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hi, this is my first post here i hope someone can help me, 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 read any kind of CD, data,audio or DVD... nothing! i …

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My Sony Vaio laptop is driving me mad. When i turn on the laptop the bios operates and the backlight comes on the instant window XP is started the back light goes off and stays off. Any ideas would be great Thanks David

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Hi, I have a laptop with a dead lcd screen. When I put a bright light on the screen everything was there and seemed to be working fine. Is the problem my ccfl or possibly the inverter board? If the the problem is in my interter board would I be …

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Hi guys, I am new to MAC world and I really need your help. My boss uses his MAC laptop (OS Tiger) and he travels a lot, so I need him to be able to use his laptop wirelessly (wi-fi is not an option). For PCs there is an option …

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hi all, I am looking at setting up a small home network comprising of 3 desktop PCs and a laptop PC. I am confused as to what i am going to need in order to get this network up and running properly. I have a 4 port cable/dsl gateway router …

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I have folders with tons of photos and graphics files in them. When I attempt to open some of these folders windows explorer resets or something -- if I try to pull up a file while in any of my graphics software it kicks me out of the software too. …

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HI, I was working on my laptop for few hours..and suddenly now screen went blank... and wont comeback... i tried rebooting it but still no avail.... it wont show even the initial bios setting.. i tried to connect it to desktop monitor still blank.. but hard drive light wont go …

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Hi folks, I recently downloaded some updates from microsoft (off their website?) and now my Dell 4000 laptop running Windows 2000 Professional will not boot up. The following message appears "explorer.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log …

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Before speed of my laptop was great it was fast when i turn on laptop and go to windows right away but now it's so slow it take like 3-4 minutes. i hope someone can explain and tell me what to do now

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HI, I was working on my laptop for few hours..and suddenly now screen went blank... and wont comeback... i tried rebooting it but still no avail.... it wont show even the initial bios setting.. i tried to connect it to desktop monitor still blank.. but hard drive light wont go …

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I have a Westell 6100 DSL modem that works on my computer(Windows ME), but not on my mom's laptop(Windows 98). I connect it through the USB port on both computers (neither one has a network card). The problem is that when I run the setup wizard from the CD BellSouth …

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Hi, My Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop is not booting up: when you turn it on, the lights come on but the hard drive and cd drive dont engage and nothing loads, after about 15 seconds it turns off. It seems to happen every now and then ,and previously Ive just …

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I am not able to get my desktop and laptop (using wireless) to connect to the internet simultaneously. Whichever one I connect to the router first gets the connection. If I connect directly from my laptop, everything is OK. Once I go wireless, the internet access is lost. I log …

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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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I'm really happy that I found this website so far it's been very helpful. Although I do have to admit that the news that I got was bad that sense like the one I have to replace the motherboard for my laptop computer.

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I am not able to get my desktop and laptop (using wireless) to connect to the internet simultaneously. Whichever one I connect to the router first gets the connection. If I connect directly from my laptop, everything is OK. Once I go wireless, the internet access is lost. I log …

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My neighbour has just bought a Dell Laptop with wireless adaptor and to his surprise as soon as he powered up it found my Dell Wireless 2350 router and can access the internet etc via my router. How do I stop this? How do I encrypt the signal to only …

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Hi, The last time i brought this problem up, i was not able to clear the virus outta my laptop as after performing all the instructions, on reboot, the sygate firewall warning would tell me that my browser was getting reset. :sad: Disgusted, I reformatted my hard drive and gave …

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Hi For the last week I've had some really irritating annoyances with both my desktop and my laptop. First of all, this popup with "Generic Host Process had to be closed" came up. After looking at Event Viewer it looks like there is something wrong with the WIA service, so …

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Hi all, I'm not sure how to go about getting my two computers to talk to each for in order to share files. My first computer is a desktop running XP pro SP2 and is connected to the Linksys wireless router through an ethernet cable. The second computer is a …

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Hello Everyone, I am in dire need of help for my laptop. Its a toshiba satellite. I started having problems right after i installed dreamweaver on it. Actually, maybe a day or two later. The symptoms sound like a hardware problem, so i'm not sure if that installation was a …

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hi there is someone that can say me what kind of character from the COM1 when i connect eb600&eb500 to my laptop are them? i receive this kind of character ××××××××××Ö××××××××××ÖÖ××Ö××××××××××Ö×××Ö×ÖÖ××ÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÕÖÖÖÕÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÕÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÕÕÕÕÕÕÕÔÕÕÕÓÔÔÔÔÔÔÔÔÔÔÔÔÔÔÔÔÔÔÔÔÔÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÒÒÓÓÒÒÓÒÒÒÒÒÒÒÒÒÒÒÒÒÒÒÒÑÒÒÑÑÑÑÑÑÑ

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Can you please give me some more information about Inter (R ) celeron (R) M processor 1.30 GHZ and what is the different between GHz and MHz ?Which ones is bigger and more useful that? What happen if you have laptop and that only have 240 MB o ram ? …

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I have a Dell laptop running Windows XP. Last night I started getting popups, I ran Ad-Aware and it detected 1 problem process and many problem files. It let me delete all of problems but they showed up in different locations immediatly. Help

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hello! if anyone can assist me or direct me in the correct direction that would be great! And thank you in advance. My situation is:: O/S = Windows XP sp 2 on laptop IBM T41 or T23 or T42 Application Lotus Notes version 5 Problem:: When a user has an …

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Since yesterday, I have been having some serious problems with my Compaq Presario 2100 laptop (AMD Athlon XP version). Whenever I used this laptop it would run fine for about thirty minutes, then it would display the Blue Screen of Death with a message mentioning the atapi.sys driver. At first, …

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currently recieve this laptop, but it has a password on start up in the bios I guess. wanting to reset it. I have tried to find the cmos battery in attempt to reset but can not locate? Any hellp will be great! thanx!!!!!

