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hey there. first off, i hope i posted my question in the right forum. second, i thank you in advance for an answer. i have two short batch files: 1. shutdown - s - c "my message" - t 20 i expect this to shut down my computer in twenty …

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Hi, my housemate and I share the same laptop, and he clicked on one of those fake notications on facebook saying someone likes or has commmented on your picture. We've both changed our passwords on most things, and I ran a full scan with kaspersky which picked up this (copied …

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A small item! well about 6 gig. I have a compaq, amd 64 used to run xp reformatted to win 7 32 then to 64. All works well. On seeing the main hard disk it still appears to have a partition of about 6 g (drive d:) with old files …

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I sure hope you can help me.I recived a message on my screen that i should run the online crash analysis.I down loaded the users guide and followed it the best i know how i am very computer stupit.I down loaded the program and loaded to disk like i was …

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Mark Shuttleworth, founder and financial backer of [URL="http://www.ubuntu.com"]Ubuntu[/URL], urges the Linux Community to "build a better desktop than Apple." Shuttleworth made this statement this week at OSCON (O'Reilly's Open Source Convention). He added that interoperability with Windows is of very high importance. Sounds easy enough. Let me get right on …

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Hello I restored my computer to the factory settings and I am not able to connect to the internet. I also do not have the same display I had before the original disks I have is windows xp service pack 1 need some help thank you.

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Hi ALL, my NEC vl260 came with win xp sp2, preinstalled after reformatting due to system crashes, I have installed a copy of win xp sp2, now the two are in conflict i.e. sound card is not recognised, can anyone tell me how to access the preinstalled version ?

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Hi all, I have a small Active Directory domain with a single Domain Controller running Server 2003 Standard. It does not host any websites on the internet through IIS, does not host email (by Exchange or anything else), and our VPN is setup through our router. I did not install …

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Hullos, I really need your advice on this, I just got to know that i can use Tomcat directly to as a web server without going through IIS, on any port 80, 8080, ... for my JSP/servelet application to be accessed on internet. I am running a rackspace cloud server …

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I have some questions about antispyware apps: 1. I know you're not supposed to run 2 antivirus apps at once, but that you CAN run 2 scanner-only antispyware apps at once. But should you not run 2 real-time-protection antispyware apps at once? 2. Other than the fact that spyware "spies", …

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I Recently purchased a new computer which is running windows 7, at the same time i upgraded my previous laptop to windows 7 as well. on the same network the upgraded laptop works correctly, however the new computer I purchased has random web pages that are unaccessable. Ive reset and …

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1 Win 7 unit , 1 XP unit connect via a workgruop LAN. All works fine then the Windows 7 losses access with the XP unit. (XP unit still see's Win7 unit). Win7 unit can still access the XP unit via a remote control program i.e. It can access the …

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Hi guys, im currently using a dell studio 15, and i just recently upgraded myself to windows 7. All was fine till a few weeks ago where i started to get problems with my graphics card. My screen will flash black once, come back up with 'ati radeon stopped working …

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I have been trying to reformat my drive on my computer, not a "windows XP reinstallation" but just straight out format the disk. after it gives me the warning of erasing everything on the disk, a window pops up after I click format saying, "windows cannot format this drive. quit …

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I getting no sound, had this computer for 3yrs with no sound. Code 10 is the message in my Device Manger. This code cannot start. Click , check for solutions . The data was send to microsoft for solution, the check for solution dose not work,with out as much as …

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I have a Presario V6000 laptop and after driving 600 miles it decided to not boot up. It would get hung up when I tried booting it in any mode. I tried to repair xp with the installation disk, but it said that there was no hard drive detected. I …

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MY Windows 98SE w/FireFox w/ AMD 32BIt cpu w/ Linksys Router and other stuff was completely falling apart. Everything was going wrong and every site I turned to on the WWW promised instant help and cures. I lost track of them! Not one of these sites to which I went …

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Good morning all. So, I got the dreaded Vista Antivirus 2010, not once, but twice while trying to download a torrent (yeah I know-bad idea), anyway, I was able to remove it both times using spybot first followed by malwarebytes. However, now it appears I have a very heavy paperweight …

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I installed a software program called My World ( a GIS program from PASCO Scientific). Somehow I have ended up w/ two versions - 4.17 and 5.0 on my computer and I can not open either version. I get a Java startup error. I can not delete either program from …

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I have a MX300 mouse on a Boxx Computer running WinXP32 that keeps freezing:confused:, if I just unplug and replug it in it will work again for a few minuter to a few hours! I have reinstalled the driver several times to no avail with the latest driver which used …

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Heya guys, Recently, my computer was infected by a trojan, and using a forum topic found on another forum, I seemed to have removed it, using the safemode+smitfraudfix+ewido spyware remover combo. However, I still receive some pop ups, some slowing in running and sometimes, explorer won't load when I click …

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I desperately need to install Windows Live Writer. I previously Installed Writer in my xp system. But now, after formatting my XP, I can not Download the Windows Live Installer in my computer. The strange thing is that I can’t not even access any Microsoft.com pages. However, I downloaded Windows …

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I've been left in charge of our computers and network at the school I teach at. Our server runs Windows Server 2003 and our workstations run Windows XP. I would like to block certain sites (mostly social networking stuff). I searched this forum and found an old post about using …

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I have a computer with win xp 32 bit that I have in a network with a computer with a Canon ip4200 printer that is on the windows 7 home 64 bit computer. I can see the shared files on both of the computers, but I can not get the …

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Another application may be using it." is triggered when I try to play a sound file (wav) when the speakers are connected to either of the audio sockets in the motherboard of the PC. Device Manager shows NO problematicals in Sound and Audio category, but DOES show two entries for …

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I am not sure if i am posting this in the right place but here goes... How do i ghost an image of xp so that i can use it in different system with different kind of hard disk(brand), motherboard, cpu and ram. The program i am familiar with to …

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I have windows Vista on my HP laptop. The user administrator and standard accounts have always acted wierd. Here is what it does the admin account acts like a standard and the standard acts like a admin. If I click on a function on the admin side say change firewall …

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i am searching one of my folders in Documents. It is visible in search results but i am not able to open it. Moreover, the folder is not visible in its mentioned path. I am using windows vista.

