Operating System System Model Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600) Dell Inc. Dimension 4700. I have a Microsoft Reclusa Keyboard that I bought December 26, 2008. Every time I press a g, the keyboard also adds a b. When I press the b it adds the g. This messes me up when I try to enter some passwords. Yesterday I unplugged it, took it outside and shook any dirt out, then I used compressed gas duster on it and let it dry well, but still doing it.
After being away on holiday i return and ran SpyBot to see if my brother's downloading has put anything unwanted on my computer. It flagged up the usual things so they were removed. However it also started to pop up asking about allowing or denying changes to the registry.
I then started to get an error that meant double clicking on icons did nothing and a terminal error which was found in the microsoft debuger. I've no idea which one though as i ran the fix and thought nothing of it. It then prompted to run a malware sweep which took ages and flagged up 7 malicious files. I followed the instructions for removed and now suspect that this removed something from the registry that i now need.
The issue i now have is that nothing appears to work correctly. Firstly the taskbar disappeared, and while i've got that back the minimised windows sit on the top rather than being inside. Secondly MSOffice products like Excel and Word are showing errors about links and lastly i cannot access the web. I've tried the connection of the latter on another Pc and its all fine. I've looked through the msconfig and cannot see anything untoward.
My next steps are to try and run a 'hijack' log so see what is running by not sure what i'm doing with that and suspect it more what isn't running, eg its been deleted from the start up program.
Hi, I'm using win xp, sp1. When I go to start>run and type in something like cmd to open the dos prompt I see the window come up but it goes away after a second. the same thing happens when i type in regedit. now if I type in cmd.exe or regedit.exe it will work.
Another problem I assume is in the same category is when I get to the dos prompt and try to ping a site it won't do anything just go back to the c: prompt. If i type in ipconfig or do an nslookup it will work tho. what to do here or what else to try.
I have downloaded eset nod32 antivirus, RestrictionRemoval Tool(RRT), Wndows Defender, PrevxCSI, Security Task Manager, and Task Killer just to ensure that my pc is not infected with some malware.My Nod 32 antivirus is out of date since i only used the trial version.The nod32, windows defender and prevxCSI have found that my pc is clean from any malware but one time, while i was surfing the net, i was trying to right click but there is no response as if some application is trying to block my right click.i tried to click the desktop and right click but still nothing happened.. i tried to open the restriction tool but a sound just keeps playing "the windows critical stop". i tried to open the task manager and the same sound plays. i tried the prevxcsi and still the same sound plays.. i try to open "my documents" only to find that my menu bar is missing and sometimes the "help" button is the only one there.
recently my computer has been doing some very strange things. occasionally i get a box popping up saying that something has been terminated unexpectedly and the computer will shutdown in 60 seconds, but this is quite rare.
the main problems are having unusual crashes and moments where the computer acts like the monitor cable has been unplugged and then plugged back in. also i am having internet connection issues much more frequently than before, and sometimes my computer just slows down to snail pace or the mouse hangs every few seconds for no apparent reason.
i have searched through my task manager processes and cannot find anything there out of the ordinary. i have tried to run Ad-aware and Spybot but the programs both crash when they try to update, the same thing also happens with AVG antivirus, the computer refuses to let these apps access the internet connection. I do have Sygate Personal Firewall installed and usually it would run at startup but now there is no longer the icon in the system tray, and when I try to boot it up from start menu it too refuses to load. however the process 'Smc.exe' which I understand is part of Sygate Personal Firewall is still running.
