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well i was on the site about a week ago and had my computer fixed. well now my computer is showing like 10 viruses. i haven't done anything drastic in the past week that would have caused any of these viruses. i'm very confused and i need some help. here …

Hi, hope someone can let me know what to do here... So, I just bought a new laptop for school and need it for architecture/modeling. I ended up with a vaio with an nvidia geforce go 7400 video card and (of course) loaded with vista home premium. The most important …

Goto start/settings and press CTRL while clicking 'taskbar & start menu' and you will see the new tab (I didnt know that was there till today!!!!) I dont have anything in that section though..

Two of my machines were recently attacked by a virus, which required me to format the machines. After formating i reloaded Windows XP, but the machines no longer have any sound, and i have devices with yellow question marks, PCI Simple Communication Controller, Video Controller (VGA Compatible), PCI Device, Ethernet …

OK...I'm having a problem...I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 I have Avira Anti-virus, free version...Spybot S&D...CCleaner...Ad-Aware SE...and recently got Kaspersky Internet Security 8...free trial...than I downloaded AVG Anti-virus and installed it..after that I started getting problems...when I opened MY COMPUTER...CONTROL PANEL...or anything that uses WINDOWS EXPLORER...it works fine after …

I’m running Vista. I can only logon to my PC with one User Profile (Administrator). I have set up another Administrator account and also turned on the Guest account. However, when I try to logon with either of these, I get the following on-screen message: The User Profile service failed …

Screenshot of problem: [url]http://www.equinefocus.co.uk/worderror.jpg[/url] I create a table without problem, but when I come to type in it, the cell fills with a navy highlight, and I am unable to see the text I am writing, until clicking outside of the cell. I do not have this problem at work, …

When I turn this Laptop on it lights up and you can hear various noises inside coming from the area where the hard drive is situated along with the fan trying but does not actually start, and the CD rom spinning aswell. After these noises the unit switches off and …

Hey all, me atul..a newbie here in daniweb..:) I've got a problem in ma xp:( ..32 bit system.. I recently ran ccleaner 2.0 in ma system..ever since that, whenever i open "my computer" and then later close it, a box telling"windows explorer has encountered an error and need to close" …

Currently I'm running ObjectDock Plus 1.9 on Windows Vista (SP1) and it works perfectly fine for the most part, except when I launch some (only a handful do this) programs from the dock they turn off Aero as if the app is incompatible with the Aero color scheme - when …

I can't install this. any help?...thanks

just installed win server in administrative role but on installing service pack2 or any service pack it gives a message stating "U DONT HAVE NECESSARY PERMISSIONS TO INSTALL UPDATES.CONTACT YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRTATOR" but i am the system administrator... even after giving full rights to c: pls help...

G'day all - I've had a quick search, but didn't see anything. Besides which who would want to do this anyway? :icon_rolleyes: Anyhow... Is there a way to keep My Documents and Settings on E:, my data drive? The only reason I want to do this is my paranoia :scared: …

I have just recently got this virus. I don't know how. It is using up my processor alot and giving me pop-ups and voices when im not on the internet saying stuff like, "You have just won a free ipod, click here to get it." Anyways, it's really annoying and …

Windows XP Home SP3 Dell Dimension 2400 As I am outgrowing my original 80 gig drive, I decided to get a copy of Norton Ghost and a new 500 gig drive. I know that using Ghost's "Copy My Drive" feature should allow me to make an exact image of my …

not sure if this is the right area, ive made topics before on here but dont remember where i put them... Okay so i have a netgear mr814 wireless router, i can plug into it and it will work fine but when its not plugged in i dont even get …

Guys my windows xp is slowed down can somebody please tell me how to recover my computer

My computer connects to the internet but won't open any web pages. Any ideas!!!

For many years I have been using Borland Turbo C++ (version 3) to run a vital (to me) application. It has worked quite happily on 98SE and all my variants of XP Home (SP1, SP2 and SP3). The last time it worked was 18 September, and now I find that …

I am using xp pro sp2. I wanted to install a vista theme. I installed some of the themes and every thing went fine. But after rebooting nothing was visible on the desktop. Nothing would appear by right clicking. I use task manager and type in command to do my …

My tablet accidentally hit my keyboard, and I have no idea what keys it hit, but one of those grey right-click pop-up menus appeared for a second before the screen went black and then came back up, only flipped on it's side. What do I have to do to reverse …

My electricity went off today and when it came back on and I rebooted, my Inbox was empty. My Deleted Items and other folders were unaffected, but I had lost everythingin my Inbox. How can I get these messages back? Bert

Hi all, I am new to this forum. I have a problem with a computer at my office. For this computer I have 2 network cables from 2 different service providers. For example if one network goes down I can alway change to the other network. From few days ago …

My computer comes up like normal, but after you open a program and want to close it, the computer will not let you close and finally freezes. Once in a while it will say it is locked. How can I fix this?

