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| | Ok heres the problem. The computer is a Dell workstation 340, and it's running on Windows XP Pro. After an improper shut down, the computer was restarted, and it states the Cdrive is no longer recognized. I am not sure how to go about fixing this problem. The only thing …  |
| | Hi Guys A weird situation: Just finished building my PC (XP). But my D drive has no icon! It has one of those icons when a file is not recognized by windows or has no application installed. Otherwise it works fine. All other drives (C, B, E and even network … |
| | My pc has developed a error that means it will not start up. On pressing the on button, I can hear its drives running etc but it will not move past the Intel Pentium IV screen. I can't even start in safe mode as it literraly only shows the initial … |
| | I recently built up a new system and have been trying to install xp but i keep getting "cannot copy (filename), press enter to retry, esc to skip, F3 to quit setup". when i press enter to retry, which could be from 1 to 101 times, i get various blue … |
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| | Im so new join about 30 seconds ago and dont know if this is the right place to be posting this. Im up creek without paddle! im a tacher have school laptop - i dropped it in a puddle on friday! I am ok with comps - dont get all … |
| | hiya, as you may have found out i am having a little problem with my keyboard. the "at" botton is just not working!! instead of the "at" sign coming up this comes up ' ....can anyone help??? |
| | Hi, I'd like to know how to verify downloaded files against checksums such as md5, sha1 and crc32. I found a few files that come with md5 and sha1 files, however I don't know how it works. I have the valid md5 and sha1 checksum in the file but I … |
 | Hi all... I was wondering if someone could suggest a good network analyzer/packet sniffer for my home network. I plan on getting a LAMP going on this network and possible a mail server. I want to study network security and am not sure where to start. Any advice would be … |
| | My laptop (XP home/SP2) started running slow and I started getting IE popups about a week ago (even though I use Firefox). I ran McAfee virus scan and it found vundo/viruses and deleted them. But the popups persisted. I then ran vundofix and it found about 6 files and deleted … |
| | Got an issue that is bugging me :(... Came back home from work to find my computer won't switch on anymore... when i pressed the power button the fan would start to spin but then stop and wouldnt boot. tryed this serveral times and eventually nothing would happen. had a …  |
| | Um.. First of all, my computer is indeed extremely slow. I don't know how long its had such and such "nasty" because it's pretty old. Before it went into my care, the computer was basically accessible to everyone.. But anyhow, I think it was when I was just trying to … |
| | Hypothetical question, does anyone here plan (at this point based on what they have seen) to buy any new hardware to run vista? What are some of the things that make you happy or tick you off about the Operating System? I am doing research for my website... Mike [url]http://www.windows-vista-update.com[/url] |
| | Hello everyone I use SB Search and Destroy, started using it reciently when I realized that from the huge amount of online game lag on ontherwise great servers ment that my Microsoft AntiSpyware wasn't beeing totally true about there being 0 problems. Lo and behold I blasted 40 some the … |
| | When I try to run sfc /scannow i need to insert my XP cd, but I don't have it! I didn't get a cd when I bought my computer. I do have that I386 folder, though. Is there any way around it? Help please! |
 | I recently installed a new Double Layer Lightscribe DVD burner and am having issues with copies of DVDs I am making (let's assume they are legal DVDs). Whenever I burn a copy they never quite work right. At various points, it varies on each burn, they stop working. I did … |
| | Hi there , most of the time i download a file of type .pdf i cannot read it. i try "open with" and then "choose a program" and the try all the programs.it doesnt open. What is wrong how should i fix this? is this file a zip file? thanks |
 | I have MP 10. I know I must need a plug-in to play DVD's, but I tried one and got a nasty virus! Anyone know which plug-in I need and where to get the real one? I have XP. Thanks . |
