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| | I need to send a CDROM to friends in Uganda so they can install Internet Explorer 6 on their laptop computer. They don't have an internet connection, so they can't download IE6. But they can't install the printer drivers on a new multifunction printer that I gave them unless they … |
| | I did a very bad thing. I ran a spyware software program yesterday and found a lot of spyware on my computer. I started deleting the items by hand in regedit. However, I got tired and went to bed. This morning my Windows XP will not completely load. It hangs … |
| | I have a Cel 1.7 GHz and Windows 2000 Prof running on it. I have installed all the latest service packs on it with Windows Update from microsoft.com. When I am trying to install office, the setup is exiting without installing. It is not giving any error messages, it is … |
 | [b]Ask The Computer Geek[/b] By: Jeff Johnston (jeff@domynoes.net) [i][b]Q:[/b] I have received an email from Microsoft stating that there is a new security update available that fixes some security risks. The email contained the patch for me to install, should I do this right away as it advises? - John … |
| | When i boot my computer, this message comes up on my desktop Error loading "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\BRIDGE.DLL" My Os it Win 98se. I have seen another person with this problem so can anyone help me to. :( I have downloaded Ad-aware,Spybot search and destroy and Hijack this and here is the log …  |
| | Hi, I have a IBM Aptiva 3153-E3N(AMD-K6-2/300 Processor with 128 mb Ram and ATI rage Pro Turbo AGP Graphics). Whenever I am playing the Microsoft Midtown Madnesss and the Monster Truck games, or any other fast moving games the Computer freezes. It is functional once again on being rebooted but … |
 | I was so [i]excited[/i] to find the exact answer to my little difficulty with the missing Advanced Tab! So I changed the AdvancedTab value at HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel. But nothing changed. Now what? I used Spyware Nuker to clean up a few cookie and register probs but have no idea … |
| | Hello, trying to find a solution for my problem in google, I found this page - great:) but the problem still exists:cry: OK. This page is no problem for my IE6 on XP Pro. Also not the german [url="http://www.herber.de/"]www.herber.de[/url], [url="http://www.spotlight.de/"]www.spotlight.de[/url]. They work fine. But [url="http://www.spiegel.de/"]www.spiegel.de[/url] or [url="http://www.rp-online.de/"]www.rp-online.de[/url] are making trouble. …  |
| | my outlook wont open any more. I also was using avg virus software and that won't open anymore. I ran adware and SSD and cwdshredder. here is my hijackthis log. sorry so long. any ideas?win 2000 os Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 3:04:43 PM, on 2/25/2004 Platform: Windows … |
| | All, I have read the thread and picked through my hijack log but after a reboot my home page keeps being reset to [url="http://www.searchdot.net"]www.searchdot.net[/url]. Below is a current hijack log - can someone please help me figure out where the stuff is that is resetting the page. I have also … |
| | Hi, am having real trouble with graphics brightness whilst playing certain games ie Call Of Duty, during the training when asked to proceed to the firing range through a door i cannot see the door without the brightness settings in the in game video settings being turned on full, the … |
| | my computer recently had a virus and it said it deleted internet exlporer so i went to the microsoft website to download it. I have windows 2000 so i couldnt download microsoft 6. when i went to download 5.5 it tols me that an internet explorer application was running and … |
| | I was downloading from a friends server and when the file was copying to my folder a virus warning popped up. [url]http://frontiernet.net/~rdjpg/virus.jpg[/url] you can see it there. When I clicked OK it said something about access denied. Then I clicked OK again and it said it had been deleted. The …  |
| | Xp IE user woes can or could have been prevented by running/browsing IE on a Limited account. [b]Definition:[/b] [b]Limited account[/b]: [i]Assigning limited user accounts is an effective way to prevent inexperienced or unauthorized users from changing computer settings or deleting important files.[/i] [b]Resource:[url]http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/gettingstarted/sharing/default.asp[/url][/b] This means Viruses,Trojans,Spyware,Addware,Backware,malicious scripts,malicious Codes ect........ [b]comment … |
| | Hi! I am running windows 2000 and seem to be having some fairly common problems. I get the GStartup error, random restarts, freezing, and just lots of program errors. I was wondering if somebody could take a look at my log and tell me if i can fix it. also, … |
| | when ever i go into my downloads folder my computers hard drive spins up to full speed from just opening the folder even when i havent clicked on anything else in the folder. the computer just sits there using max cpu usage for no reason then the only way to … |
