Thanks again for the advice. I saw that on the link I originally posted, but I'm not sure what I did was what I was supposed to do. That key didn't even exist. I made a new REG_DWORD entry named...

Thanks for the suggestions. I actually have CCleaner runing at a scheduled time every day @ 3am. I went ahead and tried that reg cure program and fixed like 1369 more problems. Unfortunately, even...

This just started less than a month ago.

When I click the Search button in the Explorer toolbar, the following message appears:

"A file that is required to run search companion cannot be...

yep, that's what the problem was alright. I fixed the piece on the motherboard and now it works fine again. thanks again for advice!

i suggest reading the manual for that. i found the manual to my laptop very helpful with taking mine apart. the pictures especially helped. you can get the manual for the acer Aspire 1800 from this...

I think I found the problem. on this site:

http://www.ozzu.com/ftopic55332.html

it described a problem whose symptoms were the same as mine. then the person who originally started the thread...

thanks for the link twistedprophet. unfortunatley, this does not solve my problem of not being able to start up my computer. there is normaly a screen that says:

IBM Thinkpad
Press F1 to enter...

It started up once after that it has not started up at all. I've tried and tried but it just won't. I plugged in an external monitor and it did not detect any signal. Leaving my computer on isn't an...

I have a T23 IBM Thinkpad Laptop with 512mb RAM and a 1.13ghz processor. just today(11-5-07), this morning, it was working fine. The most recent things i had downloaded were a few music files(.mp3)...

I just wanted to let everyone know that I resolved the issue by going to microsoft update and downloading and installing XPSP3 and the security fixes thing for IE6. So, yeah, it works again. if you...

that's weird... my browser can open that file fine, but only when I'm online. if i download it to my computer (right-click>Save As...) it will not show it; internet explorer doesn't even load when i...

ok, thanks for the tip (i'll change the way i embeded it at my website), but i still need to find out how to make my browser open up the swf files directly. I used to just be able to right-click the...

Last week I got Adobe Flash CS3, DreamWeaver CS3, and Fireworks CS3 installed on my computer. I installed them without removing the previous versions (Macrodedia Flash 8 Pro, DreamWeaver MX, and...

thanks 4 all ur suggestions and advice on this issue. it really helped out a lot.
i never was able to try to update the bios w/ a floppy but over the weekend i found this site:
...

i could really really use some help right now. is there any way that i could maybe read the security chip with another computer and get the password that way?

i tried holding down F1 key on boot up and it didn't work. it will only work on a computer that has the supervisor password already disabled.

i really could use any advice that's available right...

I switched the cmos batteries and the same error comes up when i turn my laptop on. do you (or anyone else for that matter) know if there are any keys you can press that would make it ignore the...

i've got another cmos battery (a good one) in a t22 laptop that i keep 4 parts, if i take it out of there and put it in, would that solve the whole deal about not knowing the password to setup 4 it...

Ok, flash bios... is that possible to do in it's current condition? and one small thing (although it's probably of no help) the time would stop everytime i put my computer in standby mode and would...

I got this blemish t23 IBM Thinkpad Laptop that did not come with a hard drive, a hard drive caddy, RAM, RAM cover, and some other things. I got all the stuff for it and installed WinXP on it. I got...

I'm pretty sure that the modem is an onboard modem and the problem might be that the cable attatching it and all the other things on the back of my laptop (ports and stuff) may have come loose.
I'm...

hello

i have a t22 IBM Thinkpad Laptop

1st thing:
for some reason, whenever i start my Laptop, i have to press on the RAM and hold it like that to get my computer to start starting up. if i...

my wireless card is working fine (don't ask me how) and i found the problem with my modem: not secured to motherboard. i'm going to ask the guys on the harware forum if they know how to fix it.
...

This is the first computer my brother has put together. He used an ECS Elitegroup L7VMM3 v3.0c mobo. He was able to power up, but when he tried to install Windows 2000, a...

i havent been able to get on the internet for a while b/c i cant connect to the internet with my laptop again.

for some reason i'm having the exact same problems that i had when i first started...

hopefuly i'll be able to try the BOOT thing soon.

one thing though, with the graphics error thing, after i updated the driver, it was working fine for awhile, but now it's messing up again the...

i tested my dial up connection on saturday and it works! thanks for helping with that problem. i'm going to continue to use google accelorator for when i'm connected thru dial up cause i find myself...

ok, i won't be able to test my internet connection till friday and i should be able to let you know the outcome on friday as well. i was just wondering if you knew how to fix this one error that...

Quoting:
"steve, is that proxy server address correct?
http://localhost:9100/proxy.pac (http://localhost:9100/proxy.pac), in this
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet...

I think it might have something to do with a particularily large svchost.exe process cause when i ended it on another computer the same message came up. does anyone have any idea what service has to...

Thanks a lot! my firewall is working again. however, i still can't get onto the internet through either my modem or my wireless. when i try to log onto the internet through netzero, the following...

i still can't get onto the internet and i can't install my anti virus software. when i do the following error comes up:

Local machine: installation failed
Installation:
Error: Action failed for...

ok, i did that and the following error came up when i tried to fix selected:

An unexpected error has occurred at procedure: modBackup_MakeBackup(sItem=O20 - AppInit_DLLs:...

i did everything that u told me except run the active scan. i tried to connect to the internet and a message appeared that said that another program was using my modem and i couldn't connect.
here's...

thanks for responding!

here's the results for the vundo:

VundoFix V6.2.2
Checking Java version...
Java version is 1.5.0.3
Scan started at 3:56:29 PM 10/13/2006
Listing files found while...

i ran hijackthis and got this as a result. i ran it after i had already disabled a ton of stuff in msconfig.exe. none of the drivers that i could check were running and only a few things under...

Hello
up till now i have been able to keep my computer free of viruses and trojans and all that other stuff. i have finally come up against something i cant take care of. it has disabled my modem...

hi, i'm new here. i saw your post and wanted to help. if you are still experiencing the annoying popups that say that you don't have a genuine windows, you might check out this site. i used to have...