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How do I get rid of this highjack site? My home page is MSN.com and when I open IE I get this. Continue reading...

Smartdraw--how do I get it off my computer? Continue reading...

My mouse has a wicked mind of it's own. It is jumpy and at times races all over the screen. I have uninstalled it from Device Manager more than six (6) times, then went to the Action Tab to select Scan For Hardware Changes, to no avail. Please help me with this extremely annoying haunted mouse. I posted APC_INDEX_MISMATCH last month (not fixed) and he told me last night that the mouse issue is probably a malware problem. Ty, JJ Continue reading...

Hi there, I am hoping you can assist me with the removal of a flying spaceship virus everytime I open a website. I know where it was downloaded from and as it was downloading I stopped the program but obviously not in time. http://www.androidtapp.com/hyperquiz/ The androidtapp.com site seems legit, the flying saucers come on most sites within a few seconds but only last a minute or so before going but I have noticed that after this the sites seem slower. If you need any info please feel free to ask as I am a bit new to this occurring!! Area 51 is alive on my laptop! Thank you, Ddh Moved from Internet Explorer Original title: Virus…

Is there an official Linux radio on the Internet and is there a way to listen to the Linux radio (or some free radios) in a free way (with minimal resources)? Let us say, the aplay Linux application in my system has only 64kb of binary size (with its sources taking even less size in .c). Is it enough to play Internet waves in terms of sound? In the sense of minimalistic program-purpose paradigm? Otherwise which program is in charge of necessary and sufficient paradigm? Continue reading...

Hi , I can use the old hostapd-2.1 to set as a wireless Ap in Ubuntu 12.04. but in Ubutu 13.10 not. the error message as follow: Code: Configuration file : /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf nl80211 : Fail to set interface wlan0 into Ap mode nl80211 : driver initialization faile Where could I find the newest hostapd version to solve the nl80211 driver initial fail problem? Thanks Continue reading...

I am interested in the theory, programming and administration of Operating Systems and Networks. I am interested in Open Source exclusively, hence Linux. From my research and a little intuition, I forsee a future in which most business IT infrastructure will migrate to the cloud. This will cause a split in the traditional role of the system administrator; some will specialize in configuration, monitoring, management, scripting, deployment, automation; they will use the associated tools and work with cloud providers on behalf of their clients (the clients of the system administrator). The other side will be hardware specialists working primarily at the data-centers. I …

Hey all, I am a complete and utter noob at Linux in general. I just installed it (Linux mint 16). I have an AMD Phenom II 840T Quad-Core Processor and a GTX 430 Graphics card. So when I play games with Linux installed (like Kerbal Space Program and Rust) I can definitely tell that something is amiss. I could play Kerbal at maybe 60 FPS on windows and its maybe less than 20 at times now. It feels like Linux is not utilizing my graphics card and potentially my additional CPU Cores. Am I wrong about this? Also I have read about making a custom Kernel and wanted to know what that was all about! Thank you so much in advance! (P.S. go easy on me I have barely even figured out…

hi, the active tactile surface of my touchpad runs over my left and right click buttons and i really need to disable it over them as my cursor jumps while clicking there are a multitude of threads about clickpads but i can only find one workaround (creating 51-clickpad.conf) which killed my machine and i had to remove it from recovery. anyone know how? this is driving me mad! Continue reading...

The Game Developers Conference is kicking off in San Francisco this week, and we'll be there hobnobbing with developers, getting previews of upcoming mobile games, and getting some popular thoughts on the state of the industry. Namely, we'll be talking to a lot of game creators about their thoughts on the freemium business model. Despite its prevalence among the most commercially successful titles on the App Store, there's still a strong voice for core gamers that want to pay for their games up-front and be done with it. Last year most of the previews we got were on iOS devices, so expect to see lots of stuff coming soon for iPhone, iPad, and maybe even Mac. It's go…

I use Apple's Reminders app to keep track of all kinds of things — to-dos I need to complete, items I need to pick up at the grocery store, movies I want to watch, and more. I can create reminders using Siri and, thanks to iCloud, I can access them on my iPhone, iPad or Mac. It's almost a perfect solution. There's just one feature I'd really love to see Apple add to the Reminders app in iOS 8 — the ability to share reminder lists right from my iPhone and iPad. I have many lists inside Reminders that I've created over the past several years. I use Fantastical on my iPhone and both of my Macs. Since there isn't an iPad version of Fantastical yet, I stick with the stock R…

iOS 7 brought with it a new, unified palette for everything from icons to interface elements, including the tint colors give to the new "naked" style text buttons. Unfortunately for some people those tint colors are just a little bit too bright to be read comfortably, especially on the primarily white backgrounds. Luckily, iOS 7.1 gives you the ability to darken those colors and hopefully make them much more legible. Best of all, it's easy to do! How to increase font and menu visibility with the darken colors option in iOS 7.1 Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad running iOS 7.1 or higher. Tap on General. Now choose Accessibility. On the next menu, tap…

Every week at iMore we publish more breaking news, in-depth reviews, helpful how-tos, and editorial views than you can shake an apple at. While we're waiting for the week that will be to begin, here's a look back at the week that was, and at the very best iPhone, iPad, Mac, app, and accessory coverage we brought you! This week that includes the surprise release of iOS 7.1, more hints at what's to come in iOS 8, and what iMore is up to at Macworld|iWorld! iOS 7.1 iOS 7.1 is out! Update adds CarPlay support, improves Siri, iTunes Radio, iPhone 4 performance 5 tips to fix your iPhone and iPad battery life problems on iOS 7.1! Is iOS 7.1 worth giving up your jailbrea…

