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Title says it. Old Dell died, I had Office 2003 Professional from Dell, but on MS disks that appear to be retail type. New computer is running Windows 7 (64 bit). Install appeared normal with activation codes, program operations are OK with one or two unexplained shutdowns. Ive been running …

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I got a warning alert from my AVG anti virus software the other day. It listed some cookies that were in a directory that doesn't exist on my hard drive. None of the AVG option took care of the warnings and every time I boot my computer I get the …

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Hey everyone, So I am doing this computer engineering class project where we have to use a parallel port of a computer to read inputs and make a program that acts according to that input. The project is to make a high rise building(or a mini city in my case) …

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I recently left my laptop on all day without touching it at a friends house, and when I came back to it, I could not click on any windows. So doing ctrl-shft-esc, I brough up the task manager, and the only way I could navigate through it was by keyboard, …

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I am getting repeated HDD error reported by the RAID systems. I am getting the HDDs replaced via warranty but this is happening too frequently tht I am thinking that something else is wrong. I have had about 5 HHDs failures in the last 4 weeks. As soon as I …

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I am having a problem opening folders with a double left click. When I do this now it opens my VLC media player and the folder doesn't show. If I right click on the folder, the first 6 items on the drop down menu are: Add to VLC media player's …

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i keep getting these pop up notifications with the red badge and white X on the bottom right of my computer. it won't allow me to open up any websites in Explorer. it also won't allow me to run any of my anti-virus and ad-aware software as if it's blocking …

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I have two computers hooked up to my new modem. The new computer (win7) uses windows Live Mail and my old computer (win 98) uses Outlook express. If I have only my new computer on it receives the mail as it comes. When I start up my old computer it …

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1. My adult daughter’s Toshiba Satellite computer started acting strangely lately. At first only rarely, but finally almost every time it was used, it kept popping up a dialog box purporting to show “search results” even though none had been asked for. Closing the box merely brought up another one, …

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Greetings! My first post here. Not sure if I need to post a hijackthis log yet. It seems some of my keys have been remapped. When I strike the ctrl-alt-del combo it toggles the mutefunction. When I strike the blank key my default web browser opens. I'll be glad to …

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Hello DaniWeb Community! I'm currently working on a particularly troublesome problem with my mothers computer. What happens is if I search for something (eg. "apples") through either firefox and google or internet explorer and bing, I am redirected to spam sites. It is getting incredibly annoying. In addition, a new …

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First of all unhide all the programs. if u have a broad band or dial up connection jst get off the Ethernet connection.then restart the computer and press F7.you got in safe mode and run the computer with network there you search where the unauthorized folder are there or not …

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I'm having trouble accessing anti-virus sites (and Microsoft pages as well) on the internet with my Asus Eee laptop. I've tried using a range of different browsers, deactivating Windows Firewall, and downloading Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from a "clean" computer and transferring it to my own. Still no success, though. Following the …

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Safe eyes has a filter that records all sites accessed. Currently i have been using Xamal.com to access myspace.com, however they will eventually block that also. Does anyone know any other site similiar or better than Xamal.com.[U] <email addy snipped>[/U][EMAIL="lre226@email.vccs.edu"][/EMAIL]

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I found a solution here in a closed thread having to do with an oddity: situation where IE7 would not connect to a functioning internet connection but Firefox WOULD connect without a problem. The solution was to check "Internet Options" to determine if the "connect through proxy server" option is …

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Thanks for your services. I just got a Blue Screen Of Death on a 1 year old Dell Inspiron 530, running XP, SP2. Never had a problem before. Tonight, my wife started Left 4 Dead 2 and it went to blue screen and rebooted. I saw another thread here very …

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Hello to everyone! I urgently need a good flash to video convertor that works under Mac OS. So, you are welcome to come up with your suggestions:)

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General Error SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ] Table '.\ftadata\phpbb_sessions' is marked as crashed and should be repaired [145] An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.

