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I would like to thank you too, EF.

I had a lot of free time while my computer was in malware assistance (waiting for it to come back up so I could start USING it again), so I spent some time looking at your blog site and saw that you are also involved in malware assistance at other sites, so i know that you are quite busy in what can only be a labor of love.

I truly appreciate the help.

I agree with the need to restructure the forum. Option #1 looks the best. Allan has some good ideas too, but something to keep the security questions separated from the malware help is good. News might go as a temporary sticky at the top of the general questions section.I voted #1 like everyone else.  Heh.  As for a news section, I personally don't see much need for it.  Malware news rarely gets posted as it is, so I don't think it would see much use.  If used regularly, I expect it would probably just be full of threat warnings and whatnot, which usually tend to make people unnecessarily paranoid.  I'm not against a news section, but I'm also not for it.  As long as we get the proposed child boards, I'll be happy.Right. I think the real important security news is limited to things like ADVANCES in the methods of malware production and detection/removal, major changes in anti-malware software, seminar results, annual detection score ratings, law-enforcement alerts, and articles by experts.Okay, just so you guys understand, here is an excerpt of topics from the last 5 days from our SECURITY NEWS sub forum. Again, this is only FIVE days worth. I'm posting this so you can see that if you choose to post security news, there's enough to keep a sub-forum busy.


   
Pinned:
Security Products Update
 
   

Adobe Releases Out-of-Band Patch for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 
   
Everything you wanted to know about Xbox hacking 
   
Zero Day Vulnerability in Firefox 

Microsoft readies new rootkit detection tool in light of Windows XP patching PROBLEM 
   
17 YEAR old Windows vulnerability shows that it's time to drop legacy support! 
   
Researcher spies new Adobe code execution bug 
   
SUPERAntiSpyware v4.34.1000 released 
   
Microsoft Security Essentials V1.0.1611.0 released 

Mozilla patches critical Firefox bugs 

Google fixes Buzz bug
     
Hackers update rootkit causing Windows blue screens 

Malicious PDF files comprised 80 percent of all exploits for 2009 
   
Keeping an Eye on the EYEBOT and a Possible Bot War 

Security updates available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 

Google Buzz bug exposes user geo location 

New Report Examines Malware's Origins, Motivations 

Kaspersky Patents Hardware Antivirus Approach
 
   
    Quote from: Allan on February 22, 2010, 07:43:23 AM

Okay, just so you guys understand, here is an excerpt of topics from the last 5 days from our SECURITY NEWS sub forum. Again, this is only FIVE days worth. I'm posting this so you can see that if you choose to post security news, there's enough to keep a sub-forum busy.

Can you provide a link for that zero-day firefox topic?

But it is broken as it is now...

Go Start>Run, type in:
regedit
Click OK.

In registry editor navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
In right pane, you'll see MenuShowDelay entry.
Right click on it, click Modify and change the value from existing 200 to 0 (zero).

Restart computer and try Add\Remove again.just the same broniGo Start>Run, type in:
APPWIZ.CPL
Click OK.

Will Add\Remove open? Quote from: BRONI on March 05, 2010, 03:47:59 PM

Go Start>Run, type in:
regedit
Click OK.

In registry editor navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
In right pane, you'll see MenuShowDelay entry.
Right click on it, click Modify and change the value from existing 200 to 0 (zero).

Restart computer and try Add\Remove again.

black... black... black!!!! (The Fast Show)did you go its beside my profileYes; looks good; I've BOOKMARKED it. When I said the other site was very black, I was being SARCASTIC, could you tell?
Quote from: Salmon Trout on April 20, 2010, 02:05:03 PM

Yes; looks good; I've bookmarked it. When I said the other site was very black, I was being sarcastic, could you tell?

o'yes , sarcasim is my forty

Harry, are you only forty?
Thought you were 48! 

i think i spelt it wrong it's fort'e

forte

o'right i thought it was a french word

   1.  Something in which a person excels.
   2. The strong part of a sword blade, between the middle and the hilt.

[French fort, from Old French, strong, from Latin fortis. See fort.]

USAGE NOTE   The word forte,  coming from French fort, should properly be pronounced with one syllable, like the English word fort. Common usage, however, prefers the two-syllable pronunciation, (fôr'tā'), which has been influenced possibly by the music term forte borrowed from Italian. Speakers who are aware of the origin of the word may wish to continue to pronounce it as one syllable but at a risk of puzzling their listeners.

It was

Well although harmless would LIKE to find it and remove it if at all possible. UNFORTUNATELY I still have yet been able to duplicate the error in IE on XP. I'll keep at it trying to find it. Unfortunately though being that elusive for me to duplicate it may be DIFFICULT to resolve.ok it doe's not bother me and its WORKING fine thought i would mention it

Quote from: soybean on March 17, 2010, 01:30:25 PM

Actually, if I had a 24" monitor, I think I might no longer see much need for dual monitors.  I've never used a monitor that large but I would think that size screen has enough space to have two windows open side-by-side and achieve somewhat the same advantage as two smaller monitors, especially if those two monitors are 17".

Desktop: 19" 1440x900 LCD
laptop(TOSHIBA L300): 15.4" 1280x800
older laptops- 800x600(passive matrix (=washed out) and 640x480(active matrix)

I can't imagine programming on a 640x480. The scrollwork would be nuts..

i use the projector when i get to our villa .in the night and it is
 very cool

What does this do ? ?

stop sendin me this please??!?!?!?!

