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I think I chose correct screen name - 2dumb - I've read and read, but I'm uncertain which files are causing slow down and dreaded red circle disease. I'll await someone's review of my hjt log. Thanks a bunch. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 1:32:52 PM, on 6/2/2008 …

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Find the file you want to have a run command for Ex. Microsoft word - I would rather type "word" than "winword" Find the file C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE I've got Office 07 it might be different from what you might have, I'm not sure Right-click winword.exe tell it to copy …

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I use a Gameboy emulator called VisualBoyAdvance. When you press space, it speeds up the emulator very fast, which makes using the game so much easier. However, that puts a lot of strain on my CPU, and therefore my fan. I want to know if overuse of this function may …

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I noticed today when using IE7 I can use it fine but whenever I close it, it stops responding and I have to end the process. I am running Windows XP and always use FF except on the rare occasion I need IE7. Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is what …

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I have an ASUS A7V8X-X mb with 2 HDS, both partioned X2; 1.5 gig RAM; a 2 gig AMD processor. This is kind of a long storyi. I began getting Boot Disk Failures here awhile back. They would begin once in awhile and grew to nothing, but Failure. I had …

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hello all i am having a rought ime here im inschool and i have to share a computer with another studnt and he has done somthing to download a virus on the school computer and i have transfered it through a jumpdrive to my home computer and its killing me. …

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What Windows Vista program runs the Compiled HTML Help Files (.chm)? Under properties only a meaningless descriptor shows up.

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In control panel, network connections there is no connections visible. If I right-click refresh it gives a message that states "The network connections folder was unable to retrieve the list of network adapters on your machine. please make sure the network connections service is enabled and running". - did check …

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when opening windows firewall advanced tab. The following message is stated "the network connection settings have become corrupted". did try "restore defaults" button and it did nothing.

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Hello, I am new to this site and need help please. I recently tidied up my desktop by removing certain programe files - those that said had not been used for some time ( bad idea ). This seems to have resulted in a loss of sound on my Acer …

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Hi everybody. again I have some problems :(( this time it's svchost.exe, sometimes it take 99% of memory and my PC barely works. than I just turn if off with Task man. with svchost.exe all sound turns off, exept that which were already launched when I turned off svchost.exe. plz …

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I'm having issues with my 3d programs mostly, especially games. a few days ago, they suddenly started getting about 1-2 fps, while reporting that they get 12-15 fps, which is considerably lower than what they had been getting. I haven't installed anything for some time and assume that something is …

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We have an Office 2003 installation running that when ever the computer is booted up, and then Outlook opened, the list of folders on the left is fully expanded (even the archive folders) showing all areas. Then if we collapse the folders and exit out of Outlook and turn off …

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i hve already posted this somewher else and i dont know if ur allowed to post similar threads twice but I am gonna anyway lol [B]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 …

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Not sure if this is the correct forum to post this question. If I need to I will cancel this and post it where you think it belongs. I would like to know haw to rearrange the display of program icons that appear when I click "start" and move the …

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can anyone please tell me how I can send email with freeBSD? I guess the: mail -s " subject" [email]email@emaildomain.com[/email] is for system internal mail only??? do i need to browse my for example hotmail.com ,,, login and then create the email from there? ..... or if there is a …

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hie every body out there i have a dell dimesion 2350 that wont boot after a clean installation of windows xp professional with sp2.it has been displaying an error message of (NO BOOT DEVICE DETECTED) but i did some check ups and found out that my hard drive its okay(if …

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i need help there is a red blinking (x) taskbar i need help my log is... Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 21:10: VIRUS ALERT!, on 5/29/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16640) 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 …

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A lot of people say that Unix BC is a very good calculator program. However whenever I enter the following commands (after loading the math library -- i.e invoking BC at the command line by typing 'bc -l') I get: e (3 * l(2) ) 7.99999999999999999982 e(0.2*l(32)) 1.99999999999999999998 The first …

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Alright, windows update says it is turned off with a little red symbol in my taskbar. It is turned on under system settings. My time display changed from 12-hour to 24-hour format on it's own. My question is why? What is the cause of this? I was installing some old …

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I have spent about 7 hours on this, to no avail. Explorer.exe is using all CPU. Running XP HE SP 2. Running up-to-date NSW and auto updates from Windows. Tried ending explorer in Task Manager, and restaring from Run. Tried a System Restore. Could only get back a few days. …

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recently cleared a virus (vundo.trj) on my HP desktop. I no longer get any warnings from the anti virus program and the system seems to be working ok. However whenever I start up the computer a small error massage appears while windows is loading. The message is titled "rundll" and …

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My notebook display brightens and dims until the power cord is wriggled where it plugs into the notebook. From what I've read on this site, it is probably the power connection at the motherboard, or the board itself. I have taken about 25 screws out, but can't go further for …

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Hello, this is my first try at getting help, I hope I am doing it at the right place,,,,,, I created a second partition (30GB) with Gparted-liveCD in my only drive running XP. How could I create a dual boot with same WinXP in that second partition? I want to …

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I must have lost a few screws today, because after many years I decided to upgrade my system from WIN2K to XP. Its XP Pro with SP2 on the install disk. Everything was fine until the middle of the install, the system came with many beeping sounds, with the messege …

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I'm in the process of reinstalling my whole pc. I have completely formatted C: and left D: (second HDD) as it was with my data on it. I have reinstalled XP and had next to no problems doing that. My first problem was it seemed to install two versions of …

