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Hello! I just downloaded a program called FBCIM. That is: "Facebook Chat IM". It doesn't function. It says it's still under development. Now I would like to get in touch with the developers of the program. How can I achieve that? Please help.

Is anyone familiar with Microsoft Remote Desktop? I'm referring to the application with the name MSTSC.EXE. I used this years ago at the office to remote into the servers from home but MS has made changes since then. I have one laptop downstairs that is usually unattended and I have …

I am looking to buy a motherboard and I'm looking for lots of USB and sata ports, it should fit in this case -> item# N82E16811146077 on newegg.com and will work well with Linux for my main desktop, and a windows and SeamOS drives as well for gaming? Will this …

Ok so I have a Toshiba A105 s4284 that I just bought from a friend that bought it in january and it was working fine until just recently, all of a sudden the screen just goes completly black when I'm in the middle of something, I mean the computer doesn't …

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Hey guys! it would be great if somebody here could advise me asap. I have an e-commerce website that was running well. . A week ago, the website got hacked and several pointless pages have been added to it. We found it and removed all pages as soon as we …

This isn't a typical hardware post, but I couldn't find anywhere better for it. Last October, after my previous TV packed in, I bought a shiny new Samsung Smart TV. My shortlist of requirements was: * Excellent picture quality, preferably 4k * No advertising built into the UI * Within …

Hello Anyone knows a software (free or paid) that can help track the health of a processor, just like for example for RAM we have memtest tool or the built in Windows Memory Diagnostic tool. Thanks.

Hi, I'm trying to read IP packet headers manually from a hex file. From what I understand an IP header has 20 bytes: version, HL, TOS,total length, ID, flag, fragments,ttl, protocol, checksum, source ip and destination IP. In hex that would be something like this (20 bytes - double digits …

Someone left a comment on one of my posts similar to, "Linux won't be popular on the Desktop until it runs [URL="http://www.microsoft.com"]Windows[/URL] applications." To which I silently responded, "Huh? and, "You've got to be kidding me." We have [URL="http://www.winehq.org"]WINE[/URL] for running Windows applications and it works reasonably well for those …

I'm having difficulty using Robocopy. There are two things to which I want to do with Robocopy and I'm unsure whether it is possible. First create a symbolic link which links the source to the new target and second exclude a sub-folder from the source from being included in the …

Many Windows Vista users are experiencing problems with slow file transfers. In this guide we will learn a quick tip to improve transfer times. There are two ways we can fix this problem: by disabling Remote Differential Compression and Disable TCP/IP “Receive Window Auto-Tuning” and/or “Receive Side Scaling” in Windows …

If we have the following message bits > 11010001010001001010 we split this meassage into blocks of 5 bits, then we use two dimensional matrix for error correction to give the sent frame But what if we have a message with odd bits , for example : > 1010010 To how …

Hi, I am looking for advice about internet service providers. My questions here may seem silly but please do reply. I am an entrepreneur. I am about to start a new business. This business handles a lot of confidential documents and if any of these are leaked it could bring …

Hi, I seem to get an Assertion failure with the following code: if (Butten.tag==1) { //int errorCount = 0; //UIImage *filterImage; GPUImageAmatorkaFilter *ColorMatrix=[[GPUImageAmatorkaFilter alloc]init]; [ColorMatrix prepareForImageCapture]; UIImage *filterImage=[ColorMatrix imageByFilteringImage:img_MainImage]; //while (! (filterImage = [ColorMatrix imageByFilteringImage:img_MainImage]) ) { // ++errorCount; //} //if (errorCount > 0) { //NSLog(@"GPUImageiOSBlurFilter imageByFilteringImage button clicked:"); //} …

I bought a program from the BBC Store, and downloaded it. It came to my machine as an .ismv video. Nothing I've got will open or convert an .ismv video file. So i want to convert my ismv to mp4, any good idea?

I've been running Linux for more than 20 years now, and have encountered only one malware. Some jerks called me on the telephone telling me that my computer was broken. I told them where to go, and somehow, they already knew my IP address, and did something to my hard …

This is puzzling. We have a small organization running our own Exchange 2003 server for about 25 users. We hired a new employee recently, and I created a new user in Active Directory by copying an existing account, same as I have done for over 10 years. That all went …

I just did the latest updates to Microsoft Office 2016. But after updates I cannot open one very important .RTF document. I click the file to open, the following message came: 'Check the file permissions for the document or drive.' So i uninstalled it and reinstalled Office and same thing. …

Hello guys I'm troubleshooting a Lenovo M91P pc that goes on but there is no display and the monitor and keyboard is off aswell. I tried swapping psu's and different ram cards, but it does the same.. no display anyone got any good suggestions on what could be the problem? …

Got Android? Then you had better be on top of your security smarts. With Android cornering more than 80 per cent of the mobile operating system market, it's no surprise that Android devices are the number one target for the mobile malware merchants. Kaspersky Lab reckoned that Android malware attacks …

Here's a question for you: I often use remote desktop to connect to my office pc. Often times, I'm writing a document on the office pc and I need to include a screenshot of an application etc. Over RDP, how do I make the office pc take a screen shot …

