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i wanted to add another hard drive to my computer (200 gb hard drive being added) so i tried to install it, after i did that i tried and start up my computer but all i would get is a black screen (the little light beside the monitor button would …

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Hi when I start up my pc the display is normal (Windows XP) however once it switches over to users or the desktop the display flips onto its side. The background picture, icons and taskbar are lying on its side and dragging the taskbar doesn't help either. Turning the monitor …

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Hi all , i have abnormal problem i cannot re appear my quick launch toolbar.... i put tick to Show Quick Launch option but nothing is happening what i must do pls help me ! :(

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Hi all I think I have something nasty. I might guess a trojan but I don't really know enough to say for sure, although I've done my best to research as best I can (which I've added below). I hope someone here can help me. First my PC it's a …

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Hi there y'all. I recently purchased a beautiful little laptop, and of course, Linux was the first thing that had to be installed. However, I'm having trouble getting everything to work properly. Among the trouble is that of installing support for my wireless WiFi card (internal "Dell Wireless 1500 Draft …

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Ok, i have a friend that has come to me for help with her comp and i have no idea how to solve this one. When she starts her computer (laptop w/ Windows XP) a dos-looking screen comes up after a short wait and says that the file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system" is …

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First: if this is in the wrong place, I apologize. I'm a newcomer to Linux, but I'm trying to learn what I need to in order to correctly use it. I've got a program I need to run multiple times, without my having to do anything. The book on Linux …

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I bought myself a Radeon card today, and everything installed and runs perfectly, except for one thing. The desktop is limited to a specific section to where i can drag and drop files! I can move the mouse all over the desktop, i can drag programs into the "dead" area. …

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I have a server, 64mb RAM, 233mhz PII with 3x 2.1GB hdd's, cdrom drive and LAN card. Can anyone reccomend a distro which will be suitable for turning this machine into a file server (SMB or FTP) for my network. It must have a GUI - although this doesnt nececirally …

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I reinstalled Windows XP Pro SP2 today, and after rebooting and getting everything set up, I tried to use my BitTorrent client, "BitComet". The program wouldn't download anything, because there [i]wasn't enough space on the hard drive[/i]. I have 48 gig free! lol What's going on? My newsgroup software (NewsLeecher) …

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I have just spent the past hour placing half the keys back on my laptop. I have three keys left and have no idea where they go. I have a Aspire 1710 and the keys left are as follow: Prt Sc Sys Rq, Pause Break, and the Scroll Lock If …

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I need help installing Windows XP Professional on a computer because every time I go to install it, it says that I have no hard drives installed. So could someone help me! Need many solutions!

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What i am going to do if i will start my computer and it says " Inser system diskette and press enter to continue" I dont know about system diskette.... pls help

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hi everyone i am new here i had a alot of problems with my comp but after reading all the forums i got a lot of helÄŸ can some one read my hijack this and see if there is still any more problem still there thanx. Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 …

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Hello! I have looked through some of the posts and I understand that several other people are having the problem that I have. Whenever I click on links (most commonly on the search engine results) the page gets redirected to another page. For example, if I was going to look …

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I don't know if this is the place to ask... Last night I was on my computer when the connection failed...limited or no connectivity. After several hours of reconfiguring the router rebooting the PC, router, uninstalling and reinstalling the network card...still nothing. If I connect directly to teh DSL modem...I …

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Hello. I kkep getting this message on my taskbar that says "Your computer is infected! Critical System Error! System detected virus activities. They may cause critical system failure. Please, use antimalware software to clean and protect your system from parasite programs. Click here to get all available software." Im preety …

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On Friday morning, the electric went off for a very short amount of time. My Gateway is plugged into a power surge protector. Monitor works on another computer but goes into "analog power save mode" within seconds of rebooting offending computer. On startup, the fan runs and runs and runs …

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inspiron 2200, bios protected password. How do I reset or remove that password. ultimately the cd rom has failed and I need to change the boot sequence to boot from usb device to install os

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I haven't used my PowerPoint in forever, but when I tried to modify an old presentation today I could not use the mouse to drag objects. Then I tried clicking on the file menu and found I couldn't unless I right-clicked somewhere on the screen first. Any time I click …

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My browser keeps going to a homepage saftyhomepage.net. I ran a hijack but have no idea what to do. Also have a virus in my virus vault tmp2C86.tmp Backup Copy identified as a trojan horse. Could someone please look at this hijack and tell me what to do. Thank you, …

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I have a similar problem to the person whose "kids did it"... My wee fella's only 5 but somehow after he got up early and tried shutting down the PC with the "on" button... found a message asking if I wanted to continue shutting down because other people were logged …

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[B][COLOR=darkgreen]Ok, I KNOW there are a couple of guys out tere rolling their eyes right now, but REALLY, it's NOT MY FAULT!! The other day, while I was AT WORK, the kids were playing on the computer and it suddenly shut down on them. The exact details are pretty murky, …

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[COLOR=#000000]ok here is my deal du-jour.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]My HP laptop won’t connect to the internet. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]It won’t acknowledge the Wireless connection or the LAN (both are there as indicated my the netgear router). [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I have also totally shut down and restarted both the dls modem and the wireless router …

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Hi, This seems to be a common problem having looked through the forums; I can access most websites but some websites such as Hotmail, MSN, Microsoft and DeutscheBahn just refuse to load. I have tried all the possible fixes but to no avail, hopefully you'll be able to spot something …

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ok, so on the terminal in fedora 4 I type in " ifconfig" which is the command to see what my ip is, but instead I get: command not found. is there another command? I though in linux ifconfig was the one, I know in windows it's ipconfig.

