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Hmm why does my computer say that i have 415 GB of memory but if i look on the HDD then there is 500 GB there is the 85 GB gone?

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I was thinking about all the amazing things that people go thru to get their pc and laptops fixed so they can run smooth. So I came up with the Idea of something like, maybe it'll be nice if people could post their favorite software that did wonders for them. …

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I have an old icon program with icon in .dll format. The program installs ok in windows 7 home premium, but I get a message saying winodws cannot open files, not associated with anything. Is there any hope in getting this old Titan Seal Icon program to work? It has …

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When I start my computer, it keeps coming to a screen that says "a disk read error occured. press ctr+alt_del to restart". I've tried this but it comes back to the same screen. My HP laptop did not come with windows cd. I have to reinstall OS. How can I …

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Can I install a 64 bit Windows 7 on a computer that currently has a 32 bit version of Vista? I think that my hardware can handle a 64 bit Operating System. I tried to install a 64 bit version of Windows 7 but the installation program checked my current …

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Hi i am doing C programming in netbeans and when i compile and run my program i get a message in the dos console that says i need to use the nodosfilewarning to disable the cygwin warning i am getting. I have attached a screenshot as it is a rather …

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Hi Everybody, I have a new query for you and was wondering if anybody has had the same problem and if they ever found a solution. I bought a Kingston 2 Gb Data Traveller to use for my printer files as I do not have a printer. I put it …

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Hello USB problem solvers, I would like to let you know that I have solved my problem regarding my Flash drive, when I plugged it in to the USB port it was recognised by the system but I could not see what folders it had, so I looked everywhere to …

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Hope someone may be able to help... I have always had a problem with the modem connection, if I pull out the lead to the broadband voyager modem, without cancelling the internet connection, the computer tends to freeze. My wife decided she wanted to use her computer and so pulled …

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I am formatting my ibm desk top pentium 4 and when the first phace completes and it restarts the machine starts from the hard disk and tells me to press any to start from disc and when i press it starts the formatting again what can i do

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Hello Friends, I used to use a registry cleaner called RegistrySmart, it seemed to do a good job in cleaning the registry and that was all it did, it was automatic you just pressed scan and that was it until I got an update from them which had a virus …

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Hi, I have a problem with my sound on all programs for video (Youtube, DVD's, etc) Whatever program I use (WMP, real player, Win amp, quick time, etc) I can not get good volume levels. I have updated the drivers (Realtek) I have turned all controlls to max, ensured that …

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Comp: HP Laptop OS: Windows xp Media Center I have the recovery on disk's (So can bring back to factory setting whenever.) There is a 12 Gig partition for recovery on HD, I have 32 gig left of HD space. Should I get rid of the partition and just hope …

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I got a warning alert from my AVG anti virus software the other day. It listed some cookies that were in a directory that doesn't exist on my hard drive. None of the AVG option took care of the warnings and every time I boot my computer I get the …

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Trying to share a folder on a Windows 7 machine with a Windows XP machine. Error message: folder is not accessible. Access is denied

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Ok so I have a 2WIRE router from AT&T and it turns off the internet every once and a while and one of the lights will start blinking red on my router, and this week it has been getting worse to where it'll go down and start blinking red at …

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Okay, I am running Windows XP, on a Dell Mini Laptop. Thing sucks for hardware, but that's beside the point. Okay, for the past week, I've been having issues with the laptop's memory. If I have a few windows open of any program, then close out, it seems to not …

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I recently left my laptop on all day without touching it at a friends house, and when I came back to it, I could not click on any windows. So doing ctrl-shft-esc, I brough up the task manager, and the only way I could navigate through it was by keyboard, …

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Hello Friends, I wonder if anybody has had a bad experience with SFS, I received a file in sfs but cannot open it because I need the SFS program to open it, first of all I downloaded a program from CNET but when I went to install it said there …

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My husband is having trouble with his eMachine desktop. He was on a forum the other day and clicked on a link to another web site. While he was on this other web site, he started getting a bunch of virus warnings from his antivirus software (he's running Avira). After …

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why is it the "edit, help and more" ms dos command wont work??? only the dir,cd,cd/,and changing the drive works........please help guys...tanx,

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Many People always ask questions about iPod/iPhone at answers.yahoo.com. Here I collect some commen FAQ and provide the professional solutions to help the people getting difficulty in handling their iPod/iPhone to solve the questions about iPod/iPhone. It includes four parts: [b]1: How to put DVD on iPod and iPhone (Windows/Mac) …

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I've got a problem, I have a machine that is running [B]Win7-x32bit[/B] and it can see the machine running [B]Win7-x64bit[/B], [U]but[/U] the [B]Win7-x64[/B] machine [U]can't[/U] see the [B]Win7-x32[/B]. I've tried the trouble shooting within Windows7 etc, nothing fixes it, [I]any idea what is going on[/I] ?

