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Hello to the great folks at Daniweb !!!!!!!! I bought my first laptop, a IBM ThinkPad 600, with Windows 98 on it. Not much of one but I didn't need much for just surfing the net in the livingroom. I bought it used, $20.00 and had a dead cmos battery …

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Hi, I have just bought a new Mobo, and to my horror there is only 1 IDE slot. I have bought a Sata PCi card with a IDE slot on it.... I have a hard drive and 2 DVD RW, What is best, the hard drive on the PCi card …

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My wife's HP desktop runs with XP Home. Every now and then, the desktop freezes. Completely. She has to unplug the computer, then it boots and runs ok. The freezeup mostly happens when the desktop has been sitting idle for quite a while, but sometimes it occurs after only a …

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Hi! My PC does not boot but all fans are working(including video card), hard drive makes sound on start up, and so does optical drive. After turning on the PC the Hard drive LED lights up for quite some time. And I do not have to prolong pressing the power …

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Hey all! Again, it has been a while. Anyway... I just replaced the battery on my laptop, and I've been having issues with the volume control icon in the taskbar tray. Every time I start the computer, it's not there. If I go to "Sounds and Audio Devices" in the …

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Hi, There was a problem with my computer system, so i decided to remove the hard disk to be slaved in another system. After adding the hdd, I discovered that it won't go past the windows logo screen, the monitor will just turn black. I changed the ram, remove all …

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My sister has recently been receiving some errors concerning .net framework, so I ran windows update as a preliminary measure. It proceeded through steps one and two of the installation process and then asked to be restarted. After being restarted, it came back and said "Configuring updates: Stage 3 of …

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hi everyone , could any one tell me how to active a wirless network between two laptops , for gaming and internet, im using vista for both of them thanks

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I am confused between the two LCD Monitors AOC 2230Fa and ViewSonic X Series VX2262wm [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824160028[/url] [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824116392[/url] From the specs AOC has better viewing angle 160 compared to 150 and AOC has more colors 16.7M compared to 16.2M Viewsonic. Since CRT days Viewsonic always got good monitors. Now I am …

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I remember one of the most useful pieces of info anyone ever gave me regarding XP and my current build, they said buy the upgrade only, IF you still have your 98 disk. Because the entire OS, was on the XP update CD, and during installation if XP didn't find …

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I want to setup a network/server for sharing of files between my friends using internet. Me and my friends should be able to share our files over internet using this network. I don't want to use yahoo messenger's send file option. Also it should authenticate the user be he can …

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Hello everyone I had to reinstall winxp and changed the boot settings, but now i can't change it to boot from hard drive instead of CD rom, it will not let me change any settings at all. I have Dell Dimension 4500S and the Bios version is Dell Computer Corporation …

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I had to put a new Motherboard and CPU in a computer after the motherboard burned out. The current installation of XP will boot in safemode (only as far as cursor, no icons) and get past the splash screen before a quick BSOD and restart in standard mode. Big surprise, …

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hi foilks i have acquired a new AMDX64 500 with sli motherboard so i statred to load windows home edition and it prepares the initial installation drivers etc then just before the agreement page you know where you press f8 to accept term etc it goes into a blue screen. …

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Hello all and thanks in advance for any of your time! i have been denied my control panel and from my readings here it seems to be a common problem. here is the hijackthis log: (hope i did it right) Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:00:37 …

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#1 37 Minutes Ago | Add to mikeurce's Reputation | Flag Bad Post recently ran 'Comodo firewall' (anti virus,spyware,firewall program)- scanned system...a couple thngs popped up as posible problems.it askd wat i wantd to do. 4-5 options were listd n i musta hit an option other than remove b/c seemingly …

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Hello!:) Need your help. Recently some problem has appeared on my pc - there are many duplicates in it. Now i'm looking for some good duplicate file finder to delete these clones. Maybe you know app like this? I know just Clone Remover - in my opinion nice program but …

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I had XP Home on my system, which met with an untimely demise. I had a copy of XP Pro (not belonging to me), which I loaded to have a functional system, expecting to be able to get a (legal and brand new) copy of Home from a Microsoft employee …

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Hi I have TOSHIBA Satelite series Laptop with Me. when i bought it Vista OS is there. Now I want to install XP in it. Is it possible?

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alright i looked around for awhile and nothing helped me. my computer doesnt boot it turns on lights fans everything but it wont boot keyboard is haulted they flash on once and thats it nothing else works no screen or anything, its a navigator custom built i donno whats wrong …

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My computer died a couple of weeks ago , so I decided to rebuild it. Here’s what I used : Asus M2A-VM motherboard AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ cpu 2 gig A-Data DDR memory Here’s what I had from my old machine Maxtor 40 gig IDE hard drive WD 160 …

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hi. ive been trying to sign onto to a website but everytime i do i get the message : The system cannot find the file specified. today i had removed sum software and also ran a couple of cleaners etc so im wondering whether thats why. please please please help …

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I have two partitions in my hard disc. One is Primary DOS Partition and another is extended DOS-partition. And there are two logical dos drives inside the Extended DOS Partition. I want to delete the existing partitions and make new partitions, but when I am going to delete the Extended …

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ok, im running windows xp professional, since yesterday my internet explorer has been givin me hell. when i type in an address i want to go to another internet explorer window opens and it wont load the page i am trying to go to, when i exit the second internet …

