There's probably an option to switch the url. That's kind of strange, though, how it just did it all of a sudden.
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Delted cookies and cache and DNS with ccleaner. Problem still there.
@kymohurdin - I shouldn't be behind an proxy. Just checked my current IP address, it states that I'm in the UK.
Quite the peculiar situation.
I don't know how ccleaner deletes the DNS… you should probably do it manually though.
Goto start->run type cmd and open the command prompt. Type
ipconfig /flushdns
and wait. Your DNS should be flushed... I am assuming this is what Firefist meant... I am also assuming you use Windows
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the first link in the first post takes me to the page, and for some reason my download for it isn't starting. no idea why: my internet is pretty fast.
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Try this one instead…
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I don't know how ccleaner deletes the DNS… you should probably do it manually though.
Goto start->run type cmd and open the command prompt. Type
ipconfig /flushdns
and wait. Your DNS should be flushed... I am assuming this is what Firefist meant... I am also assuming you use Windows
My bad, kmohyudin :P
Flushed dns manually, still not working.
The problem seems restricted to Chrome. uninstalling and reinstalling…
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hahaha still no luck!!! weird!
Delted cookies and cache and DNS with ccleaner. Problem still there.
@kymohurdin - I shouldn't be behind an proxy. Just checked my current IP address, it states that I'm in the UK.
Quite the peculiar situation.
Its like the internet is falling apart :wassat: …
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hmmm… it SHOULD be cookies... :s
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NOOOOOO
still spanish.
Tried to see if the adverts are in spanish in firefox, but, even with adblock and noscript off, the ads are still blocked, so I can't find out.
I feel it's a bug in chrome. if the default search is google, it's spanish. If it's google images or any other search site, it's english
DAMMIT WHY CANT I HAVE MY GOOGLE
I decided to bear with it, so what other search engine do you recommend? bing? Yahoo?
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hmm… okay.. open google.com
it will take you to go google.es or something... on bottom there will be 2-3 links
one will be take to google.comclick it.. and then try
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NOOOOOO
still spanish.
Tried to see if the adverts are in spanish in firefox, but, even with adblock and noscript off, the ads are still blocked, so I can't find out.
I feel it's a bug in chrome. if the default search is google, it's spanish. If it's google images or any other search site, it's english
DAMMIT WHY CANT I HAVE MY GOOGLE
I decided to bear with it, so what other search engine do you recommend? bing? Yahoo?
Try doing this…
Go to the Customize and control options (The tool icon)->options->under the hood
There should be an option "Use DNS prefetching to improve page load performance". See if its checked. If it is, unckeck it and then restart Chrome.
If this doesn't solve your problem... undo the changes.
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It's futile. And very weird.
Searching in the address bar goes to .es, typing in google.com goes to co.uk.
Unchecking the box didn't do anything.
So, what do you recommend? (using bing ATM)
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Alright do this then:
Goto: Customize and control options (The tool icon)->options->Basics->Default Search->Manage->Add
And then Enter the following information:
Name: Google Eng
Keyword: google in england!!
URL: http://www.google.com/search?q=%sPress OK and then Make Default and see if that works.
Or if you are computer savvy… do this:
Goto (Windows Drive):\Documents and Settings(USER NAME)\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data (In XP)
and find the file named Local State.
Open it in Notepad
Press Ctrl+F and search for the following
"last_known_google_url": "http://www.google.com.XX/",
"last_prompted_google_url": "http://www.google.com.XX/",Edit the values of XX to your liking. Should do the trick...
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shift to firefox :ninja:
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Alright do this then:
Goto: Customize and control options (The tool icon)->options->Basics->Default Search->Manage->Add
And then Enter the following information:
Name: Google Eng
Keyword: google in england!!
URL: http://www.google.com/search?q=%sPress OK and then Make Default and see if that works.
Or if you are computer savvy… do this:
Goto (Windows Drive):\Documents and Settings(USER NAME)\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data (In XP)
and find the file named Local State.
Open it in Notepad
Press Ctrl+F and search for the following
"last_known_google_url": "http://www.google.com.XX/",
"last_prompted_google_url": "http://www.google.com.XX/",Edit the values of XX to your liking. Should do the trick...
Well, that worked.
I did all that a long time ago, but the only reason I failed was that I didn't add the "s" after the "%".
Muchos gracias.
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Well, that worked.
I did all that a long time ago, but the only reason I failed was that I didn't add the "s" after the "%".
Muchos gracias.
Glad to be of help .
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Hi everybody. I have a long story filled with stupidity, and viruses.
I have a new laptop and I decided to watch a movie. I found a link to said movie and watched about 20 minutes of it when it stopped and my computer alerted me that I had a trojan virus. So it said it was "successfully removed". Then my computer shuts down and restarts and I get a "Windows Thinkpoint" prompt that basically forces me to scan my computer for viruses and fixes all but 11 problems then says it will have to do something else to fix those 11 problems, then asks for your billing address and credit card information. Now, I'm not the smartest person around, of course, but I'm certainly not stupid. The virus was this windows thinkpoint thing. I googled it on my other computer and it's part of the virus. I don't know what to do, considering I can't get onto my computer because I can't get past that windows thinkpoint thing. I'm probably gonna have to take it to that best buy geek squad. So has anyone heard about this particular virus?