As for system specs, I have:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 1 gig ram Geforce 6600 GT AGP Soundblaster Audigy 2 ASUS motherboard Windows XP Professional SP1
PS- I did have an idea why the spyware/adware/AV programs won't update, since recently my Sygate Personal Firewall seemed to forget which programs were 'allowed' or 'blocked', and I haven't run any of these programs since then. Now that I cannot access SPF to tell it to allow these programs that could be the reason they won't update. I am still at a loss as to why SPF/AVG do not load up on startup as they used to however.
i have been having trouble with my sound for a few weeks now and have been unable to find out how to solve my problem. whenever i get onto the internet the sound does not work. not on any sites, everytime i go onto Internet i can see the video perfectly, but am unable to hear the sound. however when i open up ituens and listen to music the sound works perfectly fine! it also works fine when i put in a cd or dvd or have any games running! does anyone know whats wrong?
my intenet is weird when i go on the internet it works but when i go off of it to play cs or WoW or inything i go back on the internet and then it wont load to iny page the screen is white wont let me go to iny other page so inytime i want to go on the internet i have to restart then it does it again after i use it plz help me
recently got a internel harddrive installed by an tech guy and he went to the bios settings or something to make the drive work so i dont know i tried searching for malware and spyware nothing found i tried reseting the internet it wont work either.
when i play cs the internet cuts out and makes it so it wont load and when i join a server it wont go there fast liek it used to and when i wanna play WoW i have to go on interet then go to launch wow or it will say no connection to internet when the little interet icon is on
I'm having problems with my computer, ImgBurn, uTorrent, RealPlayer freeze when I try to use them and LiveMessenger doesn't open at all, for some reason FireFox started working after restarting the computer, which I had to do manually because nothing happens when I press the shutdown or restart buttons,
I've had Avira detect and remove 3 trojans and restarted but my programs still won't run properly.
I was downloading a pdf file through torrent but I have checked the file and it seems to be clean.
Could anyone help me ? should I post a Hijack this log? and if so, which part?
my cousins comp over at the shop is pretty screwy. Without my knowing he had Yahoo Mail installed on the computer, lazy mofo. But when I try and remove it.... nothing happens. The Add/Remove jus won't respond to it. So until then, I deleted the shortcut on the desktop. Anyone got a solution?
I am using Win XP SP2 and for some reason my clock at the bottom right dosent count time as it should. i keep on having to put the time in and then when i go back to the pc the next morning it is still counting time but seems to be wrong.
everytime i time i type s it shows up as es. And when when i type k it shows up as yk. and when i put a period it shows a t. And i think theres other key problems too
I've got a bit of a problem. My command prompt (run cmd) has decided that it doesn't know what "help" is. Heres the output and my path is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file.What is wrong This can't be normal
I did system restore, and after my pc restarted, I was waiting for the system restore box that will say "Restoration Completed/Incomplete...", i waited for it for about 30mins or so and got frustrated... I turned OFF my pc manually... and when i restarted back my pc is working but there are problems.
-My system restore will open but it only has a clear white window.. nothing in it but white screen.
-I am not able to use the USERS window under control panel, getting the same thing for it, just a white window.
-My mcafee security program is also not working, getting that same white window.
i am able to see the title bar of the window but nothing else aside from that.
running win xp home with sp2 installed, ok here goes, i dl pc mighty max other night and ran it, wasnt happy with prog so started to uninstall, comp crashed so restarted. on restart get message xp not registered, so regestered over phone ok,but know i have a grey task bar,when i try to get to win update get first page then get errror message, msn stopped working cant access some pages on net, spoken to micro help advised to try and run repair of system but i have no restart points in system tool or they dont work, i have tried to do repair buy booting from my xp disc but get massage no harddrives found,
The problem remains however. The @ key is actually the " key, and vice-versa. Also a couple of other keys are reversed too. I've looked everywhere on the net to try and reverse these problems but I'd rather not download a remapping program.
I do believe I messed this up so bad. Here is what happened. We were having issues with our flash player so I finally got irratated and removed some things and reinstalled the flash player. Well apparently I deleted my sound device and couldn't get it back. It kept saying I needed the cd. So I got my windows Xp cd and re downloaded it. Which completely reset everything (I know well duh) but I still don't have a sound device. How do I get sound back!
