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 | Hi All, Wife's computer just had a crash. Dell Inspiron N5040. I got the disks from Dell and reinstalled the system on a new HD. Starting the recovery process by putting things back in place. I use FF for her browser. Going into AOL and choosing mail and entering the …  |
 | In order to further (artificially) inflate the number of Windows 10 installations, Microsoft is now showing the following pop-up on some users' computers:  And even more heavy-handed, some users are getting the following:  Smart users will realize that they can always click **X** and just close … |
 | So, one day i type in .com in extension for file, while not paying attention really so much. Then it turns into a ms-dos application.  |
| | Recently our cable provider boosted the internet speed to 15Mb/s down and 2Mb/s up. My son is connected to a desktop through the Cisco router and gets the stated speed. My wife has a newer Dell laptop and she also gets the stated speed. My laptop is much older. I … |
| | Hi All, I am running a program for my woodworking business, eCabinet Systems. Nice program for drawing out kitchens and getting parts list and cut sheets. Over the years they have been upgrading it and it has finally come to a point where they are starting to get beyond my … |
| | My son was using his toshiba satelitte win 8.1 64bit computer and it crashed. Now all it does is go through the repair loop with no success. I thought maybe it was the MBR and tried to replace that but only screwed things up. I replaced the BCD file with … |
| | I really couldn't see what area of the forum to post this in so this is where I thought it might best go. MODs, move it to the appropriate forum area if there is a better place for it please. Was watching Wire Shark processing my LAN card while I'm … |
| | This is a reoccuring BSOD that I get on occasion. Seems to happen when I'm on the internet, but then again, that's usually why I'm on the computer. Doesn't seem to be a particular site, just seems random. I'm usually typing something on a forum and in the middle of …  |
| | I have a Cisco Linksys E2000 wireless router. Just recently I have been having a weird problem with it. Its random. I turn on my computer and it doesn't have my router listed as having a signal I can connect to. I use the Dell Wireless WLAN Card Utility to … |
| | I have a netopia wireless router that I am using on my antiquated PC system at work. The computer is an HP with a Pentium 4 500MHz operating windows 98. The only reason I run a wireless router on it is so my Dell Inspiron Laptop can have access to …  |
| | Yesterday we had two short power interuptions and my son came in and said he couldn't get online on his laptop. He said our wireless signal wasn't there. I checked on mine and my SSID wasn;t there but the default Cisco SSID was. So I went to look into it … |
| | Just looking at my entries in my Process Explorer and I noticed the JAVA updater was in there. I turned that off. So I went back to the JAVA console and indeed it was on. I turned it off and it gave me a warning and again I chose to … |
| | This is a list of my startup programs. The 2 files circled come up as not found when I boot up and I have to click OK to get the computer to continue the boot. I have unchecked them but the configuration window will come up during the boot process …  |
| | Well my computer is a couple of years old and takes forever to startup. It will get to the welcome screen in good time, but once I login first it sits there for about 2 minutes just showing by desktop backround with no taskbar, icons or anything. I cannot do … |
| | Hi all. I am having a pretty long delay when booting up my Dell Inspiron 9400. Had the problem once before and checkdisk/f took care of it. Not this time. The computer boots up correctly and hangs after the desktop picture is displayed but before my icons get displayed. After … |
| | Hi all, I had some bad sectors on my Dell Inspiron 9400 which uses a Samsung 100GB HDD. I purchased a WD 250GB HDD and used the cloning program EZ Gig IV to transfer my data from one to the other. It worked but it has made the 250GB drive … |
| | Running XP SP3 Dell Dimension 4700 The computer was acting a bit weird for a short part of the day, the monitor kept blanking out and sometime it would flash. We tried a reboot and ended up with a BSOD stop: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005,0x804D9092,0xF78DDF88,0xF78DDC84) [img]http://fototime.com/9178CAB72707663/orig.jpg[/img] For a while I had access … |
| | I have a desktop and a laptop connected to a wireless router (netopia 3387WG). What I want to do is be able to share hard drives between the two. If I need a file while I am on the laptop from the desktop I just want to be able to … |
| | Hi, Anyone know about the svchost.exe problem in wich the proces svchost.exe uses 100% of the cpu? :'( Ending this process leads to sound failures, automatic reboots etc. :( Not ending it leaves the comp slow ofcourse. Comp worked fine before. This svchost.exe problem showed up out of nowhere and …  |
| | I am running a Dell Inspiron 9400 with 2.5GB RAM. The machine use to boot very fast until recently. Now when it boots it gets to the point of loading the desktop image and then stops for about 25 seconds, then you hear the short burst of "Windows" music and … |
| | I have trend micro on my machine up to date but it missed this malware that I am now infected with. Symptoms: Can't run malwarebytes/spybot/windows removal tool/other antimw changed my dns servers to others that sent me to spam (corrected) cd/dvd burner not recognized anymore running slow internet slow internet … |
| | Hi guys, sorry if I have set out this post incorrectly as I couldn't find the forum rules anywhere.(there were a few forums I came across detailing how they want me to set out a post of a problem). On my laptop, my windows loads fine, but when it gets …  |
| | My computer just went on the fritz. I can get it to boot up and it gets up to the choice of family members, I can choose and then the HD does it thing and the desktop picture shows up and thats it. No icons, no startup bar, nothing. If … |
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Help!: Ispynow Hello, My computer is afflicted with ispynow, which prompts a phony message every 12 minutes saying just that and asking me to buy protection from some bogus third party site. Anywho, I've been reading some of the ispynow threads, and have found the following files on my computer: system32: TDSSfpmp.dll … |
| | I have been receiving messages from a spammer who has spoofed my email address to be the sender and the receiver. How do I find out where this is really coming from? I can't just hit the spam button (AOL) because it will put my own address as the spammer. … |
| | Hi guys ...So a client of mine is stuck with no desktop icons after he ran a anti virus program (witch is still unknown to me) He can only go to task manager and access his files that way, I've asked him what he gets when he type explorer in … |
| | For the longest time I used the computer as one user. Then we changed it to two users and now my standby acts weird. If both users are logged on and I am on the new user template and want to go into standby mode, the computer will shut down …  |
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Fake Warning Can someone please help me; how to remove this Trojan/virus fake warning popup: "Some dangerous viruses detected in your system. Microsoft Window XP files corrupted. This may lead to the destruction of important files in F:\Windows. Download protection software now! Click OK to download the antispyware. (Recommended)" Here is the … |
| | I was wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of the background behind the text on icons in windows xp. I can't figure out how to do this, and it makes the wallpaper look stupid with all of these blue backgrounds for the text. |
 | [B] I have a Gateway 3310 with Windows XP home with 512 megs of RAM. It's still running a bit sluggish. And when I run certain programs that ran okay in my old computer that had a lot less RAM here the program occassionaly freezes, the computer was running at … |