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Hi, thanks in advance for any help received, got myself a 4th hand sony vgc-m1 have re-installed windows xp using my own legit copy, having trouble installing some .sys drivers manually i.e I can't ( lol ) The reason for doing it manually is that the device does not appear …

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My hard drives have been set up as FAT32 under Windows XP. Now I wish to convert the drives to NTFS. I started to convert drive E, which is one of my data drives. I ran convert E: /fs:ntfs in a cmd window. I got the following messages: The type …

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we started having problems with the internet on this computer after it went down and had to call in to set it back up and re register the cable modem. i ran the program hijackthis and heres the log for it. any help on what to fix or how to …

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Hi there people. I am trying to resurrect an old HP Compaq nc6000 notebook for my work and I have got it going, but everytime I turn it on I ger a rundll error saying: Error loading cmicnfg.cpl The specified module could not be found. I have found out it …

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Hello, Not quite sure what happened, but my whole screen I see everything sideways the tool bar is on the right hand side my background and any application I use starts that way, aDoes anyone know how I fix it Thank you Please help you can reach me at [email]hdough21@aol.com[/email] …

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yesterday in my Pc outlook express bullitin is hidden , its not showing , also when i go in add / remove programs there is already check but showing size 0.0 MB there , here are some screen shorts , so pls tell me how i can get bullitin outlook …

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Hi, I have a dell xps 1210 with 120Gb and windows xp professional on it and suddenly i lost all the free space on the hard disk. It wasn't even half full and today i am left with only 7GB. Please help me. I have done a system restore but …

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Hello, I have a read around first to see if anyone else had a similar problem, but didn't find something similar. I will cont. looking though. Our family computer keeps restarting in a sense that what comes up on the screen is it saying that Windows was unable to start …

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hi there i got a problem that is confusing me and am really new still in school. we are running sbs2003 and recently our serer crashed and we renamed our domain and website the same . whcih is hosted by our isp. now the problem is all computers in the …

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Hi, I am new to the forum. I dont know where to post this question so i'll post it here 1st.. my pc background cannot click after i change wallpaper.. all my icons gone too.. when i press start > control panel everything hangs.. i can only move my mouse …

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"The windows vista home premium key you typed is invalid for activation" I'm getting this message about 4 - 5 days after re-installing Windows with a valid key at the side of my computer. Wtf is going on? What can I do?

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Hi there, i got this laptop compaq Presario v3000, i had it for almost 2 yrs. Not a long time ago, my laptop wouldnt switch on. I have to restart it twice to switch it on. Yesterday, my computer wont switch on completely, i still could see the light when …

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Hi there, I have been experiencing for some time now, this sort of "freezing" system, which is more like the HD is running and then, all of a sudden, if I try to click anywhere it just wouldn'r do it.... It's like I am clicking and it gets irresponsive. In …

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Hi Guys! i have just bought (amongst a new graphics card and tv tuner card) an OEM copy of windows vista home premium x64bit edition. my question for whoever may be able to answer is.. what is the best method for creating a dual boot of vista and windows xp? …

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Hello, Ok...I posted a while ago a problem I had with the BSOD and received some great ideas. I managed to find a way to get some of the important data off. My question...I read somewhere that some techie...when installing xp, they create 2 partitions...one with the main xp system …

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Hi guys , its a long story but in short words , how can i disable all the local users and groups on Windows XP , i have a network and i want all the security issues like logging in , etc .... to relay on the server security not …

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Hello: I have a confidential SQL database that I am working on with a friend. Until we can I get it set up properly with access levels and user passwords, I would like to keep it on my home computer external USB drive. I am running Windows XP. What I'm …

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I just finished installing Redhat 9 onto VMWare Workstation. I was able to install the VMWare tools but cannot seem to get into the x windows gui. I try to type in [B]startx[/B] but it returns with: [I](EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no …

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Hello! If you're thinking of buying a copy of Ms Vista (especially Home Premium) then you should open the pack and check the disk while with the staff member that served you if possible. As there have been quite a few recent instances of them containing Home Basic, Ms are …

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Hi All, Please help me that how can I free up the page file usage memory automatically so that my application dont get crashed. Currently the Physical RAM on computer is 1GB and I have increased the Virutal memory to 4GB. My application get crashed whenever the page file size …

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hi i got a computer from a client who has run it into the ground and it has sensitive data on it so it cannot be formated. i have managed to clean out the viruses and get 2000 operating again but the control panel and acess to the desktop are …

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please can anyone tell me what i can do about my system. when ever i open a window it closes by itself. for example, when i open my run window and i want to go to command prompt the window just closes up.what can i do?

