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Hey i have had a mac mini for around 2-3 months now and i have got my head round the basics, although i am having a bit of problem with the keyboard, because although it is said that we can use our old PC stuff with it some of the …

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Hello again! Over the last few days, strange things have been happening. I've run my Ad Aware SE, my Spybot, I use Firefox when I browse, but I'm still having trouble. I'm connected to the internet, because I can talk on AIM, but when I try to browse with either …

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I uninstalled Java on my new Dell laptop. I realized I needed it back and did a system restore but now it is not working. Whenever I click on anything java, it causes IE to crash bringing up my desktop. Help!

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I need help what to delete plz because I see my computer getting slower every day. I definitely know I should delete: O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Windows ServeAd] C:\Program Files\Windows ServeAd\WinServAd.exe, because I had conflicting problems with it lots of times before but I can't delete it because it keeps popping …

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Trend PCcillin has identified spyware/adware SPYW_NETZANY.100 on my desktop, which runs XP with IE6. (Lavasoft Ad Aware and Microsoft's antispyware beta do not detect it.) But after I remove the file with PCcillin, Internet Explorer either refuses to open at all, or gives me the message that it has 'encountered …

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:sad: I am about to hall my hear out! Someone please Help. I have a new ASUS P5GD1 and a new SATA drive. The MB only has a Primary IDE controller (Blue), NO Secondary. It has a Primary and secondary RAID controler and 4 SATA controllers. I have 120mb Seagate …

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Ok, I have pro versions of all the software that i paid for and i enjoyed each in there own way...but here is a review of the spyware software that I have used.. Adaware SE Professional - For me running Win XP home it was buggy from jump street.. first …

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Recently I have been getting various error messages when booting up Windows ME. Usually, I get to the desk top, but as the sys tray is loading programs it crashes and I get a blue screen with error codes. This usually happens at about the same point in the boot …

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I Have Recieved A G4 From My Late Aunt But Now Cant Get Into Mac Osx Or Even Get The Cd Out Of The Drive. Is There Anything I Can Do Because I Dont Stay Near Any Mac Dealers And I Would Really Like To Use The G4. Please If …

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A friend just brought me their pc. It has XP home and they wanted XP pro. They tried to do the upgrade and it bombed. They bought a new copy of XP Pro... It just hangs at the setup screen... I put in a fresh drive with a single partition, …

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Hi, newbee here, I wish to fit an additional drive to my PC and make it the boot drive. The drive adverts seem to specify SATA or UDMA133, but I don't know which one to buy? My PC is over 2 years old and the XP Device Manager show my …

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Hope someone can help. Have a Logitech 4000 webcam which records video sound but when camming in yahoo cant get any sound. Would love to be able to chat to friends rather than typing. Have tried switching between USB external microphone and built in microphone - no luck. Any ideas …

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My grandfather was using his computer and he said it restarted on him, and when it came up it was in a different language, almost like Wingdings, and is not sure how to get it back, i tried going through the regional language settings to see if that was it, …

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Hi. My brother recently got cable internet for his old computer. It is an Inteva with Windows 98 Standard Edition. I believe this computer is 8 years old or so. It is a Pentium 2 , 300mhz, 196 MB of RAM computer. I call this ancient. I had to install …

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I am running Windows XP Home on this computer, and using the default CD burning software that came with it (I think it's Roxio?) I wanted to back up some files from the 'F' drive; about 900 MB, so I was going to use two CD's. Before I started, there …

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So i have a personal computer that sits behind a NAT that my apartment complex manages. Is there any way i can remote into that computer from work. I dont care how its done really, just so i can get to it. Any one have any ideas? Oh and running …

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Yesterday, out of the blue, my G4 started making a very loud humming noise. I had several programs open, nothing froze but I was unable to shut down from the Apple menu so I rebooted from the harddrive. The sound was gone and I have not heard it since. However, …

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Since I logged on to my computer 3 days ago, it showed that a registry file had been recovered successfully, but now Javascript has disappeares. I have tried a lot of the tips on here, but nothing works. What I really want to do is download the Microsoft Script thing, …

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I don't know if this is the right forum or not as i am not running Windows NT. I see that KB891711 is back at the Windows Update site. Want to know if it is safe to download yet?