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:D our co. has a new dell latitude d620 that we purchased to use for our testing veh's. it hooks on to a vcm. when we have to do a update, we have to connect the eithernet cable from the laptop to the vcm & go into connection properties & …

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:sad: I am trying to upgrade to Microsoft Office 2003. I am currently using Microsoft 2000 Premium. It instals so far and then I get a message ' Error 1335 - Cabinet File CS561404, CAB is corrupt and cannot be used.' I have tried it three times and still get …

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I installed a new video card today and when I went to restart computer I recieved a message saying "Reboot and select proper boot device", and says about inserting media if boot device is correct or something...Can someone please help me with this!!

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I'm running an extremely complicated network - not that I want it to be that way, but it must be. Our cable modem is hooked up to a linksys router. That router serves one computer, and also sends a cable to a switch in the attic, from which 3 cables …

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I lost all of my icons on my desktop because I accidently hit the hide icons button on the arrange icons by tab and now I can not right click again on my desktop or do anything in my desktop. If anyone knows anything please help me out thanks!!!

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Hi, I have an installer project which installs my application and it's dependencies, which used to run fine on XP. This project has some Custom Actions that registers a service. I can register the service manually using elevated command line. But the custom action hangs. I have created a sample …

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Hi. I had my Radeon X800 Gto for a month and since i bought it, i noticed it kept getting hotter and hotter as the weeks went by. The last temps i recorded when it was working properly was 55C idle, ~100C load. I bought an after market cooler for …

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My shortcuts have stopped working since this morning when my PC did its normal auto shutoff after completing 5 torrent downloads which were just 4 .avi videos and one adaware 1.06r1 since I started up my this morning none of my normal RUN items started up by themselves and all …

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I have a barcode scanner (UF-101 PS/2 keyboard wedge). Was working fine one day, the next it won't read anything. (Shines the LED light on the barcodes, but won't "read" them). So I bought a new scanner (POSX Xi200, also a PS/2 keyboard wedge), but it doesn't work either. Tried …

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Hello. I recently installed my current motherboard to a new case, but i have no sound in my speakers all of a sudden. Everything else seems to be in working order. The speaker is plugged in the back, i checked my drivers, checked the system volume contol. Im absoloutely stumped. …

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[B]Model:[/B] Gateway 7405 GX notebook. [B]symptoms:[/B] starts and works fine on battery power, yet not on external power. This is a recent occurence. It just started yesterday to be exact. Other then the AC adapter being faulty I'm at a loss for explaining this. Although, I fear that the adapter …

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Hello, I am new to Linux, actually I really want to check it out to see if I like it, but I don't know how to install it. I downloaded Fedora Core 5 the DVD version and burned the image file, now what? Should i buy another hard drive to …

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I used Hijackthis last night for the first time and was able to find and fix some problems, thanks to some tips from this site. Can someone take a look at this and tell me if you see anything else here that looks like a problem? One thing I am …

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Sorry. I posted the following message / question in the 'introduce yourself' link. ~~~~~~~ Hello from Texas, I am new to your community but look forward to participating. >>>Question:How do I delete a .dll from c:\ ? I was having error messages with my KERNEL32.DLL (it is not .exe), so …

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Hello I felt the rush of electric current (electric shock) to my body when I touched the back of the computer case. Is it normal to have electric current flowing through computer case? Thanks

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HAVING trouble connecting my workstation to my server help if posibale

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hi, i'm using a HP F70 17" LCD flatscreen monitor that i've had for a few years. recently, the cable that came with the monitor became damaged and the picture would go from red - blue - purple. i could still see the picture, but i knew i had to …

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Hello all, recently I stopped automatic updates because I was trying to fix a slow boot problem. I still wanted updates so thought I had better do it manually, but when I clicked on Internet Explorer, all I got was the browser window but no activity, no home page, no …

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How do you do 90 cents divided by .70 to give a mark up on a spread sheet. Thanks in advance

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hi there guys and girls, Just clearing some stuff off my hard drive and was checking how much free space I had. It was saying I used 20g as you can see from the pic. (first picture) However I couldn't think where this 20g had gone so I went in …

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I'm looking for a MicroATX format Socket 478 motherboard that has onboard PATA RAID. This is for a middle-end gaming/entertainment rig. I can't find it! SATA RAID is everywhere, and the closest I can come is a PCI RAID card. With limited PCI expansions, I'd rather keep it on the …

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Hi, Well it seems to be a virus or maybe I deleted something important from my computer by accident but each time I try going on a site that has music or a video an error message comes up and I don't really have a choice except to click on …

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I have a Sony Vaio with a 120 gig C/D drive. The C drive only has 13 gigs for programs, etc. D is full but I can move stuff over to a 300 gig Maxtor external. The problem is, there's nothing to delete on C and I'm at times under …

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:cry: hi i just bought a brand new compaq presario sr1850nx. here are the specs: amd athlon 64 3700+ 1 gb of RAM 250 GB HDD Windows XP MCE 2005/SP2 D-Link dwl-g132 wireless usb adapter smc wireless g router so i plugged in the usb adapter for the wireless...followed the …

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