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I recently purchased a used Dell Latitude LS laptop with 128 megs of ram. The operating system is Windows98 SE. It did not come with a floppy drive or a cdrom drive. I seem to be caught in a "Catch 22" situation. In order to install some external devices, such …

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Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 7:03:50 PM, on 3/4/2006 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\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Ahead\InCD\InCDsrv.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\agent\mcagent.exe C:\Program Files\McAfee.com\VSO\mcvsshld.exe C:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\mps\mscifapp.exe C:\PROGRA~1\McAfee\SPAMKI~1\MskAgent.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3\hpztsb10.exe C:\Program Files\HP\hpcoretech\hpcmpmgr.exe C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Software Update\HPWuSchd2.exe C:\Program Files\Microsoft AntiSpyware\gcasServ.exe …

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Trying to help my sister clean her computer. What can I fix on this log without causing more problems? thanks. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 11:38:49 AM, on 1/28/2006 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\Ati2evxx.exe …

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i hacve a pc with win-xp sp2 operating syatem. i can connect to my unix-oracle server through ftp for file transfering without any error ,when i enter in to server's required directory and try to find out the directory or list of file by 'ls' command then i got the …

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I have a dual boot system. I have 2 IDE Hard Drives and can go into the BIOS and choose to boot to a Windows XP Installation on the C Drive (40 GB Seagate) , and a Windows XP Installation on the D Drive (120 GB Maxtor). I normally boot …

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i have no idea if my comp is affected by virus, but something is terribly wrong about it. its sometimes okay and sometimes messed up. :sad: well the problem is it will suddenly turn off, start again, show the HP screen and go to a black screen with a cursor …

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Hi, I wanted to format a hard drive and re-install the operating system ( Windows 98). It only had a primary partition, in which I deleted and I went to format it and... I get Not Ready Format Terminated It does this when it reaches around 9%. It is a …

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Given the open architecture of the world wide web, anyone operating a website has access to a worldwide audience – the internet has fuelled globalisation and the ‘global village’ has become reality. Historically, it has been difficult making money from this vast and ever growing international market for two reasons. …

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I got this virus (I think I named it correctly) and I cant figure out how to get rid of it NOR can I find the forum about this virus. I did a "Hijack this" scan and here are the results. Can ANYONE PLEASE tell me what to do know. …

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originally i have a windows ME with 16mb ATI Rage Ultra video card. now i upgraded the sys with an upgrade cd of windows xp cd, now i had a problem with the sys because its running slow. now i tried to reformat the hard drive by installing the windows …

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[B]Boot Disks[/B] A very important, but separate, part of your backup strategy should be the creation and maintenance of boot disks. These disks are used in the event of an emergency with your system (they are in fact sometimes called emergency boot disks). They are designed to enable you to …

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I have a 1998 CTX EZBOOK laptop. When I turn it on I get an error message that reads "Operating System Not Found". When I insert my Windows 98 CD I get the same message. When I inserted my CTX Restore 98 CD I gotthe message: "Checking HD partitions... Invalid …

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Hi. I'm running an Athlon 2400+ with 512 DDR ram with Windows XP Pro. However, I've noticed that whenever I begin to burn a CD, or simulate a burning, my CPU usage shoots up to 100%. As you can imagine, my computer becomes pretty much unusable when this happens so …

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I have a g4 400 running os9.04 that i would like to update to tiger 10.4 without loosing 9. I have many older apps that i would prefer not to update. Should i , can i install a second internal hard drive with os 10 and go back and forth …

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At my boot screen i am always prompted to choose the operating system. I use only windows xp home edition and it's listed twice. is there anyway to skip this prompt and go straight to the booting of xp?

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hi,i am srikanth. well i installed microsoft windows xp professional on my computer.the os is was not able to recognize the presence of the speakers(i am using speakers manufactured by mercury inc. ). i don't know the exact sound card on my p.c. here is what i did.i downloaded realtek …

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Video CD or audio CD when inserted in the CD drive, is playing in autorun mode.But when I try to explore to see the contents of the CD,the display skips to desktop view.I am not at all able to read data CD. CD drive is visible when I open my …

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My windows media player was working perfectly. One day, when tried to run a vedio CD, there was no sound.The video part is running alright.Winamp and other software play sound without any problem.I have checked the volume control.The settings are correct.I didn't find any exclamation mark in device manager. My …

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hi Has anyone used minix operating system before? if yes did you modify the cache buffer to get a good performance? I am new to the minix and dont know really how to measure the perferomance by altering the buffer cache. Any explanation on operation of buffer cache(minix), and how …

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i am having MAJOR issues and any and everyone's help would be SUPER appreciated!! i thought i knew about computers until i had these problems!! i purchased a used Dell Latitude LS from ebay almost a year ago. it was slow and all that, so i asked a friend, an …

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I need help with my content advisory password in internet explorer.I made a password a couple of months ago, and now I forgot it and it won't let me access my antivirus. I have read some of the other threads but none have the same operating system I have, I …

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So i'm trying to get an old computer to work...it's a 446 mhz processor or something...it's old and it's a gateway...i connected the wires for the keyboard, monitor, and mouse. When i turn it on it boots up and i can see the gateway sign and everying...and it looks like …

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Hello everyone, Live Update 2005 crashed my computer. I installed the update and it took forever (I just renewed). Then it needed to restart and I did that and it seemed like everything was working okay. Then, turned the computer off for the night, turned it back on and it …

