They may be using windows messenger to deliver the ads. If that is the case (NT/2K/XP system) try going into your list of services and stopping...
Derek G - no idea what would cause that sort of delay. Are you having any other performance issues? But if you regularly visit those two...
svchost.exe is called a Generic Host Process because it's a wrapper for multiple small services. You may have 1 or 3 or 5 or more instances...
Glad it's working for you now (way to go Angel71) and that the permissions thing has helped. My guess is the old version had some required...
2 things you need to do. 1. On D: you need to delete the Windows partition. The 2nd copy will then be gone. 2. On C: you need to edit...
Just hope you can finally get it fixed.
Go into Disk Management.
Get into disk management. Change the drive letters to suit yourself. You will have to do a temp letter change to something that won't be in...
Happy to try to tell you if you give a hint what hard drive and controller you have. Windows 2000 using NTFS can support multi-terabyte drives....
Did you do #2 (from my first response above) before running the scans and then scan with housecall in case one of the critters had partly or...
My guess is she has W32.HLLW.Gaobot.AC (or maybe AG, AE, AO or another variant) and removal instructions are available at the link. It's the...
I also use both. I like the Spybot immunize feature and a few other goodies so will stick with it. Ad-aware is now being updated more often and...
Take Ownership of the folder containing the files. That usually seems to work. If that fails, you can boot to the recovery console and delete...
PeteC - nope. Has happend more than a few times. Most folks do the reinstall and get bit before they can get out to update their AV files....
One point to mention here. Unlike earlier OS versions, the defrag applet that ships with XP will defrag the page file. No idea how it does this...
The description is stored in the registry so you can probably change it directly if you want....
Hmmmm. Should be working. Try setting it to CD, A, C so the hard drive is the very last thing it tries to look at. Might help. Otherwise, you...
I can tell you how to do it on XP-pro and I think that if you boot Xp-home to safe mode you'll have the same option. No system of that flavor to...
Try this - search the registry (regedit) for any occurance of InitialKeyboardIndicators and any you find that are set to 0 (zero) change them to...
I find XP is a lot more open to customization than 98 was. Done differently but you can control most of it. I use about 1 hour per day for...
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