Sorry _ I've temporarily turned off my virtual memory. Is it safe to delete Pagefile.sys under this circumstance? And likewise - if I toggle off...
This is really most puzzling. I stopped the Avast virus scan when it had already scanned 35 G of files, and had not yet reached...
Stop the presses!! I believe I have found the answer. Will report back when I'm sure. Please do not do any more lookups or investigations on my...
In the meantime - it occurs to me that I have a full registry backup dating from 27th of last month - when everything was hunky-dory. However, I'm...
Sorry Pete - won't edit again. Currently I'm scanning for malware again, using Avast from a U3 drive. Will try using Startup Control Panel...
Thanks Charles - the consistent errors since starup this morning were all DCOM errors. Specifically: The server...
Oh dear Pete - that is exactly what I did, and just to be sure, I did it again and again - including with Task Manager open and Task Manager...
Apologies for delay Charles. Unfortunately after entering the commands, I get ERROR: Server execution failed. I'm doing this with task manager...
Just the normal system idle process - but that usually shows 80-97 under cpu. It seems to be the case that anything that requires a change or...
Update - No physical problems evident; getting desperate Running chkdsk /r revealed no problems; sfc /scannow doesn't help; running extensive...
Difficult to know how to tiltle this. In normal startup mode, my system has become unusable. Takes forever for everything to initialise at startup...
Culprits Found Just fyi - seems to have been a mix of problems: Skype 3.2 is, possibly, somewhat badly written - which makes cCleaner (and, by...
Thanks Pete D
System Restore Problem Resolved For the first time ever sfc /scannow appears actually to have worked - or maybe it was just a coincidence. System...
I resolved my problem (http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=64697) by restoring to a 5 day old restore point. However, there now remains a...
OK, startup options set via Spybot S&D apply for the first restart, but revert to their 'stuck' state for subsequent restarts: ZonAlarm Pro 'Off',...
Err ... AVG and NOD32 are antivirus (and/or antispyware) progs. ZoneAlarm Pro - which I have (not the 'Suite')- is a firewall with some...
I have a new problem which goes deeper than just the three programs here - but all are displaying the same issue, despite quite thorough...
Ok - I think I found the culprit from Task Manager. Not only is Skype (in the taskbar) using a hell of a lot of memory these days - around the 40k...
Can anyone recommend an easy way of checking which is/are the major culprit(s) in not returning memory to the system, or are generally leaking...
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