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Okay, so here's basically what happened. Most of this was fault on my part.. So I was trying to clear a virus that kept reappearing in my computer, so I deleted some system files, believing them to be malicious. What I didn't know was, I think some of them were …

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hello im having a very annoying problem. This is my setup. i am on wireless lan on ADSL. i am unable to view machines which are in the same workgroup. the thing is, it fluctuates. sometimes i can view them and smtimes i can not. i can leave my machine …

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Hello-- I have a problem in that my younger son's laptop (dell inspiron 1525, shipped with Vista, I "upgraded" to Xp sp3) shows an excellent wireless connection at his mom's house, but Google's front page barely loads. To complicate matters, his older brother's laptop (older Dell, Xp sp3) connects and …

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I have been having tons of problems with my HP Compaq Business Desktop lately so I copied everything from HD and decided to reformat completely. I used the "HP Restore Plus" CD to erase everything, followed the instructions to put in the "MS Windows XP Pro" CD when prompted, and …

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hi everyone, I have recently started having a lot of problems with my computer. I guess if I make a list it would be easiest =/ 1. When I search something in google, it works alright in firefox, but if I click on any link it doesn't take me to …

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hi, this is siriyal, i have a doubt when my flash player that animation is not appearing please solve this problem advanced thanks ..................

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hi everybody i'm on win me and i cant use my ethernet cable cause the card is not working telling me that there is no driver where can i find one please? Property Value Device ID PCI\VEN_100BDEV_0020SUBSYS_F3111385REV_00\50F000 Status 0x08000620 Has Problem Problem 0x0000001c (28) Capabilities 14 00 00 00 Config …

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Hi, I'm having the redirect problem as well. Below is the log from Hijackthis, please HELP! Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 8:53:08 PM, on 9/16/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16705) 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:\Program …

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i have a very strange problem, XP sp2 doest allow to logon to my laptop, i have tried to different methods such as 1) going through SAFE MODE....not possible same msg 2) Tried to repair through the windows cd....not possible 3) tried to replace userinit.exe, wsaupdater.exe( didnt find wsaupdater.exe) and …

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hey guys i just started getting some problems from vista i keep getting a popup for almost everyprogram saying "a problem cause the program to stop working correctly". i also reformated, before i reformated it would also get a black screen and my videocard fan would speed up. that is …

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Hello, I recently took on a job at my local radio station setting up the buildings computers and networking. It was just placed under new management and staffing so I am pretty much starting from scratch. The big thing that they need done first is this; they use a program …

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Hi All -- At some point we will be purchasing Ghost and utilizing it for our Win XP Pro machines (which will have a standard image with MS Office 2003, Adobe Reader, etc). My question is this: What validation processes should be done after the image is created? I know …

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Well, I did a look through hijackthis.. I recently downloaded something dodgy, thought it might be a good idea to look just incase. I found svhosts.exe (knowing that malware will often 'misspell' things to make it look okay to the untrained eye) and looked in google - finding it was, …

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Hi, I am currently using vista with my personal notebook as it is less prone to virus (heard from friends) but I'm more comfortable with XP (it's functions and displays). Will dual use of Operating system not affect each other in case the anti-virus failed to delete the virus? Collection …

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My computer is running very slow i have over 1gb of memory in it i've done a de-frag , deleted temp internet files and so on but it still runs very slow . The hour glass shows up and just keeps turning over and over for ahwile what do i …

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Every time I try to use google I get redirected to something called "go.google" I cant figure out how to get rid of this. If someone could help and explain in terms a tech challeneged person could understand Id really appreciate it.

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Hi everyone. I'm new here, a friend of mine suggested that i come here and tell you all about my problem so that you can try to help me. Thanks in advance, and here goes: Laptop: I think i have a spyware type virus on my laptop. I don't know …

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HI PC Guru's, I've got a stack of old Dell Optiplex GX1's (I hate the antiques but they seem to work with a program we have running here) that I'm swapping a good hard drive through each of them. Some have easy fixes, but I ran across 1 of them …

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Yes my problem started when I tried to download a new login screen. Well I did just that and then installed it then I had to reboot perfect so far. Now comes the moment of truth to see if the login screen will work nope nothing just a black screen …

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I have a Dell Dimension 8100 running Windows XP, SP3. I have 512 MB RAM. When I click the button to analyze or defrag my C drive, nothing happens. When I check Task Manager it indicates that it is running. What can I do. I have run Chkdsk and found …

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Hi all, While burning MPEG files on the VCD , i am getting an error : Invalid field in parameter, Could not perform start of Disc-at-once. How can i change this to track-at-once ??? I have Nero Express6 and Nero vission express3. I cannot find the place where i can …

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Had a e-machine brought to me, was told it was garbage. Installed a floppy drive, booted to 98 startup disk, fdisk(fat 32), formatted drive and started with win 95. ran setup, said it was rebooting , then it hung during "starting windows for first time", Sigh, so I finally found …

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I've done a system restore due to my p.c running very slow as of late. I then wanted to get rid of some program and games that I didn't want. I've gone through the control panel etc. I get to the point where nothing will uninstall, each one is saying …

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Recently, I have had to remove multiple worm virus's and infections from this xp system. I have downloaded the latest ms updates until update history told me service pak 3 invlalid installation. Biggest problem Internet OPtions gone from control panel and system menu and tools on ie7 toolbar also gone. …

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hi, in our organisation have 2 server running windows 2003 service pack 1 with primary and secondary domain controller, and folder sharing for winxp client computer. recently primary server was shutdown and i was discovery that the client computer login to network and try to access secondary server folder ask …

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[B][U]external hard disk as operating system[/U][/B] is thr any process thru which i can install windows XP in my external 80 gb usb hard disk,, i want to use my hard disk as my personal computer .... on any external machine........ do help me........... thanx! regards..

