^^^ holy crap. That's a lot of steps.
^^^ holy crap. That's a lot of steps.
Merry f'ing Christmas
That's actually the first method I tried, because it was the quickest to implement. It worked, until I restarted my computer today. That's when I decided to just do the scans and pray. This hotebar is turning out to be a pretty resiliant little booger.
Have you tried installing NoScript?Originally Posted by Casey at the Bat
It's a FF add-on.
EDIT: You may have to first use those previous steps to get your browser back to the original homepage, and I believe NoScript will keep it from changing it again.
I did not try NoScript. I think that will be next. I am running AVG again right now, and it found some "tracking cookies" and when it is done, I'll redo the cookie blocking/etc, and then try NoScript.
If you get rid of it with your antivirus or with Spybot S&D or something, I wouldn't bother installing NoScript. NoScript will block all scripts, includeing some that allow you to see video or click on some links in a webpage. You can disable it on certain pages as you go, but use it as a last resort as it is somewhat of an annoyance itself.
Cool. Thanks for your help.
I think I got it. Ad Aware, Search-and-destroy, and AVG, and then changed the homepage manually to google. So far, three restarts and no more hotebar. Hope this holds!
My brother-in-law is having a problem with a Hewlett Packard PC I gave him a couple of years ago (Windows XP). I don't live near him so I can't describe the problem first hand but this is how he described the problem. Neither one of us are very technical but hopefully it'll make sense.
He said when he turns on the computer the icons look big and the screen is blurry. There are lines of white dots (pixels?) that go across the screen which are grouped together in columns. After that happens, he loses the cursor and the computer freezes.
At first he thought there might be a problem with the monitor, but he bought a new monitor with a new cable but that wasn't the problem. Before he takes it into Staples and gets ripped off, I thought I'd post the problem on this board and see if anyone has any suggestions. I don't remember when I bought the computer but it may have been 2003 so maybe it's just getting old.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Sounds like the video card is dying.
Thanks. I guess that's not as bad as the whole computer dying.
Anyone know how to change the password for the wireless network?
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You need to log into your router.
You can change it from in there.
Ok how do I do that?
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Do you know the brand and model number of your router?
I can find that on the actual router right?
If so I think it's Actiontec q1000
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Ok, the manual is here: http://www.qwest.com/internethelp/modems/q1000/pdf/Q1000_BASIC.pdf
If this doesn't help you, post here and I'll do my best to walk you through it. I don't have that particular router, but they're all basically the same.
The address to log into your router is http://192.168.0.1/
Oh thank you dear
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I bought a new router (Belkin Play f7D4302) and for some reason my PS3 stopped picking up the media servers on my PC (TVersity, Vuze), they showed up fine with my old crappy router but now I see nothingI'm missing streaming music and movies from my PC to my PS3. Any suggestions?
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Adjust your firewall settings. I'm not sure about specific steps.I bought a new router (Belkin Play f7D4302) and for some reason my PS3 stopped picking up the media servers on my PC (TVersity, Vuze), they showed up fine with my old crappy router but now I see nothing
I have an iMac with a Fusion software to enable me to run Windows on my Mac. However, I have to buy Windows and this may sound stupid but I was wondering if that will put me at a greater risk of viruses (installing Windows)? I have never had any problems with viruses on any of my Macs but I know viruses target Microsoft sometimes.
"We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend." Barack Obama
Short answer... yes.
WHen you use Fusion and install windows, you are actually turning a portion of your computer into a windows station. WIth that, you get all the good, and all the bad, that comes with windows. I use bootcamp, and have AVG and a few other free software to help me.
Thanks. What is bootcamp and AVG? Are they anti virus software? Are you saying that you have Windows installed and you use these to prevent problems? I am not sure I want to add Windows if that is the case.
"We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend." Barack Obama
Bootcamp is the "free" way to add windows to your computer. It is built in to the Mac OS, but in order to use WIndows, you have to turn your computer off, and start it up in WIndows. When you are done, you can restart it back in mac os. With bootcamp, you cannot run both systems simultaneously. With Fusion, you can, but it will be slower than bootcamp.
