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I tried to restrict users from editing the local group policy in my computer just for security but not knowing... that doing that locally (computer not in a domain) will affect all the users who logs in in that certain PC even the Administrator account. HERE IS THE CAUSE:!!! What …

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Ive had this problem for quite a few years and have done quite a bit of research in the process. This computer acts up quite strangely when you hold any key on the keyboard. Even if you tap it the computer will pause and something consumes up to 100% of …

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:mrgreen: Hi all, I would please like to know how i can install win98se properly. I get the message I quote: Setup cannot write to the temporary directory. There may be insufficient disk space. See the Error Message section of Setup.txt for more information. Setup cannot continue. Click OK to …

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when i turn on my computer just before the windows xp starts up a black screens appears and nothing happens. i tried repairing it using the windows cd.....nothing happened. i loaded my best performance thingy (someone said that might help, don't really know)...didn't work. then i re-installed xp twice and …

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This problem just happened yesterday after I had to manually shut down (used power button) my computer after it froze. Now when I try to load up IE, it "halfway" opens up (you can see parts of the interface) and just freezes. I thought maybe it was an IE problem, …

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everytime I write the word virus ie close itself the only way I can look into google virus search is in safe mode. so I cant install any anti-virus... I haven't found the problem yet I used the last version of ad-aware with the updates I also used the last …

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iam running a p4 1400 256.with all windows updates.after installing lock my folder 1.50.i locked my e.drive.and forgot about it beeing locked,and i restored a backup image .and after the restore my e.drive is not accessible even though i just restored a backup image that was on e.drive.eny help would …

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I downloaded service pack2 from microsoft.com. after restarting the system a blue screen appeared with a Stop: 0x00000071. I read and did what it said on the screen and that didn't work. I also tried going to the BIOS screen that didn't work. Then a black screen appeared I tried …

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[COLOR=#000000]Hey, great work people… my comp is stuffed has been for ages, the main problem I have these days is the slowness an the internet lag… not restricted to being on the net though… always so slow, Rundll32 starts at start up an causes the “work offline” internet box to …

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Norton was so kind as to let me know I have the "downloader" virus, used to be trojan.downloader(something like that). Norton couldn't delete it. I tried to delete it manually in safe mode and it said that it was being used by another program or person and couln't delete it. …

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i bought brand new empty cds and whn i put them in they dont load..neither do other cds... but dvds and everything work... and one solve this please..a.s.a.p

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hi everyone, my mum was given a XP pro and when she got there was no recyclie bin???? it says that it is sending stuff to the recyclie bin but we can not find it???? can anyone help me????plzzz

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i just formatted my hard drive using the "hp restore plus" cd. im now experiencing comsiderably slower performance than before i had formatted.windows startup is noticeably slow and perfomance has just decreased drastically on the whole my machines a P4 2.6ghz, with two 512mb sticks of RAM and a 40gig …

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To all you brave people who maybe are going to try and help me fix my problem. After some cleaning work I done on my computer I mentioned that I accidently removed the sound operating system. (or whatever you would like to call it). To get it back I tried …

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Hello all: I have XP Home and the Automatic Update wants to update "Update for Windows XP (KB898461)" again. I already have this installed and I keep getting the balloon trying to install it again. Would appreciate any help with this. Don't want to uninstall this update as it will …

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Followed instructions (previous post) ran LSPfix used HJF; deleted all mentioned could not delete (in safe mode) wininetd.exe ( Windows using) still cannot access My computer, My documents etc from Desktop pardon my lack of " skills"; appreciate additional help here is updated LOG: Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved …

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can anyone please help me: I have a sony viao laptop and recently it has slowed down nealry to a holt and anysound that the computer makes is like a dvd when it skips, this includes shut down sound, music, dvd and anything else. [B]this is what i have done …

