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Comuter reboots itself 2-3 times each time at start up(at booting time) ,after giving a blue screen. Checked the error with blue screen viewer and it says problem with Hardware abstract layer,none page fault in none page area. Really annoing ,each time i start,need to wait this circle to pass.Any …

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hi, Please help how to solve my problem about how to limit 11 digit number inside excel cell. i want to enter values like mobile number starting 0########## and deletes the excess numbers. thanks in advance

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Hi, I've had to replace my hard drive due to a fault. Managed to get windows etc. back on. My problem is with IE. I get script errors or the page will load but with errors or the page will not load fully. I've loaded adobe flash. not sure what …

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I was just watching some of the educational videos from imperva on youtube, and one of them was session hijacking. Basically you can obtain a coockie, in some way such as cross-site scripting, and then use the coockie to access a web page where you will be logged in as …

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Okay guys, I am having a tough time tryin to figure out this one and I hope some of you can lead me to a right direction .. My friend who has windows 7 as operating system, usually on boot up he has 3 options to choose inbetween and a …

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Hi there guys! Good day. I just want to ask assistance from you because I am really not an IT expert. I noticed something after I update my machine to Windows August Update 2. I noticed this on my network options everytime I click on the signal symbol on my …

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Hello, I installed 'Marvel Ultimate Alliance' game on my PC. Every function and graphics display well except for the characters, mine and the villains alike. They seem to look like silhouettes or stick men with weapons. I asked someone else about it and he said the problem could be in …

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what did I've done wrong with this code? =IF(OR(ISBLANK(C9),ISBLANK(B9)),"",IF(ISBLANK(C9),D9-TODAY(), "Reactivated")) I want to make an event that if b9 and c9 is empty, the value would be empty. if only c9 is empty, then the output would be the remaining days left between the two dates, and if the two …

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Hi. When I try to open the windows 8 app store via metro, It gets stuck on the splash 'loading' screen, with the logo and the rotating dots. I can leave it for an hour, and it will still stay on that splash screen. I'll post my system specs later …

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I am about to buy a new phone and I am totally confused on what to base my decision whether to get SG5 or N5. I have SG3, had it for over 2 years (Since day of sale), and never had any troubles at all with it, been making my …

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Hello. I just got a new computer and I would like to use my old keyboard for it but my old keyboard isn't USB. And I only do soaftware so I don't really know what component or such I should use to make my non-USB keyboard be able to work …

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Using an HP Pavilion g series laptop attempting to connect to a Netgear router. That really doesn't matter though because two days ago, I noticed my laptop would start to lose connection to my network when connected over WIFI. Wired in works fine. Today, my laptop shows no WIFI connections …

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Hello All, Im running Cent OS 5.8 and had a kernal panic. I have resolved this before by running xfs_repair but recently ran into an issue where it seems to hang on Phase 4. In research i found there was a pactch for this in the XFS patch list. I …

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I am trying a long distance help session with a friend who lost the file edit etc line in Outlook Express and now Windows Live has same problem. Any suggestions? IE 8, Win XP Home. Thanks

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Hello, I have a Macbook Pro w/ Retina display (A1502), running Win 7 on bootcamp. I also have 2 [LG 25UM64](https://www.google.com/shopping/product/264296052983113163) monitors. The optimal resolution for these monitors is 2560x1080. However, so far as I can tell I can only hit this resolution if I'm connected through HDMI, for which …

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Server information: Ubuntu 14.04 Apache2 I installed PHP5 on my webserver and tried to run a script that contained a call to the function curl_init(). The server responded with an error indicating that the function curl_init() was undefined. I installed PHP-CURL and restarted my webserver and encountered the same error. …

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Hi, i'm in a pickle. I'm on a Samsung Notebook with Windows 7 installed about 2 years ago. A couple of days a go my power adaptor stoped working, so I replaced and it all goes well. One day later, I tried to play CS GO and I noticed that …

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Heya. I got my XAMPP install x64 for Ubuntu. Where it has `.run` prefix. I've enabled it to run (through properties). When double clicked it requested for root privilages. Well, I went Googling. Nobody tells me how to start program as root through GUI, but, people say that `sudo su` …

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Hey guys, this is my first post here. I'm in a bind, because my computer crashed about a week ago and I'm trying to get all of my old data on my new machine. Thankfully most of my info was on a seperate server, and a friend was able to …

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Metasploit was meant to be one of the things to go through of my course Practical Network Security, that took place in June this year. However, the course was ruined a bit as a company that was meant to teach us didn't show up and the teachers had to do …

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Hi guys, i was told that with the right settings of Qos in my router, i can prioritize the internet speed between online gaming or watching videos or browsing etc.. but what i want is to give a high priority to my pc among other pc's connected to my router. …

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I am running a windiws command prompt. When my build is done sys out sometimes It does alow me to Scroll all the way back to the beginning Of the out put. Is something that can be done to fix this?

