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...

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.

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. ...

http://www.hallogram.com/spyworks/index.html

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...

Turn off automatic updates in the security center.

Sorry, I'm not familiar with the program you mentioned. It's free, give it a shot. If it doesn't work then get rid of it.

Download a program called CCLEANER, it is free and will get rid of a lot of unneeded and temp files. It will also do a good job of refreshing your registry.