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Hi, I am having a system with following configuration RAM : 2 GB HardDisk : 250 GB Prcessor : Intel Core 2 Duo OS : Vista Starter I am facing problem while installing SQL Developer in my syatem. Is there any way to resolve this issue or is there any …

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Hi everyone, I've read a couple of posts and most seem to be similar to my problem but I still can't figure out how to do this... I have a new computer, Dell, and I quickly installed windows 7 ultimate on it. Shortly after I added my old HDD on …

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i keep getting this screen when i try to boot my computer into safe mode. i read somewhere to get it to boot into safe mode correctly was to open msconfig and click the boot tab and click the boot.ini. now every time i start my computer it tries to …

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I am having a problem opening folders with a double left click. When I do this now it opens my VLC media player and the folder doesn't show. If I right click on the folder, the first 6 items on the drop down menu are: Add to VLC media player's …

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i keep getting these pop up notifications with the red badge and white X on the bottom right of my computer. it won't allow me to open up any websites in Explorer. it also won't allow me to run any of my anti-virus and ad-aware software as if it's blocking …

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Last Night (12-30-09) My PC got a Blue Screen of Death and restarted. I got the First Blue Screen of death while watching Adultswim Video. When the Computer Restarted It got to the Windows Vista log-in screen and then Blue Screened a second time, but froze before it restarted. I …

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This is a problem with some back-story so let me start there. I recently bought a Dell mini, which has functioned perfectly for what I needed it to do. Problem: I slipped on a patch of ice and dropped aforementioned mini, bouncing on its corners, down a nice long set …

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My Recycle bin keeps on popping up while im using the internet and then becomes a nusence by keep flashing i think it might be a virus or something. Any Help????

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yesterday i was surfing the web when a pop up came up and said downloading something, it had disabled the x in the corner and the task manager. I turned the computer off and it will now not get past the windows xp loading page, it just restarts the computer. …

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Here is the fresh log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 5:56:06 PM, on 1/7/2010 Platform: Windows Vista SP2 (WinNT 6.00.1906) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6002.18005) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Program Files (x86)\Norton 360\Engine\3.0.0.135\ccSvcHst.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell DataSafe Online\DataSafeOnline.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell Video Chat\DellVideoChat.exe C:\Users\7Mikulas\Documents\iGive_Toolbar\igvtt.exe C:\Program …

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I did a clean install of Windows 7 on my computer reinstalled my programs, etc. Now I have the problem of the OS locking up the computer. I feel like I am using Windows 9x with its blue screen of death. It happens randomly with no rhyme or reason, I …

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1. My adult daughter’s Toshiba Satellite computer started acting strangely lately. At first only rarely, but finally almost every time it was used, it kept popping up a dialog box purporting to show “search results” even though none had been asked for. Closing the box merely brought up another one, …

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in Windows Task Manager --> Processes there is a list of running exe files. I am going to write a program that lists these running exe files. How can I obtain the list? I use Windows XP :$ & Windows API!:)

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Hello everyone. I am posting here as my last resort before throwing my laptop out that window I have been wanting to replace. I can not download ANYTHING. Thus far, I have no problem opening current files, but every time I try to download something I get the error message …

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Greetings! My first post here. Not sure if I need to post a hijackthis log yet. It seems some of my keys have been remapped. When I strike the ctrl-alt-del combo it toggles the mutefunction. When I strike the blank key my default web browser opens. I'll be glad to …

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Hello DaniWeb Community! I'm currently working on a particularly troublesome problem with my mothers computer. What happens is if I search for something (eg. "apples") through either firefox and google or internet explorer and bing, I am redirected to spam sites. It is getting incredibly annoying. In addition, a new …

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Any opinions between AVG free version and Avast free version? Any experience with either of them slowing up the computer? Thanks.

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Hi this is my first post and I think I've come to the right place for help after reading all the great replys to others with similar problems. My problem- every time I try to go to a certain website, I immediately get redirected to Ownbox.com. I just ran hijack …

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Hello everyone, [b]Wondershare Photo Recovery[/b] is being giveaway now on [url]www.giveawayoftheday.com[/url] It is designed for users to get back deleted and lost photos from computer, camera memory card and other devices. The giveaway is for only [b]24 hours on December 29, 2009[/b]. Anyone who needs it shouldn't miss the chance. …

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Ok so I bought a new computer the other day, old one was working fine just time for a new one. Anyways, unplugged old puter and put up new one. Wanted to get KVM switch to use both and be set since all the files are on the old computer. …

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First of all unhide all the programs. if u have a broad band or dial up connection jst get off the Ethernet connection.then restart the computer and press F7.you got in safe mode and run the computer with network there you search where the unauthorized folder are there or not …

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Hi, I was browsing the internet today (I was trying to download iTunes, I do not know if it had started to download) on my Dell Inspirion E1505 today and a blue screen came up saying "A problem has been detected and windows has been shutdown to prevent damage to …

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For some reason IE is running in the background and I can't seem to get it to quit. I keep finding a 10888.exe or a 14297.exe that won't go away. They don't always both show up. The HijackThis log shows this Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at …

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I think we can safely say that Windows Vista was a flop. The only one that doesn't seem to know it is Microsoft. Or does it? This week at [url=http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/default.mspx]WinHEC[/url], the company introduced a series of capabilities in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7]Windows 7[/url] that it says will "make it easier for hardware partners …

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I haven't been on here for awhile and last time you all were a huge help! Somehow, my computer or me downloaded the Security tool 'Anti-whatever'. I have Trend Micro Antivirus and antispyware already on my computer but it's not picking up the virus...I've looked all over the Internet for …

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If I go to: view -> arrange by -> current view -> customize current view -> other settings I can change the "row font" size for the current folder. If I have 100 folders and I want to change the font size for the messages in all of them, you …

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I'm having trouble accessing anti-virus sites (and Microsoft pages as well) on the internet with my Asus Eee laptop. I've tried using a range of different browsers, deactivating Windows Firewall, and downloading Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from a "clean" computer and transferring it to my own. Still no success, though. Following the …

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