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Hi, I recently bought a Netgear RangeMax WPN824 v2 wireless router. I set everything up and it was working fine, but when I booted up my computer the next day, it my computer wouldn't connect. My other computer and wireless devices can connect, but not my main one. I can …

hi. not sure which section this goes as i'm new to all of this but here goes... i just got a new computer. i did get bogged down with some viruses but i managed to clean them all... at least all my antivirus/spywayre/etc say i have nothing wrong. however, my …

i have a dell dimension 2300. i am using windows xp pro. my sound card and video card (on the motherboard) don't work. so i put other cards in to replace them. how do i turn off the ones that don't work so the pc doesn't recognize them when i …

I followed forum advice to remove this trojan and below is my log. Am I ok at this point? Thanks [CODE] [b]SDFix: Version 1.211 [/b] Run by Sean on Fri 08/01/2008 at 08:50 PM Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] Running From: C:\DOCUME~1\Sean\Desktop\SDFix\SDFix [b]Checking Services [/b]: Restoring Default Security Values Restoring …

is there any way how to check if ur friends are appear offline,,,, or really offline? pls help if possible!

How to install the Win XP on virtual PC I have not CD rom attatched with my PC.

Hello, I have been scouring the web trying to find as much information on mod_rewrite as I can, but the solutions I have found do not suit my need. I have a website that has been up for almost 3 years, and I am having a hard time getting pages …

I have a home network with three desktops running XP SP2 and a laptop running Vista Business. I would like to use Windows Remote Desktop Web service to control and access my desktops from my laptop (via broadband wireless) while I am away from home. I have used Webex’s PCNow …

Build your next screamer in an aquarium :icon_cheesygrin: [url]http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32959[/url] What would happen if you stuck your hand in the water,etc when the computer was on?? (I reckon you would get a shock) Frankly i dont know how stuff runs IN LIQUID!!

Hello, and thank you to whomever is reading this with the intention to help me. My little brother downloaded a file (virus) and it messed our comp up pretty good. There's no C:, no control panel, a lot of options are limited. It took over our background but I fixed …

I can't install any Windows XP upgrades, including Service Pack 3, after the following sequence of events: 1. I used SpyBot to check for spyware. It found 8 objects and removed them. 2. The next time I turned on my computer, it immediately logged off my user name each time …

A friends netvista/xp pro machine locked up on friday afternoon at 1500. They called and said there was a video issue, the keybd/mouse was not responding, and reboots were causing chkdsk to run. When I arrived the video image was half displayed on the screen (much like the horizontal hold …

Hi ! I have a question to ask. My question is do softwares developed in VB 6.0 work on win vista or not? Do vista come with the visual basic runtime library or you have to install the dll's ? Thanks, Hassan Ahmad.

Hi to everyone, i have this computer which a friend of mine gave me as a gift it has windows 2000, but when you click on start, the menu shows but if you click it won't allow to do anything, you can not click on anything, the menu stays there …

ok, this computer is an old one my dad found. it came as a motherboard of Tyan Trinity 510, AC97 Vinyl Deck Audio drive. it came with an ancient video card, nVidia Riva TNT, so old. I downloaded the updated, since new windows install, even used the nVidia auto-find drivers …

Hi Guys, I have an Acer ASPIRE 3683WXMi, and recently the Keyboard just simply stopped working. Funny enough, the On-Screen Keyboard is still working perfectly. Please any clues for resolving this problem will be greatly appreciated.?

Hi, I would like to ask if someone knows an "easy" way to implement a failover for my sites. I have two vps and want to create a failover so when one server is down it will change the A records to the other vps and vice versa. Thanks.

During the boot process (W2k, 500gb maxtor hd, 1gb ram, 1.8 ghz AMD), computer launched Checkdisk to repair a problem, which it had done once before a month, or so ago, successfully. Not the case this time. Checkdisk was unable to fix the problem! I tried to reboot, but Windows …

Please help, I've got a new Vista machine and it's connected to my router but I can't talk to the internet. It was working yesterday.

ok, heres the situation. i booted up an old laptop windows loaded then froze and nothing would work so i hard booted. this time it comes up os not found. I get my xp os cd to try to repair. it won't do it. so i try to reinstall the …

my network communications are being held hostage by Norton's, need help to remove it. catalana

Hello everyone... this is my first post on daniweb. Hard to believe I've never signed up here before. Here's my problem: when I turn my CRT monitor on, it looks fine for a few seconds, but then the screen goes fuzzy. It starts from the bottom, and climbs up to …

Hey, Nanino here. Recently, after a power outage, my computer's keyboard stopped responding to anything. I've tried multiple keyboards, but none of them work now. Though when I connect them the num lock/caps lock/scroll lock lights all blink then turn off, which makes me think the keyboards are still recieving …

I got a laptop with vista and connected to the wireless router here with no problems. Everything went along smoothly for a couple days then it decided to quit working. My wireless connection is still perfect, I can ping and browse anything by IP only. It stopped resolving domain names …

When starting my PC, NO SIGNAL is displayed on the monitor though fan and processor are running. May you solve this problem for me because I need to know what to do as I have unpluged all cables and pluged them again but still experiencing the same problem.

