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 | A quick search with that error number shows that you likely have a memory problem. With power off first try reseating the sticks, and then restarting. If that has no effect then if you have multiple sticks try removing one or the other. A lot of good memory brands carry … |
| | Try googling "i386\asms". You are not robinson crusoe... :) Anyway, just hit Ok and see if Setup runs on. |
| | Expensive. It should be good. Free are Restoration.exe and Recuva. The first can run from a floppy disk or flashdrive which saves you installing and possibly overwriting some data. Download them to another machine [using a browser writes a lot of data to a hdd].  |
| | Addressing the streaming issue only, there are free softwares that will download the selected video for you [from utube etc] and allow you to save the file to watch without breaks. I think Firefox has a plugin to do just that? Me? I just note the time the dl ends … |
| | It will be a value that has been added under these two keys that is blocking the Folder Options listing: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer The value is NoFolderOptions; rclick on that value and choose delete in both keys. It may have been introduced by malware... an MBAM [gurgle it] scan will solve …  |
| | I am not sure a good cable should have that effect. Some motherboards assign different properties to their different SATA ports.... but network drive?? You don't have to leave it as a logical drive.... a primary drive or two on a disk can be a handy thing. |
 | Re: Norton Antivirus Cookies are benign; on their own they can do nothing, they record a few details only for the site mentioned in their name to shortcut procedures, direct preferences. It disappoints me that an AV scan even bothers to mention them. But, as Judy suggested, modify your browser settings to accept …  |
| | Oh dear. All that for just $60... bargain. Quoting from the HDDRegenerator site: "Bad sectors are a part of the disk surface which contains not readable.. information. As a result .. you may have difficulties to read and copy data from your disk, your operating system becomes unstable and finally …  |
 | Wireshark. Every byte. Every connection. Every IP. |
| | If you choose to reinstall Windows WITHOUT ANY SORT OF FORMAT of the selected drive/partition then theoretically you should not lose any personal files, data. Or you could do this [and it is easy]: get Easeus Partition Manager [free], use it to make room by shoving the inside edge [right …  |
| | Bayan, did you try the second fix I suggested? |
| | Re: Identifying SID If it was a real one instead of {9DBEDA52-BB0A-DA11-07E5-3B2BEE030000} you would just gurgle it. But because CLSIDs are basically [registered] tags the kit probably set a matching one in your \software\classes\CLSID from which to hook some data that it wanted. |
| | Anti malware programs often remove the malware itself but do not repair all the damage. Your file associations have been damaged : get the exe fix from here: [url]http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm[/url] |
| | 500GB is certainly not too large. There are no drivers as such, the ATA interface handles all comms. Now... er... it's a while since i actually held a PATA drive in my hands, so i may be a little off-beam here... When you inserted the new PATA, and started the … |
| | A bit of fun.. :) True, it does not have to be a picture, any file will do. You can, for example, hide a compressed txt file in another txt file: copy /b viztext.txt+hiddentext.rar -the second is appended to the first. But on opening viztext.txt you will see the RAR … |
 | I'd let Windows have a 50MB pagefile, fix it at that via the task. A 6GB hdd? Windows, fully updated and with drivers loaded, is going to want roughly 5.5GB of that. Another browser and things start to get tight. IS the sys running well? No idiosyncracies? Then open the …  |
| | A PCI sound card? You cannot reassign IRQs to resolve 'conflicts' in XP... it dynamically assigns them; sharing should not be a problem. [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314068[/url] You might attempt forcing XP to use resources that BIOS assigns to PCI... do this by editing boot.ini to include the parameter /pcilock in the OS … |
| | It seems that your sound device is actually working, at least to the extent that the system can recognise it, and know that the driver is incorrect, or corrupt. These chaps are good: [url]http://members.driverguide.com/[/url] Just paste into Search your C-Media AC97 Audio Device, or [better..] choose Sound Card and follow …  |
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| | Notwithstanding all that has gone before, if your hiberfil.sys is working correctly the number of disks, drives, partitions etc is irrelevant, hiberfil.sys merely creates a file reflecting the contents of your memory at the time of commencing the shutdown process. Turning hibernation off will clear the hiberfile from the C: … |
| | Re: Password Problem People have no idea how useful a pen n paper can be, it would seem. Crikey a pc pw is not guarding Fort Knox. Only your lil brother would want to get in. Err.. there is still gold in Fort Knox, I take it...? Anyway, I hope you have not … |
| | Re: Managing malware MBAM will remove them both, completely. It's the best way, they both spread themselves widely thru your sys/registry; forget manual removal. You loaded some doubtful app which had them as an accompaniment - you did not read the license conditions, if any. |
| | Ummm... possibly not.... if it was, BIOS just would not list it. As a next step I would check for BIOS corruption - power down your sys at the wall, remove the CMOS battery for five/ten minutes, reinsert and try to boot again. another option is to read your mb … |
 | Depending on timings of your actions, using SR would have rolled back your drivers to what partially worked before, but did not again. Hmmm. What happens with Safe Mode? A bit of info would be handy, your mb model and vid card model [ATI GFX doesn't really cut it]. |
