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Hi advise neaded please I bought a cheap laptop for mrs to use and it was running win95 and i wanted at least 98se loading on it. I went through the procedure of reformatting the hard drive as ive done on numourous occasions with main pc. The problem is its …

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It would appear that I've got Aurora and Trojan Horse Downloader.Small.15.BS; here's my Hijackthis log Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 2:26:58 AM, on 7/7/2005 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\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\LEXBCES.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\LEXPPS.EXE C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\AOL\ACS\acsd.exe …

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I am wanting to put Fedora on my laptop that currently runs XP. I want to do a dual boot, thus I need to create a new partition. Here's the problem: In XP, when I go to computer management, it shows that the entire hard drive has only 1 partition. …

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A collegue of mine has a program to calculate viscous and non-viscous liguid flows. The program was written back in GB days so even has line numbers. Recently he wanted to run it under QB45 installed on a pentium III laptop running Windows 98SE. The original program ran fine and …

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Hi. A virus appeared on my computer a few days ago and I've not been able to get rid of it, yet. In fact, I think it's expanded and let in a lot of other viruses, dyfuca and elite toolbar among them. AVG, Adware and Spybot Search and Destroy all …

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On my sister's thinkpad I was trying to reinstall windows 95.(We were have issuse with it) After the installtion was complete and I was told to restart the laptop. After it got to the window 95 start up screen this message appeared: A file device file that is specific in …

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Hey guys, I do video editing on my laptop (see specs below), and I save the video clips to a Maxtor external hard drive (USB). So, when I render projects and burn DVDs on my computer, it uses the video files that are on the external hard drive. This Blue …

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Dear friends, can anyone give me help in details of settings to transfer huge gb file from my laptop to my desktop using cross cable through lan. please give me detail settings for both computers in details, I will be very much thankfull to you all thanking you all in …

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Dear members: does any one know please where do isend my laptop to be opened to take out the old hd and put a new hd in? (checked bestbuy, circui tcity, staples, and my nearest toshiba laptop providers: all do it for at least 70 dollars just for taking out …

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Hi I have upgraded to Broadband (AOL) and am trying to install the router, and have a wireless laptop which shows that connection is excellent but I cant get on the internet. On my desktop I can get on the Netgear site with IE but not AOL with the router. …

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Hello I've an issue trying to load up a home video from my Camcorder onto my Sony Vaio laptop. I've got the dv cable and have connected it all properly. Apparently, I was supposed to get a 'wizard' telling me that new hardware had been connected/add. I never got this …

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Hello all. My wife was browsing the web and a hijacking program downloaded itself and infected my laptop. After much searching of the web, several Spyware removal downloads and re-installing WebRoot Spysweeper, which the hijacking program managed to un-install BTW, and Norton, I finally stumbled on this site which helped …

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Two weeks ago I bought a Netgear DG834G Modem/Router from Amazon and set it up with no problems: Tiscali ADSL line into a filter, then into the Modem/Router, with PC (running ME) connected via ethernet and new Dell laptop (XP) connected wirelessly. A few days later I set the security …

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I've got an acer laptop with an infrared connection, i want to connect my phone to the laptop, i've installed nokia PC suite and all the drivers (my phone is a nokia 7600), i've tried setting up a wireless network but my phone and my computer just aren't connecting.. help!

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Hello =) I was trying to repair a laptop with a broken cd/dvd drive. Without replacing the drive, is there a way to do a system restore ( assuming there is no other way to fix it) without a cd? Prompt answers are much appreciated! Thank you

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I just bough a new laptop made by toshba running WinXP Home SP2 and for some damn reason it wont diplay the address bar in any folder. i tried playing around with the different options in Folder Option and it still wont work........plus help cuz its driving me nuts not …

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im at my parents house and they have a wireless router and although it shows on my laptop that im connected to the wireless connection when i start my browser it says page not found

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Hey everyone, Got a problem with my cousin's pc. I came over for the holidays to find her laptop very slow. I can see she has voluntarily loaded Weatherbug, which I know is no good. Also, I get lots of popups, some kind of toolbar in IE, and every 5 …

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hi, ive been having problems with my windows xp last couple of weeks, whenever i open a folder in windows explorer i get a message saying ''Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close.'' and then jus closes it. i also occaisionally get identical errors while running firefox …

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i'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this in, if not, coul someone please let me know where to go? here is my problem anyway if there is someone out there to help. my laptop won't type the letter d anymore. The bigger problem is that …

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Hello, I have a toshiba tecra 8100 and my laptop screen will not stay open. Can someone please tell me what part i need, and where i can find it? Also, is it a self-install, or am i gonna have to take it in. Thanks, Mestuff1

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There is nothing wrong with the screen itself. When you first power up there is no line at all the "Compaq" logo appears and you can go into BIOS and there will be no lines. Once the windows screens start to appear the lines appear, I've used both the Tv …

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I want to be able to go around my house and play on my high quality desktop pc using my old laptop. I want to see the same on my laptop screen as I see on my desktop screen and be able to control the mouse and keyboard. I have …

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I'm currently conencted to a domain at my office. I could see all other computers and they could see mine. When I try to access shared folders from other computers, my computer is asking for a password. When I try to share files from a different computer it does not …

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I made a catalogue of specimens in a museum using HTML. when I view the files on my laptop, it can be seen properly. But if it is viewed in another pc the sizes of images and text are very huge.

