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| | I sent a graphic file to the recycle bin but when I tried to empty bin, I got a message that "Dc6 (nothing like the original name of the file!) could not be deleted as another person or program was using it. Close any other program that might be using … |
| | My computer has gone into super slow mode. I reformatted and attempted to re-load windows which took more than 14 hours. I thought the hard drive had gone bad so I replaced that. That didn't help. The computer is still is super slow mode. Any ideas?  |
| | Hey guys, My computer is being really screwy and is lagging a lot. Here's an HJT log of my computer after running various spy-ware programs: ------------------------------------------------------- Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0 Scan saved at 1:36:19 AM, on 1/20/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running … |
 | I have windows XP professional, with SP 2. What are the risks in making the firewall unblock ActiveX, or scripts? What is ActiveX? |
 | i was just wondering if anybody has xbox live and if they do whats their gamertag(screen name) :cool: Hardware and Software home-theater |
| | This is my first time to post here so please bear with me.I use netzero as my dial-up ISP and here is the problem I am having. (I am using Windows XP Pro) When I click on the NetZero Desktop Icon the connect screen will come up but, before I … |
| | I have been experiecing viruses when visiting some sites. I don't know if the viruses are imbeded in my system so I send this HJT log. Can someone help to interprete? Thanks. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0 Scan saved at 10:38:37 a.m., on 14/01/2005 Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet … |
 | I've been tweaking with it. I want to reinstall linux on my PC, considering I just said f**k it to the wireless nic, and purchased a nice 50 foot cat5 cable. lol. I Poped in the CD, and walahhh, im half way there, im run up Fdisk and/or cfdisk, neither … |
| | Hold Alt+F4 and hit the U key to shutdown in Windows XP.  |
 | If say, you suspect you have some viral files that replaced some important window system files lurking about your computer… and regardless of what you try, you cant seem to locate them, let alone get rid of them... And there’s a good chance that it’s the root cause of your … |
| | Hi, I was helping my brother install Norton Internet Security, part way through we got [color=red][b]"error 1327 invalid drive c:\"[/b] [color=#000000]Looking at his drives he as 1 floppy A:\[/color][/color] two cd/dvd drives G:\ and H:\ and the hard drive is I:\. Any ideas on solving this problem would be most … |
| | Has anybody else encountered the same problem I did when they updated their Radieon 9200 graphics card and recieved the Catalyst Display popup features? I updated recently from the Windows update center, and after I restarted aftering downloading my updates, my system ran INCREADIBLY slow. And I mean, everything... from … |
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| | Recently installed new system board into an e machine. Windows balloon comes up and tells me I have 30 days to activate windows and when I click on the balloon it tells me windows is activated but it will not load my desk top it keeps bouncing back and forth … |
 | OS: Win 2K Location: Various Problem: About a month ago, the virus 'download.trojan' was discovered on my campus. I went to every computer that had it and deleted it (safe mode, ran anti-virus, etc.) Here in the past week, I have had that pop up more and more. It is … |
| | :cool: This is so weird. I have one hard drive which is C drive, one that's D drive and a cdrom that's E drive. For weeks D drive has just been missing. It's not in My Computer. I've looked in the bios. Think I set all to auto. Tried installing … |
| | I turned on my computer today and the second hard drive starting to make a clicking noise. It did not want to load Windows for some reason. I have removable drive bays because I am constantly removing my drives for other drives. I switch the bay in the chassis of … |
| | Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me out. My CD burner doesn't burn CDs anymore, I've tried looking around to see if anyone has the same problem, but I can't find one similar to mine. If you find a board already solved, can you link me to it? … |
| | On the back of the cd drive there is a 4 pin audio connect. It says to connect the cd drive here to the sound card. Why would you need to do this? |
| | It's a desktop pc that may have been virused; not sure. During POST I get two followed by four "beeps". I don't think the system ever "checks" the floppy drive. Everything was seated inside and I tried to boot from a Win2K startup disk (since a regular boot only elicits … |
| | Anyone know how to 'destroy' the FAT12 boot sector so the system BIOS does not attempt to boot to the floppy (no 'invalid system disk' message) and will continue to the next boot device? I know if I zero out the boot sector, it will achive the desired results, but … |
 | What problems will I have in replacing the hard drive in an XP system That is the only hardware change but will I have to reinstall XP or can I clone it with Ghost or Partition Magic |
| | can anyone please help,hd appears to be on the way out but i dont want to lose the data and start reloading all the software/updates.can i copy the data to another hd and replace the old one with it. :?: ;) |
| | I recently found out that my floppy drive isn't working. I was in the process of putting XP on my computer, when I realized it no longer works, and I need to run a boot disk to get anywhere because I've formatted the hard drive. When I turn on the … |
 | It happens all the time right? I have a major problem, seems to be a machanical or physical problem with the HD motor spins but it wont read, I was a Idiot for not backing everything up, but I have a bazziloin things I need off of there, what to … |
| | New to the forum and not a true tech-no guy. running XP pro. when I open IE i get a task bar with [url]http://xadsjt-a.offer[/url]. have run spybot and adaware and still there. Coincidentally, windows media player will not run, error with an internal problem. on another note, I cannot get …  |
