It's free and it's been working way better than POS Symantic/Norton. http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

Update: Bought a 2nd Copy of Windows 7.

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1 Copy per computer? XP let you put as many as you wanted. So that's $300 for all 3 computers.

Link - Google blows! They did the same thing to me.

I got my dad a WGT 310 N, sadly $99 at Best Buy. We did have a $20 off coupon though. I hooked it up and the strength seems a little better than my WGT 45. I did not put any custome firmware on it. I think if anyone else had to work on it, it might be a pain for them.

We were able to get my dad's second laptop finally connecting to the router. The problem was that it was set up to work on a proxy at his school and you had to disable that under Tools -> Internet, etc.

I still have the original firmware on my router. People keep saying to use tomato (?) instead. Why? Will it speed things up or something?

Intel Core2 Duo CPU T5470 @ 1.60 GHZ. 4 GB Ram. Got it in Dec, 2008. Dell Vostro 1500.

My dad just got a laptop at best buy for only $600. ASUS Notebook K40U/K50IJ SeriZ. 3 GB Ram.

I finally got wireless going at my dads. It took 3 hours. I tried last year but the setup was well beyond my skills. This time google sure helped.

We figured it out. It was very complicated. I had to follow All this and I still had problems because I didn't figure out I needed my dad's login/pass from AT&T inputted into my router setup. Once I did that, it all worked.

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My dad has a DSL modem. When I try to route it through a router, the internet won't pass through. I tried two different routers. If you run a direct line from it to the computers, it works fine. The modem is Motorola MSTATEA. I've got no idea what the issue is.

I got major infected with trojans. I used Spy Bot & Malaware to try to remove them. They even infected Spy Bot somehow. They hijacked google search. They hijacked Windows Security Center and pop up a fake message about being infected. I was trying to do Windows (XP) update and then it got in a state where it blue screens all the time. That could be the trojan still. I reinstalled windows (repaired) and now I'm trying to still get rid of that trojan. Nortin Anti Virus sucks, it didn't even find it.

Last Thread about it

Nevermind

Are you sure you want to sync applications? All existing applications and their data on this ipod will be replaced with applications from this iTunes library.

I just chose nuke it and it actually saved everything.

Is there anyone here that I know that qualifies?

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Any suggestions for a bluescreen that keeps happening on Windows Vista on my laptop. I tried updating the video drivers. I ran windows update.

I started using the power down option after 1 hour for the hard disk. Then Windows kept getting stuck on a screen where it would say "The system is starting up." then never start up. It had the same problem with safe boot too. So now I have to install again. :(

My laptop started blue screening for some reason. It does it every time now.

My 2nd computer decided to no longer turn on the monitor. Not sure why. It's ANCIENT and has been used for 5+ years. So I have to try to rebuild it with 2nd parts.

So out of 3 computers, only 1 works and it blue screens. I hate computers.

I ordered that Xbox Live card discount I posted about. They have delayed the item over a month now.

Remember last time I ordered from them? They sold me a Wii Remote. Then they kept delaying it over 3+ months. Again and again.

My friend tried to order a computer from them and they delayed it almost a year and eventually just canceled his order.

They like to sell you shit they have 0 intention of actually ever giving to you.

ok. I bought this one here. Even if I don't need it, my second computer still doesn't have a drive.

Got my main computer back in action finally today. My secondary computer is also back although it makes some strange high pitched beep from the motherboard. Now we have 3 computers going. A week ago I was down to 1 laptop only :(

11:33 - Got wow working on my main again. But I still have to get my files off my old main hard drive and format it.

8:06 p.m. - Managed to get Xp installed on my old hard drive. Used it to find some more viruses and formatted it. Now I just need to figure out how to access my Documents and Settings folder on my infected main drive. When I try to access it, it's access denied. I remember this problem last time.

I'm working on installing WoW. AV deleted almost all my .exe files to get rid of the virus :(

Update - Trojan.Hiloti was found by Malwarebytes.

Update - I managed to get one of the drives to get into windows. The drive that failed last time around causing me to have to buy a new one. :( I'm copying everything off that drive, then I'm going to format it. Then I'm going to use it to get into the other drive, my OLD main one. :( :( :(

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I have been playing on a little laptop 15" monitor for 3 weeks. haha.

My computer keeps making a click sound. Typically that sound is the webbrowser blocking adds or something. I have firefox. I've looked in the sounds and turned off "start navigation"

I started up the laptop and noticed something was weird about the interface. I figured it was some custom OS like HP has. Instead days later I discovered it was Windows Vista! I'm not a big fan. I think XP for life. I do really like the new built-in Texas Hold-em game.

-12/20 - Got WoW going full time. I plugged in my MS Intelimouse (6+ years old). I got all my daily quests done. It took me about an hour to set up all the mods. My only complaint is I keep hitting the enter button to type when using the arrow keys.

I ran a movie on it in the car. Awesome. I love having a laptop. A few years back WORK gave us awesome laptop bag with logo on it. It rules. I've had it in storage and can finally use it.

-Runs WoW pretty well. Looks pretty good. I still can't stand those touchpads so I just plug in a mouse. I need a good laptop mouse.

-My family was so excited. Even the baby loved the bubble wrap.Dell Vostro 1500. 4 gigs ram. Upgraded Hard drive. NVIDIA discrete graphics card. Windows XPS. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. I had to leave for work. I got a great deal on it from a good friend.

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I looked it up and it's a HP Pavilion ZE 2000. Well the touchpad stopped working. I think it popped up a message saying something like do you want to disable it because it thought another mouse is plugged in (while nothing was plugged in). Now it won't even work. I looked on google and in control panel - mouses and all the settings with it. I hit disable/enable device and reset device. It's still not working.

I bought a $49 router at Circuit City for my dad. Linksys Rangeplus WRT110. Well I can't get it to filter internet through to the computers at all. I ran all the setup a few times, tried to screw with the router controls. The networking portion of it works fine but it just won't let internet through. I was thinking maybe the DSL modem is rejecting it somehow. Anyway, I think I'll just return it. Mainly I wanted it so I could connect HotLikeMe's laptop and TRY to get wow working.

Any advice on a laptop? I never use one but it would be cool to have one for WoW when I travel. HotLikeMe's has 512 MB ram and is super old.