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Pls help with any ideal, l have HP dual core desktop with an XP (service pack 2) operating system and a norton antivirus up to date . The problem is it take About 10 minutes to shut down, wat could be the problem pls help.

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Hi I wonder if someone could help me, I am getting the following error. [QUOTE] Generic Host Process for Win32 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for inconvenience. [/QUOTE] I am sure you have all seen this before and I have read a number of …

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Anyone know why my sound keeds getting set to mute? It gets set to mute every once in awhile, I don't know why. Also, on related question, I have a set of Bose ear phones, the kind you stick in each ear (see thumbnail). The problem is that sound comes …

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So the thumbnails for all my videos ie. AVI WMV and MPEG are gone! I did try the "regsvr32 shmedia.dll" trick and it's worked in the past, but now nothing seems to be working. Do I have to go into my registry? Or is there another way I can fix …

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I honestly have no clue how I got this problem. I've tried doing system restore but i dont have a restore point before the virus. I also tried making a new account but that didn't work too. It happens in safe mode too. I've tried avenger, vundofix, and combofix but …

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Hi all! I've read about BoostSpeed on CNet. It sounds all good and it supports 64bit, but I'm kinda careful about all that optimization software. So, has anyone tried it? I'm particularly interested in the latest version, because it has a new tool to manage Windows services.

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Hi, I am posting a result of a Malwarebytes scan. I have done it a few times over the last week or so, and these 2 Trjan.Agent reappear. I clean and remove them with Malwarebytes, but they ap[pear again at my next scan. Memory Processes Infected: (No malicious items detected) …

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In SAFE mode I do not have the following problems. In NORMAL mode I do. 1. My laptop seems to lock up,with the disk drive light flashing, and CPU count (sidebar widget) 1-3%. Ctr/Alt/Del for Task Manger takes over 3 minutes to work. 2. My anti-virus software VIPRE turns off. …

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I am having an issue where a shared network drive cannot be accessed by a couple users. I am one of the ones that cannot access it, and I noticed when I checked the properties of my shared drive that it is showing a RAW file system. On another users …

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in my windows mail i can use the find message option to find who my mail is from. i put the name in the from section and click find now, the message i'm looking from is found then windows mail freezes and i can't do another search. Could this be …

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After insralling xp sp2, I get this message when I try to connect my ipod, "ipodservice module has encountered a problem and needs to close." searching the web, i realized that my device manager is empty. Can you guys help me with this?

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Hi. I'm new to this forum. Please excuse any naivete. I am downloading videos and periodically the display is only jerky images without continuity. Is this a function of my internet speed. It's 4 megs. If not how do I correct the problem? Feedback is much appreciated.

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Hi,, My problem is when i open the msn messenger,, internet explorer and firefox keep opening windows with chinese sites, they open sooo fast that i cant close them !! If i try to close them msn messenger will stop working,, I tried Mcafee antivirus - Symantec endpoint protection - …

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Hey hows it going, I was searching on the internet and finally found this site which has helped other people with the same problem, when I go to google and try to search something the website [url]http://www-find-www.net/?q[/url] pops up and is completely irrelevant to what I am searching for. I …

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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:53:35 PM, on 12/10/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16735) Boot mode: Normal 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\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe C:\WINDOWS\arservice.exe C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\ALUSchedulerSvc.exe C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe C:\Program Files\TinyProxy\TinyProxy.exe C:\WINDOWS\eHome\ehRecvr.exe C:\WINDOWS\eHome\ehSched.exe …

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hello. i have 04 professional norton antivirus and it is up to date. right after my computer is started and i logged in i get flodded with errors and warnings from symantech. it says that my emails for people who i never heard of can not be sent and i …

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My laptop isn't the same anymore. I am currently using a Windows XP MCE and it has a 1 GB RAM. I recently installed Avast and managed to uninstall Symantec thanks to this forum. I have a feeling that Avast could be part of the cause of the slow start …

