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The last time I started a thread I had spyware.. I think that it has to do with this a lot.. It seem like with the last and this one, is caused by the security center alert. This time it is saying there is a Win32.Zafi.B but really I think …
I have installed two operating systems.I can suffer internet under linux but can't under windows.In windows,it shows local area connection is connected but there is no more internet.I have to restart and go to ubuntu to suffer internet.The ip to suffer internet is obtained automatically in both systems.What is the …
I have custom built cpu w/ a Sata boot Hard drive. Maxtor 320GB. I have a slave old IDE drive. The compture currently runs Linux booting from the SATA. I wish to also install Windows XP 64bit on a 141 GB FAT32 partition on this Hard drive. Maxtor only provides …
Anyone help with a Word 2007 file assocaition problem as follows? Installed Office 2007 Professional on Vista Home Premium which already had Works V8.5. Everything worked OK except that my existing *.doc files insist on opening in Works 8.5 and I want to use Word2007 for all docs (docx and …
I'm using a Microsoft WebCam VX3000. I can record OK, my problem is when I play the recording back on Windows Media Player I get a swirling blue screen. I can hear the audio although there is a slight buzz in it. Can anyone give me some input to resolve …
After a couple months storage i've moved and reassemble my computer. Its maybe 2 years old... but has had lots of problems. It was custom built by a friend. This time it has troubles not freezing. Sometimes it will freeze right after xp loads, and i will try and open …
I have tried the following: I can get on the internet I can get email (exchange server) I can ping internal/external addresses I can not CAN NOT BROWSE THE LOCAL NETWORK \\testsrv shows empty when there are in fact shares there that I could previously get to ALL SHORTCUTS TO …
Hi there, i am having some freezing issues with my hp laptop. i am running windows XP professional. In order for the computer to run at all i have to push down either directly on the trackpad or to the left of it which seems to be above where my …
Odd thing happened after logging out of my administrator settings, into another user, then back to the administrator - got a different desktop, more the default out of the (win 2k sp4) one, with the hokey 'connect to the internet' icon and everything. The other user settings also has admin …
HI Apparently my .net framework has problems with starting up as every time i start up my computer and gets to the desktop screen it gives me a Unhandled Exception Error with .Net Framework I have uninstalled and reinstalled many times now, and have also installed the patches by microsoft …
Please Help me out!! i having an small network with a domain Win2003..and 30 clients of XP pro, i want to share the folder in the Network with Password protection in the client end with AD intregation . The problem is i am not getting the AD Username when i …
I'm getting so frustrated. Here is what I try to accomplish: a clean install of the x64 Version Windows XP on my newly built PC, where I disconnected my Sata 750Gb disk to avoid further complications, since there is Linux resides on it, but not in NTFS format. Now I'm …
hello i beleive i have a problem with a virus or spyware or malware.. on my toolbar it is showing a gold shield with black diagonal lines through it...saying so many viruses detected..and credit card info is at risk and so on...... does anyone know what this is...and if so …
I installed backtrack 3 onto a USB flash drive. I installed it on a fat32 primary partition (sda1), gave it a 1gb swap, a ext2 storage partition (sda3), and a fat32 storage (sda4). When I boot to windows and insert the flash drive, it shows up in My Computer, as …
I'm working on my boss' son's Dell XPS, and it's blue screening with 00000024. It appears to be an error with ntfs.sys. I tried to run the Recovery Console to reload ntfs.sys, but it blue screens (00000007) before I can get to that point. Any ideas how I can get …
I'm new to this community which i stumbled across while Googling my isse: Does anyone know a fix to resolve the "rudll32.exe" not found on a Windows 2003SP2_Std server? The file exists and all the registry entries seem to be in tack, but i'm unable to run anything but the …
I took the plunge an upgraded from word 97 to word 2007 and beginning to wish I had not. I have 2 computers both running Vista Business and loaded with Office 2007 Home and Student edition which does not include Outlook. Windows Mail is my default email programme. The ‘email …
So I'm trying to wipe my installation of XP Home on a Dell Inspiron E1705 and when I try to run the installation I get ACPI.sys is corrupted. I've already updated the BIOS and the Chipset from Dell's website, I've tried multiple installation disks, but no avail. If anyone has …
Hi Guys Its been a while since i been to this site. Well here s the problem. I am having the blue screen coming up saying that there may be some issue with the drivers or something and then the system starts the physical memory dump. I thougt it could …
Dear All, My husband has an issue which is not entirely unique, but the fixes which have worked for others are having no impact. His desktop computer can download email to Thunderbird, but neither Firefox nor IE can browse the internet. We don't get an error, or a "Firefox cannot …
Once or twice a day, my windows 2000 machine loses internet access. I have to turn off the switch to which it is connected, wait about 10 seconds and then turn the switch on. And then I regain access. Loss of access means that I get the message from the …
[i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Set, View, Change, or Remove Special Permissions for Files and Folders in Windows XP[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]In Windows XP, you can apply special access permissions to files or folders that are located on NTFS file system volumes. …
This just started less than a month ago. When I click the Search button in the Explorer toolbar, the following message appears: "A file that is required to run search companion cannot be found. You may need to run setup." I am running Microsoft Windows XP Sp3. (finally, I had …
Hi, I'm new to using queries in Access and am stuck on trying to run a query from a table. I have thousands of records with fields such as customer name, Company Name, Company Country and Balance. What I want to do is run the query to count the number …
Hi guys I've got a good one. Colleague brought problem to me, as subject says it's an ACER Aspire 9303 ([URL="http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/as9300.htm"]specs here[/URL]). The user turned it on (hadn't used it since before christmas) and apparently found out that sound not working. I'm led to believe it worked at some point …