Oh, and I don't have an antivirus software on the computer that got infected. Smart, I know -_-.
Plus, I'm permanently logged onto AP on my computer so I hope the virus doesn't do anything on this end.
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Hi everybody. I have a long story filled with stupidity, and viruses.
I have a new laptop and I decided to watch a movie. I found a link to said movie and watched about 20 minutes of it when it stopped and my computer alerted me that I had a trojan virus. So it said it was "successfully removed". Then my computer shuts down and restarts and I get a "Windows Thinkpoint" prompt that basically forces me to scan my computer for viruses and fixes all but 11 problems then says it will have to do something else to fix those 11 problems, then asks for your billing address and credit card information. Now, I'm not the smartest person around, of course, but I'm certainly not stupid. The virus was this windows thinkpoint thing. I googled it on my other computer and it's part of the virus. I don't know what to do, considering I can't get onto my computer because I can't get past that windows thinkpoint thing. I'm probably gonna have to take it to that best buy geek squad. So has anyone heard about this particular virus?
Oh, and I don't have an antivirus software on the computer that got infected. Smart, I know -_-.
Plus, I'm permanently logged onto AP on my computer so I hope the virus doesn't do anything on this end.
Well, I found a guide that looks pretty helpful.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-thinkpoint
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I had it once. perhaps my ways were unorthodox, but I located the trojan, and wham! safemode delet'd
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Well, I found a guide that looks pretty helpful.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-thinkpoint
Thanks Puffin, but I brought it to best buy and they're currently working on it. :s
But thanks again.
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Hi. I'm having a lot of trouble with 'CPU Usage' on my Task Manager. On Windows Vista. My problem is that it seems to be up in the 70s-90s most of the time and on startup I always have to spend 10-15 mins going through task manager and switching off things my comp decides to load on start-up.
So is there a way to lower this? I switch of all of the unimportant stuff but even with all of that off there are like 70 processes running at the same time. Not helped by the likes of Windows Update which pops up whenever it's closed.
Somebody recommended that I go to the run menu and then go from there. But I don't think Vista has run
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Hi. I'm having a lot of trouble with 'CPU Usage' on my Task Manager. On Windows Vista. My problem is that it seems to be up in the 70s-90s most of the time and on startup I always have to spend 10-15 mins going through task manager and switching off things my comp decides to load on start-up.
So is there a way to lower this? I switch of all of the unimportant stuff but even with all of that off there are like 70 processes running at the same time. Not helped by the likes of Windows Update which pops up whenever it's closed.
Somebody recommended that I go to the run menu and then go from there. But I don't think Vista has run
Vista has run… all of them have run. If you can't find it, press window+R (by window, I mean the window key located between Ctrl and Alt).
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I am not completely sure if this is the same method on Vista as it is XP(I use XP), but if you go to run then type msconfig there should be a startup tab where you can uncheck items you don't want to boot at start up.
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Vista has run… all of them have run. If you can't find it, press window+R (by window, I mean the window key located between Ctrl and Alt).
I am not completely sure if this is the same method on Vista as it is XP(I use XP), but if you go to run then type msconfig there should be a startup tab where you can uncheck items you don't want to boot at start up.
both steps required :D
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I have 7 and pressing windows+R searches for documents starting with r.
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Hi. I'm having a lot of trouble with 'CPU Usage' on my Task Manager. On Windows Vista. My problem is that it seems to be up in the 70s-90s most of the time and on startup I always have to spend 10-15 mins going through task manager and switching off things my comp decides to load on start-up.
So is there a way to lower this? I switch of all of the unimportant stuff but even with all of that off there are like 70 processes running at the same time. Not helped by the likes of Windows Update which pops up whenever it's closed.
Somebody recommended that I go to the run menu and then go from there. But I don't think Vista has run
I had the same programs. I went to startup programs in the control panel and got rid of loads of ones that automatically started up which are unnescessary.
Also, I frequently open the Task Manager and delete 10 or so processes.
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I have 7 and pressing windows+R searches for documents starting with r.
… This is very weird... Win+R should most definitely open the run dialog box on all versions of windows... is it possible that you have changed the shortcuts? Cuz this is the first I've heard of something like this.
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simply typing msconfig and then pressing enter in start menu search will do the trick too
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My aunt recently cleaned up my computer for me since it's running slow. THen she went to defrag it. It's showing a 46% freespace, so it DEFINITELY needs the defragging. However I keep getting this error that says 'chkdsk' is scheduled to run and that I need to run it.
