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 | MRU. Yeah. He's all about track hiding, like for when you use your mum's computer and she opens up Photoshop and sees in Open Recent an item "HotChickSex.jpg".... Lots of apps record this info, pdf readers etc...., not just browsers. As an example, Foxit records in reg the last 50 … |
 | If you don't think you need it then simply uninstall it. And miss out on a lot of those annoying video ads in your browser. Tsk. Life exists without FlashPlayer. |
 | If you are using XP, then I would tell you to try re-registering shdocvw.dll, or maybe to dl a fresh copy from M$ updates and registering that. It appears in lots of KB$s. Do... regsvr32 shdocvw.dll in a cmd window. In W7 or Vista... I don't know, i don't have … |
 | Re: system mechanic And then, of course, there are traps for the uninformed, or unwary, which come at a price. Diagnostics software usually check device manager and driver lists. You and Device Doctor will do that for free. Speed up the net? If such programs don't install proxies and use proxy servers to …  |
 | Re: Browser Hijacker For an infection such as you describe you could run these, in this order: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic114351.html [combofix, just show the results you have already] http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/dl/125/ http://oldtimer.geekstogo.com/OTL.exe For OTL, press Scan All Users, Minimal Output, Standard Registry ALL, check both LOP and Purity boxes, leave other sections as they are. Under the … |
| | Try piping the output of a tree command to a txt file. Your dbase may not be able to cope with the non-alphanumerics, though... eg: tree G: /F > C:\filelist.txt  |
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| | No butterfly sneezes there. But Hijackthis only does a simple scan compared to more modern types... eg OTL. |
| | Malwarebytes on-demand ANTISPYWARE scanner is still free - look for it on their site. To remove AVG ANTIVIRUS go to their site and download their removal tool. AVIRA or AVAST are possibly the best, free ANTIVIRUS products atm. |
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| | Re: missing boot mgr This bit in your original post.. "on startup it says pxe-e61 media test failure,pxe-mof exiting pxe rom,thenbootmgr is missing," indicates that your laptop is trying to boot from a network, is probably corporate. No network boot available, so it says boot.mgr missing, and shuts - depending upon the firmware in … |
| | Couple of ways to do this... Rclick the AppInit_DLLS Value name, choose Modify or Modify Binary Data, sweep your cursor across the data field to highlight and choose Delete. Better still is to create this batch file and run it - it will expose hidden values in AppInit_DLLS data, and …  |
| | Threw out McAfee and put on AVG. Aw, heck. For a light and hardworking load use Avira, or Avast. Both free. Either outperform the two you mention. And it's not only the opinion expressed in the report BigPaw recommended in his link above. A lot of that committed memory you … |
| | You might try uninstalling Dragon? for a check, then reinstalling it. If not Dragon, then do a search for Common Software Manager in Program Files and uninstall the parent application. If disk space is a concern try using Mydefrag to sort the bits out. It uses the Windows defragmentation APIs, … |
| | Re: Virus, help! This link covers the simple removal process quite thoroughly: http://malwaretips.com/Thread-How-to-remove-System-Progressive-Protection-virus |
 | Use regedit to open the registry to the HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Uninstall key, highlight it. Under Edit tab, in Find type... java & ensure only the top 3 boxes are checked. Delete any entries found [the subkeys in {} ]. The pgm JavaRa should also do the job? |
| | Wendy, I think explorer grows old along with an aged installation, accumulating little niggles and aches. It so happens that those radio buttons do absolutely nothing for my explorer; luckily it's running atm how I like it. Ol folks often live in unkempt houses. |
| | "netsh int ip reset reset.log" should be... netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt |
 | Re: Specs And that is not a gaming laptop. Which are strange beasts, anyway... sure, they are portable, but unless you can plug into the AC with the adapter the graphics card falls over. Power saving. The graphics on this one are not great... but the rest is overkill for home use... … |
| | Re: asw, a virus? Would a moderator please kill the two links in the first post?.... the site is viral. Malicious. |
| | Forums. Road rage and drive-by shootings. The aggression is not naked, it's more that the aggressor is cloaked. How little it can take to provoke. Luv it.  |
| | I think you may have a problem with those 6 shell extensions GMER picked up in registry. |
 | My advice is to get a desktop. Keyboards are better [there is a choice!], screens bigger [choice again!!] without tearing your arm joints apart. There is always somewhere to leave your mouse. Mouse? Best of all, you can go outside and not feel guilty about leaving your sys behind. It's … |
| | Lately the cursor positioning has reverted to its earlier bad behaviour where it would float a position ahead of the insertion point. Now it seems to do it only when you go back over your work to correct, insert etc. Pestilential. I note, too, that multiple spaces in pasted items … |
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| | She breaks the screen, she knows who to blame. :) Rule 1. Don't look in Event Viewer unless you have a problem. Rule 2. Dclick the error to read tha actual fault [module, code....] and google it. Rule 3. Give us the detail. EV will report an error on mundane … |
