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I have a 17" BENQ monitor that is slow to start after being shut off for a couple of hours. The monitor LED blinks but the monitor takes about 5 minutes to light up. However, if the PC is started up after being shutdown for a short period of time …

Hello all, I have a strange situation going on: First, I cannot reboot the computer. Once rebooted the computer signs off and never comes on. Second, if I unplug the computer or turn it off, when I start it up, the monitor does not come on - I have to …

Hi everyone!)) I'm pressing key down , but symbol appears only once! Guys, please tell me - where's the problem ? Big thanks in advance))

:( Can someone please help me? Last night my computer shut down for no apparent reason and when i started it up again it said that had recovered from a serious error. I have a feeling i may have some nasties on board! My computer restarted and took me to …

Hi I am running windows 7 and I can not clean my flash player's saved data. Flash Player doesn’t only save data in your browser’s cache but it also saves some information on your hard drive. You should also delete this information on a regular basis to ensure that you …

Hi all, thought I'd ask for a little help for a change. I have a tablet PC at work with a corrupted Windows XP tablet install on it. I have tried everything I can think of to recover it but nothing does the job. I have decided to reinstall it …

I'm having this problem I'm sure many people have had before me, but i haven't been able to get rid of it. Not sure if this is the same thing, but my computer also gets the error "the service cannot accept control messages at this time." here's my hijackthis log: …

Hi guys, I want to access my virtual domain from another computer on same network by typing [url]www.site1.com[/url] or site1.com without using IP at the beginning of URL. Currently it works this way: [U]Server computer where Apache is running:[/U] [url]www.site1.com[/url] AND site1.com works fine as I want. [U]Another desktop computer …

Hi i am running Windows Vista Home Premium on my HP Media Center PC, and my computer just went through my scheduled Hardware Diagnostic tests and everything passed except the Random Seek Test for my C drive. Is this a bad thing? what do i do about it? Do i …

I'm looking at buying a new dell laptop, what are your opinions on the inspiron range?? any opinions are welcome. Thanks, Chopper.

Hello all, I will apologize in advance. I am truly a novice. I am not familiar with terminology and some of my equipment is antiquated but serviceable. I have a functional wireless network and would like to add my hard-wired printer and scanner. Do i simply run hard-wires to ethernet …

Hello - just downloaded this new application to control my fan speed for my Macbook Pro as I noticed its temperature sky rocketing sometimes for seemingly no reason. My question is does smcFanControl update the temperature display at the top of the screen automatically on a Mac?

Hello all, My employer wants to implement an exchange server to store emails and contacts on the server away from end user pc's. They want me to figure out if this system is feasible for our business. I do not know much about exchange server so here I am asking …

Can anyone tell me how to change the windows XP admin password?? What we did is we have gone through safe mode and break the password and when we restarted the system the options has gone like there was no option called remove password or enter old password.We don't want …

Hi everyone, I am actually trying to design a small network for a project. The network has several servers and so on. I would like to make these servers accessible to workers outside the company but I dont really know how to do it. Should I buy a domain name …

hi everyone im try to find simple way to install apache web server into linux OS, anyone can share here!!THANKS..

hello all i hav a file in which i want to replace '/dev/null &' with " " .i m using :s/'/dev/null &'/" " but it is not replacing the string

My computer is a bit of a Frankenstein - I bought it in 2002 but have replaced several parts of it over the years. (Motherboard was replaced under original warranty, new hard drive about 2-3 years ago, new RAM a couple years ago, new DVD drive last year, etc) It …

Hello, I am having trouble with MySQL on a newly installed Fedora 14. I have found that there are several issues with MySQL on Fedora but none of the issues I have found have exactly fit my situation. To start off, when I installed Fedora, I chose the Web Server …

Have new iMac w/ OS 10.6.6. Installed older version of Excel (2004). Worked fine. Opened files, worked on them, no problem. There are 5 files, though that won't open. Tried double-clicking and get a "flash" of the loading bar but nothing opens. Went to menu bar: File, Open, find file …

I thought I had gotten rid of a fake antivirus program that had somehow got on my computer through pop ups, but it seems there is still some sort of virus on it. If anyone can help me get rid of this, I would greatly appreciate it! I'm running Windows …

i cant install adobe photoshop CS5 Extended .. it gives error like this Exit Code: 6 -------------------------------------- Summary -------------------------------------- - 0 fatal error(s), 43 error(s), 41 warning(s) WARNING: The payload: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Core {7DFEBBA4-81E1-425B-BBAA-06E9E5BBD97E} requires a UI parent with following specification: Family: Photoshop ProductName: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Core_x64 This …

I have a Toshiba p205d that is over 3 years old. My computer went into hibernation overnight and when I tried to "wake it up" the screen remained black. I turned it off and back on got a quick flash showing the toshiba start up page and then black. I …

I have Windows xp professional celeron cpu 2.53 Ghz and 1.24 GB ram and whenever I start up I get the attached error message. (I don't know if the attachment worked) but basically it reads: DriverCure failed to start, please reinstall the application. But I can't find the program in …

