I finally got it worked out. Turned out to be an issue for checkdisk. But the weird thing is that I couldn't get checkdisk to work at boot up. I had it flagged to run at boot up but it never did. ...

Not expecting miracles, just a little help. I read it in the link and I didn't expect it to fix the problem. But I was hoping it could lead me in a direction. But it didn't, it just confirmed what...

Well, that did take a while. I purged and then ran the scannow option and it went through the scan and never asked me to insert my install disk. Just disappeared after it was done. So I can only...

I run Symantic Antivirus on my computer and I do a Malwarebytes scan every couple of nights. All clean. I downloaded the BootVis program and ran it, then I ran the optimize system and there was...

I am running a Dell Inspiron 9400 with 2.5GB RAM. The machine use to boot very fast until recently. Now when it boots it gets to the point of loading the desktop image and then stops for about 25...

Change the name of Malwarebytes.exe to something else such as timmy.exe and run it then. Good chance it will work.

I just had this problem on my sons desktop. Hacktool.Rootkit virus was the culprit.

In safe mode run Malwarebytes (http://malwarebytes.org). Hopefully you can download it and then update it. ...

Went into safe mode and ran Malwarebytes and it found 39 items, did the reboot and it finished the job. The computer booted properly. While I was scanning Norton AV found the Hacktool.Rootkit...

My computer just went on the fritz. I can get it to boot up and it gets up to the choice of family members, I can choose and then the HD does it thing and the desktop picture shows up and thats it. ...

I suggest you update the file while you are clean.

Bummer. Thank you.

I have been receiving messages from a spammer who has spoofed my email address to be the sender and the receiver. How do I find out where this is really coming from? I can't just hit the spam...

I had this happen to me recently. I rebooted into safe mode and that was missing too. So I rebooted into command mode and went to the windows directory and typed explorer and it wouldn't let me in...

For the longest time I used the computer as one user. Then we changed it to two users and now my standby acts weird. If both users are logged on and I am on the new user template and want to go...

Download and run MalwareBytes Anti Malware. I had something similar and nothing would touch it. This got it first try.

Worked for me. Thanks.....

You need to upgrade your RAM. 512MB is a minimum that XP should be operated on. If you upgrade to 1 or 2 GB your performance should improve.

OK, I got it to work. But not the way I use to be able to do it. I had to set it up as a web page. I never had to do this before and I don't like it as much as the way I use to be able to do it by...

For the longest time I have had a GIF file for my desktop. I make them from photos I've taken with my camera. I tried to change over to a new one recently and it kept returning to my current one. ...

Fought with Vista

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I installed a program called DosBox on my computer (Win XP) so that I could...

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I am having an interesting dilemma with writing to CR-RW discs. I am using a program made by SONIC called DigitalMedia LE v7, my DVD player is a TSST corp DVD +-RW TS-L532B firmware DE03.

I am...

Essentially that is what I did. But what I really did was rename the file so it was inactive, then I wrote a note to myself in a txt file on how to reactivate it if the need arises. Thanks.

If...

I had a problem with my AOL, the main.idx file became corrupt and I was informed by the AOL software to reinstall the hardware to fix the problem. I did this and now I have a problem with the...

I did not set up the computer when it was built. So I am not sure if the files were made private, how can I check.

It is possible, but I have access to other files and directories from one...

I did look. All the answers went something like this. You don't have this or that, but never get solved. I come to this board for answers not to be criticized. The are a lot of answers to...

I have a desktop and a laptop connected to a wireless router (netopia 3387WG). What I want to do is be able to share hard drives between the two. If I need a file while I am on the laptop from the...

Whenever I insert a music CD into my CD-DVD drive the drive disappears from my system. It is normally listed as my E: drive. When I put the Music CD in the E: disappears from the system and only a...

Click in the NAME label at the top of the list, it should re-order them by name (a-z), click the name label again and it should reverse the order (z-a).

Thanks, will try.

I am thinking about password protecting my laptop. A few questions. I am the administrator of my laptop. How do I set up the password. And after I set it up can I remove it so I don't need to...

I just ran check disk on my P4 2.8GHz Dell Inspiron 9400 and after it finished it blinked it's results and I didn't get to read it. I know there must be a log, doc or text file somewhere but I can...

After reading through all the MS gibberish and clicking through many pages and reading and reading it finally lead me to this page which has the MSI.DLL update for a direct download to your computer....

As I stated in my post I have more thatn 45GB, on bot the desktop and the laptop

I am running XP Pro on both my Desktop and Laptop computers. Both have issues when using hibernation at times. The desktop will sometimes refuse to go into hibernation and show as error of not...

50Hz components are not usually workable with 60Hz components. This would cause the overheatong problem you are having. Check to see the frequency ratings on the input for the power supply.

When I put a new site into IE 6.0 links it has the icon that the site gave it. After I reboot the computer and open IE again the icons have changed to the IE icon. If I erase the site go there and...

Turn off automatic updates in the security center.

OK I got it. I had to lower my encryption level from TKIP down to WEP. Now it hooks up lickity split.

Well I did a hard reset on the router and after that it connected very fast - every time. The hard reset I'm talking about is the small indented button on the back of the router. But now I have no...