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Help, I just got this surface pro and love it, but this passshow **** is messing with everything. Does anyone know how to remove it? Continue reading...

I have run the Microsoft Safety Scanner and it removed Adware:WQ32/AddLyrics. I am still have getting those annoying About this Ad pop-up and The media content is not shown properly...Update Version: M. Player 9.2 pop-up. I am at a loss now about what my next course of action should be. Thank you. Continue reading...

Hi, further to my recent question about not being able to uninstall a programme called Gameo, I just found the answer. Starting up the computer in "safe mode", I then went to uninstall and tried again and hey presto it worked, so whether it was dodgy or not I no longer have it. It might of been a trojan horse, but at least it's gone. regards, Malc Continue reading...

I keep having my Neat scanner program crash and have to reset. I opened a trouble request and they said my virus program is causing the Neat program to crash and I have to disable the virus program or create an exception to allow the Virus program to not shut down the Neat software. The following is from Neat: "an error caused the program to shut down" Hello, Thank you for the response. I do understand that you are having this difficulty but we rally need to disable the antivirus from your computer, if you know someone who knows to disable norton please do contact that person. The reason why we have to turn off the antivirus it is because it is t…

Anyone know how to remove Ask search engine from my computer? Continue reading...

Hello guys, I am using a MacBook Pro on 10.9.2. Recently I�ve started to get a very slow startup with these error messages in verbose mode and in the console. Is this indicating a software or hardware error? Thank you. Kernel messages Apr 21 09:21:11 SMC::smcInitHelper ERROR: smcPublishLightshowVersion failed (kSMCKeyNotFound) Apr 21 09:21:11 SMC::smcInitHelper ERROR: MMIO regMap == NULL - fall back to old SMC mode Apr 21 09:22:14 SMC::smcReadKeyAction ERROR: smcReadData8 failed for key B0PS (kSMCKeyNotFound) Apr 21 09:22:14 SMC::smcReadKeyAction ERROR: smcReadData8 failed for key B0OS (kSMCKeyNotFound) Apr 21 09:29:04 wl0: Roamed or switched channel, reason …

Hi everyone, I have some strange problems with blu ray disc on Debian testing. 1) I burn blu ray disc (using k3b + cdrecord, UDF format), everyting OK, when I check after burn, files are there. When I put disc to drive again, sometimes OK, sometimes some files missing, sometimes I see only empty folder. When I try to read blu ray under Windows, everything is OK - everytime. 2) After I changed to cdrecord, Debian+KDE is not able to load disc or eject tray untill I run k3b or some other CD/DVD/BR SW. Please help me, thanks :) Continue reading...

I am trying to setup a stand alone ubuntu server box with Postfix and SpamAssassin in front of our Exchange 2010 Server. I'm getting this error = Code: Apr 15 16:56:39 SpamServ postfix/postqueue[2249]: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly I have been looking in to the problem with no luck so far. I would be very thankful for any help any one is able to give me. Here are the config files I have at the moment. /etc/postfix/main.cf: Code: mydomain = .mail.companydomain.co.uk myhostname = localhost mydestination = companydomain.co.uk, companydomain.com, companydomain2.co.uk, companydomain2.com mynetworks = 192.168.2.0/24 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:1…

We have two server (172.16.10.114 and 172.16.10.115). Now we want to view crontab content of 172.16.10.115 from 172.16.10.114. Is there any command to do this (without shell script)? Continue reading...

I have a pure linux desktop with 4 OSes on it, it is booted through grub, and this direct boots the other 3 grub2 OSes one of which is Kali. Because of my grub setup I do not have recovery options available for the grub2 OSes and Kali for some reason did not give me a root password option on install and a blank and toor do not work. I thought I might try opening mepis logging into a shell as # and running mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda6 and the doing a password set, however it appears there are no dynamic entries in fstab so that path is not open. Is it possible to do it with mount -t ext4 and follow through with a mount -o somehow I have tried a few things with no joy ? …

hello dear linux-experts first of all - i am really happy with all the great support here. It is overwhelming. today: i wanted to run a osmconvert & filter with the following goal - to get the following tags out of the datas: addr:street addr:housenumber addr:city so i decided to do the following command Code: ./osmconvert hamburg-latest.osm.pbf --all-to-nodes -o=hamburgrestaurants_2.o5m ./osmfilter hamburgrestaurants_2.o5m --keep="amenity=restaurant" -o=restaurant_2.o5m ./osmconvert restaurant_2.o5m --csv="@id @lon @lat shop name addr:street addr:housenumber addr:city website email" --csv-headline -o=restaurant_2.csv but i failed - there were no …

Apple has made some updates to iTunes Connect, the backend that lets developers manage their apps, that seem to address several long standing pain points. Among them, there's a new "unrestricted web access" description that might help apps with built-in browsers from presenting as adult/porn apps to the unfamiliar, and compliance with Brazil's games rating system, which has caused a lot of frustration for everyone over the years. Here's the full list of updates: New App Content Descriptions You can now use the following descriptions: Medical/Treatment Information, Gambling and Contests, and Unrestricted Web Access (for apps that permit navigating and viewing web …

AT&T reported its first quarter 2014 results, showing impressive growth in revenues, handset sales and customer acquisition for the quarter. While AT&T operates businesses outside of its wireless division, we're going to focus on this portion. For the quarter, AT&T posted $17.9 billion in revenue including handset sales, up 7 percent year-over-year, leading to $5.1 billion in operating income, up 8.1 percent. On the customer side, AT&T added 625,000 postpaid customers, its largest first quarter gain in five years. It also added 693,000 "connected devices," but saw prepaid customers dip overall in the quarter mostly due to the loss of over 200,000 resell…

