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I'm on a wireless network with 2 other computers for which the internet is working just fine. however, on my laptop it isn't. My connection to the router is fine, and if it tells you anything i seem to be able to connect to the ITunes store. I can't however …

I recently installed Ubuntu 7.04 on my system and for last few days been learning ways around this system and get familiar with it. I have to say I'm glad that my university has 25% machines running unix systems for Computer Science students or I would be lost. Today I …

I am trying to start my PC by pressing the power switch, but it doesn't start-up. As long as I keep the power switch pressed the power and hard-disk LED's at the front of my Cabinet keep blinking, but the machine doesn't power on. This used to happen earlier too, …

Hello to all. First of all I would like to thank you in advance for trying to help me! The problem is the following: Yesterday I ran a scan with SpyHunter and it found 25 entries in my registry of the trojan Zlob. After removing them, I cannot open any …

I'm trying to make a shared folder available offline. When I right-click on the file or folder I want to share there is no "Make Available Offline" option. Why is this and how can I fix it/is there another way to make the files available offline? I have Windows XP …

Hi there, Could anyone tell me what is 28c0d.msi file for? It is lying in c:\windows\installer folder taking up space of around 340 MB. Is it safe to delete it ? Can anyone give me more info about windows install cleap up utitlity? is it safe ? thanks a ton …

hey nothing urgent more of just a minor annoyance i was just wondering if theres any way to remove entries off the add remove programs list without actually removing the program itself, mainly in cases where the program does not exist anymore. I'm somewhat obsessive when it comes to keeping …

Anyone know how to stop svchost.exe from using 100% CPU?

I am attempting to build a rig with the following setup: C2d 1.86ghz ASUS P5L-MX LGA 775 Intel 945G Micro ATX Intel Motherboard 2GB Corsair Value Ram 320 WD HD ATI X1650 Video Card Roswill 480w PSU This is a budget build so as you can see with the above …

Hello. Recently, I am having a startup problem on my Windows XP machine, and I am hoping someone can help. When I start the machine, sometimes it starts up just fine. No problems. Other times, the green POWER LED comes on, then I can see the CD-ROM access LED coming …

Hi all, I am going to be installing ubuntu on the second of two drives in my hp pavilion dv8040 (the first drive is xp pro)...I've used linux a bit, but only actually installed it once before (And that was 7 years ago - and it wasn't a dual boot …

when I open an email,It comes this warning. "A Run time Error has occurred. Do you wish to Debug? Line:0 Error 'sp' is undefined. what should I do for this problem? pls sove my trouble.

I have a Hp vs17 Monitor with a ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Graphics card. After installing Vista, everything went smoothly except my display. I am stuck with the options of just 800x600 or 1024 x 768. Yuck. I am not sure if I need to get a new driver for …

I have accidentally revoked my own access rights to a folder in my docs whilst messing around with cacls. I also am having trouble after reformatting, when booting on the new hard drive my docs gives my access denied errors, have tried using same user name.???

Hello Everyone, My computer got infected with some nasty virus this evening and is flashing warnings all over. There is red window alert saying critical system error and virus activities identified. I think there was a pop-up to ask for windows logon pad and i might have used the wrong …

I can't get my icons and explorer.exe to run. I 've read a bunch of different forums but I may be in the wrong order so far I've [LIST] [*]ran ad-aware, spybot, McAfee and AVG anti-virus and anti-spyware they are finding trojans but they keep coming back [*]tried a second …

i have search the forums and although this problem is nothing new, i have not found any solution to it. If anybody knows the solution please reply. the problem started with ie6 and i have downloaded and installed ie7 in attempt to fix it but the problem is still there. …

Now it is my turn to beg, plead ignorance..:) this one has me beaten, and i am tired of googling for a solution. I recently added a second SATA hd [my boot disk is also SATA, there are no IDE drives on my sys apart from my DVD combo on …

Hello, forgive me if this has been solved already -- i did searches but did not see my specific dll mentioned. I recently started getting the "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem and needs to close." The error signature is: szAppName: svchost.exe szAppVer: 5.1.2600.2180 szModName: msvcrt.dll …

When I pit a cd in the cd romand try to open it in "my computer", "my computer" doesn't respond. This is in the HP computer that crashed and burned a few weeks back.Have gotten it back up and running and this I hope is the last problem I have …

Recently, our emachines computer crashed (surprise, surprise). From what I can tell, the entire motherboard is no longer usable for whatever reason. There was some valuable information on the hard drive, so I installed it as a secondary hd in another computer. (From my previous experience, I have simply been …

Hi all I am in serious trouble. i am not able to access my c: drive(when i open my computer it is shown like ([B][COLOR=red]Access Denied (c:)[/COLOR][/B] wherever i click on the icon it says c:\ not accessable. Access Denied. For this drive the sharing and security tab in the …

I have XP and Windows Media Player has all of a sudden stopped having sound when playing videos. I can still see the video (.avi) but there is no sound. Audio works fine with music files (.mp3) but no sound with video. I have not installed any new video or …

Here is the problem, Hdd crashed and burned, replaced hdd, got in touch with HP for recovery disc, the ones they sent are not compatible with my machine. Was told those disc are no longer avaible(sic) so they refunded my money back, so all I have are a set of …

hi all... came home, turned my laptop on and this page came up Pheonix First BIOS notebook Pro version 2.0 copyright bla bla all rights reserved cpu = inter (r) pentium (r) m processor 1.50ghz 63k9 system rams passed... u get the point.... then it jumps to a page saying …

