I get this error intermittently when using my home computer:
Windows socket error: only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted (10048), on API "bind"
Any help to resolve is much appreciated....
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A friend has a Dell Dimension 8300 desktop which was in working condition. He recently moved to a new apt. and plugged his PC in and it didn't turn on - no response. I took a look at it and noticed the green power light on the MB, tested the power supply and it tested Okay. I...
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A friend recently was on his Inspiron laptop and the screen just went very dark. You can barely make out the words. He gave to me being a PC handyman and I am totally stumped....I researched it and decided to change out the LCD inverter board. I did that and still nothing, but I did...
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I am looking to free up space on a Dell computer for a friend. The drive is 120Gb and came partitioned with 20Gb on one partition and 100Gb on the other partition. Dell put the O/S on the 20Gb partition and now he ran out of space for programs and such.
I want to make the drive...
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I was able to share files up from my desktop to my laptop up to about a 3 weeks ago and now suddenly I cannot see the shared folders on my desktop (running WinXP Pro) from my laptop (running WinXP Home). The only things that have changed were some Windows updates were installed & I...
I have a Linksys WRT54G V3 router which is in my basement and I have a spotty wireless connection in my living room on 1st floor. I believe because the router has to go through my concrete wall from my basement. This is the only place I can put my router right now.
I have long range...
I have a a network set up with 2 wired computers & 1 laptop on it. Everything works fine except in my new addition I get a weak signal.
The router and computer "A" is in the basement and the other wired computer "B" on 2nd floor. Most of the work I do is on my laptop on the 1st floor. I...
I have a D-Link DI-624 wireless router. with the latest firmware Ver. 2.76, but my problem was the same with earlier versions of firmware.
When I start my laptop and connect via the WLAN to PokerStars.com, I get frequent disconnects (every couple minutes). This does not happen to the two...
I was wondering if anyone had issues with Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0
I just installed it and it's taking very long when I switch between commands and zooming. I checked the minimum requirements and here they are:
* Intel® Pentium® 4 or Intel Celeron® (or compatible) 1.3GHz processor...
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I tried to send a message to a friend at his work and I keep getting it kicked back to me undeliverable. What is SpamAssassin and how do I correct this?
I currently am running AVG antivirus, Ad-aware, Spybot S&D, and CCleaner which I scan frequently. D-Link DI-624 router for...
A friend recently bought a second harddrive and I am trying to help a him move the game World of Warcraft from C: to D:
I do not know where any of the saved file information is for this game as I do not play it.
I was going to install the game on the D: and then goto the control panel to...
A friends computer gets this prompt whenever he tries to uninstall the Free AVG from his computer (Windows XP):
Installer initialization failed due to following error:
Error: Initialization of the language file "C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG7\setup.lns" failed.
General failure.
He cannot...
I am trying to get a home network going for a friend and can see both computers in the network on each computer. I also can access the files from the desktop to laptop. When I try to access the files from Laptop to desktop. I keep getting this error:
You might not have permission to use...
I am getting an error in the device manager for the following:
Communications Port (Com1) - ACPI\PNP0501\1
ECP Printer Port - ACPI\PNP0401\4&3656B0&0
It says this device cannot start in msinfo32 under problem devices.....
I did a google search and couldn't find anything!!!!!!!
What...
My brothers house was recently struck by lightening and he has a 9" x 13" hole in his roof. All of his electrical components got fried, even the ones with surge protecters - except for his TV and a toaster oven.
His computer did not work and was surge protected with an APC surege protecter...
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I am having an issue with Musicmatch Jukebox NOT playing in rear speakers.....It is set up in Windows correctly and works Okay in Windows Media player..........
I cannot find any settings within Musicmatch jukebox!!!!!!!!!!
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I am trying to delete a file off of my computer called aminf341.exe which I used to download and flash a bios for a friends computer and I get an error saying the file is in use by another program.
How can I delete this file and what program is using it?
Any help would be greatly...
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I just built a secondary system for my basement and am having issues with it.
Here are the specs:
Motherboard: Asus P5VDC-MX Via Socket 775 MicroATX Motherboard / Audio / Video / PCI Express / AGP 8x / 10/100 Ethernet LAN / USB 2.0 / Serial ATA / RAID
CPU: Intel Celeron...
Okay, you guys need to listen to this. Its an audio of a local business owner pissed off becasue his elevator is broke. There is a lot of swearing, so do not open in front of kids. It's amazing, this tech support guy never loses his cool...
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Windows XP O/S
Samsung DigiMax 200 Camera
Gateway Laptop
I have a friend not too smart on computers and he just bought a Samsung digital camera. When I connect the camera to his desktop system via USB, it recognizes it as a removable disk and asks me "What do you want to do?"...
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I am trying to re-format a boddy's HP machine. To me these are throw away computers (I built my own, but I'm stumped here).
He does not have the recovery disk and I deleted the partitions and re-formatted it with WinXP bootup disk. It loads the files and when it trys to reboot...
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I have a HP Laserjet 4 that has parallel port OR serial port ONLY (old printer) which I am trying to hook up to my laptop with USB. I got an adapter that converts the parallel to USB, but the printer doesn't respond. I also tried a full cable that converts it to eliminate what I...
My father in law has an Acer laptop that has a 1.6gb 64 bit processer with 1gb RAM, 100gb harddrive partitioned into two drives and is having some trouble with it recently. All components were standard when purchased, nothing added.
When you click my computer, the computer takes a long time...
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I just installed the new version of Paint Shop Pro 9 and fully updated it. I tried to open a .jpg by right clicking and then click "open with" PSP 9. I get the following error message:
Windows cannot find the specified file. Make sure you typed the name correctly and...
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Please review the following HJT log.
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 8:31:20 PM, on 12/26/2005
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
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe...
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I was wondering if someone could review my HJT log file. I do have 4 unknown "startup items" in my startup msconfig log....Please help!!!
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Logfile of HijackThis...
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