hi, i have an ASUS F3F, i bought it around feb 2007, it still includes laptop bag, mouse, battery, AC power cable. (note - all used but original) the thing it, the metal hinge on the left hand side snapped and caused the circuit which connects the computer part to the LCD globe, if i move it around the globe still works (the lcd inverter is cracked, works but cracked. it works fine, the stuff inside that laptop is most likely virus infected but nothing formatting wont fix. where do u think i can sell it, its a great laptop but since its broken i am considering buying a smaller laptop. so the backlight is off and the lid doesnt close properly. it can be closed but carefully.

im in hk right now, i doubt theyll give me a good price, a new asus f3f is worth us00-00 (thats not what i expect my broken laptop to be worth,relax) , but i checked online quotes the most thatll be given is prob 0. can anyone recommend anything?? thanks =)

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I’ve found this laptop for sale and the owner claims it has a virus she didn’t want to mess with so bought a new computer. Would it be difficult to get rid of the virus, especially if you aren’t interested in anything but the software on it or would you have to replace it, and how would you get rid of it? Would software manufacturers replace the original software for free or would you have to buy new? The sale price is 0 and it’s use would be very basic, word processing and internet for e-mail and limited surfing. Would you buy this computer, assuming you are very computer savvy?

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New Laptop Problem, i bought new dell studio 17 laptop. But my internet explorer still takes time to open with/without internet.

Dell Studio 17 inch screen, 4gb ram, 500 gb hard drive, intel core 2 duo T-6500m, processor speed 2.1 ghz, Windows Vista premium.

Now my problem is that internet explorer or firefox still takes time to open, infact its the same as my desktop which is 1gb ram 80gb hrd drive and 2 ghz . Now i asked the geek squad or technicians in best buy and he told me that there is some super fetch thing in new computers so he said it will be abt a month for my laptop to get use to what I do i.e i work on multiple explorers(5-8)and couple spreadsheets. NOW i don’t what should I do? will it really make or real fast after a month or so, but what it don’t.
SHOULD I WAIT OR SHOULD i RETURN AND GET SOME ELSE, COS I CANNOT RETURN AFTER 14 DAYS ARE OVER. please HELP TO MAKE TO MAKE A DECISION.
And if i should return it what kind i should and with what specification.

Be free to be subjective and tell in detail whats going on.

internrt explorer/ fire fox does take time but not really long time. Point is that my 1gb ram take same or almost same time . and I was expecting that 4gb would be real fast.

and I dont want to buy anything expensive than this cos those are for gamers of artists ..but all i need to open multiple explorers fast.

I also installed kaprasky anti-virus but was told it does not make computer slow as compared other anti-viruses in the market.

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I will soon be planning to buy a laptop, but I will be using it for school and college later on. Which is a better and a smarter choice, Apple or Windows?

I usually use the computer for Internet Search, Writing reports, essays, and other school work, etc. I also use it for storing pictures from my Digital Camera and iTunes as well. I currently have Windows XP in my P.C, yet have been having trouble with viruses, the computer freezes and is somewhat slow during the Internet search process. Yet compare to my school, they use Apple instead, and so far I like it.

All ideas and suggestions are truly appreciated. Thanks!

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i have been renting to own a pc laptop and i hate it! if i finished buying it (because i have put WAY to much into it now!) and then sold it and bought a different one, which should i get…

i really love the macbook, but i have heard they are hard to get use to is this true, should i just try another laptop…

i have an hp pavillion dv7 now, i use to have a dell and i like the hp better but i keep getting viruses and stuff messing up or slowing down my computer, i am SO tired of it! i really love the idea of a macbook but i know that it is not easy to find some programs for the mac…

if you are a mac user, do you like it? is it easy for you to find programs? is it more expensive for those programs? and also how long did it take for you to get use to the interface?

anything else i need to know???
haha i know…i am not looking to do this until i find a job (which may be a while) but i am a very ocd person, i have to plan and plan months in advance!

i just finished with school and that cost me ,000 so i wasn’t able to afford anything expensive…

i know the mac does get viruses but not hardly as many as a pc does, and so far i ahve really disliked windows, and the macs i have used i love!

i want something that will be good for traveling, i really enjoy traveling and i plan on doing it more once i get a job. but a 17", 8 pound laptop is not really ideal for traveling with it! idk maybe i will just buy and ipad–you know the new one, and keep my klunker!

