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I just recently moved to a hotel for an internship for the summer. A few days after I got to my room I noticed that after a while for some reason McAfee was automatically turned off. I would get a pop up saying my computer is at risk because Virus …

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Recently my Floppy, CD-RW and DVD drive disappeared from under the MY COMPUTER folder. I checked under device manager and it doesnt appear there either. everything is plugged in correctly and wont show up. if i put a disk or floppy in its respected drive, nothing happens. PLease help!!

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Recently I had my computers registry become massively, well we will just say bad. I went to use the DELL Symantec restore ( The control+ f11 deal ) and it says I have unsupported changes to my master bootrecord. Thats fine and I will have to find a different fix …

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Hi im planning to repair my windows xp. does the content of my deskotp gets deleted when repairing? i mean using the windows recovery cd.

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I would like to schedule certain pcs to shutdown at set times of the day. I have created a batch file with the text "shutdown -s -f" however as im running it through a limited user account it fails saying i dont have the appropriate permissions. Is there a string …

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OK, I just want to know if certain upgrades will be compatible on my PC. So far, I have had some yay's and nay's so I just want to be sure. Right now, I have a eMachines T3506. My system specs are below. I already have a 2gb of RAM …

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Hi, I thought I should start a separate thread for this problem? Please bare with me as I try and describe this problem (I've only been learning about computers for a short time.) When I click the send/receive button in Outlook Express the time bar appears with little green boxes …

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Hi everyone, I have been searching the Internet trying to fix several problems I am having, I think I have managed to fix one but I am hoping you can help with the others. The problem I "think" I fixed, I was receiving an error message - application failed to …

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I'm having trouble opening a certain page, [url]www.tcfbank.com[/url] , it happens to be my bank site and its very frustrating plz help Heres my HJT log... 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:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware 2007\aawservice.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe C:\Documents …

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Ok so does anyone know of a GPO or a way that will restrict my users from saving UN and PW in IE? I run around 600 public facing machines that I lock down. Recently I found out that they can save their UN and PW in IE6. I will …

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On my Windows 2000 Outlook Express is not starting for any reason. Now I want to remove it from the system and install the latest version. How it is possible? It is not shown in Add/Remove Programs.

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Can anyone take a look at this HiJackThis log an tell me about anything that needs my attention? Thank You.

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Hi all - wondered if you could help. On my home laptop I have Office 2007 and when I'm working in Outlook it's really handy as there is a little 'to do' pane next to my mail messages which contains all follow-ups, tasks and calendars etc so that I can …

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Hi all , please help me ..... i tried to open my windows xp but it was just cannot get through the windows . i turned on the pc , appear the log-on screen but once i click anyone of the icon(user account) it just loading ..... and then appearing …

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Hi, I am running Win XP SP2 on a Pentium 3.0 with 512MB RAM. My PC was infected with virus as my anti virus license had expired and I did not renew it in time. I am using Avast Home Edition. I have renewed the license and scanned the entire …

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Recently my mate downloaded some ileagle content which has now resulted in me having a virus! Every so often i get messages from my virus protection (AVG) saying that it has detected trojans e.g. 'Trojan horse Generic4.SLZ'. I click on heal and it says its healed successfully but i am …

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I really need some help. yesterday I shut down my computer , then i turned it on this mornng and i needed a password to log on . I bought the computer form a friend. The computer is set as compaq armada administrator. I have no idea and neither does …

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Very strange ... suddenly, for no known reason, if I call up Task Manager to monitor processes and memory ... it appears without its function buttons - i.e. minimize, restore, close. Also all the other tabs are gone. So I've got this box - which I can resize and which …

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Hey there. I have XP Pro on my system with SP2. When I go ctrl + alt + del, you should get a window with tabs, showing processor activity, files and programs in use, and network options. Now though, I only get a blank window showing programs in use, similar …

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Hi Every1 I'm Havin problem with drag and drop option. I minimize a window to the taskbar and now when i select any file from another window and drag it to the minimized window it doesn't pop out, so am not able to drop items in that window. However if …

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i'm using windows 2000 pro and suddenly when i turn on my computer, there is an error "c:\winnt\system32\config\system is missing or corrupt"... how can solve this.... thanks...

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Hi Every1 Can Someone tel me What Ripping an DVD means? Does it mean to extract movies from the DVD or Ripping means jus copying the DVD to hard disk but that ripping a DVD saves space rather than jus copying? What kinda softwares RIP a DVD? Also what does …

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Latest version of WMP is very slow on my computer. Whenever I play an audio file, the audio is fine, but all the visuals and graphics freeze (audio continues to play). My mouse is useless until the page unfreezes. So it could freeze at 10 seconds and then jump to …

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my windows 2000 computer has an error that "missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe"... i dont have erd. i tried to used windows 2000 installer but it doesnt continue... my question is, can i used the ntoskrnl.exe of WIndows xp bootcd and copy the ntoskrnl.exe there in my windows 2000 operating system??? …

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I am having problems with windows media player 10. It will not let me watch any video. the error message is "The Specified Module Can Not Be Found". I know this has something to do with codecs but thats it.

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HI to all!!! i would like to ask everybody how to open an email attachment that is in the .dat extensions. i used ms outlook 2002. i already tried notepad, wordpad, excel, and word but they dont work... how can we solve this prob? thanks to all....

