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What will happen if you do not update antivirus? He will work worse or completely stop?

Without updates, the antivirus will not stop working at all, but will significantly loosen the grip. He, as before, will fight all viruses, the information about which is listed in his database. The problem is that new viruses appear every day, and in order for the computer to be reliably protected, updates must come at least once a week.

According to the antivirus company Panda Security , In 2008, almost 20 million different computer viruses were distributed through the Internet – this is more than in the previous 17 years taken together! And since virus writers do not stop there, without regular updates, the antivirus becomes obsolete very quickly and becomes almost useless.

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After loading the Windows XP operating system, not a single application is launched. The inscription appears: "The failure when initializing the application due to the stop of the workstation". How can this be eliminated?

Typically, such a message appears in cases where the Windows core is stopped due to error. Its cause may be recently installed drivers or processes hanging in memory. Try downloading Windows XP in safe mode by pressing the BIOS starting screen button F8 and selecting the corresponding item from the list that appears. In this mode, the system does not load most additional drivers and services and, most likely, can successfully start. When it loads, select Perform In the menu Start , Then enter Msconfig and open the tab in the window that appears Automatic load. Remove from the list all unnecessary processes, removing the checkmarks opposite them, and reboot the computer in normal mode.

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Tell me, please, what is TurboCache, on which GEFORC graphics cards are it and how to turn it on?

N Vidia TurboCache – This is a technology that uses an expanded PCI Express graphic tire bandwidth and allows GPU to use the video memory and dynamically affordable system memory. Thanks to this scheme, both the total graphic memory and the ultimate performance of the system increase.

Video cards with this technology first appeared in the sixth generation GeForce , And since then, TurboCache has been used in almost all models of the budget line up to the series GeForce 9.

TURBOCACHE technology is passive, that is, it does not require installation, configuration, inclusion and other actions. The graphic processor himself chooses when and to what volume to use the system memory. As often happens with similar solutions, the selection of the processor is not always timely – many users unsuccessfully try to turn off the TC in order to “return” the involved RAM. Alas, NVIDIA did not provide any tools for managing the vehicle, and the craftsmen make changes to the register at their own peril and risk.

It is worth noting that a similar development called Hyper Memory The competitor NVIDIA has – ATI Technologies. Both technologies are aimed at the initial price segment and are designed to discourage bread from discrete graphic solutions like Intel GMA. Fans of modern games with good graphics and, as a result, the owners of powerful video cards are hardly faced with this technology.

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When you turn on the computer, I always have a clock – each time I have to adjust them again. Tell me what the problem is and how to solve it?

A battery sat in your computer. No matter how funny, but it is there. Most of the motherboard uses a standard power element CR2032 , which, among other things, is responsible for the correct operation of the clock when the computer is turned off. Fortunately, this battery is sold in every second hardware store for 30-50 rubles.

But while you do not have batteries, try to synchronize time via the Internet. In the menu Start Open Control Panel , Find the label there Date and time. On the last tab, Internet time , Put a checkmark next to the option Perform synchronization Or just click Update now. This will save you from the need to manually score the exact time – in the presence of the Internet, of course.

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In the bios and when loading the OS, the power bulb on the housing is constantly on, and after loading, the OS begins to blink. How to fix it? I have Windows XP SP3 and the Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R motherboard.

It is hardly worth it to fix it. The fact is that the standard set of drivers Gigabyte The utility enters Dynamic Energy Saver (Des). She is engaged in energy conservation: when the processor stands idle or works with a minimum load, des reduces the number of power phases involved, using only the minimum necessary for the operation of the system. With the help of this technology, according to Gigabyte, up to 70% of energy is saved compared to conventional motherboards. A flashing bulb is just an indicator that the energy saving system is turned on and works.

If the blinking is still annoying you, there are two options: either power the corresponding LED from the 12V cable, or delete des.

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What happened to the official sites of all major antiviruses – Kaspersky, NOD32, DR.Web? I can’t go to their pages: the browser writes that it is impossible to find a remote server.

One of the two: either the Internet has very selectively ended, or an evil virus has started in the system, which blocked all the antivirus sites known to him. Your computer needs to be urgently treated!

It would seem that everything is simple: go to Cure It.ru and download a free utility that does not require installation from Dr.Web. However, with a high degree of probability, this site will also be blocked.