AVG is free antivirus software. There is other free antivirus software for the PC as well, but I don't remember everything that I put in. If there is no reason for you to add windows, then I wouldn't do it. I need XP for work sometimes, which is why I added it. I mostly use it to watch baseball games on my computer though, because Flash seems to work faster on XP than it does on the Mac OS.
Can anyone recommend a laptop cooling fan/pad thing thats not terribly expensive?
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Is your computer getting so hot that it shuts down, or is it just getting warm enough to be uncomfortable?
If it's shutting down, I'd get a USB powered cooling pad with a fan, like this one: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8144231
If you just want to keep your legs from getting hot, I'd suggest something like this (my wife has one and loves it): http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=6339403
Well the motherboard burned out a couple weeks ago (got it replaced) and the tech said I should look into getting one. I realized today how hot it gets (I can't set the laptop on my legs it gets that hot) so I guess maybe both?
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The computer will either freeze up or shut itself down if it gets too hot.
If it's running correctly, I would just go for the pad. It's sort of porous to let air in, and it's not noisy like the fans can be. Also, it is much more comfortable on your legs than the fans are.
I'm just worried it will burn out again. When it burned out a couple weeks ago, the computer didn't shut itself down. It did the same thing that happens when you have a tv on and someone pulls the plug. I couldn't get it to turn back on.
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Usually a motherboard fails not from too much heat but from fluctuations in current. I'm pretty sure the memory would fail from too much heat in the case before the motherboard fried. But if you're really worried, get the fans.
Linda, I have one of those USB fan things. Got it at WalMart (not the same one in the link) and it's not that loud. I need it on my older HP laptop. So far, my Acer mini is fine, heatwise.
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I have a dell lattitude d630 and it keeps blue screening a IRQL less_than_or_equal error, 000000000D1. It's Windows Vista, and it only happens when I boot into regular mode . Doesn't happen in Safe Mode.
I've tried system restore, and that didn't work.
And please don't suggest a hardware issue, because I'm sure that's not an issue for various reasons.
Help?
Sounds like a driver issue. Did you install any updates recently?
I recently had a banker virus that's taken care of now and I think it may have corrupted a driver. For that reason I actually updated a bunch of my drivers since this issue has begun. Maybe it's a driver I haven't updated?
Could be.
That error is almost always a driver.
I think I will disable all startup services that are non-microsoft and see how that goes.
Make sure you write down how things were before.
I disabled everything that was non-essential and it still blue screened
Then I ran verifier.exe and the blue screen told me that srtspl.sys is the cause of my woes
That driver is for Norton antivirus, which got messed up I guess
I disabled it in msconfig, and I still got bluescreens
Then I tried to uninstall it, which you can't do in safe mode because you can't do windows installer. Now I have to go into registry edit I think to get rid of it.
Any suggestions?
That sucks. you don't run AVG on your comp? i usually maintain virus free using just AVG, spybot, and quickjava.
at this point, I likely would've already tried reinstalling the OS. hope u have your data backed up
"First batter up well here's the pitch: it's a curve. Second batter up because the first got served"
No, I've stayed with Norton so far, but I've lost faith in antivirus software. The only thing it has done for me is delete tracking cookies. I always have to manually remove viruses when they come along.
I'm gonna give up soon and go nuclear on my computer and format the hardrive and reinstall the OS.
norton and mcafee are garbage and always have been. AVG has been quality for me since 2002 or so. Haven't had virus problems, across 2 computers, since then.
"First batter up well here's the pitch: it's a curve. Second batter up because the first got served"
Well as long as its free I suppose there isn't harm in trying it.
like I said though, that PLUS spybot together.
"First batter up well here's the pitch: it's a curve. Second batter up because the first got served"
My sister got the following message on her laptop:
Registry file failure
Crash dump
She tried contacting Dell customer support but got frustrated because they kept transferring her and the people she spoke with weren't much help. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem?
Any major failures like that I always just cave in and reformat. Fresh start, it's always been good to me.
Anyone else here have linux installed? I just installed it as a second OS because I was getting tired of Windows. Any general tips?
You're going to miss IE badly.
I have Mozilla Firefox. Actually, I have swiftfox, which is an optimized version of Mozilla and it's on crack in linux. It's so fast.
edit: you can get IE in linux, as well as chrome
It was a joke. Who on earth would actually miss IE?
Oh, my bad.
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