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Internet Explorer 6 - opens automatically. but why? I'm running Windows XP Home Edition on my laptop. When I boot up, Internet Explorer opens once with my home page. I've checked out the start up file, but it isn't requested to open at start up. When the computer is left …

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Using Windows XP, video adaptor type VIA/S3G KM400, directX 9.0, Athlon AMD computer, memory 224MB. Tearing my hair out on this one. Internet is [B]fast[/B], opening office files is [B]fast[/B], playing music is [B]ok[/B], but................... When playing video, every 3 seconds, it freezes then skips (catches up) yet the sound …

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Hello all, Yesterday I began receiving a Server Busy popup. It comes up every 5 or 10 minutes. If I click on "Switch To", the start menu comes up but the server busy window stays open. If I click on "Retry", then I usually get a different popup window. The …

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Hello, do you know where to find drivers in order to use USB flash disk on machines with Win NT 4.0. I have found drivers for win 98 and once I installed them, I was able to use three different USB sticks (different manufacturers). Unfortunately, I wasn't so lucky when …

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when i start my windows internet explorer i get an error message - internet explorer has encountered a problem and needed to close and another message - the instruction at "0x02d3cb91" referenced memory at "0x00401000". the memory could not be "written" click ok to terminate the program. i used hijack …

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I am new to this site but can see that this is the place to get help. Very briefly, recently I have been unable to access my HotMail, Windows Update sites, etc. This seemed to coincide with having run some Spyware removal software. I also had the problem where I …

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This lady that I go to church with brought her computer to me and asked if I can take a look at it since it has been running really slow. I figured a few spyware scans and a few virus scans and I would give it back to her. Well...this …

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Hi, I am running a desktop pc (XP) on a wireless network. I have just purchased a laptop (Vista). I use outlook express as my email on the desktop, this is where I store my emails. I also store docuiments on the desktop. My problem is I cant use the …

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getting a message with winlogin.exe encountered a problem and needed to close iv jus downloaded hijack this and run a scan on my computer, this is my log file: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 16:13:01, on 10/06/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16441) …

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I work for a nonprofit in Niamey, Niger, and I'm working with a new laptop that is the only VISTA machine in my office (including the server). Although a simple ethernet cord plug-in connects every other computer (all XP) to the internet and local network, I can only gain local …

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Hi, how do i get rid of microsoft.windowssecuritycentre_disabled it keeps being found on spybot s@d. honestly this is the only one of the overides that doesnt get removed by spybot. grrr greener

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Hi When i start up my laptop i get the following mesg no bootable cd in atapi cd-rom Can anyone help with this ? have tried the f2 option and the f8 option to boot harddrive and get same mesg when reboot on f2 option and a black screen when …

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i've got some doubts... what is the difference between CMD.exe and COMMAND.com ? is there any limitation that COMMAND can do, and CMD cannot do? which one is more preferable for working...? in CMD u can press up arrow key to get the previous typed command, but not in COMMAND. …

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OK so I downloaded a few game files and all of a sudden got the dreaded BSOD. I do have several anti-virus/spyware etc progs (Spybot, McAffe, windows defender and spyware blocker) yet still am having this problem. I have tried running each of these in normal mode which again triggers …

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My computer has an icon that is a question mark and then turns into a prohibit sign. The message received is Your Computer is Infected. Critical System Error. I have not been successful in getting rid of this please help.

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I had a problem with my net a month or so ago and i ended up formatting and tarting over. The problem is back. The system has been back up and running for a couple weeks and the internet runs so slow! I ran [B]HijackThis[/B] and this is my log: …

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Good Morning, I'm trying to learn php, I was wondering if their is anyway I could practice the server side script on my windows xp home computer? I have a website that is on a linux server. I'm sure this has been asked many times, I tried looking, but could …

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When I start my Windows/XP, it comes with the initial screen (and then asks for disk check ..) and then goes blank with the message 'input out of range'. Widonws seems to proceed normally only that I don't get any display. I know it is something to do with refresh …

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Hi, Ive recently been having random popups and my antivirus software has been finding loads of spyware and even though i remove it it keeps coming back. I have also scanned with ad-adware and spybot s&d. Im running xp with sp2 . HELP!!!!

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I bet you guys get sick of these requests, but I need some help, so here goes. Get random automatically opening Explorer advertising pop ups coming up... Here's the log. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 5:17:04 PM, on 6/7/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer …

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My computer will not boot, and the problem at first was exactly as described as in this [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread1317.html"]thread[/URL]. Of course, then I hadn't found this awesome forum, so, since I had not many important files on it (It was mostly online games), I reformatted it, think to delete everything I …

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Hey all. I can run aero on my vista and I thought it was great. Then I initialized the guest account and run aero on that account as well. The first thing I noticed on the guest account was the fact that windows are dynamic (shrinking before disappearing, moving dynamically …

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Hi Every1 I'm havin Windows XP with 512MB RAM, AMD athlon Processor (1Ghz). My System freezes very often and then when i press CTRL+ALT+DEL, It comes back. I'm havin NOD32 Anti-Virus and AD-Aware Anti Malware. I scanned my system And its clean. But I dont know why computer freezes very …

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Hi, this is my 1st post so please bear with me if I ramble or don't give all the relevent information. Today AVG Anti-virus picked up a virus called 'hosts' in C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc which it did not 'heal.' I am guessing now that this was a file called 'hosts.msn' I have …

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Hello all My wife accidently installed some crap on the computer, now I have pop-ups, my home page gets changed and it slows my internet down. Here is my hijack log. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 1:20:10 PM, on 6/10/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet …

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I've read many posts about "referenced memory at 0x00000014", but none of them address the problem I am having with IE7. On the first launch of the program, I get no error message. Subsequent attempts yield the error message in the title of this post. I've run registry cleaner utilities …

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when i bought my Acer 5610 laptop, i made 2 dvd's for recovery (part 1 and 2). Well now i go to use them, part 1 is blank and part to has the info it should (80megs worth). Don't ask what happened to the first one i don't know! (same …

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Hi- this is my 1st post! Anyway, I wasn't really sure where to post this, so hopefully its alright in this room. Basically I've had a problem with the sound on my computer- or the lack of it! The monitor has a built in speaker, which hasn't been producing any …

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I have a windows xp computer, when i go to put a cd in the cd drive it will not register and say please insert disk. why would this be happening? what can u do to fix it?

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Im pretty sure i have the blue screen of death and i also have a problem where my computer does system automatic shutdown. I have tried to go into safe mode and last good configuration but the screen still comes up for a fraction of a second and my computer …

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