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Im planning to reformat my laptop coz its infected with lots of viruses and I cant use a lot of applications, and got a bluescreen background... and I cant change my background because everytime I change it nothing happens... there was this AntiMalware2009 which I havent installed and scanned about …

Hi everyone. Appreciate some help here. I am not sure how this happened. Whenever i try to open certain files or folders, I will get a the above pop up, and when i select no it goes to this site. sc.videofreeforonline.com/id/4912933/4/1 What should i do? I ran Mcafee few times, …

I have a sandisk thumb drive that in the past, whenever I plugged it in, would load up two drives, E and F. It would always be E and F. But lately, the drive letters for the thumb drive have changed to like G and H. I don't know why. …

Hello, I'm having a few problems getting Outlook to connect to a pop3 email account at work. I've just migrated a website to a new server and had to set up all the email accounts again. On Monday I was able to connect to the accounts with no problems. I …

so i have an older model emachine. just recently when i go to start the computer the emachine logo appears and then another screen which i'm guessing is the BIOS appears and then after that the computer screen goes completely black. i can pull up the safe mode menu but …

ok i got a video but theres some points i want to sensor. by sensor, i mean black out. its just me playing a game but i want to block my online name out because i dont want people do be sending me friend requests because i dont even play …

Here's where I am at: This Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server Wont Show Desktop or Allow explorer.exe to be Launched. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Operating System:Windows 2003 Web Browser:Internet Explorer 8 (Upgraded during this round of trouble shooting after being told that IE and Explorer were tied to each other) Memory:4GM Networking:100BaseTX Hard …

I am Locked out! Since a Windows Update, I am asked for a password for the user, either my or my wife. With my user name in the box, I tried no password (blank) and got the wallpaper with no icons. I have tried "Safe Mode": the same result with …

Hi there! Can someone help me about this win32 application. I'm trying to install google toolbar in ms internet explorer in Windows XP. Everytime I run the "google updater.exe" there's an error prompting "C:/Programs/google updater.exe is not a valid win32 application." Can someone help me for this? Thanks in advance! …

READING GUIDE LINE Here is what I would like to have: A horizontal colored line on the screen that I can extend from one side to the other. Can set hieght of line about 8 pixel to 20 pixel Line can be positioned vertically and be hidden or unhidden. Similar …

My neighbor asked me to fix his computer because "its not working" What I have discovered is that explorer.exe continually restarts itself every 10 seconds or so. There is a main user name which has admin privileges however when you are logged in, "task manager has been disabled by the …

Okay guys/gals, I'm hopeful someone can help me here. Here's my situation: I have a few custom fill in forms I've created for Outlook. And I want all of my users to be able to access them. This isn't the problem. The problem is ease of use. Our users aren't …

On my son's Laptop there is a file called C:\winbkup which at 3.70GB takes up a quarter of his hard drive. Can this be deleted, or will that completely mess things up?

Hi! I recently changed my default system font, and everything looks really nice now except that with certain numbers, the systray clock's colon is too close to the first minute digit and it looks a little bit off. I figure there's probably a way to mess with the registry to …

I was directed by hijackthis to post this log file Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 13:36:08, on 07/10/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18241) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSvcHst.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE …

Hi, I have a directory called "mysql5.0.51a" in C:\wamp\ It says "invalid directory", when i type (in command prompt) C:\wamp\>CD mysql5.0.51a Why do you think this is? "mysql5.0.51a" is in wamp as well. I have a lot of files in it aswell. Windows XP Prof. Thanks

Hi anyone else been hit by this massive virus that takes over admin. duties on your cpu? I got most of the bad stuff out with Nortons and spyware doctor. But can seem to get full control of my cpu like I cant go into my program files or my …

Hi I have recently been given a PC running XP pro, this had Microsoft Office installed but when I tried to open Outlook it wanted to look for the exchange server and when couldn't find it shut down. In an effort to sort this I removed the software and ran …

I have a question and i need an answer, whats the best file sharing program for vista because for xp i had (share pro 360) and it was okay but now i have had vista for a while and well it doesnt work as needed i was think of getting …

We have 3 laptops. Work one, a Toshiba with XP, my own, an Acer with XP and my wife's, an HP with Vista. The router is a Netgear. Both XP laptops boot up and a few seconds later connect to the router automatically. The Vista one might connect automatically but …

Hi I am new here so if I have posted in the wrong area I do apologize. I hope I can do this without confusing everybody. here goes; about six months ago I got a cannot display page message while trying to access a website that I had previously accessed …

Hi im extremely frustrated and a friend told me about this site so i hope someone can help. I was recently restoring my computer when in the middle of it a power outage in our house caused my computer to restart. Needless to say it messed my computer up and …

Hello All..... It has finally happened......vista will not load, and none of the "quick fixes" will work. Does anyone know of any location I can download a boot program that will work for vista? The only thing that is gonna work is running a fixboot or fixmbr.....but I need a …

Hi, I am running a Windows XP Professional platform with SP3. I've disabled Indexing Services. I've swept my system for spyware using PestPatrol. I'm running AVG firewall and AntiVirus. Taskmanager shows infrequent program access of programs and usually sits at 99% idle without giving me information as to what programs …

