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    Task manager has been disabled by Admin

    Can't anyone touch this, two days now.????????????????????? Help
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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.

    The DTX-200, Is a board configuration that needs to be built custom requiring the old floppy to model from. The guy said it would run roughly 500-800 Euros/ I think this would be the same company Husqvarna uses, as my quoted price from them for the same darned thing was 500- 600 dollars...
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    Making floppy drive a usb drive.

    This looks like an interesting device. Waiting for price and compatibility. Thanks Guys
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    Making floppy drive a usb drive.

    This is a seemingly impossible task for the general DIY guy. Could I conceivably make it a CD reader?
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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

    I don't see a code 10 error anywhere, Unless of course it is the truly dreaded ID-10-T error. No really everything seems to be working fine. I just get not video in TV mode. Peace
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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

    I tried this, Initially it seemed to work. But when the program asks for additional files for patches and such the program tells me it can't fine the needed info. I went so far as to drop the program folders in the shared folders for all users. Still no help. TIA for any help Neil
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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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    Chkdsk from WinXp, starts at start up.

    If chkdsk stops at the file from within windowsXP, why would I believe that it wouldn't stop from the start up? There are multiple copies of the file MXVCR71.DLL on my system, Attempting to rename or delete this file yields the same message. FILE IS CORRUPT OR DAMAGED. TIA Neil
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    Total disk copy, for new operating system

    SO, Clone or Ghost will make an identical disk that can be swapped for my old drive? I like my system just the way it is, but I;m afraid my hard drive may be nearing the end of the road. The Vista upgrade compatibilty utility is nice, first off it told me that I could install. Then told me...
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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?

    I have two icons in the tray, one is a simple caps EZ, email scanner, The other is EZ traffic monitor
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    HJT log file, does anything look fishy?

    IT looks as though, Roadrunner, my ISP, provided EZ Armor which is what just recently installed both of the firewalls. ( I think). Unless perhaps Zone Alarm comes along with AVG. Before the other day though I was only running the typical WinXP firewall. How would I access Zone Alarms...
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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

    Paypal is investigating this right now. As far as my bank and the credit reporting agencies go there is nothing fishy otherwise. Just a one time use of 4 charges. My bank thankfully will recoupe the money and Paypal is on there own. But I'm still filing a police report and involving an...
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    Finding my own info, stored on my PC Help

    For starters, Maybe purely basic? I run Grisoft Free AVG, along with the typical XP updates and firewall. Never click on or open unknown e-mails. That's about it.
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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.

    I also get this message when I try to delete, copy , or move files. ( Cannot delete <files>: Data error (cyclic redundancy check). )
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    Did I post difficult questions or what?

    Thanks Daniel, I pretty much figured that was what it was. Neil If I can come up with another way of putting my questions I will. Thanks again
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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"

    No, I couldn't get scandisk to run under windows. It said it needed to have complete access, then scheduled itself for running at next startup. Thanks, DaiShan This all stems from my system locking up over "MUP.SYS" this morning. I went into Recovery Console and disabled Mup.SYS aas welll...
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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

    No the default screen that has the User selection box's. I see from the last URL there is something like Bootskins? The at the very bottom of the page it indicates that sometimes things go wrong. Like sstem not working properly. Don't know. Peace Neil
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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

    Good afternoon Dclive, Ok I was able to successfully load the Repair folders\ SYSTEM hive. Doesn't seem to be any problem. I will go ahead and copy that into the windows\system32\config folder and perhaps ( I should get a successful reboot). I nothing else. What files can I delete to...
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    WinXp continuously restarts

    Your right about the restore points, there is no way to access what might have been added from the first drive install. Knowing now that it is a problem with he system hive. I tried to open with notepad. At best I could very easily read this. But editing would only save it as a txt file so i...