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More often than not I'll be writing about the security problems facing Windows XP users, such as when I recently reported how a large number of enterprises are still running XP SP2 machines which will shortly [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story287954.html"]stop being supported by Microsoft[/URL] in terms of security updates, hotfixes and the like. …

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Microsoft will stop releasing security updates, hotfixes and other updates for Windows XP SP2 on July 13th 2010. No biggie, you might think, after all Windows XP SP3 was released way back in April 2008 and since then we've had both Vista (perhaps best forgotten) and the much more palatable …

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Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth Here's how to Get it back: Microsoft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..) Here's how to get it back: Click Start > Run > type "gpedit.msc" This opens the group policy editor. …

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Have a need to hide the toolbar yet still need to crop an image. Is there a keyboard command that would allow me to crop with the toolbar minimized? Guidance sought

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I have a few good old computer which runs on Window XP without any problem so far. But what happen come next year when Microsoft put Window XP to rest forever. No security updates, no hardware drivers update, no third party software updates etc.. Dump the old computer and buy …

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I have code for Enable or disable the comport in device manager through vb.net program in windows xp . but that code is not working in windows 7. Is there any common function for both os.

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i just purchased a new laptop and everything was working fine yesterday but today i am having trouble with certain websites, most are fine, however, i cannot open the sign in page to hotmail, i can sign in to facebook but none of the posts load up, and i cannot …

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All of a sudden Windows 8 is unresponsve upon entering the desktop and on bringing up the Task Manager Disc usage is showing 100% for 5-10mins then returns to normal. Really want to sort this as I need to use the Laptop for work: HP Pavilion g6-2265sa Windows 8 (Home) …

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Hello it seems like my IExplorer has been hijacked. I use Firefox for my browsing. My computer was running slow so i check Task manager and saw that Iexplorer was running in processes but not applications. Also noticed it mutiple IE processes running at same time. I end them but …

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I have a dual boot PC with Windows XP pro SP3 and Windows 7 pro. In XP IE8 I open my bank home page and write my user and password and the following page won't open.I get the message that IE can't open the page and to check etc.. With …

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We got a new laptop, the Acer Aspire V5-122P-0408. It has: AMD Dual-Core A4-1250 1GHz, 4GB DDR3, and 500GB HDD. Based on those specs, this computer should have zero issues doing things like facebook or watching videos. It should even be able to play vanilla Minecraft on low video settings. …

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Hi Dw I bought a laptop 2 years back and in the past few weeks it freezed and i was so frastrated and i just rebooted it with the disc that I was issued from the store when i was purchasing it now the problem I'm having is that it …

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My BIOS does not detect my HDD with windows 8.1 on it. I'am sure there is still a lot of rescuable data on it. Can anybody give me a hint how to get to it

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Hello! I haven't posted here in a while but I just had something happen to me that makes me extremely angry and I would like to vent, hopefully it's not a problem. For the 1 almost two years I have been running various flavors of Linux on my machine, because …

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So I've come across a problem more than once and it'd be a ton of help if I could get this figured out! So there are several instances where I've wanted to open a file with notepad or notepad++ to change values or something (mainly with videogames). The problem that …

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Hi all As shown in Image there is a error coming on my pc while i start the machine. or whenever restart it. please help me to get rid out of these problem. Thank you

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Hello. My computer is infected with a thing called Windows Accelerator Pro. It looks like an antivirus program, but I'm sure it's a virus, because I did not install it and I do not have any other antivirus protection on my PC. I thought I wouldn't need one, but I …

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Which function key need to be press while reboot to ebter in safe mode of windows

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hi, Please help how to solve my problem about how to limit 11 digit number inside excel cell. i want to enter values like mobile number starting 0########## and deletes the excess numbers. thanks in advance

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Hi, I've had to replace my hard drive due to a fault. Managed to get windows etc. back on. My problem is with IE. I get script errors or the page will load but with errors or the page will not load fully. I've loaded adobe flash. not sure what …

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Comuter reboots itself 2-3 times each time at start up(at booting time) ,after giving a blue screen. Checked the error with blue screen viewer and it says problem with Hardware abstract layer,none page fault in none page area. Really annoing ,each time i start,need to wait this circle to pass.Any …

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hello everyone,..can you share with me how to get the activation of product key for windows 8??please give me a respond

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We have a Dell Computer with Windows 7. The website history has been deleted and I am suspicious the reason is to hide a couple of sites that were visited. I am NOT computer smart and I really need some help with this. Is there a way for me to …

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Okay guys, I am having a tough time tryin to figure out this one and I hope some of you can lead me to a right direction .. My friend who has windows 7 as operating system, usually on boot up he has 3 options to choose inbetween and a …

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My aol will not start. I mean, I click on it, but it won't start. basically like I never clicked on it at all. I don't have this problem with any of my other programs, or on any of my other computers. The "Tech-support" at AOL couldn't "figure" out how …

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Hi. When I try to open the windows 8 app store via metro, It gets stuck on the splash 'loading' screen, with the logo and the rotating dots. I can leave it for an hour, and it will still stay on that splash screen. I'll post my system specs later …

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i am using windows 7 os h/w:i3 processor 4gb ram 5oo gb hdd, i forgot my win 7 password for administrator account .. i used Konboot live cd to break it but there is no use!! please perfer me good s/w to log in into my acc..

