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Hello, I seem to be having issues with windows 2000. I was running fine until it asked me to do a windows update. So I did. Then it ask me to reboot. So I did. Then... It rebooted and went through the "Bio" part and it started with windows. I …

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Since I woke up this morning my monitor started turning itself on and off and it seems it's doing a degauss when it comes back on. Sometimes the picture will blur and fade to black, other times it's a hard off. It makes a nice crack sound when it goes. …

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I have Windows XP and my precocious teenagers downloaded KaZaA along with all their spyware. My problem is this; now when they try to access INternet Explorer, instead of getting the home page (google) they get this: C:\WINDOWS\eeiecrgrststvst.htm#[url]http://www.google.com/[/url] There is no way to get IE to change from this and …

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This computer had a bad sound card (So I thought) and so I decided to replace it with one that was laying around the office (BRAND: Avance). I downloaded all the drivers that I would need and then installed the card. Everything went smoothly and now I can not get …

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Hey I just finished building my computer and when I turn it on the only thing that happens is all the fans turn on and the floppy drive light stays on. The monitor screen stays blank also. Also right when I flip the switch on the power supply everything turns …

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hey i was reinstalling windows xp didnt know it was on safe mode now i got a messege that say (Windows xp setup cannot run under safe mode.setup will restart now. OK) then when i close or press ok it just restart the computer and bring me back to the …

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I am a computer dummy with a question! If you install a new hard drive, is the size automatically detected or does it have to be entered manually? :confused:

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I already posted this before but I have a research to make and problems with the IE 6.0 are getting worst every day..... while trying to load a page on ie 6.0 i cant click or use any other ie page. i have been downloading pretty much stuff lately i …

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Please help. My internet explorer is really messed up for some reason. It was fine yesterday, but when i try to use it, it says that the page cannot be displayed. I have tried to see if it had something to do with my connection to the internet, but it …

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I recently purchased a KDS Rad-5c 15in monitor. I thought the contrast ratio was 400:1 but it's actually 300:1. It's a nice monitor but words seem to be blurry. Im thinking about taking it back and getting a KDS Rad-7c 17in monitor with a contrast ratio of 400:1. Would this …

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My grandson who is 16 has an E-machine XP a year old. He used to be able to burn CD's & all of a sudden he couldn't. He sd everytime he went to use the program he had used to burn them it just closed out. Of course as his …

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Hey there! I'm trying to install a nvidia Geforce4 video card Mx440se ddr 64m/tv/pci on a pentium 2 slot one 256 ram 120 meg HD with Xp window on boot it show's the Xp loading and the screen goes blank. the only setting in the bios are for AGP, PCi, …

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housemate woke up this morning. large pop-up window that he didn't want to read. all he picked up were, 'restart computer' and something about disk space being deleted. why he didn't read on is beyond me. but here's the dilemma. when one reboots the machine, no hard drives are detected, …

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IM trying to setup a network between 2 computers so i can play lan games between them. I have no experince with networking computers so please bare with my little understanding. Im using 2 ethernet cards in both the computers and im connecting them with a cord (ethernet cord, i …

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IE 5.5 sp2, printer prints fine out of everything else. I have tried all different drivers, I have reinstalled IE, and repaired the install. I still gives an error message 'printer could not be found' It comes up when you click on the print icon, or go to file and …

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I've a problem with windows 2000. I just install windows 2000, multiboot with windows Me on main partition. So windows 2000 is super clean, but as soon as I connect to internet I got a message "svchost.exe will stop..." after I can't copy, delete or move files on my desktop. …

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Impossible to open a file (from cd or downloaded) with a name written in different language as european, for example chinese, japanese or korean. I can't open, rename or even erase! Is it impossible to deal with non-latin script files under windows Me? Anyone can help me~?

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I have downloaded a new SKIN from trillian. When I downloaded it went as a Zip file. But where do I [B]extract[/B] the file so I can see my new skin???

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This happens on two different PC: win2000pro english, SP3. Every 2 or 3 days, win2000 hang. This hang is very strange, because is not an hardware hang but surely is software. System is working good for 1-2 days, then occasionally, in different situations, some program don't close his windows, don't …

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Me again. I am having a huge problem with a modem. My grandfather decided that he didn't need all this 'junk' on his computer, so he decided to uninstall all of it and not contact me. Needless to say, he can't get back on the internet. I took a look …

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[FONT=Verdana] Hi <p>I got a repeating process virus (cmd,net) totally lagged up my comp, it deleted bits of I.E.. I downloaded norton, but it needed IE to install, so I reboot, but things get worse. After rebooting again I am stuck at the log in screen, everytime I attempt to …

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I am having a bit of a problem with the A drive on a particular computer. It is always wanting to format every disk that I put in there. I have tried replacing the drive and it does the same thing. I have tried replacing the wires and connections, just …

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ok well i have a duel boot, and i decided to get rid of one of the boots and use that hard drive (2 hard drives too) for file storage. I put in the XP cd and tell it to delete the partition. It does it. I restart my comp …

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I read that this keyboard is supposed to have built in functionality under panther, I upgraded and installed panther but the extra keys still don't seem to work at all... am I missing something?? Thanks!