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I downloaded hijackthis and ran a scan. Can you please review and tell me what files, if any, are bad and need to be removed. Here is a copy of the scan: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 9:15:29 PM, on 3/7/2010 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT …

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On the 18th I ran across some malware via a pop-up. I had zonealarm firewall and anti-virus and malwarebytes on my system but was worried that I might have been infected so I did a scan with malwarebytes and it found a malware.trace file called avdrn.dat which it said it …

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Hi There From time to time my hard disc light will come on for no reason (no programs running ) and computer locks. Can also happen if am using Firefox or Word or similar, even when I have good free memory (say 200mb out of 500mb) (sony Laptop running XP) …

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I whitched my sons account to acount administrator so we could load some software. But access was denied and when I tried to change his account back to limited and mine back to administrator I was denied both times.

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Mistery Path N:1\ versus Y:\ In one of my pc where I have several units C:, D:, E: F: , Y: , Z: , etc the unit Y: is known inside the options in the windows firewall by N:1\ so in the exceptions figure : N:1\PORTABLES\PortableApp.com Suite\PortableApps\FileZillaPortable\FileZillaPortable.exe N:1\PORTABLES\Navegadores . Internet …

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hello i have an HP Proliant ML150 G5 and as a software i have a windows server 2008 STD. i have created the mirror using the disk management console on both of my 500gb Hard disks, the mirrored was created successfully but with a yellow triangle on the mirrored disk …

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When My computer was booted, I got a message saying "Userinit ...", Hence, I went ahead and replaced the userinit.exe file from the Bootable Disk. Then I kept getting System Registry error. I went ahead and replaced Regedit.exe file too. After all that my computer started working fine. However now …

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i have tried all i know how to do! i have a wireless router for my desk top and i have a connection on my laptop but can not get it to browse the internet. what should i do?

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hi guys i have istalled window on pc hp compaq D530. i have three partitiones of my HD. so when i try to enter in any partition it give me the msg as like this please select the programme to open the required folder or file. with the list of …

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I see SpywareGuard 2.2 touted as a good free real-time antimalware app that makes a great compliment to SpywareBlaster. But can anyone confirm that for me, and that it's definitely a different app than Spyware Guard 2008 & 2009? It had better be, because the latter is said to actually …

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i have a number of issues with my operating system at the moment; browser windows opening by themselves, slow operation, programs not opening and inability to delete/open some files. I have tried a malware scanner and have used CCleaner but nothing has helped. I downloaded and installed HiJack This but …

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Well, i'm developing a program, ( API ) and i'd like to use a [url=http://www.snap2objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/6.jpg]non standar font,[/url] for some section of my program. My question is, how can i do this, i mean, i supose i have to install the font on the user pc, but how do i do …

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my browser is taking me to the places where I do not want to go. Someone please help me check my hijack this log. Thanks Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 8:53:15 PM, on 3/5/2010 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) Boot …

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As soon as i boot the computer, theres about three different applications that come up on their own saying that y computer needs help. Then tries to force me to buy "windows XP internet security". i tried to install malwarebytes, but it wouldnt let me. i did get the hijack …

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After succesfully removing my task manager lock and my windows desktop lock with regedit im still troubled with a fake pop-up that comes back every few momets. Really annoying. I read up on some threads and downloaded AVG along with hijackthis. Here is my log. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis …

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Make: HP Model: dv6500 OS: Windows Vista Hello everyone. I have a Vista computer in my hands with a funky dvd drive. It's not showing up in Vista(My computer/Device Mgr) and when I try to boot off of it from the BIOS it skips it. I'm guessing the BIOS doesn't …

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I have installed the latest Ubuntu for notebook on my Acer Aspire 4715Z Pentium Dual-Core for last several months- working very smoothly & enjoying the "new world." I thought I never need to go back to Windows(rarely) - but yesterday as I updated the Update Manager and restarted it as …

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Aside from the difference in maximum processors I write to inquire what other differences exist between Server/Advanced Server. Specifically, with the regard to management, maintainance, monitoring. Just installed vmware server to a Vista Ultimate machine with a quadcore 6600 2.4Ghz intel processor with virtualization technology and 4GB memory. Additionally, I …

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I'm working on my first game in C++ and SDL. The game compiles and runs perfectly on both my boxes (Arch Linux and Windows XP). When two of my friends were to test the game, one of them (running Windows Vista) said his machine BSoD'd every time he ran the …

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Dear members, Reccently I download files thru' P2P using torrent and unfortunately my system got infected with Win32/Polip virus. Many of the important files like notepad.exe, mspaint.exe, iexplorer.exe etc. got infected and im unable to access these applications. Internet connection also fails. I tried scanning with NOD 32 and then …

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everytime i start my pc it crashes after 2miutes no matter what i do, no error message just stops responding then i restart it, it fails to start, then i restart it again its fine ? why is this?

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