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Hi all, OK, I'm using Acer Aspire 1705SMi laptop that is supposed to be able to take up to 2gb of ddr333 sdram 184 pin dimm. The is a DIMM based model with a sis650 chipset. it also takes 3.5 ide hard drives. I've tried about 4 brands of ram …

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Hey I've been scouring the net to find a solution and this seems like the best place to be. I'm hoping i can use your expertise to my advantage to fix this problem. I've already ran adaware, Spybot S&D, and my McAfee scanner but i still have this problem. I've …

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I DO NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT PC AND THIS DANIWEB BUT I HAD THIS TROJAN FOR A LONG TIME AND I HAD TO SHARE HOW I FINELY GOT RID OF IT , I FOUND A SPYWARE ANTI VIRUSES FILE ONE DAY AND THOUGHT I GIVE IT A GO AND NOT …

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Hi and thanks in advance for any advice. I am giving my old lap top to my kid and wanted to reformat before the transfer. Yesterday I reformatted drive C but did not touch the partitions as there is nothing on them. Then today I tried to install XP but …

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I get this message and anything I attempt to do does not work. The screen stays frozen. I have put the windows disk in but to no avail The last attempt to restart the system from its previous location failed. Attempt to restart again? Delete restoration data and proceed to …

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I just got a seven-port USB hub that I'd ordered from eBay in the mail today, and just tried it out with my external HDD but the external was not recognised through the hub. The blue light on the HDD comes on but the disc does not spin and just …

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Hi, I'm having trouble installing Windows Server 2003 32-bit Enterprise Edition. I have a computer with an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium motherboard (AMD 64 chip) and on one drive I'm running Windows XP Professional 32-bit. My video card is an ATI Radeon X1600. I put the Windows Server install CD in, …

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Cisco has wthdrawn their WUSB 600N_Win7_driver_ver3.00.01.0.zip driver. I need to install this on a Windows7 Pro machine. Does anyone have a copy they could share so I could try it before their senior tech calls in 48 hours? I am trying to install on a client site. Tnx Crosspost (sorry …

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Cisco has wthdrawn their WUSB 600N_Win7_driver_ver3.00.01.0.zip driver. I need to install this on a Windows7 Pro machine. Does anyone have a copy they could share so I could try it before their senior tech calls in 48 hours? I am trying to install on a client site. Tnx Crosspost (sorry …

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Thank you in advance to anyone who can help me with my problem. I'm running an HP Pavillion 725n with Windows XP Home Edition and Service Pack 3. This morning, my mother visited Facebook with MS Internet Explorer. She reported to me that her browser window suddenly disappered and up …

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Hello! I'm running a dedicated web server and I'd like to use APF to block HTTP(S) access to certain PORTS from all IP's except from mine. Anyone knows how to do that? Many thanks in advance!

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Hello! I have an old PC, usually it works just fine. No problem at all. But today I wanted to set in some new harddisks, it had a capacity of 60GB before and now it has ~ 400GB space. But when I boot my PC I get 3 beeps with …

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Good evening you all, Today and after having several problems with Vista I finally was able to downgrade to XP. I was able to find the drivers wich was a really hard task although right now the problem is, as said, that I am not able to connect to the …

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Well, I just retrived my old pc from my parent's house, it's a hp pavilion 5210la, the deal is that I can't remember the password of the bios setup, it's a phoenix - award I think, so if someone can help me reset password or remove it would be very …

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After the computer completes start-up, I get the following error message: "RUNDLL: (Error loading C:\windows\system 32\bridge.dll. The specified module could not be found.)" I'm not sure, but I believe the problem may have started after installing and running the latest versions of "Ad-aware 6.0" and few similar like that then …

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Hi daniwebbers My laptop is infected with a very nasty /worm/trojan/virus such that i cannot even format it. When i attempt to reinstall windoWs xp, it returns an error <<INF FILE TXTSETUP.SIF IS CORRUPT OR MISSING. STATUS 1024,SETUP CANNOT CONTINUE.PRESS ANY KEY TO EXIT>>>> Please help.

