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hi guys i know you have probably come accross this problem loads of times but i have installed a second hard drive on my pc as a slave it is showing up in add hardwere and is saying that the new hard drive is working but its not showing up …

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I've ran Ad-aware SE and tried Spybot, but when it came time to fix the spyware with Spybot, it gave me a message saying "This application has failed to start because WDENGINE.dll was not not found." I believe ad-aware helped somewhat so far, but there are still pop- ups that …

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Here is the log from hjt. please analyse Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.0 (BETA) Scan saved at 10:27:33 PM, on 2/3/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) 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:\Program Files\Ahead\InCD\InCDsrv.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe …

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Since you guys really seem to know your way around the computer I thought I'd take a chance and see if anyone has had a similar problem and found a solution to the Microsoft problem that seems to be going around. I know I'm not the only one because I've …

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Hey, I have only ever reformattted my laptop once before and it was with help. But im pretty sure that the reinstallation cd for windows Xp is NOt supposed to show up as a partition right? I guess its kind of a dumb question but im worried i may have …

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My brother recently downloaded a few files and he told me he scanned the compressed zip file with avg antispyware and avg free... both showed the containing files were clean.. after extracting and opening the files they dissapeared and shortly after windows explorer kept restarting itself, a few of which …

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Okay i been having a problem with my computer and I was wondering if anyone ever went thru this and could probably help me out I got XP and i have other users on my computer and their sound seem to be working except mines. I can listen to limewire …

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Hi,got a problem with the monitor on the thinkpad ,its gone totally dark ,you can see the display if you look rally close in bright lit room . I can get it to display when plugged into my computer monitor ,but only when in safe mode.when i boot up with …

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I have reformated my hardrive and installed Windows XP on it. Unfortunatly I still have NO sound on my computer! My onboard audio device ([I]C-Media AC97 Audio Device[/I]) has a yellow exclamation mark next to it in Device Manager. When I look at it's 'Properties' the device status is listed …

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Hello all, First post, thanks in advance for your thoughts and help. I have a Panasonic CF-TF Toughbook with XP SP2. The problem started about a week ago when I used a flash drive to transfer info at a printing store. My AVG software caught the Trojan on my flash …

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OK - I keep getting the dreaded explorer buffer overrun message and Internet explorer periodically opens up new windows for me to all kinds of interesting sites, so it's pretty obvious I've managed to get my PC infected. I've updated definitions and run Spybot, Windows Defender and Norton, attempted to …

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I am supposed to upgrade my boss's computer from the worthless Vista Home Premium to Vista Business. He purchased the upgrade disk. Is it necessary to do a clean install? I ask because of some time constraints. (Bosses think everything can be completed over a lunch hour, and he will …

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I have an older dell inspiron 1130. need to replace the motherboard ram and hdd. what are your suggestion? I know the MB will probably have to come from dell.

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I'm using Ubuntu Linux 7.10. A free upgrade from my old operating system, Windows Vista Home Premium. However, I can no longer use my modeling guitar processor, the Digitech RP250. Do drivers exist for Linux? I've Googled! EDIT: Never mind. I just had to update my ALSA drivers and it …

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Ok, I dunno how it started, but it just did as most things do. When i boot up the pc, explorer.exe is there, but after a few seconds, it dissapears, then comes back, then goes. It does this continually. I had to end the explorer.exe process for it to stop. …

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I read a few other threads about desktops being unable to be altered, and only being able to change the flat color of your background. This encouraged me create an account to seek my own help. I'm not a novice at comprehending the whole getting-a-virus-from-the-internet aspect of having a computer, …

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Hey, It's been a while..... Anyways...I just bought a new Hdd, 500gb, and I'm trying to install Windows XP Pro onto it, but I'm getting issues. It says that there is only 131gb on my HDD. Meanwhile in my BIOS it says my hard drive is 500Gb big. I had …

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Hey folks. I am looking to get a new motherboard that can run all my current specs but is a board i can buy new parts for in 4-6 months. Currently: P5NSLI 2 gig G.Skill PC6400 Dual Core Duo 2 E6400 PCI-E BFG Nvidia 8800 GTC OC 312mb I would …

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Hello my father has a laptop that is connected to a cable modem, web pages opened almost instantly, now they are opening like he is using dialup. Here is his Hijackthis Log Thanks for any help. I have ran adaware and AVG anti spyware with no improvement Thanks Ryun Logfile …

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Hi, I'm a total computer dummy (sorry). My computer got infected with New Poly Win32. I use McAfee and it stopped working. I tried to reinstall it and it wouldn't let me. In fact, it won't let me install any of the spyware/anti-wirus software that I tried to download. I …

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[B]Hi, I purchased a computer with vista home basic already installed. Well the system recovery got DELETED and now I am screwed!! Can anyone tell me if I purchase the home basic cd and install it will it bring my computer back?? or do I upgrade to premium?? I'm really …

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i am currently using a ATI Radeon X300 graphics card my friend (jbennet) is offering me an X800 at £20 while another friend of mine is offering me a radeon X1600 for £60 What should i do?! they both have 256Meg of ram on em so which is better?! or …

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Hi all, have vista HB installed here but I need to get SQL server up & running. Now I have read many articles that propose IIS7 cannot be installed on a Vista HB machine. Is there any way around this? I need IIS for SQL server to work. Many thanks.