| | Hi I am using MB Asus A7N8X-E deluxe , Athlon 2400+XP with Windows XP-pro and have this problem : From couple of days started problem with my audio that I could hear the sounds of report and log in Windows and when I log out , but I can't play … |
| | Im so new join about 30 seconds ago and dont know if this is the right place to be posting this. Im up creek without paddle! im a tacher have school laptop - i dropped it in a puddle on friday! I am ok with comps - dont get all … |
| | :P Hello people, I am in need of a few answeres, First of all i will start from what i portrai as the beginning, I am not sure what is causing my Windows Exlplorer to continuasly crash everytime it tries to start up. IE an WE both crash for to … |
| | Hi, I seem to have many different kinds of trojans on my laptop. My computer keeps switching itself off, then I see a blue screen describing a serious error, then it restarts. I can't access my internet at all - I have to go through Windows live messenger in order … |
| | when I connect it to the computer the internet will only work on the labtop but not on the desktop. I have SBC YAHOO. And whenever I call SBC yahoo they are no help. They always tell me to do the same thing over again and it doesn't help. They …  |
 | Hi, I have a home desktop running XP home SP2 connected to my router wirelessly. I bought a new laptop, but it had Vista... after days I gave up and returned the laptop to the shop. I now have a XP sp2 Pro XP laptop, but cant even see the … |
| | gerbil, Thanks again, I have completed the different scans: ATF, AVG and HijackThis. Please review the logs for AVG and HijackThis. --------------------------------------------------------- AVG Anti-Spyware - Scan Report --------------------------------------------------------- + Created at: 10:59:55 AM 6/22/2007 + Scan result: C:\System Volume Information\_restore{3DBD88D2-9FFC-498B-A689-A4771362F918}\RP2\A0000383.dll -> Adware.Agent : Cleaned. C:\System Volume Information\_restore{3DBD88D2-9FFC-498B-A689-A4771362F918}\RP2\A0000382.dll -> Adware.TTC : … |
| | I am trying to update the sound drivers on my laptop. A few months back, my laptop's audio began coming through quite scratchy, to the point that I usually completely mute the audio. It is so bad at times that it lags the performance of the rest of the machine, … |
| | Hi Every1 I'm havin trouble with my taskmanager. My CPU usage is always 100%. I found out that its because of the SVCHOST NETWORK SERVICE, So i traced the service DNS Client which is started by this SVCHOST NETWORK SERVICE process and disabled it. But now when i open the … |
| | I can't get my iPod Mini 4GB to sync. I have 2.41GB of free space left, but when I press "Sync songs to ALEX-IPOD" it says "Do Not Disconnect" and then goes back to the regular screen without removing or adding any music... I can add files to my iPod … |
| | Currently I am running Windows Vista, with VMWare running Ubuntu 6.06LTS. I have it installed to run some sequencing software, LMMS and RoseGarden to be exact. What are the apt-get commands for them? sudo apt-get install lmms as well as sudo apt-get install rosegarden don't work. Neither does sudo apt-get …  |
| | [COLOR="Red"]Thanks for taking the time to read this. My computer is really slow for some reason, even after I did System Restore on it, and Did like 20 Virus scans with norton, and some other smaller program. I found these forums on Google, and decided to try this out, and … |
 | I could do with some help regarding DNS! We have 12 offices each on their own subnet (192.168.1.0,192.168.2.0, etc) and each on their own domain. These offices are connected via vpn links. There is a server at each office that is responsible for DNS & DHCP, and are DC's among … |
| | Hi, I have an XP OS and often rip from cd's using mediaplayer version 10. Just lately I find that the ripped file has a poorer, more muted sound quality than when listening direct to the cd through the pc. Also, if my son rips the track upstairs on his …  |
| | Ok so here is how it goes. I am currently in possesion of my own computer which has Ubuntu 7.04 on it. YAY! I did that yesterday. My little brother would like the same thing but sadly I think his is too old. I inserted the CD that had ubuntu … |
| | Hi I've recently tried to install a new Firewall for my organization. I've launched into the upgrade as the existing Firewall has had some corruptions and can no longer be managed. Existing Firewall is Checkpoint FW-1 NG on Win2K and the new Firewall is Checkpoint NGX R65 running on Win2003sp2. … |
