Can anybody please show me how to keep the there are unused desktop icons cleanup wizard popup to quit coming up for good? for every different user?I already know about going to desktop settings with the 60 days thing. I am an IT at a school where these kids see this message and tend to screw things up when they go into it.
View 8 RepliesEvery once in a while i get the stupid Unused Desktop Shortcuts icon that comes up on my dektop. Anyone know how to stop that from coming up?
View 1 Replies View RelatedBefore I got this dialog box that showd that I could make a folder to have all my unused desktop items in. I click cancel, now several months after I regret. How can I get the dialog box back?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if there was a way to permanently ensure you never see the balloon that tells you that there are "unused icons on your desktop". I'm assuming it's some sort of registry hack.
View 2 Replies View RelatedCurrent problems:A program called PestTrap installed itself and continuously pops up a warning window in the bottom right from the desktop tray.A different icon showed up in the desktop tray that does something similar called MalwareWipe.Something has reset his homepage to securityuptodate.net and any time he changes his homepage, it resets back to securityuptodate.net.There was a popup right as I began looking into the problems he's been having that came up and was talking about a virus called "W32.Myzor.FK@yf" and that apparently his computer is "in danger" and that I should click "OK" to download official Microsoft security updates (or something along those lines).
View 14 Replies View RelatedI'd like to map the key combination Control-D to quit cmd.
Does anyone know how to define what key combinations do in cmd?
For example Control-C kills the current program in cmd and returns the prompt, so where is this defined and how can I map other key combinations to things like quitting out of cmd?
I have a Dell inspiron 530 with XP and a keyboard that quit working. I have tried everything I can think of. Safe mode malware runs, uninstalls and reinstalls, driver downloads and updates. I am also having more redirects on my internet than usual. Using the on screen keyboard now.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI got a new web cam "logitech pro for notebooks". Neat camera, and worked perfectly until yesterday. Now When I make a video there is no sound. I have installed,re-installed, and called logitech. They gave me another download for the program , but it didn't help.I have checked the system sounds, sound card and my windows"sndrec32" works fine. What else can I look for?
View 2 Replies View RelatedResetting it in properties for the drive has no effect. When he puts in a cd, nothing happens.
View 13 Replies View RelatedSound quit working. Have checked msconfig and sound properties to no avail. Last thing I can remember doing before problem was using CClearner.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have an emachine that is a few years old that my high school daughter uses. Today when she was typing a paper for school it got stuck on all caps, then it just quit working all together. I took the keyboard and put it on my computer and it works fine. My keyboard doesn't work on her computer either. I restarted which didn't help. I also retored the computer to yesterday's back up. That didn't work either. This computer does have some age on it but I was hoping to get it to last her until she gets that college laptop.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a computer in which I have an XP dual boot on 2 separate hard drives (160 & 120 GB).I have had this particular combination in working order since 4/07. A few days ago my 2nd drive (F) would not boot. I get only a blank, black screen and nothing else NO error messages or warnings. My C drive will boot normally, no problems.The drive is "seen" in BIOS, startup and in my computer on the C drive. The drive is there but the darned thing just will not boot. I have tried using "fixboot" & "fixmbr" to no avail!
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Realtime Security Software: Avast!, ThreatFire,
Non-Realtime: Spyware Blaster, SuperAntispyware Scanner (Free Edition), Malwarebytes' Scanner
Firewall: COMODO Firewall Only
My Standard Account got reset for the 2nd time. Firstly, when I didn't use my account for 4 days once I came to log on I realised that 'Personalized Settings' was showing up at the top left hand corner. This came again after I didn't use the account for one day. By reset I mean, the background wallpaper reset to default and the desktop folders not showing up. But when I went into 'Documents and Settings' in my administrator account (which didn't get reset), all the folders were showing up in my C Drive/Documents and Settings/ folder. Once I right-clicked on a folder on my system when this happened for the first time, my system froze. The system also froze when opening any file. This started happening a few weeks after I had installed COMODO Firewall which might be a coincidence even though I don't think it is but all these error messages/dialog box popped up on my account, roughly like 'Invalid or corrupt jarfile...' but on the administrator account none of these errors showed up when this happened on my account. In addition, this issue also happened when I changed my account from Standard to Administrator but this didn't change anything. When this happened for the first time, to solve the issue I made a new account and then copied all my files/folders over from my old account to the new one but because this problem has happened again, I predict that this will keep on happening again on every new account I make. I have also run malware scans which didn't detect any viruses.
I remember from within the last month using a cmd line tool in XP which basically scrubs the unused portions of the hd by doing a 3 pass write of 0s and 1s on the drive. Problem is I forgot the file name. Anyone know it off hand?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a computer that there has been no changes to except for the most
receint windows security updates. Now all of a sudden my notification area
icons will not hide when inactive.I have checked all settings. I have even turned off hiding and rebooted thenturned hiding back on still not luck. I also made sure that the settings areset to hide when inactave
Windows XP Home.How can I permanently remove the unused and rather twee folders 'My Music' and 'My Pictures'?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am currently using a Dell Inspiron 8600 running Windows XP(if you need more details, just say so)a few days ago, I needed some more room on my hard drive, so i started uninstalling some old programs and games I hadn't used in a while, and while I was in the "add or remove programs" anyway, I uninstalled a few things that haven't been used since I got the computer almost three years ago.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI used Win98SE before installing WinXP Pro about a year ago. I have 2 internal hard drives and am running a dual boot with 98SE on the C drive and the K drive has the XP Pro. C drive was partitioned at the outset of dual booting and has drives E through H. Drive K which has XP Pro is beginning to fill and in fact, I currently have only 4 gigs available for use. Now the question: can I move some of the unused gigs in drives G and H to the K drive?? Oh, 98SE is FAT32 and Pro has NTFS formatting. If the answer is yes then, of course, I will need to know how. And as usual, TIA.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI am trying to clean up my computer.. I use tonIARTS thingy and that works great for me but I do have an awful lot of programs that came with the computer that I don't know if I can get rid of safely.. some I have down loaded myself.
