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A couple of weeks ago I reported that my PC shuts down. It is still happening, but now to my other PC as well. I appears to mainly happen when, when you go to a secure site - internet banking, ebay, paypal etc. The moment you start typing in account …

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my background tab is gone and stuck with a blue screen with a warning on it from some spyware or something my brother did. I cleaned with adaware and spybot S&D, ran AVG there were no viruses, but a ton of adaware. checked hijack this all was ok. I had …

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4 years ago i bought a dvd copy plus from 321studios, i havent used it, i am trying to install it now and it teels me i have used up all my lisc installation amts. i know the company is out of bussiness, any ideas?

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I've searched for this tool you're talking about and i think it is a good one. I saw that it records way to many internet radio stations and also it can download MP3..... Cool, maybe I'll buy it.

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hello i'm new here, i have a dell dimension 3000 here, it belongs 2 my aunt, during a bad lightning storm, she turned her pc off by the power button, the next morn, she tried 2 power it up, but no power.. The light on the board is lit but …

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Hi, I get the following error when I type make in the command line of windows: 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. How do I do this in windows? Thanks

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I began having this proble recently. When I start my computer, I get the welcome screen. When I shift to the desktop, only the background is there. There is no desktop icons, no windows menu... NOTHING. The thing is I cant link this to anything because I reinstalled windows and …

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my computer keeps restarting by itself when I open any internet browsers, I run avast to check at start up and it came up with nothing, ccleaner, regcure and tuneup utilities, and checkdisk at startup, here is the log file from hijackthis, please help, thank you in advance. Logfile of …

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Hello all well I'm writing cause I have a rather pricey problem. I own a TOSHIBA Satellite P105-S9722 It began with a slew of problems, initially it began shutting down at random times, running for hours, or just minutes. Also included with crazy messages on the blue screen of death, …

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I recently bought another video card hoping to squeeze a couple more years our of PC gaming but have since had a major system malfunctions. My current situation is that the computer does not seem to post (nothing on the monitor). I checked the video card and also the previous …

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i have a Dell Computer Corp. 0F5949 A01 motherboard with 512mb of ram. i want to upgrade that but being a teenager my funds are quite limited. i dont know if the mhz have to be the same but mine has 400 and i have no clue if it has …

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I have a Compaq Presario 501NR that I bought from Best Buy in March of 2007. We went on a trip to New Orleans a couple of days ago and when I went to plugged it in at the Hilton, it would not power on. The battery has been bad, …

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I just bought a new machine to make into a media center but when I connect the cd drive to the power and the IDE cable ( When connected just to the power it is fine ) it wont work it wont get powered. The drive is a Phillips CD-RW/DVD-ROM …

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Hello There, I have a server running Windows Server 2003 Enteprise Edition and I need some help on how to deploy windows xp sp3 I have no knowledge of deployment of software and im only 15, im doing this for a project :) Cheers

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I really hope someone can help me please! For the past 3 days Firefox has crashed every 15 minutes. I've noticed similar problems - Server not found - etc, but the difference is I have to restart my computer everytime it happens. Refreshing doesn't work. Closing Firefox down doesn't help. …

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I upgraded my wife's Dell laptop from XP Home Edition to XP Professional. The computer works except for the web browser. Now, the Google home page won't completely load up. Also, when she tries various websites, she gets the message "Can't Find Application". Any ideas about what might be going …

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Hey everybody. So I ordered all new parts for a brand new PC recently. Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3P 2GB DDR2 RAM Seagate 500GB HDD Atrix Gaming Case GeForce 8800 GT Sonic Here is my problem... I hooked up my mobo, PSU, CPU, heatsink and GFX card. The …

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i dont know what happened to it. games that worked fine couple of days ago is now making my computer crash to a black screen and locks up. ive downloaded all the updates for windows and my graphics card (ati radeon x700 pro), i even called the ati costumer support …

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I have a question to everyone and sort of asking for an opinion... Which is better...Intel CPU's or AMD CPU's??? I personally work with AMD CPU because i think they are better, and faster... I have heard from people (from another country outside USA) that AMD are used in game …

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Hi all, i just got this 256mb flash disk but have a problem! when i insert it it doesnt show up in my computer, however when i type "F:\" into the explorer window it shows the relevant files! one time it automatically scandisked before windows booted, and started to work …

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Ok after i got rid of this other malware/virus. I see this other person having the same problem [url]http://ask.metafilter.com/81308/Why-does-my-desktop-keep-crashing[/url] . It starts at boot time but usually when i open up ie explorer, opera it seems to close. If i go to CTRL+ALT+DEL menu to processes explorer.exe is still there. …

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Hi House, am quite new in here, my hp desktp pc failed to boot from bios setup, the power light is on and the cooling fan turns as well as the board feeling warm. pls help. thnx

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Sony VAIO PCV-RZ54G Pentium 4 Processor Motherboard ASUSTek P4SD-VL Installed Memory: 1.5 GB (2x256 and 2x512) DDR PC3200 Maximum: 2GB DDR PC3200 I recently bought a 1 GB kit of memory that was supposed to be compatible with the Sony PCV-RZ54G. When I opened my computer, I had two 256 …

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Hi: I have a Mac Powerbook G3 (Wallstreet) with 18GB HDD and 288 MB RAM. I use AT&T DSL on my Win XP desktop. I'm heading north and would like to take my laptop to check in on the web and check my email etc. I'll be staying in motels …

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Which is the better type of graphix card right now, in your opinion? Would you take the 280 or 4850? Which brand is best for overclocking?

