Hi WildBill and welcome to the forum. When you say the items are not working, have the icons gone away, icons present but non-functional, can't...
Spywareblaster is basically a passive protection app. No need to do anything with it other than install, update, protect, and then do updates at...
Sus - don't feel bad. This is getting pretty techie at this point and I'd guess that over 95% of PC users would have been lost long ago. HKEY...
Log looks pretty clean unless I missed something. And your AV is certainly showing up - good on ya. I think at this point a device manager...
Oops. Lonny - I didn't even notice the line until you pointed it out. The only place I can find other mentions of it are like this one and...
Google for xp disable system restore and quite a few of the 112,000 hits will offer instructions. On the first page of hits, Symantec, Microsoft,...
Haven't uses the Pro version but with the free 6.0.782 version I'm running, I can schedule pattern file updates and scanning time. Not sure what...
Hmmmm. Are you not seeing the "new thread" button when you go to a section of the forum?
To answer your specifics on security, NTFS is inherently much more secure and also more stable. It will tolerate amounts of abuse that would...
Hi mrdutt and welcome to the forum. Hijackthis probably won't do any good at this point although maybe later. For right now, we need more...
Are you current on the security patches that have been released since SP2? There are things like buffer overflow that can be used to cause...
Without details of exactly what was removed, it's impossible to say what might have caused the problem. Do you use Spybot's immunize feature on...
CoolWebSearch is a real bear to get rid of. Download and run CWShredder. It was developed to remove this particular critter and unless you have...
Resident AV will save you lots of grief. The free version of AVG is good and puts a minimal load on the system. You barely notice it. The...
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [romahere] C:\WINDOWS\System32\matrixhere.exe Put on your PC by Trojan.Win32.Krepper and evidently none of the AV programs...
To a topic area and then
If RPC service isn't running you will see all of the problems you speak of. Try clicking on start, on run, keying in services.msc and clicking...
If you are running XP-pro and turn off simple file sharing, you can easily do what you speak of. XP-home or XP-pro with simple file sharing...
1 network laser printer If that is the case (network printer with an IP address and either it's own NIC or attached to a print server that...
Other options. Ignore it. It is sorta like having a music center with a turntable that won't set to 78RPM. If you don't own any 78RPM...
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