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| | Hello there, I started having problems burning music on Nero Express 6 yesterday which somehow affected the Windows Media Player and Creative PlayCenter applications. 1. Nero indicated that I was missing the WinASpi file which I subsequently corrected and now Nero is working fine. 2. When I try to launch … |
| | I am running Windows XP with Outlook Express 6. I have noticed over the last few monthes that my Spelling option in Outlook Express has been grayed out. I am unsure as to why this is happening, but I have been dealing with it so far. I have AVG's latest … |
| | Since Upgrading From Me To Xp My Pc Doesn't Auto Shutoff When I Shut Down. Anyone Know A Fix?  |
| | I upgraded to xp and found a problem which probably has a simple answer. Before the upgrade my pc auto shut off when I shut down. Now it says "OK to shut down PC" and I have to shut it off manually. anyone know the fix? |
| | What does SMC.exe mean when you first boot up and are on the icon page? Is it a problem with a screen saver or somthing more serious?. Should I run a reg cleaner or not? |
| | Hi I'm asking this a bit prematuraly but a friend at work (more a co-worker hehe) asked me to solve a PC problem for him, he's a real novice and his problem seems simple, but I don't know the answer. He tells me he has Windows 2000 and has forgotten …  |
| | Hi there! im having lots of trouble with a virus that is detected by my avast AV. the virus is called msdirectx.sys as the title shows, im sure you are familiar with it. please help me! i use spywaredoctor and microsoft antispyware as well as zonelab firewall and avast AV! … |
| | Even though i have searched the web and have found many people with the same ERROR their situation is different. I get the same messgae a fatal error in IE has occured at 0028:c0011e36 in vxd vmm(01) + 00010e36 Error was caused b Trojan-Spy.HTML.Smitfraud.c but i get mine after i … |
| | My computer has been working fine for years and all of a sudden it has been affected by all sorts of viruses, trojans and adware! McAfee virusScan detected the above virus has affected c:\windows\system32\wininet.dll by can't get rid of it. I've had trojan q, I've got dotcomtoolbar, surfsidekick, iefeats. Can … |
| | ok i have a computer which is not in my room n dat has internet but da 1 in mine doesnt..its broadband so how can i get it onto my otha computer n also my otha computer doesnt have a usb slot thing!(the 1 that doesnt have internet) |
| | ok now seems like when i go to add/remove programs in control panel it will not let me remove any program at all???? i am very confused ..its a xp computer |
| | How do I setup a connection to share my internet from Windows XP with my laptop that has Fedora 2 Core? XP box has a dsl connection via usb. Laptop is connected through ethernet hub, but wish to connect using a cisco wireless adapter at a later time. |
| | Well I have a 600MHz AMD Athlon PC with 128MB RAM, a sound card and a 17GB HD currently running WindowsXP Pro SP2 with 10GB free space remaining. Since it's a good computer with internet access and chugging along fine I don't want to give it away or take it …  |
| | After numerous emails with supposed fixes from Hotmail I still cannot turn on the Rich Text Editor in the Tools Menu . It is always showing as Off . I am unable to create new messages or reply and forward old ones . I created a new account with them … |
| | Can I take my old hard drive, install it in the new computer, uninstall everything on the new computer's hard drive and transfer the operating system and files from my old hard drive?  |
| | Hi- I am completely new at programming. In fact, I haven't even started classes yet, just reading an old second-hand book on QBASIC. I've gotten to a part where it tells me how to get into QBASIC and how to write a sample program. At the DOS prompt, I typed … |
| | I have a problem in IE 6.0 with SV2 I want to Quote this on your Site, but i was not able to find out the correct path. Please assist on the same. Or else following is my issue. I have a Web based project going on. For my users … |
| | hi I have not been able to download MP3's. Whenever i click on a link that says "download song", instead of a dialog box opening asking me what i wud like to do with the file i.e Open, save or cancel, it directly launches windows media player and the song … |
| | hey all! sometimes when im playing games windows does something kinda freaky. A blue screen with white text appers and has a title BAD_POOL_HEADER . It tells me that windows need to shutdown. It says something about hardware and BIOS and then a line of Tech Info. What does this … |
| | Basically here is the situation. i want to develop a batch file that can preform multiple actions. one of them is download a file from the net, so that i can send the batch file to people over msn, which would only be a few KB and then DL the … |
| | i need help with hijackthis, how do i use it to scan for viruses and can someone read my log file to let me know what i need to remove? |
| | Hi, My moms computer has been effected by something which Norton claims is a Hacktool.Rootkit in c:\windows\system32\msdirectx.sys - a file I can't seem to find. I want to help her get rid of it, but I just don't know where to start. Hope you you can help. The log from …  |
 | My Problem: Computer occasionally turns self off in games (such as warcraft 3, neverwinter nights) We think it is something to do with too much power usage by the graphics card in rendering, we suspect the graphics card because the computer never turns it off normally, it only happens (that … |
| | I am infected with something that I cannot see to remove. Microsoft anitspyware reports it as: Trojan.Downloader.BHO.Req Type: Trojan Downloader And the Registry Key for it is: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{8E13DDE1-E013-47ec-9C4C-27C2F78BDD26} Neither MS antispyware can remove it, nor Hijack this, although in the logs it does show that as being deleted …  |
| | hi.. my computer was functioning properly until I installed a WinTV 150 TV Tuner. after that i was unable to turn on my computer monitor successfully. I know the windows is loaded and all fine and proper because i located my way through my keyboard and hear various sounds and … |
| | "We are sorry for the inconvience, but Windows did not start succsesfully, a recent hardware/software change may have caused this" I was always afraid to installed SP2, and this is exactly why. Earlier today I decided to install all the windows updates, and get them going. I installed SP1, and … |
