Why does my laptop mysteriously turn off when i play Empire Earth... (read on)?

Here are my specs. My computer is a NEC M320 Versa and the game runs smooth as. I have zone alarm activated, updated virus protection, no viruses in my laptop or spyware, and it has all the windows updates. In short my laptop is secured.

but when i play battle realms, or empire earth... it just shuts down after 10 minutes after opening the application... what can be wrong with my laptop... before i had so many software installed i could still play games but it's acting wierd.

specs:

2,39ghz

1 gb of ram,

pentium 4,

Radeon IGP 340m graphics card

40gb HDD storage

Why does my laptop mysteriously turn off when i play Empire Earth... (read on)?moto guzzi

Sometimes that happens when Windows encounters a certain bug. Windows is configured to automatically shutdown if certain errors occur in games. To turn off this feature open up your explorer and click on Control Panel, then click on System, when the System properties menu pops up click on the tab at the top labeled Advanced. Once there, click on the Settings button under the sub-category Startup and Recovery. There should be a category in there that says System Failure. A check box that says "Automatically restart" should be unchecked to prevent your computer from cutting off.

If this doesn't help, you may need to check the temperature of your laptop. If while you're playing the game you realize that the laptop is getting hot, make sure the fans aren't blocked and if they aren't, a secondary cooling source, such as an ordinary oscillating fan, may be necessary. Laptops are designed to shut down when they reach a certain temperature to try to prevent data corruption which happens at extreme temperatures of about 115 - 125 degrees F. Sometimes even 105 - 110 degrees F.

Why does my laptop mysteriously turn off when i play Empire Earth... (read on)?norton internet security 2008

Maybe its not your computer..well, what i mean is maybe the game will not work too good with your game. if it is 3D that makes that even more likley. Try talking to the place you got the computer for extra help!

How to protect email and AIM privacy?

I found out once that my parents knew my AIM and email passwords and were spying on me...i then changed my passwords but they installed a key logger in my computer and so it didnt really make a difference but im gonna get anti keylogger protection now and change my passwords again.....i know that they have been reading my AIM convos, cuz i would email myself some of my AIM conversations for future reference...i am just curious....if they still find out my password again somehow and i STOP emailing myself my convos, is there still a way that they can read my AIM conversations? if so, how? i heard that instant message convos get saved on ur computer and u can erase convo history...is this true? how do i do this? is it also true that some spyware programs actualy record and save ur IM convos? which ones do and which ones dont? plz answer the question and dnt give me a response like "your parents care about you and blablala"...what theyre doing is totally unethical and disrespectful

How to protect email and AIM privacy?network security

http://majorgeeks.com get yourself some free protection to stop all this from accruing again.

MacAfee and Yahoo for DSL?

I want to use a MacAfee firewall and Yahoo antivirus for my DSL. How can I get them to recognize each other and play nice? The online help said that old virus protection software had to be uninstalled before Yahoo could be installed so they wouldn't be essentially doing the same things at the same times and tying up the computer. But I don't have MacAfee antivirus, just the firewall, so Yahoo antivirus shouldn't be impeded. How can I make this work?

MacAfee and Yahoo for DSL?network

This is what I have found to be the most efficient and reliable:

1. Eset Nod32 ... an excellent choice, and in my opinion, the best antivirus on the market. Microsoft use it to test their own products before they release them so that should give you an idea of how good it is. Combining Nod32 antivirus with a Windows firewall and/or router works very, very well together.

2. Windows Live One-Care (all in one firewall, antivirus, antispyware) is also an excellent choice and works in real time. Combined with Spybot .... a real thumbs up.

MacAfee and Yahoo for DSL?norton

macafee sucks it doesnt work well with products designed for it to work with take macafee anti virus and bulldog firewall both created my macafee to work well with one another but in my experiance bull dog crashed all the time and when i spent the money for tech support from macafee they told me to get another fire wall
Forget McFee, it's old news,

Use somthing more update, like norton or AVG.

These will run just fine with Yahoo.
They shouldnt have a problem .The only problems I ever had was making the mistake of installing 2 anti viruses.(That doesn't work well).I ran 3 firewalls before I didn't have a problem with that either.I use Mcafee firewall pro its pretty reliable.The free Yahoo anti virus is a great thing.Should install seperatly and co-exist perfectly.

How come I keep getting a blue screen with windows Vista Home Premium?

We bought our computer a few months ago at Best Buy. Geek Squad installed everything we needed, including virus protection and firewalls. Since we have had the computer I have installed a few games from cd rom (purchased new at Best Buy the day we brought the computer home) Yahoo Messenger and Limewire. When I download music from Limewire I put the songs into my flash MP3 player and delete the downloads from my computer.