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Hi All, I've been asked to setup a TLS conncetor between my company and a client site. Whilst there was a lot of useless information going back and forth, I managed to set up the connector. The only thing is I'm not sure it's working. As I said, I think …

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I have an old Dell Dimension 8400 that I would like to donate to my grandson's daycare center. I need to erase everything from computer and put back to factory settings, but I have misplaced the Restore Disks. I do not want to pay $50 for a new restore disk. …

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what did I've done wrong with this code? =IF(OR(ISBLANK(C9),ISBLANK(B9)),"",IF(ISBLANK(C9),D9-TODAY(), "Reactivated")) I want to make an event that if b9 and c9 is empty, the value would be empty. if only c9 is empty, then the output would be the remaining days left between the two dates, and if the two …

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Hi there guys! Good day. I just want to ask assistance from you because I am really not an IT expert. I noticed something after I update my machine to Windows August Update 2. I noticed this on my network options everytime I click on the signal symbol on my …

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Compac C700 would not start and not restore so I decided to use Recovery Manager 3 discs. Now on third disc and seems to have stuck. Been on 18% progress and 19 minutes remaining for some time with no noise! Is this normal and if not what should I do?

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I'm downloading through BitTorrent client on Windows 8. I imagine I could leave it there with locked screen a.k.a. `Super + L`, but, I assume it will automatically fall asleep, it will be over 10 minutes, an hour or any other minute, but I just need it to stay awake. …

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I am trying a long distance help session with a friend who lost the file edit etc line in Outlook Express and now Windows Live has same problem. Any suggestions? IE 8, Win XP Home. Thanks

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My company has Xen servers, the hardware is pretty solid, my questions pertains to setting up a Virtual Windows 2014R2 File Server in this environment. Has anyone had any experience with VM file servers? Would you create a small VHD (100GB) for the file server as one and then have …

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Hi! I've a problem. I can't activate windows 8.1 For this reason I can't change my personal settings. Answer needed...

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hey everyone, new here and i was having problems with my browser(chrome), am having pop ups everywhere some not even ads help needed and fast. Thanks in advance to the possible helpers

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When I'm trying to copy text from a comment somewhere in a thread (by leftclicking in the textarea and moving the cursor to mark the text) the cursor jumps to the first posting in the thread. Using Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11.0.9600.17239 - update version 11.0.11.

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I have a hard drive that is meant to have Win7 installed. It cancels the installation by itself, right at the beginning, error code 0x80070017. This drive has partitions c: d: and x: I tried formatting x: from cmd and it says it's write protected. Tried with d: and I'm …

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I have tryed to save it then off the computer after few day, I turne on our PC but that don't work How to open our document any method to recover my doc file? Can anybody help me?

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Hi, i'm in a pickle. I'm on a Samsung Notebook with Windows 7 installed about 2 years ago. A couple of days a go my power adaptor stoped working, so I replaced and it all goes well. One day later, I tried to play CS GO and I noticed that …

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Hey guys, this is my first post here. I'm in a bind, because my computer crashed about a week ago and I'm trying to get all of my old data on my new machine. Thankfully most of my info was on a seperate server, and a friend was able to …

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I have an Epson Stylus CX5400 that quits working on my eMachines W2646 XP SP2 Home Edition pc every so often. Usually it is some problem with Epson's own ink that causes the problem and I have to keep replacing the ink cartridges. This time, the pc decided it no …

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My son was using his toshiba satelitte win 8.1 64bit computer and it crashed. Now all it does is go through the repair loop with no success. I thought maybe it was the MBR and tried to replace that but only screwed things up. I replaced the BCD file with …

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Hi I have recently bought a new laptop with Windows 8.1 and I have been using it fine, but trying to find everything easily is confusing me. There is a start button but it brings up loads and loads of little things I don't want, or know what they are. …

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which games are supported by windows 8. and what is needed to play games in windows 8

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Hi everyone, I am Younus Javaid from the enchanting country Pakistan. I am new here, and expecting to learn more about Windows. The best for multi tasking on the desktop?

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I recently replaced an internal HDD and installed a fresh copy of Win XP. A copy of the old C drive is on an external HDD. (I should not run any executables from the old copy.) I had extensive folders and files in the Outlook Folder List on the old …

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After i upgraded my win7 OS to win8, i found out that my audio output device is not installed.i tried installing realtek and other audio driver but still it is not fixed...please help me with this problem??? Here's my motherboard type: ASRock G41M-VS3....

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