I downloaded and installed a NEW driver, which SEEMS to have done the trick. However, the freezing problem is still present. It seems to happen more frequently when I use Limewire, but it still happens when not using it, furthering my suspicions of an internet CONNECTION conflict.Do you think I COULD have made an internet connection incorrectly, how do you remove a connection so I can start fresh?

should a keyboard cover be used? Quote from: 2x3i5x on July 02, 2010, 11:31:48 AM

should a keyboard cover be used?

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Personally, I don't AGREE with the TERM "WINDOWS variant" - Windows is the OS, there is no variants and what-not.

I put the password on 3 X 5 index card along with the subject name.
I file these in a Alphabetic  tabbed card box by subject.
Those that I use often are copied to a SHEET of paper made readily available
Frank CI only have about 14 passwords I recycle...5 of them much more frequently than the others.
Of these 14, only 2 of them are of any noticeable LENGTH, and those 2 don't differ by much.
So keeping them all in my head isn't too difficult...the only problem comes when I try to access an account I have not used very many times.

I find that old wep keys are rather useful to tack onto passwords in a pinch.  HI GUYS!    Listen, try "KeyPass" for storing all your passwords and also your 'gizmo' keys and serial numbers as well.     It is a real great little program this is!      

OK, If you have a lot of passwords it will take a little time to properly SET up, but once you have caught up, it is simple to keep on top of!   

I wouldn't be without id fellas!      Well with the end of the MONTH it looks like the majority of those who voted chose the option that they always use the same password. As I'm sure most realize using the same password is definitely a security risk, if you voted for this option at the very least I'd recommend considering using at least two passwords. One for sites you're not that concerned about and a more secure password for sites like your banking and e-mail.

The AUGUST monthly poll has been posted. Feel free to put in your vote about what type of mouse you use with your computer.

i Dont keep a password Quote from: johngetter on August 02, 2010, 12:22:49 PM

i Dont keep a password

I used to have Verizon DSL, but switched to Comcast Cable several weeks ago. It may not be the fastest connection, but it sure is faster than DSL.

In the poll, four people voted for 100+ Mbs, but nothing was posted about actual speeds.  I am curious if those speeds were real, or some one misunderstood the question, or just voted that way as a joke.

Yes, good question. 100+ ,how's it possible.? ...

DOCSIS 3.0
Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS)

Thanks, C-C , so it is available somewhere, some place...

For Comcast, that's somewhat slow on the download, pretty good on the upload.
Try their "direct test":  http://speedtest.comcast.net/
I have the lowest speed tier.

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these COMMANDS doesnt work for me [highlight]i EVEN tried to format the drive and changing to NTFS but that too didnt work[/highlight]

Why not just use this: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool?

It takes your Windows .iso FILE and creates a bootable USB drive from it automatically

Unwanted guest...



PATIO.  8-)Nice ONE, patio!NASTY little pest...



patio.  8-)

Dilbert ...... Thanks for making the REVISION ..........
I just noticed Calums note ........ good eyes..... Calum.


dl65  Thanks.
I just clicked the link to see what was on it and it was a 404, so I went back to the main page and found the right one.
Just THOUGHT PEOPLE should have the right link available in case it becomes necessary as most people probably wouldn't have the time or inclination to start poking around trying to find the right page, they'd just give up. Quote

Edited. Thanks, Calum.

I just realized... I edited Admin's post... I will soon catch plague...

Still, I am sure Microsoft MONITORS eBay. Or HIRES somebody to monitor it.

I thought the movie was okay. Not great, just okay. I LIKE Facebook. I know it gets trashed a lot by critics but people still keep using it. As with any thing in the virtual world, you have to be careful what info you put in there. I believe the social networks are a permanent part of our life and will only continue to grow. Quote from: BC_Programmer on November 11, 2010, 05:51:25 AM

And the biggest thing I can't stand about Facebook and the entire concept of Social Networking?

It's a gigantic waste of time. So many people spend HOURS on the bloody thing each day- and why? What do they get in return? This is what confuses me, as I just noted, those hours spent on facebook tweaking your profile and playing the various facebook games and so forth essentially constitutes free content for the site to put ads on. That's pretty much all facebook is, really; and this is shared by many social networking sites. You can't just have pages filled with ads, you need some content. It's a free content generator. for them to frame with ads. (which even in the last bit while I had a FB account was getting worse).

Before I even joined facebook, I was under the impression that all social networking was effectively pointless. After using it, my opinion has only been further enhanced in that sense.  What I see as pointless, is social networking for the sake of social networking. That is what facebook is.

Take.... oh I don't know- Flickr. Flickr is about photos (See, already has +1 on facebook, since it's not pointless); but, you can establish relationships with other users of the site, who are described as "Contacts" (see, avoids the f-word!). The positive of this is that you can have a single view where you can see photos recently uploaded by your contacts. You can also choose to determine individual Contacts as being "Friends" or "Family" (to be fair, I think facebook has something to this affect, but I can't remember) you can then share individual photos and albums with no one, with everyone, just with your Contacts, or just with Friends and/or Family. The distinction between Contacts, Friends, and Family is very helpful, I think—it gives you a much more sophisticated level of control over your privacy. On Facebook, someone is a Friend, or they're not. There's no in-between. (again, my info might be out-dated on that).

