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Hi all, I have a friend who is having troubles with her computer. She has told me that it keeps shutting down for no reason and only started doing this recently everytime she opened MSN. She has done a registery clean, virus scan and defrag and the problem still persists. …

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Can anybody use lq-1050 under Vista? I used Epson LQ Series 1(136) driver but it was not efficient.Any idea?

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I share a printer under vista and want to use it as network printer under win 2000 .But 2000 can not detect printer. (I also disable windows firewall and antivirus firewall on vista).Can anybody help me?

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Hi I'm new here and want to say hello to everyone, but I need help. I believe my PC recently got a virus. I've tried to start it again and it won't boot. I can get into the BIOS but can't figure what to do. I have the OS disk …

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I have an HP Pavillion Laptop, about 3 years old and has always run really well, no complaints (had a slow Startup but that's been solved)- never any virus and a good performing little machine. I've always tried to keep it as clean as possible, all updates, etc. but I've …

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Hello, sorry if I posted this in the wrong section. I don't know where else to put it. My problem is that, usually, when downloading, the speed was around 40 kb/s. These past few days, when downloading, the speed is around 5 kb/s. It's very annoying. It's been 3 days …

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I'm running a dual boot, win xp and vista x64 win xp works great, but vista in the other hand, I reinstalled it twice, but the problems remain. The first problem is: After the boot screen and before the windows orb at login. It takes some time to get there, …

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Hi, When i shut down my pc it automatically turns itself back on. I very little about the working of a pc so if anyone can help I would be most gratefull. Thanks Jimsters

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A buddy of mine built my computer.. Lost the box and doesn't recall anything about the motherboard. I'm looking to possibly update my drivers because MY sound is all choppy at times.. It's really obnoxious. Any help with this would be very very helpful.. thanks in advance!

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Have developed a software application in VFP9. Use installrite from Epsion Squared to install the software as there are four programs in all to install and I want to make it easy for a novice user. Install works great on XP SP3, and Vista but when installed on Windows 7 …

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Windows uses DNS cache to store recently visited websites. You can see what your computer stores in this cache by simply going to Start > Run and typing cmd (the command prompt; there are many ways to get to it, this is just one way). Now all you have to …

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Windows Vista sidebar was completely independent of user account control. However in windows 7 sidebar with gadget and UAC are related means if you turn of or disable UAC in windows 7 then sidebar will not work.This has been done to prevent users from installing any malicious unsigned desktop gadget …

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Hello! A family friend recently installed a Dell AIO printer onto a Vista Home Basic machine. The machine is 3GB RAM with an AMD Phenom triple core processor. The printer was working fine until the other day it just stopped printing. The Dell software says the printer is offline but …

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i could not open installed programs that have a desktop icon neither by double click nor by right click and open. please help me out!!

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Hi I am Denise and I have just got a iPod touch for mothers day and I can not get itunes to install on my computer..I just rang iPod support they said it was a windows problem and when I rang Window they wanted to charge me $80.00 for support....... …

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Hi, I have an original copy of Home Premium, I was just wondering as seriously have to format my laptop, if I were to run using Home Premium Lite, would my CD Key work ? Any help is deeply appreciated, thanks.

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I have Windows Vista Home Premium and WA3002G4 wireless router.............. I've connected to the internet many times and sometimes there seems to be two networks namely Network and an Undefined Network and there's no connection to the network. So, I disabled the LAN network and reenabled so that it connects …

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Hello MSN will not work on my new vista PC, i get the error code 80040154, i have read up on this and found it is a problem with microsoft XML parser, i have installed the latest version and re-registered the dll files but it still does not work, i …

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hello my pc is working fine except after i have been playing a game for a few minutes my pc bluescreens but it doesnt show a error description only error ID all my drivers are up to date i have attached my dump file becuase windows debuging tools does not …

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I think i have a virus that is affecting my dns i sometimes get an error while trying to connect to the internet but not always I have a hp pavillion running windows vista I am using Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet security pro and it quarentines the virus but it …

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I am running XP, with Windows 8. I have been having an incredible amount of problems but this last one is unbearable. Whatever site, where ever I am on line the vertical scroll keeps going. Even when I compose email. If I left click on the scroll bar and hold …

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Hello everybody! My co-worker has a laptop running Vista Business . Up until today, everything has been working fine. Today, however, a problem crept up. I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this little bug in Windows Vista. He has multiple folders of pictures, but when he goes to view …

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Hey so i upgraded from beta to win7 rc, and my start icons are gone... i checked under {homedir}\start meu and it appears as a link that cant be found... is there any way to restore my start menu? the all users folder appears as the same.. i have my …

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I gather having thirty or more open windows slows the computer; but the only way I know to deal with this is to close them one at a time by "backing out " the way I got in; sort of one at a time. There must be a better way,huh?