:'( I have been fighting an issue on my XP Home system for about three or so weeks.......... I feel so stupid at this point, I was checking out my sons user area and came across some stuff he shouldn't have and was deleteing them and erase the disk system.... …

Hi, I saw this identical problem before and never saw a solution: I have a [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?t=39736&highlight=can%27t+start+windows+xp#"]Gateway[/URL] 500 SE, with [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?t=39736&highlight=can%27t+start+windows+xp#"]Windows[/URL] XP Home Edition. My [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?t=39736&highlight=can%27t+start+windows+xp#"]computer[/URL] is froze-up/was unresponsive. I keep getting this message: [I]We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change …

Hi Every1 When I switch on my computer after my desktop appears on screen i get a msg sayin "Temp2.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. Sorry for the inconvinence". why is this comin and how i can solve this?

i might be buying a 8800gts. i am not sure if it requires cooling.i do understand that the minimum power requirement is 400W but i am not sure if it requires extra fans or cooling. Will my pc actually heat up if i dont put extra fans or cooling.

I'm having terrible problems with this virus, which clears my desktop of icons & the start menu. Only way to keep working is to go to task manager, stop the icon.exe process, logoff & logon again. But it keeps coming back. I attach Hijack this log. I also keep getting …

Could someone please educate me on this matter. I have googled it and have found nothing. What is the difference between memory modules with black chips on one side and black chips on both sides? I have 4 identical memory sticks...only difference is the number of black chips. Two of …

My laptop recently crashed (by the way, thanks again to those of you who responded to that post =] it works now) and so i was looking into the area of external hard drives for back up between my desktop and laptop i don't really know much in the hardware …

ok so i boot and it always comes up with two os's but now i want one of them deleted. one version of xp i have installed has only service pack 1 and the other has service pack 2. i use the one with 2. i would like to delete …

Hi All, I have a D-Link DI-704P router/parallel print server, and while all the router functions are working fine, and the print server, with my HP Laserjet 4MP attached, works fine from a Windows machine, I am having real trouble being able to print to the LaserJet from a machine …

Hi, i hope there is somebody that can help. I'm having a lot of trouble with a Vundo Trojan. Symantec catches it when i log into Windows, but it doesn't seem to remove it. I've tried running full scan, 10 layers deep, in safe mode to no avail. I also …

Does anyone have the procedure for creating Desktop Icons for “Computer Shutdown

I am using Windows XP Home Edition SP2 and have been attempting to download the Vista upgrade advisor. My computer will not open an .msi file, and I can't find a download to fix the problem for my version of Windows, because apparently I shouldn't have a problem. Can anyone …

Hello, I just got the HP Officejet 6120, when I try to install it I got error %1 is not a valid win32 apps. I think it was caused by spyware problem I currently have wit IE. Here's my HJ log. Please help.. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at …

Have a hp computer that has gone toes up. Think it is the hdd, but not sure. here is what happened. turn the unit on and it started to spool up then went into recycle mode. wounld not load up windows. tryed to restart in safe mode, nothing there, would …

Has anyone done this and if so what kind of problems am I getting myself into? My adaptor board is due in on Monday, it is a Rosewill RC212 4xSATA +1XIDE R .Any advice on setting it up!

Used to be able to get on some favorite sites, the last couple of days could not access them. Blank screen with "Done" on bottom left corner. After about 30 tries it would load correctly, but took extremely long (i.e. 5 - 10 minutes) to complete load. I ran Hijack …

[I]hi guys,[/I] [I]just received new netgear dg834g from aol, aol dont tell you the ip address of the router, as they want you to use their software to install it, however does anyone here know the ip address to setup the netgear dg834g, would be very greatfull - cheers guys[/I] …

hi... a few years back i used this site to remove my spyware... now i need your help again...my pc keeps freezing n my net starts showing limited or no connectivity... could u check my log for errors or watever... thanx Daniyal Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 11:04:22 …

Got a Trojan Horse virus McAf could not delete. I could not get on IE at all. Made the mistake of changing my home page. I got on using Firefox, but that was corrupted after I turned off computer. I cannot get on internet at all via affect computer. Spyware …

So a long time ago I had tons of malware on my computer and I came here and got it removed. Every since then i haven't been able to change my desktop background back to transparents which means all my icons have a solid color behind the text instead of …

I currently use Avast! Free Antivirus as my antivirus. I decided against using McAfee Security Suite 2007 on a new computer when it slowed down the computer too much. Now, I'm worried that freeware antivirus might be insecure compared to paid ones. I do have other freeware antispyware programs and …

I've recently installed AVG Anti-Virus free edition. I've done a couple of scans with no viruses found. Then today I did a scan, and right at the beginning of the scan this showed up under the "file" list ( Partition Table MBR) and under the result/infection list it said " …

help plz? Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 1:54:00 AM, on 4/19/2007 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\csrss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Intel\Wireless\Bin\EvtEng.exe C:\Program Files\Intel\Wireless\Bin\S24EvMon.exe C:\Program Files\Intel\Wireless\Bin\WLKeeper.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Program Files\Intel\Wireless\Bin\ZcfgSvc.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE …

Help could someone please explain what is happening to my IE as it shuts down and leaves the following message on my desktop # # An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine: # # EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x0513e672, pid=3784, tid=2460 # # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client …

Hello, You guys tried to help me when I had problems with my computer, and wanted to know if you could help me with this. My sister has three kids who love to download everything. She recently has had popups, and who knows what else going on, and could not …