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today at work i reseived a supervisor escl. with an intresting one. and im hoping someone may provide a solution to this one. the issue is this. a hyperlink on a site the cu couldnt access. the site is kroger.com the hyper link took her to info about her state/city …

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Hi, I want to edit the sql server regestration. I want to change the Connection property from Windows authentication to Sql server authentication. But when I edit the sql server authentication with sa username and password, it gives error message saying that the [B]registration has failed for user sa, not …

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Hi, I'm having difficulty signing into my user account or the admin. acct. in safe mode. I wanted to try and do a virus and spyware scan in safe mode to rid any problems that couldn't be detected in regular windows mode. So, I press F8, select safe mode and …

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OK Guys I need help with my laptop Its a compaq presario 2500 running SP2 the problem(s) is/are that things have been dissappearing It all starts on startup where it pretends to freeze and when i press ALT+CTRL+DEL it unfreezes but then a message saying "Task Manager Has Been Disabled …

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I have just installed a 19" flat monitor screen to my Windows 2000 Professional. It tells me my screen must be 1280 x 1024. If I put it to this then my Internet pages only fill half the screen. Can someone help me to resolve this. I did have it …

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Visual C++ Error - Buffer Overrun Detected! I have had no success getting rid of this error message. When you open IE, the error is generated. If you immediately open IE again, it works fine. After about 5 minutes, when you open IE again, the error message reappears. I noticed …

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Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 10:15:39 PM, on 7/13/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) 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:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe c:\program files\mcafee.com\agent\mcdetect.exe c:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\vso\mcshield.exe c:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\agent\mctskshd.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\agent\McAgent.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\RUNDLL32.EXE C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe C:\PROGRA~1\McAfee.com\PERSON~1\MpfAgent.exe c:\program …

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Greetings, i have gotten a nasty guard.tmp virus/spyware (Look2Me) I have managed to delete most of the dirt, but there is still one dll file that i cant get rid of. Also i get a message when i start my computer "something from rundll.exe having problems starting guard.tmp" This is …

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I've been experiencing glitchy performance in my labtop and am wondering if the cause is a virus. Posted is a hijackthis log. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 8:56:16 AM, on 13/07/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe …

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[COLOR=#000000]I have a Seagate 80gb Hard Drive that is a IDE. I just bought a new DELL Dimension E310. It has a 80gb SATA 2 Hard Drive. The mother board does not have anyplace where I can connect my older IDE Hard Drive . Is there anyway that the older …

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Norton AV found a backdoor trojan virus under C:\Windows\etc\services.exe but cannot quarantine nor delete the file. Whenever we try to access our yahoo email, we get this "Cannot find server or DNS Error" message. Please help.

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I have a similar problem to others with a virus alert on my taskbar (now dissappeared) which has lead to unwanted pop ups for security and adult friend finders - I have been away and assume a colleague has used my computer to downlaod codecs? My Start Page on IE6 …

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Hello, everyone! I joined the forum to find some help for my problem. It seems very similar to that related in this thread -- [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread19435.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread19435.html[/URL] . I've searched for answers, and the best seems to be found here. :lol: I did have Norton System Works on this machine, which I …

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Hi everyone, I'm *very* new to Linux development, and my question topic is probably pretty obscure, so I thought this was the best place to ask. I need to be able to programattically attach arbitrary binary data to an executable so that the program can access it. In Windows, I …

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Guys once again I think I have contracted either a virus or tanted program. Today my DSL (sbc) started running very slowly, I rebooted, system restored, ran all virus programs, and even tried different cables with no luck. Called their tech, he pinged, I pinged, he checked for known problems …

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Hi everyone, can someone PLEASE PLEASE help me? I am going round in circles and there is no way out. I cannot access secure sites, like banking, etc. I have tried the usual things like parental controls and resetting my .dlls and security settings and also a few other things, …

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First, the problem started this way. The computer was brought to me because it would dial up but would not open websites. I investigated and found that it would not resolve a host name. The DNS servers were correct and are functioning fine so the problem was on the computer. …

