Computers & Internet - 22 December 2007

My disc seems to make more noise and the fan also seems louder. Not the soft humm, but more whining and grinding. Is there easy maintance to solve this or should I be getting nervous?

2007-12-22 11:13:00 · 3 answers · asked by wondering 4 in Desktops

Do you know of any program that i could download and get free music? I had limewire and i LOVED it but i had 2 delete it, so any suggestions??

2007-12-22 11:12:04 · 4 answers · asked by Anabell 2 in Software

What does it mean? can you still download them?

2007-12-22 11:03:37 · 2 answers · asked by chris u 1 in Software

Okey -breath in- Long question coming your way...

I have the anti-virus program AVG Free Edition. It seems this program is good for detecting viruses and backdoor trojans but when it comes to fixing them it pretty much sucks.

I literally have about 8 trojans and viruses on my computer, yet AVG never seems to be able to heal them.

I would also appreciate it if you'd let me know what Anti-Virus program you'd reccomend. (I had Norton one time, yet it took off the System32, so I'm not particularly impressed with Norton...)

AND one more thing - if I were to uninstall AVG from my computer (with the viruses in the Virus Vault) would the viruses go with it? Or would they simply return if I were to re-install the program?

Thanks for taking the time to read this! All help appreciated!

2007-12-22 11:02:35 · 11 answers · asked by ? 2 in Security

I just posted a video on facebook and wanted to know if theres a way to see how many people have viewed my video. Thanks

2007-12-22 11:01:58 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Facebook

2007-12-22 10:53:38 · 1 answers · asked by James 1 in Software

My brother is currently living with me and my family.
I have noticed that since he's been here, the performance of my PC is VERY slow.
I try to clean out cookies and such and do weekly AVG scans, but it's still being slow as all hell. Now I am getting popups from hell as well. Sometimes very provacative ones. NOT good with little kids in the house.
Today I ran something called SpyHunter 3 Security Suite. Found a CRAPload of things in my PC but won't let me heal them unless I purchase the ware.
Do any of you have any ideas on where I can recieve free spy security ware to clean up my pc? Like I said, I use AVG but it's not that great for finding spyware.
TIA.

2007-12-22 10:53:37 · 8 answers · asked by mamacandy74 2 in Security

same features, just the brand. I'm not really sure which one is better (whatever that means), can someone help me out

thanks,

2007-12-22 10:51:36 · 14 answers · asked by X 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

my dvd player on my computer stopped playing dvds. a coworker told me i may need to reinstall windows , and hte drivers for the dvd-rom. any idea how to do this? if i uninstall windows, how do i get it back to reinstall?

2007-12-22 10:51:15 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Software

...and I can't access it. It was working fine until I had to delete everything on my internal hard drive. Now my computer's fine. But I can't access my external hard drive anymore. The Device Manager says nothing's wrong with it, it's properly installed, but its icon won't show in the My Computer folder, and I can't access it anywhere else. It's connected by USB, and it's made by SimpleTech. Any ideas?

By the way, before I wiped my internal hard drive, I had installed an alternate operating system on the external hard drive. More specifically, my internal has Windows XP, and my external had Ubuntu.

2007-12-22 10:45:23 · 1 answers · asked by Jadebrain_viking 2 in Add-ons

he says when he tries to turn it on theres no power in it

2007-12-22 10:45:15 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Computers

i want to burn or copy some cds what is my easy way to do so

2007-12-22 10:41:46 · 5 answers · asked by bob h 1 in Add-ons

Windows System Error- There has been an IP conflict in the network.

What does this mean/how do i fix it?

I have windows xp home edition SP2 all updates.

Thanks in advance.

2007-12-22 10:39:40 · 2 answers · asked by HI 1 in Security

its like 1 month old and i just used it 2 times so it has its warranty and its as new with all packaging

i am looking for somewhere to sell it not on net hopefully , some store
i live in Brisbane / Australia

2007-12-22 10:39:06 · 5 answers · asked by ali m 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

I was going to sign up put all my info in my credit card # and everything!!!
then I didnt click create account and it still created it!! how do i delete my account so it wont bill me!!!

2007-12-22 10:36:03 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Software

I've set my Facebook profile to private, but I've heard that some companies or individuals can still purchase my profile and information. Does anyone know if that's true?

