Jim - after 98 I can see why the XP arrangement (and NT4/2K did the same) seems junky but for a true multiple user OS, there just is not another...
Excellent fix and thank you for posting it.
BenzHead - please start a new thread. Easier for everyone to keep track of who has which problems and tried what fixes that way.
1. Locate a file on your PC named hosts (no extension) and rename it to hosts.old. 2. Click on Start, run, put ipconfig /flushdns in the run...
C:\WINDOWS\System32\rundll32.exe - I sorta worry when this one is running at startup. You need to find out exactly what it is doing. You don't...
I'm not positive how much of the junk will be auto-removed by running current (and updated) versions of Ad-Aware and Spybot but both would be a...
However, if the machine was hacked or got a virus the local backup drives would be just as vulnerable to attack as would the non-backup drives!...
WhitPhil has a good point. For the other, my "uninstall" version of the file is the same size as yours. March 2003 so newer but probably the...
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Norton certainly has been blamed by more than one person on here for causing system sludge. I ran it for some years up thru the 2003 version and...
But to answer your original question, tss.exe seems to be part of Talisman Themes so if you installed the software, that's where & when you got it.
I'm glad you were nervous about shutting down your firewall. That was very dangerous advice they gave.
Try this as a cure for the applications issue start~run~cmd to open a DOS window assoc .exe=exefile (no spaces before or after =) Post...
Possibly another ASUS file but not sure. Probably worth sassomiro making a tech support call to them to ask.
You are running an out-of-date version of Hijackthis. Download the current one and post the new log file here.
From "Quicklinks" in my signature, download Hijackthis and place it in a folder other than temp or the desktop. Run it to generate a log file...
Pro is also excellent for households with children since the security features are much richer. I'd suggest that version for either a single PC...
From a google search for memory testing utilities I got Results 1 - 10 of about 1,760,000 English pages for memory testing utilities
Did you download the entire 260+Mb service pack and install from there? Do you have SP1 installed? There were problems with that dll in the...
Well Dang. Was hoping for some hints there. Now I agree it is likely a hardware issue. Not my strongest area but memory comes to mind. If...
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