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This morning i turned on my laptop (HP, vista home premium), logged on and it said: windows has encountered a critical problem. it will log off. save your work. then sometimes it says error and sometthing else then the computer restarts so i can only stay logged on for about 10 seconds. I’ve tried system restore and start up recovery but it says it can’t do it automatically.I’m sure its infested with viruses because i was using a norton free trial and it eventually expired and was gonna soon buy the full lversion, plus i had been installing software last night. any suggestions of what i can do? I’ve only had this laptop 2 months i cant bear the thought of having to buy a new one. (I’m using my dads laptop now just in case your wondering lol)
Sorry I forgot to say that i didnt download the norton thing, it came with the computer. at the time of buying my laptop i didnt have enough money too buy norton with it but installed on it was a 30 day free trial. i hadnt installed any other virus protection programme.

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My Gates laptop came with the media movie maker. Quicktime somehow got onto it and now I can not use the movie maker, does not recognize .MOV file. Researching it, I see Apple got a virus in Quicktime. I can not change the video files to other formats, will not work. Does BestBuy stores or someone have a way to wipe it out or change it to windows media player as it was originally? Am I just going to have to buy the Quicktime Pro to use there movie maker? Will Muvee movie player work reading these Quicktime MOV files?

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I wanted to reset it back to factory settings because the harddrive was given to me by a friend so all of his programs and files were on the computer. There was so much of it, I thought it would be best to just restore the laptop back to factory setting. By the way, my harddrive is by HP but the laptop itself is an IBM. the harddrive does fit the laptop. I logged into the restore managed that HP provides and I selected the setting to restore to factory setting. It went through the entire process and once it got to 100% I got an error message saying the restore process could not be complete, please try again and then the laptop restarted itself. When the laptop restarted itself, before getting the to desktop, the same error message pops up again. The moment I click ok to get out of the message, my laptop restarts and the same thing happens over and over again. Eventually I figured out that by doing alt-ctrl-delete to get into the task manager, a file shows up "audit.exe" if I end the process for it, it takes me to my desktop and everything has been fully restored. The computer fully works, but anytime I restart the computer I have to go into the task manager to end that process and be able to pull up my desktop. I am pulling my hair out because I dont know what to do to make that error message go away. I did a virus scan and theres no virus. Also, I tried going into the restore manager again to try redoing the factory restore and it wont allow me to pick that setting anymore and I cant restore to a previous date, because no restore point was created.

The only thing I can think of, is continue using the laptop as it is OR go buy windows vista and install the operating system and use that as my factory restore.

Is there anything that can be done to make the error go away?
The laptop is running on Vista, I dont have an operating system disk unless I go buy one, and im unsure how to get into safe mode because the harddrive is HP, but the laptop itself is an ibm thinkpad. im not sure if the process to start safe mode is the same for both.

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I’m playing fallout 3 with no lag on medium with 800×600, 8x AA, No Anisotropic Filtering, HDR. My GPU can make High too but my problem here is that suddenly when i play, i get somekind of leak in the cpu. The game goes slow, fast, slow, fast slow, fast. I have to go to the menu and wait a bit and then play again for 2 min and it happens again

This is because the CPU cache is getting full. CPU may run slow when its over heated.

My pc runs at 70+ degrees. Thats baad. When im not playing its about 67 degrees. So i think its a problem there. For some months ago my GPU died and i bought a new one 8600m gt 512mb, my old one was 8600m gs 256mb witch was slow. But…. the cooling pasta was removed and we didn’t add a new one… CAN THIS BE THE PROBLEM?! Do i need to add a new piece if cooling pasta? The pc is currently in my room witch is cold. Very cold. Im using it as a desktop but only a big screen connected to it and external disk + keyboard & mouse. Will it work to put a fan next to my pc? lol.
I got the problem away for a while while i was running with AA on 4x but it looked horrible?!!? Whats best? Higher resolution with no AA or low resolution with AA?

So, basically my question is:
Why do i get those "slowdowns" ?
How can i reduce/remove it?
Is this caused by heat?

