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I want to restore my hp pavillion dv9000 to the factory settings but I need some help can someone help me out !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

well my pc is pentium 3 ...now it is slow ..i wana to upgrade it and make it p4..which things i must change for it..i hav ram of 512 ..and mother board of intel and etc

Okay, well today when I got on my computer, my AVG was done scanning and it said i had about 18 infections. So i deleted all the infections. Well, now when I get on, my computer restarts all the time. A popup comes up and says something like "System just …

Hi there, i bought a dell laptop with windows vista recently. I also have a desktop with Windows XP and my internet connection is via wired modem (PPoE). I have absolutely no problems accesing internet on my desktop but am not able to access same with my laptop. Tried calling …

My computer name on IRC is [email protected] (kind of, haha). Anyways, I've seen people making custom ones, like [email protected] or whatever. Does anyone know how to set a custom one?

After installing upddates for windows vista computer error occurred Error message Windows activation error. A problem occurred when windows tried to activate Error code oxc004e003 This is a valid copy of vista pruchased on a lenovo t61 tablet Any suggestions Called Lenovo and they put us through to microsoft and …

can anybody give me a solution why my computer screen is blinking when I am reading the web page of news paper

Hi I´m hoping someone can help. System restore is not listed in the My Computer Properties. I have searched the web and tried to restart it using the Microsoft KB using Net Start, but, it doesn´t want to play. Every suggestion I have found seems to assume that System Restore …

I'm using Windows XP Home edition. I just installed a new motherboard. I can connect to my DSL server with Netscape Navigator just fine, but Explorer will only give me "cannot display page." I don't know if this is related, but I also cannot use either of my ftp programs …

Hi. My PC got infected with trojans and other malware. I install Kaspersky AV and it disinfected all (maybe) of them. When I open My Computer to explore any of 2 local drives, a box appears asking me to choose which program I should choose to open the [I]file[/I]. Why …

Hope someone can help me out here. I am running an old PIII 400, 512 Ram, XP SP2 and it freezes right after the Welcome screen. I see the Welcome screen for approx 2 mins. and then it goes to a blue screen and just hangs there. I see the …

I live in an RV so have no dedicated hardline and use wi-fi hot spots. I have a laptop (which I internet from) and a desktop. I have tried setting up two different networks and have the same problem on both of them. One using only Ad Hoc and the …

Hi. My PC got infected with trojans and other malware. I install Kaspersky AV and it disinfected all (maybe) of them. But each time I double-click any local drive to explore its content, a trojan is detected by the AV - ckvo.exe. Other common malware has the following names: Trojan.Win32.Vaklik.cdj …

Hey Dani Web folks !!! I have a Dell Dimension 3100, SP2 , Windows XP. This computer has taken over by trogans. I also was missing most of the things on the Start Page, such as My Computer,My Doc., My Pic's, My Music, Control Panel, Search and Run. I think …

Hi All, First I'll give you the specs. Its a brand new computer I am building with all brand new parts. AV3A XFX 650i SL Ultra OCZ 1 GB Dual Channel DDR2, 2x1024mb, PC6400, 800mhz PD925, 3.0Ghz, 4MB cache, 800FBS, Dual Core Socket 775 WD 320 Serial Hard Drive Sanyo …

Ok seeing as there isn't really a sound card section in the hardware board, and considering I know Windows XP Black Edition is what caused it I'm posting here. Ok So I reformatted using the Windows XP disc that came with my computer. Immediatly after that I reformatted again using …

Whenever i go into C:\Program Files i get a error message saying "Attention, (name)! Some dangerous viruses detected in your system. Microsoft Windows 2000 Files corrupted. This may lead to the destruction of important files in C:\WINNT. Download protection software now! Click OK to download the antispyware. (Recommended)" When i …

My computer contracted this trojan / worm yesterday. My antivirus caught, or so I thought because the screen pops up and says that I have this trojan. I thought my antivirus had gotten rid of it, but then the trojan/worm took over my computer telling me I need to download …

Okay.. first off.. I came home from work and my roomate used the pc.. I had firefox loaded, but I guess they used IE.. I get home and there is 10 IE boxes open.. w/ the lil spill about "you have been infected" press okay to scan or something another.. …

I have a virus that changed my time to military time and shows virus alert on my task bar, i have ran avg, avast, malimalice, antivirus and still no luck, i tried some of the fixes that are posted on the site here but no luck also, so this is …

Hey everyone, This is my first post here and I must say that I'm very happy I found this place. Well here is my issue. Yesterday my mother was cleaning my room and managed to strike the side of my PC case which happened to have a side USB port …

My PC is having problems...and by that I mean it crashed and wont turn back on (dead). Basically...it gives off the burning smell when you take off the case. I tried taking everything off the Motherboard (even the CPU), and just plugging in the Power Supply to it, and a …

Recently I picked up some kind of malware or something and it's been annoying me to no end. Everytime I click on a folder a Critical Error pops up that says the following: Critical Error Attention, {username}! Some dangerous viruses detected in your system. Microsoft Windows XP files corrupted. This …

Hello there all!!! I guessed this would be the best place for me to ask question. A cousin of mine has a sony VGN-C140G, he told me that just after he formatted it...his CD ROM drive stopped reading CDs. It is getting kinda troublesome finding the solution. I tried unstalling …

