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Hey good folks at DaniWeb !!!!!!! I have a Dell Dimension 3100, Windows XP home, SP3 The computer had many trogans and viruses on it and have been cleaned off. Now I can NOT get this computer to recieve internet packets for anything ! It says that my " Local …

I own a HP system, I don't usually buy brand name systems but this system had all that I required. It came with a 500gig HD (Sata) and preinstalled Vista Premium and no backup disks. The harddrive has a factory recovery partition, unfortunately to recover my system using this partion …

I have a sony pcg-9g1l and the screen is shadowed, does it need a new screen?

Hi everybody, I have problems with refreshing page in iframe (by javascript window.location=http://siteRunningAtWinsAndApache2.2...). When the javascript loops refreshing the page in iframe (every minute), it's nice, page loads and everybody is happy. But as time passes, e.g. after one hour of looped refreshing the iframe src, the page in iframe …

I belong to an organization which provides comprehensive legal services across 250 offices. We serve many established and early stage clients who work at creating innovative new products and services in the software and internet industries. To create intellectual property and protection is a major priority for our clients, for …

hi all, i am planning to buy a laptop with vista home basic preinstalled. Can i use it to connect to the server in my office? is there any network limitations in Vista home basic? what exactly do u mean by domain join support ?

Sorry if this is the wrong place, but this seems tp be the most general forum, seeing as I don't know what the source of the problem is... The problem is my compiuter instantly powers down for some unknown reason, this seems to only be when its under load, and …

I have a Gateway W340UI with Vista. Anyway - for some reason, I went to start it up, and got nothing. Now..I have two identical machines - The pretty little lights in the front.. on the working one -when Plugged in, I have one solid blue light, and one that …

Hi there, I have a strange problem with my machine at work. Suddenly, it has stopped detecting all the USB storage devices attached to usb ports. As I figured it out, according to my new company policy ;-), admins blocked them from registry via group policy settings and by disabling …

Hi there! I sincerly hope you can help me! The problem started yesterday! When I boot my computer, the task bar and the icons appears and then disappears. I opened the task manager and noticed that explorer.exe keeps shutting down and reloading, and I had to terminate the process and …

Basically what the title says. [url]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/Emeryl/foldermenu.jpg[/url] All the options that usually appear at the top of my folders are gone. Every time I try to look it up I find other things about a virus that deletes the "folder options" button, but I can't find anything about the entire menu …

hey! i hope someone can help me here, i've tried many other computer support chats. Apprently, i have no sound at all. I have a emachine, and uses Window XP. i tried to reinstall the audio drives, and also the latest versions of them. I checked the speakers and wires. …

My internet explorer window title says "Hacked by pokemon" and I clicked start and selected run and then typed this in: "rundll32 iedkcs32.dll,Clear" it went away. But after a while the "Hacked by pokemon" comes back up on the window title. Also, when I type regedit in run, a black …

Hi, I can't get my pc to boot up past the windows xp logo. Can anyone help get past this point? Obviously it isn't this pc that I'm on now. Thanks, John

I have a Dell XPS desktop system that is a little over a year old (I think)... the other night I ran the windows dos based program that does many things...the thing I had it do was overwrite "free" disk space.Cipher.exe is the program that i used...i used the /w …

Anyone have any links or info for me to start up a dedicated gaming server? Thanks VBM

As the threat title goes, my PSU just died today with a glorious pop and spark of electricity. Before I go further, I'll detail the specs and some history: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard PSU (while it was still alive): PP500 500W 1 GB RAM nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX (Later upgraded to …

Pretty soon i'm going for water cooling, i'll have a budget of $230 USD, which will have to suffice, i was wondering what would be good for the money.

I am looking for an affordable, quality laptop that will last me for 4 years. Please specify the laptop you would recommend and why. Also, I'm on a budget so a laptop under $1000 would be nice. Remember, I'm also asking what websites you would recommend to buy quality laptops …

I have just purchased a 400 GB USB hard drive. I have "ghosted" my Drive E containing Vista using "Acronis True Image", and I am tring to boot from this external drive. I have reconfigured the BIOS to boot from this first, but it does not work. I get "NTLDR …

Hi, I got some info about keyboard as follows: [B][COLOR="Red"] New storing device fits at the end of the keyboard cable connecting to the PC specialized to save all typed keys in it… Mostly could be used in net cafes, exhibitions, hotels and airports therefore be careful especially the people …

Please bear with me folks, I'll try and be as concise as possible. I'm admittedly not the brightest or most experienced IT person on the block, but I'm as close as our small non-profit medical office can get. I wasn't able to identify a solution thru a forum search. [B]We …

My Dell 6000 is having some problems booting up. When I attempt to boot up it goes to the dell boot up page. Then it almost immediately goes to a black blank screen with a flashing cursor in the top left corner. I can't type anything in the cursor and …

Hello everyone I'm having some issues with my wireless network dropping connections. Every now and then the network for whatever reason it appears our network is losing signal to our ISP, however our desktop computer proves otherwise that it is not (well at times it is not). I then have …

I was surfing the Internet, and when I closed my Internet browser, my [B][U][COLOR="Red"]mouse does not worked![/COLOR][/U][/B] My Avira antivirus do not detected anything! What is going on?

