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If you're having issues with the earpiece on your iPhone 5, there's a possibility it could need to be DIY repaired. Symptoms typically include low audio through the actual earpiece, crackling sounds, or no sound at all. If that sounds like something you're experiencing, your earpiece could be bad. Luckily, a DIY earpiece repair isn't terribly hard and can save you a ton of cash. So follow along and we'll walk you through from start to finish! What you need to DIY replace a blown earpiece on an iPhone 5 You'll need some tools and parts in order to repair your iPhone 5, including the replacement assembly. If you're in the United States or Canada, we highly recommend…

I have a virus or malware that even Microsoft Tech Support can't cure so I want to use the Operating System CD to "repair" the system. I can boot with the disk, but the disk cannot detect my disk drive. How can I force the disk to see the drive? Thanks Continue reading...

(1) Simply put, please, what have these "updates" contained? (2) To WHAT, exactly, are we XPers now vulnerable? (3) RE: Service Pack 3 - shows on my programs list, but ONLY the name: no frequency, no date of origin, NO SPACE CONSUMPTION. I notice on my Updates History there ARE updates for the SP3, but the history does not go back far enough to show when (IF?) it actually down-loaded. DID it down-load? Thanks! Continue reading...

Quick question guys? microsoft security pages say's only genuine web pages displays https? When I do to microsoft web pages/ download links including this one it displays as Http: so I'm confused. is it legitimate?????? only asking as I'm trying to force updates not displaying in my windows updater. Continue reading...

I have a WindowsXP Pro tower. It has SP 3. I have been deciding to add more ram to my computer because it only has 512MB RAM. It's got an Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.66GHz and an ASUS AGP-V7700 Deluxe v5.33 AKA GeForce 2 GTS. The mother board(The ECS P4M800PRO-M 1.0A) says it's only capable of DDR 2533 or DDR 400 RAM. So I went out and got some DDR3 RAM and I install it. Then I try to boot it and all it does is beep. I was wondering how can I fix this so it works. Continue reading...

Hello can someone help? I am getting the blue screen at least every 2 days. the STOP message is ox000008e (0xc000005, 0xbf85fc9e, 0xa993caey, ox00000000) win32k.sys - address bf85fc9e base at bf8000000 datestamp 52f43e77 some of the 0's may be off i had problems making them out(counting them) can't see too well. the only thing that i did new to my computer was put the Avast antivirus free version could that be the cause? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Continue reading...

Okay, i have submit the same problem before, but no one response well. Here's how. I downloaded Grand Theft Auto San Andreas on my Surface RT, before i finish the upload, i have to cancel the download because my internet problem. But that just like 3/4% it have been downloaded and the GTA SA size are 1.9GB and my free space are 20GB left before the incident and after i cancel the download, this free space suddenly lose like 2GB of my storage. Thats weird because i have canceled the download and for sure the storage back to it's belong, but this one stuck and the 2GB left disappear. I have run so many time disk clean up. I tell you this because im sick and tired of some Mi…

I run Windows 8 on a Dell Inspiron 7720 Laptop. About a week ago, a hardware scan showed that my hard drive was failing, so I took steps to replace the hard drive. I made a system image (it took me 4 tries to successfully image, including running a chkdsk on the drive), and also made a recovery disk to boot the machine. I read articles that recommended a recovery drive instead of a disk, so I went ahead and made one of those as well. On the surface, it looks like I'm ready to install the new hard drive. This fantasy lasted until I tried to boot to the recovery drive, and I discovered that the BIOS was set to the UEFI boot menu and I had to change it to legacy to…

I downloaded Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830) - Setup Self-Extracting Cabinet and it detects 2 problems during the scan but at the end it says no problems have been detected and the only option I have is to click finish. I've tried several times with the same result of detecting 2 it never gets rid of them. Help? OT: Malware Continue reading...

I accidentally deleted my Microsoft account, how can I re-establish it? I can't set up all my profiles without it? Customer service has been involved and they told me it could take 365 days before the email I used would be available again. I can't download any apps with a microsoft account. I also want to find a mail app that works like Outlook Express 2003. Continue reading...

Bought new computer with Windows 8 - hate it. Can I install version 7 over 8? Been using PC's since 1982 and this is the worst. Continue reading...

To: everyone who has an opinion on Windows 8.1 What IS that opinion? I'm trying to figure out what more people think about Windows 8.1 vs Windows 8. So far, I've found that most people dislike it. They think Windows 8.1 has some potentially good features, but those features aren't worth the problems it causes or the features it gets rid of. What do you think? What did Windows 8 improve? What did it make worse? And what did it fail to address at all? If you have an answer to any of these questions, or an opinion outside of these questions, then please respond. I want to know what you think! To: the Windows team I wish you would make the start menu button…

I have a Windows 7 Ultimate PC. I have recently added a Windows 2003 server HDD to the PC. I get the option to choose Earlier Version of Windows or Windows 7 on booting the PC . However, I am unable to login to the Windows 2003 server. When I disconnect the Windows 7 HDD, I am able to get in without any issues. Please help. Continue reading...

