Recent content by bullfrog87

Thank you for explaining that to me. About the data still existing on the platters of the hard drive. Well i know anyone is awaiting the i fixed the issues and i have fixed the issues with all this bs of trouble shooting. The problem most likely was a generic driver that windows gave to the...

Ok i deleted the partition. Did normal format. Put xp pro back on the laptop and still can't drag and drop and it keeps freezing. I will try GMER after work today. To see if that finds anything. But my understanding of when i delete a partition. Everything is gone. NO? as well as formating the...

Thank you for all your suggestions. I don't have anymore time to try and figure it out so i'm reformatting and reinstalling xp pro on it. I would love and try to figure this out but my boss is getting mad how long its taking me to fix it. Interesting fact i tryed a quick format and put xp pro...

Tried all steps above and ended up backing up her files onto a flash drive and then reformatting and reinstalling fresh windows xp pro sp 3 install... problem still persists even without the transfer of files. The disk is good as it's been used for other installs with no problem... could this...

ok i've deleted this uninstall desktop search and see if it helps "O3 - Toolbar: Ask Toolbar - {D4027C7F-154A-4066-A1AD-4243D8127440} - C:\Program Files\Ask.com\GenericAskToolbar.dll" ask toolbar, get rid of that "O3 - Toolbar: Kaboodle Toolbar - {92857633-2441-4A14-8236-DFCB97AD3E87} -...

I'm having some serious problems with a client's laptop and suspect a virus or malware problem. Here is what I have tried so far... I ran scan disk, I ran malwarebyte, search and destroy, kapersky anti virus, found nothing Did registry drop and drag fix for windows xp pro sp3 (found here on...