Friend dropped this off for a helping hand. Computer after clean ups is still very sluggish but it seems pop ups and IE registry pop up(virus i assume) have stopped. Mba-m log: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.50.1.1100 [url]www.malwarebytes.org[/url] Database version: 5481 Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702 1/7/2011 8:06:19 PM …

hi...I am running rhel5.4. I have enable UserDir in apache and get the forbidden error while trying to access [url]http://localhost/~lanor[/url] I have set set permission for user Lanor 711 for home dir "lanor" and 755 for "public_html" Is it that I have to set the above permission for the user …

I installed a few programs that looked like they might be good but did not like them or they played up ion installation so I deleted them. Now when I start windows I get popup with "can nor find "then two little squares" please check spelling and retype. and another …

Greetings, I have just noticed that after I shut down my PC i goes through the process of the normal shutdown and then the screen loses signal as normal but now the PC continues to run for about another 1 minute with the HD light flashing as if very busy. …

I connected my TV to my laptop using an hdmi cable. I found and set it as an additional monitor but the TV would not display anything besides the lg no signal logo. After this i accidentally set my laptop to display only out of monitor 2. My TV is …

Hello, I have installed apache server on Ubuntu 9.1 desktop. When I access http://localhost:8888 or http://192.168.1.60:8888, I get message : "It works". Now, I am able to run the apache on the port 8888 using the windows 7 without any problem and I accessed it from outside internet and that …

Question coming from total ignorance, with apologies. Of my two HDDs the c: drive started cycling during bootup and running Chkdsk. It was taken away, both drives ghosted, D: formatted and partitioned and contents of both drives put back into partitions. Result is worse problems on bootup than ever before, …

not sure how to title this question... we run an exchange server with around 80 internal users, all outgoing mail is relayed off a smart host (ISP smtp server) so nothing is actually sent to the world via our server. i wanted to check the server, locally i can telnet …

Hi! can any one tell me the file extension of items which are in sites like WeeWorld.com. I want to create dummy and wear it dresses.When i click on a certain dress it must appear in that dummy. And also any idea of doing this. thanks

I have a PowerPoint presentation that I would like to burn to a dvd to run continuously. Any ideas? Thanks.

I have a laptop that I purchased from work, but it boots to the old network and I would like to remove this without having to reinstall XP. I am able to use the PC stand alone, but it is always trying to sycronize to the network, which can't be …

Hi, My school's computers (WinXP Pro SP3) have a strict group restriction policy which doesn't allow a user to run .exe and .bat files (unless they were installed by the system admin). I need to know if there's any way I can bypass this restriction and be able to execute …

Hello I have been looking at a PC which has a low download speed, 1180Kbps, when access the Internet via a 3COM wireless access point. This access point has the number 7000-000-732 but I cannot see such a model on the Net.. The nearest similar one seems to be the …

HI ..I'm using windoze xp...whenever I watch any video from windose media player 9.0 , I can only watch them as really dark..for some reason , i am failing to improve the brightness of my screen . There's a way which is used to increase the colour settings of a …

I want to purchase a USB flash drive and I am uncertain if my USB port is a series 1.0 or 2.0. I am particularly interested in a flash drive that requires a USB 2.0. My sales invoice does not provide the spec's on the USB port. Does anyone have …

I have an XP workstation that is not part of a domain. It is a member of a workgroup. When I try to login under one user, I get the error message, "Your account has expired. Please contact your system administrator". I have multiple users setup on the workstation, so …

hi, i have a problem accessing my php files in my browser, i am using apache as my webserver. it used to work properly until i messed up things. now i don;t know what to do. everytime i open my php files which are on /var/www/htm/ it gives me the …

Ladies and gents; is there anyone here that can read and decipher dump files after BSOD? I know I can install the winsdk and symbols, but I have no concept of these things and wondered if anyone has it so they might read the files and tell me the problem. …

Hello I have the issue where my dvd burner has not been able to be seen by my compouter and this has just recently happen in the last few days ever since i had help from microsoft to go into my computer and help remove some rootkits and viruses as …

I'm sure threads don't have to be all about problems so, I was wondering when I delete my files, where does it go? How does the hard drive regain its space? I read somewhere that the OS just ignores it but I wanted to make sure and if we used …

Hello everyone, I am new to the forums and quite new to the IT on a bit more serious level. I decided to set up a wireless connection at home in order to have wi-fi on my iPhone. No problem with that after some time spent, I settled it up. …

Recently I turned on my laptop and realized my taskbar changed by XP blue to gray with no special icons. The taskbar looks like a boring version of Windows 98. I tried everything and nothing's working. It was normal yesterday. I'm using Trend Micro Internet Security. I tried to click …

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I'm having a problem on how to recover my password in Folder Protect, I forgot it and I don't know to recover it, does anyone know how to recover a password?

Hi So I had a post all typed up, but then when I was running GMER the computer crashed and I lost it. The gist of it is that I'm home visiting my parents and their computer is pretty close to FUBAR. It's got a virus that's redirecting search results …

I would like to ask is it beneficial having a lot of comments from the same website with a great ranking in alexa(400,00) but different IP address and different email address?