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So I'm trying to set up the printing permissions on my dorm printer. I want it shared, but I want to be able to restrict who can print. So the obvoius thing to do would be to right click the printer and go to Properties and, as the msft website …

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Operating System- Windows ME Error Message- KRNL386.EXE Situation: I attempted to open a cd-rom containing Windows XP Upgrade and recieved this error message. Every time I try to read the files on the cd-rom, I get this same message (just with this cd-rom, not others.). How do I fix this …

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Hello, I'm new here. I have an HP Laptop running Windows ME. I've been having so many problems with it, the CD drive and the power source....but that's a whole other thing. Right now I'm trying to Restore to my factory settings so I inserted the Recovery disk and walked …

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My computer is not running correctly. I lost my active desktop. When I try to go on-line, the home page has become C:\secure.html. I can not run any anti-virus software. Every time I try to go to a webpage for anti-virus software, it comes up to the Microsoft home page …

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I saw the thread at 28035 and followed the recommendations contained there. I just ran HijackThis and here is my log. I'm not sure what else I need to do now. I am not very computer literate so I will need simple instructions to follow. Please Help!! Logfile of HijackThis …

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I've got a project due in 12 hours and if my web keeps acting this funky, I'll never get it done... can someone tell me what I need to get rid of... here ya go: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 6:14:34 AM, on 1/19/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP1 …

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I was wondering is there a way you can create a small operating system that can fit into you floppy disk? :surprised

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Hi I'm new to the site and wondered if anyone could help me with my dead machine. It has been running fine up until recently when I added sonicstage 3.3 software. I then came to it several times to find a black screen with the message "operating system cannot be …

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Reading Material Purchasing System ------------------------------------------ the program have a book sales User will select the type of book they want to buy such as Fiction, non-Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction ------- ------------- ////////....$ /////////////.......$ ///////......$ ///////////////....$ ///////.....$ //////////....$ at the end (print out) list down the book they buy Total of all …

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Hi everyone, I have a computer with no operating system on it. I have been trying to put one on for a long time. The computer recognizes the floppy drive and so I got some generic CD-ROM drivers, put them on a floppy, and stuck it in the machine. The …

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Please HELP! :cry: While away (wife :o ) ugraded Windows 98 with Windows XP Professional (Corporate) on old desktop (Dell Dimension XPS450), worked fine until she kept getting error messages, so she decided to load Windows XP Professional (that came pre-loaded with the Dell Inspiron 8200). NOW! I cannot even …

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hi, im new to this site and hope somebody could help me. i have a compaq presario 700 and it is always quitting on me. i tried reformating the HD and got it working for a couple of days. Now it wont even boot. it saying something like " No …

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Hi all and thank you so much in advance for any assistance. I'm visiting my parents for the holidays and they seemed to have gotten a nasty combination of spyaxe and other malware on their computer. I've ran ad-aware, Microsoft Antispyware, McAfee, etc etc. I've tried deleting the annoying hp----.tmp …

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Hi, I'm trying to write a shell script that accepts wildcards as arguments. But instead of the wildcards expanding into the list of files from the current directory, I'd like to have them expand into files from another directory. For example, I have a script called test.sh in the folder …

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I attempted to install a program and noticed that i had a file that ended with .manifest existed i did a search on the culprit computer and found 45 objects that all ended with .manifest these objects are in several folders I have noticed some spyware appearing in the msconfig …

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Hi all Im desperatley after a bit of help. Unfortunatley Im not the most technically able person when it comes to computers however, I, like a number of other people posting threads are having problems with some form of spyware. Basically Im getting a message in the bottom left corner …

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Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 1:14:34 PM, on 12/29/2005 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\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\HijackThis.exe R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = [url]http://www.dellnet.com[/url] R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = …

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Hi, Everybody, i have started this thread to tell wat are the softwares i use and how i maintain my computer, i would appreciate if any one comments on this and give their opinion about these softwares I have a P-4 2.6 GHz, 384 MB of RAM with 80 GB …

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hello. for sometime now i have been getting oinadserver and partypoker pop ups and can't seem to get rid of them. here is my htl. thanks. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 11:34:20 AM, on 12/9/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running …

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I have Win XP SP2, with McAfee 2005, everything was fine until i installed "Acronis True Image" software. After installation it asked for restart, i restarted, ran fine till bootmenu, Win XP logo, and the password section, but after typing password and press enter it stays their 4 about 15 …

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Have a Presario 900 laptop. Had a CD drive that stopped working, but friend got it going. Used Linux utility to wipe out and re-install. Had Partionon error that prevented install. Bought new harddrive Tried to install Operating System from CD ROM. Got "No Operating System" error. Plugged in floppy …

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Hey there. I'm new to this, I've got a nice clean, formatted hard disk (NFTS), no operating system, four Fedora Core 4 install disks, and no clue what I'm doing. Please help me. I just wanted a change from Windows, but this is proving to be quite difficult. I can't …

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Hey everyone, Im running Windows Xp and at certain times, programs just shut down. I think i might have a virus or a worm. Here is my hijack log. Thanks in advance Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 6:44:34 PM, on 12/9/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: …

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Hi everyone, I have an older computer that used to run windows 98 on it. Right now, it has no operating system on it and I have been having a heck of a time trying to get an OS on there. I have tried and failed numerous times to get …

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Hello everyone, I have an older computer that has no operating system on it, nothing on the hard drive, and only a driver for the a:> drive. I have been wanting to fix this and get a distribution of Linux on it. I recently attempted to udgrade the BIOS to …

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