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Hi, im writting a remote host program for a school project and i keep getting Run-time error '40006': Wrong protocol or connection state for the requested transaction or request here's the code for the client: [code]Private Sub cmdConnect_Click() IpAddy = txtIP.Text Win.Close Win.RemotePort = 455 Win.RemoteHost = IpAddy Win.LocalPort = …

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Hey folks, I am facing a really weird issue. I have a HP tx2622nr laptop running Vista Home Premium. 3 GB RAM AMD X2 RM-70 processor The problem I am facing is that, my browsers do not work. I have no clue when I lost it. I use Chrome predominantly. …

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I installed a new xp, and many apps. then I swapped out a few drives - adding a hd, a couple memory sticks and permanent usb devices that appear as drive. Then ran a repair of windows xp pro. The MAJOR problem is now I cannot uninstall or install many …

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When I start Windows98se,all my icons in status bar next to time,are visible . When I try to open any icons on Desktop: There is this notice "Explorer.This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.If the program persists,contact the program vendor" This refers to the Windows …

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I have an IBM ThinkPad that was once a part of a student network at a university. I own the laptop and took it with me after graduation. It has Windows XP Pro. I wanted to update the anti-virus software to Norton 2009. SInce I had an older version of …

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Does anyone know how many In-Built Compilers does Windows have. I know about Batch Files,VBScript,JavaScript,HTML(including .mht,htm etc). Are there any others except these. Compilation through command prompt will do.

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Hey you guys, I currently have Windows XP Home Edition SP2 on my computer and do not have access to professional. Is there a way to get the xp professional remote desktop program (so that i can access this pc) on my xp home machine?

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Greetings. A little bit about myself.... - been around the tech area since 85, the start of microcomputers :zzz: - first career programming learned was Clipper (Summer 87 - 5.2e) - developed in-house application, using Clipper, with team - after application was developed spent most of the time maintaining and …

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I need a program or a way to find used space on my harddrive. The folders that I can see accumulate to about half of my HD space. Right now it shows that I have about a 1 GB of space left. I have looked in My Docs, Doc and …

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Good afternoon all. I recently noticed that Firefox was experiencing some problems when attempting to connect to a website. The error message that I got informed me that it was a problem with the proxy settings. I investigated and couldn't find the problem myself so just to be sure I …

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Hi, I have a problem and need some help. Whenever I try to install my HP 3210 all in one scanner/printer I get the error that my system will be shutdown initiated by NT Authority\system. I have checked for viruses, adware, malware, everything! Any help would be appreciated. Burgerboy

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i have been having this program which supports price which supported Travelocity,Orbitz,Expedia etc.Apparently it has dissappeared from desktop........anyone with an idea on how it can be restored?

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I was wondering what is the best way to clean the C Drive in Windows XP??? I have an 80GB hardrive and it is almost full and I need to clear some space for other stuff, but don't want to clear every single thing on the drive. Just unused files …

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Hi, I have a GW4500, WinXP SP2, 2 gig mem. After working on the PC for awhile when I select Start>Shutdown I then have to wait almost 2 minutes for the "Shut Down Windows" to appear. This is happening to 3 of my users. It began about 1 week ago, …

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Hi and greetings to all members, I have MSSQL server 2000 instaled on XP SP2, and I am accessing him over internet and VPN connection, router and ADSL operational, and it works well. Now I added, on remote side, another computer, conected to LAN with first one, and I want …

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I cannot load help and support pages, i have run some registry fixes but they are not helping. Suggestions are urgently required

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<SNIP> Can someone take a look at this HiJackThis log and tell me what's wrong? Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 11:34:00 PM, on 5/8/2009 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT 6.00.1905) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe …

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i have a compaq presario desktop and have no recovery discs a year ago i contacted hp but they sent me a windows disc not the actual recovery discs and when i installed it it only added another copy of windows on the computor now i have three copys of …

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Hi everybody, I am working on a windows based application using vb.net 2005. I want to get our remote server's date and time.Our remote server is a linux machine. So how can i get the date and time of the remote server from an application which works on windows. Kindly …

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I am running XP Home SP3 fully patched. I was having trouble with IE8 in that at times it was unable to follow a link and came up with a connection error. I tried the same action in both Firefox and Chrome and they had no problems at all. So …

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Hey guys I am having huge malware problems that I can't seem to beat. I think I am infected with several things but my biggest problem is that all of a sudden explorer won't come up on startup. I have been dealing with this for a few days and have …

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Hello everyone! :) I've had this problem for over a year now, and for some weird reason I just adapted to it instead of trying to solve it. Anyway, here's how it goes. Whenever my network is enabled, i cannot double-click or right-click any file, because it makes the computer …

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There are files of the form a-hire.txt, a-hire-1.txt,......, a-hire-9.txt, a-hire-rpt.txt I would like to single copy command to copy them to files of the form a-hire-0601.txt, a-hire-1-0601.txt,......, a-hire-9-0601.txt, a-hire-rpt-0601.txt . I am just putting the month and day on the end of the file before the .txt. copy a-hir*.txt a-hir*.0601.txt …

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Hi, Im trying to connect to my sql database and generally play around but I get the following error: [ICODE]error C3867: '_com_error::Description': function call missing argument list; use '&_com_error::Description' to create a pointer to member[/ICODE] I think it has something to do the import of the msado15.dll. Obviously if I …

