Major problem with internet explorer Whenever my friend opens up her internet explorer it instantly closes down, she can't even open it up. Could this be a virus? If so any cures... or any ways to fix the error? thanks in advance
Drives are playing up. Any advice would be gratefully received This is very very annoying now. Sometimes then i start my pc up i go into a weird black screen with white writing (something about the computer set up) which then goes into another black screen. At this point window xp loads up normally (though in t...
RE: Slow transfers on msn The only other firewall i have is the kerio firewall, this makes no difference to the speed then i disable it. it seems only to be the xp firewall that does anything or affect the transfer rate. which is very peculiar.
Slow transfers on msn Its getting quite annoying transferring things to people on msn as its painfully slow. i have 750k broadband so things should be quick but whenever i transfer i get the 'slow transfer rate' message at the top of the conversation box. If i turn the...
October 2004 disappeared Hey people... I've had messenger plus since april 2003 and the chat log system has worked perfectly until now. Every month it'd move all the chat logs from a month into a folder titled the month etc... Well this month it hasnt worked. I've gone i...
RE: my d and e drives have gone please help i cannot see any option to do that so i dont think its possible. My D Drive now shows me that theres an audio cd in. But i dont know whats wrong with the E drive and the D drive is being very dodgy. windows xp says both are installed and working per...
RE: my d and e drives have gone please help ive gone in device manager and clicked on disk drives. i have: Maxtor 4k040H2 ive then clicked on DVD/CD-Rom drives as well and i have NEC DVD ROM DV 5800A Is this my drive D and E respectively? I've clicked on maxtor and told it to scan for hardwar...
RE: my d and e drives have gone please help Nope i dont have any of them just windows xp (i turned off system restore because of the virus) i have norton 2002 virus protecter. thats it.
RE: my d and e drives have gone please help Thank you very much. I quarantined the virus and then deleted it. it had done nothing as it had said so i thought that was the end of it. my computer has been doing something wacky things recently. like then i start the computer it goes through two w...
my d and e drives have gone please help This continues from a while ago i really need some help. - a week ago i got the w32.gaobot virus. i followed the instructions to get rid of it. except it had done nothing which it said it would do on the norton virus page. it hadnt changed the serv...
RE: Service pack 1 or Service pack 2? Isnt SP2 going to cost money to purchase after 30 free days or something? or was that a rumour? any news on a release date?
RE: Urgent Help required- You guys rule so please help! Right its deleted. last time though it came back after i'd deleted it for more tricks... but as of yet it hasnt done any of the things it says on the website like change registry etc i dont know whether this is a good or bad thing though...
RE: Urgent Help required- You guys rule so please help! Also gone onto the next stage . ive gone through regedit and through to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Run all i have in the right pane is 'default, AVG, Messenger 3, overnet, p2p networking and tkbellexe i do not ...
RE: Urgent Help required- You guys rule so please help! # Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp. # # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. # # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address shoul...
RE: Urgent Help required- You guys rule so please help! right first attempt at this failed miserably. i got the pc into safe mode easily enough and then set about searching for hosts. i found 5 files. one was 'my name@tophosts' so i ignored it. i then got four whole files all in system32 directory. i op...
RE: Urgent Help required- You guys rule so please help! Restore the Hosts file. 4. Reverse the changes made to the registry, and then restart the computer. i understand the registry bit. you delete the videons.exe part dont you? but whats the host file about. i dont understand what to do on that part.