| | These two keys are read before winlogon starts. To learn how to use them you can read up on M$ support or technet about service order loading and control, and the Session Mgr. 1. BootExecute HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager 2. Services HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services It's a pretty sensitive time in the order of things; … |
| | The reference is probably to address line mapping, so expect trouble with memory sticks, you might hope, but more likely the cpu. If your BIOS allows it, use expanded bios reporting options so that it at least does a quick check of memory addressing. And try memtest86+ .... gurgle for … |
| | Hello, Van. Is the file regedit.exe in your Windows folder? If so, does dclicking it open regedit? And is the file reg.exe in system32? |
| | Avast has a gaming mode. Are you using that? It's the job of an AV to examine every new or changed file that is loaded to mem, or downloaded... As far as Avast and ZA conflicting, the linked post above is TEN years old!! One would hope that two majors … |
| | Is this the same drive that a week ago you reported would not recognise cds? A lot of suggestions were posted there, but you did not bother replying to the thread. |
| | Could we have a look at this? "Start Windows, then go CP > System > Advanced tab, Startup n Recovery Settings button. Click the Edit button. A notepad should pop with your boot.ini file. You can post it here for our guidance on editing it. [Just occasionally, during installation Setup … |
| | Crunchie had a brainstorm... he'll be okay again in a while.. :) He meant the boot.ini file, not the mbr. Start Windows, then go CP > System > advanced tab, Startup n Recovery Settings button. Click the Edit button. A notepad should pop with your boot.ini file. You can post … |
| | Isn't this new "Google paradigm" sweet? You are now actually able to clock up some sleep, Jude. |
| | Hi. It's not a good idea at all to attempt to install an AV service on an infected computer... its files may get damaged before it has a chance to protect itself. You need to attempt a couple of online scans first... eSet, Kaspersky etc. If you cannot get online … |
| | I don't bother with oc, just read about it; that does seem like a large oc, though, from the standard 2.7GHz? Try backing that off [that's the first rule on a badly performing oc job, isn't it?]. Does it game ok? Check your memory with Memtest86+ [the bluescreens suggest a … |
| | Would it be sufficient to code in explorer.exe opening Network Connections window via its CLSID? /n as an explorer parameter would open a new instance of it... |
 | It sounds as if your mail server is not a good one; I guess it is not your ISP? You should not be receiving timeouts if it is your ISP, if a third party mail server then who knows...? It may be busy, your connection slow, it may just not … |
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| | It's a tough job, Lily, doing that advertising. Imagine having to trawl back to 2009 for threads. I bet you've found more recent ones, though. |
| | Your Norton contract expiring should not be the cause of that [AV cos aren't that mean...], but I could guess that you got hit by some malware. When you get your sys started to that screen, press Ctrl-Shift-Esc. In TM under processes is explorer.exe present? If not, use File, New …  |
| | I have the latest version of CCleaner [as on the link caper posted, .1457]; it cleans at least as well as earlier versions, is free, is still configurable. Mine I configure to clean Java caches etc., and other temp files that I have moved. |
| | Just guessing.... fans run for a reason.... is it possible that your CPU's heatsink is not well seated? Booting/loading an OS is moderately CPU intensive; your breaking the procedure by letting it cool after running BIOS and before loading Windows could be explained by this; shutting down also gets the … |
| | Re: Password My turn. First, to test the keyboard and driver... If you are not the only user will the up/down arrow keys move the cursor at logon from one user to the next? Try to enter BIOS Setup - can you, and does the system respond to the keyboard here? If … |
| | System tray [or notifications area] is used mainly for ... yep.. notifications. So new mail events pop an icon there, your AV icon shows you it is doing stuff, a temperature monitor software may report there, some icons there allow configurations. Do as Caper suggests, drop it into the QuickLaunch … |
| | I'm sorry, i must correct a post here. A change to such a HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive key entry will only affect that particular user profile, whether an Admin or not. HKLM keys may be subordinated/replaced by HKCU keys/values if the latter exist. HKCU keys/values are loaded from the particular hive of … |
| | Dredge HP site for a software update. Not much else can be done if a default is fixed. |
 | The Actionic router communicates wirelessly just fine with the printer downstairs, and the Tosh lappy when it is upstairs, but not downstairs. Tosh is the problem. Cabling, plumbing will have no effect whatsoever on the signal strength. Carry the lappy about and see where the signal dies. Just back a … |
| | Your firewall, AV or cleaning softwares likely have tools inside their Options tab to do just that job for you. |
| | msvcr71.dll is a pretty common file, included with a lot of third party softwares. Should be a copy in Pgm Files\Java, for a start. Also Ms .NET. If you do not wish to trust dll-files.com [I would; your AV will automatically scan it upon dl], then dl Java and copy … |
 | Hello, Somjit. You posted "...then back it up, n do a reformat n a fresh install.. i think my computer is infested with a lot of malware so i was thinking of this reformat." Yes, there is a lot of malware, including a bootkit, a rootkit and Sality virus, and … |
| | Safi, the default is the boot.ini of Setup, the one it makes for itself when it is organising its restart. That the default option fails with cd inserted means some of its files already copied are corrupt; don't run Setup from an existing Windows installation... anyway, to fix your boot.ini … |
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