Installed Easy CD creator 6 and it caused a crash on Win 2003 server. I am in safe mode but when I try to Uninstall in safe mode I get message can not access uninstaller in safe mode or windows installer is not properly installed. Any suggestions greatly appreciated as …

I downloaded "Total Video Converter" and I can't get it to convert the video files from my DVD into a common format such as WMV, MPEG, or AVI, or into sound such as MP3 or WMA, which it says it can do. I'm not sure what the problem is. Thte …

I work in the IT department. I have been given the task of compiling a list of all the Access databases we have on our server and creating an Excel spreadsheet (using MS office 2007) with certain data such as name of database, access date, owner etc. My problem is …

Hello all. I am running Windows XP SP2. I got a new Seagate HDD 160GB and was doing a fresh install of XP. Everything was going well during formatting the new hard drive but at around 6% my power went out!!! Now I tried to do the fresh XP install …

Here is my situation, every time I open Office word 2007 and work on it, in a matter of few seconds a get an error and it says ¨office word had stop working and needs to close¨ and then shuts down. same thing happens with excel 2007. I have a …

Ive problems with viruses, namely: brontok.q and virut. After ive removed them from my system, i know they must have changed or modyfied my system registry. is there anyway i can repair the registry?? Can someone recommend some tools that i can get from the net to fix this problem? …

I am running XP Home SP3 fully patched. I have some old software originally written for Window 3.1 that has continued to work quite happliy until now. I know it worked on 18 September as that is when the last usage of it was. Since then I have applied all …

Recently I tried to open my PC with Windows XP Home Edition and I got the above message saying it was corrupted. I tried to reinstall the OS and it would not work. I have stuff on there I do not want to lose so reformatting is out, for now. …

After allowing a friend to use my computer, I came back to find it with antivirus pro 2009 on it. Woohoo! After finding fixes for it, they all seem to point to using Malwarebyte's anti-malware, but upon launching the installer, nothing happens, the "Loading" cursor pops up for a while …

I'm using a asus p5gc-mx/1333 motherboard, and ive attempted to install the Realtek AC driver that i got from the packed driver, to no effect, ive tried to install it 3 times and I still don't have sound, ive already tried to download from asus site but still not working.. …

Im starting to collect a rather large photo collect. Especially since I started taking pictures in RAW. Well I decided I should look into an online backup service or sorts. Dont want to lose all those memories. So what services does everyone use? I want something that offers some sort …

I got XP Pro SP1 and my wireless connection is slow. How can I increase the speed? It's weird but on ubuntu, my wireless connection is fast. Anyway, how do I increase my wireless connection speed? I got the latest drivers installed, by the way. .

When starting up I'm getting a blue screen which says Stop: c0000021a (Fatal system error) The windows Logon Process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0x0000005...the system has shut down. What's up and how do I fix?

We have a Windows 2003 fileserver (demoted from a DC a few months ago). Anyway after we rebooted following an update a couple weeks ago is where the problems first started. The IPsec service would not start and therefore would now allow any TCP/IP traffic. We don't need that service …

I have conected hard drive from my broken notebook to my new pc. Just want to transfere some folders. Problem : I can not open or copy any folder to my new pc, new hard drive. Folders are locked because i was computers administrator. Please help me somehow

Since Monday, my PC hangs for like two minutes on the RAID Configuration screen when I turn my PC on for the first time on a day (after being off for many hours). If I reboot, it takes the normal two seconds. I use a RAID 0 setup with two …

The instruction at Ox7c91b1fa referenced memory at 0x00000010. The memory could not be written.? This happens as Windows XP is booting up and then I click ok and it removes the screen but not the problem. Happens everytime.

Hi there, From all my searching, this appears to be a common issue. That said, I haven't found a solution that works thus far. [U]Background:[/U] I have two computers (PC1 and PC2), both with Win XP Pro SP2 connected to each other and the internet via my Netgear DG834 ADSL …

I'm a PC Repair Tech working for the second time on this Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop with this problem that never ends. I really hope someone has encountered this problem. I've tried several attempts to repair this problem with no success. So here it is. Help & Support pops up …

Does anyone know when and if hp will update drivers for hp psc 2210 all in one printer so that i can scan using windows vista home premium.

Hey guys, Any ideas how to share a scanner on network just like sharing a printer? I'm using XP. Any suggestions is greatly appreciated. Thanks.. cguan_77

Hi All Got a really wierd issue here. In both Excel 2003 and Word 2003, when you type the word October, and it is only October, when you press the tab or enter button or click the next cell, whatever it always drops it to lower case when you have …

I am connected to the internet and can use gmail chat and check my email but Im unable to surf. Windows diagnostic said it was probably to do with firewall settings and told me to check HTTP port(80), HTTPS port(443) and FTP port (21). I don't know what this means. …

I have win XP home, with all the updates and svc packs up to date. I've run Spybot and Ad-Aware several times already. The problem started when I was playing Battlefield 1942. I left it playing for about an hour unattended because I had visitors come over. When I came …

Any body know about "EasyfitXL" and "StatistiXL"?? which one is more user friendly and useful??? thank you.....

For awhile now I have been in an endless cycle configuring updates. After I install the updates and reboot it says configuring updates 1 of 3. Then when it is finished it says updates were not configured correctly reverting changes. Needless to say I have a lot of uninstalled updates. …