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Clothing retailer Uniqlo is now offering customers the opportunity to customize their T-shirts. Similar to what a custom screen-printed shirt would be, Uniqlo's rather unique UTme! app, available for Android and iOS, will allow users to custom print a shoot with their own designs or photographs. There is also a community gallery where you can see designs that your peers have created and also vote on them; it's like an Instagram for tees. Additionally, shaking your phone will apply random effects to your design to spruce it up if you need help with some creativity to make your designs stand out. Tees will sell for about $20 for the finished product. Uniqlo's site s…

Apple's rumored $3.2 billion tie-up with Beats Electronics may not have happened as quickly as first reported, but the deal is still happening. As we all continue to scratch our heads as to why exactly Apple would acquire beats, the latest reports circle back to talent — they want Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre. According to TechCrunch: "They want Jimmy and they want Dre," said the source. "He's got fashion and culture completely locked up." Sure the successful line of headphones and the streaming music service are an added bonus to the potential deal, but adding Iovine and Dre to the Apple team could unlock new potential in the media industry as a whole. Even before…

Five minutes after logging off and shutdown of my PC I T turned on the PC again and tried to log on again. The logon was taking an unusually long to complete. Suddenly two dialog boxes openned. One had a timer ticking down to shutdown. The other was a Windows Product Activation dialog box saying "This copy of Windows must be activated with Microsoft before you can log on. Do You want to activate Windows now? The timer expired and the PC shut down and restarted. I tried to log on again and the Windows Product Activation dialog box popped up. This has never happened before! What could have changed that caused this? csf. Continue reading...

Is there anywhere that lists various computer bugs? Want to know what Bug#CD-20288 is and it's effect on my computer and how to eridicate it? Continue reading...

when i insert any pendrive the pendrive is detected but when i open it i get an error saying "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator" could you please help me. Continue reading...

This is freaking me out. Prior to today, I've never experienced this problem before. Now it has happened twice. I haven't done anything special, and I don't know how to fix it. It says that the problem is with win32k.sys and something about page fault in non paged area. Also it started doing something called a physical dump. What is that? Should I let it happen? I don't want to lose my data. This also appears: stop 0x00000050 (0xe2c0b000, 0x00000001, 0xbf97c771, 0x00000001) Continue reading...

This Compaq 2100us was running xp sp3 w/Net and lubuntu 14.04 in a dual boot config deleted lubuntu, reinstalled win sp1 and updated to sp3 from a self -extracting upgrade on a usb. (From ms downloads) Installed IE8 and all was running fine. When I power up I get the Compaq screen with the [esc - f2 - f12 options] pressing f2 displays "entering setup" and does nothing after powerup agian pressing f-12 displays "booting from LAN" and does nothing after powerup again pressing Esc. displays the following: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 Copyright 1985-2001 Pheonix Technologies Ltd. All Ri…

What do I have to do to enter in my samsung notebook when I'm said in the screen I am offline and to enter the last password used in my computer, each time I enter the Microsoft account password I'm sure is correct!? Is there a solution? As far as I remember the computer came with Windows8. Continue reading...

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I got this when I was updating my visual studio 2012 update 4. I found other forum but it doesn't answer my question. How do I solve this? Continue reading...

I've recently installed windows 8.1 and I have not been able to connect to the internet ever since . I've tried various remedies I searched for on various forums like using the elevated command prompts netsh winsock reset catalog and netsh int ip reset reset.log hit , even tried ipconfig /renew andipconfig /release . But still nothing . I also tried removing AVG but still nothing . I'm pretty sure its also not a router related issue as all the other computers in my home connect to the wifi and in addition to that I've tried to connect the laptop to different routers and still nothing . Continue reading...

I have recently bought a new graphics card for my computer. I installed the video card correctly, and then installed the drivers with the disk that came with it. After restarting the computer, the shortcuts disappeared and my machine was saying that there was a second monitor, which I do not have. So I clicked on devices, on the right hand side (windows 8) and clicked "display second screen only" on accident. Now my only monitor will no longer display any image at all. I took out the video card, and used the I/O DVI port and my screen continues to turn on and off with no image displayed. Continue reading...

I have tried running Rootkit Revealer - I enter the Admin password when asked, but nothing happens on my machine. I also tried "Run as Admin" but the same nothing happened. Makes me a bit suspicious that I've been hacked and diagnostic tools are being prevented from running. Or is this normal under Windows 7 (last time I ran it was under XP)? Any ideas/suggestions, anyone? Continue reading...

