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PC hangs on boot up
Posted on September 28th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Ok, I'm I am fairly green when it comes to advanced settings on my system so go easy on me please. A few days ago I had a trojan on my system which i have now managed to delete and the system is...

PC hangs on boot up
Posted on September 28th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Please can anyone help, this is taking up valuable time in my day. Thanks -- spaceman.uk

PC hangs on boot up
Posted on September 28th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I have run check disk utility and now it boots into windows without too much problem apart from it is slower than i have ever seen it before, but I am patient so i can deal with the but now i have...

Re: A new hijacking
Posted on September 28th, 2005 | 0 Comments

DanS, MS AntiSpyware was the first thing I ran after my little incident. It detected no spyware then locked up on me. Could be related to my problem. Had to close it using Task Manager. "DanS"...

Blank Welcome Screen for XP
Posted on September 28th, 2005 | 0 Comments

ok, so I use Windows XP, and when I boot my computer up I get a blank welcome screen. I've read some of the other help files on this subject, which suggests that I either start my computer in Safe...

Re: A new hijacking
Posted on September 28th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Bob, I have been experiencing similar problems as our friend. The difference is that I WAS searching porn sites. I'm currently going through the process you listed below. Thanks for your help and in...

Re: "save dump" listed in event viewer, causing reboot.
Posted on September 28th, 2005 | 3 Comments

I too have experience the same problem. I would boot up my machine and it would spontaneously crash core dump to the blue screen of death, then reboot several times a day randomly. I finally...

backup/restore bootable partition with OS and all?
Posted on September 28th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Can I use microsoft's backup/restore to clone a bootable server installation to another disk? The server has windows server, exchange, etc... I'm trying to avoid having to reinstall and reconfigure...

SP2 prevents hardware installation
Posted on September 28th, 2005 | 4 Comments

I have had the past couple of days with installing my sound card and webcam, joystick. Everytime I tried and rebooted a popup window would say that the hardware was not properly installed and to...

Computer stops at XP start screen
Posted on September 28th, 2005 | 5 Comments

Hi all I hope someone can help me. Some times ago I noticed my computer would get stuck on the XP screen. At first it was not a big deal since it would happen very infrequently and I was able to get...

Files cannot be read
Posted on September 27th, 2005 | 4 Comments

I have 2 HDs. The primary needed to be re-formatted and the secondary, on which I had almost everything backed up started to have problems in the shop. The tech was able to save everything but now I...

Win XP running slow
Posted on September 27th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I downloaded Windows Office from the MS site. It then asked me to "Activate". This process was so slow or locked up, so I tried to stop the activation. It locked up mu computer. So I did a hard...

RE: Search Files
Posted on September 27th, 2005 | 0 Comments

When I go into Start>Search> and then put in a file name to search, the search program does not respond. How can this be fixed?

unmountable boot volume
Posted on September 27th, 2005 | 4 Comments

I have a user... running XP... when the system tries to boot, he gets the dreaded blue screen with the stop error Unmountable_boot_error Stop:oxooooooEd... Ox82f60590, oxc000009c, oxoooooooo,...

Re: A new hijacking
Posted on September 27th, 2005 | 1 Comments

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:07:06 -0400, "kurttrail" <dontemailme@anywhereintheknowuniverse.org> wrote: >If you haven't noticed, but I'm laughing at the whole bunch of you. >Fools and enablers of fools. ...

Re: A new hijacking
Posted on September 27th, 2005 | 1 Comments

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:49:04 GMT, "Fitz" <SENDNOMAIL@SENDNOMAIL.COM> wrote: >It sounds like you're advocating that newsgroups/forums be eliminated so >that no one with knowledge can be an "enabler"....

File Browsing Painfully Slow - Open / Save as dialogs
Posted on September 27th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Running one of the latest IBM PCs, pentium 4, hyper threading, 512Mb RAM, Windows XP, Office XP. From the start when I tried to browse from an Open or Save As type dialog within any MS Office...

For hard disk with 2 partitions, only drive C should be monitored by System Restore?
Posted on September 27th, 2005 | 5 Comments

Read from somewhere as I don't really remeber. If the hard disk has 2 partitions, Drive C and Drive D while all program installed in drive C. Then should configure System Restore to monitor Drive C...

Leftovers from install
Posted on September 26th, 2005 | 3 Comments

After installing XP SP2 and other patches there are lots of folders with names beginning "$NtUninstall..." and text files beginning "KB..." Can these be deleted??? Any other files that can...

Microsoft XP SP2 VIA IDE Driver Bug
Posted on September 26th, 2005 | 1 Comments

On motherboards with chipsets VIA KT133,KT133A and KT266 there might be a problem with the new Microsoft VIA IDE Driver included in SP2 : VIA PCI Latency. The problem is corruption of files and...