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I just installed windows xp pro on my PC with a geforce 4 mx card (PCI). Howwever after installing it i get the windows loading screen but when it gets to showing the desktop i just get a blenk screen i can hear that it has loaded, I know my …

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I have a Design Concepts(TM) for your Macintosh sleek profile keyboard. It's distributed by CompUSA and hence purchased from CompUSA (SKU 299283). Needless to say, it's USB and I hooked it up to my iMac running OSX (Jaguar 10.2) The regular keyboard functions perfectly (and it's sooooooooo comfy) but the …

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I ran msconfig several times to delete start up of several programs. Some of these programs have been uninstalled on my computer using either the uninstaller in pgm group or add/remove pgms in windows. The removed pgms still appear in the 'start-up' list. Is there anyway to delete them? Any …

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New to this. Problem, cpu chewed up by the above. Before I found the file it was killing all spyware and antivirus software. After stopping the task, Norton comes up clean, every spyware, adware, trogen killer comes up clean. I have run norton on the network comes up clean. Symantec …

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Which 1 is the best and WHY? Miranda OR Trillain I have not heard of these before so which one would best. Because I am getting sick of MSN messenger6.1 not doing it job proberly.

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Ok, I just got this peculiar problem about this "Maxtor 40Gig Hard drive". I have 2 pc's. Let's just call this PC1 and PC2. My Maxtor hard drive can not detect by BIOS in the PC1 but can detect in the PC2. I also transferred my Excelstor hard drive from …

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I recently bought the xtasy 9200 se 128mb PCI card. I want to use the dual monitor capability but I can't figure out how to clone the primary screen. Can anyone help?

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When trying to migrate public folders from a 2000 exchange server to a 2003 exchange server folder will not move. The public folders are in the same tree. It says that you can just copy and past but it will not let me paste. If I try to go through …

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hi everybody i was looking for a new hard drive at western digital and i found a raptor 10,000 rpm scsi hard drive and i was wondering if it will work for with my motherboard here is a link to the spec's of my motherboard let me know if it …

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Hey folks I really need your help on this one bad. Here is the symptoms/scenario. [b]System:[/b] Pentium 3 933 Chip ASUS CUV4X Board & AOpen Ti4200 128 MB Video 768MB PC 133 RAM Plextor 12/10/32, Pioneer DVD, Asus CDRom 52X Maxtor UDMA PCI IDE Card WD 80GB Drive [b]-->[/b] I …

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Does anyone have a program that logs Windows Messenger Service, in which I mean that both ways sending and recieving? This is only for one computer on the LAN.

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When i click on a favourite an error message pops up saying 'Cannot find the file (web addy) or one of its components. Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all required libraries are available' Then the website loads anyway in a new window. I just got …

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Hello.I have just successfully installed max payne 2 and replaced the crack file.I have checked the documentation and it says it " will have a little bit of problem for Nvidia Riva Tnt2 graphics cards but the game can run with a graphics card like that." I installed the game …

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I just got a few USB KeyChain Drives, and I'm using them to store my schoolwork. I'm just worried that I'm going to loose it :o . On network shares, I have the option in the right click context of the folder to "Make Available Offline", but this isn't the …

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What is the difference between MSN Explorer and Internet Explorer????? Because when I install msn messenger I get message saying that MSN explorer could course them too to conflict.........

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im having a hard time putting windows 98 in i have windows xp right now i put in the boot disk with the 98 plus 2 edecion in the cd rom are start the computer but it tells me to remove the disk and hit any key to restart can …

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Hi to you all hope someone can help? After deleting some software using add/delete software from control panal I can only display VGA whre before I had SVGA. The motherboard is a jetway 531cf and appears to have an on board chip as there is no separate card. The system …

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i am working on a dell computer that has never had sound. I went to check in the device manager but nothing shows up. i tried to use add new hardware and nothing happens. i tried reinstalling the drivers, but nothing i even updated and reinstalled direct X this isn't …

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I have tried 3 different types of AV programs. Norton. Mcafee. Panda. Everytime i install them my IE stops working. I can still connect to like irc and msn. But IE doesnt work. When i uninstal the programs and restart computers.... IE works fine..... any suggestions with this? thanks

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I would like to know how to cause a new window to open in IE (probably 6.x or any older) when I click on an embedded link in a current window. Is this even possible? thank you for your time. Inphoenix

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when ever there is no player open or any app that is made to produce sound, other then windows, a faint static can be heard at all times. when the mouse is moved another sound is mixed in with the first, again its very faint. when a keystroke is made …

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I have a new Linksys Wireless-G WAP. I'm trying to figure out how to set it up so that rather than all surfing traffic on the network showing up as the Static IP that is assigned to the WAP, I'd like it to just appear blocked. Any thoughts?

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Hello, I have a Problem with my computer in my processes the Svchost is taking up 50% or more of my cpu usage. My system idle is usually at around 90-99 % like normal computers ( i have windows XP home ) and it is at 90-99 percent now too …

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I get tons of internet explorers pop up for no reason on my start bar. You cant click on them and they are not advertisments; they just appear. Only thing I can do is exit them. Does anyone know what the deal is here?

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Can anybody help with this to tell me what I should delete? Some look a bit iffy to me and I've had a bit of a hacker scare so I want everything cleaned out. Thanks for any help Sourdust Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.2 Scan saved at 19:55:08, on 13/11/03 Platform: …

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A quick rundown of my computer....it is on loan from my Internet school that I go to...and it is also a dell... Now...I have a problem with it. Last night...we had a really bad wind storm. The power flickered on and off for a few seconds. While that was happening …

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