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Very odd, other devices apparently work FINE in the port but upon connecting mp3 to my computer i get the following: ONE OF THE USB DEVICES ATTACHED TO THE COMPUER HAS MAL FUNCTIONED..WINDOWS DOES NOT RECOGNIZE IT...yES I have tried 2 different mp3 players and also 2 different usb cords., …

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I was wondering, what is the easiset way for me to get MPEG-2 into windows movie maker without getting any errors??? My video camera records in MPEG-2 and I'm using a JVC camera to record my videos

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Sorry if this has been asked before ..... I want to explore W7 but not try and use it as my base OS - happy to stay with Vista for the moment. Can I set up a separate partition or whatever, install W7 into that and then, at startup, choose …

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This is my first time programming anything and i'm reading the learning python book. I'm stuck at step one and very annoyed. I'm trying to run just a simple print saved program i wrote in notebook. For some reason i can't open it, ive gotten to the point where i …

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When I try to open some links, like to listen to streaming audio/video, it appears to start opening, then immediately closes. If I can look at the site it is trying to load, I can sometimes type the address in a new browser and it will open (example: if im …

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I have ran bitdeffender, AVS none of these detecting any viruses. I know my connection is OK because I am using my laptop from the same router, cables and all the connection are ok, but couldn't get online from my PC. Any suggestions would be appreciated. thank you P.S. Running …

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I rarely use Internet Explorer. Sometimes when I use the computer the computer opens up an IE windows with some sort of advertisement. My computer has also been running rather slow lately, which concerns me. I have Ad-Aware, Malware bytes and avg. i used hijack this and this is the …

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I'm trying to teach my 10 yr old son to upgrade his PC. It will be handed down to his little sister soon but we wanted to make game playing a little faster (she's 4 yrs old so we're not looking for super speed). I have not done this in …

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I need to Delete an Icon that is no longer on my Task Bar at the bottom of the screen, but it is listed in the "Past Items" of the Customize Window. If I right click on the bottom Taskbar in XP and go to "Properties", Go to "Customize" then …

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For some reason there is a windows installer window that pops up ike every 30 seconds, and its just a windows installer window that says preparing to install but as soon as it pops up on my screen it goes away and then opens another one, is there anyway I …

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I am upgrading my emachine T3302 from a Sempron 3300 cpu to an Athlon 3400 cpu. When I installed the new chip I discharged myself to ground, and used new heatsink compound. When I boot my computer, windows starts up, my cpu fan increases in speed twice, and before all …

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:-/ Hardware performance becomes increasingly high. Software performance seems to decrease, because developers (who are not necesarily programmers) believe that the hardware is so powerful that it will carry out any task. :| On some of the "geeks forums" every child can advise you to update your computer, buy some …

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Help, please. The automatic updates were done on a client pc with o/s xp. The person can log into their p/c with their id that they have been using for quite awhile. However, they cannot log into any shared network drives. They get an error that they need to enter …

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When I booted up this morning the computer gets to the welcome screen and then reboots, constantly stuck in this cycle. I can't get into safe mode. I've only just finished reinstalling everything after this happened a week or so ago. I'm fed up with XP!!!! Help please.

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I don't know if this is even possible, but I have lost all of my digital pictures that I had saved on my computer. I deleted my account because it was messing up; my MSN browser wasn't working, etc. I didn't realize that it was going to delete all my …

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i have a compaq thats about 4 years old and when i moved it from one house to another it no longer starts. sometimes it will get to the home screen and other times it will freeze on "loading your personal settings". As soon as i do get to the …

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After installing Windows 7 on my HP dv9720us Laptop the WiFi on/off that is blue when on now the switch stays amber like when it is off. Anyone find the same thing?

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Dear DaniWeb, I am working on a source code editor using Scintilla and am currently having some issues with the CreateFile() function. It does not return an error when I am saving as a new file, but when I am saving changes to the current file, it returns INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE. I …

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I'm in search of good folder locking software. Any good software in mind ? I've budget of 40$ max. Can't afford to put more than that. Also is there any freeware available to do this job ? My Config : OS : Windows XP SP2 Filesystem : FAT32

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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:36:19 AM, on 5/25/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16512) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\csrss.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:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgamsvr.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgupsvc.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgemc.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\gearsec.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\windows\system\hpsysdrv.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\hkcmd.exe C:\Program …

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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 8:24:14 PM, on 5/21/2009 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT 6.00.1905) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6001.18226) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe C:\Program Files\HP\QuickPlay\QPService.exe C:\Program Files\HP\HP Software Update\hpwuSchd2.exe C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Quick Launch Buttons\QLBCTRL.exe C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP …

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Hi folks, I have written 2 applications on my till running windows 2000. One is an epos system and the other is a "driver" which parses the text from the touch screen and moves the mouse accordingly. I'm having a very strange issue. I have recently added network functionality to …

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I recently received a computer from a friend. It is pretty fast and had been used as a server in a dental office. However, there is no sound at all. It is a dual core Pentium 4 system running XP Pro. When it was initially started up, there was a …

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Hello all: I have been having trouble our home PC. We recently hooked it up to the Internet for a few days without a firewall or any virus protection out of obligation. Stupid move. The computer began running slower and slower as it had come down with several viruses. I …

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