There's a rumor going around that Nike is axing their Nike Fuelband hardware division. Whether it ultimately proves to be true or false, given where Apple is and where they may be going with iOS 8, iPhone 6, and perhaps even an iWatch, it makes a ton of sense. A few years ago Sonos, the Wi-Fi connected speaker maker, switched from making their own hardware controller to making an app for the iPhone and later, the iPad. When I spoke to them about it they said the iPhone was simply a better solution. It was great hardware, capable of presenting great interface, and it was something a huge amount of people already knew how to do. By shifting their efforts from making h…

Apple has updated Pages, Numbers and Keynote for iOS right on the heels of the iOS 7.1.1 update. The changelogs aren't very telling when it comes to what's new or different, only stating "stability improvements and bug fixes." Many folks feel this may have something to do with the Heartbleed issue, but the people who know aren't saying. You'll find your updates ready and waiting in the App Store. Continue reading...

Boot Camp provides the best performance for Windows on your Mac. It takes a little work to install, so here's some help. If you need to install Windows on your Mac, you have a few options: software like VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop can help you get the job done so you don't have to reboot each time you want to use it, but if you want truly native performance — important for gamers and others looking to eke every last drop out of their Mac — Boot Camp is the way to go. Here's a step by step guide to make it happen. What you'll need to install Windows on your Mac To install Windows on your Mac via Boot Camp, you'll need: A copy of Windows either on CD/…

This blog was authored by Microsoft MVP, Joost van Schaik Windows Phone has been a passion for me since even before it was released, and I have been developing for it ever since. Passion can take you very far - in my case, I even became a Windows Phone Development MVP in October 2011. In that capacity, but also just as a developer loving his platform, I would like to point you to //publish/, an event that will run on May 16-17, 2014. Unlike //build/, you don’t have to go all the way San Francisco to meet the industry experts – we will be right there for you, at (present count) 66 places all over the world, in all countries, time zones and languages. Why should yo…

Unexpectedly my computer got a bsod ( stop : 0x000000ed, 0x8afa3co8, 0xc0000006, 0x00000000, 0x00000000,) and nothing will work. So it loads past the splashback screen then flashes blue then restarts. The only way I can see the error message is when I go on disable automatic restart. I have tried all options like safemode and system restore but same conclusion. I loaded the fail safe and optimimised default no luck, pc recovery doesnt work. I cant boot from the cd because the drive was specially hand crafted although I have the product key. The maker of the pc has moved away. Anything I can download to make it start like a bootable usb. I am running windows xp I think it'…

Original title: Windows Live Mail... My computer is an older XP model...My email provider is Windows Live Mail... My problem: When I open up my email window...everything is in place, that is, the list on the left, the list of emails in the middle section and the preveiw window on the right...The preveiw wondow operates fine...and I can switch from one email entry to another BUT I cannot open the email item nor can I reply or forward it...Before yesterday, when my friend used the computer, I was able to open each email by double left klicking on the particular email as it appeared in the middle section. My freind has no idea what he did to cause the problem...He f…

I have 4 HP DC5100MT Desktops running xp professional. About a week ago I lost all acess to stick drives, external hard drives and the printer on all 4 systems. The message I received was driver not found. On all 4 desktops. This can only be caused by a software update. I understand that My operationing system is now defunked, and I see that no more update or improvement are coming, but, why have the usb drivers been removed? Continue reading...

why is windows 8 not available in my area for download? i live on long island, in new york. I have an Eee PC notebook with windows xp. can i get upgraded to windows 8 or 8.1 or am i screwed and have a computer with no microsoft essential protection? This the way to get me to buy new computer? I am currently unemployed, need computer to job search, have no extra money, and now i have to buy new computer? any ideas on how to upgrade my computer, or do i just use without the microsoft essential and have to be nervous about loss of sevice? Continue reading...

Whenever I boot up Windows XP I get three error messages all saying the same thing. I can still access everything after cancelling these pop ups but it's annoying and I can't get rid of them. I tried going into msconfig StartUp to see if I can delete them but they're not there. Continue reading...

I have digitally signed a font IDAutomationC128XS.otf using the following process and described at the Microsoft Typography site: set Product=IDAutomation.com Code 128 Font set File=IDAutomationC128XS.otf set TimeURL=http://timestamp.verisign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll signcode -spc c:\GACKeys\code_signing.spc -v c:\GACKeys\code_signing.pvk -n "%Product%" -i www.idautomation.com -t "%TimeURL%" -j mssipotf.dll "%File%" After signing, the font states it is "digitally signed" in the font preview of control panel. However, the Font Foundry does not appear in the control panel view. Our font foundry is IDAU or bizf and these are on record at: http://www.micro…

any time I am on a web site that asks me to install the latest version of Windows Media Player I don't. I do not want to download anything that Microsoft Windows didn't ask me for. This is for watching movies and the like. how do I know if it is safe. hope someone can help. thank for your time. Dan *** Email address is removed for privacy *** Continue reading...

Original Title: Computer crashes with "system_service_exception", previously crashed with message"Not_less_or_equal" Computer crashes with Blue Screen error message "system_service_exception", previously crashed with message"Not_less_or_equal"Everytime I try to open files word/excel files in NetDrive (file sharing) a blue screen appears with error message. Todays was "system_service_exception" but before that it was something about not less or equal. How do I resolve this issue? Thanks Continue reading...