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what are the major differences between the amd athlon 64 2800+, 3000+, 3200+, 3400+, 3700+ etc? and can the amd athlon 64's be overclocked? Also, this is not a cpu related question, but i thought i would save space, can you put any hardrive with a socket 754 motherboard?

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Hi i hope that i have summited this in the right area,sorry if i havent, i would just like a little bit of advise, i would like an apple as my next machine and i dont want to spend a too much on a new system, i have read a …

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You see, I just recently purchased this mac, and when I got it, I plugged it in and nothing happened. Im used to the beginning of macintosh when you hear the "ahhhhhhhhhhhhh" but this one is just "beep". a fast beep and then nothing. The computer just sits there, its …

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Hey Everyone, There is a very small remote office with 2 computers that share an ISDN line, but when salesman come in to the office (they do this from time to time) they would like to access the internet wirelessly. Now the current config of the ISDN modem LAN modem …

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Hi, It's time I sought some assistance from the more technically minded of you. I have a small (big?) problem I'm trying to resolve. The situation is this: For Windows 98, the system can be backed up, using MSBackup, and restored by using PCRESTOR.BAT, which resides in the TOOLS folder …

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hi, i need help with getting rid of the offeroptimizer popup I have ran hijack this. My log file is below. Please help thanks in advance Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 7:16:39 PM, on 11/04/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running …

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please help me, this is my hijackThis log file: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 09:09:43, on 14. 04. 05 Platform: Windows 98 SE (Win9x 4.10.2222A) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.2600.0000) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSGSRV32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SPOOL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MPREXE.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSTASK.EXE C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\SYMANTEC SHARED\CCEVTMGR.EXE C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\SYMANTEC SHARED\CCSETMGR.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\mmtask.tsk C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CMMPU.EXE …

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I have been trying to gather the info to puchase more memory which will be compatible with my mother board. I have a Microstar K7 Pro mother board, and as I understand it, I need to stay with the following specs. PC100, 168-Pin SDRAM, configuration of 32x8, DIMM type: unbuffered, …

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I am trying to solve an on going problem with an AMD 1.8 system. I have a new Radeon 9200SE card installed and a new Optiquest Q95 monitor, running XP Home SP2 with 256MB Ram. I probably could double the RAM but the system is not running any high powered …

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help please i was on the computer the other day and my baby unplugged my multi plug which has my monitor and computer with some other things in it and now when i turn on the computer and monitor the monitor is really dark ive tried to reset the settings …

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I have a tnt2 32mb agp card. works fine, but cant handle newer games. So ive purchased a fx5200 by pny (pci card). I want to run both cards, but i made a silly mistake when installing the new card. I kept my tnt2 in ( as primary) I installed …

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Can anyone help me out. My pc is running at 100% cpu usage and it is slowing down my computer so much! I already ran the spyware prgram spysweeper and the virus pragam , norton, and the only included with my ISP EZTRUST. nothing major was found, and no viruses. …

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Have Microsoft overstepped the Mark regarding Security issues, and may have produced a really dangerous one themselves? :o Let me explain (rewind a bit) Microsoft have started using a new download method on Broadband using the Broadband modem offline, while the Computer is running (and not logged in...) I noticed …

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As a Windows XP user that is feed up with all the problems associated with Windows, I am seriously considering switching to Mac. Have absoulty no experience with Mac. Here is what I want a computer to do for me. Photo and Video editing, e-mail, web browsing. That is bascailly …

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I am trying to play foreign films on my dvd player, as well as homemade films(I work for a film festival). These films work fine on actual dvd players, how do I set my dvd player on my PowerMac G4 laptop?

