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Hi there I have recently opened a patch that contained the hacktool virus. My Norton Internet Security 2007 picked it up when it was executed but was unable to either quarantine or remove it. I have read through a number of forums on this matter and my understanding is that …

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The bits I'm looking at buying are as follows: [LIST] [*]EVGA nForce 680i SLI 775 NF68-A1 [*]Kingston PC2-8500 CL5 2GB 2*1GB HyperX [*]Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 [*]Tuniq Tower 120 [/LIST] [LIST] [*]eVGA e-GeForce 8800GT SSC 512MB [*]Thermalright HR-03 GT [*]Nexus 92mm Real Silent Case Fan [/LIST] [LIST] [*]Antec TruePower …

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Ok i turned my PC on earlier an it wouldnt start up. I tried a restart and instead of helping it got worse. Now whenever the power cable is connected the fans and green power LED will come on. I try to hold down the power switch but it does …

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I have a US bought Dell Inspiron 6000. My power cord just went out on me and all my business specs are on this laptop. I have a presentation next week and not enough batt power to complete the presentation. Will a European Dell Inspiron power cord work on my …

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I've been running Vista since it first released. Since day one, I've been able to share the root of a drive (share the entire drive, not just a folder in a drive). I recently added a new drive, shared it, and have had problems with it the whole time (file …

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With The New Software To Prevent Piracy It Is Taking A Machine Fingerprint Whe Acticating The Programs I Have One Program From Scan Soft Asking Me For The Machine Fingerprint Does Anyone Know Where It Is On The Computer.my Operating System Is Xp Pro

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I'm a graphic designer by education and am having to come up with a business proposal for my bosses as to why I need a Mac. Basically, I need to give the bosses the reasons why you buy a Mac and not a PC for doing design work. For me, …

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Hi Everyone: I am using dual monitors in Win XP Pro. I am using the ATI AIW 9600 128 with two Samsung 193v LCD's. How do I configure the set up to show my XP taskbar across both screens? Any help would be appreicated. Thanks.

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Hi, This just happened a few hours ago, and since i'm not computer smart the only solution I know of, which I tried, was restarting the computer. Anyhow, the problem is that it seems i'm missing some text files or something because so far I have discovered: 1) I use …

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Hi, I know lots of others have posted about this, but this was the easiest and quickest way to get some help! The control panel has actually dissappeared off of the computer, I have run both anti-virus and spyware scans, and they have all come up with nothing! Here is …

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I probably the only one crazy enough to use ratpoison, but has anyone else tried it? Did you like it? Here is why I like/dislike it: pros: Its simple Its fast It maximizes the real estate of your screen it uses the same keybindings as screen it lets me completely …

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Norton detected the trojan hacktool.rootkit and keeps deleting the related file. After a few seconds, however, Norton detects a new file (with a slightly different name) and alerts me as well...it appears this process of detection and deleting goes on indefinitely. I ran AVG rootkit detector and another one recommended …

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recently i got a spyware and virus, i thought i got rid of them with norton, but when i right click my computer or network and go to properties an error message comes up, also my control panel has disappeared from my windows start bar and im unable to get …

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Hello i bought laptop from some1.There was something wrong with CMOS battery so he removed it.Now i need to install new battery.I tried searching for battery on eBay but i didnot find any for my laptop.My laptop is Acer TravelMate 4011WLCI. My question is will it work if i put …

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i have bought my own pc in 2004 november n hd never problem in it but i observe that whenever i use to turn on my pc it takes 5-10 seconds n then the power led gets on n then some movement is observed in pc like cpu fans starts …

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When booting a Win98 PC it hangs on the Windows 98 screen while booting. I cannot even get into Safe Mode. This happened a few years ago and I had to replace an inexpensive part (maybe a fan) but cannot remember which one. It was a safety feature of Win98 …

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hi got a prob my computer was running all ok yesterday . but today on startup its saying no signal to the monitor . i have tryed a spare grafic card that i had lying around . still no luck . the fan on the grafic card runs ok . …

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I have now gone through 4 motherboards. Something about my rackmount case is cooking them! Help!! When I assemble the bare bones systems outside the case, everything is peachy. It boots up, shuts down, posts, I can fiddle with the BIOS, etc. As soon as I sick it in the …

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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 5:49:06 PM, on 11/16/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16544) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\csrss.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\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSvcHst.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\AppCore\AppSvc32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Common …

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This all started when I tried to install Kaspersky. During the installation, it told me to uninstall Symantec and AVG. A couple of reboots later, Kaspersky was installed. I then downloaded something I wanted that seemed fine (I even scanned it with Kaspersky) and then executed it. This caused winlogon.exe …

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Yesterday, I was on the internet and than somehow I got a virus and it wouldn't let me get onto the internet via internet explorer. But what was weird is that Firefox worked but IE didn't? Im pretty sure it is a virus because I get spam webpages coming up …

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I normally leave my computer on, but one day I came home and noticed it was off. I went to turn it back on and nothing happens at all. No sounds, no nothing. The power light in the back off the desktop is on though. So I have zero idea …

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Ok this is the problem,daughter calls me at work to say the comp just keeps rebooting over and over, Its and Asus 8avdeluxe with amd 3500 proc 1 gig of ddr ram So first thing i do is look to see if its a heat issue,nope clean out dustballs from …

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I have similar problems to this [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread74149.html[/url] I have Win XP SP2 IE 7 with all updates and have run all sorts of Spyware detectors including Spybot Spyware Doctor and Spyware Detector with mixed results but I still have this redirect problem. Any advice how to solve this?? Logfile of …

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Help please, I had to have a new hard disc installed. I reloaded windowsXP home and all my old software including Roxio easy DVD creator 6. now Roxio will not recognise the presence of my NEC ND2500A writer. This reads fine but will not write. The driver file details says …

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I'm new to Linux, so please bear with me. I have a new install of Debian, latest stable release, on an old ALR server running quad 200 MHz Pentium Pros. I only get two choices for screen resolution: 800 X 600 or 640 X 480. How can I get a …

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My Startware has taken over my Internet explorer. I normally use Mozilla but tried to update Explorer from an email from Microsoft and could not do it. I tried to open Explorer but found this Starware. What is it? Can you help me get rid of it?

