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Hi, I have a personal PC at home running Windows XP, 3.06 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 with 200 GB hard drive space and 512 MB RAM. I bought this a year ago from PC world. I have noticed that my PC took about 3 mins to start so I decided …

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I am getting a blue screen on my computer that says if this persists contact distributor and ask them for some files that may be missing. I'm thinking about reformatting my computer to solve this; but before I do I was wondering if anyone else had a quicker solution.

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ok, i've had it with this cloak and dagger stuff i have a hp pavilion xt928 with win xp on it i even wasted more money ordering the recovery disks i would like to go back to old win98se os and still be able to use the hardware on this …

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I have a Sony dual-layer capable DRU-820A DVD burner and im running vista ultimate full version. my device manager is saying that the burner is installed properly. But not only does the burning not work, no CD's or DVDs are even detected by the drive when i insert one. The …

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I have a challange for anyone who thinks they can help me. I have been trying for 8 months to rid my computer of the infamous NEW FOUND HARDARE WIZARD. I have tried everything i know and some of what others know and yet it still lurks on my computer. …

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Hi I had trouble with my computer, and uninstalled trend micro pc-cillin 2007. The problem is that now when I want to re install it, it says its already installed. I try to uninstall from add/remove but nothing happens, i cant find any files anywhere that have been left behind. …

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Help, I have been trying to load Windows Vista Ulitmate to a new Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 SATA 320gb. H/D is plugged into the SATA 1 socket and all runs ok till it starts to look for a H/D driver ?? Vista does a search and tells me it cannot find …

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Heh ladies and gents wondered if someone might know the answer to this one; currently work has required us to change the address details on our autosignatures, (not a problem) anyway so changed the address for mine and other less pc loving colleagues when one college asked if he could …

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I've been updating my tags in my pictures folder which makes searching for pictures very easy. However there are certain private pictures that I have set the file attributes as hidden, but when you type any of the tag names in the Vista search box it pulls up those hidden …

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sir the folder option is missing in tooles menu &control pannel . so i m not see my hidden files & folder pls help me

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my Add and remove programs will just sit there and says "please wait while the list is being populated." I have let it run for a long time and still nothing. any clues????

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I can't download IE6, a message comes up saying I need to reboot because of a previous installation.

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I'm running 2m pro, 130 megs of ram on a Compaq Dell Dimensions V400. There is an old install of McAfee that I want to get rid of and can't do it. When I go through the Install and uninstall applet not only does it not uninstall, but it freezes …

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[quote]It’s official: We are now in the under-promise and over-deliver era at Microsoft. Just when Microsoft had customers, partners and competitors all believing that it was going to delay the first service pack for Vista — not releasing a first beta of it until just before year-end — the company …

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I'm a newbie so bare with me. I have been getting crazy amounts of popups. I've done all kinds of spyware and virus scans, even removing a lot that were found, but still the popups won't go away. Most of the popups are antivirus/spyware related. The most frequent ones are …

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Hello, about a week ago I posted a thread asking if my computer was compatibly with blank dvds, and unfortunately it wasn't. However, the nice gentlemen that helped me gave me alternative ideas. I decided to use my friends computer to burn dvd's... and it works fine. However, it takes …

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Hi all, first of all copy a icon file to the root of the drive. example: c:\icon.ico then create a file called: autorun.inf in c:\autorun.inf then open that file and type the following: [autorun] icon=icon.ico save and close the file. now open my computer and refresh.. and woh! icon changed.... …

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Windows XP SP 2 I have an Acer AL1912 with a Nvdia GFORCEMX440 graphic card (I think I spelled that right) I know the PC came with a built in video [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread77487.html#"]display[/URL] on the motherboard but its been bypassed in favor of this one. Unfortunately most times when I boot …

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I'm having a strange problem with my laptop. some USB-based devices (Ipod, Memory Stick) work fine, wheras others (External Hard Drive, Mobile Phone transfer cable) aren't recognised. Nothing happens when I plug them in, and having been to the Disk Management screen, they don't appear there either. Can anyone help?

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Today I was trying to install a new codec. when i clicked on it. The computer restarted immediately. I know this is not good. After the boot up a message appears. "Your system has recovered from a serious error." I Tried to install the codec again with the same results. …

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so recently my computer has somehow been stacking up its virus' and spyware and all kinds of problems. i've cleaned up what i can and what not and let mcafee do what it can. there are several virus' that mcafee will not take care of. vundo.dll being one of them. …

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For several months now I've been having an audio problem. The problem PC is an older Jetway V266b running XP SP2. The O/S keeps identifying the embedded audio as a C-media product, which it isn't, its VIA/Avance using the VIA 8233A chip in VIA's K266A chipset. I know thw audio …

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Hello, I'm running on Windows XP SP2 and have been getting BSODs quite frequently lately. The problem seems to occur randomly, sometimes even right after i get into windows, but I've noticed that it seems to occur the most when I'm running more than one type of program at once. …

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In Vista, SystemRestore is set to delete restore points after roughly 136years ... yeah, let that sink... Normally Windows uses up to 15 percent of a drive’s available space to save restore points. In XP, the option to change this figure was configurable from the System Restore tab of the …

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It is nothing special mind you but it does have a few nice options. [url]http://yodm-3d.en.softonic.com[/url]

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Recently my Floppy, CD-RW and DVD drive disappeared from under the MY COMPUTER folder. I checked under device manager and it doesnt appear there either. everything is plugged in correctly and wont show up. if i put a disk or floppy in its respected drive, nothing happens. PLease help!!

