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I am recently having these problem with my computer that when I power on my computer it doesn't start at first time. But it starts when I press the Restart button of CPU. I don't know what's wrong with my computer. I have Windows 7 OS, 160GB HDD & 4GB …

I cannot download adobe flashplayer on my Windows/XP - IE 8.0 system. Adobe's site says my config. is incompatible. It absolutely is not. I've a 3>0 Ghz processor; IE 8.0; 1.00 GB of RAM & 512 MB of graphics memory. Has anyone encountered this and found a work around?

Hello, Hi can anyone help me please,I have problem on my dvd-rom.This is the model TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223Q SAMSUNG SUPER WRITE MASTER...my problem is when i am going to insert a dvdRw and then i am going to burn using only the windows burner...it will not burn the files, after …

What do you guys think of using a touchpad for windows 8? How compatible will it be with dual screens? Would you get one? I was looking at this one - http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&sku=580-18139&SMCID=62001217&CAWELAID=1625512354&dgc=SS&cid=41147&lid=1069636&acd=23975883824506427 Thanks

My pc has two hard disk drives. The primary hard disk has become corrupted(or it has got some virus so that pc turns off abruptly). I have win 98 installed in the slave hard disk so i can run win 98 when i disconnect the primary HD. Is there a …

I boaght a new laptop with windows 7 starter on. But when I try to adjust the screen brightnes or volume i cant, nothing happens. I have donwloaded and installed all of the drivers on sony's website of my model but it still doesnt work. How can i fix this, …

Hi, I have 6 family pc's connected by a cable router. My and my husbands connection is wired, my 18 yr old son, 17 year old son, 15 yr old daughter and a family pc for use by the younger children have a wireless link. My son is a real …

Hi, when I open microsoft picture it! photo standard 9, The top left hand corner I click file, open. A box comes up, I select the file, click open and the program shuts down! The same thing happens if i select get file from camera. Twice I have uninstalled and …

Hi DaniWeb, I'm getting a light blue background in the text box. I don't know why this is happening or how to fix it.(it's usually white) Please see below for screenshot. http://imgur.com/UYg9srD If anyone can help me it would be much appreciated.

I currently have a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS box serving as a network repository for daily workstation backups for our HQ office. Throughout the day the Win7 workstations use Cobian Backup 11 to backup their user folders to their respective samaba shares on this server. At night this server rsyncs all …

Windows 7 operating system, computer is asking for boot disc at start up. I have updated BIOS to select hardrive but still not working. It doesnt come up with this error all of the time though. Can anyone help?

from today morning , my keyboard just cant keep up. i type a few words , and then it starts displaying the first letters! quite a trouble this ! i tried google-ing about keyboard becoming slow , but the few forum threads i found suggested a format, but thats not …

The Wireless-G Has A Website Which Allows You To Change The Name Of The Router And Creating A Password.. So If We Have A Wireless-N Router , What Website Will It Be?? It Is According To Our Ip Address??? The Wireless-G Website Site Is : [url]http://192.168.1.1/[/url] So What About The …

I am not able to load the yahoo sites (yahoomail, yahoo,yahoo answers etc) and few other sites(eg Microsoft.com). Please refer to my earlier post : http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/networking/threads/409045/cannot-access-yahoo-sites I had a Beetel 450TC1 router, which finaly gave up yesterday, so I used the modem that my ISP provided, a wire-only router (AN1020-20) …

Just purchased a new Samsung 250 Gig SSD, extern & internal. When I pluged it into my Mint Linux desktop via USB it never showed up or auto mounted. When I tried to run the command 'sudo mount /dev/sdc /mnt' it gave me this error, 'mount: you must specify the …

At start up, even from hibernate, Atheros 5007UG WirelessAdapter 2 downloads and crashes internet connection. The only way to get my system back is to do a system restore, but the same thing will happen next time I start up. Any other programme needs permission to install but not this, …