I didn’t have any of those problems while i got my old GPU still working =(

Specs:
Acer Aspire 5920g Laptop
nVidia Geforce 8600m GT 512mb 185.86 driver (because the new one made my pc screen flicker when not connected to big screen)
Intel Core 2 Duo 1,83 Ghz T5550
3 GB DDR2 Ram
Disk 1: 18 GB free space
Disk 2: 36 GB free space
External Disk: 302 GB free space
Virus Free (Checked with AVG Free, Spybot S&D.
Daily Registry cleaning with CCleaner
Used to overclock with rivatuner but removed it after bluescreen problems.

Please read the whole question. I made it as detailed as i could

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I’m planning to buy a new laptop. I have never used Mac. I just know that it’s more expensive than Windows , and it less risky when it comes to viruses.
I’d like to have a little change.
Do you think that Mac is a right choice?
Can you explain to me the advantages and the disadvantages of this OS?

Thanks xx

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I did it before with a desktop, but just transferred files from a virus infected hard drive.

It is a 3 month old Dell under warranty. I hooked up a digital tablet for drawing. When I turned on the computer the next morning to use it, windows would not boot. Dell is sending a new hard drive, but I have a program on there that can only be installed once, and I will probably have to buy it to put it on the new hard drive.

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ok its a compaq pretty good but it has pretty much no type of virus protection. i use it mostly for browsing the internet and downloading music via limewire. so i was wondering what type of antivirus would nr nrst for me to buy or download so i dont ruin my system.

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i want to know wat is the best kind to get and i had got me a desk top computer in christmas 2005 and that computer is broke out of this world and when i do get my laptop i had a ipod and how do i down music to my ipod with out getting virus on there i use lime wire and i tunes

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Over the summer I purchased a laptop cooler. This worked so good, the fan would stay off. About a month ago, I had a problem with my computer and brought it to my campus computer center. They said they found viruses and whatnot and fixed it. After I got it back the fan would constanly run. They deny they did anything. I hate that they are always on because I bring my laptop to class and its so noisy compared to everyone elses. The laptop is about 3 years old and it is a compaq. I tried to use air in a can but that didn’t help. Do any stores (Best Buy, Staples, etc.) clean the dust out of computers? If so how much does it run? Any other suggestions? Could tech help screwed up my computer?
Over the summer I purchased a laptop cooler. This worked so good, the fan would stay off. About a month ago, I had a problem with my computer and brought it to my campus computer center. They said they found viruses and whatnot and fixed it. After I got it back the fan would constanly run. They deny they did anything. I hate that they are always on because I bring my laptop to class and its so noisy compared to everyone elses. The laptop is about 3 years old and it is a compaq. I tried to use air in a can but that didn’t help. Do any stores (Best Buy, Staples, etc.) clean the dust out of computers? If so how much does it run? Any other suggestions? Could tech help screwed up my computer?

EDIT: Did you notice the part that said I did use a can of air?

And they didn’t rip me off because I didn’t pay. It was free. I doubt they switched out my fan.
EDIT: Did you notice the part that said I did use a can of air?

And they didn’t rip me off because I didn’t pay. It was free. I doubt they switched out my fan.
LOL. I screwed this up.

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I’ve used limewire before, but I just bought a new laptop and limewire doesn’t seem to want to download for some reason. So I was thinking of trying Frostwire. But since I heard that one is bad too for viruses and stuff, what SHOULD I use to download? I don’t want to pay for it though, I feel as if I’m out of options and should try installing Frostwire.

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ok I just bought my laptop a few days ago. and then while I was in facebook, my browser(firefox) just redirected me to another site and then the site did like a virus scan on my laptop and it says that my laptop has a lot of viruses in it. I tried to cancel it but whenever i click "cancel" the site was recommending me to download something. I didn’t download it but I used my anti-virus (Avast!) to scan my hard drive but it didn’t find anything. So what do you guys think? Does my computer have a virus or it’s just nothing? It just started to do it yesterday and it happened again today. And it just redirected me to the website when I was in facebook(today and yesterday).