I've been facing a lot of problems, a) my yahoo messenger is not working properly, (i cannot see the text messages send and received, the other person can)..the chat window is empty...even though i can make and receive pc-pc calls. b) my windows media player doesnt open. no error is shown but it simply doesnt open... when ever i try to watch something online, which uses media player buffering, it shows "cannot create direct show player"... another error that pops up is "fail to load control from wmp.dll" c) Limewire used to work fine and suddenly it stopped working. d) my internet explorer doesnt display the "download" buttons on websites. shows some javascript void error something in the status bar below. I tried formatting my system and re-installed everything, it was working fine for few days and then again it went back to the previous state. I have installed Norton 360, and Avast nothing detects any virus...i've installed the latest ver of java..I am using a lenovo laptop with WinXP SP2 (2002 Ver), Intel Centrino duo 1.7 ghz, 1gb ram. Please help me guys, my comp is really really annoying!
i just reinstalled xp on my laptop and now it wont show up anything when i insert something intothe usb port. the light comes on on my usb stick. but thats all. i checked the usb controllers and the hubs and it says the device is working properally.
I recently purchased a USB DVD burner. All of a sudden, my USB ports are not functioning properly. I have 3 ports on my laptop, and have tried all of them. Also, my mouse works, but only if it is plugged in when I start my computer. If it is unplugged, and then plugged back in, the computer can't find it. I have very little computer knowledge, so need step by step walkthroughs. I have tried the troubleshooter, and followed all the steps, and nothing has worked.
I reformatted my computer today, (due to virus) and seemed to be working fine until i tried to install my nvidia graphics driver, it got half way thru and then a command promt opened and the address of it was C://windows/system32/expand.exe. hundreds of files rushed thru the command promt and then it said it had successfully installed the driver. When i rebooted the screen went blank after the windows loading screen, i tried rebooting a few times but the screen stayed blank. I then rebooted into safe mode and uninstalled the nvidia driver, it worked fine after that but i still cant install the nvidia graphics driver.i have the latest driver and am running windows xp pro.
when I boot up I just get a blank screen. The Start menu has disappeared and all the icons on my desktop have gone away as well as the taskbar and the clock at the bottom of the screen. How do I get them back? I'm using XP and just downloaded the latest updates (six of which didn't work). Not sure if the latter had anything to do with it. I've tried starting explorer using ctrl-alt-delete then running explorer, but it still doesn't work as normal. A reboot doesn't work either.
Im not sure if this is the right place to post this but here I go. I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 with WXP. Everything was fine 'till a day ago, i dont know what happened but suddenly the System Tray Icons started to be very slow, when I double click on them it takes a few minutes for them to open, when I right click on them the options just get stuck there and wont go away blocking the view of the other icons, and it wont let me choose any of them, the volume icon and the internet connection icon will no change even if the volume or signal have changed. Also, the typing in any program became really reallly slow, but I fixed that already.
I have some problem in Windows Automatic Update feature Problem..From last couple of weeks iam facing this problem Whenever my PC starts..the computer becomes little busy..and after a while..in my taskbar a baloon pops out saying " Updates are ready for your computer..click to download "..When i click this baloon, a window comes out showing -"Choose updates to download"In that window, "Windows XP Service Pack 3 (KB936929)" option was already clicked..when i click the download button..nothing happens and no downloading takes place...so why is it so?All this happens each and every time when i boot my PC and my Windows starts,Repeatedly..
Something is wrong with my flash drive. I've been saving files to it, and each time before disconnecting I go to "stop" the drive before removing it. However, most of my files have been lost on it, reduced to some obscure format that I can't work with. Also, each time I put it in, I get this message asking me if I want to scan and fix errors on the flash drive. Selecting "more options" reveals that, apparently, it's not a Windows XP drive.What is going wrong? Is there some way to just re-format the entire zip drive and start from scratch?
I need help with an XP desktop setting issue. I had a mouse issue and in the process,I clicked or right clicked on or near the task bar by the clock. Now I've got a colored box on the left quarter of the desktop which has "folder tasks"on top, "other places" in the middle and "details" on the bottom. This doesn't affect using any other program......its just on the desktop taking up space.
I am currently having issues with Norton Anti-virus 2007, and I am looking into buying a new anti-virus program. I use a lot of high end design software/cad software and of course hardcore gaming(BF2142, lol). I am looking strictly for anti-virus and one that doesn't eat up all my performance or give me errors(norton, argh).