I just went in to edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg and the first thing I seen in the file was this: # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub # How am I to make changes if …

**Virus in linux machine???? Yes! under the following circumstances:** Please, before anyone jumps in with "impossible, there's no viruses for linux, you are stupid" read the post. I got a friend's computer to fix, Gateway NV53. Fast forward, put a new HDD but it won't accept any windows installation disk. …

HI i m new in linux and i have on my pc linux mint,now i just installed python 3 in my linux.. how i can use the gui to write some scripts i m learning python..and in the tuto he shows the gui in windows very easy to write how …

Hello, as one of the forum members susgested - I need to learn PECL to use. So I tried today, but not succesfully. I tried installing random extention, I choose html_parse http://pecl.php.net/package/html_parse\ So as documentattin writes - I run: pecl install html_parse in the ubuntu command line. And get error …

I can not access my iPad due to a message showing up about updating my iCloud. I can see everything (the lock screen) and the message that i get has two buttons and when i click on them, they don't open. I don't know if i make any sense, but …

hi all, Please i have a HTC T Mobile but ni can't access my region and Market is not available in my Country.

Everytime I boot up my computer, I get the yellow triangle on my LAN connection, which means I can't access the internet, but as soon as I disable the network adapter then re-enable it again, it works. Not sure why it does this but it is, of course, a problem. …

What's gvfs and why can't root access it? Emphasized Text Heremint-desktop ~ # du -sh /home/garrett du: cannot access `/home/garrett/.gvfs': Permission denied 73G /home/garrett

Toshiba Windows 7 Laptop is not accepting 1 Critical Update after numerous attempts. It is update KB2667402 159KB. Any help would be appreciated. System is Windows 7 x64.

Hi guys I've downloaded debian-6.0.7-i386-CD-5 cd from linux site and burned the image to a cd, so my problem is that my pc skip the boot from cd booting process. My system type is x86-based pc, and I'm not sure if my system support the downloaded package please advice

Hello guys, I don't know whats wrong I followed every tutorial for adding editing cron jobs here is what I did. using putty sudo crontab -e 1 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/cronjob.php then save file, my cronjob.php for testing perposes $DB_HOST="localhost"; $DB_USER="root"; $DB_PASS="123456"; $DB_NAME="cron"; $connect=mysql_connect("$DB_HOST","$DB_USER","$DB_PASS") or die ("error"); mysql_select_db("$DB_NAME",$connect) …

I have XMarks bookmarks synced on 2 machines. One machine keeps up to date perfectly. XMarks on the other machine does not update. When I try to sync and update the process just keeps going on forever or crashes. It is possibly corrupt and needs to be reinstalled, but I …

I've been having a problem with my php, apache, mysql. I can't find the problem so I'M gong to uninstall all of them and re-install them using tasksel. But when I type sudo apt-get remove mysql, it returns the following: garrett@mint-desktop ~ $ sudo apt-get remove mysql Reading package lists... …

Hello, This is a bit of an unusual question, and I wasn't really sure where I should put it (Geeks Lounge or Hardware) but I decided to stick it here anyway. I've recovered an old PC, an Acer Aspire Desktop (not sure on the model, but it's certainly a form …

Hey, I recently tried to jailbreak my iPod touch 4th generation. In the middle of it, my computer crashed and my iPod went into recovery mode. I plugged it into the computer and restored it but all my iPod data was erased. I tried backing it up but it won't …

Hello, maybe someone can write most important things what web developer should know about linux? When I am reading linux tutorials, I often find out that I don't need this what I read. At least never needed. So its not fun to read about things which you don't need. What …

I was just curious if this is just me or what but it's extremely annoying. I have installed Apache2 and PHP on my Linux Mint 14.1 Cinnamon machine fine, but when I use `apt-get install mysql-server` (as super user), this happens. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state …