Clearly though, my point here is that Flickr has a Central goal; to share photos. The Social networking stuff is extra; you can choose to engage in it or not. Facebook, on the other hand- what's the point of it? Some have told me it's so you can "reconnect with people you've lost touch with" And to a degree I can understand that. But the thing is you add them as a friend, they are all "OMG it's been so long" etc you have a short conversation, and that's it. maybe every few months you exchange a few words, and you realize that the reason you lost touch was because your interests had forked away from each other, or something along those lines. (this is taken from personal experience, YMMV of course). Basically, the whole "reconnect with people you've lost touch with" is an admirable goal until you realize that obviously you lost touch with them for a reason; if it was really important to have kept in touch, you would have. It's not like exchanging E-mails or IMs or something are  that difficult. In any case, Facebook's real purpose is- of course, Social networking. I find it comical that Facebook, despite the fact that it's sole purpose is to aid your relationships with people, doesn't even have the same "relationship MANAGEMENT" that Flickr has (again, info may be outdated), where the social networking is (or was) secondary.

Farmville=harvest moon, for example.
And... that is simply sad. Although I know plenty of other people who seem to have this "addicted to facebook thing"... personally I've never understood what there is to get addicted to.

You would if you had friends and not a lot of time to waste. 

Social Networking is like a niche in an open field.

As far as the film goes, I did watch it and quite enjoyed it. I think the reason I thought it was OK was because I left the idea that it was a true story at the door and just watched it as a film about some guy's starting a website and the internal struggle... to be fair I never really thought about the website itself throughout the film unless it was specifically referenced.

I do love Google though,

You should read  "Masters of Doom" it's very similar in many ways; there is a lot of internal tension among the employees, and so forth. words can't really do it justice. I've read it three times now.

CompTIA A + ...you'll be done in 3o minutes... Quote from: DaveLembke on April 24, 2015, 12:28:31 PM

Congrats ... the more the better. Do you have an employer who is covering any of the costs or are you paying all out of pocket for these?

The few that i have I was able to get my employer to pay my way which was sweet. I would have gotten more if they would have paid for more, but they only had a choice few that they wanted me to get. I really wanted the Cisco certs etc.

CompTIA A + ...you'll be done in 3o minutes...

Hi, All!

Please forgive me for taking so long to inform you of the final outcome.

A FRIEND of ours had the same software (WorksSuite 2000).

We BORROWED her CD's and everything loaded fine.  Cd #4 was definitely damaged or something.

I made the original person a backup of the cd's.

Thanks for all who RESPONDED!!

LATER,

Bob

Can anyone tell me how to back up FILES from my HARD drive to a dvd.  I THOUGHT I might take advantage of the hugh amount of memory.question have you got a dvd writer? i would SAVE my data on another hard drive RATHER than a dvd?

yea.. IVE been looking for this answer for quite some time..

hope ANYONE can help me...
question:
why does computer hang when i start to dial-up
using an ISP?

details:
I've even tried telnet.. all that good stuff.. its not
just my ISP.. its like windows doesnt LET it continue
after i dial.. it just hangs.. problem??
i have xp pro... when using 98se before.. it never did that...
but with xp.. it seems to do it constantly....

help?

email: [email protected]update modem driver winxp is more fuzzy than win98seyea.. tried.. same thing...

Hi,

I need to ADD a path to environment variable. However, it appears not to pick up on the new path.

The path should be,
%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adaptec Shared\System;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\BINN;C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322

But it only SHOWS up
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adaptec Shared\System;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\BINN

The additional variable is
C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322

But it does not show up that added line when I run SET in the command window.

What am I doing WRONG? How can I fix it?

Thanks.

F.does this throw more light on it>http://supportweb.cs.bham.ac.uk/documentation/tutorials/docsystem/build/tutorials/winenvars/winenvars.htm   or this >http://www.winguides.com/article.php?id=1&guide=registry

Actually, I don't know if this should be here or under INTERNET Explorer. Since it's in Windows, guess I'll try here.

For some reason, the format has changed in my Temp Internet Files folder. It used to SHOW all the usual icons for cookies, pages visited, etc. Now, all I get is a kind of grayed-out icon for desktop and a folder titled Content IE5 (I recently changed to IE6, by the way).

When I open the Content IE5 folder (from TIF or through Windows Explorer), it shows 8 folders, and all of them are empty. It also has the the index.dat icon, and the same grayed-out desktop icon as in the MAIN TIF folder. Can anyone shed some light on this and how to restore the folder to the way it used to be?
what o/s is it normally a grayed out folder means that it was hidden?i would SCAN for virus/worm etc ?also maybe the upgrade to ie6 has cause this?

what was the error message?and windows moves the drive letters?and MAYBE c drive is d or e now. link >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q307028  have you considered this>http://www.boot-us.com/screensh.htmlook here>http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/Print926.htm if you need a fresh boot disk it can be found at www.bootdisks.com or you could try taking the hard/drive from your laptop CONNECT it to your pc as a salve and format it there if this is easier?After you install a new harddrive, the next step is the fdisk where you set up the partition (s).  The instructions to the COMPUTER which are on the startup disk, is placed in ramdrive.  The ramdrive drive is TEMPORARY and will disappear when the computer is shutdown.  But each time you use the startup floppy to start the computer, the ramdrive is setup. Most of the time it sets up as drive "d". Sometimes it sets up a drive "c".  When it calls itself drive "c", it will not let you format drive "c" as the primary drive.  What I did was to go back to fdisk, displayed the PARTITIONS (I usually assign 100% of drive to primary logical partition) to see what happened there. After I see that there is only one partition there, I exit fdisk.  Then without rebooting, at "A" prompt I format "c".  You have to format "c" before you can install the OS.  I'm having the same problem only this time i'm installing a second hard drive and the BIOS detects it but when i use fdisk to set partitions and drives it says "UNABLE to access drive 1" I have a WD caviar 40GB 7200RPM set as master and MAXTOR 20GB set as slave please help!!!!What type of OS do you install?
All the logical patitions are NTFS?
Note that "Fdisk cannot read NTFS".
Try to use other Disk Utility Such as Disk manager to check.
 