| | Thanks to Microsoft we have a whole line-up of Media Center Edition computers that are basicly Crippled version of the sony GigaPocket if you know what that is. Wow you can record wow this wow that... Microsoft is not being royal to its advanced users instead it goes for the … |
| | I have am IBM thinkpad 365xd, It is basically my first project. the laptop came to me reformatted. BUT it did not come with a floppy drive but it did come with an internal cd-rom drive. I am tryng to install windows XP but I hve no Idea on how … |
| | Dear list. Please advise how to make this computer have less spyware. Have ran on line scans and the Norton Antivirus. Thank you... -------------------- Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 8:37:42 AM, on 11/3/2005 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 … |
 | Hi, (MS Word XP and Outlook XP) Can someone give me the VB code to set up a macro (command button) so the end user can click within the word doc and it will email to the coded recipient? Hope this isn't asking to much. ;) Thanks as always |
| | My logitech mx300 mouse keeps freezing on my screen whenever I download music, then i have to reboot my computer. I used LimeWire,Morphous,iMesh and when I DL music.......like 20-30 minutes in or 10 min into DL or not at all sometimes my mouse freezes and my whole computer the same,then … |
| | I've been trying to play this internet game (Bejeweled 2, found at [url]http://www.addictinggames.com/bejeweled2.html)[/url], but the game won't load in my Firefox browser. So I checked the Firefox settings, and Java was enabled and everything, and then I made sure I put the .dll files into the Firefox plugin folder, so … |
| | Okay heres the situation, when the screen gets to the main screen, the only thing that shows is my background. My desktop is blank, theres no icons, no start menu, no task bars, and i cant right-click. If I alt + ctrl + del, i can open explorer.exe but its … |
| | hi I have not been able to download MP3's. Whenever i click on a link that says "download song", instead of a dialog box opening asking me what i wud like to do with the file i.e Open, save or cancel, it directly launches windows media player and the song … |
| | This morning my computer just stopped working - I turned it on and the screen wouldn't light up - it just said "No signal"! It was working fine last night - I'm not sure what's wrong with it. The power button on my computer won't even light up anymore either. …  |
| | hello everybody I am writing a jni wrapper for c++ api's the c++ dll is on linux, so i get a .so shared library. I am working on windows, using vc++ 6.0. can i include the .so shared library in my workspace in vc++. when i do it i get … |
| | I get this error everytime I reboot: Error loading powrprof.dll A device attached to the system is not functioning. I am running Windows ME 384Ram I dont know what else to tell you. I had a bout with some spyware and have cleaned that up (I Hope). Do you think … |
| | I am working from my laptop. My desktop is infected and I can no longer get to the internet from it. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 7:58:27 AM, on 8/27/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe … |
| | I can't seem to figure out why my graphics won't display. My monitor is on stand by but I hear the regular windows operating just fine! When I swap graphics card I come upon an error saying "boot device must be seleted". This seemed to have happened after I added … |
| | Ok, recently had a serious problem with windows, it was all screwed up. After awhile of trying to fix it, I decided to just reinstall windows(didnt format the disk either, just reinstalled the OS) Well, that did the trick....except for one thing. My video and sound were just......gone. I was … |
| | My computer is been hijacked by search200.com search bars, pop ups, col.com explorer start up screens, and 4 desktop icons that keep coming up every time I reboot the computer.... very fustrating!! I spent a great deal of time trying to fix the problem as this is how far I … |
| | I keep getting the error "Stmgr has caused an error in MSVCRT.DLL. Stmgr will now close" a few seconds after WinMe has booted to the Desktop. Rebooting does no good...that error still comes up every time. I read in another forum that renaming all msvcrt.dll's except for the one in … |
| | Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 16:32:14, on 9/7/2005 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\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgamsvr.exe C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgupsvc.exe C:\Program Files\ewido\security suite\ewidoctrl.exe C:\Program Files\ewido\security suite\ewidoguard.exe … |
 | Ok heres my problem, i get stuck at the boot screen before loading windows. It wont load up because it sais that hal.dll is missing or corrupted. I can get on my computer and use that hard-drive, by booting up on this old 8GB Quantum i have with XP installed. … |
| | when my computer comes of standby my bradband internet doesnt work but after bout 10 mins it starts working and thids happens when it comes off stand by..does any 1 no whats wrong? plz help? i have compaq presario xp sp2 home editition telewest braodband internet |
| | Hello, I have been experiencing various problems on my computer, from random crashing/rebooting to unacceptable latency levels and program malfunctions. After several times trying to run HJT without it freezing up, I produced this logfile: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 5:31:58 PM, on 9/6/2005 Platform: Windows XP (WinNT … |
 | i just read in the above sticky that AMD 64's have problems with SP2, i have both, and also get BSOD's alot. Could this be the problem. If so is it safe to unistall SP2. And will i be able to if my xp disk insalled it right away? |
| | Alright, I bet you're thinking I'm really weird or crazy, but believe me I do have a good reason behind requesting this information. Anyone know of websites or programs that contain/install/or prompt for installation of spyware or adware? I need alot for a spare PC I have for a research … |
| | Hello and thanks for your help!!! I have hclean32.exe re-occurring on my system. It has installed a new toolbar. I removed it. And there was a new spyware remover pogram call wareout that i did not install. Now I can not open norton antivirus nor update it. Thanks agian ... … |
| | I have 2 harddrives. One is a 40 gig maxtor and the other is an 80 gig maxtor. On Easter of this year I had the pleasure of receiving a worm virus which crashed the 40 that was a slave. To get the computer to run, I had to disconnect … |
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