Win7 32bit laptop. I've looked all over the Control Panel and can't the link for adjusting mouse sensitivity. Had no problem in XP, but this escapes me. Input appreciated. Thanks. Giddyup

hi, I made a new partition to install vista because i wanted to make sure i would have all the files i needed before i normally would've cleaned the original partition and installed it there. I plan to keep the second partition and i would like to move memory from …

forgive my ignorance, there must be a really simple answer to this, but im unaware of it, also, tried google-ing for it, but didnt know what to look for exactly, and didnt get much good answers either. my question is, since 2^32 is around 4Gb, so max usable RAM on …

When i try to uninstall openssl i get this error: Error: Trying to remove "yum", wich is protected I use the yum remove openssl Command how do i uninstall openssl then? Also after i installed it i had to configure some stuff in /etc/pki/CA I think that i might have …

Hello, I got really annoyed today. I was even hitimg my mouse into table. I can't stand those search engines. Gooogke is best search engine, so why do I ever need those another autoinstalling without asking me? Those no name, like babylon search and so on. I delete them and …

Hi, I have a small network with 18 servers, 13 desktops, a couple of laptops, media streaming devices, iphones etc... I also have a dozen or so outside the home users connected via a point to multipoint system 24x7. My question is this: I have been running my network without …

Hi, I recently bought a palit nvidia geforce 620 graphics card and im having trouble getting it to work. I plugged it intothe motherboard and the computer works but the graphics card fan spins realfast and is very loud. When i plug my power cable in however (pcle) the fan …

I was foloowing instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo and came to this: sudo checkinstall I run this command and at the end I get errors. /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/libexec/mc/extfs.d' /bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/libexec': No such file or directory make[5]: *** [install-extfsDATA] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mc-4.8.1.7/src/vfs/extfs/helpers' make[4]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[4]: …

Hello, I have installed auto-apt using instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutoApt but the problem is I cannot execute it bash: apt-file: command not found probably it could be in some directory, but there is not in enviroment variable. So how can I find where it is inslled?

Hi, i am getting a blank screen it takes more than 15 minutes to display the desk top i am using windows 7 ultimate 32 bit recently i have installed oracle 11g and internet download manager. help me to solve this problem with out formatting the system. thanks for your …

Hi, I have recently been using Linux mint 14 on my computer but after hours of trying to get used to it I have decided to get windows 8. I bought it from a shop, so it's on a disk not downloaded. But when i try to install it, I …

We are making the switch to iMacs later this year but to improve employee productivity and enforce access policies we need to find a "business class" internet filter for our new iMacs. I can always configure our network to block the sites but this is primitive as it doesn't filter …

how to join a computer to a domain....i tried using this command in the command propmt------> ( netdom join servere /domain:TeamA.com /userd:TeamA\Team /passwordd:******** ) (server) is the name of the computer i wnt to join to ma domain. (/domain:TeamA.com) TeamA.com is the name of my domain. (/userd:TeamA\Team) Team is the …

Can anyone provide a link or exact name for the following router, I can't seem to find it's specs anywhere: **Net/G Wan 300Mb(N) Wl Dual Band Router. All-in-one—High Speed ADSL2+ Modem (built-in) and WAN Gigabit Ethernet port for cable/fiber.** And yes I've tried copying the entire name in Google, no …

hi frenz ....after succesfully installing the windowserver 2008 iso on a vmware...installation was successfull, but didnt see any thing like windows start button. is just showing a command prompt and the windows desktop....what can i do from here am jst confuse bcause the desktop is blank...and no way to access …

hi frenz please i installed vmware workstation 6.5.0 so that i could use it to run windowserver 2008 amd64 (ISO) image and it prompting this error(windows cannot open the requierd file D:\source\installa.wim. the file may be corrupt or missing. make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart …

If I have one computer connected to a router and another two computers connected to each other, how do I get one of the other computers that are directly connected to see the computer connected to the router on a network ? tongue twister :)