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So my PC has been running progressively slower and slower, and a few days ago, Internet Explorer started to work "intermittently"...meaning that sometimes it would hang when loading, I'd do an "End Task" and then reload it and it would (usually) work. Suspecting something amiss (bright one, aren't I?) and …

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Hello everyone, how's it going? I'm trying to partition a hard drive of a desktop computer so that I can install the Windows 7 Beta on it, but I'm having some issues. I'm using Easeus Partition Manager 3.0 Home Edition to partition my hard drive, but whenever I go to …

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I got a lil prob here....i hope this is the correct section to ask this question!!! okey i hav 4 year old sony vaio which is very gud laptop and very nice one i want to install a new hard drive in this laptop and i want recover the windows …

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i have a hp pavilion dv2000 that won't boot up,when i plug in the adapter it shows that it actually is getting current because the led which indicates that the adapter is plugged in lights up but when i press the power button it does not come on,i tried removing …

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I'm new to OS X. In the desktop view options, I have nothing checked, however the icons for my two hard drives are constantly being rearranged when I restart. Is there any way to make it like OS 9 so that no matter what the hard drive icons are always …

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hi i have a time computer recently it had a blue screen error so i formatted the hard drive and installed windows xp sp3 but my audio drivers are not working i lost my mobo cd so i tried to download the latest version of audio drivers online even after …

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My internet browser is opening itself to a web sit called [url]www .webthangs.com[/url]. This virus seemed to attack my default browser either firefox or IE. I have scanned my entire computer with many spywares and AVG, and none of them was able to find the virus. Apparently, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware was …

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I recently had to reformat hard drive and reintall windows xp sp 1. When I go to windows update the page will not display. Internet working on msn.com

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Hi, can anyone help me: The problem P.C. is at another address at my sisters. windows XP, the pc is in aloop i get a blue screen: stop ox 0000000a (ox0000001c, ox0000002, ox00000001, ox8053c565) dumping physical memory to disk then counts to 100 and shuts down. i could not fix …

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My old Dell PC, now defunct, has a Hard Drive with the following description: 60GB,7200RPM Hitachi,VAN2 I want to purchase a new Compaq Presario SR5710F Desktop Computer With AMD Athlonâ„¢ X2 Dual-Core Processor 4450e+ . If I use a data transfer cable, will I be able to transfer files from …

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ok, i have a laptop and i wanted to run a game off of my external hard drive. I know it is possible but i was wondering what the best way to go about it is. My computer has USB 2.0 and an HDMI slots. I know you can run …

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Hope this is the place to post this, but here is the situation. My friend has been having a problem with his system shutting down after its been on for a bit. I downloaded and installed a temperature test and it would appear that his cpu is getting hot pretty …

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is there a way to test a motherboard....my friends hard drive went out and we replaced it....now its throwing an error code and everything points to the mb

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I have a sony vaio pcg 7h1l. Had it for a little over a year now. Got a virus a while a go, but took it off. Then it would take about 4-5 times just to be able to log on. So i decided to upgrade from Windows XP media …

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Hello, this is my first post, hopefully this is where I am supposed to post this. I got a virus recently, having trouble getting rid of it. Was told to download hijack this and post the results here. Hopefully someone can tell me which ones to "fix". Thanks!!! Logfile of …

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Is there a utility which you load with a .txt file which is a list of files and directories you made previously, so it generates, sort-of, a virtual directory tree (explorer-like, with icons and all)? _______________________________ For example: You have a list, a .txt file, which has this text in …

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This lesson presents methods that will help you automate Windows XP Professional installations. When you must install Windows XP Professional on computers with varying configurations, scripting provides automation with increased flexibility. You will learn how the Windows Setup Manager makes it easy to create the UNATTEND.TXT files that are necessary …

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Hi; I usually try to help on boards like this and now I am making one.. heh. Well I left my computer on sharing bandwidth with the stanford folding@home daniweb team overnight and came back the next evening to find my OS toast. I tried to repair it via windows …

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So I recently bought and external hard drive to back up some files and it works fine when the computer is already turned on but once i have to restart or just start up my computer it stops at the first screen i tried just letting it process the informations …

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I want a FREE program for windows to convert a CD or DVD into an ISO image on my hard drive. Are there any around?

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Is there a utility which you load with a .txt file which is a list of files and directories you made previously, so it generates, sort-of, a virtual directory tree (explorer-like, with icons and all)? _______________________________ For example: You have a list, a .txt file, which has this text in …

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Im trying to fix a computer for my son in law but it wont start up. Its an emachine 420 2.60 ghz intel celeron processor 80 gb hard drive. I noticed that when i switch it on i hear a clicking sound once from the processor and the fan is …

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When I try to boot my laptop I am getting the following messages. Primary Hard disk not found optical drive not found Press F1 to retry boot or F2 to run set up. Please somebody help me to fix this problem. Thanks Jai

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[B]my hard drive was always patition before. Yesterday i tried to delete one of the partition after formatting it now am gettin a message saying there is not enough disk space i tried using my dell media direct cd to format it but i gettin error so i cant format …

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Purchased a HP ZE4610US laptop over a year ago, and started receiving SMART drive failures. Laptop would intermittently freeze, fail to boot up, etc. Periodicity of the problems got worse to where it was near impossible to boot the computer. Naturally, the Warranty period dried up. Ordered a new Hitachi …

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Bios does not recognize hard drive - Hard drive appears as 'Rigel' rather than as Maxtor 5T060H6. Apparently some hacker got to it. Any way to re-program it?

