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Hey Guys in a nutsell.Ive connected two household desktop machines running windows xp. Ive networked the two machine with a crossover gave them IP addresses ie 192.9.200.20 and 192.9.200.21(their random)Both link speeds are the same 10mbps(full)Ive changed it to different links speeds also.Anyways Ive disabled all firewalls.The thing is theres …

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Greetz, I'm facing slight confusion over permissions on a Fileserver running Windows Server 2003. I've created a number of new shared folders and moved data across no problem. The share permissions are set as 'everyone' having full control and since the most restrictive permissions are applied I've allocated individual NTFS …

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My Windows XP icons became generic on desktop and start bar. Is this a virus? Is there a way to fix this? Thanks, plarsen111

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Hello everyone, My main computer is a windows XP.I don't know much, if anything other than a few basic things,I do Interior Designer/Decorating work,not anything computer related. When I am running this computer, the start menu will pop up out of the blue and windows related to start and shut …

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I have loaded windows SBS 2003 several time each time with different levels of partition removal and format. I have tried different installation CD's. Each time I get the same result. Windows SBS loads and all the standard questions are answered. Windows starts and everything appears normal, [B]BUT[/B] the management …

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So ive been wanting to re-vamp my computer for a while, but logged on today to find that explorer wasnt even starting up. I manually started it though the task manager and got my main interface up and running, but about 70% of my programs wont even open. I then …

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Hello All, I thought I would try to post here as I am stumped with this problem. I have a Toshiba Satellite M45-S359 Laptop. It is in good condition and worked perfectly for about a year with no problems until last week. Best laptop I have ever owned. Last week …

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i restarted my computer and got the messege 'ntldr missing press ctl +alt+del' to restart I inserted the Windows XP pack 1 CD , and booted from the CD and in tried to repair the missing files by running this two lines from the command line C:\WINDOWS> copy e:\ ntldr …

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I have XP Home My computer just recovered from PSU failure. Now I click on the desktop icons and nothing happens - no hour glass no starting of programs. The Icon dims. I have made new icons and the same thing happens to the new ones. The icons on any …

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Can someone help? Trend Micro PC-cillin is giving me messages that I've attempted to open dangerous Web sites, although I haven't tried to go to those sites. They include codecservice1.com and us01.xmlsearch.findwh. My HijackThis log is: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 7:22:51 AM, on 7/18/2008 Platform: …

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Problem: Windows wont finish booting up after Windows Load screen after I restarted for network controller driver update. I went to boot up in safe mode so I could just do a system restore but when It boots up in safe mode my mouse and keyboard is not responding so …

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I've tried scanning my friends computer with CCleaner and Spybot as well as anti-virus and nothing was solved. The computer prompts "Application Failed to Load" errors upon log in. Then a program called PhotoGallery tries to install automatically but fails repeatedly. There is no internet connection either. The wireless signal …

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Hello some unknown thing is causing my AV(kaspersky 09) from not enabling and performing updates please help here is the Hijack log : Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 10:00:37 AM, on 10/08/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16674) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe …

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I need help describing my problem. What is the name of the screen that you see with the various users listed as Vista Boots? I need to know that because whatever the name of that screen is, it is the last screen I see, for about 5 or 10 seconds, …

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I recently wiped my laptop hd clean and reloaded windows xp pro. when I reloaded windows update and got the downloads there were about 14 or so but no (0) bits of info on any one of them. But, suggested installing them, did so and got error message (0x80072EE2). I've …

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I keep trying to download and install sp 1 for vista. My system says everything is ready and I down load it. Then the trouble begins. First It would install part 1 but then would crash and I would have to reboot with install disk. ( tried 3 times) So …

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Hello there, New Member- Not completely clueless needs some help please, I've obviously picked up some sort of nasty which is mucking up my browser (both IE and Foxzilla) , it keeps redirecting me, and won't allow me to access , even when I type in the URL, any sites …

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Hey guys, I've been trying to battle against spyware, malware, falware, and all types of ware and parasites!! It seems i win some battles but i'm losing the war. My biggest problem these days are massive pop ups from random sites, when I run spyhunter, i usually get an average …

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I've got an issue with my computer that I suspect is something along the lines of a trojan.BHO. I downloaded an infected file and received a pile of trouble with it but seem to have cleaned out several with the exception of whatever's causing this: Currently apparent effects on this …

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Hi all, I installed apache 2.2 on my home computer running windows XP. I want to use the server for intranet. I can access the server from other computers on the network by typing in the ip address of the server computer into the browser address bar. I would like …

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After I changed to a newer video card, shut down and started again my monitor has been dark, no display. RAM, processor, drive are all OK; the video card is in its slot and I have confirmed that all cards are firmly in their slots. Does anybody have an idea …

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I have a virus on my dell inspiron desktop running Windows XP service pack 1a I have 1 account on the computer and it is password protected I am trying to use the xp disk to repair my windows I go through, hit f12 and then choose to run from …

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Hey guys, Hope u can help. Basically have jus downloaded vmware v6.0 and installed solaris 10 on there as guest o/s. Now, usually when I have ftp'd in past I have used command prompt in windows to open the IP on the unix so I can transfer files. However, no …

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My Internet Explorer browser window has "Hacked by pokemon" at the window title. This happens in all the internet explorer windows that I open but not in mozilla firefox. I also could not open regedit before but now I can. I scanned and removed something before and the "Hacked by …

