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Hi Guys, Need your help badly to solve this problem. It seems that my browsers have been hijacked. it keeps getting stuck at the "waiting for www.google.com" message. I have tried different browsers but to no avail. its the same problem with firefox, ie and chrome. 1) i have scanned my...

Hi everyone.. I have a couple of folders on my desktop (2 torrents i had downloaded ages back). Problem is everytime i delete them they reappear when i restart my pc. This happens with some other files on my desktop too... Any ideas?

Hi... I have noticed this problem on a few pages rendered with FF. Some of the links appear as "[AD]" on the screen. This especially happens when the "link" happens to be a thumbnail / pic / gif image. Note: I do not have any ad blocking software installed Any ideas folks?

Hi all... I have been facing a weird problem with my system. After about 15 - 20 mins of normal functioning i get an error msg... "svchost.exe application error: The instruction at 0x6f8916e2 referenced memory at 0x00f8005c. The memory could not be read. Click on OK to terminate the program"...

Hi... i have pasted my hijackthis.log below... can u folks tell me if something is wrong here? cuz there are a lot of entries which i dont understand at all.. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 3:48:47 PM, on 9/3/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet...

Hey All... I just wanted to know wat different system tools do you guys use for your PC... I use the following: Ad-Aware 2008 Crap Cleaner TuneUp Utilities SpyBot Search and Destroy AVG 8.0 O&O Defrag... Are there other util's out there which are tried and tested n good??

Hi All, I have noticed a pretty weird behavior wrt my hard disk. I have 5 partitions on a 160 GB HDD. My C: drive tends to get fragmented very quickly (sometimes in just 2 days). I use O&O Defrag and whenever i analyse the disk the fragmentation level comes upto atleast 15 -16%. The C: drive...

Hi All, I have notice a very weird issue wrt my pc. When i do an "ipconfig /all", my ip address turns out to be 192.168.30.xxx However, when i go to grc.com to check my ports n stuff it says the IP is 203.93.56.xxx Even utorrent says my ip is 203.93.56.xxx. How is this possible?? Also, how...

Hi All, I have a .XLS file (Microsoft Excel 2003) which has been password protected... How can i remove the password from the file? Please help me out as this is extremely urgent!!! Thanx

Hi all, I wanted to download a training video i found on office.microsoft.com the link for the video is : *office.microsoft.com/assistance/asstvid.aspx?assetid=XT011989001033&vwidth=720&vheight=540&type=mediaplayer&CTT=11&Origin=HA011989031033 Could someone please tell me how to go...

Is Google ever gonna stop or what?? (btw... I am sorry if this has been posted before) I found this render of what Google's phone could look like.. Of course, as of now its all specualtion , but I just thought I would still post it up here. Take a look at the link ...

Hi All, I recently came across something very interesting in my organization. We use Win XP and a network has been setup for all the employees. To login, you follow the familiar Ctrl-Alt-Del process. Now, lets assume there is a guy in my office.. (call him Bill..) This is what happens.. This...

Hi all, I have recently started noticing multiple instances of svchost.exe in my task mgr. also... for a period of a month i ran my net conn without any firewall.. now ie seems to be popping up for no reason and redirects me to an unknown web page... is my browser hijacked??? i have scanned...

i would like to know which laptop should i go for. my budget would be between 55-60 k. i herd dell inspiron 6400 is good. should i go for amd or intel dual core? should i go with HP,Dell,Acer??? positives and negatives of these laptops?? please give me some ideas on few laptos which i can go for.

Hi all, I have a query abt the net send cmd. I tried the following at my workplace... we all work under a domain called xyz so I would be xyz\rakesh and bill gates (:D) would be xyz\bill however, when i tried sending a msg to my colleague it says user not found on the network. inspite if...

Hey all, had a query about virtual memory settings... I have a 120 GB Seagate HDD. (5 partitions).. Windows recommends Total paging file size for all drives as 766 MB However, I have set custom sizes for each partition. (For ALL partitions both Initial Size and Maximum Size is set to 1024 MB...

Hi all, I have been facing a weird problem with my Microsoft mouse for the last two days. If you click Start, go to Programs and right click.. you get a context menu whose contents are namely open, explore, delete, rename, sort by name and properties. However all of a sudden my mouse right...

Hi everybody,, pls let me start with an apology. i know this question might have been asked a lot of times. I am a complete newbie with computers. I have the latest version of K-Lite Codec Pack (Full) and VLC installed. However, for some reason i am not able to play .rmvb files. Is there a...

hey all, i wanted to know how to assign user accounts so that people cant use my home computer as n when they wish to. Last time i created an admin account people booted into safe mode n went to control panel to disable the password. Wanted to know how to create a secure startup. Also...