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Well I am cerainly happy to have found this place. I work alone and my training and exprtise are mainly focused on harware and especially HP printers. Well that was a long time ago. But since I started going it alone and making a living for myself my clients kept …

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Hi everyone, I am trying to troubleshoot the problem with an Acer Aspire 5102 WLMi laptop. When it turns on you can hear the hard drive starting, cd spinning (if one inserted) but there is nothing on the screen. I have searched Acer endlessly and cannot find anything of assistance. …

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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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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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I'm starting to get the hang of writing VB.NET code--very simple jobs, but covering some esoteric subject matter. The first two tasks I needed to accomplish came about because I decide to import my (rather large) CD collection onto my new (also rather large) external hard drive; I used Apple’s …

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hi guys, i have the same problem with a lot of people faced before, try to use the same method to resolve them but failed,here is the log file. i really apprciate your help! Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 9:50:21 PM, on 18/01/2009 Platform: Windows XP …

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My pc was infected by an unknown malware, it is my first time to encounter a malware like this. All my files on my hard drive was changed the attribute to hidden except for the desktop shortcuts and then it replaced the files with the same name as it is …

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I got a new Maxtor 500 GB sata II hard drive last month..it's still under warrany..but this was my 2nd hdd,my first one is a seagate 80 GB SATA drive which contains my Os, out of no where all of a sudden my both driver stopped working.. My board is …

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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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OK, so for a while now I wanted to try out linux, so I did, first linux I used was ubuntu...but I did try Gentoo and Knoppix, knoppix I liked but had problems mounting the hard drive, so I went back to ubuntu and works better than before for some …

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I'm trying to do a repair install of XP to fix some issues created when a hard drive started going bad. The install comes up with trying to load an Intel USB driver, if you say YES, you lose the keyboard & mouse which are USB. If you say NO, …

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Adobe Updater was running at the time Zone Alarm flashed up a flag to say "there is a rtm file requesting access to the trusted Zone " which I assumed was part of Adobe updater because that's all that was running ,anyway a pop up came up one the screen …

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At first when I turned on my computer I would be able to sign into my account and be able to get on the internet and maybe one website, the computer would completley freeze and I would have to forcefully shut my computer down because not even the task manager …

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Here is some of the stuff I could get you regarding the viruses/trojans/malware/spyware/// EVIL FROM HELL crap that is on my computer....... you people have the smarts for this stuff so I come humbly to the knowledge hub for answers! I have a Daycare and use the computer for the …

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I am sure this must have come up before - but can anyone explain why I can no longer access certain websites with Windows 98 ?? I have recently had a new hard drive fitted and had no problems before. I can still access websites like Google but not the …

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Dear IT Pro and Experts, I have a computer running WinXP with SP2, it has 128MB of RAM, and 477Mhz Processor. I was using internet on this computer suddenly the computer was little slow and when I checked the paging file usage in "processes" by going to windows task manager,it …

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I have an Intel Pentium 3, 27 GB hard drive, 384 MB system RAM that uses Windows XP Pro SP2. I am looking for advice on the best and easiest way to "burn" data/music to a CD-R. I have too many files stored on my computer hard drive and loaded …

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Hi, Please can someone make a suggestion to iron out a glich when viewing a site in Safari & Firefox. Here is the page: [URL="http://www.johnhathway.co.uk"]www.johnhathway.co.uk[/URL] On the page there are two links which have been styled in red with an underline on hover. (Contact Me & Enter Flash Site) The …

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HP, Compaq, eMachines, Gateway, ViewSonic, Alienware, Best Buy, MicroCenter, Dixon, ZT Group, Seneca Data, Tatung and many more are part of the SoftThinks family of OEMs. SoftThinks manufactures the program "P. C. Angel" installed on my computer. This is a one time run option to burn recovery disks to CD's …

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Hello, I think my PC might be infected with something again. ...moving real slow....here's my HJT log. BTW, I finally switched to Firefox....so hopefully I won't be asking for help as much on these nasties...thanks for the help in advance.....JD Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 19:17, …

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Hey, Currently my computer has one 40GB hard drive in it, and my friend has an old computer that he never uses with an 80GB hard drive. Is it possible just to take that hard drive and plug it into one of the connectors in my computer? Thanks!

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Hi there. Here is a little about me, for those who are wondering. I am a 39 year old female. I have been married for eight years. We live in California, USA. I have been playing with, fixing, and working with computers since 1990. My first system was a Packard …

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Hi, Finally it seams that vista 64 ultimate are unable to reboot, restore, run in safemode or repair. So probably I have to reinstall Vista. The symptoms that lead to that vista couldn't reboot was that it freezed. It has freezed 2 times. Each time I enable the total black …

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I have found some recent problems with my computer: 1. Microsoft update redirects to MSN.com 2. I cannot download the microsoft malware removal tool -- I get a "page cannot be displayed" error. 3. AdAware cannot update -- it says there is no internet connection -- while I am actually …

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