1. What you have heard about is probably the latest incarnation of the Zeus virus (do a Google for it & you'll find loads of recent posts). Essentially you avoid it by keeping your browser and security software up to date and don't ignore any warning messages produced by either.

    What you have heard about is probably the latest incarnation of
    the Zeus virus (do a Google for it & you’ll find loads of recent
    posts). Essentially you avoid it by keeping your browser and
    security software up to date and don’t ignore any warning
    messages produced by either.

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  2. That can happen if someone connects to your printer via a web browser on whatever port it listens for print jobs on, typically port 9100.You aren't allowing access to this printer from outside your network are you?When you find this system, restart the print spooler with:net stop spooler &&Read more

    That can happen if someone connects to your printer via a web browser on whatever port it listens for print jobs on, typically port 9100.

    You aren’t allowing access to this printer from outside your network are you?

    When you find this system, restart the print spooler with:

    net stop spooler && net start spooler

    Tony

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  3. AV's etc do scan hidden files. They wouldn't be much good if they didn't do this.Always pop back and let us know the outcome - thanks

    AV’s etc do scan hidden files. They wouldn’t be much good if they didn’t do this.

    Always pop back and let us know the outcome – thanks

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  4. I think beachy means that you should, go into device manager, find your wireless device, double click it and uninstall its drivers. Restart the laptop and windows should reinstall the drivers for you. You can download the driver for your device here, just filter by Component = Network wireless LANOpRead more

    I think beachy means that you should, go into device manager, find your wireless device, double click it and uninstall its drivers. Restart the laptop and windows should reinstall the drivers for you.

    You can download the driver for your device here, just filter by

    Component = Network wireless LAN
    Operating System = Windows 7 32 bit

    http://pcsupport.lenovo.com/gb/en/p…

    not sure exactly how to enable/disable the wireless on your laptop, but you should have a F key are the top that has a wireless symbol on it, if you press the FN key and the wireless key at the same time it should toggle the wireless on or off.

    You can also check your BIOS to ensure that the wireless LAN has not been turned off (if the option is there)

    You can also go into control panel, network and sharing and check that the wireless lan is not disabled.

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  5. You can't show it in the background with batch files. Let say you want to show Computer name, Domain name, IP addy, subnet mask, and default gateway with a transparent background, you can do this easily with c#.

    You can’t show it in the background with batch files. Let say you want to show Computer name, Domain name, IP addy, subnet mask, and default gateway with a transparent background, you can do this easily with c#.

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  6. Power failure events can produce power spikes and/or power surges that can damage anything inside the computer and/or anything connected to it. If the power failure event was caused by a lightning strike, that's even more likely.Something on the the computer could have been damaged even if the compuRead more

    Power failure events can produce power spikes and/or power surges that can damage anything inside the computer and/or anything connected to it. If the power failure event was caused by a lightning strike, that’s even more likely.
    Something on the the computer could have been damaged even if the computer wasn’t running at the time, if it was plugged into AC.

    The most frequent thing I’ve seen is just the power supply was damaged.

    A damaged power supply often produces similar symptoms to a failing power supply

    Failing power supplies are common and can cause your symptoms.
    They often partially work, fans and hard drives may spin, leds may come on, yet you may get no video and the mboard will not boot all the way.

    If you’re fortunate, replacing the power supply will get your system working again.
    However, sometimes the mboard has been damaged, either by the power supply failing, or by the the power failure event’s power spikes and/or surges.

    If you can borrow a power supply from another working system, try connecting that to your system.

    If your power supply when connected to another working system doesn’t result in you being able to boot that computer normally, the power supply is definitely damaged.

    NOTE that if the brand of the power supply is BESTEC, that brand of PS is known to be MUCH more likely to damage the mboard while failing.
    ……..

    Acer Aspire M3300-E1222 – Athlon II X4 620 2.6 GHz
    http://www.cdw.ca/shop/products/Ace…

    Acer Aspire M3300-E1222 – Athlon II X4 620 2.6 GHz
    Mfg. Part: PT.SBT02.001 | CDW Part: 2109927 | UNSPSC: 43211508

    This product was discontinued as of Thursday, March 17, 2011. Call for availability.

    E1222 – Micro tower – 1 x Athlon II X4 620 / 2.6 GHz – RAM 4 GB – HDD 1 x 750 GB – DVD±RW / DVD-RAM – Radeon HD 3200 – Gigabit Ethernet – Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit – Monitor : none Main Features
    …….

    Am3300-E1222 Ath II X4 620 2.6g 4gb 750gb Dvdrw Lan W7hp (vf)
    http://www.shoptoit.ca/brand-acer-i…
    …….

    Acer Aspire M3300 Desktop Series Specifications
    http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/d…

    Excerpts:

    Chipset AMD 780G Chipset

    Graphics ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 Graphics with ATI SurroundView™ and dual-view support
    Microsoft® DirectX® 10 support
    PCI Express® 2.0 x16 graphics card support

    I/O Expansion

    PCI Express® 2.0 x16 slot
    PCI Express® 2.0 x1 slot
    Two PCI v2.3 (5 V) slots

    Power Supply 300 W / 250 W
    …..

