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Hi i am trying to fix a Win 98 machine that stopped working after running and fixing some problems with spybot. When the machine was supposed to restart spybot was going to perform additional cleanups. Now all I get is a Win 98 Setup wizard screen asking for user name and password ? Any clues

Hi I have been having a problem with my machine for sometime, basically on startup W2000 became very slow. I found out that WINLOGON.EXE was using a large amount of processor % for a long period of time. With the help of BCASTNER in the W2000 forum we identified that the delay was being...

Hi I am getting this log after following the best practise list of scanning and using the above utilities. Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 15:01:44, on 12/11/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes...

Hi My W2000 machine has recently started have a slow startup. In task manager the winlogon.exe process has about 40-50% CPU useage and System idle process about has about 40-50% CPU useage. This displays on the graph as about 90-100% total usage. After about 2-3 mins the winlogon.exe process...

Hi all I have been having no trouble with XP sp2 and Symnatec's Norton Antivirus 2004 until today..... Installed XP then SP2 then ran Norton install. Did the usual live update after install and had the "re-run liveupdate to get all updates message". Rebooted, re-ran live update - No updates...

2 New PC's running XP Pro SP2. Linked via network switch. One PC has the data base saved on its hard drive. Question ; what is the most secure way to have another user access this data from the other PC ? We will be having ADSL installed in the future and want to maintain a good level of...

Hi, I am having trouble with a W98 machine the error "Operational system not found" keeps appearing. This requires powering off and on to get going again Where / what is the best tool to run for checking the hard drive in W98 ? I have a W98 boot disk, and wonder if booting from this and...

I have a client whose fairly new PC has started to generate lots of the following errors in the event log ; Event : ID 10003 Source : DCOM Description Access denied attempting to launch a DCOM server using DefaultLaunchPermission. The server is : {00020906-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} The user...

Hi I went to see a new client who amongst a whole host of fairly simple problems has a KTX BM17E 17" monitor which will only work in wide screen type format ! The on screen controls will not reduce the width but only the height! I tried it on W98 and WXP machine both had same results. The...

Hi all I have a client with a hidden user setup on the machine the user name is "asp.net machine A" The PC is a HP Pavillion zd7000 - brought from PC World (!) The user is viewable in the users section of the control panel but not when you log in to XP ! Any pointers as to why this exists ...

I have a new compaq/HP machine running XP Pro (or it was). Keeps rebooting just after the Black Windows XP screen. In safe mode it gets to a line ending mup.sys I can see very breifly a blue screen of death appear before it reboots. Not sure what happened to the machine before it started...

Hi all I have installed a Desktop Evo D330 P4 2.8 512MB RAM XP PRo Machine worked with no problems out of the box, but after the windows updates were added, the intel DSL modem was removed the machine seems to have a long delay in starting up. I have seen this before in other machines. The PC...

Hi I have just placed a spanking new Desktop PC on a users desk to replace a W98 machine on which his much beloved WORKS 95 sat and worked until a hard drive failure meant I could prize it away from him. He now has Windows XP and Office XP ! On Works he could in a document type up an...

Hi all I have an event id 7000 from the service control manager! The cardex service failed to start due to the following error "Cardex, error: Cannot create file when that file already exists" what is this / how do i get rid of it ? Jason

Hi all, I have to connect to an NT 4 box with a new windows XP Pro box what are my options ? Both have network cards and I have a spare hub. Do I join the NT machine to XP using TCP/IP or Join the XP to the NT machine or doesn't it matter. I only want to salvage about 400MB of data from the...

Hi all Does Windows XP Pro have some sort of disabling feature for programs that are not used for a long while ? A user has recently brought me his laptop and requested Word is installed. I never queried it with him just thought it was my mistake for not installing it originally. But in Add /...

Hi, Client has just been told by mcafee that : c:\winnt\system32\msmsgri32.exe has been infected by w32.slanper.worm.gen and mcafee has deleted this file. What is or was it, please anyone ? Jason

I have installed W2000 and setup different users. When each user customises their desktop / program menu it affects the other users that log on to this PC. Although they can change the background colour with out this changing on the other users logins. What do I need to do to solve it ? W98...

Hi all I have installed Windows 2000 Pro as the administrator. Then created new 3 users. I now want to install several applications for each user. But not the same applications. How do I make it so they only can use the programs meant for them. Regards Jason.

Hi all ..... 2 Windows XP Home machines PC1 - Belkin PCI network card installed Connected to Belkin 54g wireless access point with RJ45 cable. Also connected to this PC is my USB ADSL modem. PC2 - Belkin 54g wireless network card. PC1 connects to the internet and downloads email OK. The...