This is one of the most annoying infections yet. It took me almost 30 minutes to remove.

Here is the easiest way to remove it. What you will need:

Antivirus (norton, or Mcaffe)
MS antispyware...

I believe i post this somewhere too, but anyway, http://tweakxp.com/ has lots of tweaks and tips on how to make windows run faster too. For example how to load all system files into RAM (only if you...

An article I read not too long ago about SP2 and its encounters with dell computers. Here is the link:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/windows/0,39020396,39165428,00.htm

For those that don't...

mySQL can bedownloaded from thier site. I believe 4.0 is the newest stable version?? you can download it from: http://dev.mysql.com/


Installing it should be easy and make sure you have...

Try using a third party graphics tool such as photoshop, paintshop pro or possibly MS paint.

It sounds like a font problem. if you can change your apperance to use a different font that might help it.

does the text look something like this:  ?

this means either a font is...

I have several 3Com cards and they all work fine. there could be a driver conflict on your machine,. I suggest getting the latest drivers. If that doesnt wrk, then you might have one of several...

I agree totally. Im running SP2 right now and ive noticed some serious problems. but being a computer hacker, I disabled most of the services that SP2 employs and im safe for now until i format...

Are you getting a little window saying its going to restart or is it just hard rebooting by tiself without anything special/different appearing on the screen. Some viruses restart your computer like...

You can always try nuking and reinstalling everything, but thats not always the case. If you have system restore enabled then you can tryt tunning that and restoring your OS to a previous date. This...

And dont install SP2! haha.

Seriously. So far from what ive seen and tested, your computer is better of with no service packs or with SP1 at most.

You also forgot to mention: cleaning up temp...

Note:

The PRC service was responsible for the blaster worm. Even though its fixed, i believe that its a horrible piece of software to implement in an operating system. Hasn't Microsoft heard of...

...Or use a browser that is far more secure then IE. such as Opera or Mozilla which both have resume capable transfer engines.

Norton uses alot of disk time. but there isnt really much you can do for that. There could be alot of unwanted programs or services that are loading when you first boot up. I would suggest defragging...

Most of the newer motherboard have an option in the BIOS which allows you to increase and decrease the AGP apareture size. What this option does is lets the graphics card borrow some of your RAM when...

Nice. But I believe its easier to remove the QOS protocol from the network stack when installing XP.

What are your computer stats? and if you know what motherboard you have, then the motherboard manufacturer ususally has a untility that lets you monitor system values like cpu temperature, fan speed,...