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 | It does pay, once in a blue moon, to check AV review and test sites. Windows Defender is non-competitive, ranks lowly because it is basic protection. Try av-comparitives for objective tests and comparisons, or "commercial" sites for somewhat subjective reviews (that is just the nature of their reviews). If you …  |
 | I think, Dani, that it is around about now that you should consider introducing a lock to threads older than, say, one month, with perhaps a special request from the OP needed to enable reinstatement. Yes, I know there is that long-running whopper commenced by HappyGeek about the life, times … |
| | Run diskcheck: choose your system partition (C: ?), rclick it and select Properties > Tools > Error checking. Restart your sys and wait until it completes the checking, and continues into Windows. |
| | Neat. It locked you out so you couldn't change it back. Shouldn't it do that? |
| | ...i missed this thread in the early stages... and there is a key.. naturally.. but i guess u do not need it now...  |
| | Well, hats off to Symantec for proving that average is not beyond reach.  |
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| | heck, even cheaper than a elect contractor is a wired mouse. five bucks tops from a cheapo store? buying one to see if it eliminates your problem would be a great n obvious first step. the transmission from a wireless mouse is digital, encoded randomly, limited to about 4m range, …  |
| | Re: Dark Web Down? "a worldwide swoop on ‘dark net’ sites. Some 16 masterminds of such sites have been arrested in an exercise that also took down more than 400 ‘dark net’ websites and servers." Which is why a lot of onion sites are down...? Locating the servers... was it really as "simple" as …  |
| | XP-SP3. I use it, it does everything that I require of it. Now in that I do not see a reason for change. Security? I just don't get hit, but then, I don't trawl the darker corners of the web. Change to Vista? Not going to happen. W7? Why? |
| | When a lappie does that it is almost always a heat problem. If you must use it on your lap, keep your legs apart. On a desk - prop it at the back. Still does it, then pop off the base cover around the fan and heatsink and remove the …  |
 | The last two links in that article by Symantec's boss are the important take-away, I think, JM, and are buried in: "check out PCWorld's guides to building the ultimate free security suite and how to protect yourself against the web's most dangerous security traps." http://www.pcworld.com/article/2050339/how-to-build-the-ultimate-pc-security-suite-for-free.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2048726/how-to-protect-your-pc-against-devious-security-traps.html |
| | Perhaps you could post a list of the files in your Malwarebytes and AV bins, in order for us to see what was corrupted but important. On another system please download Farbar Service Scanner to a UFD; run the program on your unconnected system and present the report here. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/farbar-service-scanner/ |
| | You're being mean on Sony, rubberman. Can I be sure you're not in N Korea?  |
| | google... gerbil... close enough, so I'll bite. Yes, it is, the driver is suitable for XP 32 bit. You did load the driver? Is the printer showing in your network? Time to load the help cd into your machine.  |
| | I rather like the NSA... they're so out there in forward thinking. So turn it all off, RJ, and watch some tv. But be careful to only pass notes between yourselves.... |
 | sudo dd if=./linuxmint-17.1-cinnamon-64bit.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=1M You copied a file (image) to a device, not a partition - everything under the iso is hosed, the partition table has been rewritten. Why do they nick dd the data destroyer? beats me... Anyway.... Linux conforms to the ntfs spec, so the backup table … |
| | Yes, there is. But it is encoded, and you cannot see the contents of the Security hive from within windows. Pretty much all you could do is delete it, anyway, and there are much easier ways of doing that if you are in windows already.  |
| | These often come in on some plugin or extension, addon that you have installed, perhaps unknowingly with some other software or webpage you visited. You can check your plugins, uninstall and delete those you don't need or use, or you can run AdwCleaner by Xplode (free). Read the simple instructions … |
| | Hello, galena. Is this a computer running Vista? |
| | Simply, import it. You would wisely export your own data and clear the decks first to avoid confusion. Or, if it's not your .pst, then in a VM. Any burner will handle the copy to dvd; decent burners allow for integrity checks on the burn (read/compare). |
| | I think winlogon is trying to load, but registry reads are faulting. And that's the end of it. Mucaa, restart your system and immediately press F8 several times to get into the Windows Advanced Options screen (black, with white print). Choose Safe Mode - as it prepares to load you … |
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| | Or, if this is the password that you set in BIOS then pulling the CMOS battery in a computer of the vintage likely to be running XP for several seconds should null it. |
 | I have used Comodo's firewall for years, still do, on XP which I use 99% of the time. W7 just aggravates me... it's the other 1%. Comodo's firewall is just great, runs alongside Avast's AV only. But I got CF when it was purely that, not a firewall packaged with … |
 | Re: PASSWORD UNLOCK Everything that is legal you will find here: http://forum.xda-developers.com I don't know from your post whether you are attempting to unlock someone's PW, or to unlock from a provider. Certainly they will guide you to unlocking from a provider. But then, often too, will the provider if you pay a … |