    If trying another power supply results in your system working…..

    Your mboard’s AMD 780G main chipset supports Hybrid CrossfireX Hybrid video – both the onboard video adapter and the video on a video card in a PCI-E X16 slot working at the same time, but that feature is ONLY supported if the video chipset on the card is ATI and one of a short list of video chipsets.

    If you install a video card in the PCI-E X16 slot,
    – your system came with either a 250 or 300 watt PS. There are very few video chipsets on PCI-E X16 video cards that will work fine on a system with such a meagre power supply capacity .

    Your replacement power supply should probably have a higher wattage capacity.

    Your power supply must have at least the minimum capacity required to support a system with the graphics card you are using installed, or the max graphics card you might install in the future.
    (Onboard video – video built into the mboard – IS NOT A CARD ! )
    If that info is not in the ad for the video card, you can go to the video card maker’s web site and look up the specs for the model – often under system requirements – the minimum PS wattage, and, more important, the minimum amperage the PS must supply at 12v is stated. If you don’t find that, any card with the same video chipset including any letters after the model number has very similar minimum PS requirements. Some power supplies have two or more +12v ratings – in that case, add those ratings to determine the total +12v current capacity.

    – if a PCI-E X16 video card has ANY NVidia video chipset on it, or an ATI video chipset that is NOT one of the few supported by the Hybrid CrossfireX requirements, default bios settings MAY result in you getting NO VIDEO video from the PCI-E X16 video card.
    In that case, you need to connect your computer to the onboard video port, which is STILL producing video, and change at least one if not two settings in the bios Setup from their defaults in order to get video from the card in the PCI-E X16 slot. If you need more info about that, I can provide more details.

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  7. Careful; I'm not sure if startup scripts or its child processes have the ability to spawn windows. Also, logon scripts might not have the required permissions to run an installer. You might just want to build an msi.That said:If Not CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").FolderExists("a folder")Read more

    Careful; I’m not sure if startup scripts or its child processes have the ability to spawn windows. Also, logon scripts might not have the required permissions to run an installer. You might just want to build an msi.

    That said:

    If Not CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").FolderExists("a folder") Then _
      CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Run """\\share\fileserver\application setup"""

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  8. if your certain the clone is good now, and that the boot drive is set correctly then you have other errors on the mobo, first thing is to find and switch off show f1 on errors/all errors/etc etc, that is in the bios, and set to no errors, that should boot straight away if the drive and drive setup aRead more

    if your certain the clone is good now, and that the boot drive is set correctly then you have other errors on the mobo, first thing is to find and switch off show f1 on errors/all errors/etc etc, that is in the bios, and set to no errors, that should boot straight away if the drive and drive setup are ok, then you can remove all peripherals and set the f1 error to show, that should give you an indication of what the error is by flashing lights on the mobo or by beeps, if you get no flashing lights and no error beeps, set the bios to default, to remove any changes, OC etc etc, if it still shows errors set back to ignore all errors and be happy
    ps Acronis has multiple issues with win 7 and i for one do not recommend it, even after years of successful usage.
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  9. @echo off & setlocal set source=D:\Dir_1 set target=G:\Dir_2 cd /D "%source%" if not exist "%target%" md "%target%" if not exist "D:\Dir_3\FilesList.log" type nul > "D:\Dir_3\FilesList.log" set stamp=%date:~-10% on %time:~0,8% set cnt=0 for %%j in (*) do if %%~zj geq 50 if not exist "%target%Read more

    @echo off & setlocal
    
    set source=D:\Dir_1
    set target=G:\Dir_2
    
    cd /D "%source%"
    if not exist "%target%" md "%target%"
    if not exist "D:\Dir_3\FilesList.log" type nul > "D:\Dir_3\FilesList.log"
    set stamp=%date:~-10% on %time:~0,8%
    
    set cnt=0
    for %%j in (*) do if %%~zj geq 50 if not exist "%target%.\%%j" (
      type "D:\Dir_3\FilesList.log" | find /I "%%j" > nul
      if ErrorLevel 1 (
        copy "%%j" "%target%" > nul
        echo.%stamp% %%j>> "D:\Dir_3\FilesList.log"
        set /A cnt+=1
      )
    )
    
    if %cnt% equ 0 (
      echo.no files found
      echo.%stamp% no files found>> "D:\Dir_3\FilesError.log"
    ) else (
       echo.%cnt% files copied
       echo.%stamp% %cnt% files copied>> "D:\Dir_3\FilesSuccess.log"
    )
    
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  10. The missing file is a component of the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Runtime Libraries package. the 64-bit version for Windows 7 64-bit is here:http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down...

    The missing file is a component of the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Runtime Libraries package. the 64-bit version for Windows 7 64-bit is here:

    http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down…

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