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Hi all, 
 
You've got to help me out of this swamp. 
 
I had noticed that my system was boggled by a few malicious adwares 
 
residing in my Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta. Fully protected by Windows 
 
Defender and Symentic AntiVirus, I thought I should have no trouble 
 
getting rid of these malicious adwares which slowed down my system 
 
significantly, especially they open up new windows in IE one after 
 
another, making me very difficult to proceed. 
 
The Windows Defender did notice something ...

my computer has no volume i restored my pc 4 times an still no vulome  can 
 
anyone help

I've looked all around for anything on this.  XP SP2 install hangs at 
 
the point where the registry is being backed up.  I've done a virus 
 
scan, turned virus checking off, made sure bios is up to date, done a 
 
registry repair (using Registry mechanic), etc.  I've uninstalled the 
 
SP2 stuff 2X now that gets installed prior to the hang.  I've searched 
 
on MS and IBM support.  Any ideas?  Install log seems to show it hanging 
 
on something to do with the PCI system -- PCDoctor tests PCI ...

I found Tony Northrup's article and I am trying to remove autostart programs. 
 
I followed the "msconfig" instructions and deselected just one program as 
 
an experiment.    I noticed that on returning to the msconfig general screen 
 
"Normal Start" had been deselected and "Selective Startup" selected with a 
 
square(!?).     Nevertheless I restarted and got a message saying that 
 
"selective startup is being used" (or words to that effect).    Well, yes, I 
 
suppose, but there seems to be ...

About a week ago, i was prompted to reenter my activation key for windows xp. 
 
It would not allow me to continue unless I entered it.   Since then, I've 
 
had nothing but problems on trying to get my computer to turn off.  I usually 
 
have to go into Windows Task Manager and start turning off processess until 
 
my machine finally will allow itself to be shut off.  I understand that 
 
Microsoft had some sort of update file that had people having to reenter 
 
their activation code to ensure ...

WMI is not working (so are a few other things, but all related to WMI).  I 
 
ran WMIDiag and it reports 2 WMI system files are missing, and suggests I 
 
recopy them from a working system.  Trouble is, these files don't seem to be 
 
on my CDs or on my buddy's computer that's working fine.  They are 
 
cmdevtgprov.dll and policman.dll and should be in \windows, 
 
\windows\system32, or \windows\system32\wbem. 
 
Anybody got these files, or is WMIDiag messing up?

I have recently taken over a network of 120 PC's all running Win XP Prof.  I 
 
noticed a badly performing PC and ran "error checking" from the gui.  Is 
 
there a utility that I can run over my network to determine the state of each 
 
my 120 hardrives and if it detected  a problem ask it to run the equivalent 
 
of "Check Disk options". 
 
Or am I asking too much? 
 
Jim

This problem only recently began. Whenever I ran CHKDSK, Windows was unable 
 
to restart Windows properly. It would bring up that screen stating "We 
 
aplogize for the inconvenience, but Windows could not start successfully. A 
 
recent hardware or software change might have caused this", and I would have 
 
to choose the 
 
"Last Known Good Configuration (your most recent settings that worked) Start 
 
Windows Normally" in order for Windows to start properly. 
 
More recently, however, when I ...

I have windows installed on roughly a 17GB Partition (16.7GB), I am low on 
 
disk space so I checked to see what all the files equaled in total disk space 
 
on this partition. According to windows they only take up 10.7GB of hard disk 
 
space. I only have a total of 3.33GB so something is going wrong, I've had 
 
this problem before too and my friend Also has the same problem I believe. 
 
What do we do to correct Windows and straighten out with a stern manner to 
 
windows to tell it what is ...

Hey all, 
 
Here's the problem: 
 
I wnted to check my hard drive for errors but when i wnet on chckdsk i got 
 
erroe sayying it has to try at startup so i clicked yes. when the computer 
 
starts up i get a blue scree say this: 
 
"Windows is checking Local disk E 
 
Windows cannot check disk 
 
cannot access disk 
 
Windows is now starting up....." 
 
Any suggestings and help is most appreciated 
 
Thank You 
 
mark34game

This problem only recently began. Whenever I ran CHKDSK, Windows was unable 
 
to restart Windows properly. It would bring up that screen stating "We 
 
aplogize for the inconvenience, but Windows could not start successfully. A 
 
recent hardware or software change might have caused this", and I would have 
 
to choose the 
 
"Last Known Good Configuration (your most recent settings that worked) Start 
 
Windows Normally" in order for Windows to start properly. 
 
More recently, however, when I ...

Hi everone- heres my problem: 
 
At startup my taskbar and start menu button takes about 10- 30 seconds to 
 
load up. when it does load up some of my applications crash and lock-up the 
 
computer- any suggestions and help will be most appricated. 
 
Thank You. 
 
mark34game

My computer freezes around a half hour after I turn my computer on. I posted 
 
last week about getting a failure to respond on a rundll32.exe. I thought 
 
that that error message may have something to do with it freezing. I have run 
 
both anti-virus and ad ware in safe mode. This action did not help the 
 
matter. I am half tempted, even though I am uncertain on how, to reinstall my 
 
software. 
 
