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Posted on June 6th, 2008 | 1 Comments

Could your computer be infected? "Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827315 --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est lt140 wrote:

Keyboard Malfunction
Posted on June 6th, 2008 | 0 Comments

"Olórin" <incanus@erkljrjre890aeraekj4na.com> wrote in message news:... Oh, and I've just noticed that you're also posting the same problem separately (multiposting) to at least the...

halting and freezing and slow performance in windows explorer.
Posted on June 6th, 2008 | 4 Comments

just to follow up, i downloaded the shellexview program and tried it. the problem still persists though. "tjb" wrote:

audio file playback distorted
Posted on June 6th, 2008 | 0 Comments

I have a Dell Dimension 4700c running windows xp sp2. Recently all media audio files are distorted on playback. Either WMP 11 or listening to internet radio stations, the songs play haltingly and...

desktop and task bar dissappear
Posted on June 6th, 2008 | 0 Comments

My desktop and task bar continue to disappear and reappear, closing out any window that is open, but leaves programs running. When I open the task manager it shows the explorer program turning on and...

Where do all the cycles go ?
Posted on June 6th, 2008 | 7 Comments

Thanx, Jim, I'll try that. I had only tried TM because it was easiest to invoke, especially with the machine running in slow motion. I've set up perfmon to run the next times that I start the...

System hangs - OLE, COM, or DDE?
Posted on June 6th, 2008 | 0 Comments

My Windows XP Pro SP2 suffers from bizarre, consistent 8-second delays whenever I try to: * launch a registered application by clicking a document in windows explorer * launch a registered browser...

remove DLA? (Windows DVD burning utility)
Posted on June 6th, 2008 | 4 Comments

Patrick Keenan wrote: One of the conflicts from DLA was that the control panel would hang when started from My Computer but not when started in its own window from the start menu. C.P. would hang...

Disk Error Checking Frequency
Posted on June 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 11:21:07 -0700, Victor <Victor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: No need to run it regularly. It's sufficient to run it only when a problem is evident or suspected. --

USB ports not working
Posted on June 5th, 2008 | 1 Comments

"Old MacDonald" wrote: have you tried going to device manager and uninstall all the usb root hubs then reboot the machine and let them reinstall again? Try this first.

SP3 Causes OS to re-boot continueously
Posted on June 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Steve Hughins wrote: AMD based laptop? Blame the proper people - the OEM that created/installed the OS onto the laptop... Random guess (let's call it that...) HP Laptop with AMD processor? Try...

my laptop wont repair
Posted on June 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments

"Shenan Stanley" wrote: x86 is a good tool to use for that. Also if you can boot in safe mode look at the vent viewer under system and set a filter for disk, to se if there are any bad block...

disk drive problem
Posted on June 5th, 2008 | 1 Comments

"kent@adahighlander.com" wrote: What does the event viewer under system shows you. Change the filter to disk and see if you are getting bad blocks from disk. If your in the disk management consol...

missing the file content.IE5
Posted on June 5th, 2008 | 4 Comments

ok thanks "Jason" wrote:

wmiprvse sucking up cpu at startup
Posted on June 5th, 2008 | 11 Comments

Gerry, thanks for the suggestions. The Lexmark printer is long gone, and I did uninstall it at the time. Quicken I still use, so it is currently on my machine. I did find a driver update for the...

XP Service Pack 3. Windows Updates.
Posted on June 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments

CZ wrote: How often do *you* expect to receive updates? ;-) I expect them the second tuesday of each month. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP --

C:\found.001\dir0000.chk folders found on C:\
Posted on June 5th, 2008 | 1 Comments

mikimogo wrote: What are the dates on the files/folders? You could have a dying hard disk drive... -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

SP2 Question
Posted on June 4th, 2008 | 11 Comments

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:30:18 GMT, Big_Al <BigAl@MD.com> wrote: You're welcome. Glad to help. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Remove Autostart Programs
Posted on June 4th, 2008 | 1 Comments

Try Tony Northrup. It was his advice. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est Barry Manolo wrote:

After XP SP3 update, many DLL Fail to initalize errors upon reboot
Posted on June 3rd, 2008 | 2 Comments

On May 30, 6:42 pm, ruddykins <ruddyk...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: Did you temporarily turn off your anti-virus system during this SP3 update? Did you install this update via the Windows...