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Hey guys...I have delayed asking this for too long but maybe its high time. My UPS faced some problems and it would automatically close down. So, basically windows was shut down improperly. Now, the problem is that my computer wont run chkdsk and thereare lots of damaged files. I tried …

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I have recently installed Windows 7 (ultimate, 64 bit), on a Medion Titanium MD 8385PC desktop making it dual boot with Windows xp. Now when I log on using xp I still have sound but not when I log on using Windows 7. The onboard soundcard is a "C-Media AZA …

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I purchased a 32GB storage disk + reader. When I plug it into my USB port a message says that it is not readable by this computer. When I choose the initialize button Disk Utility opens but there is no initializing option. I have a Mac OS X version 10.4.11 …

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Every I conduct a search for something using Google, I get the true results listed but when I click on the result I am redirected to a page on Virus software, travel sites or something similar. I have scanned Malwarebytes and Spybot and McAfee and still got problem Logs Malwarebytes' …

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I know it's probably not possible, unless someone is working on it. Is there a way to install Win7-64 over top Win7-32 ? What about the option of having a complete Windows7-32 backup and then restoring that back up after installing Windows7-64 ?

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I used to use Windows Media Player (version 10) to rip my CDs, so I set the Tools/Options for ripping in WMP to "rip inserted CD." I now use other software for ripping, so I have turned this feature off in WMP. However, WMP does not recognise this. Whenever I …

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I have a Intel D946GZIS motherboard i have recently bought a new chassis and i put everything to the new chassis from then the motherboard does not switch on the Power LED on the motherboard is lit up but when i switch it on nothing happens no fans no nothing …

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I just purchased a Belkin Router f5d8235-4 v2. It has a place to connect an external hard drive so that the network can share the hard drive. I have a 250 Gb Western Digital hard drive that I have tried to connect but I haven't been able to get it …

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A friend of mine has a Acer L5100 running Vista. During the loading of Update 955430 (which is a pre-requisite for SP1) the update failed as did the update for SP1. At some point after - i.e. a couple of months - another update has caused internet to stop working …

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hi everyone am taking ccna classes.i would like to know the full package of software that are necessary for a network that can use media conferancing. real time

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Hello I am a novice at computer faultfinding. I have a problem where when using IE8 such that random websites open up. usually sites which state my machine has virus's etc. I have run malwarebyte,ccleaner,adaware, and avg free with no problems reported. Please could someone assist me to rid my …

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I have a six year old Compaq laptop with Windows XP and suddenly the screen blacks out and I have to reboot. It is clear the rest of the computer continues to work normally. I've reloaded everything but the problem continues. It happens if I move the computer or perhaps …

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Details 1 PATA Hard Drive: Western Digital 1 SATA Hard Drive: Western Digital Gigabyte Motherboard (AMD2 Socket) SATA DVD Drive. Problem: When I boot up the computer, it takes forever to detect IDE devices. Then when it finally does, it sucessfully detects the DVD drive. But gives an IDE Channel …

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Guys A strange thing happening to a friend's PC; when press Ctrl+Alt+Del brings up Task Manager instead of the security box. I have failed to figure it out; checked the drivers, the individual keyboard tabs etc Even checked to see if some managment /configuration tool was installed but none. Any …

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I tried defraging my computer and this certificates thing came up. Does anyone know how to fix it? I tried following these directions but it didn't help. [B][url]http://forums.techguy.org/windows-xp/795175-disk-defragment-how-did-i.html[/url][/B].

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hp pavilion xl753 Mainboard Model HAWK Intel Celeron Coppermine 668.3 MHz Socket 370 FC-PGA (0x4) Chipset Northbridge Intel i810E rev. A3 Southbridge Intel 82801AA (ICH) rev. 02 Memory Type SDRAM Memory Size 320 MBytes DIMM # 1 = 256 MBytes PC133 (133 MHz) DIMM # 2 = 64 MBytes PC100 …

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