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my computer was working fine until a week ago when it froze. we had to turn it off and now wont start... it begins to load then tells me there was a problem and it needs to start again it gives my the option of starting normally again.. with the …

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I would appreciate any assistance which could be provided in the removal of the exasperating Amaena/Win Fixer popups. TIA! :)

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I keep getting a generic win32 services has caused an error and needs to close thingy whenever i after i start windows. sometimes it pops up 2 times and sometimes none at all... the weird thing is that if i try to install/download these 2 games (gunbound or maplestory) i …

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I need help on removing two things, entitled atmclk.exe and dcomcfg.exe. I'm constantly getting security alerts and infection warnings from them, as they've showed up on my taskbar. I'm not entirely sure how I got them. Here's my HJT log. EDIT - Sorry, I forgot to close everything before I …

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I have a Toshiba Satellite A65-S1067 laptop with a Realtek 97 sound card. Lately, after the laptop has been booted up for about 15 minutes, I lose the sound drivers. I downloaded the latest sound drivers from Realtek and after I lose the sound driver, I reinstall it. Then everything …

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Hi I have 2 logs, from a scan of my wife's laptop. 1) HJT ogfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 3:12:50 PM, on 01/07/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) 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\ibmpmsvc.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\WINDOWS\System32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\Program …

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I apparently got a virus. It locked me out of all the admin capabilities. I have gotten most of them back but this has been tedious and time consuming. I have included a copy of my Hijack this log. Please help if you can. Thanks, Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan …

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Hi all. I'm in need of help sorting out a problem and was hoping for some advice. My computer froze on me recently and having restarted the computer it has not been able to log in yet (I'm on a laptop atm). At first a message appeared saying: [B]Scan Devices, …

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Hi. I'm having problems w/ only one of the laptops on my network. When I browse with IE or Firefox, the browser stops working after 2-5 minutes. I get "Page Cannot be displayed" errors and "Cannot find server or DNS error". If I reboot, I can surf for 2-5 minutes …

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I am 13 and I tried everything I could to remove whats on my computer. I have trojan guarder gold version (from downlosad.com) and it keeps says I have winupd. What is it and can I remove it and how? I also have homesearch as a homepage and can't get …

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In the attached link there is a performance comparison between 32bit and their parallel 64bit softwares for different CPUs(under Windows XP 64bit). As we can see passing to 64bit brings to an improvement up to more than 100% !!! [url]http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1959&page=24[/url]

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Hello, I'm inheriting a half-built web-site that has runs on IIS over an MS SQL database. The web pages are written in ASP and they are mostly a mess. Is it possible to use Perl scripts in an MS SQL and IIS environment? Thanks for any input or feedback. Silentiopk4

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Desktop XP Professional SP2 (with all security updates)is infected with below [code]http://img323.imageshack.us/img323/2289/annoyingmessage7tr.jpg[/code] [URL=http://img323.imageshack.us/my.php?image=annoyingmessage7tr.jpg][IMG]http://img323.imageshack.us/img323/2289/annoyingmessage7tr.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I have used many (not only one) spyware utilities (Lavasoft Ad-aware, spybot search and Destroy, SpyDoctor, ,,,etc) in the [b]safemode[/b] and normal mode as well, without any success to get rid of this message.

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OK...so I download SpyBot. Installed it, and used it to get rid of spyware. I decided to try out another spyware scanner and uninstalled SpyBot. So now I have about 186 ENCRYPTED zip files on my machine that I can't access because I am not ATHORIZED to open such files …

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Trying to connect to a branch office... know any good tutorials on RRAS?

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hey guys and girls. just wanting some help with a problem on my comp. whenever i try opening control panel nothing happens. also when i go to install something, again nothing happens. Both my BitDefender and AVG virus scanners arent working propaerly and so i couldnt scan. Afterwards i scanned …

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