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Hi All, Firstly, I am not too sure if I am posting this problem in the correct forum, if so, please let me know... My sister has a Toshiba Satellite A135-S2386, it's a little over 1 year old, and her USB ports have suddenly stopped working...when she got it from …

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Hello, I'm new here. After days of searching the web, I have found nothing that specifically tells me how to completely wipe the memory of my laptop. I have a Toshiba Satellite 2805-s202 with windows ME. I do not have any recovery CDs nor do I have the oem disk, …

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can anyone help me identify a few of the usual culprits worth removing from my task manager list because i think they're really slowing my computer down. I'm running windows XP thanks in advance hetixo

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Overclocked or Over Voltage Failure! Hi! The problem I will explain here is really causing me a headache, Big Time. i bought my computer about 18 months ago from mesh computers uk, been working great but started getting very slow n lagging, mainly because its used 24/7 by myself, wife …

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Hello Guys and gals: Need some help. I Just lost my left speaker . I using windows xp pro. Also no left speaker with my head set either. Nothing wrong with any settings. I am using Via audio Deck and SRS Labs Audio Sand Box. It work fine earlier. I …

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I've been working on my sisters computer for about 2 days now. It was overridden with viruses (she had no real protection) and I got most of them off. The worst was one that made an icon at the bottom of the screen near the clock of an exclamation point …

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Hey all, aight well this is a first for me and just to let everyone know i'm not computer savye at all. I know enough to run my computer and that's pretty much it so if you reply make sure to dumb it down for me thanks. So here's the …

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my comp was very badly infected a couple of weeks ago i am now just checking to see if i am still all in the clear and my comp is infection free. here is a copy of my hijack This log Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at …

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Hey, I was using my computer, and it was working nicely and normally when it freezed for no apparent reason. I had one program running at the time...the mouse was working alright, all its functions were still there; same with the keyboard; except the mouse was invisible. The pointer was …

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5 minutes after I start the computer I see the taskbar changes to old windows 98 style (from xp) minimize to one line (from the usual two lines I have it at), then back to windows xp style. After this happens my audio is messed up and i have to …

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Well guys, long story short. Very old laptop, Toshiba Satellite 2400 with intel pentium4 with XP Pro. About 4 years ago i gave it to my brother when it was working just fine apart frpm the CD/DVD drive which had given up but i gave it to him as he …

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aint getting anything from post intel pentium 4 cpu 3.2 ghz 1 gig stick just added it was able to before but now it wont could it be the thermal grease that i put on to the cpu could i have not put enuf ??? should i put the 256 …

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I want to delete the backup folder on my C drive. It was created when I reset my computer and fixed a virus issue. When I go to delete it, it pops up with things like "if you delete bootstat, your pc will not work right or it will crash, …

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Hi, I'm running Fedora core 8 on my XP machine using VMWare. Now I have a DVD which I must run on the linux window. When I insert the CD, the only CD recognized by linux is the iso file which is used in the installation of linux. The CD …

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Web pages will not open all the time can not download flashplayer keep getting message java script is not enabled it is any who can help.

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How do you ping the default Gateway, and why do you want to do that? Any help appreciated. Thanks, BuddyB

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Please forgive me if this question is too elementary for this forum. I have set up a small 2 machine home network, using Windows XP on both computers. The network is set up by connecting both computers to an ADSL router, and then going through the Windows XP new network …

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Basically this is what happened. My wireless connection was having troubles, I clicked repair connection and the process hung at disabling network adaptor. I was kind of annoyed and so I tried finding the right process to shut down in the task manager so that I could manually disable the …

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I just installed Red Hat 9.0. I'm a Linux newb. I cannot figure out how to install my Netgear wireless router. Any tips on what I need to do in order to get this accomplished?

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I know this is gonna' be a simple one for someone. I have XP, and every time I reboot I have a "New Hardware Found" window popping up. How do I prevent this? I believe this is a hangover from a USB device set-up that I took out of the …

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My USB and COM ports stopped working recently, reformatting-reinstalling didn't help.. After sometime i installed linux.. Instead of repairs, i was advised to buy an internal PCI USB card.. but all the packages available say "Windows 98/2000/ME/XP".. Although the shopkeeper says it'll be functional on linux, i don't really wanna …

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Okay, aside from the snide topic, I'm sitting here working on a computer that has been shown some SmitFraud, SpyAxe, and Vundo love, and I noticed a startup item in msconfig called buritos.exe. Imagine my curiosity. Turns out, googling buritos.exe turns up NOTHING. I know, I'm shocked and amazed, but …

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Well I've looked almost everywhere and I have noticed a few posts with these same mistakes but none of their fixes seem to be working. So far I have system restored twice and both times it worked for approximately 10mins before reverting back to zero. I have ran my AVG …

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Hi there I am new to all this and hope that someone out there can help me PLEASE!. I have been using a 1GB flash drive for about 3 months with no problems at all. Suddenly two days ago my computer does not even display that the flash drive is …

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