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Hi, I have a several computers on my LAN. One of the computers is the file server. There are a shared folder that is currently shared on the network. There is no a proper permission set on that folder. This means anyone can access to it. What i'd like to …

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Hi everybody, I'm new to this. My name is Dusty, anyways I was helping a friend with burning pics to cd-r. It was successful and then when tried to view the pics, it showed up as a blank cd. It said, it got 271 mb out of 700 mb, but …

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My inspiron 630m has a problem. I works fine if the battery is removed from the system, but if the battery is connected, orange light (for battery charge)blinks and cannot be turned on(even with AC). The battery looks fine with 3 LEDs on when checked for charge. Can anyone please …

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All SQL Server databases, over time, experience "internal" fragmentation of its data. In SQL Server, there are several ways to defrag internal fragmentation. Unfortunately, internal fragmentation is only part of the fragmentation problem.

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I have a Dell Latitude D610 that I was working on for a friend. When I plug the adapter in the wall the led is on. When I plug into the computer the led on adapter goes off. I have no power to computer. What could be the problem? It's …

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Hello everyone, I am using Windows XP and I have about 40% free space. I just recently discovered that when I clicked the Itunes icon, nothing happens. When I click the Internet Explorer icon, a blank window pops up and it freezes or says that Internet Explorer has to close. …

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[B]Hello. I was wondering if someone could PLEASE help me figure out why my laptop keeps lagging / freezing. I dont usually have anything open except a couple of webpages (ebay & verizon email). Even IE freezes all the time (or lags ALOTTT). Alot of the times they permanently freeze …

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Here is the hijackthis log I have no idea what anything means??? Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 11:43:26 a.m., on 04/10/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16705) 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:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe …

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First I apologize if I'm in the wrong area. I'm new. I am running Vista Home Premium on a Dell XPS410. I have BitDefender Internet Security 2009. After running the program without problem or incident for some time, suddenly the scan results were telling me that some files were not …

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ive been having a slow pc latley and my internet hardly EVER works. i had megaclick toolbar and i finally destroyed that but everything is all slow now. it could be other things... please help THANKS. ive never posted one before so i hope i did it right. Logfile of …

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Help please! everytime i type a b or an n my laptop does this: b5 n6 any suggestions?

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i went to restart and all i got was a blue screen and a F1 at the botton and a F10 at the bottom and then i locked up and could do nothing.. i took out the hard drive and put it in a enclosure kit and tryed to get …

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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 9:41:55 AM, on 10/18/2008 Platform: Windows Vista (WinNT 6.00.1904) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16757) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe C:\Windows.old\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPHelper.exe C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe C:\Windows\system32\mmc.exe C:\Windows.old\Users\Anon\Downloads\WLinstaller.exe C:\Program Files\Windows Live\installer\Dashboard.exe C:\Windows\system32\wuauclt.exe C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe R1 - …

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[url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread72275.html[/url] I read that thread and found that I have the same problem. However, that appears to be help for a Desktop PC instead of a Notebook PC. My computer freezes randomly every 20 seconds to 10 minutes. It freezes for about 5 seconds to 10 minutes. I used to …

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Hi all, I have forget my admin password in window xp please help me to run the admin .

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Hi, I have Windows Vista Home edition. I reinstalled Windows some days back & took back up of my data. After reinstalling Windows when I try to Back up, its giving me the following Error ------------ RESTORE DID NOT COMPLETE SUCESSFULLY Restore did not finish successfully. Error Code: The backup …

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Okay, I know I probably can't stop it, but it seemed like a good title. I am a junior systems analyst and I monitor Cisco routers and switches. On one of my routers, a Cisco 7200 series running IOS 12.2(15)T17, I have been monitoring a Denial of Service attack for …

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Hi Guys My PC has recently refused to boot up to windows XP. It reads a message saying "Press CTRL + ALT + DELETE to restart", when I do this it loads up with exactly the same message and I end up going round in circles! Someone advised me to …

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my ram memory decreased from 512MB to 256MB when i changed my hard drive, what shall i do?

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Greetings to everyone here at Daniweb Forums! As you can see I'm new here, but sure I'll be getting plenty of help from all of the great members here! ;) Well, I should start my story way from the beginning. I started building a PC about a year ago (buying …

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I have a thread on windows vista forumcalled error loading and they told me to post thelog file rom hijack this Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\Windows\System32\mobsync.exe C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe C:\hp\support\hpsysdrv.exe C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\On-Screen OSD Indicator\OSD.exe C:\Windows\RtHDVCpl.exe C:\Program Files\HP\HP Software Update\hpwuSchd2.exe C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_07\bin\jusched.exe C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe C:\Program …

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Internet Explorer 8 will not work , when i press on it on desk top nothing happens, except hour glass for about 1 sec. So i tried deleting it in control panel well that doesnt work, when i get to near deleting it, it says the ieencode is needed so …

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Hi all my computer is infected with virtumonde. I ran spybot many times and it doesnt remove it!! ughhh i tried avg and also it doesnt. Its like its hidden and only spybot sees it but cannot remove it. I would really appreciate any help in removing it, im also …

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Hey all: I seem to have acquired a virus which does the following things: 1 - next to my clock is a notation that says VIRUS ALERT! 2 - a ballon with a red X pops up telling me that "Your compute ris infected" 3 - a window pops up …

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