Hey everyone, I'm having some trouble with windows vista, specifically with control panel and windows update. Basically, I've had a problem with windows update for awhile now; it just freezes every time I run it. I remedied that by scheduling auto updates, somehow if the computer initiates Windows update itself …

it all started about 4 months ago on a thursday.at first,when i powered up my pc the motherboard cooler started rotating with an incredibly high speed making noise like the turbine of a plane.along with this my computer just wouldn't boot or anything. after turning it off, i tried again. …

I am building a htpc and using a ecs elitegroup nforce 6100 mobo and I think it might have died. The fans spin, the ide drive and the hard drive spin and so does the fan on my graphics card. However it wont light up the network lights when I …

I have a bunch of songs that I downloaded and burned to cd-r disks, and they play fine in the normal cd player, but there is one problem. After one track is finished, it repeats, instead of skipping to the second track, and the only way to get to the …

So I have recently been getting a popup from AVG saying that an infected file has been detected. When I check the virus vault it shows two file labled I-Worm/Nuwar.U, I have tried healing the files but no luck. Windows firewall has also been dectecting a virus. here are the …

A couple of weeks ago I reported that my PC shuts down. It is still happening, but now to my other PC as well. I appears to mainly happen when, when you go to a secure site - internet banking, ebay, paypal etc. The moment you start typing in account …

my background tab is gone and stuck with a blue screen with a warning on it from some spyware or something my brother did. I cleaned with adaware and spybot S&D, ran AVG there were no viruses, but a ton of adaware. checked hijack this all was ok. I had …

4 years ago i bought a dvd copy plus from 321studios, i havent used it, i am trying to install it now and it teels me i have used up all my lisc installation amts. i know the company is out of bussiness, any ideas?

I've searched for this tool you're talking about and i think it is a good one. I saw that it records way to many internet radio stations and also it can download MP3..... Cool, maybe I'll buy it.

hello i'm new here, i have a dell dimension 3000 here, it belongs 2 my aunt, during a bad lightning storm, she turned her pc off by the power button, the next morn, she tried 2 power it up, but no power.. The light on the board is lit but …

Hi, I get the following error when I type make in the command line of windows: 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. How do I do this in windows? Thanks

I began having this proble recently. When I start my computer, I get the welcome screen. When I shift to the desktop, only the background is there. There is no desktop icons, no windows menu... NOTHING. The thing is I cant link this to anything because I reinstalled windows and …

I am having pretty much the exact same problem in that mozilla and ie work sporadically, but messengers such aim and download programs like soulseek work perfectly fine. i dl'ed and ran hijackthis as the person above did. below is what hijackthis logged after scanning. any help would be appreciated. …

my computer keeps restarting by itself when I open any internet browsers, I run avast to check at start up and it came up with nothing, ccleaner, regcure and tuneup utilities, and checkdisk at startup, here is the log file from hijackthis, please help, thank you in advance. Logfile of …

Hello all well I'm writing cause I have a rather pricey problem. I own a TOSHIBA Satellite P105-S9722 It began with a slew of problems, initially it began shutting down at random times, running for hours, or just minutes. Also included with crazy messages on the blue screen of death, …

I recently bought another video card hoping to squeeze a couple more years our of PC gaming but have since had a major system malfunctions. My current situation is that the computer does not seem to post (nothing on the monitor). I checked the video card and also the previous …

i have a Dell Computer Corp. 0F5949 A01 motherboard with 512mb of ram. i want to upgrade that but being a teenager my funds are quite limited. i dont know if the mhz have to be the same but mine has 400 and i have no clue if it has …

I have a Compaq Presario 501NR that I bought from Best Buy in March of 2007. We went on a trip to New Orleans a couple of days ago and when I went to plugged it in at the Hilton, it would not power on. The battery has been bad, …

I just bought a new machine to make into a media center but when I connect the cd drive to the power and the IDE cable ( When connected just to the power it is fine ) it wont work it wont get powered. The drive is a Phillips CD-RW/DVD-ROM …

Hello There, I have a server running Windows Server 2003 Enteprise Edition and I need some help on how to deploy windows xp sp3 I have no knowledge of deployment of software and im only 15, im doing this for a project :) Cheers

I really hope someone can help me please! For the past 3 days Firefox has crashed every 15 minutes. I've noticed similar problems - Server not found - etc, but the difference is I have to restart my computer everytime it happens. Refreshing doesn't work. Closing Firefox down doesn't help. …

I upgraded my wife's Dell laptop from XP Home Edition to XP Professional. The computer works except for the web browser. Now, the Google home page won't completely load up. Also, when she tries various websites, she gets the message "Can't Find Application". Any ideas about what might be going …

Hey everybody. So I ordered all new parts for a brand new PC recently. Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3P 2GB DDR2 RAM Seagate 500GB HDD Atrix Gaming Case GeForce 8800 GT Sonic Here is my problem... I hooked up my mobo, PSU, CPU, heatsink and GFX card. The …

i dont know what happened to it. games that worked fine couple of days ago is now making my computer crash to a black screen and locks up. ive downloaded all the updates for windows and my graphics card (ati radeon x700 pro), i even called the ati costumer support …

I have a question to everyone and sort of asking for an opinion... Which is better...Intel CPU's or AMD CPU's??? I personally work with AMD CPU because i think they are better, and faster... I have heard from people (from another country outside USA) that AMD are used in game …

Hi all, i just got this 256mb flash disk but have a problem! when i insert it it doesnt show up in my computer, however when i type "F:\" into the explorer window it shows the relevant files! one time it automatically scandisked before windows booted, and started to work …