IT Friends, Let me start by saying I am not an IT professional. Our company recently changed to a cloud based environment. We are seeing substantial efficiency loss in the calculation times of our templates (mostly excel based). It's typically only seconds per calculation, but adds up throughout the day. …

I have been using my HOSTS file for years to dummy out ad sites by adding entries like 127.0.0.1 www.ukbanners.com A while back I installed [Unchecky](https://unchecky.com/), a program which automatically unchecks all of those software extras that some installers like to enable by default (like McAfee). Today I noticed nthat …

My Samsung HD is OK, but not showing. I haven't yet found a user who in any of discussions about problem of this type of disappearing Samsung HD502HJ admitted that he succeeded in bringing HD back to accomplishment. I have been watching videos, what they tell for setting up BIOS …

I have a technical room in my flat where I have (among other things) two meters counting the use of hot and cold water. To automate the task of reading these counters I want to use a Raspberry PI model 3 with a camera module, controlling the process from an …

hi, yesterday the modem on my other computer could not be detected and I can't get on the inernet using it. I have a dial up modem 56k and I could get on the net fine for a long time, but something happened to my network connection and it isn't …

This past summer I was "treated" to an automatic update by my Win 10 OS (updated for free from Win 7). Ever since then my computer has been an unending source of operational frustrations: 1. My Logitech webcam (C260) has become non-operational. 2. My DVD drive stopped reading disks. 3. …

How can I connect my new Win 10 PC and my old Win 8 PC together to 1 monitor, all to my Direct Tv router that I use to connect my wireless gadgets?

Hi there. I need 'ost to pst' conversion MAC software. Preferably online. Can anyone advise me a good one?

Generally speaking, when it comes to being as secure as possible (and, just as importantly, staying as secure as possible) newer is better. This is certainly the case if we are talking mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS. As of the start of March 2017, according to [Apple's …

[B]Intro[/B] Do you cringe at the thought of buying a domain and putting up with the headache of trying to make sure your IP address is up to date with your domain? Do you hate the 40 dollars you spend on DNS service each year to resolve your IP address …

Hi everyone, I've got hours and hours of video clips that I want to edit with iMovie and then put on DVD with iDvd but they're all .wmv format. But iMovie isn't letting me import them, saying something to the effect of they can't be imported, or they're not the …

ALL of it. <rude words>. Linux, here I come. .

I've installed a new pci-e sata2 raid card, but it won't detect any hard drive. When i access the software to set up the raid, (silicon image 3132) right after the bios, it doesn't show any physical drives, as if there was no hdd connected to it at all. Jumper …

Hi, I'm going to see one of our sites tomorrow and been asked to look at a PC that isn't working. I dont have long there so wondered if anyone had any tips for what i should try to do/test when I do get there. I even sent them a …

Newbie hades here. My second-hand Presario F730 seems to have killed its power jack; the typical home handyman, I ordered a new power jack board, tore the machine apart (actually following directions from the repair manual, available online), and plugged it in. The new jack glows properly. Of the 3 …

It's just awful... I saved the document 20 minutes ago. Just my CorelDraw X4 took off leaving me no hope of saving. Opened a backup, it was even stupidly empty. Opened the file itself and the worst expectations were met, I returned with my mountain project on several levels ago. …

Hi Guys, Am trying to develop an android application with 13 fragments. The app works very well with the navigation drawer, but when I tried to add the code for the function to swipe the screen to switch betwenn fragments, the app stopped to work. I am very new to …

I was recently required to take some photos of the inside of my computer for a unversity assignment. Since reconnecting the machine everytime i try to connect to the internet i get an error saying remote server not responding. i was wondering if something may have come loose inside the …

Hey, I'm new to the forums but fairly experienced when it comes to computers. I've got a Dell Dimension 8400 and a 2001FP monitor. When i boot the computer up, the video card's fan is spinning and the computer seems to power on fine... except for the fact that there …

I still can work on my laptop (HP Pavilion) because I had a window open and I can access all my docs this way, but the background screen is black, there is no 'Start' button, no desktop and the 'right click' does nothing. Totally emptiness, but I still see the …

Hi, bought a gaming PC tower (with a top class nVidia graphics card) for the kids, Xmas, but sent it back cos of a couple of probs. It's arrived back with me and some problems persist. When I switch on and boot-up (I assume it's booting up, as I can't …

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Hello, Need some suggestions on how to combine 2 Windows 7 ISO files (one is x86 and other is x64), into one single bootable ISO file which can then be burnt on a DVD-R or Dual Layer DVD, and even on USB afterwards. Thanks.

Hi, I am currently facing an issue after upgrading a Windows 7 Pro (OEM Edition) to Windows 10 Pro following updates provided by Microsoft, whereby while checking my activation status, I found the following message: "Connect to the internet to activate Windows" I tried to activate it manually from the …

Hi, I wanted to setup dual monitor, before trying to purchase I looked up at few articles and forums and most of them had language suggesting it is easy and straight forward. I visited 4 stores and they wasn't sure what they are talking about, 2 of them directly denied …

Hello ! I have a baylan Biometrics Finger Print Reader working at my work place for attendance, it imports data to spreadsheet and then let me edit and sort the attendance sheet, i want its automatic backup, is there any way to take its back-up automatically, whether through batch file …