2007-12-22 10:34:49 · 0 answers · asked by baylorgirl09 1 in Facebook

hello ..
I have ATi Radeon 9550 on my desktop pc .. I have the latest driver for it and I use the ATi Tool to overclock it .. and its work fine ... but when I play these two games (Need For Speed Most Wanted and FIFA 08 ) something looks wrong .. in NFS the shadows looks aguly even when I enable the Anti-aliasing and smoke of the wheels is black !!! I dont know how to fix it .. I tried to enable and disable many options in the game but still have same ptoblem .. On FIFA08 , the colors looks very bright .. players skins is looking bad and the ball is bright white .. while its supposed to be silver !!!

Please help ...
thanks

2007-12-22 10:31:23 · 2 answers · asked by Radwan R 1 in Other - Hardware

When I add a work to a spell checker dictionary in ms word or Firefox it realizes that the word is ok when I type it in exactly but doesn'tsuggest the word when I misspell it. Is there a way to change that?

2007-12-22 10:30:48 · 5 answers · asked by arthritix 3 in Software

I have a n opportunity to buy a notebook for $200. It has everything but the wireless card. Would you pay this amount? Is this a good price? Help. I don't know enough to be able to tell.

2007-12-22 10:28:03 · 6 answers · asked by susan9 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

i have a dsl modem from at&t attached to my computer. does that mean that i have a wired or wireless connection? i want to know because i just bought a wii and i would like to hook up my internet to it but i dont know how. do i need a "wireless router"? i dont even know wat that is ? plz help....anybody?

2007-12-22 10:19:38 · 5 answers · asked by Majid K 2 in Computer Networking

I have dsl, and when I download something from p2p it starts off about 42-53 kbits then lowers slowly down to 1-2kbits per second. WHY is this doing this...? It used to stay around the same speed only by a few numbers orso, but why is it now going down to almost nothing...taking forever. I have wireless, on my desktop, Although I am sort of far away from the router box, and my signal is only 3 bars of 5 showing. But I can still browse online, etc.

2007-12-22 10:17:30 · 3 answers · asked by Todd G 1 in Desktops

i have downloaded movies movies on azureus and i want to burn it to a disk but i dont have the software and dont want to pay for it

2007-12-22 10:17:11 · 2 answers · asked by alex t 2 in Other - Computers

Price ain't a thing, unless you tell me to buy me a better computer or motherboard because i haf the following:
Athlon XP 2000+
1.5GB RAM
140GB Hard Drive
256 MB Video Card
Any suggestions ill take because i want to max out my computer with this motherboard i have.It takes a 939 Socket.
SO far im getting a Athlon XP 4000+ unless theres better...
oh yea for video card i dont have PCI E.... Thanx :D

2007-12-22 10:15:43 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

Also, which one is better and why?

2007-12-22 10:13:00 · 6 answers · asked by Miss P 1 in Software

my dad has brought my sister a laptop for xmas
and has tryied installing this on it it says
compatibility problems

please help !!!

2007-12-22 10:11:30 · 1 answers · asked by reubenatour 2 in Software

I think my laptops graphics card had died, how do I run a check on it (I have Vista)

2007-12-22 10:04:23 · 3 answers · asked by captainpantsbc 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

In my neighborhood or more specifically.... my phone number according to the phone company website says that I am able to receive 3 different speeds of service. 550 kbps being the slowest and 10mbps being the fastest in my neighborhood....., what does the telephone guy do to change the speeds that I can receive....., is there a filter of some sorts or a different dsl modem that allows a higher speed or is there a combination of the two......, what does he/she change outside or inside to make this happen????

2007-12-22 10:03:34 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

what are the specs of a geforce 6150 GO the wikipedia article is unclear

2007-12-22 10:03:34 · 4 answers · asked by captainpantsbc 2 in Wikipedia

Should I get XP or Vista? Which one is better with media and gaming? (I know that stuff matters with the cards I have but I think the system has something to do with it too).

2007-12-22 10:03:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Computers

I got this software son my computers and i need to know if my protection is good.

Anti virus = Avira

Firewall = Comodo

Anti spyware = a squared free

2007-12-22 09:59:54 · 5 answers · asked by hawk 2 in Security