There are somewhat options for solving the problem. You can go to the site Cureit! through a proxy server-will fit as an installed application, for example Tor ( www.Torproject.Org/Easy-Download.HTML), and the site is an anonimaiser like Pure Privacy.Com or Anonymizer.ru. You can download any free antivirus from P2P networks. And the easiest way is to use the Kaspersky antivirus, which lies on our disk in the "Soft" section!

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I have a GEFORCE 7600GS graphics card and Hynix 5300 RAM gigabyte. I want to increase the amount of memory by half (the motherboard supports up to 2 GB). (Dizepam) Is it worth considering the video card model when buying RAM and whether it is necessary to select the same modules?

RAM modules do not have to have the same frequency at all, however, to work in two -channel mode, their configuration and volume should be identical. The manufacturer, by the way, may differ.

In systems where the DDR2 high -speed modules work with slower ones, the frequency of the slowest module will determine the frequency of the most slow. Therefore, to take a memory with a clock frequency of more than 667 MHz (namely, such a frequency in your memory: DDR 2 512 MB 667 MHz PC2-5300 HYNIX) can-it will not be worse-but it is pointless.

As for the video card, it does not affect the RAM (and vice versa), so when buying DIMM it can not be taken into account at all.

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I recently disappeared my tasks dispatcher. I try to call it, and the system writes: "The dispatcher of the tasks is blocked by the administrator". I thought to fix it through the regedit team, but it was also blocked by the administrator. I am an administrator, but did not do anything like. What is the problem?

Not so long ago, a whole wave of similar viruses swept over the Internet. Some blocked access to the control panel, others – to the properties of the folder, command line and even the properties of the screen. Most likely, a free antivirus utility will help you AVZ , which can be found on the site http: // z-oleg.Com. Download and run AVZ, go to the menu File/system recovery , Mark there paragraph 11 Unlocking the tasks dispatcher And press the button https://richy-fish-casino.co.uk/ Perform the noted operations. By the way, on the same tab there are a lot of other antivirus twiks. Since your computer is infected, they can come in handy!

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Installed a freshly baked 64-bit Windows 7 system, and I had a question. Is there a DX10 support in this operating room? If there is, then where it needs to be configured?

In the Windows Vista operating system, the predecessor of Windows 7, DirectX 10 support was from the release. Moreover, with the first service pack, DirectX 10 support was added to it.1, and with the second – DirectX 11.

A similar situation with Windows 7 – it is equipped with DirectX 11 initially. And since the latest versions of DirectX have reverse compatibility, no additional actions to work with DX10-players need to take.

If you still have doubts which version of DirectX is installed in your Windows 7, this is easy to check. In the menu Start Choose Perform And enter the entry into the field dxdiag. On the first tab, System , At the bottom of the window opened, find the field DirectX version – And see the number 11 opposite him!

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Please tell us a little about reliable methods of irrevocable data removal.

There are many excellent ways to finally and irrevocably destroy the information: any effect that destroys the magnetic layer completely deleys the data. A strong magnetic field or, for example, heating above the Curie point makes the restoration of information impossible. But all these actions, as a rule, are associated with the physical destruction of the carrier or the complete loss of its working properties – and this is probably not your choice.

The most reliable way to destroy the information, preserving the hard drive alive and unscathed is to completely rewrite the sector of the deleted file several times. A number of programs copes well with this task. For example, Lavasoft File Shredder or Acronis Privacy Expert Suite. After them, most commercial laboratories and data restoration centers will not find anything on your hard drive. However, a small chance of restoring information will still remain, only expensive professional equipment with good resolution is necessary: ​​magnetic-siblical microscopy is able to create real miracles!

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Tell me, please, whether the PlayStation 3 emulator exists?

Today there is not a single PS3 emulator-moreover, even according to the most optimistic forecasts, the first PS3 emulators will hardly appear earlier than in a couple of years, and how they will work-it is completely incomprehensible. One of the best emulators PlayStation 2 , PCSX2 , It still does not launch all games, gives errors and requires a fair performance from the computer. And even on the most modern desktops, not all PS2 games launched from under the emulator are able to reach a level of 50 (PAL) and 60 (NTSC) personnel per second. But PS2 was released nine years ago, in the Pentium 3 era! Emile PS3 is much more difficult. Theoretical power of the prefix – two trillion operations with a floating point per second. This is 35 times more than PS2!

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