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Online backup? You mean cloud backup? Then I dunno. Clouds are too... nebulous. Here today, gone tomorrow. But if you want a free and good backup tool to run on your sys, then try Syncback Free. It will backup to removable media, too. An XP Backup? You mean a System …

The command should be: dir C:\Program Files\HP\Common>XXcopycommon.txt /a /s /og What is SVSSSVC.exe?? Could you post a hijackthis log? HiJackThis: You have a choice of versions, installable program or stand-alone executable; in action they are fundamentally identical. i] -download hijackthis: [url]http://www.majorgeeks.com/download5554.html[/url] or [url]http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/[/url] -dclick that .msi file to install Hijackthis …

All recovery softwares head straight for the file tables [master and perhaps the backup]. With an NTFS system there is no other way... the file tables record which sectors are used for each file, a deletion is made by marking those sectors' entries with an altered bit; the table entries …

If a Dell XP cd loads and validates onto a non-Dell system, I would like to know about it.

It is an installaer package error. Try this: [url]http://www.ehow.com/how_5541530_fix-nsis-error.html[/url] ..or just download the package again. something has been corrupted.

Call of Duty game? Rabia is middle-eastern name. Anyway, from Winternals get Process Monitor. Start it, set it to boot log via Options, then restart your sys after deleting that key. Open PM and stop the logging, then search for that key and see what created it.

Mike,of course you should be able to, and simply, and I am not sure how you managed to foul it up. :) The first job is to attempt to recover any file you have lost in the process, and this free pgm will make a fairly decent go of that: …

Panda is a good scanner. It will remove viruses, and I believe some trojans, at no charge... but you must pay for spyware and other pestware removal. Of course, it does provide you with the list of incidents.... you can remove them yourself, or use it to judge the performance …

Aw, heck.. the detail you don't give. Uninstalling an OS should NOT remove any of your other [data] files. Installing another one afterward with a quick format will likely overwrite them. It depends.... if they exist on the hdd but are lost then it is possible to sometimes recover some …

It does sound a bit like a hard drive problem. You could try clearing the surface with DBAN -gurgle for that- and then attempting to reinstall Windows. But first, go into your Lappy's BIOS setup and stop its logo from presenting so instead you see the POST results. check that …

Well, it does really depend upon where it is found. For example if in C: root...ie c:\i386, then that is likely the i386 folder copied in by someone to save loading the installation cd when, say, running sfc. You can delete that one, noting of course, the caveat i presented. …

It reads like he did. If you want the SP2 upgrade file, this is the one to get: WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe It a self-installer package. Just dl from a safe source and dclick to run. Of course, you will have ascertained that your computer is virus/malware free beforehand....

Could you post that actual boot.ini, ceria? And tell us which partition it is in, which one XP is in, and where Vista was. Drive letters will do. Also go into Disk Management [via Admin Tools, computer Mgmnt, or just go Start and Run diskmgmt.msc -and tell which partition is …

Vineet, operate under the assumption that kernel32.dll is fine, instead look for a startup program tha might have a problem. You could use msconfig to temporarily stop things such as Orbit Downloader, TUProgST, GoogleUpdater, and restart to see if the error re-occurs.

pos, go to the nasty viruses etc section in this site, and follow the guide in the first star post at top. Post those logs either here or there. Then we may be able to help.

"What happened and how can I re assign the letter C: to the System Hard drive ? " Within any practical meaning of the term... you simply cannot. Setup has embedded the drive letter H: thoroughly into the registry, into many, many keys and values. Reinstall with those "slot drives" …

" there just wasn't any driver for the system to read from the CD rom." Hang on a mo... if you think a bit, the sys has to be able to read a cd without the aid of any OS... just with BIOS. It is how it loads from one …

Disk activity. Perhaps foobar does not load enough look-ahead music data into memory to cope with playback while the hdd is occupied with other work. Try another media player. VLC, perhaps? Jacking up CPU priority of foobar probably would not affect the latency of disk access from a just-previous CPU …

[url]http://www.insideoe.com/files/store.htm[/url] Copy over your inbox.dbx, and any other especially named folders that you may have created.

Hmm.. I think there is a problem with language incompatability.

[QUOTE=silver23;307328]well i was bored.....and it works : )))))))[/QUOTE] Great stuff! and now you feel that much more satisfied cos there is nothing like doing it all by yourself.... Cheers, g.

Depends a bit on how that pgm hides the files.... maybe by simply changing file attributes and names? If it does the job without encryption then it should not be too difficult to find them.

Another One Size Fits All computer problem solving software. Reading the site's explanation of what it can do is scary enough. Uninstalling the pgm would not help by itself, you should first have used its Reverse function to undo the damage [if it even could...]. You might try reinstalling your …

It could be that wlnotify is having trouble with damaged accounts. Can you enter Administrator in Safe Mode? If so, create an account with another name. Try to start into that, if it works copy over your files.