Any suggestions? 
 
Thank you - Matt

I had a drive crash. Got new drive and re-installed XP Pro.  About a week 
 
later started having problems when I attempted to install SP2.  It would get 
 
about half done then I would get a "Permission Denied" error message and it 
 
would then un-install what it had done.  I am the Administrator and only 
 
user.  I tried removing all firewalls, virius checker, etc.  Same result. 
 
Now the Office says it needs to be re-installed and the Windows Installer has 
 
gone south on me.  I even trie ...

My current system hard drive has less than  600Mb of space left and I would 
 
like to replace it with a larger sytem hard drive. Is there a way to mirror 
 
or copy the current drive onto a larger drive and then use the new drive as 
 
my system drive, without re-installing all of my software? I am using XP 
 
Professional and have numerous proprietary programs (downloaded, no disk) 
 
which I am not sure I could re-install otherwise. 
 
what would be my best way to go about this? 
 
Thanks

Ok, I have an IBM thinkpad that is only a year old, and I have system 
 
restored to factory settings twice in that period because of viruses and the 
 
fact that I didn't have much data to backup.  Now I have better protection so 
 
I feel comfortable installing more programs and such.  Anyway, the problem 
 
is, when I let the machine sit for a while, my explorers (windows and 
 
internet) slow WAY down.  I come back the next day and double click the IE 
 
icon and it takes 15-20mins for my ho ...

I've read about 8 threads on this problem but none has come up with a 
 
solution. I am trying to defrag a PC running XP Pro, SP1. In 3 years, it has 
 
never been defragged to my knowledge. The user complains about slow startup. 
 
When I log on as admin and try to defrag, I get the message that Chkdsk is 
 
scheduled to run and I must run Chkdsk/f. Yet, there are no scheduled tasks. 
 
On my own PC, same age, same O/S,I log on as admin and can run defrag with no 
 
problems. Both PCs on the sa ...

Recently my computer is stalling when I hit reset.  Because of this I wanted 
 
to reinstall XP to see if I could repair it.  When I put my disk in the 
 
drive, I am told that the version I am running is newer than the one on the 
 
disk. 
 
How can I reinstall?  Should I wipe out the new version and start over again 
 
by reinstalling all the updates too?  Or is there a way I can repair that I 
 
am not familiar with? 
 
Also, I am continually losing my IP address on my PC.  I am running a 
 
 ...

Is it possible to hide an user account from the logon screen? 
 
I'm about to set up an older (850MhzCeleron/512MB) machine for my mother (w/ 
 
XPpro, eye candy OFF) and though if I'd create an account for me too, as 
 
admin, but not have it listed at the logon screen... 
 
I know I don't HAVE to use the logon screen, but have her autologon. 
 
But this would be her 1st try with computers, and I'd try to teach her the 
 
rudiments of computer security, re usernames and passwords, unknown mails ...

How can I move the location of the storage files for this program? 
 
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Michael Q

I have Windows XP - Home edition installed on my HP Pavilion laptop.  It came 
 
installed.  In using the Windows Explorer, I like to find the file I want to 
 
open and use it to open the file.  For business reasons I have had to 
 
download several new programs (natch) and will have to install several more. 
 
Lately, when trying to open Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel, Access) by 
 
clicking the file - the computer acts like it doesn't know what to do.  The 
 
little timer thing spins and ...

My son tried to download a new driver for the graphics card and the computer 
 
froze during the download. When he restarted the computer there was no 
 
graphics. What can we do to fix this problem? 
 
Someone suggested reinstalling Windows, but it came with the computer and we 
 
have no reinstall disk. 
 
Thanks,verniemac

WIN XP Prof operating system was reloaded after a computer crash which takes 
 
me back to SP1.  I now have 53 updates listed that should be downloaded, but 
 
isn't there an easier way - like downloading SP2, then do critical updates 
 
after that?  I do not have a disk for SP2, so had probably done that ages ago 
 
via the internet.  Any help is appreciated - first time crash victim.  Thanks.

While troubleshooting an Application issue on a Windows 2003 Standard 
 
Server SP1, I happened to remove Everyone from Component Services->My 
 
Computer->Right Click Properties->COM Security, Edit Limits. After that 
 
I am unable to get the properties page backup to add that role back. 
 
Also, I get the following error when I click on COM+ Applications- 
 
"You do not have permission to perform the requested action. If 
 
security is enabled on the 
 
System application of the target compute ...

Hi. 
 
I would like to perform an identical batch operation for all the PC 
 
workstations on a customer's site. 
 
The batch should: 
 
1. Add some entries to the IE favorites 
 
2. Add some shortcuts to the desktop 
 
3. Replace some files in specific paths that are known in advance. (The 
 
files already exist - it's an update operation). 
 
Assumptions: 
 
1. I don't want to bother the users. The ideal way would be during the 
 
next re-boot. 
 
2. I don't want to bother the administrator to ...