:cry: Anybody??

My computer crashes daily. Sometimes more than once a day. Basically the screen freezes completely and there's just the sound of the cpu at 100%. Only way to get out of it is to reset the computer....

Hehe sorry but no it didn't work.
Only firewall I have is the Windows one.

However, I've downloaded msn messenger 6.2 and that seems to work ok. But anything newer and I can't sign in. Very odd.

Yes I've tried the troubleshooter several times but it doesn't seem to help.

Ever since I changed from dial up to broadband a few days ago MSN messenger 7.5 will not sign in.
Oddly Windows messenger will sign me in.
Does anyone know why this is and what I can do about it?...

Everything I've tried has failed so far... BUT something called AVIcodec has finally told me the codec I need. It's: Mpeg-1 audio Layer 2 [0xc0]

I don't know if this is any help but my dad's pc is able to play these clips and this is his codecs: http://img124.imagevenue.com/loc32/th_498bd_dadvidcodec.JPG...

:D Ah ha, it's an mpg!

That's what I did, I right-clicked on it and clicked properties and it says "Type of file: Movie Clip". I take it that it should say something else then?

Movie Clip.

A mate told me to download VLC media player - whatever that is - and I did and it plays the clips.
But I'm still not happy, I want them to play via Windows Media Player. Is there any way of working...

I did a search and found this topic: http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread26555.html
Which then lead me to this: http://www.updatexp.com/c00d11cd-error.html and this:...

What do you mean by illegal though?

I just played these files on another computer in this house and I thought the same thing was happening - was searching for codecs and said codec error and then...

Yeah afraid I've tried that.

I've done a Windows update, Windows media player update, uninstalled and reinstalled WMP, same with the codecs.

It's weird, it'll play "Windows Media Audio/Video"...

Windows media player won't play some "Movie Clip" files that I've downloaded. (note I say "some" - I've got other movie clips files that play ok).
What happens is that I double click on the icon and...

Problem solved, thanks for your advice.

WTF?! I just went intp Device Manager and uninstalled both DVD rom and CDRW drives and "searched for new hardware"....... now if I go into "My Computer" I have:
CD Drive (D:)
CD-RW Drive (E:)...

Yes!

Done that too and the old letters (D & E) arent available anymore.
:( I dunno what to do

Hi
My old CD-RW drive died last week so I've purchased another and installed it. The problem is that the drive letters have changed.
Before my CD-RW drive was (D:) and my DVD ROM drive was (E:)....

Yeah everything is ok, thanks for your help.

I'm happy. I deleted everything under "a" and then tried to delete the account - it worked!
Thanks guys.

It hasn't got a brand or model number I'm afraid. I bought it off the net in 2001, or rather a work mate did, and he simply selected separates from off of some PC website and then when it all arrived...

Yeah. I press F8 as the system starts up and then F8 again and I move to SAFE mode and then it asks me which account I'd like to use so I click on administrator.

Well the account name is "Kris", naturally :-) but if you mean the bit that was entered when windows was installed it just says "a". That is, if I open the folder Local Disk (C:) the contents of that...

It's the account that was created when Windows XP was installed.
When I go in on safe mode and log on as Administrator I cannot see that account I need to delete.
Funnily enough I downloaded...

Still can't remove it.
I'm confused about what you say about not deleting and instead "removing" ... I'm only given the option to delete the account.

Don't seem to be able to delete my old account. Maybe I should try going in on SAFE mode again, logging onto Administrator and then try deleting from there. Worth a try?

Ahh cheers man, that's good news. I'm probably sounding like a right novice at this but I've got to check these things just in case.
And yup, everything's accessable! I owe u a beer or 3. ;-)

When you say "data" files do you mean say the contents of the "My Pictures" folder or do you mean the contents of the "Program files" folder?

Well, you guys deserve awards!
I tried all you said, rebooting in safe mode and installing and running those programs. Ad-aware found 3 nasties, spybot found one item, CWshredder none, and none on...

I was trying to install some registry repair software. I've got major problems here. If I go into control panel and try to open "users" it won't open, but shows as running in Task bar. I went onto...

Ok well I'll try that but I'm just doing a virus scan.
I just downloaded some software and tried to install it and got an error message that read:
"Setup was unable to create the directory...

Ok, so you think this is occuring as a result of some internet crap thats found its way onto my pc?

I've tried everything. Virus scanning. System restore. But nothing helps. I'm using Windows XP pro.
For example, let's say I try to open "Hijackthis". I get an hourglass for a few seconds and then...