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guys i know im not not anywhere near in charge here, but can we calm down. i know no-ones hardcore flaming here, but lets put aside our arguments and try to find a reasonable solution

woah man i know you're upset but who lit the fuse on your tampon? he was trying to help. im sure someone will help soon. just be patient, thanks bro.

i had a desktop where the actual power button's cable that plugs into the motherboard died. it worked fine then the next time i went to turn it on the button didnt work, replaced the button and all was good.

just downloaded and burned linux mint, it looks pretty sweet, im about to dual boot with xp. seems simple enough reading through all the info i have found. will post up some screens when its done.

dark06 does cricket work for you? i mean when i had it, it worked perfectly, but after paying a bill on it for 3 phones...they turned around and said i didnt pay and even after showing the reciept to them they said that i would have to pay again, so i dropped it.

thanks for your help. and sorry i didnt mention this sooner. but WELCOME to testmy.net great great place for help/showing off computer related things, and just to have a good time.

cool tahnks. one moer...how about Potassium Thiocyanate

that was me. about ferric nitrate and something else

i remember getting a email from a ton of different people a few months ago saying the system32 folder was a virus and to delete it...guess how many people i talked to had to reformat their pc's because the email came with an attachment for boot and nuke.... :2funny:

ok coknuck and zal, i got it, special thanks for the links and then again to coknuck because he sparked my interest into getting malwarebytes working right. i had to for some reason uninstall and reinstall it and reboot, then scan again and it found and deleted everything. Thanks guys. just as a warning, those IQ tests on facebook...dont click them....thats how this got started.

malwarebytes did nothing. which suprised me actually. oddly enough i think i just found the way to get rid of it....i'll post back later after i've tried and how i do it

ok little more info here. it is in the C:/program files folder, and doesnt show up in add/remove programs, wont get detected by any scans i do except one, and when i try to delete it it says it cant be deleted...and i tried to go into the folder myself and hit the untinstall button but it brings an error up. then tried deleting the whole damn folder....doesnt work either...even when i go into task manager and end all processes to due with this thing.

so i have a computer that a popup was clicked on and now there is a folder in the C:/program files folder called personal antivirus, which keeps popping up in my real antivirus program. its a trojan as i've researched it on the web with no luck as to getting rid of it...any ideas? perhaps i should give killbox a go?

xp home

any ideas?

still no go

tried, it still said unrecognized and now when i install the driver it says there is a "dialog box error" so the install program crashes...

ok i got the belkin usb adapter (model name is in title) and it said the drivers were installed correctly, but the light on the usb adapter wont turn on and windows keeps saying its not recognized. any ideas?

acer probably doesnt have dual hard drives probably just one disc partitioned into two peices. most laptops do that...there is also a hidden partition probably about 5 gigs or so in size... its a hidden partition so unless you used bot and nuke or went into some great detail to delete every partition (formatting alone wont show it most of the time) its still there. it has all of your recovery information on it.

well here is one question, why do you need 4gb of ram...unless your doing video editing 3 is probably more than plenty. you wont tell much of a difference from 3 to 4gb. and if you have 32 bit operating system not 63bit i dont think you can utilize all 4 anyways. but as far as a good/decent gaming grapihcs card and has HD output. here ya go: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121300 its nvidia, i could find you a ATI but i prefer nvidia. any other parts you want help finding? and if you dont like that graphics card i can certainly find you another one

newegg.com tigerdirect.com couple others, just post up some ideas what you want it for and we can also help pick things out. just give us a idea what its used for and a budget

glad to hear you got it!

i had this problem with wireless in XP. i did a system restore to when i twas working and it worked for about a week longer, then as coknuck said, i had to end up formatting because i couldnt find an answer to the issue.

there are tons of guides and things on this very site to make your connection faster such as: Here and Here and there are plenty more. i am on my ps3 so i cant post much because its kind of time consuming, but let me know if that works or not and i'll post up more stuff.

i still use avg free for antivirus, adaware and spybot and ccleaner for malware, spyware, etc. and firewall...well had zone alarm, and something somehow got by it and disabled it so i just use the router firewall and nothing bad happened since.