Hardware and Software Forum

Hi, I'm actually new to this site and haven't posted here before, so I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right area, but I have a problem that I have been trying to fix for awhile. I have an 500GB SimpleTech PininFarina external hard drive and whenever I try …

I use a windows vista home premium in my core-2 duo laptop as a single user. when i open d folders, i find a lot of folder icons with a blue curved arrow on folders like My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, etc. When I double click on one of …

what's the trick to making sure you utilize all your RAM and your L2 cache, are there settings or parameters i need to set to allow for that?

I have a Dell Laptop M1330, all of sudden the wifi stopped working, so ran all kind of aniviruses, cleaned 5 viruses, good, now I can´t connect via wifi, but can connect via Lan; so I figured that after deleting those viruse, I was left with corrupted files. I uninstalled …

Well my HP Presario V4310nr dvd rom drive is no longer workin' properly,i wanna buy a new dvd rom drive internal ,but so far no luck. can anyone recommend a good place where i can find the part or is better to buy a external drive??? thanks for readin' my …

Hi, I am following a programming tutorial and it has asked me to enter the following line in the Terminal: aspell dump master | uniq | sort > wordlist When i type this it spits out the following: Error: The file "/usr/lib/aspell/en_AU" can not be opened for reading. It seems …

My pc will shut off suddenly. A few days ago I had received an email with a .rar attachment of a chart of pictures of colors. My AV said it was safe so I opened and saved to my harddrive. When I opened it from there my pc immediately shut …

Hello :) ..i am new to this site, (been a member for less than 1h) at work i have a couple of XP machines an 4 Server 2003 machines, my problem :-O is that 2 of the 4 Server 2003 machines CANNOT connect to any Microsoft web site, The two …

I have about 50 old JVS tapes that I want to copy to DVD's.. then make extra copies of the DVD's for relatives. I purchased a Toshiba DVD recorder and a package of DVD-R . One JVS tape was successfully copied to a DVD-R. The DVD-R played on the Toshiba …

I have created a windows forms in which on certain button click i show FolderBrowserDialog. After the user selects a folder and click on Ok button of FolderBrowserDialog i have done some work in the Ok click part of FolderBrowserDialog. For example [code=C#] if (folderBrowserDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { generateFiles(); } …

I am working on Windows XP and I select the hidden properties for some of my folders on my desktop and i can't view them even trying to show hidden files and folder options.... please can someone help me out with this... thanks a million in advace..

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I’m not sure if this is a Hardware or Software problem. I apologize if I have posted this in the wrong forum. When I burn a CD from the music on my windows media player, the burned CD will only play on a computer! So that means my burner is …

Does anyone know how to get a Hitachi Deskstar 160 Gig HD to recognize more that 32.8 Gigs. Is there 3rd party software that will allow this? Or does anyone know which jumper setting I have to remove? Thanks

Hi there, I'm having the exact same thing happen. ): I'm not too good with this sort of stuff but have tried allsorts of spyware removal with no avail. I did the scan with HijackThis and here is my log file... Much appreciate any help from you. ^^ Logfile of …

Good Morning, I am looking for some advice on establishing a network for my office. It is currently not working. 5 computers, one route, one hub/switch, simply need to deliver Internet connectivity to each wired computer. Is there a piece of downloadable software which can ping automatically the cat 5 …

can anyone help i have a 8.2gb usb stick and i like to give it 2 partitions, i have heard that linux can do this if so what is the command, i have ubuntu 9 thanks barry

For the past year I've been putting up with this really annoying problem where the process 'iexplore.exe' opens up in the background. It does not cause any slow downs in my computer but is extremely frustrating when I'm in the middle of playing a game and it opens, minimizing to …

I just got my new Asus 8l-raiser pci riser card in the mail today (for a pic, click on the link below. Also, I attached a copy of the pic). If I do not plug any cards into either of the slots on the riser card, leaving both of them …

i have a new hp pavillion laptop intel centrino 2 core two duo 2.26 ghz 64 bit cpu. i have a cisco 32 bit vpn software which i cant run on this machine. how can i get it to run?

A few days ago my computer starting starting slower than it used to. At first I thought it froze during startup. So I turned it off and back on again, but after 5 minutes it finally moved past the start-up screen. Even after startup it was still running slowly so …

are the processors in my USB network adapter card useful at all? do they help out the CPU in any way or not really?

A friend of mine has a HP pavillion 700 that just won't boot. When I turn it on, it won't post and the monitor isn't getting any type of signal. [I]The system is an Athlon XP, ASUS A7N8X-LA MB with 256 MB PC2700 RAM, built in audio, video & LAN.[/I] …

I am new to Linux.I don't know anything about Linux . I have recently installed Fedora 10,I heard that files having extension .exe are invalid or can't be opened in Linux, but I also heard that there is a program in Linux which can open those files called wine.I want …

Hi, I'm new to this forum, but I cannot find any posts related to my question. When I open a spreadsheet, or, when I open a blank spreadsheet, the toolbars that are checked in the View menu are not displayed. For each toolbar, I have to uncheck and then check …

Hi guys, am running xp pro and having problems with pc going into sleep mode when i open microsoft office outlook, sometimes it will open but as soon as i try and open a folder it shuts down and the only thing i see is a small window saying attention …

