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Hi All, I recently installed some windows updates on my machine, and as soon as I restarted my PC this error msg appears after the BIOS has finished intialising everything: "DISK BOOT FAILURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" Obviously it is not recognising my C: drive, where Windwos Vista …

Hi, I have a place called "31 GB Media" which is C: drive in MyPlaces. I wanted to copy a folder from it to Ubuntu. I have typed this line in terminal but "No such file or directory" is returned. [code]sudo cp -r /31\ GB\ Media/Test/FolderWithFiles/ /var/www/[/code] Where is the …

I am installing office 2003 on a vista business PC in administrator profile and i get this message Error 1404 setup cannot delete the registry key. How can i solve it please help

My browser is being redirected to random sites when I click on search engine results. I can type the URL manually and get what I am looking for (if the entire URL is shown). I have tried to find and remove it but it keeps coming back and depending on …

First off, I've read Kevin's thread and the others. I have followed all those instructions yet mbam stops after 25 seconds. I'm running Windows XP Compaq laptop. I've tried command prompt for mbam also, I get access denied. I've killed svchasts.exe through tsmgr and admin tools. Renamed Windows Police Pro …

Hey guys, I bought a new computer with 4 gigs of ram, 64 bit windows vista OS, dual core 2.4 ghz processor. . and I'm having some problems with it. Firefox frequently seems to mess up. Sometimes it won't stop loading a page when I click 'X', it will become …

Hello everyone.... Thanks for taking the time to read this post......I downloaded this program from the weather channel that is supposed to give you the weather report that co-insides with the zip code you enter....complete with radar. Something happened during the download/install and now I get an error reading cannot …

Can a 64-bit Operating System be installed on machine having a 32-bit processor??

This is a new one, i don't know if you allready treated something like this, but i want to find a future and better solution. Ok, this is it. I have this windows xp machine at work (P4 3 Ghz, 512MB RAM, 80Gb HDD, VideoOnBoard), friday at 12:00 i try …

Hello My laptop is running out of space on C drive.I have good amount of space in other drives.Can I transfer some space like 5GB or more from other drives to C without re installing windows again.Is there any software available for this.Please help me to solve this problem Many …

Long story short, i somehow managed to get the windows police pro virus, probably from visiting some website(I haven't downloaded anything recently) Here is where it gets problematic: I can only run internet explorer, can't run command prompt, (I can run command.com out of the run menu though), I cant …

I upgraded my Vista laptop from 1GB ram to 2GB ram. The crucial.com system scanner tool says I now have 2GB installed ram, but in Control Panel-->System it says the ram is only 1,790MB. So why the discrepency of 210MB?

Hello!I have a very strange issue on my other computer.My computer starts itself.When I press the Shut Down button the PC shuts down and starts again (Like restart). I have Windows 7 and the shut down button is set to "shut down". The PC isn't connected to the internet. I …

On a recent pass thru the airport, my tablet pc experienced an alien force. All my settings reverted back to (I assume) defaut, causing auto downloading of unwanted updates. After fixing all that I could, I am left with Nero 7 shutting down Aero and resetting it to "standard" every …

hi all , I have installed ubuntu 9.04 , dual boot with xp , ubuntu can read the xp files but window xp does not see linux ( ext4) . does any one know of any ext4 driver for windows xp ? thanks

ok, so grab your coffee and come let me tell you what happened. - had a friend build me a great computer... worked fine up until today, and ive had it for 5 months... I was playing some WoW (let the nerd bash begin), when i had a fatal wow …

Is there a way to install multiple versions of IE on an XP PC? As a webdesigner/developer I would like to run 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0 for testing.

Hi I have a friends Acer travelmate 4000 laptop which has one user who is 14. It had 475 infections which im pretty sure i have cleaned, I also dl anti spyware/malware programs. my problem now is I created another logon account with admin rights and changed the 14 yr …

I had a hard drive failure, prior to this happening my sound was working perfectly. Replaced my hard drive, and reinstalled WinXP Pro and updates, all drivers, including SoundMax, from motherboard CD (ASUS P5B) thought I added everything back but my sound is only partially working. If I play a …

ive already tryed somthing but it's ovusly failed my computer some how's crashes the apps that I'm useing then it crashes the whole the computer. I've already formated the computer hard drive but it didn't work any idea guys and it had it's hard drive replaced a few weeks ago …

Just wanted to post where/how I figured out my gf got this on her computer. After stopping the svchasts.exe and windows police pro processes in task manager; I used file assassin to delete all of the files in the program folder. I then restarted the computer, which it popped up …

Hi all I was given a Compaq presario 2500 laptop which needed a new HDD which I purchased and installed. I then tried to install xp with the original cd which I was also given, everything was going fine until it got to the second boot and it said a …

I've tried everything to stop Windows restarting itself when I'm not around. Software that is supposed to prevent shut-down (it doesn't); that command line thing (nope). Everything but disabling the automatic updates. You'd think that'd be the first thing I'd do, but it seems I'm having a problem there too. …

I previously used a recording feature with SB Live 24bit--choice of input, showed levels while recording, links to other SB features like EAX console, device control etc. After a reinstall I can't find that recording feature. Any suggestions?

