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I have a problem PC that keeps restarting after anti virus application was installed. I have to go into safe Mode and uninstall it order to get PC stable again. I had PC running fine and with anti virus app. but then upgraded to new version and developed the restart issue.Any ideas.

I am running Windows XP Home. What is the best most reliable registry cleaner for this system?

I need to reformat my hard drive. If I do that and re-install XP Pro, will I be able to register it? In the other words, will Microfoft let me use the same license? Should I do something special to let them know that I am reinstalling the same system? Gregory

I'm probably overlooking something but I need help. I have a PC, which was full of Viruses and Malware, but is now clean. I can run a scan of several different virus engines and it detects nothing. So with that being said, why can I not get to certain websites? Windows Update is one, and if you try to go to safer-networking.org it takes you to a totally different site. When trying to get to Windows Update it shows IP 127.0.0.1 which is the loopback address. I checked my host file and it is clean. Where is IE picking up this 127.0.0.1 from?

Recently a patch or settings, I am assuming something with SP3 on XP or Remote Desktops patch, has changed the way I use Remote Desktop to connect to servers. It used to be from my XP Pro machine I could use Remote Desktop to connect to a server and log in as an administrator. If I was logging in as the same admin that was logged in, I would simply take over that session and the screen would lock, if I logged off it logged off the Admin or if I disconnected, it would just leave the server locked. NOW - when I connect to a Windows 2003 Server, it seems that instead of taking over the session that is already logged in, a new / second console is starte…

I have been using Terminal Services for myself to do server administration for several years. I VPN on the firewall and then hit the servers for admin work. I have been tasked with creating a proposal for select employees to work from home which will require file share access, Outlook, and client server database application. The existing VPN to the desktop is great as long as it's a good Internet connection on the remote end. However, my concern is when folks are in a hotel on a shared connection and they simply don't have the bandwidth my phone will be ringing off the hook with whiners. Is a terminal services setup the best route on this? W…

Hello all, I am in dire need of help and hopeful that I can get the assistance that I need. My hubby downloaded a virus on my computer one day last week. It was quite nasty and I had to do a system restore. I ended up having to do a Destructive System Restore to get everything right again. (The virus would not allow me to access any of my documents, music, etc. When I clicked on the Start button, it wouldn't even bring up my control panel or anything) I did the destructive restore and everything has been working fine. My computer automatically downloaded all the updates and when it installs the SP 3 (or even SP2) and tells me to restart my compute…

I've got a new customer in that we are going to develop an app for. Basically they process lots and lots of documents - PDF's and Word Doc's. Our app is going to let them drag-and-drop these files into a screen which will then "move" then automatically into a share on a file server. The app will also manage these files "via" a CASE NUMBER - so we are going to have MS SQL running with a database of these cases. Long story short... At any rate - there are not many users - dozen or so - so the MS SQL part is the least of our worries hardware wise. But the documents get into the GB's in size. Do you have any opinions on what a file server like this …

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I installed service pack 3 and have noticed a weird problem-every time I put the computer on standby, it crashes every time I come back from standby mode. I used it all the time with SP2 with no problems whatsoever, but with SP3 when I come back from standby it crashes. Has anyone else had this problem? And if so, is there a fix?

RE: desperate for help...add/remove program error This same message starting popping up when I went back into Add/Remove to make sure that netcom3.com internet security suite software was gone after I uninstalled it from Start and Programs. I am looking for an easy solution to getting back my Add/Remove Programs and window updates, etc. Please, can someone help. -- Jo Buckner "JuJuBe" wrote: > since downloading svc pack 4 - we are getting the following error msg when > trying to open add/remove program file: > > An unexpected error has occurred. > > Object doesn't support this property or method > res://sp3res.dll/defa…

Is there a way to get the Favorites drop down menu to display immediately when clicked rather than having to click on the chevron symbols at the bottom? Thx Dave.