I been having some problems with Spyware Guard 2008 and all. This happen 1-2 weeks ago. I noticed some problem and then after a while I assume just to go look for Spyware Guard 2008 stuff, just because it was out there. After a bit of learning some more tricks …
I have an older computer that was running Windows XP SP1. The computer is severly infected. I updated the OS to SP2 and am now having problems using my browser (firefox and netscape). IE is so corrupted that I can't even open without muliple windows popping up. I have purchased …
Hi, I don't know very much about computers so bare with me and hopfully i will be able to figure this out. I just go a P4 3ghz prossecer, 512 mb ram and i am running XP Pro sp 2 . I don't know what the problem is but my …
OK guys....I experience occasional bouts of overheating on my normally fast, 2gig ram dell inspiron 9400. It should idle at 40degC (according to the i8kfangui temp utility) but when it get's unhappy from time to time it idles at 50degC, and all other temps seem to be inflated 10 - …
This is a very strange situation we are. Our AD domain is the same as our webserver domain. For example, let's say our: AD domain is: ourcompany.usa.org Webserver domain is: ourcompany.usa.org This would be all fine if we had our webserver and domain controller in the same network. However, our …
Hi, been on windows vista home premium for 9 months & have occasionally tried to find out how to send a web page link to the desktop & haven't yet discovered how to! With XP it was simply a case of going to 'file', then 'send link to', & then …
i own a 2 years old Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with a windows Xp service pack 2. for the past few months i have been experiencing Blue screen error, frequently. it occurs around 2 to 3 hours after i work on my laptop. i contacted the Dell technical support, and …
I have been have a slow startup problem with Outlook Express for tha last few days and narrowed it down to a piece of junk from Microsoft call Silverlight. Once it was removed my Outlook Express now starts with the speed it use to before I installed Siverlight. I thought …
Hey guys please help, ok this problem started a while ago (2 weeks?) anyways the problem was I would login but my desktop and task bar would not appear, so i figured out a while later Ctrl + Alt + Delete and then run a programs filer like C:/Documents or …
Ok so just recently started having this problem. Don't know what started it, except i previously unplugged the power unintentionally while my laptop was in hibernate. Turned it on today, it gets to the login screen, and when i enter my password all i get is a black screen. I …
I have an ASUS p5k-e motherboard. It's roughly about 2 years old... I turned it off one day to clean it about 2 days ago and it didn't have a boot sequence.... I took everything out after the first unsuccessful boot process, but it still didn't boot.... My whole life …
Hi, I have previously formatted and installed Windows 98,2000, XP and vista on many,many hard drives. I have never had this problem. A high spec machine with 2gb ram and 250 sata 2 seagate HD. The machine runs beautifully except that I suspect a virus infection because the security service …
Hi, I'm running Windows XP and have multiple accounts going using Fast User Switching. I'm looking for a method to turn off the message that says "Other people are logged on to this computer. Shutting down Windows might cause them to lose data. Do you want to continue shutting down?" …
Hi, I found one good program - [URL="http://agatasoft.com/ping_utility.html"]Auto ping utility[/URL](it is freeware). I hope it will be helpful for anyone else. This program can show where is a problem of your internet connection. I mean it do ping command all time for chosen hosts, and show in the system tray …
My computer just went on the fritz. I can get it to boot up and it gets up to the choice of family members, I can choose and then the HD does it thing and the desktop picture shows up and thats it. No icons, no startup bar, nothing. If …
I have a dell Inspiron 6400/e1505 I was wondering if you can run vista 54 but off it. I have a core 2 due 1.83 ghz processor. I know that its a 64 bit setup but i was wondering if it able to handle the 64 bit version?
Hello all, i'm formatting my pc and i'm facing a problem with my CD-ROM device. in the middle of windows xp installation i get an error message that it cant read from the I/O device. i assume that my CD-ROM is damaged or something, but it happens that i have …
any one using windows 7, just downloaded it and it doesnt appear like a new operating system as yet, rather a new edition of vista
I am using XP service pack 3 and have installed WMP 11. I try to start the program and get the message " Windows Media Player is not installed properly and must be reinstalled. Do you wan:'( t to install the player from the Microsoft Web site?" Accepting 'yes' to …
How to enable Cookies in web browser i listed in this post. Web sites like myExpedient.net and others require that cookies be enabled. To specify how your browser should handle cookies, follow the instructions below for your web browser version: 1. Select the Internet Options option from the View menu. …
About a month ago I for lack of a better word tweaked my startup menu in order to help speed up my computer. I really had no problems until now when I found I was unable to install any microsoft software such as Expressions Web 2.0 and I had removed …
helllo sir, am astudent of olabisi onabanjo university i am facing problems on smtp and tcp am facing problem in running my business while still at school .............please refer me to any end solution about this... pleaese i need a lasting solution to this
So this is one of the strangest issues I've seen... I have a Windows 2000 Server box with SP4 plus all recent Windows updates. I'm not sure when this started (the server is a backup and isn't often used), but after being on from anywhere between several hours to a …
Hi, [U]Environment[/U]: My outlook 2003 default format is HTML. The Default fond for new/reply messages is Arial. [U]The Problem[/U]: I get a message in text format. When I manually change the format of this message to HTML, the font of the message is Times Roman. How can I make outlook …
Hi there, I am new to here, Not computer. At the same time i'm not in a level of top.. k I will come to the point ! I have a one setup file with 60mb. I want to zip this file 10mb separately.. totally i'll get 6 10mb files... …
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