Try to install new HDD on the other IDE Connector.

When performing a SCAN Disk (on drive C) and a defrag (also on drive C), they restart numerous TIMES during the process due to some type of program running in the background.  Any IDEAS on how to find out what is running and how to stop this from occuring?

I run WINDOWS ME and use NORTON anti-virus 2004, Adaware, Registry Mechanic, and CWShredder.type msconfig in the run box and chose selective start-up and also CHECK that the screensaver is not running when defragging..Boot into Safe-Mode (F8 key when booting before the windows splash screen) and run the utilities from there

Every time I run my anti-virus PROGRAM (NORTON 2004) or Adaware, there always seems to be more files than before, much more, even when I do no adding of files myself.  Any ideas of what is happening?

I run WINDOWS ME

Also use: NORTON ANTIVIRUS 2004
-Adaware
-Registry Mechanic
-CWShredder

Thanks in advance for you help.norton may cause this by live updates..and add files to the recuse disk?DOWNLOAD and run spysweeper from www.webroot.com to CHECK for programs that could also cause this?

snip!  I loaded too much in C drive, not enough on my other (D,E,F), sections.  
I thought about moving things around, but this will bring registry troubles and/or worse!  argh!   :-/    
SNIP reformat is the best solution to my overcrowded C drive.
I reformat this HD, how do I deal with partitioning
Snip 
Any and all suggestions appreciated!  Thanks! GarnetBy formatting the C: you'll lose ALL your data on that partition.  Your computer will/should prompt you as to whether or not you want the partition formatted, deleted, etc.  What most people forget to do prior to a format is backup needed FILES like favorites, emails, and documents.  Once you format.. it's all gone.

Remember
Fortune aids the daring.Hi and thanks for your reply.  I hope I put this so you can help me a bit further.
     I am trying to get a clean Hard Drive to start fresh, then INSTALL DOS and a Win OS.  no worry with back ups.   I've done small drives, "C"  being the only drive.  No need for partitions.  I need to know how to re-format a HD, partition into 4- C, D, E and F drives and prep it for re-install of DOS and a Win OS.
Info on partial format  is interesting of course!  Thanks so much, GarnetThere is a software PROGRAM CALL Partition Magic 8.0 which will allow you to do everything you want & more.
It's a great program but will set you back approx £40

see here - http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/

PartitionMagic® allows you to resize, create, move, split, merge, undelete, and CONVERT partitions quickly and easily, without harming your data. The new File Browser allows you to move files from one partition to another regardless of partition type, step-by-step wizards allow you to view changes that will be made before applying them, and DataKeeper® provides automatic file backup. Includes BootMagic® which enables you to safely run multiple operating systems on the same computer.I've had mixed results with Partition Magic.  If the pc is fairly old, you should format anyway just to clean it out.  A format of once a year should be mandatory (more often if you do filesharing or testing).place a boot disk in the floppy drive and at the a:\>prompt) type format  c:--- so the command looks like this A:\>format c: notice the space after the word format  on screen writing will appear all files will be deleted or lost answer yes and look here for partitioning hard-drives>http://www.newlogic.co.uk/kbase/fdisk/page1.htmGarnet.....If I understand you........you have I drive (8gig)
partitioned as C,D,E,and F ......and you just want to reformat the partition called C. Then just follow the instructions that Merlin offered. Remember you just want to format the C portion so dont remove the existing partitions. You didnt say what operating system you will be putting on .

Let us know

dl65  SNIP!
format section of HD.  That isn't what I want to do.
SNIP!
Here is my OS, DL65:
   I am running  Win'98 upgrade from 95.
I want to reformat my 8 gig HD and start fresh!
I have to create 4 partitions SNIP!
Install DOS, then Win 2000!  I need help
Merlin,  It is a good site, thanks!  
SNIP!  check back soon!  Thanks!
      Garnetthis link will help you>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q217210Thanks merlin, great site!  duh!  Why didn't I think of that?    I'll let you know how I make out.

Every time I try to use my dvd player the disc tray ejects but then immediately SHOOTS BACK in again. I have to physically grab it and hold it in place to put a dvd in. Now Ive just bought some dvd+r STORAGE discs and they just keep ejecting and re-entering the player WITHOUT registering in my dvd drive folder. Any ideas as to what may be going wrong? a virus can cause this, or a corupt driver or drive faulty and what o/s is it?Sorry about the delay Merlin but I just GOT your reply.
My o/s is windows XP.

On bootup IE6 broswer starts up, it never did this untill I reinstalled IE6.
I checked settings COULD not find how to stop it.

I have Win2000prodownload this http://www.safer-networking.org/ andd scan for bugs aol is full of them?you can always use msconfig and chose the items you wish on start-up?Thanks for the reply
msconfig is not available in win2000pro,
when I use the run command.
Is there another way to get there ?

