Recent content by solderjockey

I'll do a +1 for Classic Start Menu. It's usually the first thing I install on a Windows 8 system for someone coming over from 7 or Vista, including my own. If you have a touchscreen, the tiles make more sense, at least on my opinion. With a mouse they're just kind of a nuisance. To each their...

Thanks for the links, linney, I knew there was a way to recover from a corrupted registry (I've had it happen before, and this sounds kind of like it) so I'll give it a try. I just didn't have much time at work to do a whole bunch of Googling. Plus, I didn't want to bork up my system more by...

linney: thanks for the quick response. It will not boot into safe mode or Last Known Good either. The symptoms were the same in either normal boot or safe mode both times. I thought about BartPE but I don't have access to another working comuter ATM to make one.

gbl: the cd's are all the same. ie, one xp pro cd is no different than another, the key is just specific to the system. There is no key stored on the cd itself. At least as far as I've ever been able to tell anyway. You should be able to use the same CD on many different systems as long as you...

This all started yesterday upon rebooting my computer. It went ok till the part where the WindowsXP boot screen came up, then I got a error message "services.exe - Bad Image The application or DLL C:\Windows\system32\msvcp60.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your...

SWilent: If I remember correctly, findfast.exe is a component of Microsoft Office. If you look in your "Startup" folder, I believe you will find it there. I have removed this before with no harmful effects. sj

I can't remember where I read this, but I'm pretty sure WinXP will only support one screen resolution. Which means, it is global. If one user wants larger fonts or icons, you may be able to set this preference for each user. I haven't had to do this, so I may be wrong, but it may be worth a try. sj

Crap! how could I have forgotten the SysRestore? Too obvious I guess. Thanks for the reminder, and I'll definitely try bcastner's suggestion. That's what i get for trying to be in a hurry and answer a million questions at the same time! Thanks guys, I'm heading over there tomorrow morning and...

I've been commissioned by my sister-in-law to come and fix several virus and malware related problems on their small networked system. The first, her system, had the w32.galil-c virus, norton took care of that. The next, is a nasty browser hijack to a site find4u dot net. I've googled the heck...

Thank you all for your time & tips! I think I have found the problem. I got to thinking about the hardware thing. I went into the bios and started disabling things that didn't seem necessary-serial ports, usb keyboard & mouse (don't have either) and when I disabled the "legacy onboard...

Thanks, bcastner. I enabled kernel times in the task manager, and it shows the kernel times to be roughly 75% of the total processor usage. I also enabled more counters in the performance monitor, namely interrupts/second, and it shows around 135000 to 138000 interrupts per second. That seems...

Hopefully someone out there can help me out on this one. I recently installed XP Pro on my work machine, and it just seemed kind of sluggish. I noticed that it was using anywhere from 40 - 65% cpu even with no programs open. The funny thing is, what the processes tab reports does not line up...

Just as an update, if anyone is monitoring this thread anymore, hibernation is working again, and I am not sure why. I recently upgraded the bios (update came out 6-2-2003) and was running bootvis to trace a hibernate & resume cycle in the hopes of finding the offending driver. But, to my...

A good one (the one I use at least) is called CDex, found at http://www.surf.to/cdex With it you can encode mp3's from a CD, convert CD's to wav files, or convert wav files to mp3, wma, ogg, and various other formats. It is not too hard to set up, has a good help file, and receives constant...

linney: I verified that the BIOS is up to date. I also checked the Event Viewer, nothing unusual there. I ran SFC last night, it didn't help, just caused me to have to re-install the video and autdio drivers. I guess my only other option is just to do a repair, or re-install if things get bad...