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Ok well I let my mom get on my laptop one night and all of a sudden i have all these dll errors about these web searches in the startup. Ive tried getting rid of them but they keep coming back. I have norton, spysweeper, and ewido. Heres my HJT …

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I have a laptop that's almost a year old and I've been getting some lag playing games on it. I want to have two copies of Windows on it, one for normal usage (henceforth called "C:"), the other for gaming (henceforth called "D:")--my gaming copy would have minimal stuff installed: …

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i'm brand new to this so....be gentle :cheesy: i have a pc and a laptop. the PC is connected to a cable modem through a router and works perfectly fine, as i am on it. my issue is with my laptop, wireless connection of course, which up until yesterday was …

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I'm using Ubuntu Linux 5.10 on my laptop (I'm planning on upgrading to 6.06 but I want to get the bugs out of 5.10 first) and the volume control is kind of screwy. I've had this issue with other distros as well (Suse, Debian, and Mandriva) The volume up and …

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Gosh today has been horrible.... I'm getting ready to leave work and here's what happened: I was backing up my supervisor's Outlook data and after that finished the laptop became very slow. I tried to open AutoCad to determine if our licenses were still working because I had ran into …

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Help, Ok the machine would not boot up last week. Thanks to this web someone said "shake" the machine or "drop it 2-3 inches". Unwillingly but a last resort I did the drop method. GREAT it booted up!! And that's how it has been over the weekend. So on Monday …

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Ok about a week ago I got infected with the Spy Sherriff virus but I was able to get rid of it with spyware removal tools and stuff but now im getting the NT Authority/System Shutdown error with the RPC message and also the Generic Process for Win 32 Error …

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Hey, I'm new to this forum. There was a problem with my system( laptop, XP)so I did a system restore on it. The internet was working then. Next, I installed Office XP because the wipe erased it. Now my internet doesn't work. The status says the internet is working(Cable internet …

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Just a couple days ago; my Presario 715 started acting up. Whenever I pressed the power on button the green light came up but nothing happened after that. I could hear the sound of one of the drives for a few seconds but that's all I was getting. From an …

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Hi, I have only 2 computers at home. My PC always there and my Laptop (connected when I'm at home). My PC is connected to ADSL with USD and the LAN card is connected to a hub. I connect my Laptop to the hub too and share the internet connection …

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I just got this laptop and was trying to activate xp via the phone(another issue in its self) couldnt do it so I shut the machine down went to get an xp disc and when I returned the machine would not start up.I did the usual ,reseat the memory,the hard …

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I have brought a Seagate 250gb external USB hard drive to make backups with. One of my computers, a Dell Dimension 2400, will not boot if the drive is connected. THis makes it impossible to backup using Norton Ghost 2003. THe drive does, however, work on another (though newer) Dimension …

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I just got a new laptop about a week ago and I noticed that there are some issues with the keyboard. When I use the left shift button and press p, double quote, question mark (maybe a few more buttons too), it becomes backspace. (it begins deleting previous characters) If …

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I have a dell latitude laptop and I would like to connect my Compaq moniter to it so that I have a bigger screen. How do I do that? Thanks in advance for your help!

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Hi all, I am completely computer illiterate. My laptop (Dell Inspiron 1000) won't start since I've had to shut it down when it froze a few days ago. Each time I turn it on, it starts regularly and then a black screen says s/t about a problem and how would …

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Hi! I'm in desperate need of help. I've tried some of the suggestions given to others who have posted similar problems, but none have worked for us. Maybe our system is older or something. We have a Dell Inspiron 1100 notebook that we purchased around 2000. It has Windows XP. …

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I just happened on this site because I am trouble-shooting a serioius problem w/our laptop. I must admit that most tech stuff is completely greek to me. I have a brother who is a programer but he's not always accessible. I hope to learn more and fix this problem! This …

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when i turn on my computer just before the windows xp starts up a black screens appears and nothing happens. i tried repairing it using the windows cd.....nothing happened. i loaded my best performance thingy (someone said that might help, don't really know)...didn't work. then i re-installed xp twice and …

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I recently had to go and buy a new charger for my fujitsu siemens e8010 laptop. A few days after using it my laptop just won't turn on. It won't even turn on while connected to the power supply. If someone could help i would be grateful

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I downloaded service pack2 from microsoft.com. after restarting the system a blue screen appeared with a Stop: 0x00000071. I read and did what it said on the screen and that didn't work. I also tried going to the BIOS screen that didn't work. Then a black screen appeared I tried …

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My home network consists of a Linksys BEFSR41 V2 router that connects my two desktops and a printer to each other and through the cable modem to the internet. I just bought a Linksys WRT54G V5 wireless router. I want to use it to connect to my old HP notebook …

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i have nb medion MD 2592 support with win xp. some thing happened i do not know what it made the laptop not accept win xp any more and all the time i try to install win xp it stop in the middle of the process and saythere is problem …

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Hi I am constantly using international characters for different languages. The key that is not working at all as it does on my other laptop is when I hold FN+ALT then 0241 to make the ñ. Instead, if I type it in IE it will bring me to the previous …

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My laptop was broken after I put it in checked luggage on a plane flight. On power-up, it stated that there were no bootable devices, so I decided the hard drive had been broken and bought another one. However, it doesn't recognize the new hard drive either and says there …

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I have two Dell computers, a desktop and a laptop both running XP. Both are and have been connected to each other in a home network for several months. They were connected using Win XPs Home networking wizard. Yesterday morning an error message began flashing on the computers, stating that …

