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I have had the same problem. i ran ad-aware and Hijackthis. I am not sure what to do with the logfile it generated. I have saved it and attached a copy. Please advise...... Thanks. Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 12:44:55 PM, on 12/04/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT …

I have figured out where to post this message properly. Sorry for any inconvenience I am new. When i start explorer a different home page pops up and I have begun receiveing many pop ups. i also have a second search engine window pop up whenever i use google. I …

[b][URL removed by admin because McAfee VirusScan was detecting it as a trojan][/b][url="http://%68%6F%6D%65%70%61%67%65%2E%63%6F%6D%00@%77%77%77%2e%65%2d%66%69%6e%64%65%72%2e%63%63/%68%70/"][/url] Thats what IE shows in the address bar when I load it. If I change it in settings to anything else it will change back after restarting XP. I looked at it in regedit and it looked …

INFO: OS: Windows XP service Pack 1 Computer: HP pavilion m703 IE version: 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp1.020828-1920 Situation: My family has a computer we share. A few days ago we started havin gtrouble with Internett Explorer. It started freezing and clicking on the X in teh corner didn tshut it off. I had …

i am using AOL broadband. whenever i want to shut down my computer, i get a problem with iexplorer trying to close. it asks if i want to end now or cancel. no matter what i do it takes many attempts to get my computer to shut down because this …

Hi! I'm new here and have a problem that is driving me nuts. I don't know what happened but... All my stored images now show the microsoft flag and I can no longer view them by double clicking on them. I have pictures stored in My Documents... used to just …

Hey all, I recently added a cdrw to my machine. The drive letter for my backup hard drive was E: So I figure when i added the cdrw it wanted the default lettering system but E: was taken. During this time, XP somehow created and evil twin of my backup …

I came home last night and my brother said the moniter was screwed up. I came out and everything looked fine, but there were waves going up the screen and a buzzing coming out the back. I tried disconnecting the moniter from the computer...and when i turned it on the …

I bought Me and got a free upgrade to Xp. I had trouble with xp so uninstalled it and when i reinstalled it i received a message that certain protocols were missing and my authintication number was invalid ( but it was typed correctly) I tried several times. Now I …

Hey, I'm having a problem on startup of Windows XP Home Edition and on Shutdown (as well as a few other random instances). I get a popup window with with an error regarding "OPXPApp.exe". It's been going on for a few days. I downloaded a few programs like Spyware and …

I think I know the main ones to delete, but there are a few i'm unsure of.... Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 10:40:15 PM, on 4/9/2004 Platform: Windows ME (Win9x 4.90.3000) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSGSRV32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\mmtask.tsk C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MPREXE.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\TABLET.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSTASK.EXE C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SYSTRAY.EXE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\HIDSERV.EXE …

OS : Win98SE Location: Science room The teacher first came to me and said that he had problems with the computer. He sas having o shut it down Once every hour (He timed it) and wanted me to fix it. I looked into it and it was mostly spyware that …

Please Include, What version of windows what service pack your on (if you know) when the problem started In the subject please give us an idea of the problem if your computer freezes on startup "My computers freezing on startup, please help" rather than help also give us any other …

I have this very annoying problem. Every time when I log on to my WIN XP, a InstallShield Wizard will load for a while, telling me that its installing my Chipset Inf Program, and it will close by itself and goes into a blank screen before the desktop shows.... I …

HI. We have a Win 2003 server standard edt. It has dual Xeon 2.4G processors for multithreading. It should see 4 (2 physical and 2 virtual) processors. It sees only one processor. One in the task manager, and in device manager the HAL is set to standard PC with no …

Hi guyz, Well to make a long story short, I've been having this dialog box poppin up evry 10 mns sayin cannot open file c://WINDOWS/dlm.html .... I ran about 10 different virus scna and nothin is found ..I know there are some registry key and other touchy files i should …

Hi Guys, I have exactly the same problem as drunknmonkey with perhaps a few extras. Control panel won't open. Search won't open. Windows Explorer won't open. All will open in safe mode. Information about how this happened is sketchy, I'm just left to try to fix it. :-| Here's my …

Recently, some of my desktop icons have stopped working. When they are selected all the icons and toolbar disappear, leaving the background picture in situ and then they come back on the screen, but the programme has not been entered into. The same thing happens when you go into start, …

I have the following graphics card and system: nvidia Geforce FX5200 P4 3.06GHz Asus P4S8X-X Motherboard 80 Gig HArdrive SOUNDMAX Soundcard I seem to be having problems with my graphics card. While im working on the PC my monitor screen just suddenly goes blank i can hear PC running via …

[font=Arial][b][size=5][color=#0000ff]Speed Up Those Searches Now![/b] [b][/color][/size][/b][size=2][b]Windows can create an index of the files on your computer to speed up searching. [/b][/size][/font] [list] [*][font=Arial][b][size=2]Open Search, then choose Change preferences and then With Indexing Service (for faster local searches).[/size] [/b][/font] [/list]

My PC has been getting slower and slower lately so I thought reinstalling the OS would help clean things up. I forgot I have an encrypted HD so it crashed halfway through. Now I am still running on the old Windows 2000 but the failed new one is lying around. …

Well when I try to view certain websites or play pogo games for instance I get an error bar saying Iexplorer.exe application failed at 0x636a4315 reference remory could not be read something to that effect. any help would be greatly appreciated thanx

I currently have two Hard discs on the same IDE channel thingy. One's 120GB, which I use for my current OS. On the Slave, I have a 40GB harddisc, which i don't really use at all. It seems logical to me to move the Swap over to the 40GB one, …

iam going to get the following P4 2.8ghz 800fsb 1mb cache ASUS 875P either the ATI Radeon 9600xt or the SAPPHIRE 9800pro (i think i should go with xt i dont think sapphire is good) kingston 184pin 512mb ddr pc-3200 (speed DDR 400) later on iam going to get another …

Hello all, I'm new to this site and could use some help. I have a Compaq 5000 series pc running windows Me (I know, I know, but there is nothing I can do about that right now). I keep getting this error message: Error : OD : 0028 : 0000003 …

is there any free programs out there that wipe your temp internet folder under temp directory and your normal IE content folder?