The best March Madness apps for iPhone that let you check scores, keep up on news, view bracket standings, and more! March Madness is upon us and all the basketball fans will no doubt want to keep up with all the action. If there's a game you can't watch, your iPhone can easily let you check scores, view brackets, and more. These are currently the best App Store apps for iPhone to help you keep up with March Madness! NCAA March Madness Live The March Madness app by the NCAA is the official app for the tournament. Not only can you view brackets, news, an upcoming schedule — you can even log in with your cable provider and watch every single game live. You ca…

Hi again while i'm waiting on a reply to a couple of problems i'm having i was wondering if theres another way to get to"safe mode" other than f 8 at start up cos i'v tried this so many times and just cant get it to come up. I need to get to "last known good configuration" to see if it'll solve my other disk drive problems. i'v even tried system restore but it'll only restore to feb 10 as the p.c was put away due to buying a new p.c with crappy windows 8. Anyway thanks in advance for your time and effort. Continue reading...

I have a Windows XP Pro computer that had the following Error STOP 0X0000008E (0XC0000005, 0XBF85A83A, 0XA4ED4AE4, 0X0000000) wind32k.sys - Address BF85A83A base at BF800000, Datestamp 52706e3f This is only popped up once as of this writing (Only program open is Chrome), and has no previous BSOD or Crashes. I am doing Windows Updates as of this moment. Here is a picture of crash (https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=8C17B714CFC9DAED!2455&authkey=!AOobKi-UPiH6jk4&v=3&ithint=photo%2c) Any help is welcome Continue reading...

Hello, I was using ZTE dongle (Airtel 3g) for the last one year. But recently I connected one Huawei dongle, that time I faced some difficluties while connecting. I uninstalled the connectivity software of Airtel. Then installed "mobile partner" connectivity software for Huawei dongle. Everything worked fine. Now I want to install and use ZTE dongle again. So I uninstalled "Huawei driver & mobile partner s/w". I have connected the Airtel 3g dongle(ZTE MF 190U HSUPA USB Stick), and installed the connectivity software from the stick. After finishing installation, task bar pops up "new h/w found". And the following messages came. Welcome to the Found new Har…

HI, two optical drives in my XP system, one CD writer and one DVD writer. When I insert a CD containing 3 or 4 folders with mixed files into one drive, an autoplay box comes up within 5 seconds and ask me what program I'd like to open or use Explorer to browse the contents, etc,etc. However, inserting the CD into the other drive, sometimes nothing happens, other times the autoplay window will appear after about 60 seconds delay. Nothing wrong with the drives. I have a second install of XP on this same PC and in there, everything works OK. Any assistance appreciated. EDIT - this odd symptom was resolved after using Disk Management…

Recently I was trying to capture a job by pausing a print queue, printing a job and copying the files out of the spool (under C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS) before unpausing the queue. However, when I try to copy the files I get the error message "cannot copy filename: it is being used by another person or program". I tried this several times with the same result. Obviously the only way to get the file unstuck is t unpause the print queue and they will be promptly deteleted shortly after. Is there a way I can grab these files? Assume changing the port to "File" to do a print to file is off the table. I ran this under administrator user permissions. Continue readin…

when I purchased my surface it was with the expectation f being able to play games with my son and playing on my poker sit while i'm going through chemotherapy and recovering from surgery. I have read posts about a white list of approved websites and I would like clubwpt.com to be one of those sites additionally add clash of clans to either the free or pay apps. thank you Peter Riester Continue reading...

Win 8.1 RT Yesterday the tile for office outlook became blank - no text, no icon. Tapping it still brings up outlook. I tried unpinning it and repinning it from the apps by name display (where the tile is shown with text and icon) it repinned but still as a blank blue tile. Anyone got any suggestions for recovering the correct display? Continue reading...

What's wrong with Windows 8? All the time you hear some whiner complaining about how much they hate 8 but why? Probably because they are don't know how or are too afraid to use it. Windows 8 is a great operating system! I changes the way you work with a computer. Now instead of a start menu you have a beautiful and fully customizable start screen. In fact when I started using Windows 8's start screen I found that the traditional start menu was kind of... boring. People see Windows 8's desktop and immediately start whining that there is no start button. If they would even give poor 8 a chance and stop complaining they would see Windows 8 DOES have a start button, Its just …

Im having a hard time trying to simply change my administrative password, if anyone can walk me through this I would be very grateful Continue reading...

Hi I have recently purchased a Dell XPS8700 which came with a 2Tb drive and a 32Gb SSD drive used for Cache'ing. This booted and loaded fine, but after a lot of reading and discussing the pros/cons, decided to purchase and install a Intel 530 120Gb SSD. I also used a cloning tool to clone the original C drive to the new SSD drive which really worked very well. I used this configuration for about 1.5 months , then after I changed a system setting, enable processors and use all memory (which I have done on W7 on work Latitude), the machine would no longer boot. Using the Dell Recovery functionality I could not get the machine to reboot, so thought I would try the Recov…

Hello, can you also help me with my problem? I have been using my windows 8 laptop for months now and it started to have a blue screen saying: DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION. Please help! Model: K55VD Processor Intel® Core™ i7 3630QM Processor Windows8 Graphic NVIDIA® GeForce® 610M with 2GB DDR3 VRAM http://ae.asus.com/en/Notebooks/Versatile_Performance/K55VD/#specifications This is the link to my laptop full spec ^^^ If you need anything else, please ask. I need to fix this! I don't know how to upload the minidump files, if you can walk me through it, that would be awesome! Continue reading...