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    Task manager has been disabled by Admin

    Morning all, and Merry Christmas. It seems I've acquired a virus or worm. The first thing I noticed was my system running slow, so I pressed Ctrl,Alt,Del, "POP UP" TASK MANAGER HAS BEEN DISABLED BY ADMINISTRATOR. At this point I run CA, it tells me there is a worm and a couple of other...
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    Making floppy drive a usb drive.

    Hello all, My wife has one of those really nice electronic sewing machines that embroiders all kinds of stuff. My delema is this, it uses old 3.5 floppy drive media. I want to convert the old floppy port to a USB drive reader, can this be done. Something similar to an old cassette player...
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    Radeon 9550 -w- ATI TV tuner Ve

    Hello all, I have a Radeon 9550 series vid card. AGP, with a ATIwonder TV tuner VE card. Up until just last week the TV tuner was working fine. Now I have no video. I thought that perhaps one of my software installations had updated itself and caused a Malfunction. So I went to the ATI...
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    NTLDR is missing, Problem, can't reinstall WinXP

    Hello All, I just recently acquired a Toshiba A25-S307. I was having trouble reinstalling WinXP. I would recieve the error message, NTLDR is missing, Press Ctrl, Alt, Del, to restart your computer. I tried an older Win98 boot CD, This didn't work. I tried a commercial WinXP cd. THis...
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    Xp, and administrator rights

    OK, I know I should know this by now, But. I setup an older system for my boys with XP-pro. I gave them each their own user name. How do I give them access to programs I install? Mind you. My user name is the one with Admin rights. They want to play warcraft. It seems warcraft only...
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    Total disk copy, for new operating system

    Morning all, I guess it's about time I do a total reinstall of WinXP, Perhaps even to Win Vista. 1st ??, Can one take and copy and entire disk so it is exactly like the one removed? Also, What are some of the drawbacks to installing Win Vista on an older machine. I have an AMD 1 ghz...
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    Chkdsk from WinXp, starts at start up.

    Morning all, My system just started acting up. During a system start up WinXp wants to run the chkdsk utility. I bypass this as it has seemed to do things in the past that I was not happy with. Anyway. Once into WinXP, I see that Chkdsk stops at a file called "mscvr71.dll" It is a file...
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    HJT log file, does anything look fishy?

    Here is my HJT log file does anything look fishy TIA Neil Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 7:24:08 AM, on 10/31/05 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe...
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    Finding my own info, stored on my PC Help

    Hello all, Someone hacked my paypal account the other day. Ok for the question, It was suggested that I completely wipe out my hard drive. (not an option). What can I do to see what info would be criminals can dig up from my PC? I'm sorry, this is probably not a question that should be...
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    Removing Windows XP from an old drive.

    Hello All, I have an old drive that died, albeit not completely. The old drive is still readable. I don't have the capacity to move all the files from the old drive to the new, so I'm cleaning out older system files on it. There is a series of folders and files under Windows that I can't...
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    Did I post difficult questions or what?

    Could someone do a search for posting by "thuffner3". Did I ask difficult questions? , or in someway cross post so as to piss someone off? Thank you. Neil
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    Outlook

    Hello all, I recently had a HD crash. I was using MS-Outlook as my schhedule and daily planner. I replaced my HD and reloaded all my Apps, Is there a way to retrieve my old calender's daily entries? My old drive is readable, and installed in my machine TIA Neil
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    Check disk won't complete

    Hello All, I have since replaced an old drive that had crashed. The old drive I'm slowly retrieving info that can be gooten from it. The problem is when windows starts ,Windows wants to perform a disk check in this old drive. How can I diable this? TIA
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    System Registry

    Hello all, I recently had to reinstall WinXP pro. Now, I really don't want to reinstall all the software I have on my slave drive/ Which use to be my Primary. Can't I load a Registry hive or something like that to get all my software back online? Seems I've done this before, but have...
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    System Hives, and the Registry

    Hello all, I recently had to reinstall WinXP pro. Now, I really don't want to reinstall all the software I have on my slave drive/ Which use to be my Primary. Can't I load a Registry hive or something like that to get all my software back online? Seems I've done this before, but have...
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    Scan disk found" File record segment ##### unreadable"

    Is my Hard Drive dead"? During a run of Scandisk My system returned the following; File record segment ###### is unreadable. This is the first I've encountered this error message. I did an Install of WinXP pro on my back up harddrive, I can view files. Surely I'll have to reinstall...
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    Windows XP Setup, HELP!!!!!!

    It seems about once a year at this point I have to run Windows Setup. Or replace a harddrive. My System crashed this morning. Startup seemed to be hanging at a file called "MUP.SYS" I went into Recovery Console from my WinXP CD. Disabled MUP.SYS . Still no startup, not even into Safe mode...
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    Possible intrusion. Brief discription below.

    Hello all, Hope the new year is finding everyone getting off to the right foot. Sunday night while going through my e-mail?? I usually see an e-mail or two that looks like it was sent from someone I know, that has an address on my address book or happened to be a recipiant of a piece of...
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    Possible intrusion, How far?