                                      Georgeoptions CHANGE to another BROWSER firefox etc.this progam MAY HELP you more then running a command>http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,2173,00.asp or this>http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

:)Here's a cute trick to reveal a coolfile:
   1. Using your mouse, right click an empty space on your Windows desktop.
  2. Select NEW, SHORTCUT
  3. Select BROWSE and find the C:\Windows\Application Data\Microsoft\Welcome  folder.
   4. Select WELDATA.EXE by double-clicking the file. The file name will appear at the end of your shortcut's command line.
    5. Click NEXT
    6. Click FINISH to save your shortcut.
    7. Right-click your newly created shortcut and select PROPERTIES.
   8. Be careful : Click the SHORTCUT tab.
   9. In the target field, scroll to the end of the command line, (right after  "....Weldata.exe"), add a space after the quotation MARK, and then add this exact string of characters: You_are_a_real_rascal.
  10. In the RUN area, select MINIMIZED.
  11. Click OK to save your changes.
  12. Back on the desktop, double-click the new shortcut.
 13. Turn your SPEAKERS up and get ready for some music. You'll see a long list of Windows 98 team members,along with photos of where they work and PLAY. It's not as boring as it sounds.

Running XP with direct x 9.0b .When I go into dxdiag to test direct DRAW and 3d acceleration the 3d tests fail the cube sits there and flickers and the other tests show white screen no spinning cube .Iam using a agp card with 64mb .Need help !go to control panel/display settings and adjust the slider? also a ram upgrade may help you?as WINXP need a lot of ram 256/512 will do?and a GRAPHICS can g-force or simular.what ERROR message did directx give you or the events log?Iam running 256mb.And have tried to move slider adjustments to all settings with no luck.When I run the 3d tests the results are the same for all rendering
Failure at step 32 (user verification of direct 3d rendering
hresult=0x00000000 (error code).try updating your graphics card drivers>http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

Hi,

On the other computer, well, let's just say I didn't really use my common sense. I'll tell what happened. See, I was scanning for viruses and found some so I deleted some things. And one of those things was WIN.COM and few other vital things. Anyways, I fixed that part thanks to this computer because I made a rescue disk with WIN.COM and all the other things I've deleted.

Just two problems that I ended up with. The internet won't work, it's like there's no internet. (I am guessing that I may NEED an internet card, if it is, please do tell me that) and also. Floppy DRIVES, C drive, D, and E drives won't work. I tried inserting a floppy disk, and tried opening, but it says there is no floppy disk in the drive. similar happened with a cd in the E & D drive which won't think that there is a cd.

Anything that I can fix?  Thanks.are your drives detected in the bios?you have not mention the o/s or the pc make?and to have the internet you need a modem 56kor adsl aand if you are talking about a laptop you need an internet card?more info NEEDED.are your drives detected in the bios? I don't know how to check that.

you have not mention the o/s or the pc make? It's a dell..

and to have the internet you need a modem 56kor adsl I have cable router, which lets me on this computer for the internet. (thank GOODNESS)

aand if you are talking about a laptop you need an internet card?more info needed.  It's not a laptop ^^;dell bios >® 400  F3  
Dell 400  F1  
Dell Dimension®  F2 or DEL  
Dell Inspiron®  F2  
Dell Latitude  Fn+F1 (while booted)  
Dell Latitude  F2 (on BOOT)  
Dell Optiplex  DEL  
Dell Optiplex  F2  
Dell Precision™  F2  
Take your pick..and see if the drives are there? if not chose the setup-defaults option save and exit.and o/s means operating system win ?

I have several programs that require the CD be in the CDROM drive in ORDER for the program to work.  Is there a WAY I can load the CD on the Hard Drive so that I dont have to PUT the CD in the drive every time.yes just load the cd and drag it to a folder of your choiceyou need a program such as Alcohol 120% this will ALLOW you to make an 'image' of the CD then you mount it on a virtual CDROM which is made IIN alcohol 12% also.

i get a popup which says "at least one SERVER or driver failed during system startup" and it's REFERRING to my epson printerport. i've uninstalled the printer. any suggestions on how to get this error message to stop POPPING up?? thanks in advance!!UPDATE the driver?

Good day to everyone. A couple of months AGO I noticed pyware problems in my PC so i down loaded ad-aware. Then I heard about a different kindo of spyware so i downloaded CWswhredder and it got RID of most of the hidden stuff. But since my computer has been a mess it has never fully recovered. SOmetimes I can't run Java sripts but sometimes i can. For example the bansith TEST at 2wire.com runs about half the times I try it. And chat room that require java, flash , etc won't run most of the time. I was thinking spending some money on more ram and a new videocard but i don'e want to spend the mopney for nothing if the problem keeps happening. Is there anyway to start my computer from scratch. Erase everything on it including the spyware. Thanks for your attention.Jose....You say you cant accesss chat rooms that require
java ........sometimes . So sometimes you can ........
Have you tried reinstalling your java.
http://www.java.com/en/download/windows_automatic.jsp
If you want to "start over" as you put it, then format your hard drive ( that will remove everything). You will have to have access to all the application cds to reload them back......It will take awhile but your system will be clean again. It almost sounds like CWshredder MAY have taken out something your system needed.
Have you checked at.......
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
to make sure you have all the latest updates?

Hope this helps you.

dl65  Jose, I'm inclined to agree with dl65...you may have removed something you need. Also agree with reinstalling Java.

You ran AdAware, and that is good. There is one more thing you could do. Go to

http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip

Download HijackThis, then unzip it (usually unzips to C: Unzipped folder, which is fine). Run HijackThis (HJT), then click Save Log in the window it puts up. When it finishes (almost instant...very quick), it will leave a notepad window with the log (it's a long log). Highlight all of it, then save (ctrl+c) the whole log, then come back here to this thread and paste (ctrl+v) that log. It probably will give some clues as to what's going on with your system. Then watch here for more replies.