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Yesterday, my computer was working just fine; I was playing a game of Warcraft 3 and all of a sudden, my monitor goes black and says "No Input Signal". I check the connection, and the cable is just fine. Afterwards, I decide to reboot my computer, but this did not …

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I typed in a password by mistake and now can not get into my computer because it appears I have a bad mother board when I type in a letter it types in two letters. How do I recover and get into my computer?:sad:

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The infrastructure: Windows XP account connected to a domain controller in a Active Directory based infrastructure. Various Domains available but user is connected to a single domain. The problem: XP account gets locked out. What can be the issue here? Any help/suggestions appreciated.. Thanks -Kishore

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i am registered with an internet banking website which calls up a pop up for password login(its an onscreen keyboard where u input ur passwrd via mouse). now my problem is when ever i want to enter my password that essential pop up is being blocked. i have tried to …

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Recently I have not been able to use any "windows based" programs. More specifically, IE7 and the Genuine Check. I also looked in my Add/Remove list to see if I saw anything odd. The first three entries are as follows: {39DA87A1-0B26-4562-A70C-2A6147366E47} {9F765BD0-B900-4EDE-A90B-61C8A9E95C42} {BAD59025-5B73-4E12-B789-0028C5A573C2} Other than that, I didn't see anything …

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Hello all... I was wondering if anyone could help me with getting my HP laptop to... hmm how to put this... recognize the blank DVD I place in my disc drive... it's a blank DVD+R and my computer doesnt pick it up as anything being in my computer... does anyone …

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Hi friends, I,ve got a rather disturbing issue here. Though, I suspect you may deem it as "just another trivial matter". But, well, it's a problem to me. So, please, guys... just help me out. Here, then, goes the problem. My system has been running pretty well until I decided …

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Hello, The sound on my computer has been acting rather strange for nearly a year. Everything worked and sound came through the speakers when we first got the computer, but one day it decided to stop working (nothing had been changed or reformatted on the computer). Sound still comes through …

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Everytime I download automatic updates, after I reboot, I get a message asking me to save navcand. I save it and then I cannot get on any websites. If I cancel it, I still cannot get on any websites. I have to go to a previous restore point to get …

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Hi there. I have a ripped(correct term?) CD on my hard drive. I wanted to burn it to save space on my computer. But when I tried to burn it, Nero gave me an error saying: "Block size does not correspond to image length" It gave me two options: A) …

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I have SiteAdvisor and an update was bad, so I uninstalled and reinstalled it. After I did that I started getting this error message when the desktop loads: "Windows cannot find C:\Program Files\SiteAdvisor\5020\Siteadv.exe" (You all know the rest of it.) I went to the chat help for SiteAdvisor and explained …

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Non-techie needs help! I installed SP2 yesterday and now my Windows XP is running slow as molasses. At first I thought it was just my internet connection (high speed cable modem with wireless router) which all of a sudden was slower than dial-up. But then I realized that it was …

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When trying to install windows xp on a brand new hard disk I get the following BSOD error just after it says "Starting Windows": "DRIVER_CORRUPTED_MMPOOL", followed by something about safe mode etc, the the error code is " STOP: 0X00000000 (0X00000001, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x8087E973). If anyone could help, I would …

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I got a new toshiba satellite p200 laptop last week. It ran fine for a week, and now, with no apparently warning, at random times (sometimes 30 minutes apart, sometimes hours apart) the system locks up. The mouse cursor still moves around the screen but clicking on things does not …

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Something weird just happened to my system. I have windows XP service pack 2, and for some reason all it does when it boots up is loads the desktop with no start menu or any icons. This is the same in safe mode and you can see the task manager …

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When I sign into Windows Live Messenger The PC Reboots unexpectedly. I am connected to internet over a network. My anti virus software is updated. And the Pc is clean as far as I know. The system is hardware level protected by HDD-Guarder from ([URL="http://www.hddguarder.com/"]http://www.hddguarder.com/[/URL]). What could be wrong! Please …

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Hi all. I'm new to this service. Happy to be here. Hope you can help me. I was cleaning up my win2k box. Disabled un-needed services. Used disk cleaner to get rid of old files. Ran Pareto Spyware and RegCure. I think that the last thing I did was defrag. …

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Im having a problem flushing my dns I dont have a router. But I have recently installed a new anti virus, Kaspersky When I bring up my command promt screen it says command promt bad. Can any 1 help me jason in sf

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Building new system with Abit KN9 SLI Motherboard, AMD 64 X2 6000+, 2 GB of 800 Mhz RAM...a speed demon. I've also installed four Maxtor 500 GB hard drives. The goal is to have a RAID 0+1 installed. I've got the BIOs set, but am running into two problems: 1. …

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Hello I have two systems I want to network together: 1) A windows XP Home SP2 machine 2) a windows NT v4 SP6 machine - i dont know if it is server or workstation at the moment The NT machine is for AVID video editing, but I already have lots …

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Sorry Mods if this is in the wrong topic (the site has changed dramaticly since I was last in here). This is actually a two-part question: I'm running XPpro. I got tired of coming home from work to a hosed desktop, I mean I don't know how my kids do …

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I am trying to install my HP Scanjet 4850. I have been able to download all of the software. When I try to install the scanner I get the following message from Device Manager "Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. …

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So, I got this free dell computer from work. But I can't tell if it has a windows operating system on it, or if it just won't boot. when i turn it on, the screen says "strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility" Can anyone help?

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I have spent about 7 hours on this, to no avail. Explorer.exe is using all CPU. Running XP HE SP 2. Running up-to-date NSW and auto updates from Windows. Tried ending explorer in Task Manager, and restaring from Run. Tried a System Restore. Could only get back a few days. …

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