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I noticed some errors a few weeks ago and was unable to run chkdsk c: as it would not blue screen, but reboot at one point in the process. This was running chkdsk in windows with no /f or /r parameter. I was able to copy my data from the …

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Hello, I have a problem with my PC, there some kind of virus ssqrq.dll (I suppose this is it) and "StorageProtector" thing (there were 2 false Windows icons on my desctop and when I tried to delete them they appiered again and again). I tried many anti-viruses and anti-spywares like …

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My computer has been acting strange lately, to the point were its almost unusable, so far I have removed the Mirar toolbar, five internet Hijackers, and some adware but it still acts the same way, I took a logfile with hijackthis, please tell me if I have to delete anything. …

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I have this exact problem: [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post171392.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post171392.html[/URL] However the solution didn't work because I messed with the registry :-( I couldn't install Windows installer 3.1, so I couldn't update my repaired version of windows (which was working AWESOME, btw!) I set restore points and stuff "just in case" after messing with …

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I'm trying to install Windows XP Pro to a system with a Mach Speed MK8-939A mobo, AMD Athlon64 3200+ CPU @ 2.0 GHz, and 512 MB of RAM. I've tried this on three different HDDs now, with the same results on all three. The install itself goes fine. First boot …

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Hey guys I got a huge problem. Yesterday I had to shut off my computer because before it was on stand by but when i turned it on i had to enter a password for my user which i dont have, it does that which is weird but all i …

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My computer was infected by Trojan Horse virus and I have been getting Symantec Email Proxy Error Pop up. I have tried all sorts of method and it ends up with a Error status for the Norton Anti-Virus Email scanning. This has in fact stopped the Error message popping up. …

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I've been infected by a file (C:\windows\system32\adsldpw.dll) that I can't exterminate. I run all the usual suspects, but this guy seems particularly resistant to the tools I'm used to using. This one is more obnoxious than usual, primarily because it keeps respawning a new background version of Internet Explorer every …

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Ok, I have an Airport extreme that I'm using as my wireless router. So far it has worked great. I have a PC and Mac and the wirelessly share files between the two without problems. I can't however get the Airport to work with my external HD. I wiped the …

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Hi(First post) I hope im not in the wrong section, if I am sorry about that. I hope you guys and gals can help me with this problem/question I have regarding acronis true image. I work for a small business which has a wired lan network, we have a 250GB …

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Hi all, I've got a problem that hopefully has an easy solution - but I'm a DNS noob :-) - We're running a Windows Server 2003/Active Directory domain with the suffix marymead.org.au - Our website is [url]www.marymead.org.au[/url]. The website is hosted by an ISP at another location to us. - …

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Hi, Lately I've been having problems accessing certain sites in IE and Firefox. I do have better luck (with some sites) using NetScape (AOL). From looking through these forums, it sounds like spyware is the likely culprit, so I've attached a HiJackThis log. Any help, much appreciated. Logfile of Trend …

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Hi guys, I am having a problem with my mail server configuration. I am hosting 2 mail domains (one for a game I play, the other for my business). I had set up the game domain first. It works beautifully, receiving mail from both domains just fine. I can access …

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Hi. I have a problem in that, when the computer is first started, when any of the 3 users logs in, an error message headed "microsoft Office Excel" and stating "Microsoft Office Excel has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry ...... " etc. If you click …

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First i would like to apologize as i'm not sure if this is a dupilcate post or not, but i only have a few mins to browse the forums before i head of to work. Basically, i'm stuck, my computer everytime i boot, once past the WinXp loading screen i …

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I just installed Fluxbox and started it. Now what? Nothing works. Right click, etc. I don't have any menus. What do I do?

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I have XP pro and have a wireless network at home. I cannot get two of the four computers to recognize the printer. We all know what the normal printer icon looks like but what the heck does the bar below the printer mean? Could that be part of my …

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G'day, I have a microstar ms6339 motherboard that I'm told will only take PC600 or PC800 ram. Is this true or can other types be used? Please help.

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Originally Posted on Viruses & Nasties with the title: High cpu in win explorer, task mng - HJ Log - with no response so I thought I'd try my luck here. I started having alot of virus warnings from Avast - so many so that I reinstalled via ghost. Now …

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I have 3 computers that curently use xp pro. All of these were puchased used and are fully licenced to use this software. ( I have legit keys ). however I don't have a oem install disk. all I have is self made restore disks and would like to puchase …

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Hey guys, Thanks for all your help on my last issue with my own laptop. Now I am helping my friend with an old junker he has that has been running slowly and strangely. It has Norton 2004 and Adaware installed. Neither have been updated for over a year, but …

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I started having alot of virus warnings from Avast - so many so that I reinstalled via ghost. Now windows explorer is extremely slow when transferring files. It runs the cpu up to 100 - I also have 3 mapped network drives, all to one other computer. I recently removed …

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Hi, i have [B]firefox[/B] 2.0.0.11 and IE 7.0.5112.0 installed on my WinXP sp2 System.my firefox was working properly before, but lately i have some probs. 1. it does not let me sign out after getting into my yahoo mail account. ( i have the following addons 4 firefox installed lately. …

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Request for tech help. My computer uses Windows XP professional, when I use Internet Explorer 7, some web sites and pages appear blank although it appears they loaded okay as I receive a "done" at the bottom of the screen. Also I'm unable to download from nearly most all web …

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i need help guys! i had this problem only recently. i started windows normally as always, but then i noticed that the icons on my desktop dont have the "shadow effect" anymore. i also noticed that the background image and the icons are a bit pixelized. ive tried everything, from …

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Hi... Thanks for being there. I'm got problems when trying to access files containing downloaded movies, I get a message that says that ends up closing the file and sending me back to my desk top. The information that shows up with the message indicates that explorer.exe is involved. This …

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Hey everyone ! I have a Windows XP home edition computer with 128 Ram. When Windows opens up, an error message popps up that says.... [B][U]IMVUQUALITYAGENT.EXE-application error The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002)[/U][/B] I have tried everything I know to rid this computer of this error !!! I have …

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