I am working out of Outlook 2003 on an Exchange Server 2003 system. One of my co workers is having problems reading some e-mails because of the font size of the lettering. He wants to have the option of changing the font size of an incoming e-mail from like 8 …

one week ago i decide to instal the service pack 2 of windows. I was usin firefox update 3 as mi browser an did not use the internet explorer 6 but then i instal the service pack 2 an fire fox star to display an error screen like if dosent …

Hello guys I have been facing a problem with my internet explorer lately.Every time i close any internet explorer window , i get a message saying internet explorer has encountered an error . It also says if send or dont send the error report.But even after sending the error report …

I was usin firefox update 3 as mi browser with windows xp pro and never use the internet explorer of windows, but i decide to instal the service pack 2 and then the fire fox stop workin and only send me a messege says fire fox can`t find the server …

When I opened my conputer to-day my favorites was missing and I dont know how to retrieve it can you help? Marian Howe

[COLOR="Green"][B]hi there i have this desktop, got it from a private company(company used PC) i tried to do a clean install of XP......but its not booting from CD,[i did set the bios to boot from cd]....... also i tried to use from start up disk[A:] but when i tried to …

It used to work now the message I get is: Internet explorer cannot download. No such interface supported. .

I have installed XP on this machine numerous times but this time I'm stuck. There are 3 disks: 1 is partitioned as Linux/NTFS. Linux boots OK while NTFS contains the necessary chipset, LAN etc drivers. Disk 2 is Linux. Disk 3 (where I am trying to install) is recognised as …

Sorry for the duplication but I did not get a response in the old "post703047"(2006). I looked at [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post703047.html[/url]. I tried all the suggestions and msconfig.exe did not work. I even checked the registry and compared it to another registry in a configuration that did work, yet I saw no …

i put new windows on my pc and now i have no sound at all i have tried everything possible please can some one help

i got a problem n my notebook... when i powered on, the network icons in startUp take a lot time to start... i have set MenuShowDelay at registry become 0... then the windows xplorer start lately too bcause it waits the start up icon... what i must do ya? thanks …

My system has alerted me that it has detected an activity of a harmful software and it has no solution to it as it redirects me to download a spyware removal tool. The name of the problem/trojan is [B][U][COLOR="Red"]Trojan-Spy.HTML.Bankfraud.dq.[/COLOR][/U][/B] Help me guys!!!

............ change the previous owners name in my 2nd hand computer? It's got Windows XP Home w/SP3 and I just want to remove their name from my daughters computer. Also, we bought one for our son but it has Windows XP Professional on it but I can't upgrade the Internet …

I think I have viruses on my computer and I have done a full scan and that and removed the viruses but i am still unable to change my background. I am running Vista Home Premium Here my Hijack this Log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at …

Hi I hope this is the right forum to post this in, it seemed the best fit for the question. Ok, we have an IBM Thinkpad running specialist auto diagnostic software built on a custom build of SCO linux - I say custom as I don't seem to be able …

A message is displayed on the screen of my computer,u have a 2038 virus on computer .... . there is link in this advertise, when i open that link it demands my bank details and forces to buy that antivirus. That antivirus name is antivirus 99, its icon is shown …

Whenever I try to open my Device Manager it gives me and error that says class not registered and I've tried opening it by running the command to open Device Manager but it didn't work.

I was told that some setting on vista can cause my issue. I am not sure what setting it is or how I would even changet them once told what the setting issue is. Here is my problem: I recently added Norton Anti-virus and a router to my PC. I …

I'm using [B]WINDOWS VISTA HOME PREMIUM [/B]edition and i applied a patch on an existing game and then, I found that after the reboot, the [I][U]monitor turned blank[/U][/I] after [I]WELCOME SCREEN[/I] is displayed. I don't know what I must do.Can any one of you guys help me? [B][I][U]Very urgent[/U][/I][/B]!!!

Can you connect 2 PCs on 1 phone line? Like daisy chain? Are the modem outputs 'phone' and 'line' connected? ie: shorted together

Hi everyone,i have this Dell machine that's running win xp professional and it's really driving me to the wall.When it's booting it comes up with some funny looking words and doesn't completely boot. Removed the hard disk and used another machine on it and it works just fine. What could …

I am getting an error in Internet Explorer: "Internet Explorer Cannot Display Web Page" Can someone tell me how to solve this problem? TIA!! CBuddha

Hi. My PC has WinXP SP2 and I have a problem with webpages not displaying properly in IE6. It seems that any site with the ending .aspx won't load at all, i just get a blank page with no error messages or anything to tell me what the problem is. …

Hi there Wondering if someone can help/advise me? Will try and make this as clear as possible!! 1. I have a standard internet connection which I have 2 pc's connected to. One is my works laptop (XP) which works fine. I also have a personal pc with Vista (3 months …

I formatted my HP DV6000 laptop that comes with vista and installed Windows XP on it, i downloaded ethe driver for the Dv6000 laptop but it doesnt work at all on it, anybody with a good idea on this should please help me out, my sound my Display won't work …

Hi, I have a Acer desktop with a Celeron D CPU 3,46GHz 3.47 GHz. 1.25 GB of RAM Physical address extension running Windows XP Pro Version 2002 with SP3 I have a list of problems:- 1. when using my pc with one of three internet programs, IE, Opera and Mozella, …