| | Hi, For a week now I've been fighting with a VX2 on my laptop running W2K with NTFS. At least that's what Adware reports when I run it. It can't clean it, though. I have basically the same sympthoms other people report in the posts. Last night I ran Dllcompare … |
| | I need help too ...Can anyone help... Can anyone please help me. I have a Packard Bell Computer and have all the books but the Windows 98 book with the authenticity code on it. I reformatted the computer and guess what?? You got it, it asked for the Authenticity code … |
| | A relitive was told to delete his corrupt xp profile, he was not told to back up first,,, he says he can not find any of the digital pics he had saved under his old profile, so, has xp just deleted his profles association with the files or deleted the … |
| | Hi All...have an Imac G5 17"....the problem is when I use IE it is very small on the screen. Can I resize IE or am I stuck with using it in a small window? thanks k  |
| | Sometimes my P.C just turns itself off and starts re-booting. Then a message comes up. It says: One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. Then I have to wait while it does the check. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? |
| | I have a K8V SE Motherboard with 2 WD 160 Sata hard drives Raid striped connected to PRI Sata & SEC Sata connecters. I wish to add 2 WD Sata 200G hard drives as storage on the Sata 1 & Sata 2 connecters without using another raid array & I … |
| | I found this forum via yahoo. My computer is really freaking slow and my homepage is the about: blank page. So FRUSTRATED! Sorry to bother you all with my problems, but I've run McAfee virus scan and CW Shredder, and they don't seem to solve my problems at all. I … |
| | I keep getting this About:Blank homepage which turns out to be some sort of search engine or sumtin.. and then i get a lot of pop-ups saying adaware and u have a parasite in ur computer and things like that... so i tried changing my homepage and it went back … |
 | All of my favorite games are DOS games. I wanted them again so badly that I tried for 3 straight years to get them working on my new computer. A year into this process, my old computer died, and I was unable to play my games at all. I would … |
| | (Sorry i posted this in more than one spot i dont know what category it should be in.) Ive got a hp pavilion ze5000 notebook. Its got a 2.4 ghz proccessor, 512 mb memory, ati mobility radeon graphics. Problem is that when i move a window it leaves trails behind … |
| | Hi all, I am doing a project over dual channel memory -- and I was wondering how much of a performance increase, (or if there is any) there would be if you gamed with dual-channel 512 mb or if you gamed with 768mb in single channel. hmm... lemee rephrase that … |
| | I have a D-Link Router/Switch set up and I have my desktop which connects fine at 100.0 MBps but on my other desktop with has a longer CAT-5 cable, connects fine but only at 10.0 MBps and user reports very slow, is that a Ethernet card problem, CAT-5 problem or …  |
| | Mary SW, I have a optiquest V95 monitor that won't stay on, it comes on then after a few minutes the status light turns amber and the screen goes blank. Is the monitor fried? I had the on/off button fixed but it still won't work. Is the monitor still good, … |
| | I know not everyone likes noton ,there once was a time i use others ,but It got to were Iliked noton the best, so i use it ,usually the first program loaded after a fesh windows install. I didn't load the works |
| | Here is my problem....My sound will not work for MP3's, wmv's, or avi's in Windows Media Player or Winamp. However, WMP and WinAmp will play midi files and my mp3's will work in Quicktime. When I try to start a wmv or avi file in WMP...the movie will play but … |
| | OS: Win98 Location: Home I just installed a second hard drive on my open computer. I did this because this is a computer that I use as extra storage and backup my network on. I installed a second hard drive (one that I have had lying around for a while). … |
| | I have been experiencing some trouble lately I can't fiqure out. My system will begin to slow down over time during the day to an almost freeze. Now, I can't even delete my "sent" mail in outlook express. I get a message that "an error has occured" I use nortons … |
 | I'm trying to put together: MOTHERBOARD MB ABIT® IC7-G i875/ICH5-R chipset, Socket 478, 800MHz BUS, ATX format, Intel® P4, audio, Gigbit LAN on board CPU Intel P4 - 2.4 GHz 512kcache socket 478 - 800 FSB RAM DDRAM 512MB PC400 APACER® CL2.5 HD MAXTOR® DiaMaxPLUS® 160GB 8MB CACHE SERIAL ATA … |
| | hello from a geek wannabe: I was trying to help a friend fix her computer, brought it over to my house hooked it up and everything was fine, xp started, I was able to install programs (let me back up--after someone else reinstalled xp on her computer, she got a … |
| | Ok i boot up slackware, now it doesnt seem to have an DHCP program to locate all my config etc. Maybe it does and im unsure. Im dual booting linux (slack 10) i put the set up disk in to configure the connection etc. I run of a modem connected … |
| | Hi. I'm new here and I need help. We have an IBM computer. Because of some problems we were having my husband put windows millennium on the computer. Unfortunately, it made our problems worse. Nothing will work right and we can't uninstall because we can't find it. We want o … |
| | I have a problem when I try to install Windows updates I keep getting this error: Ox80070424 and a message that due to an error the page requested cannot be displayed. Also I cannot enable my automatic Windows updates feature. Does anyone know what the problem might be. Any help … |
| | Hello. I was kind of curious as to how to get my autorun on my CDROM Drive to run again. I have to go into the CD now and try to find the Setup file or whatever I need... I like having the computer do it for me :cheesy: Any … |
| | [B]Hello I'm a french people and i have the same problem at each startup. bridge.dll is not in the C:/Temp folder. I have already deleted it. (sorry for my english) I have downloaded HJT, and that is the log :[/B] Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0 Scan saved at 23:43:20, on 17/01/2005 … |
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