No, although the friend I am doing this for does have Norton and it's up-to-date. Shall I try Malware Bytes as well?

Sorry, I've got to go so this'll be quick.

Icons don't show up and even can't open unless he goes to the right click > open with > program. His standby light keeps flashing as if it is in...

I found a program from someone having a similar issue called Revo Uninstaller (http://www.revouninstaller.com/.) It had registry files and certain folders I was not finding. This program did it for...

Okay, so I tried uninstalling a program from the 'Uninstall Programs' menu (Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10) but it gave some weird error message, so I decided to hunt for all the files and delete it...

[Please delete, accidentally double posted.]

Thanks. I just got the laptop and I have Google Gadgets, Notepad and Google Chrome up and it's at 6%-8%.

Everyone knows that Vista is slow. I though it was because of the Aero. I may be wrong however. If that's true, shouldn't Home Basic not be slow? Or should I try to get Best Buy to downgrade to...

Lately whenever i use flash to load a movie, youtube clip, or even music on project playlist my computer starts playing the sound and music files very choppily. I have no idea why this is. My...

Yes, I've tried that. It did not work. Thanks for the response though.

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Sorry for raising from the dead, but this still isn't working...a more detailed thing about what's going on:

K, so one day I was using my webcam, then all of a sudden it was like "Sorry, this is...

As I said earlier, they are all checked, but the have icons of drives with a question mark over it.

I totally reset my computer and have Windows XP SP2 running, only problem is no usb drives showing up (even when things are plugged in.) I have 7 drives.

I restarted, clicked My Computer and saw a partition was missing (it's a compaq recovery partition). Something popped up saying new hardware had installed and Windows needed to restart (huh?) So I...

i was afraid to cause it was in the wrong folder, i'll do that now.
restarting computer now.

It says to delete the UpperFilters in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E980-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} and LowerFilters in...

I used to see them in their without anything plugged in. I have an External Harddrive plugged in and it's not showing up.

I see 3 "USB Root Hub" 2 "Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller" and 1 "Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller". They are all enabled. Yet it seems as if TweekUI didn't find any.

lol...it was kinda funny

I have 7 usb ports on my computer. They used to all show up in My Computer but now they didn't. This was right after I started having lots of problems with my firefox, speed, etc. So I got some...

It looks good but it won't even show that I have any USB drives in my "My Computer"! I also can't figure out how to uninstall the virtual drive that's in "My Computer." It was never installed fully...

I know, I forgot to uncheck it...well, things still aren't working completely right, but I think a couple re-installs (of firefox and stuff) should do the trick. Is there a way to check my hdd? I...

ComboFix:
ComboFix 08-01-10.2 - Compaq_Owner 2008-01-10 20:52:28.1 - NTFSx86
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.1.2600.2.1252.1.1033.18.1483 [GMT -5:00]Running from: C:\Documents and...

Yea...this was me being paranoid...

Wait...what's the difference between the two?

lol, i had that happen with a key (still not sure which) and each time i pressed a key like e or r or anything it would open up windows (not letting me type.) I still don't know which key it was, I...

Sure, gimme just a minute.
I ran LSP Fix, worked fine.
I am now running Combo Fix and it has done three stages and doesn't look like it's doing anything...

I did come across some software the other day on accident that blocks government IPs from accessing your PC...forget what it was called though. (To keep BSA and stuff out of your PC.)

My computer is acting very very slow. (I have 2 GB RAM in it and it's not acting that way at all.) It doesn't recognize any usb devices (so I also want to know how to check my 500GB hdd that was...

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.0 (BETA)
Scan saved at 7:09:13 PM, on 1/10/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:...