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| | I have the Virus Alert! message in my toolbar and other random places around my computer, typically where there should be an AM or PM on a time. I am pretty sure I received it after downloading a media codec last night. Thanks for any help that you all can …  |
| | I've observed and read through numerous threads where users are having identical issues to what I am dealing with. The explorer.exe just continually restarts. I have run Avast, Kaspersky, AVG and a few other scans. AVG seemed to find quite a few things that looked malicious, but removing them did … |
 | [B] I have a Gateway 3310 with Windows XP home with 512 megs of RAM. It's still running a bit sluggish. And when I run certain programs that ran okay in my old computer that had a lot less RAM here the program occassionaly freezes, the computer was running at … |
 | It takes me roughly 4 to 5 hours, start to finish, to assemble a new PC and load the OS. I lost count of how many systems I've built over the years, but this one has me stumped, I've never seen anything like it!! I hope there's someone out there …  |
| | Windows vista home premium toshiba a205-s4577 1.75mHz, 2gb ram It started this morning after reseting my computer, first problem was that my internet didnt connect, when i placed my mouse over the tray icon it said" connection status unknown, the dependency service or group failed to start". Also i got … |
| | Hi all My cousin has got a PC which I have built for him 3 years ago, it was working fine until last night suddenly it switch itself Off and does not want to power on again. If I disconnect the hard disk the PC works fine without any problem … |
| | Hi all, I have recently installed a program called rapidown and was able to remove it using the add/remove programs built in to xp. However windows Explorer keeps crashing now at random times. I have tried a Spybot, Ad-aware and Windows defender scan but nothing shows up. Logfile of Trend … |
| | I may sound dumb, but I went to a website to try and speed up my computer, and I did what it said and I think a couple of important files are missing. when I open Windows Explorer for the first time when I log on, it opans fine until … |
| | Hi, I am a World of Warcraft player who, like many, saw the Blizzard notice about an Adobe Flash "vulnerability". Their notice explained this to be related to a keylogging issue. Having not taken care of it straight away, I apparently screwed myself over pretty big. Now I have much … |
| | I have a major issue with my old Dell Dimension XPS T500. The thing has always been a little cooky, but now it's gone off the charts. My brother recently moved out, so I decided to uninstall all of his old games and software to free up some space on … |
| | Hi every one. I am recently facing rb4.tmp and other rb file creating in the recycle bin. I delete these, but while PC boot then it appears in the recycle bi. I am using verizon Internet security suite, Operating system WindowsXP professional- SP2. I want to know whether it is … |
 | Hey guys! I have an old Win 2k machine here that I want to use as my bench machine more or less dedicated to scanning peoples' computers for malware and viruses. Its used, though, and being disposed of by a client of mine- so now its mine. I've cleaned it … |
 | Hi all. I have been doing some registry tweaks lately to improve performance. Everything went great for a couple of days and now xp wont let me login. It boots normally and everything appears to be fine but when I click on the profile to login, nothing happens. Last Known … |
| | I have a network configured as follows ... - Incoming DSL Internet connection via modem - Modem wired to a Linksys router - Router(1) wired to a DLink switch - a second Linksys (wireless) router(2) wired to the same Dlink switch. The prob ... Router(1) is not recognizing the Router(2) … |
| | Last night I downloaded a skin for my Windows XP to look like it was running Vista. It worked perfectly fine last night. I restarted it today to find that the skin no longer was working, so I tried reinstalling it. It requested that it needed to replace a file … |
| | Anyone know where I can get a copy of Windows XP? |
 | how can i uninstall ubuntu from my Dell-vostro laptop? can anyone tell me the procedures? i've ubuntu installation cd.. but that doesnt has uninstall file.. how can i fix this problem? reply soon plssssssssssssssss.. |
| | I build a home network with a desktop running on xp x64 (1) and a laptop running on xp x32/SP2 (2). The shared folders from (1) are shown on (2), but on (1), I get the message: "\\laptop cannot be accessed. ...". On (1), I run "msinfo32.exe": System Information->Components->Network->Protocol does … |
| | ok i think that my computer has a virus but im not completely sure so bear with me. my computer has been very glitchy lately and sometimes lags alot. so i did a virus scan with trend micro but all it found were cookies. then i tried the free panda … |
| | i got a problem with my computer unit , my unit hangs after rebooting it. as i open my unit i discovered that my old video card haS A blown out capacitor then i replaced it into new one after replacing the old im still suffering in this cpu hang. … |
| | Hi guys I have a problem with my monitor ... i turn on the cpu and it starts but the monitor does not respond and it says "in safe mode .. press the monitor power button or move the mouse" .... i tried all this and it does not respond … |
| | I have a dial up broadband connection with Tiscali and as of about five days ago whenever I try to open a web page I get the message Invalid Syntax Error or Cannot Find Server also I cannot send or recieve email through Outlook Express or download any updates. I … |
 | hi there, i'm trying to open .mp4 videos but i cant play them none of the programs that i use could play any .mp4 video..i use (mpc star, media player, real player) i've also installed quick time and divx but it's still the same, and all other videos work good … |
| | I have a laptop with Win XPPro. It starts up to the standard Safe Boot screen and gives me the normal boot options all of which simply return me to the same screen. If I boot from the WinXP CD and go to Recovery Console is doesn't recognise Drive C. … |
 | Alright, I may have posted this before cant remember.... I installed the new 169 nvida forceware or whatever drivers about [U]5 months ago[/U] so yeah... The moment I installed them my computer crashed and went all crazy and every time I turned it on the monito went all mixed colours …  |
