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Help! I downloaded the msn antispyware beta version on 11.04.05. I have a problem - whenever I start up my machine after a couple of minutes my web dailer tries to connect, and resets the homepage to clon.biz Antispyware is know recognising this and blocking automatically. I want it to stop happening in the first place. The only way I've found to stopmit happening is to temporarily remove (recylcle bin) the systinit32.exe file - though windows gives a warning on startup that it can't be found. Can you help please? ps keep it s-i-m-p-l-e !

my system specification A- Hardware Pentium IV 2.8 Memory 256MB SDRAM B- Software Windows NT Server 4.0 SP 6 when i'm installing one software and as for restart then i got a blue screen and this messages: stop: c000021a {fatal system error} The windows subsystem system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0x0000005 (0x77f88ab3 0x0021f484). The system has been shut down. Beggining dump of physical memory Dumping physical memory to disk: "start counting from 1-99 i hope you can help me... thanks

i am very new. i am hoping that someone can help me. unable to open add\remove error mess. ox2 2088999411 cannot open msmsgs.inf. thank you in advance for any help.

When you purchase any laptop and you see the specs say 3 or 4 hours e.t.c of total battery life before having to recharge, I am wondering if you can use a "replacement" battery that will give longer life, is this possible? Or, what else can be done to get "more" hours out of your battery?

Hi guys, I just bought an old IBM PC300GL so I could play around with it. However, I'm having trouble getting into the BIOS to change the settings. I've tried all the F keys, the delete key, and the esc key, but nothing works. There's no OS installed so it doesn't exactly help if I can't get into the BIOS to allow for a CD-ROM boot. So, please help! Any suggestions are welcomed! Thanks!

Got a Dell desktop that came with a cdrw and would like to add a regular cd rom so I can copy from the cd rom directly to the cdrw, how can I do the "wiring" or where can I get info on how to it please? Thanks.

Can anyone lead me to any sites/forums/tutorials that deals with working with "External" hard drives please? Thanks.

Hi all :D Well...I've gotten an Adaptec 29160 SCSI card and a 50 GIG LVD SCSI Drive. I have multiple OS's from DOS to WINXP. Here's the problem ALL OF THE OS's recognize the SCSI card, no problem there. BUT If I plug in the drive ONLY WIN98 & WINME cannot get past it's boot up sequence. I dont even get to see the or can conjure up the WINDOWS menu with F8 either. All other OS's are fine including WIN95. There are no IRQ conflicts whatsoever. I've tried different slots and still the same occurence. :confused: WIN98 & WINME will boot up fine If I unplug the drive itself. Its only when I plug the drive in that it chokes,..yet, all the other OS's are fine and se…

> error message reads: WAOL.EXE - Ordinal not found. The > ordinal 339 could not be located in the dynamic link > library mancore.dll > I cannot play many games, and I cannot download many > things because of this error message. > What is it and how do I fix it? > I have Windows 2000. > What can I do?Thanks.

I recently installed Windows XP on my desktop however when I start my computer it shows that two Window XP are installed! How do I uninstall or delete the second XP without deleting me entire hard drive? :confused: Dixirebel

Of late, I've been looking for a way to use headphones with my desktop machine without crawling behind my desk to plug them in (I also enjoy having speakers when people aren't trying to sleep). I thought that it would be a simple matter of connecting a 1/8" stereo jack to an internal output of my sound card (Sound Blaster Live 5.1), but among the varied internal connectors (including even one to output to a modem!), there is no headphone/speaker output. I would really like to not have a passthrough in back (I think they look terrible), so if anyone has ideas on how I might get the sound signal from a point inside my machine, I'd love to hear about it.

my computer no longer recognizes my onboard NIC. i go to device manager and see that the NIC now has an exclamation point next to it, and not only that, the icon for it is not a network card but an unknown device(which is a little gray diamond). i un-installed and re-installed several times, both in safe mode, safemode with networking, and regular. each time it says it was installed properly and i need to reboot to take affects. once i reboot i get the same problem. when i check out the card, it says "this device is not working properly... windows was unable to load the drivers for this device. code(31)" i check the driver details, it says c:\windows\system32\driver…

Hey guys, new to the board but hoping somebody could help me out. Dont know too much about computers but have done a bit of research on this. This morning i turned on my computer to receive a cmos/gpnv checksum bad error.. now ive heard if you cant access the time and date change menu you may need a new moherboard.... but i am ale to access this, i am even able to log on normally but after about 3 minutes my computer just shuts off and i get the same error again..... any info would be greatly appreciated, thanks guys

Hello, I am trying to hook up a SATA hard drive (WD 36 Gig, Raptor) onto an ASUS P4C800-E motherboard. This MoBo has 2 set of SATA connections. One set is mark SATA1, and SATA2; the other set mark as SATA RAID 1, and SATA RAID2. I connected the Raptor to SATA RAID 1, and have BIOS setting as: Configure S-ATA as Raid: YES Serial-ATA BOOTROM: DISABLE Operating Mode: RAID Boot Sequence: 1) CD-Rom 2) Floppy 3) FT TX ARY 1 After POST, it either gives me: Overclocking failed (Didn't even touch overclocking in Bios). Press F1 to run set up, or F2 to load default. The Raptor, and another SATA hard drive were connected to the SATA 1, and SATA2 before, and perform n…

As I was at work, my wife did something to our computer that disabled both my virus software (Norton - I can double click the exe and nothing happens) and the control/alt/delete function (The icon appears in the lower right hand part of the screen but the window does not appear and when I put my cursor over the icon, it goes away). I am operating with Windows XP. Why wouldn't the task manager appear when control/alt/delete is depressed? Thanks!

Hi, I'm new to the forums - just joined today! I am an administrator for an IT consultancy. I need some help on something, I want to create a CD containing a number of network connections, that I can simply send to other people, rather than having to set up 10 new connections every time a new client arrives. Does anyone know how (if at all possible) I could save and export a number of network connections and their properties? Most of the clients run XP. Any thoughts would be much apreciated. Peter

Hi, I am getting a pop up every few minutes stating 'Error 317 microsoft windows security warning.' I have run Hijack This and this is what has come up: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 19:12:14, on 21/03/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\Apps\ActivBoard\nhksrv.exe C:\Program Files\Common Files\AOL\ACS\AOLAcs…