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I stumbled upon this peice of software called "[URL="http://www.inputdirector.com/"]Input Director[/URL]" and thought it could be useful because i have two desktops and dont have enough room for two keyboards and mice. My problem is that these computers are not connected in any way at all and was wondering if any …

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Hi I am in the field of desktop support. In a PC which connects internet through Broadband Router, The system always displays the message "Network cable unplugged". The system has a built in Network Adapter. I tried to reinstall the Network Driver. But it doesn't work. Then I disabled the …

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Hi, I work from home and with a wireless router had my g/fs and my own personal computer connected wirelessly and with my work computer connected into the router via Ethernet cable. I then used Win Xp VPN to connect to the company network. Now they have sent me a …

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Hey guys i just installed 4GB of ram, only show's up as 3GB in XP though, no idea why, i have a Geforce 8600GT if that's anything to do with it not showing it in full? If there's a solution to this then great! Anyone know any =]? But with …

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My friend's Dell laptop was working fine until one day for no apparent reason, it wouldn't power up. The power adapter seems to be OK, I measure 19.5 volts DC on the plug. When I hit the laptop's power switch, the green LED on the adapter just fades out and …

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constantly getting bleeping nises and visrus checker is throwing up the culprit rbot.765952.17 here is my hijack this log. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 11:29:17, on 03/05/2008 Platform: Unknown Windows (WinNT 6.00.1904) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16609) Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\WISPTIS.EXE C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ink\TabTip.exe C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Windows …

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I am aware that RMDIR /S /Q will delete any directory in a quiet way even if it has content. However, it does not allow the use of wild char for the removal in batch mode. How can I accomplish the task of deleting several directories at once at the …

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Hi- I am having a problem with new IE windows ramdomly opening and displaying ads. I cannot figure out where they are coming from. I have McAfee AV and it finds nothing, I ran Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and it may find and fix one issue and I ran Ad-Aware and SpyBot, …

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For the longest time I have had a GIF file for my desktop. I make them from photos I've taken with my camera. I tried to change over to a new one recently and it kept returning to my current one. I finally got frustrated and deleted all instances of …

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Rootkit?? cbdriver infection...what to do?? Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 4:17:35 PM, on 5/25/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16640) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\csrss.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:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\aswUpdSv.exe C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashServ.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\acs.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile …

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I am running a windows XP machine with a AMD 6400 processor with 2G of RAM. My system has been running slow at startup since the rebuild and since I added the HP 2007 Monitor I have monitor shake at startup and then everything just gets real slow or does …

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Hey, Im new on daniweb and have some problems I recently managed to get a virus on my computer. It caused fake security alerts and began locking out some of my files and my task manager I managed to get symatec antivirus Via packman, But I still can't access my …

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Hey everybody :twisted: I just got my new RAM delivered this morning, excited as i was with the 4GB (x2 2gb sticks). The RAM was bought from 'Patriot' i took out my old 2 RAM sticks, 512 each. I put in the new Patriot RAM and soon as i switched …

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ok so Im not sure if this should go here or in the nasties forum all the OS's that I worked with today were win xp and my OS is win xp earlier today I used my WD Passport portable hard drive to backup some files, and I also have …

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Hi all I recently made a small calculator program and I was wondering how would I set the path so when I just enter "calc" then the calculator program would start without me having to enter cd calc ./calc I have googled but the tuorials tell me to direct it …

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Hello Everyone This question may be posted elsewhere, but I'm new and need an answer if possible, like yesterday...... Am not getting visuals on any pictures I was able to see as recent as yesterday. I'm getting a little box with a red x in the middle. What has happened? …

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I don't know what the exact brand name is, but I think it's Creative... ANYWAYS... My friend recently bought a new laptop and she got speakers for it, and the speakers do not work. It says that there's "no audio output device" and won't emit any sound except a loud …

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Hey everyone I have been having problems with my desktop, this time the icons and task bar disappeared. I was alerted that there were some torjan that have been founded by Avast, which was removed at the time, and then soon after the icons and task bar disappeared. Not knowing …

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I run win xp and I keep getting the message that my virtual memory is low, could someone please tell me how to remedy this, thank you. Let me know if you need more info.

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I have a HP desktop computer that I was using when our power went off and on a couple of times. Now this computer will try to start and shut down automatically after about ten seconds. Does anyone have any suggestions on what could be fried or causing me this …

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I am in the field of desktop support In a system with configuration Core 2 duo 2.2 Ghz, 1GB Ram, 160 GB Hdd, Lg DVD Writer Model GSA-H55N. In the drive the Video files with extension *.vob plays normally by right clicking the drive and selecting "play with power DVD". …

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Hello All!: First of all i would like to say that my knowledge as far as computer is Average. Meaning i have never built a computer from scratch. I am just very knowledgable in regards to applications and softwares within the operating system. My current Specs are: Motherboard: Soyo SY-K7VKPE …

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Hello, forumsters! This is my first time to log in. I'm a computer graphic artist :) needing help with my windows 2000 pc. All of a sudden, I can't find the folder options in my windows 2000 explorer window. I have several files hidden that are very important. Can someone …

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hi i have a AWA 81cm tv that has a pc input but i had to use a DVI to VGA in order to get it to work. its max resolution is 1600x1200 but windows only detects 1360x768! i wana know how to max my resolution.

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