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Dear all, I am using windows 2003 enterprise edition.in IBM server but i am getting event log's frequently for every minute. Becoz of this i am not able to take the back up. ERROR ID :333 Source : Application pop-up. Description : An I/O operation initiated by registry failed unrecoverably.The …

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OK, i built a new computer, and it was the 5th one i built, the first 4 i built had no problems at all...and still dont after 1-2 years of use... Anyway, this one keeps getting the motherboard burned...at first i thought it was the video card thats burning, so …

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Hello, Does anyone know which GDI API is called to draw menus and menu items on windows? I know its not DrawText, DrawTextEx, TextOut or ExtTextOut.

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Can any one tell that where can i find the "Local Security Policy" in Vista, originally found in control pannel of XP. Or is there any other way in Vista from where I can enable Auditing of ma logs???

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Hi.. Does any one know that vista's registry and xp's registry has a difference or not....r they totally same..?

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I just bought two HP laptops with Vista. I downloaded the following print driver so that I could print to my existing (non-network) Konica Minolta Magicolor 2400W printer: 24w_v32_e driver from the Konica website. There are no "old" Konica print drivers loaded on these laptops. I also verified that the …

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Can anyone please help me.........I am at a loss. I am trying to install sql 2005 server on a windows 2003 server and am getting an installation error. The error states that there was an unexpected failure during setup wizard, and to review setup log. [B]In the log there is …

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hi. i was wondering if enabling upnp will interfere with web browsing. i had to enable it for torrents, but my web browsing has significantly slowed or even stopped. even though i've limited my downloads to half of what i'm capable of i'm still having problems web browsing. what am …

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Please help.. I've tried everything i could find from other posts. My computer folder on the start menu and my docoments folder will not open in normal mode. Hour glass icon comes up briefly then disappears. Also, i am getting the following dll errors on start-up egcomservice_1048.dll, stlb2.dll, doceoc15b1, e6f1873b.dll. …

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I have recently had to do a System Recovery, followed by sending my pc in for a bench repair, on my new computer. Big mess! Each time I did a backup, I discovered that Windows Mail did not get backed up, in fact it had to be exported to my …

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I am in the process of looking for a new laptop and I am unsure which to get. My daughter as told me to get an Apple Mac but I have only ever used windows. At the moment I am using Vista which I really don't like but I am …

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Good day Please can someone tell me what is exactly CSRSS.EXE and what it is doing. Can I do without. And so how can I delete it. Right now it is installed in a directory: c:\windows\softwaredistribution I even changed the name ones in save mode to softwaredistribution.old Because I receive …

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Morning everyone, I'm hoping that someone can help me with a problem we've been having for over a month now. I'll keep it short but I can supply proc mon logs etc if required. In a nutshell, we have around 50 users (on Windows XP machines) accessing an application (on …

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Hi Everyone My computer keeps locking up ( occasionally - not every day ) since I had a new MB/Chip installed. One solution I have seen is to boot up in safe mode and check out and delete any duplicates in the device manager. I've had a look in device …

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Please what's the best choice of anti-virus that I can use for both server side and client side of a company who's staff strength is 150. Preferably both client and server side should run anti-virus from the same manufacturer and should include anti spyware,malware,adware and other such stuff. Thanks guys

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I have a 4 year old Toshiba A75-S209 that crashed from a virus of some kind. I used the Toshiba restore disk (windows xp home) and was able to go thru the install process. At the end of the install it tells you to remove the disk and press any …

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Hi, I've been having a serious issue for the past week or so. I use Firefox and its acting up in several ways: 1. Google search results get redirected to random sites. 2. Downloads from the browser complete the instant they are started leaving me with a small fragment of …

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Generic Pentium 4 PC Windows XP I've been scanning and removing viruses and spyware, registry erros and malware for over 1 week. Here's the hijack this report. Is version 2.0.2 the latest? You helped me last year with my daughter's computer. Kids what can you do with them except love-em. …

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I had some problems for the first time ever on my PC last weekend, solved them thanks to an extremely helpful person here and now appear to be having all new problems. Something called WinSecurity Toolbar 2.1 has installed itself and appears to be causing problems. There are fake Windows …

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Thanks in advance for the help. I’m fairly new to Python so please forgive me if I don’t quite use the correct terminology. I have a very simple serial port interface (non-gui) application that I run on windows. Upon closing the window, I want the program to run some cleanup …

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I've gotten the BSOD twice now, I was sleeping when it happened so I don't know what the computer was attempting to do that caused it. I haven't installed any new hardware for at least a year. full msg string was Driver_IRQL_not_less_or_equal 0x000000D1 (0x00000008, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xF7847BEF) NDIS.sys - F7847BEF …

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I am having trouble logging in to my Windows. It asks for my password then says loading your personal settings but it only brings up my desktop background and that is as far as it will go. I am able to login in safemode but that is it. Any help …

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