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Well, I've gotten myself into another fix. This time, I compressed old files on my laptop as prompted to by winXP, so i could get some more space, etc. The problem is, somewhere along the lines, it either compressed or deleted a vital dll file that windows needs to start …

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I inadvertantly deleted the operating system using fdisk after unsuccessfully attempting to reinstall windows 2000 on a Dell laptop. I reformatted the hard drive, but couldn't get past the security key code. It wouldn't accept the key code I have (??). I have a windows 2000 recovery cd that came …

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When I try to open Guild Wars, Warcraft, or Starcraft the screen is always filled with these strange blue lines. Sometimes they revert back to normal, but after about 30 seconds the screen has the blue lines again. I've tried updating my driver, but I've no luck. So if anyone …

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I have a scanport SQ3036..I am trying to load it on my window xp laptop...It doesnt realize it at all...I download sw260.exe driver...recommended my the compancy that has scanport now...didnt help at all...dont know what to do now...any ideals will help... :rolleyes:

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Hello all, I have a wirless laptop connecting to my wireless router (for internet)... My desktop is hardwired to router also... I would liek to share files / printer etc. between my laptop and desktop.. Could someone please point me in the right direction on how to do this?? Help …

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I need your urgent hellp to figure out how i can correct these computer errors. I will be informal as much as i can to explain my situation. To start: I have a toshiba satellite 1400-s151 laptop which is 2-3 years old. It never gave me a problem like this...UNTIL …

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Hi all, Im new here so be gentle :-) Im posting from the laptop thankfully but i have a desktop in the upstairs room that has a 160 gig harddrive so i tend to use that more than this. However, I usually leave it switched on all day every day, …

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Hi My computer has recently started being very slow, to the point where i cant even watch a dvd properly. It shows cpu usage 100% most of the time in the task manager. Im a student and exams are coming up quite soon, and i have to write a couple …

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I'm having a continuing problem with Home XP on my laptop. I have to reinstall my personal settings after every reboot or start up. It was fine until about a week ago. My son started using the laptop day and night to chat and blog with people from all over …

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Dear members: can you please help me figure out what internal 9.7 mm (can u tell me please how much is that in inches?) should i get for my toshiba 1400-s151? I am looking for that has at least 20 GB, great unique features, and at least 1 and half …

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Hey, I have some troubles with this laptop I'm using. It just magically was plagued by this Aurora BS and I've been trying to get rid of it for weeks. I tried originally the steps with Hijijack this but it keeps coming back, and now my computer is running slow …

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am new here, but i came cuz of the same problem ... AGRSMMSG.exe but i think it has something to do with SPOOLSV.exe too cuz everytime i close that process my puter goes faster... but i keeps re-running by itself ... i dunno.. well i've read about asking a PRO …

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Does anyone know how to get the hard drive out of the N3350? and is there an instruction manuel for disassembling the N3350?

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hi, ive got a dell inspiron xps and i would like to know if its possible to use the monitor on the dell as my primary monitor for my desktop computer? im going to college and instead of carting a crt monitor over there i would like to bring my …

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hi! please help me ! i can't get rid of these items...everytime ad-aware deletes them, they come right back up again! here is my hijack log : Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 1:25:31 PM, on 6/23/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) …

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Yesterday When I Turned My Lptop On The Back Screen Light Was Of Dimmed Tried All My Best But To Know Avail. Forced To Use Study Lamp To Illuminate My Screen Whilst Typing My Project. It's Microsoft Xp Laptop..what To Do Now?

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Guys, My office help-desk team set WEP key on my laptop but they refused to set it on my another laptop. :sad: Anyone can help me that where XP stores WEP key and how to get it from my laptop and to make same copy to my another laptop. I …

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Hey! I have a desktop computer(win xp) and a laptop(centrino-win xp pro).How can I setup a wireless network at home between these two so as to share internet which is again a cable network and is connected through a gateway.I have got linksys wireless router 54 mbps b/g.

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I have an IMAC that has a printer connected(samsung ML 1710) to it. I recently installed a wireless router (d-link)that allows me to surf from my compaq laptop. I want to be able to print from my compaq to the printer that is connected to my IMAC. What is the …

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Summary: My Win2K desktop machine boots fine, however, when it finishes booting, I am left with virtually all the file, installed application and system application program assocations gone! Even the Start>Run command prompt asks me to 'open with'. :sad: The "open with" dialog box only shows the following: - Internet …

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Can anyone help out with how to remove the hard drive for the HP ze5730us laptop computer? I have been unable to remove the front panel, and am afraid to pull any harder for fear of breaking it. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Chuck [i]email link removed. we ask that …

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I just got a new laptop. It has dual Intel Pentium P4 2.8G processors installed. I'm running Windows XP Professional. My question is, does XP really use two processors? How? At what point are both processors being used? Under heavy load? At all times? Is there a way to assign …

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greetings, let me preface this thread by saying i am in no way a computer savy person. i woke up the other morning and my laptop wouldn't boot. when i try and boot the system it says that \windows\system32\config is missing or corrupt. while normally i would have just reformatted …

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Hi there. I have recently managed to crack the screen on my Compaq Evo N800... I was wondering if people knew what other laptops had screens which would be compatibile with my one, if there are any? Would anyone know if a Compaq Armada screen would work for instance? Any …

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hi. i posted this problem in another section just this morning but i thought it would be more convinient to move it here, i was burning some data and audio CD's for a friend at work then when i got back home it was dead, the driver doesn't want to …

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