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Recently I had my computers registry become massively, well we will just say bad. I went to use the DELL Symantec restore ( The control+ f11 deal ) and it says I have unsupported changes to my master bootrecord. Thats fine and I will have to find a different fix …

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I would like to schedule certain pcs to shutdown at set times of the day. I have created a batch file with the text "shutdown -s -f" however as im running it through a limited user account it fails saying i dont have the appropriate permissions. Is there a string …

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OK, I just want to know if certain upgrades will be compatible on my PC. So far, I have had some yay's and nay's so I just want to be sure. Right now, I have a eMachines T3506. My system specs are below. I already have a 2gb of RAM …

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I'm having trouble opening a certain page, [url]www.tcfbank.com[/url] , it happens to be my bank site and its very frustrating plz help Heres my HJT log... 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\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware 2007\aawservice.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe C:\Documents …

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[COLOR=green]Hello? i just want to ask how to get rid of the [COLOR=green]highlights/background of the labels of the desktop icons[/COLOR]? I can change the color of the labels in the desktop properties but i cannot make the labels transparent. Before i can change it but after getting my computer infected …

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Hi all , please help me ..... i tried to open my windows xp but it was just cannot get through the windows . i turned on the pc , appear the log-on screen but once i click anyone of the icon(user account) it just loading ..... and then appearing …

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Hi, I am running Win XP SP2 on a Pentium 3.0 with 512MB RAM. My PC was infected with virus as my anti virus license had expired and I did not renew it in time. I am using Avast Home Edition. I have renewed the license and scanned the entire …

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I really need some help. yesterday I shut down my computer , then i turned it on this mornng and i needed a password to log on . I bought the computer form a friend. The computer is set as compaq armada administrator. I have no idea and neither does …

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Very strange ... suddenly, for no known reason, if I call up Task Manager to monitor processes and memory ... it appears without its function buttons - i.e. minimize, restore, close. Also all the other tabs are gone. So I've got this box - which I can resize and which …

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Hello, as you will see I am new, and I would like to be honest with you all and say have joined this forum for the express purppose of getting some help as I am desperate - BUT - if anyone is kind enough to help me out please be …

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Hey there. I have XP Pro on my system with SP2. When I go ctrl + alt + del, you should get a window with tabs, showing processor activity, files and programs in use, and network options. Now though, I only get a blank window showing programs in use, similar …

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Hi Every1 I'm Havin problem with drag and drop option. I minimize a window to the taskbar and now when i select any file from another window and drag it to the minimized window it doesn't pop out, so am not able to drop items in that window. However if …

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[COLOR=black]This is driving me nuts. It began abour 8 days ago. I had downloaded some Torrent sites (bittorrent and utorrent). Since then I have deleted all torrent stuff including registers.[/COLOR] [COLOR=black][/COLOR] [COLOR=black]Internet Explorer and other search engines have 20 Second delay when searching for a list of sites, and when …

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HI to all!!! i would like to ask everybody how to open an email attachment that is in the .dat extensions. i used ms outlook 2002. i already tried notepad, wordpad, excel, and word but they dont work... how can we solve this prob? thanks to all....

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Yesterday, my computer was working just fine; I was playing a game of Warcraft 3 and all of a sudden, my monitor goes black and says "No Input Signal". I check the connection, and the cable is just fine. Afterwards, I decide to reboot my computer, but this did not …

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I typed in a password by mistake and now can not get into my computer because it appears I have a bad mother board when I type in a letter it types in two letters. How do I recover and get into my computer?:sad:

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Hi I'm a newbie here and hoping someone can help with a highly annoying problem. Yesterday morning, internetexplorer was running perfectly. Left the computer for about half an hour to go and do something. When I came back, no pages will load. I still have an internet connection. Outlook express …

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i am registered with an internet banking website which calls up a pop up for password login(its an onscreen keyboard where u input ur passwrd via mouse). now my problem is when ever i want to enter my password that essential pop up is being blocked. i have tried to …

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Hello all... I was wondering if anyone could help me with getting my HP laptop to... hmm how to put this... recognize the blank DVD I place in my disc drive... it's a blank DVD+R and my computer doesnt pick it up as anything being in my computer... does anyone …

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Hi there. I have a ripped(correct term?) CD on my hard drive. I wanted to burn it to save space on my computer. But when I tried to burn it, Nero gave me an error saying: "Block size does not correspond to image length" It gave me two options: A) …

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i dont't know how can i post my threat and where but i'm trying here about my problem ,i have trust 350fs powercam flash digital camera, my installation cd have broken so i downloaded its driver by trust website who is manufacturof thi camera but ,wndering cuse after insted it …

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I have just got a new desktop computer the Dell Dimension E310 for gaming use only. When I went to download a game from the web (Gunbound) it was all fine. But when I made it to the main log in screen something was wrong. I clicked play-live and a …

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I have SiteAdvisor and an update was bad, so I uninstalled and reinstalled it. After I did that I started getting this error message when the desktop loads: "Windows cannot find C:\Program Files\SiteAdvisor\5020\Siteadv.exe" (You all know the rest of it.) I went to the chat help for SiteAdvisor and explained …

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Non-techie needs help! I installed SP2 yesterday and now my Windows XP is running slow as molasses. At first I thought it was just my internet connection (high speed cable modem with wireless router) which all of a sudden was slower than dial-up. But then I realized that it was …

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