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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
McAfee DAT file 5958 is caused a false positive in SVCHOST.EXE, it is thinking it is W32/WECORL.A. Disabling McAfee will stop this rebooting.
Hit START > RUN > SHUTDOWN -A, hit Enter to stop the DCOM shutdown window. Many things won't work at this point.
Here is McAfee's solution page: http://vil.nai.com/vil/5958_false.htm
Confirmation from ...
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
I always like to have backup copies of my Dell Windows' CDs and DVDs for service reason, but I couldn't get the Dell Windows 7 Professional 32-bit DVD to copy, it would say that my DVD+R didn't have sufficient space. I saw that the Dell DVD was 4.8GB, so I ...
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
After scouring the internet I found a solution for my computer's inability to update the Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (KB970892) (Update failed).
Click Start, Run, type "regedit"
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\Setup
Double-click on Resume, change the number from 1 to 0 (zero).
Try to install now. It worked ...
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
I spent over an hour on Sunday trying to figure out how to listen to the broadcast of the Pittsburgh Steelers game on my iPhone while out of state. Here is a list of stations I found if on a regular computer:
http://www.freefootballradio.com/Pittsburgh.html
However, none of these worked with the iPhone (or ...
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
I didn't find this on the internet, so I figured I would put it here. This may be isolated, but if not, let me know if this helps. I got a call from an accountant saying that all of a sudden Intuit's ProSeries 2008 would freeze when opening.
After lots of ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
At the school in which I manage the IT, we had 33 HP d530 ultra slim form factor desktop computers donated from a large corporation. They have been so frustrating, with more than half with hardware problems right now. I will use this post to list the problems, and solutions ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Thanks to the great post by GREEDJ at the Grand Am Owners Club I found how to fix this problem and wanted to show some pictures to help others save lots of cash!
My 2002 Grand Am GT (with 104,000 miles) was starting having these really annoying high-pitched squeaks and rattles, ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
I have a 2002 Pontiac Grand Am. In September 2007, the turn signals/flashers would intermittently stop working. We figured out that if you hit the hazards button, the turn signals would work again. In June 2008, the "hazards button" method would not always work, thus creating a "hazardous" situation for ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
I've been working most of the day on a laptop that I just cannot get the Windows Updates to install. A while ago, it received the dreaded "Configuring updates: Stage 3 of 3 - 0% complete. Do not turn off your computer" with a continuous reboot after an automatic update. ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
I'm now working on the worse infection I've seen in years. I'm early in the process, but here are some symptoms:
Once I cleaned the malware up in Safe Mode using AVG Free 8 (which was not easy at all), when I rebooted in to Windows XP, I could no longer ...
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