The General PC Questions Thread

I have had a couple of mails like that off people on my MSN list lately. Nice of you to apologise though ;)
 
Shit, however it's happened, it's wiped out my entire contacts list and nearly all of my emails!

I've done a full virus scan, nothing found!
 
Have you done a Google search on the name of the company to see if anyone else has had the same problem?
 
I've looked up the website/email and apparently it's a group of bastards in China who hack into people's email accounts, send their email to everyone on the contacts list and then delete everything. Although how the hell they managed to get into mine I have no idea - I have a complicated password, loads of letters and numbers mixed up, no way it could have been a dictionary hack and there's nobody in the world I've given my password to.

So I've got no MSN list for the time being, I'll get around to re-adding everyone at some point but it's going to take a while, I've got to change my password(s) on about 300 websites before I get onto that...
 
Why is it always me though? Seriously?

I knew the 360 crashing when dad and I tried to play FIFA was just the beginning...
 
Chris Bauer said:
Another question...

I've just got a really dodgy email:



I know it's spam and everyone gets spam, BUT... The "sender" field states my email address, and the "sent to" field states everyone who is, or ever has been, on my MSN list.

Along with that I've had six "delivery status notification (failure)" messages where it's tried to send to email addresses that no longer exist.

Unfortunately a few people have received it (really fucking sorry), but I've scanned the PC and there's no viruses on it according to Avast. I'm very careful and I've not had many viruses in my life, usually the anti-virus picks it up. So I'm almost certain it isn't a virus.

I've had this happen to me in the past, and I've seen it happen to others as well. Can someone tell me, has this happened because of a virus on my computer, or has it somehow been done via a Hotmail server?

I feel like a total arsehole, I'm sure the email hasn't got a virus in it (no attachments or anything) but still, shit.
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Well if it did have viruses in it, I wouldn't expect your anti-virus to pick it up, or at least do anything about it.

Anti-virus does fuck all apart from clogging up your computer.
 
I have a friend that keeps sending me porn links.
Whenever I tell him about it, he says I'm crazy, that he never did such thing. (both on mail and MSN).

oh well, it's just delete, delete... oh well.
 
This is a Mac question - but I didn't want to open up a new thread.

I want a cable to hook up my Macbook to my LCD TV - It will have to be a Mini Dvi to Something.

If I get a Mini Dvi to HDMI will that work? will it work with everything I put through or just with HD stuff?

Also there is a port on the back of my Tv that says PC - I think it is a VGA port? would that be right? and if so are the Mini DVI to VGA cables any good? good quality etc?

Cheers :))
 
DVI tp HDMI will convert the picture completely, regardless of it being in HD or not. I have to use a HDMI to DVI converter to connect my PS3 to my monitor.

A lot of modern TV's have VGA ports on now, pretty good picture and worth using if you don't have HDMI.
 
DagsJT said:
DVI tp HDMI will convert the picture completely, regardless of it being in HD or not. I have to use a HDMI to DVI converter to connect my PS3 to my monitor.

A lot of modern TV's have VGA ports on now, pretty good picture and worth using if you don't have HDMI.
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Cool - I will probably get a Hdmi one if it is better than VGA though - If they will both work.
 
Anything know much about deleting fonts to make start up on a PC quicker? Specifically which ones I can realistically get away with deleting?

Managed to cut down the start up time on our main PC from three minutes (ffs!) to one-ish (which is still poor, but its old and doesn't have much RAM at all) just by reducing things that run at start up, and deleting tonnes of useless programs off it (its an old work PC). Still tonnes of shit on it though, hopefully I can make it slightly useable.
 
Have you used MSConfig (run box and type "msconfig") to cut down the exe's that start up? And services.msc to disable needless services starting up?
 
i wouldnt mind speeding mine up

i have already done the above so is there any other ways of doing it? Or is there a special program that tell you what you need and don't need at startup

i know of hijackthis which i think tells you about start up programs but don't know about any services.msc stopping programs
 
Coopz said:
i wouldnt mind speeding mine up

i have already done the above so is there any other ways of doing it? Or is there a special program that tell you what you need and don't need at startup

i know of hijackthis which i think tells you about start up programs but don't know about any services.msc stopping programs
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You need virtually nothing at all to run in start up, all I have is NvCpl, zone alarm and my Dual core optimiser...
 
I see what you mean now in the services tab, i have clicked hide MS ones so will run down the list and start shutting things off.

After that should i go through the startup tab?
 
I personally wouldn't use the Services tab on MSConfig as it disables any services you untick. I would go to services.msc and go through them all there and any you don't want to start up just go onto them and make them "Manual", not "Automatic".
 
Sorted

Took off some services and start-up programs and set up some schedules to run the updates for certain things that were normally on all the time
 
Right people I am after some decent speakers for my computer. The ones I have now are fucked as they keep fading in and out on the volume.

I like my music but dont like spending money

so hit me with some suggestions people!

thanks :D
 
top of the range

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Tim7 said:
Have you used MSConfig (run box and type "msconfig") to cut down the exe's that start up? And services.msc to disable needless services starting up?
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I just used the part of CCleaner that basically does the same as those two.

Hardly have anything running at start up now.

I think the main problem is just that we have so many useless pictures and tonnes of documents on it.

Doesn't help that it has less than 512mb of RAM either though I suppose.
 
Oh the other thing is to get a program called auslogic. It's a defragging program and it's a million times ter than the windows one! This will help speed up general running of your machine :)).
 
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