Not sure exactly what is causing the message you are seeing about a conflict with an IP address. If your NIC is NetGear then the system is for...
Glad you are clean Mike. I think lots of the regulars on here dropped in originally with a problem and decided for whatever reason to stick...
The chkdsk utility ran without any instruction to do so by myself, on the secondary drive that had been working perfectly with my previously...
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntrecover.shtml And as used here, NT4/2K/XP/2K3 are all 'NT machines'.
krec - this sort of thing is nearly impossible to troubleshoot via the forum. Too many possibilities. I have had some luck in the past getting...
and with a Start\Run\ typed in "Command In this case it didn't really matter but use start~run~cmd rather than start~run~command because that...
I think the idea of easing out the updates to let folks ramp up support has merit. Look at the SP2 threads we have on here already and we...
The cable you use for straight and for cross-over is exactly the same. The only difference is how the cable ends (the 8 small wires) are fitted...
A quick-and-dirty on hub vs. switch in case you need to justify cost and not using the hubs. This holds true for pretty much any hub since they...
You are infected by a thing that is a sorta-spyware, sorta-trojan, very-annoying critter. You will probably also find the below in \system32...
I haven't looked carefully thru the HJT log (better eyes than mine on here) but it looks like you did remove your AV (good, it was not working...
The "Incoming" item is shown with an incomplete IP address (not enough number groups) so probably not the actual message but no way to figure out...
This is certainly a puzzlement. Your list of running services is long and would be unusual for a normal home or even large business network...
Excellent news.
Couple of thoughts here. You can usually get a pretty clean uninstall of Norton stuff by first running the uninstall from add/remove and then...
Wish I had a clue how to help you fix things. I am just bumping this back to the top for more looks. I can think of a couple of folks on...
Will it make the patched system vulnerable to ARP cache spoofing again?
Try Johanna's first "take ownership" suggestion. Not at all uncommon for the PC to sort of lose track of exactly which user accounts have...
I moved your post to a new thread. Should get better attention this way. Is your problem new with SP2 or if not, when did it start?
You will probably need to re-run some of the patches/hot fixes since you agreed to take older file versions. There may be a good way someone can...
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