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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 …  |
 | http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-block-windows-10-upgrades-on-your-business-network-and-at-home-too/ |
 | Because back in the day when computers had 4K of RAM and a 40MB drive was huge, you needed a small compact program. And a .COM was it. It's a throwback from yesterdecade.  |
| | 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 …  |
| | I just solved this problem on my computer. Do you or did you ever have Skype on your computer? If you do/did then the Skype updater is the problem. My computer would go through its normal bootup process, put the desktop picture up and then stall for 85 seconds. After … |
| | 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 … |
| | 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 … |
| | Change the name of Malwarebytes.exe to something else such as timmy.exe and run it then. Good chance it will work.  |
| | I just had this problem on my sons desktop. Hacktool.Rootkit virus was the culprit. In safe mode run [URL="http://malwarebytes.org"]Malwarebytes[/URL]. Hopefully you can download it and then update it. I have it on my system already. After you update it run it as full scan. Do whatever it tells you to. …  |
| | 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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| | 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. … |
| | I had this happen to me recently. I rebooted into safe mode and that was missing too. So I rebooted into command mode and went to the windows directory and typed explorer and it wouldn't let me in but asked if I wanted to do a restore, I chose yes … |
| | 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 …  |
| | Re: Fake Warning Download and run MalwareBytes Anti Malware. I had something similar and nothing would touch it. This got it first try. |
| | Worked for me. Thanks..... |
 | You need to upgrade your RAM. 512MB is a minimum that XP should be operated on. If you upgrade to 1 or 2 GB your performance should improve. |
| | For the longest time I have had a GIF file for my desktop. I make them from photos I've taken with my camera. I tried to change over to a new one recently and it kept returning to my current one. I finally got frustrated and deleted all instances of … |
| | Fought with Vista -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And lost I installed a program called DosBox on my computer (Win XP) so that I could run an old favorite game of mine Duke Nukem 3D. I had no problems doing this. There is a configuration file that you can rewrite to make the program …  |
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| | I am having an interesting dilemma with writing to CR-RW discs. I am using a program made by SONIC called DigitalMedia LE v7, my DVD player is a TSST corp DVD +-RW TS-L532B firmware DE03. I am able to write to CD-R and DVD-RW without any problems, but when I … |
| | I had a problem with my AOL, the main.idx file became corrupt and I was informed by the AOL software to reinstall the hardware to fix the problem. I did this and now I have a problem with the aolsoftware.exe file. It keeps accessing my hard drive and slowing down … |
| | Whenever I insert a music CD into my CD-DVD drive the drive disappears from my system. It is normally listed as my E: drive. When I put the Music CD in the E: disappears from the system and only a reboot will bring it back. I can use and access … |
| | I am running XP Pro on both my Desktop and Laptop computers. Both have issues when using hibernation at times. The desktop will sometimes refuse to go into hibernation and show as error of not enough resources, I have 2.5GB RAM on that machine and 45 GB free on the … |
| | Click in the NAME label at the top of the list, it should re-order them by name (a-z), click the name label again and it should reverse the order (z-a). |
| | I am thinking about password protecting my laptop. A few questions. I am the administrator of my laptop. How do I set up the password. And after I set it up can I remove it so I don't need to type in a password at all. How would I do … |
| | 50Hz components are not usually workable with 60Hz components. This would cause the overheatong problem you are having. Check to see the frequency ratings on the input for the power supply. |
| | I just ran check disk on my P4 2.8GHz Dell Inspiron 9400 and after it finished it blinked it's results and I didn't get to read it. I know there must be a log, doc or text file somewhere but I can 't find it. Can someone tell me where … |
| | When I put a new site into IE 6.0 links it has the icon that the site gave it. After I reboot the computer and open IE again the icons have changed to the IE icon. If I erase the site go there and do the favorite link setup again …  |
| | I have been trying to set up a laptop wireless router system in my home and have been having trouble with the connecting process. I have COX cable (cox.net) for my Internet provider and have a 700Kbs connection. I am using a Netopia (3387WG) router. My laptop is a Dell … |
| | Download a program called CCLEANER, it is free and will get rid of a lot of unneeded and temp files. It will also do a good job of refreshing your registry. |
| | I just picked up a 1GB USB Flash drive. It has this U3 crap on it and I was wondering if I could just format the drive without making the drive useless. It is partitioned into two separate drives, one for the U3 files and one for data storage. I … |
| | I've developed a problem with my STANDBY mode. When I try to go on STANDBY (START>SHUTDOWN>STANDBY) the system will hang on me. When I use ALT-CTRL-DEL it says that the STANDBY is not responding, so I press END TASK and then the system hangs on me. My SHUTDOWN & RESTART … |
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