

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We have a Windows 2003 fileserver (demoted from a DC a few months ago). Anyway after we rebooted following an update a couple weeks ago is where the problems first started. The IPsec service would not start and therefore would now allow any TCP/IP traffic. We don't need that service …

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I have conected hard drive from my broken notebook to my new pc. Just want to transfere some folders. Problem : I can not open or copy any folder to my new pc, new hard drive. Folders are locked because i was computers administrator. Please help me somehow

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Since Monday, my PC hangs for like two minutes on the RAID Configuration screen when I turn my PC on for the first time on a day (after being off for many hours). If I reboot, it takes the normal two seconds. I use a RAID 0 setup with two …

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I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 x64, and I'm currently using the latest display drivers for my nVidia 8800GTX. Playing games is now impossible. Every game I play causes my monitor to switch itself off for a few seconds, and when it powers back on the game will either continue …

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The instruction at Ox7c91b1fa referenced memory at 0x00000010. The memory could not be written.? This happens as Windows XP is booting up and then I click ok and it removes the screen but not the problem. Happens everytime.

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Hi there, From all my searching, this appears to be a common issue. That said, I haven't found a solution that works thus far. [U]Background:[/U] I have two computers (PC1 and PC2), both with Win XP Pro SP2 connected to each other and the internet via my Netgear DG834 ADSL …

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My computer has stopped starting from this week. I have made no changes to it at all. I have opened it up and cleaned out the dust since it was overheating. There have not been any symptoms until this week. My computer doesn't have a POST beep anymore. I replugged …

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Hi everyone, im not the best with the puter. ANyway i have mobile phone and wanted to transfer various pics from phone to pc and also ringtones from pc to mobile. I bought one online and it came with bluesoliel cd which i installed. All was well and i got …

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I'm a PC Repair Tech working for the second time on this Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop with this problem that never ends. I really hope someone has encountered this problem. I've tried several attempts to repair this problem with no success. So here it is. Help & Support pops up …

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Anybody please help, this IP address(168.254.2.237) always appear in our [B]INTERNAL DNS SERVER[/B] entry as name server. Even if i delete the IP after several minutes it will appear again, please help.

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i just bought a cmpaq presario yesterday (new) and i dont think it has a wireless card... i connected it with an ethernet cable to the back of my cablemodem and it works fine.. is there any kind of software i can download while im connected to the internet which …

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Hello Hope someone can help - I'm new here and having some difficulties with my home network. I have two PCs and want to link them, so both can access an external hard-drive to share music files etc. Machine 1 - Dell Desktop PC, running Windows XP Home Ver 2002 …

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Does anyone know when and if hp will update drivers for hp psc 2210 all in one printer so that i can scan using windows vista home premium.

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hi all i want to connect two computer on myhome. i have cable and a switch ..no server... please write step to achive target.i don't know much about networing......

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Hello Could anyone tell me the difference between a /8 and /16 on a rambus rimm? E.g. 256MB/8 and 256MB/16. We are thiking of buying some for an old Dell Xeon I think it is a Precision 530. The RAM previously in it was Samsung 256MB/8. Will the /16 work? …

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Hey guys, Any ideas how to share a scanner on network just like sharing a printer? I'm using XP. Any suggestions is greatly appreciated. Thanks.. cguan_77

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Hi there, This is my first post and I have already found this post extremely helpful. It's made a tough situation a lot easier. I bought a brand new PC last week and was online last night. Everything was going fantastically. The PC was running slickly and I was being …

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Uh, I'm make a big mistake lol. I've ordered 512mb of DDR Ram when my system only takes SDRAM. the RAM I have atm is 144-pin whereas the RAM i've ordered is 200pin. The question I'm asking is, will this RAM run at all in my system? Thanks in advance, …

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Hey, I ran the SDFix, and restarted and everything was working well. Then I updated my Norton Virus Software and more importantly upgraded to Windows XP Service Pack 3. After completing the install of Win XP SP3, I had to restart my comp. When it was booted up the virus …

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Hi All Got a really wierd issue here. In both Excel 2003 and Word 2003, when you type the word October, and it is only October, when you press the tab or enter button or click the next cell, whatever it always drops it to lower case when you have …

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I am connected to the internet and can use gmail chat and check my email but Im unable to surf. Windows diagnostic said it was probably to do with firewall settings and told me to check HTTP port(80), HTTPS port(443) and FTP port (21). I don't know what this means. …

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Hi, I hope I have posted this in the correct place, here goes.... I used to work as a designer for a web company (company A) who ceased to exist about a year or so ago. One of their old clients (company B) recently contacted me to say they were …

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