However, I don't know the the hell 'chkdsk' is or how to run it. I went to the help menu for the defragmentor, but all it says is:"You cannot defragment volumes that the file system has marked as dirty, which indicates possible corruption. You must run chkdsk on a dirty volume before you can defragment it. You can determine if a volume is dirty by using the fsutil dirty query command. For more information about chkdsk and fsutil dirty, see Related Topics."
I tried searing for these 'related topics', but that's the only thing it comes up with in the search for both chkdsk and fsutil dirty.
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i got no idea what's going on, but try to google this stuff. you'd be surprised what helpful stuff will come up.
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I did a search and it told me to run: chkdsk c: /f
Now it tells me that c: drive is in use and I can't run it until it closes and it says that it'll run when I turn the comp on next. Then it's telling me I gotta install some shit.I'm going to staples. I don't like the idea of killing my computer. At least if they fuck it up I'll have someone else to blame >3>
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ooh. let me know what they say.
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I'm wondering which system is running on your computer Mokenda Mint?
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There's a problem with my disk drive.
DVDs won't play on it, and although newer games like Civilization V will work, older discs like Oblivion won't be seen.
All the advice I've found online was to pirate an .iso file or uninstall the disk drive software and reinstall it, but I don't particularly want to do them.
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Having some problems accessing msn and my emails.
Basically whenever I try to log onto that I get 'service is down. Error Code 8100030d'
and then when I try to go onto hotmail or any other microsoft pages I just get 'Problem Loading Page. Make sure you are connected.'
Now I know other people are online atm so I don't know if it's a problem on my end or what. I tried looking at my firewall and it's on trusted sites/programs so.
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my msn is working. try downloading the new version. i know i've had problems in the past until I DL'd the latest version. also, google that error message and it will explain what is wrong. I think that is the error for no internet connection. check and make sure your password is entered.
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Anyone got any good recommendations for Anti-Virus software?
I currently have Kaspersky and it's pretty dire. Uses a ton of CPU usage (remember when I was complaining about this before. It was Kaspersky using 50-80 constantly.) and attempts to combat anything. Want to watch a DVD? Kaspersky doesn't think so!
Want to uninstall Kaspersky and ? HELL NO! Kaspersky will run and combat it! Sometimes causing the computer to overheat and switch off! Yaaay!
I've used McAfee in the past a few times. Although got annoyed by the constant need it had of registering. When I tried to register it said I was already registered.
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All AV programs are going to hit your CPU hard. If your computer is overheating & shutting down, that's a hardware problem, not a software problem(unless it's 50-80% all the time, not just when running scans)
As for not being super-intrusive, the freebie version of AVG seems ok on that score.
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Try SUPERAntiSpyware.
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i thought avast was pretty good at not eating up all your ram.
i'm using windows defender on my netbook and AVG on my desktop.
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It's not ram that's causing his problems, it sounds like his computer is either not properly ventilated, or the fans/cpu itself is dodgy.
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Last time I had an anti-virus program take up 50-80% of the CPU was Avira on my old 600 MHz Pentium 3. If your computers is about as fast you might have a hard time finding a program that isn't occupying your entire CPU all the time.
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Anyone got any good recommendations for Anti-Virus software?
I currently have Kaspersky and it's pretty dire. Uses a ton of CPU usage (remember when I was complaining about this before. It was Kaspersky using 50-80 constantly.) and attempts to combat anything. Want to watch a DVD? Kaspersky doesn't think so!
Want to uninstall Kaspersky and ? HELL NO! Kaspersky will run and combat it! Sometimes causing the computer to overheat and switch off! Yaaay!
I've used McAfee in the past a few times. Although got annoyed by the constant need it had of registering. When I tried to register it said I was already registered.
What's your set up?
Have you ever opened up your computer to clean out dust?
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For some reason my vista c drive is full even when I delete stuff it still fills up even when I don't download anything. Can someone help please this is annoying.
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For some reason my vista c drive is full even when I delete stuff it still fills up even when I don't download anything. Can someone help please this is annoying.
Temp cleaner run as adminstrator. Dont modify any options. just select drive and clean
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Temp cleaner run as adminstrator. Dont modify any options. just select drive and clean
thanks that freed up alot of space.
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All AV programs are going to hit your CPU hard. If your computer is overheating & shutting down, that's a hardware problem, not a software problem(unless it's 50-80% all the time, not just when running scans)
As for not being super-intrusive, the freebie version of AVG seems ok on that score.
Sorted it. Forcefully removed Kaspersky and reinstalled it. Works (kinda) like a dream now.
And yeah. The fans on this thing are rubbish. Whoever thought of putting fans on the bottom of the laptop instead of on the side -_-
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you got an HP too didn't you? :\
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I'm having a bit of a problem with my computer. Actually, it is more of a problem with my browser. Seemingly randomly, my browser(Firefox) will start overloading my CPU and the temperature of my computer shoots up to 130+ degrees. This happens for a minute and then things go back to normal. I tried using a different browser(Chrome), and it did the same thing. This just started happening recently. So my questions are: why is this happening and is there a better browser that doesn't have this sort of issue?