Disappearing Yellow Update Shield
Feb 3, 2008why when I click on my little yellow update shield to view my updates it disappears.
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Click Little Yellow Shield - Access Is Denied SP3
Jul 23, 2008I have automatic updates set up on my Windows XP home system (SP2). Normally I just click the little yellow shield and it installs. No problems.This time it is trying to install SP 3. It goes right through the procedure until it is actually trying to install the new SP3 when it stops and tells me that "Access is Denied" "SP3 did not complete"No other error code or further information is given It has done this twice and I have not bothered since. Reading some of the posts on SP3 I am not sure that this is not a blessing in disguise however I would like to know WHY
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All recent virus/spyware scans are clean (AVG, panda, trendmicro, spybot, adaware, spyware doctor, and ewido). Below is a recent HJT log, although I didn't see anything which would be causing this.
Disabling Auto Updates - Getting A Red Shield In Taskbar
Dec 18, 2006I have disabled automatic updates on my Win XP. Now i get a red shield in my taskbar which is a bit annoying.
How do i set it so that red shield is not there (without enabling auto updates again.
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Now I'm worried that I was wrong, because after shutting down at 11:30 pm or so last night, the computer seems to be hung. I have a screen with a blue background, the Windows XP logo, and I get a message that alternates between saying "Do not turn off or unplug your computer; it will turn off automatically." and "Installing update 1 of 4." Again, this is behaviour I've never seen before, and has been going on now for over 9 hours. Unfortunately, I did not make note of the critical updates, but I seem to remember that the file sizes were not that large.
Anti Virus Icons On Line Security - Blue / Green Shield Mark
Jun 20, 2006I just noticed two new icons on my desk top. One is On Line Security which has a blue sheild with this mark in the middle of it ! the other one has a green sheild with a check mark in the middle of it and is called Security trouble shooter. how they got their and what they are? I am running windows XP home
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Jan 26, 2006I'm running Windows XP Home SP2 on a Dell Dimension 4600 w/ 2.4 ghz processor and 1.5 GB of RAM. I also have dual monitors with my desktop expanded across both screens. Usually when I am loading huge programs the mouse cursor will freeze in place. The mouse still works, but the cursor doesn't move (so i can still click on things by guessing where the cursor would be). However, the cursor will only freeze on one of the two screens. When I drag the "ghost cursor" over to the other screen, it shows up again and works fine on the opposite screen (but still doesnt work on the original screen). Also, if I'm really unlucky the cursor will disappear on one screen and then eventually on the other screen as well. I ran spyware and anti-virus scans, and spyware was clean but AVG anti-virus "identified virus Java/OpenStream". I don't know if that has anything to do with the cursor problem. Also, sometimes when loading programs I get an "EAccessViolation" and I have no idea if that has anything to do with this problem. If I did a bad job explaining the problem, I have the exact same problem as this guy:
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View 2 Replies View RelatedDisappearing Stuff From The Drive
Nov 21, 2007It's not the biggest problem in the world but all of the games provided by windows have just disappeared. Literally I logged on, went to play spider solitaire and it wasn't there! And I haven't done anything to it. If anyone knows of a way of getting them back that would be helpful. And also Windows deleted the flash player device, just randomly. And I've downloaded it again but it still doesn't work.
View 1 Replies View RelatedDisk Space Is Disappearing
Jul 5, 2006I have a 300gb hard drive split into two paritions: 20gb to use as a boot drive and the other 280gb for storage. The problem is the space on my boot drive keeps diminishing even though I don't install or add any additional files to it. I think this has been happening since I installed Windows XP, but now it's getting ridiculous. I only have about 300mb left out of 20gb.What's even stranger is that when I select all the folders in my boot drive and check the amount of disk space they are using, it's only about 12gb....where are the rest of the 8gb going? Some have suggested that it is my paging file that is taking up the space, but my paging file is only 768mb per drive.
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Mar 7, 2010I've been having a problem for the last few weeks. As I work on my computer the free space on my C drive decreases drastically. My drive is partitioned between C & D. When I restart, all my free space comes back. I just had to restart because I was down to 80 K. When I started I had 16.5G available. It's been about 2 hours and I'm down to 15G. I've run my anti-virus. About the time it started I installed a back up hard drive (which is intermittently attached to this laptop) and WD anywhere backup software.
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May 14, 2008I am running Windows XP SP2 on an IBM NeVista that has a CD drive and a DVD multi drive.These used to be drive D and E. Just recently, for some unknown reason, it seems that Windows no longer 'sees' the CD drive and only 'sees' the DVD drive, which (I'm positive) used to be drive E but now shows up as drive D. This is weird enough but the really weird thing is that I cannot play or load anything in either.If I put a CD or DVD in drive d (the DVD drive that XP can see in 'My Computer), nothinh happens.It doesn't play or autostart and if I hit 'open' on the drive, it says to please insert a disk.I desperatly need to relaod some software and of course now, neither one of the droves work. I considered deleting the drivers of each of them and then (I assume) have Windows try to re-find the drivers but at this point, XP, nor the hardware device manager in system properties, even 'see; the CD drive.
I am at a loss as to what to do to try and get these drives back. I'm not aware of anything 'weird' happening recently (I think this problem has been going on for a few months now) and everything else seems to be working ok for the most part. I thought about actually physically removing both drives and then physically re-installing them again but I really don't want to have to go take everything apart unless I have to.
System Tray Keeps Disappearing
May 14, 2008I have XP2 SP2 and for the last few days my system tray keeps diasppearing. Sometimes it comes back, other times the only way to get it back is to restart my pc, which is getting very annoying now.It happens whatever browser I use, IE7, Firefox and Windows.
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Feb 24, 2007Some but not all attachments sent to me with Outlook Express emails don't arrive in my In Box. When I ask the sender to repeat but use my GoogleMail account, the attachments arrive fine. I'm using a vanilla IBM Thinkpad R52 running Windows XP as supplied and fairly ordinary applications. I thought it might be my virus software (I was using Super AntiSpyware which is quite aggressive) but I've deleted this and all other anti virus ware and the problem persists
View 2 Replies View RelatedDisappearing Display Properties Tabs
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Missing Tabs - black outline.bmp - If I hit the left and right arrow keys notice the little black outline its almost as though the tab is there just VERY small, I did click in those general areas and each one I click on it will change so its almost as thought its really small and the 5 tabs only occupy the far left of that bar......
Taskbar Disappearing (checked Other Threads)
Jan 30, 2010I have an issue with my task bar it disappears. This only seems to happen when I leave the PC alone for a while, never while I'm using it. I've tried the normal tricks (running 'explorer.exe', auto-hiding and un auto-hiding etc.)I've got Spyware Doctor running, have CCcleaner running on startup checking registry and redundant files. I can get the taskbar back by restarting PC, but that's a bit of a pain, if you could help, that would be great.
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Internet
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Click the icon the check you ISP for reliability".
Run Programs Missing Keep Disappearing On Start Menu?
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Little Yellow Triangle With An Exclamation Mark
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Yellow Triangle Popping Out On Tray
Oct 9, 2006This yellow triangle error keeps popping out on my tray,and I try to right click or left click it,it disappears,then 5 minutes later it reappears again for 30 seconds,then it disappears.
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