Best...sierradadSpyBot is also an excellent freeware to remove spyware.

Howdi folks,

If anybody here has any clues as to how to resolve this problem I would be gratefull.  I dowwnloaded a ZIP file which wouldn't open - one option was to open it apparently in DOS mode by agreeing to shut down all  programs currently running (note: I has allowed for this by changing the default settings). Anyway the computer went to this mode and I assume the unzip program went to work but again failed to open the zip file and left a rather detailed account of why it couldn't - concluding with an emphatic, 'so there!'  The problem is this paragraph has somehow ended up in the opening program i.e. the numbers/specifications you see flash by when you turn the  computer on and when the program hits this it stops and requests the user to hit any key to continue - which starts the entire process again ad nauseum.  I can hit delete to access set - up but the different configurations I have tried to resolve the problem have no effect.  Is there a way to access the desktop \windows again without rebooting the whole SYSTEM and losing all my files?From now on use WINZIP to open .zip files.It's a free download. But, put in your 98boot disk or start-up disk in your floppy drive,boot computer. You should have four options. Pick SafeMode,let computerload minimum drivers,find your SystemRestore or GoBack program to set the system "back" or before you load the zip file. If you don,t have or can't any luck, your only option is a clean uninstall of your 98 and reinstall. Sometimes best to start from scratch.  Thanks for your reply- i only had a 95 driver  so as i live in Thailand for baht 100 i got the 98 windows on 'special' - not that it did much good as the failed zip file of 'Rikki don't lose that number' (of all things) had apprently mutated into a virus according to the boot disc- anyway i found some invaluable info from some previous threads here  about msdos and plugged away for a night and a day to make head or tail of it - its pretty weird down in dos land! Well  the faq sheet and my situation finally meshed and i'm back in the saddle with the old PHILLIPS Leo hardly not knowing what hit it.

Cheers

this is a real BATTERY mystery. my battery was working just fine before i had my hard DRIVE replaced. now, my computer SAYS my battery is at 100% but when i take out the POWER plug, the computer shuts off. so something is not being read right. i also upgraded my SYSTEM to XP after the hard drive was replaced.

any suggestions would be great. thanks in advance!!

I am pretty frustrated because my audio cracks every 2 seconds or so while playing any audio CD or DVD.   Video RUNS fine.  I recently BOUGHT a new DVDR drive.  ...same problem.  Must be something specific w/ audio playback from an OPTICAL drive.  

ANY IDEAS???

JAY

While online earlier today, I got the Avast popup window at the bottom right of the screen saying there is a new version of Avast available, and do I want to install it. I told it yes, it downloaded and installed, then I let it reboot.

IMMEDIATELY, I started having problems. First it showed up in My Yahoo PAGE whenever I clicked a link to view a news item. The system froze (I could move the mouse pointer but nothing else WORKED....ctrl/alt/del wouldn't restart or do anything....had to do hard shutdowns). This happened about 4 TIMES before I realized it was AFTER I had installed the new Avast version. Same thing happened when I tried to access email (when ZONEALARM asked if I wanted Avast email scanner to access the net, it froze....had to do another hard shutdown).

Finally, I went offline and uninstalled Avast (from Control Panel), then reinstalled the original version from the setupeng install file from the original download. That earlier version is now running, and the problem is solved.

Apparently there is some conflict in this new version, because it is now running fine with the earlier version. Hope this helps someone else.

Best....sierradadGood one Sd, nice to let e'one know.  I use AVG myself and apart from their various update sites getting overloaded works fine. Never tried avast buit sounds like you did the right thing.Im using new Avast in XP with no probs so far.

First off if you’ve read the Nvidia Geforce4 MX 440 SE Video Card topic posted by janzy2001 then you will be familiar with my problem because it’s happening to me too.

System spec:
Windows Xp Pro edition +sp1
Pentium 3 1G
768 SD-RAM Pc-133
Sound Blaster PCI128
Old banged up network card
USB Expansion card
GeForce 4 Ti4600 - Creative Labs
CD -RW Drive 52-32-52 MSI
Old CD/DVD Drive
Old Floppy drive
40G Hard Drive don’t know much about either of these
17G hard drive
QDI (legend) Advanced 10T Motherboard
Apollo Pro 133T Chipset
Standard ATX power supply (400W)

I think that’s everything, if I forgot something please let me know.
Anyway as I said if you have read the other NVIDIA GeForce 4 post by janzy2001 then you basically know my problem.
Oh and before I begin I have to point out that I have had this card for the best part of two years and used the same install of windows xp pro with it during that time, and this problem has only started in the past few weeks.

If you haven’t ill EXPLAIN, while using the computer I am getting random blackouts, the screen flashes black and then a second or so later it APPEARS normal again. Most of the time this happens the original picture comes back as normal, but sometimes the image contains errors the screenshot shows this topic just after one of these blackouts, if you look you can see the similes are out of place. This is a simple error but sometimes there are major colour errors, large BLOBS of colour where there shouldn’t be (the kind of thing that happens when your graphics card is on the way out).

Further more, the problems are not only occurring during “desktop” use, I have massive problems when attempting to play games, does anyone have cs 1.6 with steam? Well if you do you know there is a counter strike splash screen before you have to find a server and start playing, most of the time I cannot get past the server lists, before even playing my display will freeze completely and no matter what I try the computer eventually restarts. The message I get from windows “Windows detect a possible device failure and had to restart” – or something similar.