| | Urg. Could be anything. Dry solder joints are more common than you would like to believe. A tiny trace of corrosion around low power joints, hydrated salts remaining from cheap flux, dodgy connectors, the mb monitor chip, the ps's controller chips. Tap those chips briskly with a pen - they … |
| | "One caveat is that not all of Youtube's contributors are experts." That sounds awfully sweeping.... there's a utube of a russian showing how to stop the clingfilm roll leaping out of the box when you pull the film, and well, he's basically nailed it. He demonstrates how you should push … |
 | Re: VIDEO HARDWARE Could be any of three or four things... -dust-laden heatsinks - brush and vacuum/blow clean -driver software corrupted - reload it. -faulty RAM - test it with Memtest86+ -faulty video card - stress test it with Furmark I'd probably do those things in that order. Putting the worse news toward … |
 | Ye-es... but somewhat slowly cos of not much RAM, and a slow CPU. But there are tablets designed for W8 specced like your system. |
 | The 102 MB partition is the System Reserved partition. W7 placed it there because at some time you installed W7 to an un-partitioned disk (if you had forced W7 to a prepared partition the SysRes partition would not be built). Don't remove it - booting files are there, and it … |
| | I'm reading this as someone who is annoyed by people wearing and using bluetooth gear. Even strangers. Company risks a bricking. By "certified nerds" I know you mean top-hole nerds who have been certified as unfit to be in public places. People who really know me turn off their mobile … |
 | Crazy. From your wording it almost sounds like you want to somehow have Minecraft access the RAM in the desktop from the laptop. Maybe in Startrek, but not in any world I know of. If you wish to physically swap RAM sticks, then no to that also. The two RAM … |
 | If Windows Disk Management can see the disk then TestDisk should cope with it. Not Initialised shows beacause the LDM cannot see a partition table. TestDisk in its deep search will ignore the partition table and hunt for the boot sectors of each partition, thereby establishing partition boundaries. If you … |
| | Hi. You would have to check your memory usage figure in Task Manager under Performance tab - the Available figure. This refers to the amount of free RAM available for processes and their data files. The memory manager will not allow this to drop too low - it always keeps … |
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| | Being uncertain as you seem to be, I would open it up, remove the immensely strong magnets from the arm motor, and stick them on the fridge door whilst you choose from the almost unlimited variety of uses to which they can be put. I cannot think of any at … |
| | I'm a bit shy of bringing these points up to you, Jim... 1. Host controller driver is good? 2. USB 3.0 selected in BIOS? 3. Cable is blue USB 3.0? Now don't flame me... |
 | 1. You want an offline registry editor. 2. Because of the existence of the above, stick to simple passwords you won't forget. Anything more than the name of your cat is just being fancy and silly. 3. If he is encrypting, beware. Remember the password. |
| | When charging via a dedicated power supply or USB you do not need to worry about the battery voltage and supply voltage output, as long as the current supply capability of the source is high enough. All chargers in devices such as your OPO are "smart" in that they will … |
| | "I just Reinstalled Windows 8.1" So where was the loader for the malware? |
 | Use a smart downloader. The MSupdates BITS is one, Opera browser uses one for all downloads. That way, if a download halts the software can restart it fro that point. Torrents, well, yeah... sometimes a source can drop off the net and not be replaced if it's a rare file. |
| | Ah. So what you heard was actually coming from the hdd itself... it was a short buzz routine to unstick the heads from the platter media. To do with a power problem.. the platters won't spin up so it buzzes the heads to see if they are stuck. You can … |
 | Re: "Bogus update" It is valid; it is here: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3024777 It's purpose is as explained, to remove a problematic update, KB 3004394. It will then delete itself. |
 | Blue screen it again, and note both the error code (it looks like 0x0000004C : .... and any filename below, like ntfs.sys Post them. |
| | MBAM, SAS, HJT (useless in 64bit systems), ComboFix, Defender (useless in any system), TDSS (could you post this log?), Secunia, Ruiware... but no evidence of malware. This orphaned key was removed: SafeBoot-41186125.sys... You might try Farbar Recovery Scanner from http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/farbar-recovery-scan-tool/ When the tool opens check Additions.txt and then scan. Post … |
 | So around this time you uninstall Avast (use the uninstaller from their website!) and then reinstall it if you so choose. Any AV will automatically scan downloaded files (and also uploading files if you set it so), although some will delay the scanning of a downloaded file until it is … |
 | Or, to flesh that answer out a bit, you are meant to use sticks of DDR2-667 MHz RAM, with at least one stick per channel. If you go with 4 GB of RAM, then half the sticks in one channel and half in the other. Similarly for 2 GB. But … |
 | Re: wireless network "what is the relation between frequency and transmission of signals ?" That is such an open-ended question one wonders where to start. But pretty much, the higher the frequency the more information one can transmit in a give time, different encoding methods notwithstanding. And now I see the other questions. …  |
| | This is the forum for you... http://forum.xda-developers.com/  |
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