I have noticed in the past two or three weeks that I get the dreaded Blue Screen almost everyday where as the first three months we had the computer this never happened.

Has anyone else had this problem? Is it possible that Geek Squad did something when they loaded everything that would make it to where this would happen so that we would have no choice but to take it back to them and pay out the A$$ to fix it?

Got any suggestions? We also have a laptop with all the same programs and it dosen't do this. Both were purchased at the same time.

How come I keep getting a blue screen with windows Vista Home Premium?nortan antivirus

I suspect malicious code of some sort, either a virus or spyware, even though I have not heard of either of them causing the BSOD (blue screen of death). Run an antivirus scan and a spyware scan of your system while it's in safe mode with system restore turned off. If the scans come back clean, reboot and see if the BSOD is gone. Hope this has helped.

How come I keep getting a blue screen with windows Vista Home Premium?nortonantivirus

You are not alone on the blue screen of death issue. Report It

Has anyone heard of Cyberhawk security?

Has anyone heard of Cyberhawk security?

Some questions:

here is the site for the program http://www.novatix.com/GetCyberhawk/

there is a free version so i was wondering

1. is it safe?

2. does it hog memory/ computer resources?

3. are there any detection rates/ is it better than avira or avast?

4. it seems good to me becasue it has spyware and virus protection in one program and is free plus i dont get it. it has malware detection for free version but no removal. what is difference between malware and spyware?

5. what are the rootkit scanner thing that free version does nto have?

thanks youre help will be appreciated

Has anyone heard of Cyberhawk security?nortan

This software is made by Novatix and is free to try and $20 to buy , this is there description of it for what its worth lol "What do you need when your traditional antivirus protection misses a virus, worm or spyware? You need Cyberhawk to keep you infection-free. Cyberhawk uses behavioral analysis to detect malicious activity. Cyberhawk's ActiveDefense technology intelligently analyzes the behavior of processes %26 programs on a system and immediately halts any malicious action. It recognizes threats immediately %26 accurately, and shuts them down so they can't harm your system or compromise your privacy. Even the threats your traditional, signature-based antivirus %26 anti-spyware can't catch. Cyberhawk is completely effective out of the box. No difficult configuration, setup or maintenance is ever required."

Ecrypt / Hide folders in Win XP Pro?

I have certain folders in my computer that i dont want anyone to access. Is it possible that i can hide/encrypt these files so that the only way to access these files is by using the password.

I have my own log in in Win XP. But i want an added protection so that even if someone manages to get into my profiles, they will not be able to access the files

Ecrypt / Hide folders in Win XP Pro?norten

right click the files then click on add to zip then

use a password. on the winzip copy down the password on a notebook so you dont forgret the password the put all the zip files in 1 folder then right click that folder and click on add to zip use a password

then go to this website

CRYPTAINER LE ENCRYPTION SOFTWARE

Secure your data and ensure absolute privacy with Cypherix's powerful encryption software, Cryptainer LE. It 's powerful 128 bit encryption, creates multiple 25 Mb encrypted containers (vaults) on your hard disk. These encrypted vaults can be loaded and unloaded when needed. You can view, modify and hide all types of files with a single password.

Phenomenally easy to use, Cryptainer LE's encryption works with all 32 bit versions of Microsoft Windows (95/98/ME/2000/XP/2003 Server) and with all known file types. Cryptainer allows you to password protect and secure any file or folder on any media, including removable drives (Flash Drives, CD ROM's etc.)

I am having truoble watching movies on my hp lap top.?

it will not let me watch movies.

I used windows media player and all it give me is connot play do to copyright protection.

and i used ineractiveacutal and all it give me is connot play it says something to do with a sound card.

i don't have internet on my hp and i can'tgo anywhere else to play movies or get information

can any one help i'v even tried to transfer other files from the computer that has internet but it deosn't work.

I am having truoble watching movies on my hp lap top.?nortin

Don't bother with WMP. Download VLC media player it can paly virtually all video formats as it is packed with most of the codecs you'll come across and it's free.

Download it here:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Copy it to your laptop and install it.

cheers

Gray

I am having truoble watching movies on my hp lap top.?pc security

Most DVD software on computers make you choose a region when you first play a DVD...if it worked the first time, the region for that DVD could have been made default. You have a limited number of times you can change the region. Based on the limited information you provided, that may be the case..don't know what region you are or what region DVD you're trying to play.

As for the sound card problem, if you can hear sound normally on your computer, then you should reinstall interactiveactual if you want to use it to play DVDs.
You could use PowerDVD 7. It opens dvds and has the highest quality you cound need!