If you can easily do without it, that is certainly a way to go. But if you want to try to track down the cause, I imagine Joe was waiting on...
The way you did it by moving the big pieces is the best bet. In theory it should be fairly simple to move whole thing and leave only a shortcut...
Well, while not exactly good news at least it is news and you can prepare for drive replacement. As to scandisk vs. chkdsk, I am relieved to...
A home network could certainly do this but that is the more pleasant of the possibilities if, in fact, the machine did get slammed only after...
CharlieJ - not for the faint of heart but This page with several items you can download gives a pretty good (although rough copy) of how to make...
CharlieJ - do I understand the flow of things correctly in that the machine behaved fine while connected to the internet away from the user's...
as well as Avast, AVG and Norton 2003 antivirus progs Note that it is not a good idea to have more than one AV program active at any one time....
Here is a pretty exaustive write-up on this particular critter that may help you out. Note that Kaspersky seems to have used a single name...
Try tools~internet options~advanced and uncheck the option for 'inline autocomplete'. I think that will do it for you.
Hope you are feeling better and glad the info helped.
C:\WINDOWS\System32\loadkk.exe KeyKey XP Professional from KeyKey.com. "Monitor Instant Messages, Chats, Emails, Web Site URLs, Passwords,...
Sorry Dave. I keep forgetting that if I split off the new stuff, the post drops back to the last remaining post date. Oops. [Program].exe has...
Excellent that you got an error that may help solve your problem. I don't think that one is pointing at a problem at your end though. Looks to...
Thanks for posting back. I think the chance that others will look at this thread searching for answers is around 100% so the information should...
15Gb should be way more than enough for 2K-pro or 2K Server/Advanced Server. In fact, given what you want to do, you might want to consider...
Ingeniero1 - piping things to a file from a command line prompt still works fine with Nt4/2K/XP/2K3. Not sure about piping to a printer since I...
AngieKae - welcome to windowsbbs.com. I've split this off from the original post so it will get better attention with no confusion between the...
Interesting since Scandisk hasn't been part of any OS after WinME and even assuming a copy from another OS could be made to run from a boot floppy...
Got this critter after I clicked on the link and read your article. Objectionable behavior IMO. Any idea who spawned the thing?
OK. Progress. There is some junk shown in the Hijackthis log that needs to go. Some I know about but others where I'm not sure so will wait and...
Separate names with a comma.