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I'm trying to choose the 'right' laptop and, along with trying to figure out the best brand to go with, I'm also wondering about these new ClearBrite screens. They look really good but I'm wondering about the glare problem. Has anyone here been using this type of screen and, if …

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I have a hard wired desktop hooked into my DLINK 802.11g/2.4GHz Wireless Router and then I have a laptop accessing the router wirelessly. My question is.. How do I share files from my desktop to my laptop or vice versa using my d-link router; or is that possible??? I have …

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I am a student and am developing my knowledge of MySQL and am practicing using it as a backend for some of my apps. I can run MySql on my laptop (Windows XP Pro) and use my apps referring to the local host. We have a wireless network in our …

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I have an IBM 365x Laptop computer. When I plug in my external PS/2 mouse, it does not work. The TrackPoint mouse on the keyboard still works, but the external mouse does not. The Control Panel and Device Manager only show one mouse installed: PS/2 Compatible Mouse Port. I can't …

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Ihave a Toshiba Tecra 8100 laptop. After I boot up, the cursor freezes up. Sometimes it might take ten minutes, but it alwats freezes. Is it an OS problem(XP Pro) or a hardware problem? I'm lost!

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I have had a Dell Inspiron Laptop for over 3 years. Two months ago it fell on the floor and completely stopped working. It does not turn on period. Being an idiot, I did not save a lot of my important information on cds. Fixing the laptop will cost me …

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Hi My computer has been running at 100% cpu for the past week, getting me fairly panicked as i have a couple of essays to write and it is getting quite annoying. i mainly use the laptop for research and essay typing, as well as music and msn messenger. ta …

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Hi I had an OEM version of XP pro and serial key together in my laptop case which was stolen recently from my car. The lapt top and case have recently been recovered by the police but the XP pro disc and the serial key have not. I have found …

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I have come across a problem while trying to network 2 computers. Computer A - Desktop PC, running windows XP pro Computer B - Laptop, running windows XP home Internet connection via broadband, through a router, wireless to computer A, wirless to computer B. Both using 54G standard. Networking wizards …

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I am trying to daisy chain a linksys wireless router with an airport base (not extreme). I am able to connect to the internet wirelessly through my computer and the airport base, but the laptop PC cannot through the linksys. My airport base is plugged in directly from the modem. …

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Hello, I have a Dell laptop running Win XP Pro. It was a gift to my daughter from her Grand Parents. It was a used pc from a high school that was upgrading to new pc's. We have no Win XP Pro recovery cd-rom and we also don't know 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 assocations gone! Even the Start>Run command prompt asks me to 'open with'. The "open with" dialog box only shows the following: - Internet Explorer - Microsoft Management Console* - Notepad …

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I FIGURED IT OUT!!!!....well...i figured out how to run hijackthis. i'm trying to find out how to get rid of shopping wizard and the others listed in the title so my AIM will work. here's what i got: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 12:47:28 PM, on 5/27/2005 Platform: …

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Hi guys!! When i start my laptop (toshiba -satellite P20) the display doesnt cum up, it reaches to a point where it shows me win XP logo and the bar but after that it goes blank. i can get into safe mode and the display is ok except it shows …

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To get things started, I get bored at uni and want to play some games but i want to know if there is any way i can connect my laptop just to my mates laptop threw a wirless connection, just like you can do with a cross-over cable. can anyone …

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Hi, I've suddenly experienced a problem with my window's CD writer. The process starts normally and then when the writing begins i get an error message saying that the writing could not be completed when writing a data CD. The problem also occurs when writing a music CD. This is …

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I have an IBM Think Pad laptop which cant start. The power on light just blinks and so does the battry charging light. I do not think it has something to do with the power supply. In a month I have only managed to start it twice. Please help. I …

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Ahead of time, I'd like to state that I have Hijack This in its own little folder. The proxy thing is normal, I use a proxy server at school. Normally I'd do this myself, but...well last time I did that I ended up without a start menu and had to …

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Hi, I use my laptop to connect to different LANs. So, I always need to change the LAN settings. Can anyone tell me how can I create several LAN connections so that I can simply enable/disable them. This is very easy in WinNT. But now I have Windows 2000 Professaional. …

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Please help me make this laptop operational... thanks in advance ------------------------------- Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 7:02:15 PM, on 5/24/2005 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\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\ati2evxx.exe C:\Program Files\NavNT\defwatch.exe C:\Program Files\NavNT\rtvscan.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\skeys.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe …

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Im currently running WinXP Home on my laptop. I wanna make a boot/restore cd for those "just in case" moments. my laptop is running almost perfectly and has the programs i use. Is there a way i can create a restore cd so that if something should go wrong.....i can …

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Hi, I use my laptop to connect to different LANs. So, I always need to change the LAN settings. Can anyone tell me how can I create several LAN connections so that I can simply enable/disable them. This is very easy in WinNT. But now I have Windows 2000 Professaional. …

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Hey everyone, I am a noobie to DanWeb my appologies if I chose the wrong forum. Anyways, on with my question. About 2 weeks ago my home computer was acting a little funny. Started slowing down, and oddly enough it was making my text on the screen go fuzzy and …

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