| | This is where you strip the setup to absolute basics. One mem module, cpu, mb with on-board graphics, and a monitor. Next add a system hdd if it can stay on for a few minutes, try to boot. Add more mem... and so on. Finally, the vid card. |
| | Hello, Nigel. If you can only run logs/scans in Safe Mode then fine, but it is important to run them in Normal Mode if it is possible. Some malware does not load in Safe Mode, and can be hidden. For this, disable your Spybot Teatimer service. [SpybotSD TeaTimer] Start Hijackthis …  |
| | you walk with angels. when u delete you get a coded file entry in recyclers, as you know, and the file remains where it was... with shift delete that entry doesn't get made... i guess the sys was hanging on to some other path record somewhere. i don't ever want … |
| | Hello, killza. The gun anti-virus helpers are indisposed; I might be a bit of a mug, but these instructions should see you clear. You have a choice to make: you keep ONE of either AVG or McAfee. It sounds like you installed McAfee recently, in that case you must remove … |
| | Hp bloaters. I think there is some software out there that removes it. Search for it. It took me about 2 hours to clean out a HP Vista machine manually.  |
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| | That will the result of a rootkit affecting ATAPORT.SYS. ==Download TDSSkiller from this link, save it to your desktop: http://support.kaspersky.com/downloads/utils/tdsskiller.exe -you may need to download it to a clean computer and then transfer it to the desktop using a USB flash drive. =Start TDSSKiller, click Change Parameters. Under Additional options … |
| | Umphh... have you tried some softwares like, say, License Crawler? That one in particular searches through your registry for likely password hashes. It takes a while, and presents a list you have to glance through, but it does find stuff. http://www.klinzmann.name/licensecrawler.htm -pull it from Dropbox. |
| | He is possibly using a backdoor software installed via a malicious email attachment. Whatever, you should scan for such malwares and remove them. For starters, try: Download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from: http://www.majorgeeks.com/Malwarebytes_Anti-Malware_d5756.html =Dclick that file, mbam-setup.exe, to install the application, -ensure that it is set to update and start, else start … |
| | I'm no security expert, very far from it, but I am strongly of the opinion that if you connect an interesting network into the public domain then security is just a dream. Leased lines/pipes are available. If you need to have access over the web, then let it be to … |
| | Annoying... Try this: open a cmd.exe window alongside a downsized explorer window, drag an affected folder into the cmd window and: -at the end type: /s /d -press Home, and in front type: attrib -r -h ...and press Enter. Did that make the change stick to files in that folder? … |
| | Encrypt them. Or place them in the Recycle Bin. No-one ever looks in there. And if they cannot see Protected Op Sys files, they won't see them if they do. But an Admin's search finds everything. |
| | As jb posted above, if the Administrator ac has no password, then you are in.. I do hope you have permission to be using that computer. Do not know the username?! |
| | Because you dropped it while it was running, it might be hardware/software related. From safe mode try running chkdsk, either from a command prompt: chkdsk /r or from Local Disk C: properties > Tools, Error checking [tick both boxes] and performn at next start. |
| | What version IE do you have installed? |
| | Sounds like W7 has not found your network adapter. In Device Manager (Start, Run devmgmt.msc) click Scan for Hardware Changes button, then try to install the Intel driver. |
 | And then of course there is the registry... Secret squirrels use FF or Opera and their private browsing sessions. |
| | Else you can just put an image of your first Windows 7 onto that second partition [it will be keyed and activated, so no worries there], from your original W7 delete the W7 image's HKLM\System\Mounted Devices key (load/unload its system hive to do that), reconfigure the boot manager of your … |
| | Hello, Joan. "However I deleted it (IE8) from "all programs" and now it's not appearing on start up" -that's a bit heavy-handed, the problem will lie with something that is calling it, or some entry that is starting it. In XP in the Docs n Setts\You folder there is a … |
| | Rclicking the tray icon should get you the options: -Click Auto- Protect > Turn Off -Click Personal Firewall > Turn Off FF should only use about 80MB if no sites loaded? Check it in Task Man. What addons are running? |
| | Re: opengldll, Are you sure you want opengl.dll? Use opengl32.dll. Anyway, bot are available from dll-files.com. Download the zip archive, unzip it and copy the dll into system32. Then run: regsvr32 opengl32.dll from Start> Run box or from a cmd prompt. |
| | No error in your Windows - that is how cmd works. It remembers the last path in any drive. If from c: you enter e: you are not giving it any real directory to go to, so if you have not previously [in this cmd session] been to the e: …  |
| | This...http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2372?viewlocale=en_US... didn't help? |
| | Windows 8 is available for download as a release preview upgrade for people wishing to familiarise themselves, and test. Point: why should I get W8? I am using XP and yes, I know support falls over in two years, but I am very happy with what it does... it fills … |
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