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i have hundreds of pictures in my old laptop, and i just bought a new laptop, and want to transfer my pictures to my new one, but the old laptop has viruses (i think), do you think some viruses can transfer with the pictures to my new laptop, even if the new one has antivirus? what about the music? or maybe the new laptop will notify me if some files are infected and i can stop the transfering? im using a 4 gb transfer little pocket thing…

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I bought a used laptop running XP. When I first got it it was logging on fine, it didn’t ask me for the password even though I was using the old user’s setting.

But then a bunch of crap started to happen… like it wasn’t loading my personal settings. To get to the desktop I had to press Ctrl/Alt/Del then Run task and run explorer or something to get into windows and to have my setting loaded.

I started to think it was a virus so I tried to run a scan but some files were corrupted in the program. Then I downloaded a free virus scanner and tried to install it then it said something was wrong with windows installer, so I downloaded a new installer and installed the virus scanner. I had over 700 infected files. they put in quaranteen, then they said to restart. I couldn’t restart because the start icon disappeared and CAD was not working so I held down the power button for five seconds. Then I turned it back on. Now it’s asking for a password. WHY? Is there any way around

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here’s all the info and descriptions and what not: (PLZ go over before answering)

15.4" PDC T2390, 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD and DVD Burner
VGN-NR430E/S
Intel® Pentium® Dual Core Processor T2390
15.4" WXGA XBRITE-ECO™ LCD Display
Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
2048MB Memory PC2-4200
160GB 5400rpm Serial ATA Hard Drive
DVD Burner
Intel® High Definition Audio
Wireless LAN: Network Connection 802.11a/b/g/n
Lithium-Ion Battery
Windows Vista Home Premium
Microsoft® Works SE 9.0
Microsoft® Office 2007 (60-day trial)
Sony Original Software: Click to Disc™
Security and Anti-Virus Software-
- Microsoft® Windows Live™ OneCare™ Trial Version

Sound System : Intel® High Definition Audio
Resolution : 1280 x 800
Screen Size : 15.4"
Technology : WXGA
XBRITE-ECO™ Technology : Yes
Multimedia Card Reader : One Memory Stick Duo™ media slot with MagicGate® functionality
One ExpressCard® /34 slot
One Secure Digital (SD™ memory card) media slot
Action Buttons : AV Mode, S1, WLAN on/off
Computer Type : Notebook
Pointing Device : Electro-Static touch pad
Type of Use : Portable
Chipset : Intel® GL960 Express Chipset
Interface : VGA out with Smart Display Sensor
Processor : Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 with Intel® Clear Video Technology with Total Available Graphics Memory of 358MB (max.)
Capacity : 160GB
Interface : Serial ATA
Speed : 5400rpm
DC-In : 1
Ethernet Port : 1
Headphone Jack : 1
Microphone Input : 1
Modem Jack : 1
USB Port(s) : 4 (2.0 compliant)
VGA Output(s) : 1
i.LINK® Connection : 1 (4pin) i.LINK® connector (IEEE 1394)
Installed : 2GB PC2-4200 (1GBx2)
Maximum : 2GB
Speed : 533MHz
Type : DDR2
Ethernet Protocol : 10Base-T/100Base-TX
Ethernet Speed : Fast Ethernet (RJ-45)
Modem Type : Integrated V.92/V.90 Modem (RJ-11)
Wireless LAN : Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965AGN Network Connection (802.11a/b/g/n)
CD Read : 24x max
CD-R Write : 24x max
CD-RW Write : 24x max
DVD Read : 8x max
DVD+R DL Write : 6x max
DVD+R Write : 8x max
DVD+RW Write : 8x max
DVD-R DL Write : 6x max
DVD-R Write : 8x max
DVD-RAM Read : 5x max
DVD-RAM Write : 5x max
DVD-RW Write : 6x max
DVD±RW : Yes5 (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/RAM)
Battery Type : Standard Capacity Lithium-ion Battery (VGP-BPS9/B)
Estimated Battery Life : 2.0-5.0 hours Standard Capacity Battery (3.5-8.0 hours Large Capacity Battery)
Power Requirements : 95W + 10%
Front Side Bus Speed : 533MHz
L2 Cache : 1MB
Speed : 1.86GHz
Type : Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor T2390
RoHS® : Compliant
Keyboard : QWERTY, 86 keys with 2.5mm stroke and 19.05mm pitch
Dimensions (Approx.) : 14.2"(W) x 1.2-1.5"(H) x 10.6"(D)
Weight (Approx.) : 6.3 lbs (with standard battery)

what do you think????