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Hi, my laptop is an Acer Aspire 5101AWLMi AMD MK36 2GHz, 1GB DDR2 with Windows XP Media Centre Edition SP2. I installed Nokia software for my phone. To cut a long story short it went wrong and I did a system restore. itunes and quicktime stopped working. I tried uninstalling …

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I have a trojan(s) in my machine, antispyware differ on which one it is, but I can tell after running SpyBot, AdAware and Avast constantly for two years on my machine that something was up with a pseudo webpage popping up every 2 secs saying my machine has been affected …

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Hi, few weeks ago, I tried to start up my laptop but it didn't want to boot. I was having the leds indicating battery and power blinking for few seconds but then nothing was happening. Then, I brought it to a computer service shop where they didn't find anything, but …

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I have a PC that randomly will not boot into Windows XP. The screen displays the message: reboot and select proper boot device. Installed boot devices are: SATA hard drive, and IDE dvd drive. The SATA is the chosen first boot device. Any feedback appreciated.

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My HP Pavillion Notebook loads normally until the welcome screen, just before it would normally display the list of users. It makes the start-up sound and then freezes on that blue screen that says "Welcome". It just started doing this all of a sudden. I didn't make any major changes …

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When I turn on my dell inspiron laptop, it goes all the way to the "windows" screen and seems to stop loading and just stays on that screen. The only way I am able to use my laptop is on "safe mode"...Please help me!!! Aija

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aaamm... hello.. im new in the forum... and new in this kind of things.. my problem is this : when i star my pc i get this error.. : microsoft visual c++ runtime library buffer overrun detected! progam: c:/windows/explorer.exe a buffer overrun has been detected which has corrupted the program's …

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Hey guys, Alright im trying to build a gaming computer and I want to get all the parts ordered by Tuesday. I havent had luck with other sites on helping me setup a decent system, so im trying here. I have a sense of what I want, but im not …

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My computer will get a blue screen at start up and say I have hardware/software problems or errors and most of the time will not restart and go back to normal! My cousin and I pulled the ram out and flipped into different banks i am using 2 1gb ram …

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Does anyone know if its possible to force windows to log all the way on to a password-protected account without stopping at the Log In screen, but still prompt the user for a password before allowing access to the account? What I want to achieve is an automatic log-on, thus …

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14 inch monitor was replaced with a new 17 inch monitor. Now the computer must be booted twice to get the monitor to turn on. Everything else works ok. Computer is a 450 mh running Windows98 with 64 meg ram. I don't think it is the power management program because …

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Hi I have got something really bad on my works laptop. Keep getting pop-ups about viruses, black door trojans, malware, etc. and its running really slowly. I am going to get in so much trouble if i dont get it sorted out fast. Please can someone help. I have posted …

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Hi, can anybody tell how come a standalone laptop is giving this error. [B]PXE-561[/B] I tried Googling just to end up without finding even a single result. PXE alone yields many results but nowhere 561 is mentioned. what i it some kind of error number I suppose. For more information …

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Is there any solution for following errors : Taskmanager is disabled by administrator 'Run' not found in start menu It was happened after infection but i had already scanned and removed them but still it happens. Anyone please help.....thanks in advanced

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My computer keeps circling on and off at start up. It worked fine before i went to school but when i got home it was circling on and off. Please help!

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Hi 1 week ago i downloaded a keygen from a site and i got a virus/trojan. My explorer.exe keeps restarting. I tried to scan my computer with 6/7 different virus-scanners, but they all found nothing. I read a couple of threads before i came here, and i think it has …

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hi i can connect the internet on one computer and not the other. i have tried quite alot of stuff previous to this post to no avail. i am using windows [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread75306.html#"]xp[/URL] home sp2 (both) and a wireless modem router (d link dsl-g624t) with a wireless adapter (d link dwl …

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Is there a special way to create a new programs folder in my d drive? or do i just open it up and file new folder and name it?

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Greetings, friends. I'm trying to get my new build to work. After getting it to POST and show up in the BIOS, I popped in my WINXP disc to get the OS installed. After I get the blue set up screen for WINXP to set up, I hit ENTER to …

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If this is not an appropriate place to ask--can anyone direct me? Trying to find out why two customers' computers, one in Japan one in Malaysia, display our fixed screens with characters bleeding off to right and bottom. Text screens display OK. No display problems on hundreds of other computers …

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Hi, I have the Vista setup in my XP folder, what I want to do is to burn it into a CD or DVD. But before doing this, I'm wondering if it's possible to burn the Vista image into a number of empty CDs? If that's not possible to do, …

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hey folks....dont know why that my cpu is working and monitor is not.....is it because of the display card or with the ram??

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