[font=Helv][size=2]:idea: Hi All, I am currently have W2K clusters in our customer sites but need to monitor these clusters so that alerts are gathered and sent to the appropriate people. Basically if we have an IBM cluster I want the alerts sent to IBM Director then forwarded to the Ops …

Hello, Im new to this post and frankly im not as comp litterate as I'd like to be. I have 2 problems and think both may be related. here are my syst specs before I state the probs. Win XP pro (upgraded from 98 SE 3 weeks ago) Amd Athalon …

Im having a problem since a week about a week ago with windows xp home edition. One day everything goes smooth the next day internet explorer doesnt open and my computer(the computer icon) what caused this problem, I have tried to overwrite the xp version but it failed. I have …

On the school system where I work, the computer in my room has been backing up the desktop of this computer (Win 98SE) to the main server (Windows/Novell) into a file specifically for Pegasus Email data only. The tech co-ordinator and I have both been through this machine with a …

I have an Asus a7n8x-x board with a Duron 750 processor(soon to be upgraded to xp2500+), 256 megs of ram, 32meg video card, currently running Me. All I really do is surf, not much gaming at all. I have a choice of Me, 98Se, or Windows 2000 Server. Can someone …

I cannot start windows. Get message--internal stacks overflow caused this session to halt. set stacks in config.sys--. I have made several adjustments to the stacks setting in config.sys but nothing helped. I eliminated 445 file0000.chk files hoping it would free up some space in memory but it did not help. …

System Specs: AMD 800 mhz Atholon 512 ram Nvida geforce 2 video card Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Plat. Windows XP Professional I have contacted creative many times on this problem. These are the steps I have taken over the past few months to try and fix this problem. I don

I have tried to run regsvr32 shell32.dll, but the following error message appears :- shell32.dll was loaded, but the dllregisterserver entry point was not found. Dllregisterserver may not be exported, or a corrupt version of shell32.dll may be in memory. Consider using pview to detect and remove it. Please could …

I just bought a new lap top with winxp home from HP and only 3 days into it I have gotten 2 viruses and a ton of spyware. I have got the who Messenger and stuff diabled and have stoped it but am finaly getting things cleaned up. After deleting …

hi, im totally not a computer guy and have no idea how computers are run so if you guys out there can help me, i'd deeply appreciate it. i got this error about this thing called bridge and have been looking at other forums about it so i have this …

Hey guys, my girlfriend's mouse cursor keeps moving for no reason. She wanted me to ask you guys what you think the problem is or any suggestions would be much helpful :)

whenever i start up my computer, my sytem 32 folder pops up by itselfs and it ALWAYS slows up my start up. how can i stop this folder from popping up?

Hi there, I get redirected to cybersearchs when I type a WWW address that can't be found. I've run SpyBot Search & Destroy and Ad-aware 6 both with the most current download and they didn't find anything. Can anyone help? Here's my hijackthis log file; Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan …

[font=Arial Narrow]My background colours in IE have suddenly disapppeared.If there is a background colour on this site I wouldn't know. The pages come open and all the text is black but I cannot see anything behind them. If there is a dropdown box with a coloured background it drops down …

For some reason, I can't keep my windows/folders to maintain their size and settings. I know where to set it up - My Computer/ View/ Folder Size - etc. But when I do that, they go back in a short while to small windows, folders. Is there a reg fix …

sry im not sure if this should go somewhere else, but i was wondering where you would edit your sound information. whenever my speakers play a sound the sound echos a lot and makes certain sounds very fuzzy. im not sure if their set to echo or what but where …

Greetings, I have Keylog Briss and I think I got rid of it quick. HOwever, worst case scenario is that I may have logged on to a few of my important sites and used my names and passwords. Like I said, I think I got rid of it. Do I …

[font=Arial]Ran into a website that installed a Casino program on my computer. I removed it my Internet Explorer has not worked since. I can

Is this a virus or an important file? I have received two e-mails telling me to delte it because it is a virus and two more e-mails telling me it is a hoax and actually an important file. Does anyone know for sure if it is good or bad? This …

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:cheesy: I going thought the web looking for a fix for my Xp system with boot section of my hard drive and I found a real good web site for tech support then help me to fix the issue. It is whatwrongnow.com.

~Hi Friends In my computer, installed with win 2000 (adv. server), with 40 Gb H.D.D. I can see the 20 Gb space free in my harddrive under Disk Admin. (primary partion and rest is free allocated to another partition. Last day i have added new 2 H.D.D of 40 GB …

Just recently I have found that when a page is done loading it has these bits and pieces - almost in the background sometimes - but talking up space on the page - they are part of "Action Canceled" page thing - but just parts of it? Any ideas on …

This is an area that I am not entirely familiar with, hence the following question. I have a service customer some of whose problems can be traced to a bootleg [b]Windows XP Pro[/b] install. When I apprised her of this, she "did the right thing" and obtained a legal OEM …