This also happens with other games, some simply freeze and restart, others first show signs of graphic errors (those blobs of colour again) and can be exited all be it slowly, others will show errors freeze and after much keyboard hitting, just close.

So you know what’s going on, this is what  I’ve done to try and fix the problem. As usual the first thing I tried was to get the latest drivers for my video card, I got the latest version from the NVIDIA website 56.72 is it ? or something like that… this had no effect what so ever.

Second I tried reducing the quality settings for my card to see if this did anything… nothing happened

Next I tried reducing hardware acceleration, nothing happened

Although I’m not an expert with bios settings I am not afraid to mess around with things in there, so I changed to the AGP aperture size to 128 same as my card this had no effect, then I tried disabling the AGP 4X option, although my board supports it I’ve heard of problems begin caused by this being used, this at first seemed to fix the problem but then 2 and half hours later I had my first blackout so I’m going to say this had no effect.

At this point I was getting worried and annoyed, so I started hitting the monitor with the keyboard, while making me feel better this had no effect.

Next I checked all the cable connections, found them all to good, then I reset the monitor settings to the manufacturer defaults and even degaussed it, this didn’t do anything either.

Next I REMOVED and replaced the card several times to see if it was something to do with agp connection, this did nothing. I then got out some really old geforce 2 cards and put them in, to my horror the same blackouts started happening with both of these cards. I then thought it could be something to do with the chipset it self, and got out my old driver disc, installed the drivers I had and again this did nothing.

Finally ( I think) I decide that the only course of action left to take was a complete format, and reinstall of windows XP, this when completed seemed to solve the problem I went a good 4 hours without a single blackout but then they started to happen again seemingly after I installed all my office xp stuff and a few other programs.

At the moment im stumped and really need some out side help, this problem is making my brain hurt, so get your thinking caps on and give me some suggestions.

- thanks
Dave

Dave,  Well after reading your post I feel that I am not alone.  Not sure if this will ever get resolved.  Very strange.  I am at whits end and am totally annoyed at all of this.  Nvidia did not help me at all. Were your other cards all by the same manufacturer?  I am puzzled to the point that I would throw the stupid computer out of the window.    Well lets keep trying to find out.  If you do I am sure you will post it. I will keep checking your post to see what you have found out.  Thanks for your encouragement to know that I am not going nuts with this black and blinking screen.  Janzy  

hey you might like to try for some outside help at another forum I found help at and they seem to be really up on XP issues--
http://techimo.com

go to forums- I think you have to register to post but maybe someone there can help sounds like you have a nightmare

I recetly bought a new ATX CASE with a 400w Power supply. I CONNECTED everything, and I hit the power BUTTON and the cpu fan and case fan START to spin but quickly turn off. I checked everything I can think of and nothing. What do you guys think is WRONG??

Please help!!
Thanksdodgy fuse bad connections or  mobo?has been placed in the case and the components have touch the case?psu not correctly fitted?just suggestionscheck over the front panel connections just to make sure you have the power switch on the right connector

Whenever I insert a GAME disc it is supposed to bring up a screen that gives me the option to install the game. It hasn't been doing that as of late. Every TIME I put my game, Day of Defeat, in the E: drive, I hear the drive loading, but then instead of bringing up the AUTORUN screen, it just stops loading. I have to go into My Computer and then go to E: drive to MAKE sure the computer read the disc. It always does read the disc, when I open the file that is labled Day Of Defeat ( E: ) it takes me to a screen with the option to setup Day Of Defeat. When I click setup, the E: drive starts loading again. After that, it just stops and locks up. I press Ctrl+Alt+Del and it says the program is not responding. Anyone know how I can get this game WORKING?is this winxp if so try this CONTROL panel/administrative tools/services/shell hardware detection/return this service to automatic. then type
start/run/regedit
and then search for this string
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet\Services\Cdrom
AutoRun = 1

I am running xp on my laptop and I got a worm that spontaniously SHUTS off the computer.  I thought reinstalling windows would get rid of it but now I can't get windows to install completely before it turns itself off.  I NEED a way to clear my hard DRIVE without having windows xp installed.if you had this laptop connected to the NET it sounds like the m$blaster worm?more info here>http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

I WOULD like to KNOW about different tpes of USER interfaces for MAC OS,MS DOS, WINDOWS XP and Linux

I accidentaly disabled my monitor in the "PROPERTIES" under "settings" now my montior goes BLANK right after boot.  I tried connecting directly to the motherboard and did not succeed and i tried switching video cards and had the same affect, how do i correct this?  Please help this dumb *censored*CHECK the bios settings  hit del key and  in the bios menu chose setup defaults options save and exit.or FIND a graphics driver for your monitor on your windows INSTALL disk/rescue disk?

I NEED HELP!
i just installed windows xp and my sound doesn't work! when i had windows 2000 the sound worked just fine so i'm pretty sure there's nothing wrong with the SPEAKERS. my FRIEND SAYS that i need to find out what soundboard i have and download the right driver...? i have no clue what he's talking about .. and i don't remember having to do any of that when i had windows 2000. what do i have to do??? PLEASE HELP!!this program will tell you everything>http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=181 no mention of the make of the pc but here is a link>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307156   and if you have installed   tweakui/general/beep on errors (verify that the box is checked).and a final thing is to to type dxdiag in the run box hope these suggestions help you.