Gee, these speed tweaks. First thing you should do is re-enter Tuneup Utilities, tap the Restore button and revert everything you did with that pgm. Then remove it. Deleted your iconcache.db? It's not something I have ever felt the need to do... did you increase this value also : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer:: …

Yes, you will lose all your data once it is in Dell's hands. And I don't have a fix for the problem. So. There are a few ways to get data off first. -remove the hard-drive and slave it to another computer with an adapter, copy off files. -use a …

Yeah, maybe it is just Google being clever, pre-loading that subject line so she can do a search for it, or open that email in Outlook. Google want to own the world. The bit Bill doesn't.

And be sure to use the Service Name, not the display name. check via .. sc query

Before you rush off, jack, what is this entry: O20 - AppInit_DLLs: WIKI.DLL The file, wiki.dll means nothing to me...? May I suggest you submit for examination? ==Please go to this web page [url]http://virusscan.jotti.org/[/url], click browse and submit this file for examination: It is probably in system32\ or even Windows\ …

Safe mode. There WILL be an ADMINISTRATOR account there - you cannot delete that one.

Glad you sorted that out, and I know you managed it two years ago... :) Anyway, another method to keep in mind is Darik's Boot n Nuke - you load it to a floppy or USB flashdrive, or burn the iso. Because it makes a bootable medium from which you …

It is after that logo/loading video that graphics switches from 16 bit to 256? bit graphics driver. I could guess that there is something wrong with the latter. Try starting in Safe Mode which uses the 16bit graphics mode throughout, go into Device Manager and roll back your graphics adapter …

BlackFoot is right... your explorer did not start. Could be corrupted, could be the registry entry to start it is corrupted. So, to see if it is the former use TM to run explorer.exe . If it does not start [no icons etc show] then copy in the file from …

The external keyboard and monitor will run fine on default Windows drivers, I doubt if all the touchpad functions will... once Setup is complete you can load chipset and other device drivers as per normal. I see a cellar.. hazy light... wires, cables, bits of equipment balanced on books and …

Ah... but it happened even with the network disconnected from a computer. I'm looking at a common culprit, and you happened to drop the name of a good start. Symantec Endpoint. How often did you try a particular machine in a different location? Could it be RFI? Do these machines …

"please keep these sort of comments to the geeks lounge, where it will be more appreciated" Knew there was a reason I hadn't been to the geeks' lounge.

The problem lies with shlwapi.dll. It being a protected file you could try locating it in system32, change its name to shlwapi.dll.old. Within a few seconds WFP should copy in a new file from its cache. If this does not work, go Start, and enter in the Run space: sfc …

"I need to get all my photos of it, as some of them are really important to me as I am a photographer." What is that old computer saying...something like: If you don't have a copy of your data, then it really isn't all that important to you...? Computers have …

Explorer.exe is not behaving correctly. When explorer starts during boot, it knows only what it needs to know. If you open My Computer then explorer.exe will only then read the disk partition table, and further read partition [or drive] information like the name, size, last access etc.. So it will …

Why not check out the similar threads listed beside our post, ng? Don't set yourself back heaps by doing something as drastic as a Repair.

Test the RAM. Memtest86+. Dl the iso or USB versions, do the build [eg.. burn it] and then boot from that medium. run the test for an hour or more. One failure means bad RAM. Just cos a shop sold it doesn't mean it is in working condition.

Gee, jerry, thanks for the accolades. And the ads, too. They are sure to come in handy. Sure to. I dunno where the world would be without ads.

Mmm.. sounds like a couple of keys in registry are not set correctly, like the one that starts explorer. But a Windows Repair should have reinstated those.... Go Safe Mode, log in as the Administrator, and run hijackthis. Post the log. May I ask what the software was that you …

Sunil, when you first start your sys [press the power button], do you see BIOS running the POST at startup? After 4 or 5 seconds does the hdd lamp begin to flash? If nothing appears on your monitor except for some message that means No Signal then your first check …

Hello, mdp... it looks like there might be a little bit of hdd corruption there. Do you have an XP installation cd? You need to start the Recovery Console [load the cd, and choose Repair with RC]. Inside RC at the prompt you would enter: chkdsk /p And then try …

config.sys is NOT config\system, and the msg was about the latter.. config has system, sam, software, security and default -they are all used for startup in XP. Safety?: well yes, there are excellent levels of protection - just once in a while do a system state backup [like no-one ever …

Do you mean that you would like a reference, something like this? [url]http://www.aumha.org/a/stop.php[/url]

Aw, Terry, I'd help if I had a clue... but i don't have anything original. I guess you have checked the infamous filters in registry [I don't even understand how that fix works!].. all I can offer is that you try to kill any non-Windows process that could be using …

Quiz your ISP.. some block torrents. I don't use torrents, but perhaps there is an option to change the port number or range in your software. Move it up to a number like 20,000 or more.

A Problem... look, you are going to have to get a Recovery Console of some sort. Cannot you borrow an XP cd? No? Then perhaps you can download one of these and burn it to a cd [unzip if necessary, then burn the .iso, don't open it!]: [url]http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/tools/bootdiscs/xp_rec_con.zip[/url] [url]http://www.thecomputerparamedic.com/files/rc.iso[/url] Use …