Hi, Im new here and really really in need of help This morning, my computer got a virus, I have tried all sorts to fix it, heres what is going on -In task manager, without opening internet explorer, it is already sitting in the processes, if I kill it, it …

Hi, while investigating a problem folder i enable the hidden files to be viewed in all folders a while back. well recently i had noticed these weird files that were exact duplicates of files in most of my folders except that they had a "._" prefix. i have been deleting …

I am using Windows XP SP3. My Norton subscription ran out. So I downloaded the free McAfee software from Comcast. I had to adjust the settings as I wasn't able to receive ANY email to MS Outlook. Annoying, but fine. Since then, I have not been able to perform any …

Right so... SOMEHOW precisead got downloaded and installed. its not dangerous, but its annoying. Since its a program, non of my pop-up blockers block the pop-up adds and my 3 antivirus and anti-spyware programs fail to find it and destroy it. Well I found out, it was because in intergrated …

i just installed a new 1gb ram pc2700 ddr (they said it was low density) memory in to my computer along with a 512mb pc2700 ddr sdram that came in it now i have problems with programs shutting down any help is great

Hi all I just thought about backing up my home directory to a zip file so I used [CODE]zip backup-13-jul-09 .[/CODE] Then I read about the argument [CODE]-u[/CODE] so I found a file called readme.txt in my home directory opened it and added "Hello World" to the bottom line then …

I have Windows Vista I recently upgraded my Windows Internet Explorer. Now everytime I get on the internet this about blank keeps poping up and it says internet stopped working and then I get a dll error. I now have 24 about blank pages with erros in about 2 minutes. …

I'm formatting and setting up the partitions in a 500GB harddrive. Its not really going to be partitioned but I believe I need to leave a certain amount for the logical part of the harddrive? what sizes are best to use in this case? i'll be running windows xp pro …

My Acer Aspire T180 will not boot up, I have researched the beep codes and can't find the relevant match, it just continually gives even long beeps with no screen display. Occasionally it does boot up after 15 mins, 1 hour, 1 day... then it will only run for a …

My PC now has winXP Pro. If I also wanted to have win98 installed for whatever reason, would that work? How would I install win98 separate from XP? Then how do I use one op sys at a time>? Is this an unusual situation? Am I being unreasonable? Thanks

i just place sound card in one of the slot.and installed the driver but still not working .Kindly help me.any help would be Highly appreciated.

Wirh my Compaq Evo 1015V laptop screen on its way out, I bought an Acer V173 monitor to use with it. But the native 60Hz refresh rate does contribute to headaches for me and I would like to increase it by unticking the "Hide Modes that this monitor cannot display …

Hi, I am an XP user and trying to find out which service or process uses which file. Is there any cmd command or other way to learn this.

Hopefully this is the right place seeing as I am running Windows Vista, rather than the Mac forums. Situation is that I have bought an iPhone 3GS and want to populate it with my existing iTunes library, on a Vista computer which syncs with my iPod. The existing iPod will …

I'm trying to upgrade libcups2-dev and dpkg is giving me an error. I issue aptitude install libcups2-dev from the CLI as root and receive - [B]aptitude install libcups2-dev[/B] Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... …

Greetings daniweb. I've encountered a few problems on my PC and found similar problem solutions on this site, therefore I would like to ask for your assistance. Recently something has infected my computer. Symptoms: 1)I can't visit ANY antivirus webpages and some completely unrelated sites. 2)All software updates are disabled …

Hi, I wonder if anyone can shed a little light on the problem I'm having. Came to start up the laptop this morning and was presented with a very strange display of lines and an attempt at the HP start up logo. The whole screen was a mess of lines …

Alright, I am running the Windows7 RC and i can't seem to get it to recognize my second SATA HDD. I have two WD Caviar Black drives, and the first one has no problem. The BIOS on the motehrboard, whcih is a Gigabyte EX58-UD3R recognizes both drives and the DVDRW, …

Every time I go to a directory, the view (tiles, icons, list etc etc) seems to be arbitrarily assigned. The problem gets even worse with plugin USB drives as it seems to descend into chaos. I keep doing "set all folders" to look like this, but does it remember - …

I recently installed Windows XP Pro (fresh installation). For about thre days my computer ran without any problems but I started receiving an error message like "[B]Generic Host for Win32 has encountered an error and needs to close... Send... Dont Send[/B]" Just after the error appears, when I try to …

Running XP and the pc began turning off suddenly, now it turns off all the time. Tried to run a virus scan but it turned off so it couldn't finish it. I also tried restoring it to an earlier time but wouldn't complete it either... can't do much now, what …

So I have a Toshiba A215-S7418. My cousin dropped it while the power cord was still attached and broke the jack inside the laptop. So I had to take apart the whole laptop to change the jack and secure it back. Then I had to get a new power adapter …

I have an IBM color flatbed scanner from '98, used with windows 98 on another PC. Now have windows XP and cant install the driver. SW requirements say win98/winNT. XP apparently cant read the disc as it says 'no disc in drive' (E). Does this mean I have to junk …

Hey guys,does any1 know how to solve the mystery of making your fans run a bit quiet (like the IBM desktop PC's).I got a foxconn p4m800p7ma motherboard with 3 fans. 3 x 80mm's 1 on the CPU, 1 on the back of the Case and 1 in the PS. I …