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Hello all, I'm hoping to get some help here. As the title states, I can't get to certain websites and it seems that it is being caused by some sort of virus. I've ran numerous anti-spyware scans and hijackthis logs, and everything seems fine, but the problem persists. Not sure …

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Computer = Acer Aspire 5515 Laptop OS = Vista home basic with SP1 Router = USR 8054 with WEP encryption I can not get the wireless connection to work with my network. It sees my home network, but when I try to connect, it fails to connect, when I diagnose …

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Computer = Acer Aspire 5515 Laptop OS = Vista home basic with SP1 Router = USR 8054 with WEP encryption I can not get the wireless connection to work with my network. It sees my home network, but when I try to connect, it fails to connect, when I diagnose …

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I am getting a Blue screen of death when I use steam to install games. It started yesterday when I tried to play a game while I was installing Visual Studio 2008, it flashed a blue screen for a split second and restarted. I changed my settings to not automatically …

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My problem started off much like the one in this thread: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread144432.html[/url] The symptoms of that problem now appear to be resolved...but I assume there is still a bit more cleaning up left to do. The problem started when I could not start Firefox or IE. Every time I tried …

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Well...I JUST reformatted my PC 2 weeks ago and I thought it would clean every thing... but then I still had virtumonde... so all these nasty pop-ups and other things would come on my computer... it has been going very slow and has lead to me getting prunnet and othe …

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I have been chasing this problem for a while now and everything I see is oriented to converting wmv and avi files to something that iMovie can read. My question is, wouldn't it be more simple to fix iMovie to read these files? That's something you would only have to …

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Hey gang, I'm getting a 9800GT tomorrow, to fit on my GF7025-M2 TE Micro-ATX mobo. CUrrently I'm using the onboard GeForce 7025 graphics, which are taking up 256MB of my 2GB of RAM. How do I disable the onboard graphics and get full use of my RAM back when I …

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I just got a computer of mine back from my niece. Not working very well. When boots it just has blank desktop, except for background pic. no start menu or icons. When I right click on background, I can get to various programs, but the icons won't do anything. I …

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Hi, so my girlfriends laptop was getting a bunch of warning messages about spyware/malware etc. . . and it seems the culprit was a little bugger named spools.exe that had materialized in her system32/drivers folder the day before. I googled it and it seems this is a nasty little guy …

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I have somehow acquired an odd virus. When I start up my computer a Security Center Alert comes up asking if I want to block suspicious software called Win32.Zafi.B with a high threat level . There is an enable protection button. I've pressed the button and when I do mozilla …

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hey, I've been thinking of building a new computer for myself for a while and I figure I might as well get started on researching what's new. I've been looking around the web and any site I find that compares amd vs intel is always (understandably) just testing their new …

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Hi, I have a Dell Dimension 8300 (Yes I know Dell sucks, please don't remind me). I bought a new Lite-On burner (DH-20A4H) to go with my NEC RWer.I had new NERO 7 installed and everything was working to burn dvd's, and my other cd-rw was fine. But I uninstalled …

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hi im newbie in here,hoping some one could help me with my driver problem....my vga and pci in device manager says it is not installed and i dont know what to download and where coz i only have my windows xp cd,i have no recovery cd or what ever...im using …

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Im in the process of updating my dell workstation ,plan on making it my main machine. replaced a xeon 2.0 , with a 2.8 ,changed out the Fijitsu 36g 10000rpm scsi for a Seagate cheetah 15000 rpm,plan on slaving the Fijitsu next .loading winxp on the drive now as thats …

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I have two pc Win XP & Win vista. They can not log on to each other even though I typed the correct username & password. Then I asked the google, they told me to create the same user account on each, so I can log on to each other. …

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I have a laptop that I took off the domain today and made it a work station. I like an idiot do not know what any of the user names or passwords were before i did that. Is there anything I can do? I have xp and a dell precision …

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Hello, My desktop computer is having problems with Internet Explorer. Much of the time (every time?) I click on links in "google" search results, I get redirected to "go.google.com", or I just get "Internet Explorer cannot display the web page". Also, while not a real problem, text fonts in "google" …

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I while back, I went to "Add or Remove Programs" and got rid of some things that I wasn't using and I suspected were slowing things down on my computer. Since that time, whenever I shutdown, it goes right to the end of the shutdown process and then a blue …

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After I deleted the nasty trojan prunnet.exe with MalWareBytes, I've been having a plethora of issues with my PC. For one, I have the feeling it's going slower, and just today, I was bombarded by a couple of trojans, most notably: Downloader.Tiny.AF, and some others. Anyways, I've also found set858.tmp …

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I'm using a Dell Dimension 5150 machine with BIOS version A05, I'm planning on purchasing a Seagate (or Iomega) external USB 2.0 1TB drive. I recently contacted Dell hardware support who assured me that the BIOS supports this type of storage device even though I can only find references to …

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Hi Guys Probably the most hectic one Ive experienced so far. I have a Terminal Server witch the majority of my staff connects to. It started very recently that atleast twice a day I get the error [B][I]RPC Error Unavailable[/I][/B] when some of my users try to log onto the …

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Hi, I hope that this is the correct place to submit this (first time here). I cannot acess any microsoft based web sites including msn or messenger. I cannot even get any updates i have tried to follow all of the tips that was given and nothing worked. Here is …

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When I type [CODE]c:\windows\system32\taskkill.exe /im somename.exe /t[/CODE] in the run box of the scheduled tasks wizard,the job completes successfully,but if I used the windows command prompt instead and I typed the following: [CODE]schtasks /create /sc once /sd 01/01/2009 /st 16:16:16 /ru confused /rp bigheadache /tn sametask /tr c:\windows\system32\taskkill.exe /im somename.exe …