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I have a problem with the MoveFile() function of the Win32 API. I cant move files which are in the same directory as the exe file,if i specify the pathname,it dosent work.I dont know how this function works.Need urgent help....... [code] # include<windows.h> # include<iostream.h> int main() { MoveFile("C:\File1.txt","C:\New Folder\File2.txt"); …

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Hey guys my laptop goes black right after the bios, it doesn't even show xp loading. I was able to recover everything on the HDD. When i put the new hdd in and tried to install xp, xp says the computer doesn't have any hdd. So i'm thinking this is …

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i'm ready to buy a antispyware software, can anybody tell me which one I should buy?

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[B]How to enable [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Host_Controller_Interface"]AHCI[/URL] on Intel ICH9 under XP[/B] After some research by MSFN staff, we have a working solution to enable ACHI on the ICH9 with appropriate SATA/NCQ drive(s). For more [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Host_Controller_Interface"]information about AHCI[/URL], we refer to Wikipedia.or offer features not offered by Parallel ATA (PATA) controllers besides higher …

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ftp_ssl_connect() is only available if both the ftp module and the OpenSSL support is built staticlly into php, this means that on Windows this function will be undefined in the official PHP builds. To make this function available on Windows you must compile your own PHP binaries. [COLOR="Red"](iw want to …

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Last night somehow a few Trojan Virtumonde's so I ran Malware Bytes and Spybot Search and Destroy which said I got rid of them. I also ran HJT and got rid of them on startup. Then this morning the viruses reappear after not even searching the net. So I reran …

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I'm very new to the computer .so please look over my mistakes. I was looking around on the computer and found something that wanted to check some file. I guess I click ok but this is what I got checking file system on C: then it went to another line …

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ok.... i can only start in safemode...... and EVERYTHING is sooooo slow. and when i run ad aware, it freezes but says i have 30+infections... and i get popups... i havent had popups since 2001 lol. so here it is. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 4:46:00 …

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I opened a music file the other day after scanning it with Norton and getting it back as clean and now my computer is struggling. Every ten seconds or so it refreshes like when your desktop goes to the restore active desktop screen. It closes most things that are open …

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Hi all! My subscription has run out on my Norton AntiVirus and Webroot SpySweeper and I think I'd prefer to uninstall both and go with Kapersky or something else. But I heard it's difficult to get Symantec off the computes totally. Is this true? What would I need to do …

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Norton or McAfee for virus protection for Windows XP? I want something with a light footprint.

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This is the report by hijackthis on my PC... It would be extremely helpful if i could get rid of this nuisance of a virus! PLEASE HELP! Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 2:54:33 AM, on 3/12/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 …

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Does anyone know of a way to disable auto restart on system failure that does not require being in Windows? I've got a laptop that will not start Windows in ANY mode (including Safe Mode) and a blue screen flashes by so quick I can't even read it. I'm wondering …

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Hi I wans't sure what forum to post this on - but thought this might be an okay place. I'm not familiar with MCSE or the like, so I might need step-by-step instructions on how to solve this problem. I got a Security Warning on my desktop wallpaper saying that …

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Every time I tried to start up msn messenger, it would 'encounter an error and needs to be closed' on me. I tried installing the newest version, but the problem persists. I did a HIJACK THIS: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.0 (BETA) Scan saved at 12:36:59 AM, on 12/5/2007 …

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I like WMP 10 and have resisted moving to wmp11 because after trying it awhile I got TIRED of trying to unravel why it would not play music I owned or let me copy it to my hard drive or why movies audio sounded so bad. So i finally got …

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Hello all together, my old computer with WinME got a really bad virus that I couldn't remove so I reinstalled the OS. The trouble is, that after the setup BIOS tells me that no OS is installed - which seems to me that the MBR (first sector with information about …

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I have a problem. Somewhere a long the line I picked up a virus or spyware. It takes affect both in IE and Firefox (my default). Whenever I use a search engine I type in a topic. When I hit search that topic I typed in appears over and over …