What do I need to do to print from Windows XP to a Vista shared printer

Hi, [INDENT]I converted an .AVI file to .VOB using Super (free video converter). Know my only question is, how would I burn this file onto a DVD-R. I only have the avi to the vob nothing else. Should I have converted the avi to somehing else. Please help, I don't …

Hi all, I whant to clear some folder, 1. [Profile]\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files 2. [Profile]\Local Settings\History 3. [Profile]\Local Settings\Temp 4. [Profile]\Cookies 5. [Profile]\Recent 6. [SystemRoot]\Temp but windows is blocking those files, how can i delete those files during startup of a computer ? i have already create a Batch file …

Hi, I have a desktop computer that has been working fine for about 2+ years until yesterday. We had a power failure yesterday and ever since, it is behaving like a beast. Initially it would not come on at all. There were no beeps but i did have lights and …

My cousins computer has a virus/spyware/etc. problem on his desktop. Not only am I not able to change the desktop properties, the picture installed as his desktop is advertising for netflix. I have ran spyware doctor, spyware terminator, and spybot, none have spotted or deleted this problem. I browsed through …

If anyone could help, I would be very grateful. About a week ago I was attempting to install a program which needed net framework 1.1. which is not installed. I had net framework 2.0 but it was corrupted. A used windows install clean up utility to delete framework 2 and …

Been here before and always got the help I needed. Sisters computer now has some sort of virus. I have copied the following HJT log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 5:49:26 PM, on 7/26/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16674) Boot …

I have a Gateway Laptop Model# M350CRV. Running Windows XP.. 1 gig memory 30 Gig Hd. The computer has been running hot...but I started using a cooling pad that has 2 fans... usb connection. This laptop was super fast without ever missing a beat... 2 days ago...I was using it …

I have started getting a pop up saying IE critical update needed etc. This is my work laptop and I am leaving for vacation in 2 days. I really need help finding the problems so I can complete my work before I leave. Any help is greatly appreciated! Aloha, Laura …

Hello [url]www.daniweb.com/;[/url] am fixing a windows xp computer. Ran ATF-Cleaner , Deckard’s System Scanner (DSS) CCleaner. Ran Windows XP Maliware exe Here is a log of what i have so far.the windows xp computer runs slow and poor, can not yet get hijack-this to load and run. (cd issue). also …

I dont know whats the problem. All of my programs are taking way too long to load, as well as web pages. Images look like they are downloading at dial up speeds, and some wont load at alol (i am on Comcast cable internet connection). I had a clean sweep …

I have been having black and blue screens of death since I updated my drivers for ATI Radeon HD2600 video card in my Toshiba A200 laptop. When it finally recovers, and searches for an answer to the issue, it always suggests I download the lastest drivers. The latest drivers available …

Hey guys i have a hp psc 1210 printer cum scanner cum copier..I am having problems in printing.I am unable to print anything at all. I have downloaded the software from the hp site also and reinstalled it twice.But whenever i give any document to print it says system error …

I recently relocated a Windows 2000 machine. I took it off the network in order to make it a stand alone machine. I disabled the NIC card in the process. Now when I boot it up it gets stuck at the preparing network connections screen. Its been two days and …

hi when i turn on my computer just when the desktop icons have all loaded on screen they immediately disappear, as does the start menu and task bar leaving just the wallpaper visible. This process is repeated another two or three times but never boots properly so i have no …

Hi, I am a teacher in the North Eastern part of Thailand. This morning, while booting up the classroom computer, the keyboard did not power up. The mouse was functioning, I accessed the device manager, and saw that the keyboard was unrecognized. After some fiddeling around I mistakingly disabled the …

Hello , I did something stupid and made a partitiion active and now it wont reboot (it says bootmgr missing) - Is there a way i can revert the partition back to its original state . Thanks neil

Good morning to all: Wonder if you can help me, I read various threats, still confused and runing out of ideas, and patience, and $$$. Here is the problem: A couple weeks ago my pc shut itself off, the only way to restart it was to reset (reset power supply) …

I am having same problem.. please help me!... Here's my log file: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 17:57: VIRUS ALERT!, on 28/07/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16674) Boot mode: Safe mode with network support Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe …

After being on the web for a few minutes, my internet slows down to a crawl. Most of the time, websites I'm trying to visit will timeout and not connect at all. I'd appreciate any advice on this matter! I do not have a log from ESET. I ran a …

Hi, I have a problem I need advise for. MY computer was turning itself off. This problem started out a couple of times a day and then escalated to every 10 minutes. The computer did not restart itself. I replaced the power supply and this seemed to fix the problem …

I think it really hates me.....I built this rig about 2 years ago and it's been working very well until recently. The Lian Li case I have doesn't have a restart button, so anytime it locks up, I've had to yank the power plug, wait, reattach and restart. Holding down …

I'm pretty sure right now that I have a virus on my computer (it's slowed down, freezes up, and I'm getting 'memory low' messages- which all happened the last time I had a virus). I tried downloading/installing the AVG anti virus program and it told me I can't because i …

My friend has a Satellite P205d-S7436. One moment it was working fine now it won't power on. I get nothing except a blue light indicating that the AC is plugged in...... Any suggestions????

Hello out there. I seem to have encountered a nice block in my operating, and before I go and spend 200 bucks to fix the problem, I thought I'd make a little plea for any advice. I was staying at a friends' house in another city, and was using my …