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Hi, i´m really scr3wed about font mangement in osx, i mean, i´ve been a win user, and there was this thing with fonts, when i load photoshop, all of them loaded with it, making it slower and frustrating. well, i´ve found this font manager in osx, what is it? i´ve …

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[COLOR=Purple]I have recently purchased a program called Registry Repair. I ran the program and there was a list of tasks. The task that I was interested in was "scan registry for problems." Yep...............I scanned. There was a list of 367 problems in my registry! SO.................I deleted them and thought that …

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I have a wireless device (Intermec Scanner) and can't get it to obtain an IP address automatically. I've set up DHCP with plenty of available ip's. When the device tries to obtain automatically, it gives it the 127.0.0.1 loopback address and cannot get on the network. I have other devices …

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Just installed and ran Hijackthis (wow).. Here's my log, can somebody tell me if I should kill anything here :-| :D Thanks for any help!!! :cheesy: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 2:42:50 AM, on 4/9/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running …

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Following up on something I saw on this forum, I rightclicked on the Taskbar then on Toolbars, and found all the options were greyed out. I don't know when it could have got like this, I haven't accessed this for a long long time. Any help would be greatly appreciated. …

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Ok i was rebuilding my computer, and got a 40gb harddrive from my friend for only $10, I was trying to set it up as my secondary slave drive, but I coulndt figure out how to set the jumpers. I just left them how they were and connected it up, …

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Yeah, I'm the same guy whose burner still won't burn (see related thread) but my other problem, which may be related, is that I have the same problem as the other person who could not ScanDisk. I get the error message saying "ScanDisk has restarted 10 times because Windows or …

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Please help This is my first time here, so if I've done something wrong don't shot me. I have a virus in my computer and it has something to do with rundll32.exe. I tried to follow what someone else posted but I got lost and don't want to do anything …

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Im in the market for a case and i liked the look of it...does anyone agree? Also, is the powersupply good quality and is the whole thing way too overpriced? :confused: [url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=558331&Sku=T925-2012[/url]

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There are two Programs on my xp computer ad-aware SE Personal and Microsoft antispyware, do you think it is a good to have a third like spybot. Thank-you.

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i have tried everything short of formatting. i can not run any of my programs nor can i run regedit or msconfig. repair and reinstalling did not help. upon reinstalling i received a message that windows could not open rundll32.exe search web for appropriate program with no luck. is there …

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I am wondering if someone could tell me what tools I will need to compile and build and executable of Dev-C++ for Fedora Core 3 to install it and run it. I have never worked with Delphi source code and I would appreciate any help with the process and what …

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Hi,i'm new. I need help to remove the hijacker "hotoffers" This is mi hijackthis log Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 22.35.19, on 11/04/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) 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:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\GEARSec.exe C:\Programmi\Symantec\Norton Ghost\Agent\PQV2iSvc.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\nvsvc32.exe …

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OK, i am trying to run a program for WEST at home and every time i try to download the viewer a security warning pops up. it say -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [B]Windows has found a problem with this file.[/B] Name: hostexpress.cab Publisher: Unknown Publisher This file was blocked because it does not …

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Dear Crunchie, Hi there i am a newbie here and i am surferring the "Hotoffer" problem also. it's prompt alot of adult pic when i am working, hope you can helpme on this. I have followed the step that you instructed in early. but the "hotoffer" still there.... the following …

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Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 9:10:18 a.m., on 24/03/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) 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:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\AVPersonal\AVGUARD.EXE C:\Program Files\AVPersonal\AVWUPSRV.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZoneLabs\vsmon.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\igfxtray.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\hkcmd.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft AntiSpyware\gcasServ.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe C:\PROGRA~1\DAP\DAP.EXE C:\Program Files\AVPersonal\AVGNT.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe …

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