Hi, My work place's PC network is connected to the internet via a company subscribe account. I have a large file to download, I am thinking of using my own Wireless Broadband account. If I install the Connect Manager Software in that PC, when I launch the software will it get connected using my own accont automatically? Otherwise what setting I must make to disconnect the my PC temporary from the company subsccrie internet service temporarily? I intend to use this PC tempararily. I will uninstall the software after that. Thanks for your help. Low Continue reading...

I never intended to engage Windows Power Shell, but somehow I did. I guess I unintentionally hit a hot key? First, Windows Media Center kept booting up on its own. I tried to remove any file associations with WMC. Suddenly my icons changed and files such as Restore are now PS files. I tried booting with my Windows Boot Disk created when I first bought the computer, but I don't know how to get the restore process going if I cannot access the Restore function. If you do not already know, I am as dumb as a box of rocks. I have no hard core computer experience. I have built the hardware but I am senseless about how it runs. I can make lots of programs work just fine, but the…

For the last couple of months I have been having continuous problems with the blue screen of death. which has affected my whole laptop with other issues. The information on the BSOD is as follows: OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 3081 Additional Information: BCCODE: 7a BCP1: FFFFF6FC50090A58 BCP2: FFFFFFFFC0000185 BCP3: 0000001ACD5C880 BCP4: FFFFF8A01214B000 O.S Version: 6_1_7601 Service Pack: 1_0 Product: 768_1 Files Describe: C:\WINDOWS\MINIDUMP\052314-55567-01.DMP C:\USERS\KACEY\APPDATA\LOCAL\temp\WER-177397-0.sysdata.xml And the issues that this has caused are: - Harddrive is corrupt in 3 places …

If I switch from one Windows 7 based a program to another, many times it will result in a black screen. The monitor power on blinks (it's usually on solid) I've read through a number of posts, and tried several things. If I press the "Windows" button on the keyboard, unplug the monitor, wait 15 -30 minutes, and plug it back in, it will usually return to the Windows screen. Here's the scoop: I have updated all the drivers....still happens I have removed all games...still happens I've run defrag and disk cleanup....no luck I checked power options....nope I've run Windows trouble shooter, no recommendations. I changed the following hardware; monitor, DVI ca…

After I updated my Windows 8.1 to 8.1 update, I notice that every time I boot up the Windows, an alert appears on top left corner showing Windows Defender is taking action to clean detected malware. At the beginning, I believe the Windows Defender is working very well. However, I did not see this alert before and now it appears every time I boot up the Windows. Can some advise if this is a misleading alert or I need to do something on it. Thanks! Continue reading...

Strongvault Online Backup has been installed onto my computer without my permission. I am running Windows 7. I cannot find the program on the uninstall list when I go to my control panel. Is there anyway to get rid of this nuisance program? Continue reading...

I have a pop up window keeps appearing on my desktop with the name 'Fragglelers'. I close it but it reappears a few seconds later. It has a website http://watermillholidays.com. Does anybody know anything of this? <Moved from windows xp Repair and recovery > Continue reading...

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How do i download an antivirus on to my windows phone as every time i try it comes up saying that my device doesn t surport this file even when i go through microsofts own web site Continue reading...

I have been infected with the win32-zbot. It is identified on my computer as C:\Users\mary\AppData\Roaming\Izsiom\bului.exe. I can follow the path to the folder IZSIOM and bului files, but ot delete. I logged on as administrator and took ownership of the object, but still can't remove it. When I look at the Properties of the file the security settings allow total access, but when I highlight it, the "remove" button goes gray so I can't click it. I've granted myself, as administrator, permission to access the file but cannot delete it. When I try, I get a "need permission" message. I don't know how to gain the permission necessary, although I've read all the info on…

On holiday in France from UK. MacBook Pro. OSX 10.9.2 Safari 7.0.3 Last night I was in the hotel, connected to the internet using the hotel wi-fi "WifiPass from Passman". Safari suddenly posted a new page in a new tab from "updateplayer.us" demanding an "urgent update to FlashPlayer" and a pop-up window that only had an "OK" button and no cancel. Nothing worked on Safari. Could not close windows, etc. I clicked nothing. Force Quit Safari. Restarted computer and it all reappeared. Force Quit again. Cleared History. Got into Prefs and blocked pop-ups. Opened Safari (can't remember exactly the order of this - it was very late!). Got the "updateplayer" page without the …

One of my issues with Mavericks is that I miss the little slider in the lower right corner of Finder windows where I could easily change the size of icons in the window. This feature was very helpful when looking for photos in that folder. I could instantly make them larger to determine the differences between similar photos. Is there any way to do this now? Perhaps a keyboard shortcut or something else that I am missing? Thanks Peg Continue reading...