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So, trying to help out my ex wife who tried downloading Adobe Air unsucessfully. Now, when she boots up, she gets this pop up window: C\Program files\Common. In it, there resides _helper.dll 4.0.0.0; helper.dll 3.0.1.5; _helper.sig SIG File 65kb and helper.sig SIG File 38KB. It won't allow any Windows functions …

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This seemed like the best place for this question, so if it isn't please let me know. I am looking at buying a new computer and I have narrowed it down to two from Dell. Both are customizable but neither have all the features I want. The Specifications are listed …

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Dear all, I recently installed the Uxtheme Multi-patcher 6.0 patch on my XP Pro SP3 Laptop. Since then I have lost my Administrator privileges to my account. I read, to uninstall the Uxtheme Multi-patcher 6.0 I had to double click it and It would do the job, but there was …

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Hi, My problem is that I have to upload a CSV file from Client Machine (Windows) to Unix Application Server. I am using JSP method post and multipart/form-data (as in [url]http://www.roseindia.net/jsp/file_upload/Sinle_upload.xhtml.shtml)[/url]. The file is uploaded fine but the problem is it displays carraige Return (^M) a square boxes on Unix …

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I bought my laptop with Vista OS installed, after a few months i downgraded to XP (a lot of problems to install SATA drive) then the keyboard went crazy: F10 and F11 keys are always on. I can type correctly only when i hold the Fn (function) key. I also …

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About a week ago I was in the middle of playing a game online having the game open and ventrillo open. Out of nowhere my sound gets all distorted. I wasn't downloading anything it just changed. Now If I try to watch you tube I can hear the music and …

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Good day people, Any Microsoft Outlook experts out here today. My problem started yesterday... I have an HP running Windows XP and last night I was working in the office, not on the computer but in the same room. It was on and online when Windows decided to do an …

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i have made a screensaver and what i want is to disable alt-tab, ctrl-esc, the windows button (the one between ctrl and alt i mean) ive tryed using many different versions of SystemParametersInfo( SPI_SCREENSAVERRUNNING, integer(true), @i, 0); SystemParametersInfo( SPI_SETFASTTASKSWITCH, 1, @i, 0); but its not working on xp and vista... …

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Hello,I'm having problem with my PC lately.I really don't know what was the cause.I tried to solve it by myself recently,by using Malware bytes and the Spybot (search and destroy),that was install on my PC, but it didn't work instead it didn't started anyway.Just like the software/program did not responding.So,I …

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I'm running ubuntu 8.04 and x11vnc 0.9.3. I'm having trouble getting it running. When I run "x11vnc" with no arguments, it tries to open :0 but fails: [CODE] 08/12/2008 20:51:56 *** XOpenDisplay failed (:0) *** x11vnc was unable to open the X DISPLAY: ":0", it cannot continue. [/CODE] When I …

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Got a real shitty virus which has made so many ways to back itself up if deleted.. It constantly brings up new windows of IE/firefox/google chrome some which link to AV 2009, dosent allow all my pages to load and makes my pc slow in general. Have tried avast/nod32 but …

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Hello all.. Where is the network certificate kept / stored in Windows XP... i have Windows SP3 Pro.... I hope you get what i mean, if not, i can provide more information. Thanks, Cohen

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Well, I fixed the runtime error now it just opened to a new bag of worms. I get to see the actual error thats there and it tells me that access is denied to this certain file. Easy enough, change the access to the file right? Wrong... can't find the …

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Hi everybody, Today My computer decided to start turning on and off the explorer.exe every 10 seconds. ive done a boot scan with avast and deleted everything that was a threat, and somthing is still crashing explorer. ive also tried spybot search and destroy. cant figure out how to address …

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I have a MSI neo platinum 4 mb with 2 gig ram tested with memtest, updated all drivers including video and get random bsod errors irql_not_less_or_equal. The computer may go for days than all of a sudden the machin shuts down. I have reloaded windows xp 2 times and the …

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