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Hello everyone! I submit this post to see if you can help me to know if I have a virus or similar in my computer. A few months ago I bought the 3Mb ADSL service (with Telefonica, Spain). At first it was a bit slow, specially emule. I did call …

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When install my application in PROGRAM FILES in vista I can`t add records to it cause its read only , but when I istall it somewhere else it works!!!!!!!!! what do I do? this is my connection string and the database is in my application folder: "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;DataSource=|DataDirectory|\\Database3.accdb"

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Hello, I am new here and newbie about HDD and OS stuff thats why I am desperately searching for help everywhere and found this forum!Three days ago my OS win XP crashed, I restarted and it showed me message <windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is missing please reinstall application above (or something like …

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Can someone take a look at this HiJackThis log and tell me what's wrong? Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 11:34:00 PM, on 5/8/2009 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT 6.00.1905) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe C:\Windows\RtHDVCpl.exe …

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Hello all, This is my first post on any forum so i'll do my best to give you all the necessary info. First of all, it's a dell inspiron 530s running vista home basic. After doing some updates about a week ago, upon reboot, the pc no longer booted into …

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HI! I ma having terrible problems with my PC. Currently I cant update anything on my PC (Spybot, ad-ware, avast, vista updates). tried to download updates manually but explorer is redirecting me from original links or simply not connecting to the web page I request! I have a vary bad …

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I am old to this site 9/2008 but new to it because I did not take full advantage of the site back then. I remembered I had been a member years back when I was googling something and your site came up as a reference. I remember attending a TODCON …

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[B]Whenever i try to access a Drive (Physical Partition) by doubleclicking it i can't open it...It asks me a program using which i should open it..the only other option i have is to right-click and explore which gets quite irritating...please help[/B]

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Hi everyone :) Just recently, my computer has been acting weird. I'm bad at explaining so I'll try to outline the problems instead. - Takes longer to boot up. I've waited 10 minutes for my laptop to boot up and then I press and hold power button until it reboots. …

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HP dv6809wm 3 GB RAM 120 GB HDD AMD Turion64 x2 2.0Ghz Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 HijackThis log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 4:35:12 PM, on 5/6/2009 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT 6.00.1905) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6001.18000) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE …

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So I have been running a windows 2003 server with IIS6 for some time now. No problems works great. My host Server Intellect have offered me a new upgraded server with basically double everything that I have now for a awesome price. I will be switching soon and now have …

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All of my browsers (firefox, IE8, Flock) go only to strangeUSA . com the address bar displays google or daniweb for example but the page displays strangeUSA dot com. HijackTHIS shows nothing at all strange. Spybot shows nothing (newest one) Nor malwarebytes Have reset my winsock and ip configuration using …

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Hey everyone, I have not really posted much on here. I usually just read threads. well enough about me here's my problem and specs: I enable SLI from the NVIDIA Control Panel and its says I must restart for effect. So I hit "restart" and it reboots. During the reboot …

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I am trying to install the 64-bit version of the Windows 7 beta, but have been hitting my head against the same problem over and over and over again. I tried asking about this at Anandtech, and got almost no help. The first time I tried to install, I got …

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On one of my desktops, which runs Win ME, Ebay has slowed to a crawl. No other sites are giving me problems. Any suggestions or opinions? Thanks a lot.

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hi,guys ..i have little problme..regarding user name password.....i m going to describe it... we have ERP on win 2003 server..........so all the client machinces (xp and win 2000) r connecte dto that ...with direct or mapping.......but this year we have addition with 2 vista home premium machines..,,,so these machines r …

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Hi all, I have written a code in assembly, assembler used is NASM. The code worked with XP 100% correctly but it is not working with Vista. Please tell me how to make it work on Vista too. In XP and VISTA both, I went to Start > Run > …

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Hello, you guys have been helpful in the past and I have decided to come back with a new issue :) My internet seems to cut in and out sometimesevery ten minutes or even up to every hour. I am using a motorola modem and a Linksys WRT54G router. I …

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for d past 2 days i hav been getting this pop up box of bit defender saying that it has quaratined the file which has a huuge name and .sys extension but it is popping up every second and shows that the same file is being quanrantined again and again. …

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I JUST UPGRADE MY PC TO: MOBO: DX58S0 PROC: I7 CORE 920 6GB OF DDR3 1 TB HD SEAGATE SATA 2 nvidia Geforce FX 9800 GTX+ EXO POINT OF VIEW 512 MB I HAVE TWO OP SYSTEMS INSTALLED : VISTA ULT 64B AND XP PRO 32 B i updated the …

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[code=perl]#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; push @INC, "C:/Perl/Modules"; print "What is current download directory? "; my $dir = <STDIN>; opendir DH, $dir or die "Can't open directory..."; my $parent = $_; while ($parent = readdir(DH)) { next if $parent eq "." or $parent eq ".."; if(-d $parent) { opendir DI, …

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From Auslogics Blog 1) [url]http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/2009/02/windows-7-tips-and-tweaks/[/url] 2) [url]http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/2009/03/windows-7-performance-tweaks/[/url] 3) [url]http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/2009/04/windows-7-uac-tips/[/url] 4) [url]http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/2009/03/optimize-windows-7-more-tips/[/url] Hope you find them useful!

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