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I cleaned hundreds of nasties on this thing so far. (co workers son's laptop) I noticed that ctfmona.exe was running, so did a search and ran across this site. I did the combofix after running a scan with avg. So hopefully I am following procedure and am posting the contents …

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Hi everyone, I have a little red circle with a white x in my taskbar that causes pop ups that tell me how my pc is infected with spyware and needs the latest software etc etc. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 16:10:42, on 05/05/2008 Platform: Windows …

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Hi everyone, I am in desperate need of help. My computer had a bunch of viruses and these "application error" notices just keep popping up randomly asking me to terminate the application because of "memory x00000," can't remember exactly how it came up. So I downloaded the AVG Free 8.0 …

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Hi, Id first like to say I am so happy that a website like this exists and i plan on visiting the forums every day to learn as much as possible. That being said, my problem is a normal one, had a virus, killed it, but was still locked out …

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My pc, been running sluggish. Can any one help me Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 9:32:00 PM, on 5/9/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) 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\Explorer.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgupsvc.exe C:\Program …

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My computer was OK this morning. I am running Windows XP. When I started it up after coming home from work, all kinds of things were changed: - The display theme changed from Windows Classic to Windows XP. - My wallpaper selection is gone. - The color scheme I carefully …

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Hi Am a grad student trying to implement an overlay service.Am relatively new to LSP programming. I was wondering if one can "still" use LSP to implement/use raw sockets in Vista/post sp2? Am trying to program a overlay type of service where an IP packet is sent as payload within …

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When I start my computer everything loads normally, up until past the first loading screen of windows, after that the windows logo appears with the blue background and just stays there nothing else will load. I have tried all the alternative start ups, like safe mode and the latest working …

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Hello there. How would you know if the DVD you have written is finalized? Do you have any idea of a software/CD-DVD utilities that could determine if the DVD you burned is finalized or not? Thanks!

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My laptop: AMD Turion64- OS -Windows Vista Home Premium. Version 6.0.6001-Service pack1 ....System Model 331...HDD 40GB Original OS: Windows XP home edition. I some times experience sudden system shutdown and some windows options, such as system's Hibernate, sleep and lock stop working. Most importantly, I keep getting the following error …

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Hi, I´ve designed a label in nero cover designer, have found the appropriate label type,want to print it out but 2 to a page, and I can only get it to print in a format of 1 per page. Yes, I feel a bit stupid cos I´m sure it´s something …

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Hi guys. My Toshiba L30 runs under XP Home Edition and I would like to ask if someone could eventually help me with the following: I was told that, if I wish to copy a DVD onto another, I would have to insert the original in the drive, do COPY …

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Dear All, Please guide me that how can I login to domain as default user without facing windows login screen? I am running an application which required to restart the window if any error occured and thus I dont want to hold on the login screen. I'm using WindowsServer 2003 …

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Hello, I have spent 2 days trying to find the answer to my problem and nothing works. I dont understand what is wrong and could truly use the help of this forum please. The problem: I tried to clean up some room on my HD and deleted some files and …

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I am running into huge problems, i just installed a new video card (ATI Radeon hd26000 agp) and i had to mess with installing some hotfix drivers, I had to do this because ATI doesnt support these drivers for AGP only PCIE. Now after i messed around with it too …

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Hi guys! Im writting to you cause for an "unknown reason" i've lost the file association that has to do with XML files on my Windows Vista, im talking about MSN Messenger saves convo's, now it opens them with Notepad which is VERY annoying since it lost the code. Does …

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My cousin came over last night, and asked if he could check his email. I said sure, and went out to go eat some food with my girlfriend. I came home two hours later to find an extremely annoying virus virtually molesting my computer. If I open up an internet …

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I'm the systems engineer for a company with just under 400 workstations. We run Novell NetWare 6.5 as our NOS, with some additional Windows 2000 and 2003 servers to run Windows specific netware applications. Our desktop is Windows XP Pro. We have our own Windows update server and update the …

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I just got an old used Dell from a thrift shop, the hard drive seems to boot fine but it has a login\password screen for windows by Novell. This is Windows 2000 Pro and i need to know if it is possable to boot to DOS so i can format …

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Hi, whenever I put a [B]blank[/B] DVD-R or RW disk into my drive, Windows will say it's not there. The cursor turns into a little CD, but whenever I try to burn an ISO image or any type of file onto it, it says that it's not in. I looked …

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my windows machine wont boot...it gives me a "c:\windows\system32\config is corrupt or missing"...what can i do.... but when i slaved this drive in another machine to take out some data ...i saw something very surprising....all the data in this drive is gone and replaced by data from another drive that …

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Hello, I am getting an error 333 Application Popu for the last 4 hours... I have some other errors: 2098 2019 8032 8021 It happened at 3:47 a.m. this morning and the server hung... Any idea? Thanks

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Work in Bios But at my log in screen became inoperative.... cant type in my password cant log on at all... what can i do to fix... ive tried two different sets of keyboards and mice and still nothing....

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I recently ordered a custom computer from newegg and i got it today, i built it and everything went fine i didnt have the hard drive, i just wanted to use my old one, so i popped into my nice shiny no-tool needed drive slot (sorry ima show off) and …

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I think I have TROJAN HORSE, one of my executable file is infected, now I cannot open it it says I dont have enough permission. Please help... [B][U]Below is my initial HJT File:[/U][/B] Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 10:37:39 PM, on 7/5/2008 Platform: Windows Vista (WinNT …

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Hi! I'm Neeraj & my computer also was infected but now it's free from viruses. I don't have that Hijackthis. I've run Vundofix. exe & combofix.exe. But I think after executing combofix.exe some files are missing and that's why some application is not running. Even I downloaded Java 6 but …

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Hi, This site helped me before when my old laptop got spyware and through your help it was cleaned. However, I have this problem today. I have this trojan horse Downloader.UHT my AVG will heal it but then when I install back my application (Cabal.exe) it keeps on coming back. …

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