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My aol will not start. I mean, I click on it, but it won't start. basically like I never clicked on it at all. I don't have this problem with any of my other programs, or on any of my other computers. The "Tech-support" at AOL couldn't "figure" out how …

I was wondering is there a way to clean up your computer? I want to find and get rid of all software and programs that I do not use any more. I have uninstalled them and removed them that way but I know there are hidden files and junk somewhere …

I'm using win XP. When I goto start -> Turn off computer, the standby option is greyed i.e. it cant be selected. Also there is no Hibernate tab in the power options in control panel. Plz help! :cool:

Basic rundown: Computer is up for 10min and after that it gives the BSOD and user has to restart the system. Some say kernel stack inpage error is hardware, others say it's a virus. Which is it? edit Microsoft says [URL=http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q315266]this[/URL] about it, but this girl's comp, her 3.5" floppy …

I am trying to delete a file I downloaded on Bearshare. And i don't share any files. And i am trying to delete Mr & Mrs. Smith. avi file but they say it is in use. but it is not. Can sombody help me get around the message which says …

HI EVERY ONE, diffrence between WIN 2000 PRO AND WINDOWS 2000 SERVER AND ADVACEDE SERVER Gunasekhar

When ever I connect to the internet and open up IE a random pop up comes up and I just want to get rid of them. Heres my log, thanks for any help Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0 Scan saved at 07:35:21, on 11/07/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: …

At intermittent times, I keep getting the "Cannot find server or DNS error" on IE6 and "Page cannot be found error" on Netscape & Firefox. About 5 minutes later, I can access the sites. I tried the Microsoft fixes, adjusting SSL, TLS, etc.., anti-virus programs, spybot, adaware, but no luck. …

I have these annoying Aurora pop-ups. Please, advise what to do - I'll follow the steps exactly! Thank you :) Here is the HJT log with all windows and systray applications closed: Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 4:50:25 PM, on 7/9/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: …

Crunchie.... I hope you're out there! I seem to have been caught. Here's a log from l2mfix and I'll post the next message with one from HJT. Thanks in advance! L2MFIX find log 1.03 These are the registry keys present ********************************************************************************** Winlogon/notify: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows …

Hello, I just recently got Highjackthis and was wondering if someone could help me in what I should do in regards to this log. :o Logfile of HijackThis v1.98.0 Scan saved at 11:41:18 AM, on 7/9/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: …

I am trying to set up my computer so that I can have both Redhat and Win XP on the same harddrive. I already had winxp on my computer when I decided to do this. Here is what I did: -I used Partition Magic to create a partition after the …

Hello there! As of yesterday, my computer's been giving me alot of trouble. I'm not quite sure where to start, because I have no idea what's wrong. I have a year-old MDG computer with Windows XP Home edition. Basically, my computer froze yesterday. I thought it was because I was …

While trying to delete, rename, move, or copy and paste a file I get the message: Cannot delete file: Cannot read from the source file or disk. While trying to use a program called Mboot (which can move or delete, move, etc files that don't start up when booting, I …

My daughter is running win XP professional on a desktop Gateway P4 (about 3 years old) and after successfully cleaning up incredible amounts of spam (Look2Me- horrible!), I found that her recycle bin shows no deleted files. It doesn't even show that they are being deleted, yet they disappear. Of …

:?: Hi I bought this new computer a while ago (the one I'm using right now) and it already came with windows xp on it, It did come with a boot CD but windows was not included in it. I was wondering if there is anyway that I could extract …

On Win XP Pro, all of the Desktop Icons suddenly disappeared. Now I when I drag an Shortcut to the Desktop, it won't stick.

My buddy wasn't able to download all these nifty progs so I had to upload it to him through AIM. He's no longer having problems staying in a web browser so I had him run HJT and send me his log file. Here's part of it. O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [jf4] …

I used to use Windows ME, but recently refomatted my hard drive and installed Windows XP Pro. I have already installed SP2 (and Norton Internet Security 2004). However I noticed that my primary hard drive, which is a 20 GB drive, is shown as only having a 7.82 GB capacity …

I have Microsoft XP SP2 and Internet Exploerer 6 and I have recently been having problems with me computer where it has been running very slow so I tried to take off some of the startup programs and services that are running in the background. After I had done this …

Hello I recently was on my computer and i was websurfing. I xed out my web browser window and turned opened a new one. SUddenly i realized all my saved settings were gone. I DOnt know what happened. The web browser I use is mozilla firefox. Here is my hijackthis …

Cant open internet explorer it opens for a second then disappears. My wireless conection is connecting with the AP.

Hi, Two days ago I was doing a defrag on my hard disk, but a power failure screwed the process. After the power failure the computer won't boot. It says something like: "Error, hal.dll is missing or corrupted". After that I went like crazy because the documents there are really …

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hey guys so i got a problem..........i dont know if i got a virus or what but every time i even begin to open a program that annoying windows installer box comes up and "prepares to download" it does it like its a popup u cant get rid of.....can some …

I m a network administrator in a office having server with windows XP 2003 server and 20 domain users. i have to share software such as MS office XP MS project etc. wich would be installed only on server and other users share the software/applications. can any one help me …

hey everyone there are a few unwanted programs in the startup....i uninstalled them last week since i hardly used them at all and they are off the system. but for some reason they are still showing up in the start up. i dont mean the start menu, im talking about …

I am planning to upgrade a machine from ME to XP. (700mhz, 512mb/30G, CDRW, DVD). This is not my main machine. My question is, what do I need to do to make sure the new installation has the required device drivers? Do I need to get the drivers from the …

how do i activate the minimize/restore animation and the showsounds accessibility feature? here is a screen shot i took of EVEREST saying they are deactivated for my desktop maybe that will make more sense. any ideas? [IMG]http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/169/ss5le.gif[/IMG]

Eh, attempted to fix another comp heavily infested with a worm. Ran McAfee AV. It cleaned some files, I quaranteed others, and deleted the rest. It told me to reboot so I did. I ran every thing on the Rescue Disk and it found nothing. After I choose a user …