I have an old computer on which I'm running Windows 95 and IE 5.5. I've had no problems with it until about a month ago when I started getting "INVALID PAGE
FAULTS in module " (usually - sometimes in KERNEL32.DLL). This happens 3 or 4 times and then I either get a Blue Screen "FATAL EXCEPTION 0E in VXD
VWIN32(04)" (usually) or the computer screen locks up and I need to do a restart for the PC. This happened when I tried to log on to my ISP (JUNO 5.0). Sometimes
if I ran my firewall (ZONE ALARM) I could bypass the page faults and get connected. However, eventually I would get the same page faults in IE and the PC
screen would then freeze up. This happens with other programs also. I haven't installed any new hardware or software before this started happening. Windows
booted up fine without any problems or errors happening.

I ran a virus check and found a couple of Trojans, which I cleaned out. The virus check now shows no problems. Talking with JUNO, they said it was a Windows
Internal Memory PROBLEM and suggested I re-install their program, which I did, along with re-installing Windows 95 itself and IE 5.5. I then did a SCANDISK and a DEFRAG on the disk. I've also done what was listed in the articles here on "How to fix invalid page faults" and "How to fix a fatal exception error". I've
disabled Window's handling of the virtual memory and set it to 3 times my RAM. I've run MEMTEST86 for 21 hours to test the RAM and it found no errors. The
problem still happens, but now more frequently, and I can not bypass it anymore by running the firewall. Also, now at the end of the startup, I am getting the invalid page fault/fatal exceptions in loadwc.exe and/or explorer.exe.

When I start in SAFE MODE, I can run programs with no problems (but can't logon to the interned because there is no modem in SAFE MODE). If I run "Step-by-Step Confirmation" and reply yes to start Windows GUI and Load Windows Drivers, I also get the page faults/fatal exception messages. If I do not load Windows Drivers, it comes up in Safe Mode. It looks like something is messed up when it loads the Windows Drivers. Is there some way I can further isolate which Driver(s) may be causing the problem? I've tried doing Refresh for each device in Device Manager, but this hasn't done any good.  
scan again for viruses>http://housecall.trendmicro.com/  this may have caused your problems?>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=242191Thanks for replying Merlin. I can't logon to the internet to do an online scan for viruses with Trend Micro. I did re-run McAfee Virus Scan on my computer again and it came up with no infected files. I also checked the Microsoft article but don't think the MTX virus applies because of the above and I couldn't find any MTX files on my computer. From reading the articles, I think my virtual memory (I presume this is the swap file) is getting corrupted, but I don't know by what or how.
I think it is when Windows drivers are loaded, as when I don't load these I don't get the page faults. Any ideas of how I could further diagnose this problem would be
appreciated.after a re-read my guess is that zone alarm maybe causing this disable it and try ?a link on >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;150314&Product=w95Zone Alarm doesn't start automatically at startup. The page faults occur with or without ZA active. It used to be that with ZA active I could bypass the page faults, but since reinstalling Windows95 and IE5.5, this no longer works - I get the Fatal Exception message all the time after bypassing the page fault messages. I've also disabled all the programs that used to start at startup. I've looked at all the Micorsoft articles and they don't seem to apply in this case.  That's how I  narrowed it down to when loading the windows drivers in a clean BOOT I found that it occurs; when not loading the drivers, it doesn't occur, but then I can only do a limited amount on the computer as the drivers needed are not present. I need to know how to narrow it down further to find which driver or drivers are causing the problem.do you wish to try this>http://www.majorgeeks.com/download122.htmlI tried installing Winsafe, but Setup said it couldn't find MSVBVM50.DLL. I have Visual Basic 6.0 installed. Is there a VB 6.0 version of this anywhere?http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;190536If I install the Windows Library Update I will back level
the files on my computer it updates. For every file it lists I have later versions of them installed, which should have the fixes this update has. I don't think I have any problem with VB 6.0, as I've had it for about 3 years and the programs that use it work OK (they don't get the page faults I get it some other programs).  I appreciate the time you are taking to help me. I think the problem lies somewhere in the virtual memory area and I have no idea on how to trouble shoot this.

My CD Rom Drive, (D Drive) Is not working. Evertime I put a cd (any kind) It will blink a little cd icon by the mouse pointer, and it will blink maybe like 3 or 4 times, and then nothing. When I try to run the program from the start menu, I get this error:
D:\ is not accessible.
The request could not be PERFORMED because of an I/O device error.
I have no idea what to do. I don't know very MUCH about computers, but I have been reading site, and all they say is *censored* about cleaning, the drive, and checking some kind of cables. I have no idea about any kind of cables connected to anything about the computer. I have been trying to install a couple programs. Roxio Easy Media Creator 7. One thing, is that sometimes my cd drive does work. HARDLY ever. When it does, I find I have to hold the cd drive door in for it to work. But the last time, it stopped in the middle of the INSTALLATION, and now it won't install. I looked in the add or REMOVE programs list, and it doesn't show up, so I won't be able to uninstall it and start all over again. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME! I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM DOING, SO PLEASE IF YOU CAN HELP ME, WRITE ME BACK ON HERE, OR YOU CAN E-MAIL ME [email protected]  PLEASE WRITE COMP HELP IN THE SUBJECT LIKE SO I WON'T THINK IT'S SPAM AND DELETE IT. ALSO PLEASE IF YOU CAN, EXPLAIN IT IN THE MOST SIMPLE TERMS AS POSSIBLE. Thanks for anyone who's read this, and who can help.
-Giahttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q315350