| | Searching for the answer to my problem brought me to your website and this thread [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/nextoldesttothread31710.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/nextoldesttothread31710.html[/URL] My Explorer.exe keeps restarting itself, in some cases it just crashes. I have discovered viruses like Virtumonde.dll and Ctfmon.dll and have failed in my attempts to delete them forever. When i think the problem … |
| | I have just installed a BT 2700 router onto a network and its currently working fine. However i am trying to setup a netgear vpn behind the aforemention BT router. The BT router currently doesnt reconise the presence of the netgear router so im struggling to forward http traffic from … |
| | Hi, i wonder if you guys can help me. Ive just bought a brand new computer with XP. Ive got onto the internet and ive downloaded Divx, VLC, etc. etc. basically a lot of stuff. Basically, when im watching a film on VLC, using Firefox to watch movies or on … |
| | I have a motherboard problem I have power to the drives ie hardrive cd dvd, powersupply works fine. I have two case fans,one only works, I don't know if the processor is getting power. videocard is getting power. and i'm not getting any error beeps if anybody can help me … |
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 | Avast anti-virus keeps popping up and telling me there's a rootkit installed in my PC. But when I run scan and do the removal the PC reboots and the avast scanner runs but it fails to get the rootkit Whats a good rootkit remover? |
| | My I-mac G-5 gives the start up sound, then I get the blue screen with the apple in the center. After about a minute the computer begins to make a loud noise-as if the fan is running in overdrive, it will not complete the start up process. I have to … |
| | Hello all, new here and baffled! Well this recently just maybe a month ago that it wouldn't read CD roms. It reads and loads DVD roms fine. Sometimes I can get it to read the CD roms by opening and closing the tray with the cd rom in it like … |
| | About 2 weeks ago, I started to have problems accessing https sites. Not all, but most. In diagnosing the problem, I connected another computer to the router/modem and have the same problem. Both computers worked before. Tech support at my ISP had me try some of the same things that … |
| | Hello, I just purchased a Belkin KVM switch in order to switch between two computers at my workplace. One computer is a very, very old Gateway (over 8yrs old) that runs Microsoft Server 2000. There is a program installed on that computer that my manager refuses to lose access to, … |
| | My grandaughter has an Advent 3105 desktop.It was never any trouble until one day it just wouldn't start-no lights,no anything.I thought it might be the psu,after first checking the cable.When switched on the fan doesn't work,but the smaller case fan beside it comes on for a few seconds and a … |
| | Hi guys just a quick question in my net work connections i have my modem conection status which tells me im running at 576 kbps which is about right but it also shows that 1394 connection is enabled and running at 400mps however there is no activity sent or recieved … |
| | Hi, for a while now my computer has been going a slow and acting wierd. Some times when i use a windows shortcut key such as ctrl + C explorer will restart or when im in a folder and right click it will restart but only every once in and … |
| | Hello to all :) im new on this forum and realy hope that u can help me problem is that i can not enter to the unsecured wifi in my house with my leptop (dell) . It tells me that I am conected and and the signal strength is exelent, …  |
| | I am thinking of upgrading to the 20" Aluminum 320 GB imac. My son plays some PC games; Orange Box games like Portal, Team Fortress will not play on our old PC. I hope 1 mac could run mostly mac os but when needed also run windows. So should I … |
| | Hi everyone , I am employed as a manager in a firm. I have a problem that I had like to talk about. My system was working fine the other day, but while copying a file by nero….the system hanged and I had to restart it. But I got a … |
 | Upload it here and the results will be displayed [url]http://virusscan.jotti.org[/url] A virus scan is run on the file you upload against 21 AV softwares and will give you an idea about the questioned file...... |
| | Hey all, I know the first thing to suggest would be the normal.dot file, but I don't thin that is the problem. If it is, then simply replacing it with a non-corrupted version is not fixing the problem. Here's the problem: When you open word 2003 (only under 1 user … |
| | The current state of my Mom's computer is horrible. I had an AV and Spyware software in place, but it failed to protect the computer. I've followed the instructions outlined before posting. However, I believe that the instructions are outlined for an older version of AVG. The current state of … |
| | I think I chose correct screen name - 2dumb - I've read and read, but I'm uncertain which files are causing slow down and dreaded red circle disease. I'll await someone's review of my hjt log. Thanks a bunch. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 1:32:52 PM, on 6/2/2008 … |
| | Hey, i have a computer that i built. It has been freezing and restarting lateley. I did memtest, and THAT froze. I went out and purchased compatible high quality corsair RAM thinking that would solve my problem. THis failed, and my computer still freezes on memtest. When my computer does … |
| | Hey guys me any my room mate both r using two seprate pcs with intel processors and win xp professional can we both link our pc i mean to say make our pc in network so that we can share our printer and data and moreover our internet connection please … |
| | Hey guys...anyone know how to find a computer log in the computer? Like a log that tells when and which program i installed and all the details of what my computer does in the background? Is there even anything that does this? Thanks PcPro12 |
| | I had a windows xp problem...computer wouldn't boot up..and I decided to restore it with a quick restore cd. Thinking the restore cd would carefully prompt me through each step before proceeding to the final restore, it started to restore both the C and D drives. (My computer initially came … |
| | I am trying to resize my partitions on the C drive. Parition runs after restart. I get an error message -- Error 27 Cannot lock drive. I reboot and it comes up again. I reboot and hit any key to abort. It comes up again. This just goes on and … |
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