I have a major problem. Spybot Search and Destroy had finished scanning my computer (Dell Dimension e520 running Windows XP service pack 2). I then clicked on it to fix the problems it found, and started doing something else on Tradestation. A short time later, a message popped up on …

Hey guys am not bad with computers but so far am unable to solve this promblem. I reinstall windows xp but so far none of the audio drivers i used work. this driver causes the system to restart "WDM_R200" the board is a gateway e-4000 and the audio drivers on …

I dunno what happened but I was using msn then turned the comp off, a couple hours later turned it on and it wont run. Here's my HiJack This file Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 7:51:17 AM, on 8/2/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer …

I also have this problem (since 7.10), and would hugely appreciate your help. I am using ASUS laptop with 2Gb RAM and 2.0GHz Intel Core2Duo processor. I can't say anything about 7.04, because this is a new laptop, and the first Ubuntu version installed was 7.10. By the way, the …

I have a problem in my desktop when i click something, something will appear (see the picture 1) [I]picture 1[/I] [URL=http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=64505875dd0.jpg][IMG]http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7114/76814144mk0.jpg[/IMG][/URL] and this insane toolbar that instantly appear in my internet explorer and this Insecure Internet activity. Threat of virus attack. see picture 2 picture2 [URL=http://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=98103948sk0.jpg][IMG]http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4710/31905354rz8.jpg[/IMG][/URL] heres my HJT log …

Hi, I have managed to set up my domain using windows server 2003 with the domain controller installed, and then i have sucessfully managed to connnect all the other computers to that. My question is thought, how do i get is so that all of the users save to the …

Hi all, This being my first post, please be gentle with me !! We have had a successful Netgear WGT624 running for the last few years now. Wired via Virgin broadband downstairs and wireless via the router to upstairs. I have this week treated myself to a brand new Samsung …

I own Firefox 3.0 on an XP system, recently added some ad-ons that help protect my computer when I browse it. So a few minutes ago I got a message stating I was attempting to log in a hotmail account as sic_one11. Trouble is, I don't own that account, or …

Hi, I want to finally set up my home office correctly. I currently have DSL on one Windows PC. I want to create a small LAN with shared Internet, file sharing and possibly file back-up. I have 2 Windows machines (XP on one and soon Vista 64 on one) and …

Hi guys, I'm getting restarts at random and have run and re-run every blaster software I have. Here's a HJT file, if someone could possibly assist? Thanks much, zeroth Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 7:06:35 AM, on 7/30/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet …

heres a copy of my log please help! The internet keep putting me ondifferent pages then i type in the computer is running super slow. C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe C:\Windows\system32\SearchFilterHost.exe R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = [url]http://safesearch.cyberdefender.com/smallsearch.html[/url] R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = [url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896[/url] R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start …

Hey guys, I'm having a small problem with this error message "error finding BTMagic.img run bootmagic install press any key to boot active partition. I tried installing bootmagic again and it says that there isn't any visible fat or fat 32 files. Is there any way that I can get …

I've been having this problem for months now and it's really bugging me. Whenever I load up the computer, I get the [i]Floppy disk fail (40)[/i] error. I go into BIOS to disable. However, I still get the error on startup. So I go into the Device Manager and disable …

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I uninstalled Java Runtime Environment 6 through Add/Remove Programs - with the intention of reinstalling the latest update version which I have not yet done. I did a Search for Java and found several files - some as far back as 1999...got my pc in 2002. Before I reinstall JRE, …

Is my Windows system using 13 Gb or 3½ Gb? This is a bit of a number cruncher, so here's a summary: My C:\Windows (XP) on a partitioned HDD states it is using 13 Gb out of 20 Gb. There are three [B]big[/B] folders only on C drive, and nothing …

Hi everyone, Have a strange problem with my dual boot. Vista and XP are both on the same hard drive. Vista is partition C: and XP is partition F: Vista was installed first, then I added XP. Used easyBCD to create a bootloader allowing me to choose which OS to …

ok ill start from the start. my login was taking longer than usual and usually wen this happens the net wont work but dw about that for now. so during the login i press the restart button on my computer. so after it just keeps searching to boot from cd …

Hello I have AVG 7.5, Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE personal and just recently installed Windows Defender. they all do a great job of identifying Win32/Renos and apparently delete it or "heal" it However every time i switch off computer and turn it on again the file or virus is found again …

I just converted to an iMac and my new external floppy disk drive says it won't work because I don't have iMac OS 9. Does anyone know where I can download this for free? Thanks. tf

hi guys, I've just put together my new system consisting of: Phenom x4 2.6ghz, Asus m3n-ht deluxe mempipe mother board, Tagan 900w bz psu, 4gb 2x2gb ocz reaper 8500 1066mhz ram, seagate 7200 500gb sata hd and xfx geforce 9800 1gb gx2 gpu. I put all this in my old …

My girlfriends laptop was working fine before we went camping for three days. When we came back, it said something like "Windows was interrupted during start up blah blah blah. If <-that happed, or you don't know what happened, choose start windows normally. You can also do last good configuration …

my pc shut downs suddenly while i am working on it.it does shut down the proper way,i mean it suddenly switches off without warning but the numlock is still on.could be a probelm with the power supply unit or the motherboard. help will be appreciated

I have an older Gateway that was originally set up with Me (yea, I know). Recently, I installed 2003 and upgraded through the internet with 2007 packs. I purchased XPSecurity for virus control and it obviously did not work, as I soon become infected with numerous viruses. Asking everywhere, I …