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 | Maybe the cat weeed on it while you weren't watching. Swirl it in very warm water with dishwashing detergent, rinse well with clean water, shake and let dry. The multiple characters come because all "switches" in the keyboard are interconnected in a matrix. Caper is correct. Do not use soaps. |
| | Hi... a few points: Visit the Symantec website for the removal tool for the version of their AV that you used before adopting Lenovo's solution. Your Java is not updated. Use hijackthis to remove this entry: O20 - Winlogon Notify: ACNotify - ACNotify.dll (file missing) No problems are evident on … |
| | Would you mind listing all the drives of any sort [including your hdd partitions] that you have along with their drive letters, please? Include cd/dvd, zip... |
| | Re: Anyone seen this Is it the crashed flying saucer that bothers you, or the M$ fine possibility for being a foreign monopolist hegemonist capitalist? For a country that pays scant lip service to international patent law, that is a bit rich.. So you wish to sell modified software there?.. they will welcome you … |
| | Brianan, mostly I don't hop forums.. atm I am playing in the other one, but chased you over here.... you would be able to delete that file from Safe Mode, unless they were very cunning.... but in any event this is a very handy tool: ==This one is a general … |
 | Hello, jado, this should help: Start hijackthis, select Scan Only, place checkmarks against all the entries listed below that still exist, and then press Fix Checked. R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer,SearchURL = [url]http://internetsearchservice.com[/url] R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer,SearchURL = [url]http://internetsearchservice.com[/url] R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Search_URL = [url]http://internetsearchservice.com[/url] R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = … |
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| | The only way you will be able to "save" pgms from your old 160 if you boot with the 500 is if you have the installer files.... but you can get all your data. The 7B error comes because driver files on the 160 are incompatible with your new hardware.. …  |
| | Re: game wont load Your HalfLife 2 is DVD... and it sounds like your drive does not accept dvd's. Can be an age thing, if it originally was meant to. |
| | Nice load you are carrying there, cap. Now do this re MBAM [perhaps you already did this step, because some of the reported items should show in the HJT log, and do not, some should have been caught, and were not...; anyway, if you did, skip this step]: Select "Perform … |
| | Because of the particular msg you receive you should use the 2000 Recovery Console to run... fixmbr If that does not solve the issue then use .. fixboot |
 | Midi, WD dows not get great reviews for detection/removal efficiency. As for the S problem.... get something better? I used to use AVG but the new, combined AVG8 I did not much like, so I switched to Avast. It is a combined AV, AS, has an ignore list. I don't …  |
| | Re: Riskware/invader Do you have HP's multifunction printer? Then the file c:\windows\system32\HPZinw12.exe is okay, a driver. Get Kaspersky to ignore it. |
| | Annoying. I had that with trying to update after a forced repair when I had to change some hardware. Search for and delete anything with "jre" or "java"in it, then dl the offline installer. [url]http://javadl.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=23111[/url] |
| | Hello, Erin... I would not go on the web without a firewall of some description; I cannot tell if you have Windows Firewall activated. I use ZoneAlarm, and it is not a sys hog for me, in fact vsmon.exe hardly ever stirs as far as processor time goes. May I … |
| | Skip the reg file idea.... the Start, All Pgms menu is part of Explorer. The content of that list comes from the sum of All Users and "Your" shortcuts [or links] included in the folders under Docs &Settings\User\Start Menu\Programs. So just rclick your file and create a shortcut, name it … |
| | Re: pc problem Ram, try opening the drive from Start, Run, enter the drive letter, eg C: Check that there is no autorun.inf file in the root; if there is, delete it.  |
| | Try uninstalling MySide Searchbar Assistant via CP > Add/Rmv Pgms, Brianan. Then start hijackthis, select Scan Only, place checkmarks against all the entries listed below that still exist, and then press Fix Checked. O2 - BHO: mysidesearch search enhancer - {ae6c19eb-981d-8a4f-57fd-ef9896f5cb6b} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\dxzenhbjqqwnrvrar.dll Delete this file if it still exists: … |
| | Unlike rdisk which counts physical disk units from zero and up, the Partitions number from one and up. So Partition(1) is the first partition in the physical order on the disk(0), and it is the partition that boot.ini is directing ntldr to in order to load the OS. \WINDOWS is … |
| | Windows break, so does Windows. It can happen that errors slowly creep in until they reach a critical point where they suddenly interfere destructively. My installation first started showing problems with [system] Search whereupon it could only be used from IE, not Explorer; then it just failed totally and I … |
| | Log is clean, though. You seem to have two XP installations in the same partition...? |
| | The rclick context menu.. well, umm... it is contextual, that is, its contents relate to the object you have rclicked. Its contents also relate to what you have set for inclusion in the menus. The highlighted explore, open or search entry comes from the settings you have made in Folder … |
| | Re: Outlook express Simply copy them over. Do a search for your old .dbx files, they are possibly under your Docs & Settings. -if you have no new emails in your current OE simply copy in the old mail .dbx files, overwriting the new. -if you do have new emails you wish to … |
| | Check in Disk Mgmnt that your system drive is marked Active. |
| | Re: Problems Hello, waterfrom, that is a clean log, as I would expect after your running all those tests. I suspect your sys instability is caused by hardware or driver problems. The quickest to check is your RAM module... turn the power OFF and try reseating it, or moving to another slot. … |