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Hello Everyone, A few months Ago I was introduced to Linux operating system...Ubuntu...Some of you are probably wondering where the hell have I been...Let's just say I was stuck in a Window....Needless to say I love The change....Unfortunately for me I didn't know what I was up against....After updating Ubuntu …

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Is LFS (Linux From Scratch) bulletproof? I don't want to build OS, that would probably result me throwing laptop through the window 17 times and pulling massive amount of hair opt-out of my head. So. I just want to know. They said that using LFS they were able to build …

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I have a hard drive that is meant to have Win7 installed. It cancels the installation by itself, right at the beginning, error code 0x80070017. This drive has partitions c: d: and x: I tried formatting x: from cmd and it says it's write protected. Tried with d: and I'm …

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I want to install openSUSE Linux on my computer really badly. So I managed to install openSUSE (64-bit version, as my processor) on DVD. I booted it up, but because I also have Microsoft Windows 7 on this disk, I wanted to make it really carefully. I wanted 1st partition …

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Hello Anyone can pls help me, whereby I need to prevent the users from being able to delete a specific folder in Windows 7, but still have read/write/execute permissions on that folder? Also I would like to restrict the user's options in terms of software he/she wants to install, with …

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Hey, is there a Linux (+ packages?) which I could install on USB, and boot it up on computer and would serve as extremely safe "Sandbox"? I want to put there copy of contracts, important immensely long passwords et cetera. I'm not doing any of those, but, these are just …

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I have written a program using Visual Basic within Visual Studio 2008 which occasionally needs to load data from two MS Access database files into datatables for selection purposes. This all works perfectly on the built 'release' version but when I publish to Public_HTML via CPanel to my website and …

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Uh, just woke up and for breakfast I got to run into a Linux problem .. I turned on my pc (Kali Linux) and it has no sound? Ik weird .. used to work until I went to bed ... I have xfce DE. The error I get when I …

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Hi, I need your help in making a USB bootable which is compable to Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. Thanks

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Hi all, just a quick ? for you, can you recomend a good data revovery program please. A free one would be nice, My sisters chap re set windows7 back to factory settings without saving the pictures of there Kids (you can imagine the atmosfear at there house) so I …

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I've been tasked to attempt something far outside of my normal realm, but don't know where to start. Due to the fact that my logs are work related, I cannot/will not post the logs here, but I'm hoping I can still get pointed in the right direction to find information …

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I have a valid Window 7 Pro OEM license sticker with the product key but lose the CD. Now that I need to format the computer but I don't have the CD. I just want to find out how to obtain a CD since I got a valid Window 7 …

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I have a question for you experts! :) I tried to install iis8 on my laptop and when i lounched the defoult page a window appeard in internet explorer asking me username and password for my rooter. What will happen if i place username and password for my rooter and …

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I have inadvertently aquired the above. Whenever is starts up I have managed to stop iyt using taskmanager and seemingly deleted it but it comes back again some hours later. Will restoring to an earlier version of W8 get rid of it or is it more complicated than that? Many …

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The company have the original license for MS Office 2010 Home and Business license product key but somehow it couldn't activate as show in the attahcement. It just show product not activated. I have try uninstall and reinstall again but fail. I have also try repair and change the product …

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I've downloaded Visual Studio Express 2013 ISO. I have 7-zip tool and I've extracted the ISO's content on my hard drive. But I can't find any setup/autorun file. Does anybody know what file should I launch? Thanks beforehand.

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Hey there I just finished downgrading from windows 8 to windows 7. I need to redownload my wifi driver, but the only options they have on the dell site are windows 8.1 64 bit, windows 8 64 bit, and windows 7 64 bit. Neither my windows 8 or my windows …

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Hey, I'm good at coding in quite a few languages including java, python, perl, SQL, and such. But I was wondering at what point can you say your fluent in a or (know) a coding language? Would it be when your comfortably writing programs in it? I know this question …

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Hey guys, how do i logout of the onedrive account from the windows 8.1 app? I am planning on using a new account and I can't seem to find the logout for the app... is there any solution?

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**OS** - Linux Arch *I assume it could support more than 512GB of RAM.* **Motherboard** - Intel® X79 Express Chipset *According to [this](http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2647&page=2) page. X79 support 64GB of RAM @ 1600MHz.* **CPU** - Intel® Core™ i7-4960X *According to [this](http://ark.intel.com/products/77779) page. i7-4960X supports 64GB of RAM @ 1866MHz.* OS, motherboad and …

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I joined this forum recently and found everyone so helpful that I thought I would return as I now have another problem and want to learn more. I have jsut assembled a new system, I have it set up with a small c: drive (20gb) that has windows xp installed …

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So earlier today I found a course in wireshark, downloaded a .bin image and decided to install powerISO to run the file and see what is inside. As soon as I installed powerISO, I noticed a new software program "Seach project" was installed as well, my immediate action was to …

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Hey guys, I have some questions about the structure of KSA. The way that I find it being explained is as follows: The first step of this algorithm consist in initializing the S table with the identity permutation: the values in the array are equal to their index. Once the …

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Hey, I've got kind of a weird problem. I've set up a local network at home using a Netgear WNDR3700v3 router, which works flawlessly. And I've set it up so that connected computers get all the IP-information from the router (DHCP), including using the router as the dns. But every …

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For some odd reason, this whole week, my phone hasn't managed to get even 10% charge on it after charging it overnight. Basically, I plug it in at night, charge it for at least 7 hours, and in the morning it'll have about 10% charge. Why does it do that? …

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I came accross [this article](http://thehackernews.com/2014/08/CryptoLocker-Decryption-Keys-Tool.html). And I am wondering now, how would you upload a file from your system if all files have been encrypted? I have 0 experience with randomwares but as far as I've heard your desctop is showing only a pop up window asking you to pay …

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Am worry about my desktop computer. I shutdown properly but to boot it on and is no more display. Please i need your help

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