    Hello all, Hope the new year is finding everyone getting off to the right foot. Sunday night while going through my e-mail?? I usually see an e-mail or two that looks like it was sent from someone I know, that has an address on my address book or happened to be a recipiant of a piece of...
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    Windows log on screen

    Is there anyway to change the background og the very first winXP log on screen?
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    To DCLIVE, Much thanks

    Dclive, Thank you so much for all your help. So far I've been able to pretty much painlessly get back into my system having only to install device drivers and whatnot. Software is fine so far. The only thing I did was move the SYSTEM hive from the repair folder to the SYSTEM32\CONFIG...
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    WinXp continuously restarts

    At this point WinXp has attempted to start 30 times. I receive a very brief error message indicating that a hardware problems has caused this, and to remove the hardware or software. I would certainly do this if I could log on in safe mode but I can't. I attempted start from a CD-rom and go to...
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    System Administratoor under real mode

    Is safe-mode the only way the System administrator can log on? The reason is, I'm trying to install some software, and apparently I need farther premissions to install this software. The software wants to add some lines to the system variables and it can't. The installation stops at this...
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    SP.html/about:blank----- cansomeone help??

    I have tried everything I know to rid my system of this file (SP.html/about:blank) Here is my HighJackThis log file. can someone help me??? Logfile of HijackThis v1.98.0 Scan saved at 11:19:55 AM, on 7/31/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1...
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    Sp.HTML , Highjack crap. How do I eradicate this?????

    Here is my HighJackThis log file. can someone help me??? Logfile of HijackThis v1.98.0 Scan saved at 11:19:55 AM, on 7/31/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe...
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    Guest log on has access to windows explorer (not desirable)

    I'm using Win XP pro, I notice that guest that log onto my computer have access to windows explorer. Where do I look to limit the access other users have to my files and such? TIA. Neil
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    No A-drive, No CD-rom drive

    Hello all, I'm having trouble finding my drives. This weekend I visited a site called Driver Detective. Their software told me that 65 % of my drivers were bad or out dated. OK, so I run there driver detective, install the recommended drivers. Now I don't see a CDrom, and my A: drive is...
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    Keenval.c trojan virus

    It would seem that I've attracted the Trojan horse virus "Keenval.c" I get a window that pops up stating this message is found in file C:\System Volume Information\_restore-{A0D682BC-82D4-4B1F-9C1E-2569AECA8F7D}-\RP127\A0020882.exe AVG can't find it Spyhunter can't find it. Ad-aware can't...
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    Fat32 -vs- NTFS

    Hello all, and Happy Easter. I have an older 40gig harddrive on IDE channel 2 as slave. It is of the FAT32 fromat. running on a WinXP pro system. Something, what I don't know has happened. The other day I start my system. The scandisk screen apprears asking me to cancel a check disk of...
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    Slow access times

    Hello All, and Happy Easter. I'm runnig WinXP pro on a 2.2ghrz pro -w- 512 m ram. It would seem that over the last couple of days my access time has increased dramatically. I've run Disk Clean up Disk defrag Scan Disk AVG AD-AWARE Spybot And it would seem my system is as clean as I can...
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    Undetermined motherboard Manufacturer(????)

    Hello All, I recently recieved a MOBO and processor from a friend. The board has no manufacturer markings that I can tell. The Bios is American Megatrends. I'm only needing this info for the onboard Lan and Onboard Sound. I have been pulling my hair out trying every disk I have with various...
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    CD-RW wont recognize music file(*.cda)

    My CD-RW wont pickup cda files, any media software I try tells me there is no cd in the drive. Any idea's TIA Neil
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    Darned modem wont answer the phone

    I've installed Win XP pro, it completely reconizes my modem has the latest drivers etc, The doggone thing wont answer the phone. I'm using one of two phone/fax programs. 1. Bitware from Cheyene 2. Faxtalk Neither Appl will answer the phone system, why? I've tried various settings from with in...
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    To many Hard-drives ????

    I currently have three hard-drives and one cd-cdrw hooked up to the IDE controllers (2) My primary HD and secondary are on one and one older -w- the CDRW on the other. Would I do well to add a controller card for two of these devices so they have there own?
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    Gigabyte boards, AMD proc, & PC2100 ram.

    Herein lies my problem, I just installed a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 MOBO, -w- an AMD 2400/ 266fsb processor and 3 sticks of PC2100/256 I running Win98 -w- an Radeon 8500 LE. Harddrive is a Maxtor 80gig 7200. I'm getting random lockups. The system just hangs, usually when I've browsed through my...
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    Initialization of boards HELPPPP please.

    Hello all, Thanks for being here and Happy Thanksgiving. I'm having trouble getting my board to initialize. New board "IWILL K7S3-N New processor "AMD 2400 266fsb New Memory "SimpleTech PC2100 256 , 1, 2, or 3 sticks. This is the second board, the second processor and now the second set of...