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About every 5 seconds, my Windows Explorer malfunctions and restarts. It is actually very painful to even type this message as we speak. My start bar as well as all of my desktop icons all disappear and reappear as Explorer restarts. I believe the error may have come from a …

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Howdy folks, I need to open a dialog with some people that know more about Linux than I do. Specifically Apache httpd. I'm not sure that this is the appropriate place for this, so be gentle if not. Here's my situations, I have a Fedora install of Linux up and …

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Hi, My computer developed an interesting problem. I have both IE and Firefox installed, but almost always use Firefox. However, every once in a while I must use IE. Last time I tried to use it, I found the following problem: IE starts OK. Meaning, the home page loads fine. …

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Hi, This is NOT an Internet Explorer question. I do not have access to this machine. I loaded Windows XP Media Center Edition on a 1 - 2 yr old Gateway PC using the supplied Gateway recovery CD. I downloaded the [color=#e10000][b]correct[/b][/color] chipset, nic, video card, sound card drivers from …

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Hello good folks at Daniweb !!!!!! I have a Dell Dimention 2350 , Windows XP Home edition, SP2. The computer just shuts down at time without error messages. I can be on the net or running any program. Then it just restarts as if I I pushed the start button. …

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Hi there! I haven't been able to boot my xp machine for a couple of weeks, and decided to "repair" it with the xp cd (SP1) And there wasent no problems at all until the computer restarted like it was supsosed to, and began to install some files, or something …

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Hey everyone I'm having a problem with connecting to my router with Ubuntu (the newest version). As well wired as wireless connection hass problems. I'm able to connect to the internet with the utp cable that comes from and goes to the modem (cable connection), but i can't connect to …

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Hello all, I bought a new HP slimline with Vista. I installed Office 95, but found out it wouldn't open files I created with a later edition. I tried to uninstall it, but the software won't uninstall. I did have a Office 2002 Cd, so I tried to install that …

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As I was going to bed last night, I started to shut down my computer and noticed the Shutdown button had the emblem on it indicating that an update was available for the computer. I let it update and went to bed. When I tried to use the computer today, …

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Hi everyone, When my system connected to net, it asked to register my windows xp . i have registered and it has been verified my microsoft and declared that it is not genuine, and asking me go buy genuine. And iam not allowed to update my system. Later i bot …

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I really had a bad hair day yesterday. I was talking to someone on IM when my laptop suddenly conked out. I tried to restore it to the usual Microsoft setting but it just won't. As per the notice prompted, there was no other choice left but to fix my …

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Hi - I am unable to find the cause but there is something on my PC that is trying to send emails and is trying to disable various items in Windows XP. I have run all of ths AV and anti-malware software and I haven't been able to remove it. …

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My computer [B]will [/B]boot but not automatically. For some reason the computer stops on the page that will send you to the setup F1 or F2 for continue page. I have to hit F2 for the computer to continue to boot. I am sure that I caused this problem when …

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I recently installed Itunes. Since doing this windows media player has added duplicates of most of the music files. I am running windows xp with sp2 which was upgraded from windows me. Computer runs fine but since installing itunes I noticed in windows explorer that itunes installed itself in the …

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Hello Everyone. I'm new to python and so far, I simply love it! I'm still just starting to get the knack though and there's a lot more I want to know. I've decided to use it mainly for my robots' programming scripts. Right now I'm currently stuck on a simple …

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Hi there, please forgive me if I am in the wrong forum, but I don't know where to begin. I have tried looking at the tutorials, etc, but the language is way above my head. I have recently bought a second hand computer, which on the outside looked a good …

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Hi. I have a problem when I try to scan from any of the applications on my computer. When I try to scan it always fails and I may or may not get a message from the host application. In Paint Shop Pro 7 for example I get the message …

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XP doesn't see cdrom drives after system restore. BIOS sees them fine, device manager has yellow flags on both drives, says drivers are missing or corrupt. Installed older cdrom drive, saya the same thing.

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I'm not really having problems that i know of riht now but I just wanted to get it looked at just to see if theres anything i need to get rid of. here the log ======= Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 10:21:09 PM, on 5/19/2008 Platform: …

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I received the follwoing error yesterday: "floppy diskette seek failure Strike the F1 key to continue....." I was able to get to the BIOS and and change the Diskette Drive to OFF from Internal and it seemed to work. However, I am still unable to get into any of the …

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I got a nasty little virus so I deleted my hard drive but I restarted my pc before it finished formatting (STUPID) now I cant format it at all when I go into set up windows XP it believes the disc isn't in the machine when it is. Can anyone …

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Hello everyone.Yesterday my PC got infected with a virus that disables Task manager,regedit and doesn't allow me to install any program or antivirus,thus I can't check for viruses.Anyways i managed to find out that there are two unknown processes running in the task manager(I can open it from gpedit.msc from …

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Hello, So for about a week, I've been running scans regularly using Spybot S&D, SUPERAntiSpyware, and Spy Hunter, but it hasn't gotten rid of the VIRUS ALERT! at the bottom right corner of my taskbar. Also, it oddly changed my clock to military time. Control Panel and My Computer, My …

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Hey, I have a "VIRUS ALERT!" notice on the bottom right corner of my taskbar. It also strangely changed my clock to military time. In any case, here is my HJT report: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 16:25: VIRUS ALERT!, on 8/6/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 …

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Hello everyone.Yesterday my PC got infected with a virus that disables Task manager,regedit and doesn't allow me to install any program or antivirus,thus I can't check for viruses.Anyways i managed to find out that there are two unknown processes running in the task manager(I can open it from gpedit.msc from …

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