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I have an install script that sets some environment variables. To run the script I have to use the source command. The script has to be run as sudo because the environment variables need to be set for the root account. The problem is you can't execute "sudo source installScript". …

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Hi there to my family at DaniWeb !!!!! I have 2 Dell Optiplex, Windows XP, machines. They are identicle, stand-up desktop machines. #1 I got working by just putting a hard drive in it, woks fine now. #2 needed a hard drive and a processor. I bought a 2.6 MGz …

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C:\Users\Dan>devcon install c:\windows\inf\netrasa.inf ms_ndiswanip Device node created. Install is complete when drivers are updated... Updating drivers for ms_ndiswanip from c:\windows\inf\netrasa.inf. devcon failed. Lost my vpn because ms_ndiswanip was removed. Downloaded devcon for 32bit and tried it from the cmd prompt. It runs but seems to be looking for something else …

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Hi everyone! This is my first time to this site and loving it already. Ok let's see, I ran one of those driver update programs and the results said I needed to update these drivers: Intel(R) 82801DB Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 24CB ViewSonic VE155 Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller …

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I'm hoping someone out there can help me when i open my documents or anythig else windows related i get "windows explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close". i cant get into see my files. internet explorer won't open either. i currently use opera anyway. its the only …

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Hello, I have a mesh windows vista pc and stupidly went messing about with system32 to customize my themes. I ended up replacing the shell32.dll with an alternative off the internet. At first nothing changed but when I booted up today, I reached the logon screen but when clicking on …

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Hello to my family at DaniWeb !!! I have a Emachine W3050,Windows Home Edition, SP2 The computer has "connecting problems and I'm not sure if it is a virus that is causing the problem. The computer goes to the following sites with no problems......msn,dell,download.com, and daniweb.com. I'm sure there are …

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hi Guys, my machine has been so slow after an infection with a virus which i successfully was able to remove using KAV7. so i was advised by one of us here to post a hijackthis log here and hopefully you can help me solve the speed problem. Do i …

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Hi All I have an Excel workbook (Excel 2002) which is accessed and modified by multiple people, there are 3 sheets within the workbook, 'Processing', 'Completed', and 'List Data'. On the processing sheet there are open jobs with drop-down validation in 2 cells which fetches options from the list data …

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I did not want to double post, I have posted this same problem on the Web browser forum, but maybe it was the wrong forum, so sorry for double posting. My OS is XP Pro SP3 When I visit some websites with flash displays, I cannot view it, not in …

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Hi There, I have picked up a virus under the name of VUNDROP.. I thought avast had removed it and windows defender picked it up.. but now the dreaded ANTIVIRUS 2009 keeps popping up with the links to its website.. It seemed that came from one of your links on …

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Hello. This is my first post so appologies in advance. Does anyone know what the process zvsarc.exe is I have tried to google it and get no useful results. I noticed one of my XP machines has been contantly downloading and uploading to the internet and have tracked it back …

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Hi there, this is kind of a long story, but [I]please[/I] bear with me. After having read about being able to use a Sixaxis (PS3) controller on a PC, I decided to try it. This consisted of a libusb driver (LibUsb-win32) and an executable file called ps3sixaxis_en.exe. I had to …

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I recently upgraded the RAM on my emachines T2984 to 2 - 1GB sticks of G.Skill DDR PC3200 [URL="http://newgskill.web-bi.net/bbs/view.php?id=g_ddr&no=34"]http://newgskill.web-bi.net/bbs/view.php?id=g_ddr&no=34[/URL]. I also recently added a 500GB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148135"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148135[/URL] I've noticed a significant decrease in performance even though I doubled the memory I previously had. When I load my …

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About a week ago I made a thread on this forum regarding some virus stuff. It may ormay not be related. Google suggests that I may have possibly gotten a HaxDoor virus, but if I did I don't really have a way of getting rid of it without being able …

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I really like my latest purchase ,works great ,easy hookup ,only downside is it only takes SATA drives and not IDE ,oh well to the future i guess.! but great addition to my workshop tools ! [url]http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?S=1268&ID=1642#Tab4[/url]

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Greetings, I am in dire need for help for my laptop. I was trying out the option of changing my pen drive's icon through autorun.ini. I believe I typed the icon incorrectly, but I didn't know at the time. After I saved the changes done in the autorun file (It …

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Ok, I have a compaq prissario with a standard DVD/CD ROM, NVIDIA 8500 Graphics, and 4 GB RAM. For the past few months I have been having issues witht he CD/DVD ROM reading some of my disks, and the amount is spreading. It will load up the auto run for …

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I have just dust cleaned my machine as the fan was becoming very noisy, now when I try to switch on I get the POST screen then when windows is supposed to load it switches off, the HDD are spinning all fans are working, sometimes I get the start windows …

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Hi, I have a friend who has a compaq presario v2000 running Windows XP. Her EX-BOYFRIEND dimmed the lighting with one of the shortcuts on the keyboard at least thats what it looks like anyways. I can't find the shortcut to turn the screens light back on and the manual …

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hi My computer DNS is highjack. I try to change and fix to obtained automaticly.But its goes to this DNS 82.255.112.147. When i search in google, the search goes to some strange ips. I scan with norton 360 but no problem fix. Please be advice Thank you in advance.

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I am in college and I was wandering if there was anyway I can bypass my schools firewall so that I can use Limewire, uTorrent, etc. I don't know if this is the place to ask but I thought I'd give it a try.