One XPPro workstn was infected by the antivirus 2008 trojan, which I have managed to clean. One problem remains: I cannot browse any server (2003) shares via network places or explorer, although all mapped drives are accessible. When I try to browse to the server, - '\\our_srv\' only one share is shown - 'userdata' - and this appears as an empty folder. Z:\ is mapped to \\our_srv\userdata\username and lists all files, but in explorer that same path returns 'windows cannot find (path). check spelling....' I know that the trojan affects the local policies, which I've reset, but cannot find anything that would cause the above. Any help, suggestions, guidan…

Or whatever that one is called in Windows that is neccessary to keep to get updates. Anyways mine is empty for some reason and I don't know how it happened. So the other day i noticed my C;\drive had lost about 650megs of space and after poking around I found out that folder was full of kb folders about 650megs worth. I guess they were all a bunch of past updates I have installed but got re downloaded. Did the fact that that folder was empty have something to do with that. And can I fix it. I deleted all the folders becuse my computer is up to date and always has been.

A "My Computer" window opens every time I log in. Is there a way to stop this?

Several times I have either received the above message - or "insufficient page file space". I've very rarely seen this in the past with XP which makes me think something's wrong. When I open up the task manager I get: Physical Memory (K) Total 523760 Available 185000 System cache 255084 Kernel memory 44396 Paged 30362 Nonpaged 14124 The Page File Usage History is running fairly constantly just over 50% When I open MS Word and Exploror the Page File Usage History runs at about 60% At the moment I'm running ESET Smart Security, Outlook Express and Firefox. Are these figures appropriate? What is the best way of debugging these problems?

Anyone know what SupportSoft software on my XP might be for? I know of their site but I've never purchased anything from them. In ProgramFiles there is a folder support.com which I'm guessing belongs to it. All the sub folders are empty except that bin has 3 .dll's It also appears in me Add or Remove Programs list. === A maybe related question: What is the name of the Roadrunner magic software? The dialog box use to pop up when my service was not good. I no longer need it but don't know where the file is. === I'm having trouble with the computer hanging on boot and like to get rid of anything I don't use - especially the services. Thank

Need some direction here. My Dell XP (a few years old now) locked up last night while in a EA hockey game. I manually shut it down. When I started it up this morning it began the normal boot cycle and then went to chdisk. It fixed a few things (no idea what) and found orphaned file (same as before no idea what), and then it re-ran the same cycle restartign the boot up. It never starts, but reverts to the Dell screen and the xp screen over and over again. Is my PC dying or is there something I can do to get to my desktop again?

After installing SP2 the CD Rom will not read/write and freezes the computer for a while. Then the CDR will disapear from the MY Computer till I reboot. How do I fix this?

Each time when i power on my laptop i get a message as mentioned below we aplogize for the incovenience, but windows did not start normally.......... .................... and it displays a list of option to boot as safe mode, last known good configuration etc. i don't know why i get this message. please help me to rectify this problem Thanks

I am trying to secure a folder, only giving rights to a group. I have added users to this group and set the permissions (Admins and Group). But with out the EVERYONE there I can not seem to gain access. After adjusting, I have reset ALL permissions. Help David

Hello, I have just reinstalled Windows XP on my computer, however I cannot get any of my USB peripheral to work. I checked the device manager and it says that I don't have the Univerisal Serial Bus (USB) Controller Driver, I have been looking around and I have been unable to find a driver. I am using USB 1 still. Can anyone point me in the right direction of the relevant driver? As this is really annoying because I have a lot of my files on external USB Harddisks and at the moment I can't access any of them. Thank you Neil.

Hi I have an application on a number of users workstations on the network, and want to amend an entry in a text file e.g config.ini on all workstations. Can i connect using a batch to delete a line and add a line or find text and change it within a file if I know all the IP addresses? i.e [parameter 1] Item=Y [parameter 1] Item=N [parameter 1] Item=Y [parameter 1] Item=N [parameter 1] DNS=test.systems.co.uk i want to change to: [parameter 1] Item=Y [parameter 1] Item=N [parameter 1] Item=Y [parameter 1] Item=N [parameter 1] DNS=test2.systems.co.uk Cheers Rich

on startup my docs automaticaly loads for all 3 users on the laptop. Was fine until a few weeks ago but now loads up all the time. How do i stop it? NB I am not very good with these things so please explain to a novice.