Hello guys, I have Laptop with Ubuntu/Vista Multiboot I would like to connect to my office place Domain. Mind you that this is my personal Laptop and I cannot tell the Office Admin to configure it for me. I have to do it my self which is good practice. So …

I hope I'm posting this to the right forum; if not, I apologise. Here's what I'd like to do: I have a PC running Linux and a notebook running Vista, both "talk" (ping) to each other over the network. I'd like to be able to open a terminal window on …

My computer do not startup. I need to use a boot disk for me to able to start it up. How can I do that? I have the boot disk.

Hi there, I've just purchased a barebones Shuttle PC (+components) and will be building it soon. However, I read a review that suggested the power supply provided (250w) was quite low. I was under the assumption that small form factor PCs can run with less power consumption than a standard …

I've just reformatted my PC. Operating system is Windows XP Home, SP1. I have no sound at all. I tried to alter the volume settings but the system could not fins any audio/sound devices. I have a floppy disk entitled SiS 964 RAID installation support disk Rev1.0. What do I …

Looks like I picked up a trojan or virus from somewhere or caused this by installing a KB security for IE, I don't know what actually screwed my laptop. The KB patch needed a reboot and after rebooting there was only .lnk files being displayed, all the links to my …

Hey a few days ago we had a power outage while i wasnt home. Came back and turned on the computer and it keeps freezing. Ill start up, log on, and get to the desktop. Then if i click any icons it freezes. I tried running norton but it scanned …

I have a 2 gig Kingston USB Data Traveler. My computer will assign 2 drives when you insert into the USB port, and when you try to access the flash it will say "Please Insert Disk." This will show up in other computers. I did get it to show one …

I have been attempting to get rid of this search engine redirect virus to no avail. I have tried several anti-virus programs (Ad-Aware, AVG Free etc), without success. Every time I search via Google, Yahoo etc and then click on a search result, I am redirected to various other sites, …

Hi when my pc starts up i log in but the system instatanly shuts down. I reinstalled windows and i am doing this in safe mode seen nothing else works.

Have a LaserJet P3005 printer. When switched on the indicator lights come on and stay on as if it's ready to print, but the LCD remains blank and no longer displays anything (normally displays READY) either during POST or when it is Ready. Printing fails. Tried a cold reset holding …

Every time i start windows (on the welcome screen or classic logon) I get about 9 or 10 errors saying: svchost.exe the reference memory at .... could not be written. After i debug or terminate them i have no sound,CPU isn't shown in System, Inet connections aren't show either ,I …

pressing power, my psu fires up, and the fans start on my cpu and my video card. i get power to my hard drive and optical. but nothing happens. no post, no boot. also, no power to USB or PS2 while in this state. fans spin, drives initiate, but nothing …

I have windows messenger 4.7 with XP. I want to upgrade it. I have downloaded 7.5, and higher from sites, but not working. It says this version not compatable need higher ones. I need to video chat can't do that with 4.7. No microsoft official website is opening in my …

Morning, I have 2 IDE HD's and 1 SATA HD. The SATA is my primary XP install and I had one of my IDE HD's as a Secondary XP Install and is used for work purpose. Everything was working fine until one day I was unable to boot to my …

[b]e q u i p m e n t[/b][list][*] Netgear DG834G v2 wireless aDSL modem/router (ports 1 through 4, plus wireless function) [*] Sony VAIO desktop 1 – connected to router w/ CAT5 cable The Network Connections icon in the System Tray shows a red [color="red"][b]X[/b][/color]. MouseOver message says, "Network …

Hello, I came home for Thanksgiving dinner the other night and found out my computer was infected with the Rapid antivirus malware program. It looks just like what pictures I've seen on the other sites, and does the same things. I read instructions on how to remove it, which first …

I have a AMD Athlon 64 3500+ in a DFI's LANParty UT NF4 SLI-DR mother board with 991461 DDR EM3200 3-3-3-8 2x1GB ram and a nvidia 9800 gt with a seagate 500 Gbyte hard drive but the thing wont show on the screen. The fans all spin the lights flash …

One of my clients went out and bought a cheap HP at Costco last spring which unfortunately has Vista Home Premium on it. It originally connect to the office network which is actually a domain without a problem. That is it couldn't log on the domain, but it was able …

Hello.. I am facing a strange problem in my PC lately. The "My Computer" simply stopped showing "DVD Drive"...... So I checked Device Manager..... There it is showing " ! " symbol with the Dvd Drive. I felt it must be some Driver issue, so tried updating it, but had …

Hello. I'm not the most computer literate, but I'll try to explain as best as I can. I am using my laptop with Windows Vista Home Basic and a linksys router. My connection says it is connected, but when I open both browsers (Firefox and Internet Explorer 7) nothing happens …

hi guys, please help to give some insight on how to block ICMP or ping request in a web server? thanks..

Hoping for help. Trying to get my daughters computer ready for college and can't seem to kill the three trojan.tdss files Hijackthis log: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 8:17:43 PM, on 8/22/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702) Boot mode: Normal …

As the title says, I can't access any anti-virus website, or Microsoft update, as well as getting random popups. I suspected the Conficker worm, so have ran two different removal tools (one from Symantic, one from Grisoft), as well as Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal tool, with no results reported and …

To start, I am a complete noob at computers so Im not quite sure what Im doing. Recently while playing games my computer screen faded to black, followed a few seconds later with my entire computer dying. I tried everything to turn it back on but had no luck whatsoever. …

Hi, I have two questions (Win XP): 1) I accidentally set a file's extension to open with the option "Always open with this app", or whatever the text is. Anyway, you can change it in the file's property dialog, but you cannot remove it. I want to remove it so …