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Ok after i got rid of this other malware/virus. I see this other person having the same problem [url]http://ask.metafilter.com/81308/Why-does-my-desktop-keep-crashing[/url] . It starts at boot time but usually when i open up ie explorer, opera it seems to close. If i go to CTRL+ALT+DEL menu to processes explorer.exe is still there. …
Hi House, am quite new in here, my hp desktp pc failed to boot from bios setup, the power light is on and the cooling fan turns as well as the board feeling warm. pls help. thnx
hello everybody! how can i make screnshot to show it my sexy girfriend?
Sony VAIO PCV-RZ54G Pentium 4 Processor Motherboard ASUSTek P4SD-VL Installed Memory: 1.5 GB (2x256 and 2x512) DDR PC3200 Maximum: 2GB DDR PC3200 I recently bought a 1 GB kit of memory that was supposed to be compatible with the Sony PCV-RZ54G. When I opened my computer, I had two 256 …
Hi: I have a Mac Powerbook G3 (Wallstreet) with 18GB HDD and 288 MB RAM. I use AT&T DSL on my Win XP desktop. I'm heading north and would like to take my laptop to check in on the web and check my email etc. I'll be staying in motels …
Which is the better type of graphix card right now, in your opinion? Would you take the 280 or 4850? Which brand is best for overclocking?
Hi All, Firstly, I am not too sure if I am posting this problem in the correct forum, if so, please let me know... My sister has a Toshiba Satellite A135-S2386, it's a little over 1 year old, and her USB ports have suddenly stopped working...when she got it from …
Hello, I'm new here. After days of searching the web, I have found nothing that specifically tells me how to completely wipe the memory of my laptop. I have a Toshiba Satellite 2805-s202 with windows ME. I do not have any recovery CDs nor do I have the oem disk, …
can anyone help me identify a few of the usual culprits worth removing from my task manager list because i think they're really slowing my computer down. I'm running windows XP thanks in advance hetixo
Overclocked or Over Voltage Failure! Hi! The problem I will explain here is really causing me a headache, Big Time. i bought my computer about 18 months ago from mesh computers uk, been working great but started getting very slow n lagging, mainly because its used 24/7 by myself, wife …
Hello Guys and gals: Need some help. I Just lost my left speaker . I using windows xp pro. Also no left speaker with my head set either. Nothing wrong with any settings. I am using Via audio Deck and SRS Labs Audio Sand Box. It work fine earlier. I …
I've been working on my sisters computer for about 2 days now. It was overridden with viruses (she had no real protection) and I got most of them off. The worst was one that made an icon at the bottom of the screen near the clock of an exclamation point …
Hey all, aight well this is a first for me and just to let everyone know i'm not computer savye at all. I know enough to run my computer and that's pretty much it so if you reply make sure to dumb it down for me thanks. So here's the …
my comp was very badly infected a couple of weeks ago i am now just checking to see if i am still all in the clear and my comp is infection free. here is a copy of my hijack This log Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at …
Hey, I was using my computer, and it was working nicely and normally when it freezed for no apparent reason. I had one program running at the time...the mouse was working alright, all its functions were still there; same with the keyboard; except the mouse was invisible. The pointer was …
5 minutes after I start the computer I see the taskbar changes to old windows 98 style (from xp) minimize to one line (from the usual two lines I have it at), then back to windows xp style. After this happens my audio is messed up and i have to …
- I can't open anymore some photos on hard disk. - I've lost photos when i was viewing (and trying to download, with error) them from a compact flash card connected at pc - and then, i found on this card other photos that i've downloaded from another card. - …
Well guys, long story short. Very old laptop, Toshiba Satellite 2400 with intel pentium4 with XP Pro. About 4 years ago i gave it to my brother when it was working just fine apart frpm the CD/DVD drive which had given up but i gave it to him as he …
aint getting anything from post intel pentium 4 cpu 3.2 ghz 1 gig stick just added it was able to before but now it wont could it be the thermal grease that i put on to the cpu could i have not put enuf ??? should i put the 256 …
I want to delete the backup folder on my C drive. It was created when I reset my computer and fixed a virus issue. When I go to delete it, it pops up with things like "if you delete bootstat, your pc will not work right or it will crash, …
Hi, I'm running Fedora core 8 on my XP machine using VMWare. Now I have a DVD which I must run on the linux window. When I insert the CD, the only CD recognized by linux is the iso file which is used in the installation of linux. The CD …
This is my first post, I hope I'm in the right spot. Here is my deal: 1.- Got a hold of an HP Pavilion a642n which was already abandoned by the owner as unfixable and replaced by a new DELL. 2.- Plugged it on and it purred on past the …
Web pages will not open all the time can not download flashplayer keep getting message java script is not enabled it is any who can help.
How do you ping the default Gateway, and why do you want to do that? Any help appreciated. Thanks, BuddyB
Please forgive me if this question is too elementary for this forum. I have set up a small 2 machine home network, using Windows XP on both computers. The network is set up by connecting both computers to an ADSL router, and then going through the Windows XP new network …
Basically this is what happened. My wireless connection was having troubles, I clicked repair connection and the process hung at disabling network adaptor. I was kind of annoyed and so I tried finding the right process to shut down in the task manager so that I could manually disable the …
I just installed Red Hat 9.0. I'm a Linux newb. I cannot figure out how to install my Netgear wireless router. Any tips on what I need to do in order to get this accomplished?