The Partition that contained my windows 7 system restore disappeared. I am not sure how but, now I need a boot disk. Online all I get is saturated with adware etc.. I am also trying to restore the partition I will need to find out how to re-install windows back on to it. I did not receive a disk when I bought my computer. Thank you Continue reading...

last night.... i want to change my mp3 tag but it's not allow to be changed and show this error my system Continue reading...

Hello, This is my first post so please bare with me! I have just soldered in a new power jack into an Asus Laptop Model A54H-SX254V. There is definitely power going into the laptop. When I power the laptop on I can hear the fan and the 2 green lights flash momentarily, then nothing. The fan remains going until I power off. I have checked each connection but am wondering if I have damaged the motherboard with my soldering. I thought it appeared okay. This is my first attempt at soldering a power jack, I had someone more experienced with me. The main connection I would have thought may have been the culprit is the power button cable, but I have …

I got a hold of a pretty nice computer, but i'm not sure what to do to it to make it a "future-proof" gaming rig (as cheaply as possible). Here are my current specs: Make/Model: Dell Precision T3500 Mfg. Date: 6/26/2010 Processor: Intel Xeon W3540 @ 3.2Ghz (Hyper threaded quad core) Ram: 24GB DDR3 PNY @ 1600Mhz Fans: Stock from Dell PSU: 525 Watt Graphics: Force3D Radeon HD 6450 (2GB GDDR5) Network Connection: Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Series (Gigabit) Storage: 256GB OCZ Vertex 4 SSD Anyone have ideas? I think the graphics are the biggest bottleneck. Continue reading...

I am unable to turn on Windows Defender. I uninstalled a trial version of Norton Security on my laptop HP2000. I tried to start Windows Defender via windows+R and got the following error message: "Windows could not start the Windows Defender Service on Local Computer. Error 577: Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file. A recent hardware of software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown service." Also impossible to turn on via Action Center. Is it possible to repair the Windows Defender currently installed on my PC? Alternatively, can I reinstall the entire ap…

Somehow I got default-search.net on Firefox and I can't get rid of it!! Any ideas? Continue reading...

Out of the blue, I ran a quick Microsoft security essential scan and found a couple of viruses. It told me to download Windows Defender to another computer or jump drive and run Win. Defender Offline, but it wouldn't let me. So, I ran Microsoft Safety Scanner (Windows 7) and it found the two viruses (Virus: Win64/Rovnix.gen!C and Virus: DOS/Rovnix.W). I then got a message that said they were both "partially" removed and for me to click on a link to submit a ticket (which brought me to the Windows Community). I'm lost because I'm not a techy by any means. Does anyone know where this came from or, more importantly, how I get rid of it COMPLETELY and not just "p…

I received a call at 8:00am this morning (Sat 3/29) supposedly from a Microsoft call center wanting me to check my OS for malicious spyware. It was obviously from overseas because the 2 people I talked to had very heavy accents. They asked to to check for errors and when over 7,000 popped up I was switched to a tech who wanted me to go to the website www.ammyy.com. They would not tell me why I was being called and not sent a message and the number they were calling from was blocked. Fearing hackers I hung up. They called back but I didn't answer. Was this a legitimate call? Is there a problem I should be aware of? Thank you. Continue reading...

A download named efjs_efjs and some random numbers keeps popping up on my dads computer. It seems though it only pops up when he is on FarmVille on facebook. Beneath the download it says everstads.net. Has anyone encountered this before or have any knowledge about what it is ? Continue reading...

My computer first got had conduit unwillingly installed. Then the next time I booted up Regedit kept insisting on registry edits and would not allow me to proceed after saying no 50 times I finally realized that I was not going to be permitted to proceed until I said yes. After I did then the machine automatically shutdown and then it cam back up with this UKash virus. I attempted to restart into Last known good configuration, but it still came up showing the UKash screen. When I shutdown and attempted to boot into safe mode, whether safe mode, safe mode with networking or safe mode to command prompt, each attempt result in coming up to the login screen follo…

Forgive the naivety of the question, but since I'm new to the iMac and Mavericks, I'm nearly ten years out of the times. (My last mac was the eMac running Tiger.) But what would be the best or reasonable program for copying unprotected DVDs? I've heard Toaster mentioned a lot, but it seems to specialize in copying VHS, which is not what I need. Thoughts and opinions are welcome. Thanks, Sparrowhawk Continue reading...

I am running CentOS 6.5 with a zfs file system shared via samba. When I create a regular file from a remote machine (windows and linux), the file inherits the proper selinux context. However, when I create a directory, it gets the default context of "file_t". This is also true when creating files/dirs locally on the centos box. Running restorecon sets the correct context. Here is my entry in file_contexts.local: Code: /zstorage/public(/.*)? system_u:object_r:samba_share_t:s0 Is this possibly just zfs and selinux not playing nice together? Continue reading...