 | Looks okay, except that I do not know this one: O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Recorder.exe] [INSTALLDIR]Recorder.exe ...check the file's properties if you don't know it. |
| | Very possibly one of your files is corrupted in some way, and explorer is having a time creating a thumbnail. What happens if you change the view to say, Details? WMP also gets into the act somehow... I think.. and do not know... that it is it that creates the … |
| | "removed a hard drive & changed sata connections" - my understanding is that Sata controllers order the drives according to the number of the plug you connect them to. That's it, no drama there. That will be the order you see them in BIOS. "both drives should have same inf." … |
| | hello, anthony... ==download hijackthis: [url]http://www.majorgeeks.com/download5554.html[/url] -copy it to a new FOLDER placed either alongside your program files or on your desktop and then... rename hijackthis.exe to imabunny.exe -in that folder start HijackThis by dclicking the .exe; now close ALL other applications and any open windows including the explorer window containing … |
| | Sigh... it shouldn't matter if they are used CDRWs. And I think she means new disks of the same make. |
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| | ....and then there is the straightforward way. Go Start, rclick in the header or tail, click Properties >start menu > customise > advanced, and check run command. It's actually a neat lil spot if u use the Start menu much..... |
| | Enrish, all you require to do a Windows Repair is an OEM installation cd of the same update status as your sys, eg XP SP2 Home, and you can just borrow one. Input your own Product Key though. Being an OEM machine, that will be on the sticker on the … |
| | Hello, Colin... naturally enough, there is lots of software out there that will do just what you want. It's where our society is at. Mostly, though, it is not freeware because it is more levelled at businesses. But you know, I'd just rather you involved him more in other parts …  |
| | Aggie, this is the option you must select.. it opens to a choice to use Windows Repair: 1. "To set up Windows XP now, Press ENTER" This advice: .....Now type : net user AdminName * and press enter. ..has not worked since SP1 was released. It blocked some holes like … |
| | Hang amo. Just stepping thru your videos. I cannot see your IDE? drive shown as detected? |
| | Check this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE \Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer Create a Name, a DWord=NoDrives Assign a value = 0 |
 | Well, M$ update site has it... it is the "professional installation" option, the filename is: WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe from.. [url]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5A&displaylang=en[/url] Copy that to your USB pen and run it from there like any self-installing file. |
 | Forget about trawling through registry for that... in IE go to Tools > Internet options > Content > AutoComplete, and hit " Clear forms ". |
 | PCI Controller is a function of the North bridge, would thus be Intel, and the driver would be in the chipset driver cd supplied with the motherboard. The Intel driver site for your mb should have the latest version, though. [url]http://downloadfinder.intel.com[/url] Or put "Intel PCI simple communications controller" into your … |
| | Bill, this is your problem: O23 - Service: perfmons Service (perfmons) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\perfs.exe ==Go Start, run, type services.msc -and press Enter. Maximise the window and at foot select Extended tab, scroll to the specific service, rclick it, select properties. Write down the exact Service Name. Press Stop … |
| | It is on tv, tv is off. |
| | Nothing... it's working. :) Just think, if you didn have a firewall, were running XP with no updates.. some of those might have gotten thru. I updated on 9th July, it has clocked 12,000 attempts. The web is loaded with systems which patrol constantly looking for unguarded, open ports. |
| | With IE6 I have found it depends on the webpage... authors can write the code to open pages in the same or a new page. But you can force it by rclicking a link and making your choice. I don't know of an IE setting, but then again, I only … |
| | Firstly, George, remove one [your choice] of those resident AV services... one is alll you should be running cos of conflicts. Next, go Start, Run, type cmd, and OK it, paste this into the window at the prompt, and press Enter: attrib -h C:\Windows /s /d -and close the window. … |
| | Re: Greetings All! sittas, that product key in I386 is a generic one that allows installation, but must be changed for a legit one to register? It's almost laughable if you do a net search for a key that will at least allow you to play with an unregistered copy for 30 days. … |
| | Doing that is messy.... it involves the partitioning pgm moving a lot of files from the beginning of the F: partition to 10GB further back. That happens slowly. And seems to be a bit error prone. Another way is to shrink F:, make a third partition and copy all F: … |
| | Re: Replaced file Rarely for us mortals. Very likely the replacing file was written into the location of the original [simply expressed...]. But you can try. Get REST2514 ... dl it onto a floppy or thumb, and run it from that. Your file if it appears at all will have a dummy name. |
| | Actual files should still be recoverable, unless overwritten. Did you try recovery software? Some will even restore the profile itself.... but for files you could try REST2514.exe. Dl it with another sys and run it from a floppy or thumbdrive, it does not install so no risk of overwriting there. … |
| | Re: No left clicking Anne, this should do the trick. I have included some links as a way of acknowledging the author of the fix. Home - [url]http://www.dougknox.com/[/url] Links - [url]http://www.dougknox.com/xp/xp_fixes.html[/url] The link - [url]http://www.dougknox.com/xp/fileassoc/linkfile_fix.zip[/url] ==Please copy the text in the box to a notepad [format/wordwrap unchecked] and save as fixkey.reg, as type "all … |
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