I am looking to use this computer for school and games that require higher graphics settings…will this be sufficient enough?

and is 2GB of RAM pretty good or not good ennough?

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My computer will not play audio.

The volume icon in the corner had said "No Audio Output Device is installed", and, when I checked in the Control Panel, I was told the same thing. I was using my laptop last night and it played perfectly. The only things for which it was used were writing an essay and listening to music on iTunes.

Do I have to buy a part? Do I have a virus? Please help!

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How do I use the disk that came with my hp or windows xp whatever its called to wipe everything clean and start over so its just like the day I bought it? Help please! Give me steps to do after inserting the disk! Oh, and by doing this, does it get rid of any trojans and viruses?

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I’m at a loss here, and I’m looking for some help to buy some time so I can use my laptop this afternoon..

Dell Vostro 1000 w/ Windows XP Home, 2GB Ram, SP2 was 23% free space, now ~ 65% free.

A couple of days ago my laptop started acting quirky — when trying to right-click files to copy, the folder / file would freeze, and then I would have to kill the process or kill explorer.exe to unlock it.

Yesterday, I tried booting up and the system would freeze solid, except my mouse, and if I clicked on things a few times, a loud system beep — all within about a minute of booting up. I played with things for about 7 hours yesterday, finally was able to do a system restore, then deleted all the apps I installed within the last week, ran several virus / spyware scans, cleaned up my registry, etc.

I also ran chkdsk and there weren’t any errors.

Now, I am a bit more stable, but it intermittently freezes up still. Additionally, when I open Firefox, it eats up about 1GB of memory within 10 seconds. I can get firefox to operate normally by completely removing it, then re-installing it, but after starting it a couple of times, it does it again.

I don’t think this is a Firefox problem, though, and I don’t think it’s a virus or bug, at least that I can see through log files, running processes, or through several different spyware / virus detection tools.

If anybody has a clue what might be causing this, and maybe a temporary fix to make the system more stable for a day or so, that help would be appreciated. I won’t suffer much / any data loss as I’m backing things up real-time as I use them now, but it’ll take me over a day to setup my PC, and I have to get work done today.

One more note: I am an exceptionally heavy computer user — sometimes the laptop is online for days at a time, and I actively use it 10+ hours most days. I usually have to format & reinstall the OS 2x a year (I treat my PC kind of like an aggressive pizza delivery-driver treats his/her vehicle), so it’s probably just due to use and abuse, but I’ve never run into these symptoms before, and maybe there’s a likely problem that I can fix temporarily until I have the time to wipe the drive clean and start over.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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I just bought a laptop (used) and it not only had no protection, it has viruses. Is there a McAffee or something similar that I can download to not only put in protection, but to clean out what is already there?

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I bought a laptop with McAfee virus protection already on it. I have had the laptop for a couple of years now and have not continued this virus protection. I was using Avast virus protection (free online download) for awhile, until I got a virus and ended up buying Webroot to get rid of the virus. The virus is now gone but whenever I turn my laptop on, McAfee always pops up and says that part of it is incomplete. It is annoying because it keeps popping up about every 2 minutes. I tried to go into add/remove programs and remove McAfee but it will not allow me. I click on the "remove" box, the hourglass thing appears for a second but nothing happens. Any help on removing the program would be appreciated. I no longer need it since I have Webroot Anti virus.

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I’m having trouble with my laptop computer. I’m not sure if it’s a virus, but when it starts up, internet explorer windows automatically pop up and keep popping up without me clicking on them. I tried to look up antivirus downloads but everytime i do, it sends me to some sites where you have to buy the programs. As if the virus is leading me there. Is there a way I can clean the computer (laptop) using my PC? Can I download an antivirus program on my PC and use it on my laptop? It won’t seem to work. I turned off wifi connections just in case, but is there anything I can do without having to buy an expenssive cd rom?
Also, I tried activating the windows firewall because it was turned off, but it won’t turn back on so it’s hard for me to get a grasp or slow down whatever is wrong

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