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can anyone please help me: I have a sony viao laptop and recently it has slowed down nealry to a holt and anysound that the computer makes is like a dvd when it skips, this includes shut down sound, music, dvd and anything else. [B]this is what i have done …

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OK Guys I need help with my laptop Its a compaq presario 2500 running SP2 the problem(s) is/are that things have been dissappearing It all starts on startup where it pretends to freeze and when i press ALT+CTRL+DEL it unfreezes but then a message saying "Task Manager Has Been Disabled …

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Hello, everyone! I joined the forum to find some help for my problem. It seems very similar to that related in this thread -- [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread19435.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread19435.html[/URL] . I've searched for answers, and the best seems to be found here. :lol: I did have Norton System Works on this machine, which I …

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I have a Toshiba Satellite A65-S1067 laptop with a Realtek 97 sound card. Lately, after the laptop has been booted up for about 15 minutes, I lose the sound drivers. I downloaded the latest sound drivers from Realtek and after I lose the sound driver, I reinstall it. Then everything …

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Hi I have 2 logs, from a scan of my wife's laptop. 1) HJT ogfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 3:12:50 PM, on 01/07/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\ibmpmsvc.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\WINDOWS\System32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\Program …

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Hi all. I'm in need of help sorting out a problem and was hoping for some advice. My computer froze on me recently and having restarted the computer it has not been able to log in yet (I'm on a laptop atm). At first a message appeared saying: [B]Scan Devices, …

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Hi, I am using a Acer laptop 290. I found some times my lap top start and showing Acer page and after few seconds it stop working and giving a bright light (means white light nothing else) and laptop in not booting or halting. Some time it starts good and …

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I am trying to set up a firewire network between my PC and my laptop. The problem i am having is that my laptop shows a 1394 connection in the network connections, but my PC does not. I believe i have the connection setup on the laptop, but I am …

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Hello I am having trouble with my home network. I have a laptop and desktop computer connected by network cables to a D-Link router which in turn is connected to a cable modem. I have had no trouble with them until recently. I am now unable to connect the laptop …

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Hello - I'm a new poster to the Dani Web site, but have gooten good info previously. I have an old Dell Inspiron laptop with Windonw 98 (yes they still exist). Other than waiting 15 minutes for it to startup, it does pretty good. However, I noticed that when I …

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Hi, I am using a Acer laptop 290. I found some times my lap top start and showing Acer page and sfter few seconds it stop working and giving a bright light (means white light nothing else) snd laptop in not booting, Some time it start and ask for booting …

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Hi, I have a wired Dlink router/Phone adapter (DVG 1402S/L). Offlate am having issues with this router. I've two laptops connected to this router. If one laptop is on, the router is working fine. But when a request comes from a second m/c, the router shuts down and restarts itself. …

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have a legit copy of Premiere (came bundled with a video card that was put on another computer) that I am having problems installing. It is already on another computer and has been working for a while. I just got a laptop delivered yesterday and I want to install premiere …

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Hi Everyone. I hope you can help me with this, other forums have failed! My daughter dropped my laptop. Afterwards pressing the power key only caused the the shift capslock & another LCS to flash. I took it apart and reset the chip, nothing. By fluke i disconnected the screen …

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Helo. I have a D-link router and a laptoop (with a wireless card) and a DESKTOP (with a 10/100 PCI card). For some reason, when I boot my DESKTOP I cannot connect to it from my laptop. When I first boot the DESKTOP and look at the Properties of the …

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Hello sorry, I'm not very computer smart but...I plat this game called Lineage 2and a few mins into the game my screen goes black, I can still hear sound but i can not exit the game, minamize the screen, or use ctrl alt del. I have to manualy turn off …

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Hi! I just bought a new hp laptop about 2 weeks ago and i'm already having problems with spyware and such. I have norton and i did a full scan and nothing comes up but my computer won't shut down and i know that's not normal. :confused: So, i went …

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Hi, I have an Iqon 8050Q in for repair. The machine belongs to a friend and he says that he tried to upgrade the processor but used the wrong type. When he changed back to the original chip the power light flashed once then went off. I have just put …

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Some one put a password on the setup and I cant get in to check the settings. I installed Win XP and after the post it doesnt do anything. The hard drive light runs for a few secs, but the screen stays black. I cant get the screen to come …

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I just upgrade my toshaba sattelite laptop BIOS and during the updrade process the Laptop shut down.And after that when I try to restart it, it is making a beeping sound and got shutdown. Could any body help me pls????

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Hi, Laptop: IBM T40 Windows xp SP2 Takes a very long time to log in and when it finally does it says that windows explorer needs to close with InPageError: P1: c000009c P2: 00000003. I am unable to get to anything except the task manager and even that does not …

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Hi, I have a wireless network at my house - Level One router with 2 computers surfing without having any problem. I just got a new laptop from work but I can't make it surf any web page. It recognizes my network and gets an IP address which is very …

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OK Guys I need help with my laptop Its a compaq presario 2500 running SP2 the problem(s) is/are that things have been dissappearing It all starts on startup where it pretends to freeze and when i press ALT+CTRL+DEL it unfreezes but then a message saying "Task Manager Has Been Disabled …

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hi, I'm new in this forum. I have a problem with my Compaq Evo N1020v laptop. After I re-install Windows XP Pro, suddenly the windows is lagging. This happens when I do scrolling whether in IE or normal windows explorer. Can anyone help me. This is very frustrating. And also, …

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I was given an old hitachi laptop and it has a bios passward. Is there a way to remove this.

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