| | When I receive an email which has a link, I click on it, then a Microsoft Internet Explore window will come up but it won't load, the page just stays blank. Could someone please help me fix it, it gets very aggrevating copying shortcut and then placing into the address … |
| | [size=2]I purchased a Dell Dimension 4550 (which uses Windows XP) about a year ago now, to replace my old Compaq Presario 5000 computer(which used Windows ME). Which has since been rendered useless over the last 6 months or so. I sold some it's vital parts (like memory, video card, cd/rw, … |
| | Still tryin to figgure out what this is. Imagine its spyware of some kind dunno what. Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 1:37:34 AM, on 2/12/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) 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\Explorer.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program … |
| | Because of an error message yesterday, I decided to update the keyboard driver on my Dell Inspiron 4000 which is running Windows 2000 Professional. Now I can't get my PC to boot pass the Dell logo screen. It stops and I get a blue screen (not the blue screen of … |
| | I've got a problem. Windows Explorer no longer opens. Also, some of my desktop folders won't open, and others (including MY Computer) won't close once they're open. I've done a virus scan with Norton, and have used both Spybot and Ad-Aware. I used HijackThis, but I don't know what's safe … |
| | I read a previous post regarding pegged cpu and other associated problems. I followed that post, and it seems to have resolved the issue, but i just want to make sure it seems to be fixed. In regard to the two apps you had the poster download and run, the … |
| | I'm no real expert, but I know I need to locate a driver on my windows 2000 computer. Where can I find them and how do I use/install it? By the way, its a driver for Microsoft Sidewinder joystick. |
 | I feel it is a security issue although could not find the culprit in the 5 minutes I had to do so. Any ideas?? This is a fresh install of XP with all updates including SP1. Microsoft Virtual Machine not installed!! |
| | [font=Verdana, Arial][size=2]I just got this drive and hooked it up and it burns ok but slowly. When I check the nero drive info. it tells me thats its a CLV drive instead of a CAV drive. Because of this it runs at ~20x all over. Now sure this is OK …  |
| | as the root user, when you shell configure xfree86 on freebsd with xf86config, after I'm done I save the config file to the default location. then when I try to start it with startx, it gives me this message. Am i saving the config file to the wrong location? I'm … |
| | ie6setup.exe and q828750.exe were downloaded from Microsoft IE6 download area ; ie6setup.exe starts a 12 megabytes download and after the file is totally downloaded is autoexecuted starting up the instalation , the system reboots , and so the message comes up : it was not possible to install all the … |
| | Hey guys whats up. Today i have encountered a very strange problem and am without a computer Ok i was saving a microsoft word report to a disk and i restarted my computer. My computer started beeping and did not boot up and i remembered that i had left the …  |
 | Hey ppl. Try this tip I found off of a website. It makes Internet & Windows Explorer incredibly fast. Windows Explorer opens up almost instantly now!!! Here it is: Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows 2000 & XP machines. Its actually a fix to a … |
 | I have a modem on an e-Machine that will not stay open. It will open the port, hear the dial tone and then just click off before it can dial the number. The OS is ME Also, I just recently did an update with the drivers from the Microsoft website. … |
| | I have recently had a reconfiguration on my computer that makes it impossible for me to visit popular websites including yahoo.com, microsoft.com etc.... I have no clue how to undo this. For instance when I type in [url]www.yahoo.com[/url] i am redirected to [url]www.www.yahoo.com.org/[/url] and i type [url]www.microsoft.com[/url] i am redirected … |
| | Steam :sad: Please give me some advice. I downloaded hijackthis and the log is pasted below: [font=Courier New]Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7[/font] [font=Courier New]Scan saved at 1:28:00 PM, on 2/2/2004[/font] [font=Courier New]Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600)[/font] [font=Courier New]MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.2600.0000)[/font] [font=Courier New]Running processes:[/font] [font=Courier New]C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe[/font] [font=Courier New]C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe[/font] [font=Courier New]C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe[/font] … |
| | We have a ton of users on our network with laptops who use offline folders. Our issue revolves around sync'ing these folders and/or trying to remove them. For example, we had a server go down and I rebuilt it. Afterwards, everyone was complaining of sync problems because I had changed … |