I know this is gonna' be a simple one for someone. I have XP, and every time I reboot I have a "New Hardware Found" window popping up. How do I prevent this? I believe this is a hangover from a USB device set-up that I took out of the …
My USB and COM ports stopped working recently, reformatting-reinstalling didn't help.. After sometime i installed linux.. Instead of repairs, i was advised to buy an internal PCI USB card.. but all the packages available say "Windows 98/2000/ME/XP".. Although the shopkeeper says it'll be functional on linux, i don't really wanna …
Okay, aside from the snide topic, I'm sitting here working on a computer that has been shown some SmitFraud, SpyAxe, and Vundo love, and I noticed a startup item in msconfig called buritos.exe. Imagine my curiosity. Turns out, googling buritos.exe turns up NOTHING. I know, I'm shocked and amazed, but …
Well I've looked almost everywhere and I have noticed a few posts with these same mistakes but none of their fixes seem to be working. So far I have system restored twice and both times it worked for approximately 10mins before reverting back to zero. I have ran my AVG …
Hi there I am new to all this and hope that someone out there can help me PLEASE!. I have been using a 1GB flash drive for about 3 months with no problems at all. Suddenly two days ago my computer does not even display that the flash drive is …
I am trying to relocate my ip address to appear i am in some other country e.g the us.anyone got a us ip and port?
I have a Lan with a Gateway desktop running XP Home wired RJ-45 through a Linksys 5-port hub (about 5 years old), and just bought an HP Pavillion notebook running Vista Home Premium. I plugged it into the hub, and am having problems with "IPv6 connectivity limited". The Vista notebook …
Is there a way to install old programs into a reinstall of windows xp?
Hey. My company has a bunch of files backed up on zip disks. the IT guy insisted that they use zip disks... LMAO!!! but i need the information off of the disks and can't get my computer to recognize it. i can't find any drivers online, so i don't know …
Hi i have a major problem, it started yesterday completely randomly. Whenever i try to go to some sites in firefox it hangs on "waiting for *.com" an wont go any further, this happens on google, hotmail, facebook and many more. I've tried updating firefox to ff3, no change. I …
Hi there... ...got a second hand machine which ran perfectly well...visited windows update site to find the computer required 71 updates which all installed sucessfully. Visited the update site again and selected to install SP2. (This computer is Win XP Home Edition) Seemed to take an awful long time, well …
Right, i m sure this is a quite easy one to answer but i have been reading a lot of information and it s a lot contradictory. So here it is, what is the difference between an LCD TV and Plasma TV? I know these days LCDs are outselling Plasmas …
hi, can any one please tell me, if I want to check that if any particular port on a remote workstation is open or closed on a LAN which command should I use ? If the ping command can be used please tell me its syntax. regards pdwivedi
Hi, Can any one tell me how to install LAMP server into LINUX.Is there any software for LAMP.If there tell me the link and if not there then tell me how to install LAMP into LINUX Pls help me...... thanks Punitha Pary
OK, please bear with me as I am not an expert here. I have a new Linux server that is mainly used to run my companies proprietary software. In the software is the capability to send various reports and things like statements and invoices in PDF format using email. The …
Hello everyone. My mom recently bought a new HP desktop PC that came with Windows Vista. We are trying to set up a new network to share printers and files. I go through Windows Vista to setup the Network and it saves the settings on a USB flash drive. I …
Hi all, I connect to the internet through aol and have discovered that my internet explorer won't work, I tried firefox won't work either - can anyone please help me Ps i am running vista
I created a new partition on my HD running XP. I formatted it in FAT32. I want to reformat it back to FAT or FAT16. When I use the disk manager to format, it goes through the motions and I end up back with FAT32. I think I saw someone …
Hi All Im having some problems with my laptop. I use firefox for web browsing however, i keep getting pop ups in Internet explorer that are slowing my system down and eventually cause it to stop. I am running Nortons 360 and have scanned my system but nothing shows up, …
Hi there Some one monitoring my computer. I don't know how but some one can see my messenger conversations and knows when I'm online on net. I suppose I have monitoring software in my computer. I formatted my hard drive, flashed bios, but seems this software not removed. Where it …
Our setup at work is a Windows XP Pro workgroup with 3 PCs and a laptop. I've set up various scheduled maintenance tasks to run on a daily basis - clearing temporary files, backing up data and defragging. The last task to run on each PC is the defrag, running …
Receiving these messages...Error Message on Start-up... RUNDLL: Error loading C:\windows\system32\irnffkpc.dll...and another for njkdqtbd.dll I can not find these files to remove them. C:\WINDOWS\System32\alg.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe C:\Documents and Settings\Chris\Desktop\Utility\Registry Booster.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\SearchProtocolHost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\SearchFilterHost.exe C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\wmiprvse.exe R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = [url]http://www.comcast.net/[/url] R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = …
Hi, I have huge problems with opening programmes, I can't seem to get into the system restore or anything else. My task manager has 160+ processors running! I don't know too much about computers and have tried to fix this myself with very limmited skills. Broke up with the boyfriend …
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