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I have used a number of tools to clean my PC but each time the problem returns. In order to install MalwareBytes I had to rename the install file and rename the .exe file. Otherwise neither would start. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 1:45:57 PM, on …

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I am running vista home premium. Vista tries to format any disk I put in my cd/dvd-rw, regardless of what is on it. this is getting very tiresom. I can't get any disk to auto run either. they only way I can get anything accomplished is if I right click …

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Ok first of all the whole setup worked. Winows xp pro SP 2 I have seven Pc's talking to a hub but I set it up some time ago. One Pc stopped seeing ist wireless network card so I remove it and reinstalled it. The connection is forver looking for …

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I got the same virus on one of the workstations. I did the antivirus thing got rid of what I thought was all but now the only problem is right after you log in (I tried safe mode too) it logs you off. tried doing a windows repair but no …

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hi, i have a hijacked browser that i've been attempting to fix for a couple of weeks. after entering at term in search engines like google or yahoo, the results show up but after clicking on one, a pop-up advertisement comes up. i can't type in addresses of sites that …

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hope someone can help. i have a Dell Inspiron 1300, lap top windows xp i,d like to wipe hard drive clean to as to when i first got it. i,ve got a desk top that came with a norton go back disc and reload disc which i,ve used a few …

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why do most technicians unplugs the ethernet port before installation of the OS?

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Hello everyone, I have a simple question. If I ghost a hard drive ( make an image of it ) can I then boot from it ( the image ) on another computer and then use it as usual ? And also if I ghost the hard drive and lets …

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Hi, I'm thinking of getting a new CPU. Here it is on NewEgg: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116027[/url]. My motherboard is here:[url]http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-SIS661FX-PGA478-M-ATX-PRESCOTT[/url]. My question is: will my motherboard support this CPU? Thanks in advance.

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I had a big problem with my computer a few weeks ago, but after running a bunch of different antimalware programs, my computer is a lot better. However, it's still running a little bit slow. Also, when I'm online, my browser won't load any pages after a while. The weird …

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Hi there, I think I have a virus or something because when I use a search engine (any of them) and click a link it makes a new tab and rediects me to a random page , like monster webs and ect. Also some pages are blocked like the spybot, …

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Hi Folks, Today I accidentally installed the Netware client services and would like to uninstall it. I cannot figure out how to do this. I can no longer change how a user logs on or off using my XP Pro User Account tool. I receive an error message that states: …

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Hi to my great family at Daniweb !! I have a HP Pavilion a1250n, Windows XP, SP3 I have Spyware Guard 2008 on it and have tried all I know to do to get it off my computer. When I try to run Spybot, Malwarebytes, it won't let me. It …

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I tried the steps from the Microsoft support link but I cannot, or it will not let me, get past the first line- copy c:\windows\system32\config\system c:\windows\tmp\system.bak, I get a message saying it cannot be copied, does this mean a reformat and total re-installation, or have I missed something. CHECK LIST: …

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Hello everyone. How do i know if my motherboard has onboard networking capabilities. i.e that it can connect to another computer without the use of a separate network card ? My motherboard is an Nvidia 650i Ultra T1 version. It has a built in ethernet port but I am not …

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Hello everyone, I have a question, Is it possible to have 2 computers share the same internet connection. In this I mean that is it possible that computer A can be connected to the internet and computer B connected to computer A and then be able to access the internet …

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Okay, I have scanned my computer with a lot of programs, Malware, AVG, and after cleaning some mess I still think that i got that virus. Should I post a hijack scan here? It would really help me if someone will tell me what's going inside my computer.

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This is a real troubling problem. My laptop was working fine one day, and then the next(I did nothing to it) I turn it on and a grey screen pops up. It turns on but all you can see is a grey screen. Is this a problem with my screen …

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I'm working on a dell XP Home that will not get past the welcome screen, there is one user, when you first boot up it is all norm it goes straight into the desktop background (no icons) then it logs off and goes to the welcome screen, when you click …

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Ok I put in the disc I burned and I copied a few stuff in my laptop and then AVG detected a trojan, I didn't copy the folder the trojan was in. I tried to put it on virus vault but it wouldnt let me, so I was wondering if …

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Well ive narrowed down the parts but im still changing things is the anything i should look at changing or should i leave it as is? Currently the parts but the pricing and parts are as follows Thermaltake Spedo Advance ($285.00) Gigabyte GA-X48-DS5 M/b- 1600MHz FSB ($385.00) Intel Core 2 …

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Hello, I have been having some slow downs and software issues recently, could anyone please take a look at this logfile and tell me whats what? Thank you Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 6:02:54 PM, on 1/14/2009 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT 6.00.1905) MSIE: Internet Explorer …

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No clue how I got it. I keep getting random web pages popping up. sagipsul.com is a popular one. I'm sure there is probably some spyware in this mess too. I use malwarebytes. It found about 19 infections. I removed all these. Then ran my AVG antivirus. It found a …

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hi. i installed an iis service on my computer with a smtp server option. my problem is that when i open iis control panel i can see only the name of my computer without the smtp server option. can anyone help me ?

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Hi all, I have enabled and configured RRAS on my Windows 2003 server (IIS) machine to perform basic firewalling. I have enabled it and all works from the outside world, however, I cannot connect to the outside world on the machine. But the outside world (web users, FTP, etc...) can …

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hi guys, Getting some wierd networking issues between two of our sun boxes I will first explain the set up. Box one: running solaris 10 with one physical network connection into a switch Box two: running solaris 8 with three pyhsical network connections two into the same switch as above …

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