| | hi i have one pc is internet working in usp port of my win xp system ----------------------|nic -1 (internet router+modem) in internet pc (xp pro | 192.168.1.36/255.255.255.0 ----------------------| getway 192.168.1.1 | | nic - 2(pc to 8 switch with wire less) | |192.168.1.10/255.255.255.0 | | | |-----------------| |___________| pc 1 … |
| | Well here's my case. I have two pcs connected in a WLAN. PC1 has its wireless connection bridged with a ethernet connection to a dsl router so as to have internet on PC2. However, even if Internet works fine there's no way to ping PC2 from PC1 or PC1 from … |
 | Hey everyone. I'll post the detailed overview of what I've tried and what hasn't worked tomorrow. It's late, and I've been struggling with this for a few hours. In short, I have a Linksys WRT54Gv5 and two Linksys WRE54G (one v2 and one v3). I had already setup the router … |
| | I have ABIT motherboard, 3 GHz Hyper Threading (HT) processor, and 2x256MB RAM (DDR not DDR2). (motherboard manual says 256MB-1GB is supported) Dual (something something) memory for full potential memory - paired DIMM slots 1-3 and/or 2-4. Everything works fine with thse two RAMs. ----- I've bought 2 x 1GB … |
| | I have a VM of Ubuntu running on VMWare. Everything works, wireless, and all, except for the sound. I have a Realtek High Definition Audio card, which came onboard this laptop. Any ideas for drivers or solutions? |
| | It won't UNCRASH or SHUT OFF! It's like... stuck on the desktop, I can enter the machine, but not control it. Ideas? AHAHAH I forgot the Ctrl+Alt+Bksp thingy. I did it and it shut off. Finally after like an hour... Jeez. Let's see how it likes the crash... Okay, works … |
| | I installed Ubuntu, and there was a cursor. Then I went and changed my resolution in the terminal to 1440x900 and now it doesn't show up. My mouse still works, but there is no cursor. It did the same thing for my USB mouse and my traditional mouse. Please help. |
| | have an Inspiron 8100 that was not working for quite a while. I decided to try and start it with a charged battery from another machine. It started, and would work on battery power...the AC power would work ONLY after starting it from the battery. It still [B]would not start …  |
| | Hello all. I recently had to re-partition a drive and used XP disk management to do so. Prior to that I backed up the system drive in another computer using the Windows Backup utility. I then removed all of the logical and primary partitions and created a single primary partition …  |
 | You would think someone would've asked this question already, but I am having trouble getting GTKpod to recognize my ipod when I connect it. I know that GTKpod isn't the problem, it my system's mounting procedure. When I plug in my iPod, this goes through my /var/log/messages: (same with dmesg) … |
| | I'm hoping someone can help me. I have Windows XP. Last Thursday I had no problem accessing the internet. Our provider is Comcast. As of last Friday I can not longer get onto the internet. It keeps saying page cannot be displayed. I'm showing a network connection between Comcast and … |
| | Hi, I just installed office 2003 and every time I open it the the windows installer comes up. And after about 30 seconds or so the program opens. Its not a big problem but its annoying to wait for it every time I need to use word. I'm not to …  |
| | Hi, I am new to this site and would appreciate any help at all with this problem no matter how big or small the help can be. MSI 6787 V2 Motherboard Intel 2.4 Celeron 512 DDR Ram 20 gb Hard drive GForce FX 5200 Graphics card I am clean installing … |
| | Hello! We built a new pc with 3.2 dual pentium D processor. We have had so many errors and the pc constantly restarts. Microsoft says there is no solution. Anyone got any ideas that might help? Thanks & have a blessed day. Laura |
| | This is my first posting in teh hope that someone can help. Norton AV gave me a warning of a virus infection Trojan.Vundo at windows\system32\JKKLK.DLL it could not fix it, quarantene it or delete it (still can't) . I have: 1. run full scan found it but cant fix it/quat/del …  |
| | Hey there, I just reinstalled Windows xp home and got everything working except my sound. I was wondering if anyone can help me. My sound card is built into the mother board. It is c-media ac97 audio device. When I go to check it in control panel --> System it … |
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