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Arabic (ISO-8859-6)
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I'm by no means an expert on this - but no one else has found a way of helping you either.

And is...

Is there any clue for you in this article:

http://www.interproinc.com/articles.asp?id=0301

Search on the string "Bi-directional languages" where there is a potential explanation. What you do...

If not the virus theory (because I've just registered what you said in your first post about the clean install & slipstream) the (much as I hate to say it) jccaldz may have given you the right...

I'd buy the virus theory - or the wrong driver in the splipstream disk. Anti-malwarebytes would flush this out. When you're sure there's no virus issue, a reload of drivers would remove suspicion...

A lot more information than this is required to help ypu.

I've never heard of a mianstream AV screwing up an OS. A mains glitch, perhaps, or a Virus that AVG didn't pick up or damage to files that AV wouldn't pick up because the damage occurred before you...

Difficult to diagnose at a distance. But might there be a power supply problem? Fans can run, disks can whirr but if the power loom to the mobo isn't propperly fed, then anything can happen.

You can always delete the software and its directory and then use a registry cleaner to deal with potential orphans.

If you're infected with anything, it's a different story and the Virus forums...

I find that IE (I don't use FireFox much) only uses a lot of CPU if it's busy with authentication of a site it's trying to reach.

S-0-6-98-100016064-100025734-100005007-2661.com looks to me like...

Maybe you should re-install vlc (latest version 0.98a). The full-screen behaviour is not normal.

When I ran it on XP PRO SP3, no problems with full screen. But if I started on nr 1 display and...

It certainly is "officially possible". The issue is purely bandwidth which is governed by CPU power, Video RAM and 8800GT performance.

So what else is running or grabbing memory, possibly causing...

It strikes me as a clear driver issue. I don't know if you installed latest drivers from Nvidia or Amsung.

Tell us please.

Great. Pleasure to have stuck with this one.

Spot on! You got that one right!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815424

This link might help you. The article assumes you are logged nto the account for which you want to change the ScreenSaverIsSecure key from 1 to 0.

You...

Yes - pretty damn fine splendid tool.

It's really useful if you think you've got a virus/trojan and you know when you went onto that porn site or wherever that gave the syph to your PC - LOL. You...

Let us know after the re-boot.

Hopefully by opening up, having a look at what are hopefully adjacent connectors, and fingers crossed prising apart something that's touching the other.

Nah - it'll never be as easy as that. If...

Can we be sure of what's there and what's not in the Registry? I think that you have taken the HKCU as a literal when it's an abbreviation for HKEY_CURRENT_USER. So we may be nearer a solution.
...

I'm wondering whether it's electrical. The following come to mind (although you'll have tried some of these, no doubt):

1 Poor connector (is it VGA, DVI or HDMI, CRT or TFT?)

2 If VGA, cable...

Looks identical to my Photoshop Menu. Can't see anything wrong.

In your previous post you actually said: "...looks like i've lost my ".exe" file assocition - unable to run any .exe's at all...."

Remember we're at a distance trying to diagnose everything you...

Did you read this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310585

I'd guess that you have the following devices attached at the time you looked:
A USB memory stick
An SD memory card
An internal Hitachi Hard Drive
A sony CD/DVD drive

Anything wrong there?
...

If it compares with the others in your server environment than it's OK. You could make sure by copying one across from another server and under CMD doing a FC (File Compare) on the two.

If I...

Incidentally, have you done the simplest thing with the install CD (that you've lost) or a downloaded version of RunDLL32.exe?

Start Windows command prompt (CMD).

If you've got the Windows CD,...

Can we be sure what you've done? You've got your files off, FDISK'd the drive, Format'd it and done a clean Windows install. So it appears you're missing the Sony release device drivers although I...

I'm not the expert on 2003, but in my experience with XP Pro, re-installing a service pack is a solid bet for putting stuff right.

I've also put stuff right without losing my applications by just...

You can boot from the CD in DOS mode and get the important files off.

You can take the HDD out into a USB enclosure, connect it to another PC and get the files off.

Based on your story (and...

Well done. The cleaning is on old trick I learned on the PS2.

Anyway, you only took two cards out. So put the Video card in first and get the worst over with. What should happen is that it will...

The disk that works is the original XP disk, no servive pack.

So, wash the Acer disk and do an UPGRADE from the Acer CD. The Autorun.exe is the appropriate starting point for the upgrade. You...

Again, the amount of information you provide is frustratingly short of diagnosable.

1 Is the disk that wont install an original for MS?
2 What is the version on the disk XP SP1; XP SP2 or what?...

Please tell us exactly what cards you pulled out and we'll tell you the order in which to put them back and reboot.

Can you confirm that the screen is behaving itself now and is it at basic...

In my reckoning, the Axer logo is the point where you press F1 or F2 or whatever.

The higher resolution: have you set it back to the worse resolution? During booting, the default of 640x480 @...

This is most odd. If you get to a desktop, booting is OK. If you can use the keyboard, then that is OK. The keyboard does work - yes?

If booting is OK & the keyboard is, you must be able to...

What does "won't boot from disk" mean? Floppy? If so what's on the floppy? CD?

When you boot there is a key you can press like F1 or Del or ESC that boots you into BIOS Edit mode whwre you can...

Some very interesting stuff/advice here:
http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/windows-xp/8320-blank-desktop-no-desktop-after-log.html

Niece = Young Person = Browsing = nasties/viruses is a...

Then why don't you buy Windows password crack software? It usually involves making a boot CD or USB stick and working fromthe DOS, the software cracks the Admin password.

You've otherwise drawn a...

Hello.

What about my ideas?

If you can't deduce the password or Administrator isn't default blank, it gets difficult. If there is no back door (but see below), you need software to crack the password.

There is a potential...