| | I also have the commonname problem. From what I hear it's big and hard to get rid of. After downloading hijackthis and doing the scan, how are you supposed to know what to delete and what to keep. An "about blank" screen always pops up on my computer also. Here … |
| | Hello My first post here. My problem is with the Explorer window in Windows 98SE on an new, custom 1800 Celeron system with dual hard drives and 512 RAM. It's a problem I've not seen before on three of my own systems and two of my wife all running the … |
| | Hello there, the other day I downloaded a program, it had two smaller programs and i double clicked one called load_me.exe and it loaded like 50 or 60 of them into the processes tab and so I immediatly restarted the computer. When my computer started back up, the 60 or … |
| | Original problem started w/error mess saying files required to run have been removed/replaced-tried doing system restore to previous date-same error message-put Win XP Home Ed cd in (inc sv pk 1) like it said to- froze in the middle of setup.Fatal error pdt catalog -signature invalid-prevents setup from continuing. Called … |
| | All of a sudden today when I tried to open Money 2002 it tries to reinstall itself. Then it gives me the following error: "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable. Click ok to try again or enter an alternate path to … |
| | I am having an interesting problem with IE 60 sp1 and Google. When I send a search with Google tool bar the Google results will come up for about 5 seconds and then IE shuts down. I don't remember exactly when this started but it seems after getting the last … |
| | My apologies for the length but am unsure of specific diagnostic data needed for trouble shooting responses. From perusing the threads, there are a lot of competent people who are really sharp in these matters. If additional info/diagnostics are needed, let me know. I've researched a lot of Liteon/Microsoft/Intel et … |
 | hi all i read your advise on these pages and you guys are doing a great service glad to see theres still decent peeps out there. Enough with the creeping.LOL Anyway i came across this site as im having probs with ie6 being hijacked im using the usual precautions spybot,zonealarm … |
| | Greetings, I have a computer problem. The problem started a couple of months ago when I went to log on to Google. Instead of going to that page, it redirected me to a different page that appeared to be Google but every site was a different porn or gambling listing. … |
| | Internet Explorer 6.0, SP1. Windows 2000 Pro Missing "advanced" tab in tools - options Did a rollback and then re-upgraded to 6.0 from Microsoft site. Still not resolved. Any ideas? Virus? Any solutions? Thank you  |
| | Ok, now that I have, with your help, installed Panther, I do not get my fonts. I have them in my Adobe Type Manager 4.6. Is this OK. How do I turn them on? I was also told I would no longer need a type manager that Panther could hold … |
| | [font=Century Gothic]Okay this is the problem I have been having:[/font] [font=Century Gothic]I recently had WindowsXP (service pack 1) installed on my computer[/font] [font=Century Gothic]I tried to then play a game on Pogo, told me, I needed to DL the JAVA, so went there, did the DL successfully, went back to …  |
| | This happend to me tonight, I've followed the suggestions in here and ran [url="http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip"]http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip[/url] 1st, and this is my current HJT log.. I think I've cleared it up but I just want someone more in the know to make sure I didn't miss anything :) Thanks all! Logfile of HijackThis … |
| | Alright, heres the deal. I learned how to program Basic on an Apple IIe computer, then I learned to migrate it into the newer computers as they came along. I haven't programmed for a while and Windows XP doesn't exactly have QBasic on it. That's what it was called the …  |
| | Aargh - I just spent ages typing in a long and detailed description. And then I was told that I would have to log in, even though I was sure I was already logged in. Anyway. When installing Win2k Professional with Multi-Language and including Service Pack 2 from bootable CD-ROM … |
| | Please help me. I'm stuck. Any help will be appreciated. When I go to a web page, it partly loads and stops. When I click anywhere on the page, the hourglass comes up. It goes away when I put the cursor over the title bar and the only thing I … |
| | [size=4][color=red]Hi All,[/color][/size] [size=4][color=red]I want to diagnose a windows 2000 debug file. i am copying the same over here. Can anyone let me know the reason why this make a server to restart and wht is the cause.[/color][/size] ---------------------------------------------------------------- [color=blue]Wednesday, November 12, 2003 9:33:59 PM scottec Loading Dump File [E:\Memory.dmp] Kernel …  |
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