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I had trouble with ZoneAlarm so I uninstalled it. Not uninstalled and can not remove it to turn Windows Firewall on. So, Oh it gets better. Thinking I would get help by installing a new firewall (NOT), I installed COMODO Firewall. No they are both active by SSoftware and the …

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Hello I want to downgrade to windows XP pro SP2 and have everything installed. So far I found audio drivers for L355D-S7825 that worked through RealTek but I tried the PCI LAN drivers and they didn't work. Right now Im using puppy Linux and puppy Linux is using RealTek RTL-8169 …

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Hello, So this is how it began: My symantec client security was out of date, so i downloaded the latest version of symantec endpoint. It told me I needed to uninstall any other anti virus softwares first. So after I tried doing that, it wouldn't let me uninstall Symantec saying …

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I follow the instruction from the book i bought which says insert the fedora dvd in the dvd drve, however, it seems like my pc is not booting from dvd drive, instead it just starts windows. Can anyone please tell me specificly how to change boot option to make my …

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I made fresh installation of Windows XP Pro which previous times went without any troubles. However now I'm getting error 0x80096010 and I'm not able to install any software, if I try I get message such as "Extraction failed. File is corrupt." I tried to check certificates as many discussion …

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Hello, I recently got infected with the go.google redirect problem. Internet Explorer started running very slowly, and I was getting redirected to ad sites when clicking on Google search results. So far, I've basically followed PhilliePhan's steps by running the following: 1.Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (nothing was found) …

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Here is the problem. I cannot access any of the Adminstrative tools, when I go to it, it has an hourglass like its getting there then it never gets there (I tested it and had it stay there overnight and nothing) I believe because of this problem I cannot install …

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I am doing a new build with a Geforce 7050M-M2 board with a Phenom X4 9550 Processor. New ram and HD. After files are loaded and the reboot it goes to the black screen and stops. Can someone please help me figure this one out? Thanks

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I have two Thinkpad R50s', one of which I cannot reboot as it's a victim of BSOD. Question: can I simply take out the hard drive of the downed computer and put it in the other to check to see if it's okay?

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Last Saturday my kids where on internet while I were at work. After a while they phoned me and complained that every time they were open firefox computer re-booted. So when I came home for lunch I checked it up and phoned support, but they couldn't help me:@ Through my …

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How do i replace a cd/dvd rom from my Toshiba laptop that am suspecting to be faulty.The pc is a Toshiba satellite 1700-200 model no ps170E-00021-EN

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I have the Vonage VoIP phone service and the router stopped working after a storm and the cable went out (Broadband). My modem is still functioning properly and my internet connection is fine. However, the phone ports will not work. All appropriate lights on the router are on (including phone …

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Hi, I am on my aunts computer. Trying to get rid of this Big Bad Virus. Idk how she got it but it really hard to get out. I downloaded nortan virus and that didn't even remove it after like 2 hours of scanning and deleting some trojans and stuff …

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Hello to all the good folks at DaniWeb !!!! I have a Toshiba laptop with Windows XP Home Edition on it. I went to install AVG 8. and a warning poped up telling me that there was already another antivirus program installed on the laptop, and that I should remove …

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Hi [B]Simple problem Drive C is running out of space. Easy solution buy a new hard drive and copy everything to the new drive. Simple? a nightmare![/B] I have bought a larger HDD a Seagate 250GB and want to use that as a replacement for my existing 60GB WD HDD. …

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Hi, Following error message is displayed when i boot my computer, it's windows 2000 Service Pack 4. kwtbaim.exe - Entry Point Not Found The procedure entry point cryptStringToBinaryW could not be located in the dynamic link library CRYPT32.DLL I have attached a picture file to show exactly how message is …

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I have also posted this to Vista section but if any: My TOSHIBA external HDD stopped working. It failed to copy data and I had to force restart due to system hang up! I found then it isn't even detected. I tried on my friend Laptop XP no success! It …

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Hi , I have have just spent a day on reinstalling windows after a major crash.... but now I have no sound... anybody now how to get the drivers back up and running.. is there a standard device to start? can install say creative sound blaster? any help would be …

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Hi. Lately, I get a lot of messages on my Windows Live Messenger from people I don't know (and maybe not exist). I guess it's a kind of Trojan, but I can't get rid of it. I did everything that you mentioned in your posts up here, but I keep …

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I am not certain if I was infected by spyware today or not. Zone Alarm popped up stating that WJQS.exe was trying to access my system so I denied it access. I did a search on my harddrive for the exe file and came up with this: WJQS.EXE-0090FC1A.pf under C:/windows/prefetch …

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1. Elaborate on the following on DNS: DNS is both a telephone "White Pages" and a "Yellow Pages" The DNS namespace The hierarchy of DNS servers and how they work as a team to resolve DNS queries. I really only need assistance on the first part.............Can anyone tell me where …

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Over night, my computer downloaded the automatic windows update and restarted. Once I logged back on, my browser would not connect to the internet. I knew i was online because I was running AIM. I restarted my computer and I was able to connect my browser to the internet. Soon …

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Hi to all the good folks at DaniWeb !!! I have a Emachine W3503, Windows XP, Serive Pack 3. This computer had MANY viruses on it. I got them cleaned. Spybot, Super Antispyware and Malwarebytes all say I'm clean now. The internet works fine and the whole computer seems to …

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Hello to the great folks at Daniweb !!!!!!!! I bought my first laptop, a IBM ThinkPad 600, with Windows 98 on it. Not much of one but I didn't need much for just surfing the net in the livingroom. I bought it used, $20.00 and had a dead cmos battery …

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Hey all! Again, it has been a while. Anyway... I just replaced the battery on my laptop, and I've been having issues with the volume control icon in the taskbar tray. Every time I start the computer, it's not there. If I go to "Sounds and Audio Devices" in the …

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Greetings to everyone here at Daniweb Forums! As you can see I'm new here, but sure I'll be getting plenty of help from all of the great members here! ;) Well, I should start my story way from the beginning. I started building a PC about a year ago (buying …

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