View 7 Replies View RelatedHow do I create network shortcuts in My Network Places? There are several computers on my network and on them, specific specific drives and specific folders that I use frequently. I'd like them to show up on all the computers, but I don't know how to create them? A second, related question, can I safely delete shortcuts that appear there that I don't use?
View 11 Replies View RelatedRecently I noticed that my "C" partition, which ONLY has the "XP Pro" OS and a few related programs on it, has gone from 50% UNUSED space down to 35%. I have not added anything, except MS automatic downloads. There was one a week or so ago that seemed large. Could that be the cause of the increase? Are there files that 'grow' unnoticed that can be removed?I understand that once the "C" disk (partition) is filled beyond 50%, "XP" progressively slows down. I do not want that to happen, and purposely created a partition twice as large as the size of "XP." If necessary, I could increase the size of the "C" partition.
View 7 Replies View RelatedThere is pop-up problem with my PC.when ever i start any program on internet number of pop up comes.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAbout every five minutes or so we get a pop up for our hp 1300 all in one. The main box pop up is as if we just installed new software for a printer, which of course we have not, and then a box pops up that has 1300 trb in the header and then says windows is configuring, and then another box pops up that says 1300 help in the header and then says it is also configuring. Nothing will print and we have one doc in que that we cannot cancel.
View 7 Replies View RelatedThis one has stumped me but I believe the cause is related to the million versions of security dlls MS has created pre-and post sp2.
The symptoms:
Linked popups in IE generate a blank window.
Event viewer property pages do not open Services property pages do not work
Javascript "A disk error has occurred during a read operation"
Firefox opens the window but also adds a second blank one for a popup
Links in outlook emails open fine in new window
AOL webmail works correctly new window with email in it
Since this behavior arrived out of the blue and is specific I believe some proximate events were:
Install and de-install Pluck (RSS browser tool)
Install and de-install Java V1.5 SE
AOL homepage saying it was upgrading (AOL mail does work)
To resolve this I have:
Used Iefix to deinstall reinstall IE
Updated to all fixes sans sp2
run sfc /scannow
downloaded current scripting engine from MS
re-registered all suggested dlls for ie6
run current Macafee on everything
gone through MS knowledgebase
I did find two other users having the same problem with an extensive list of possible resolutions, none of which have worked.
so i went to msn and did the verify ( windows genuine advantage ) verification just to see if she has done it so we passed the test ,Its valid so no problem there .this is a dell machine >Dimension 5000< only a few months old, 3 at tops . she doesnt even use the net much . its a machine for picture editing .
any ideas why we cannot get the updates ..
also 1 time when i was on this machine surfing . this dell window poped up and showed something about updates , like it has over ridden Windows automatic updates . but i cannot find it anywhere on this machine
windows xp home sp_2 is what she has .
After setting up a password for the pc, I changed my mind and want the pc to boot up without showing the password prompt. All I've been able to find is how to remove the password but not how to prevent the prompt from popping up.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy computer is being held hostage by the MovieLand Popups. At the time we were supposed to have signed up for MovieLand
View 3 Replies View RelatedHaving problems with popups all of a sudden, I'v never used hijack before and not really sure of what I'm looking at. I did attach a copy of log. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.0 Scan saved at 4:45:27 PM, on 1/29/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:WINDOWSSystem32smss.exe C:WINDOWSsystem32winlogon.exe C:WINDOWSsystem32services.exe C:WINDOWSsystem32lsass.exeC:WINDOWSsystem32svchost.exeC:WINDOWSSystem32svchost.exe C:WINDOWSsystem32spoolsv.exe C:WINDOWSsystem32CTsvcCDA.EXE C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedVS7DEBUGMDM.EXE
C:WINDOWSsystem32 vsvc32.exe C:WINDOWSsystem32MsPMSPSv.exe C:WINDOWSExplorer.EXE C:Program FilesCommon FilesRealUpdate_OB ealsched.exe
C:WINDOWSsystem32CTHELPER.EXE C:Program FilesMUSICMATCHMUSICMATCH Jukeboxmmtask.exe C:WINDOWSsystem32Ubxoiw.exe C:WINDOWSsystem32ctfmon.exe C:DOCUME~1JackLOCALS~1TempTemporary Directory 1 for hijackthis.zipHijackThis.exe R0 - HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Start Page = http://www.cnn.com/ R0 - HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Start Page = http://www.cnn.com/ R0 - HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Local Page = R0 - HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain,Local Page = R3 - URLSearchHook: ICQ Toolbar - {855F3B16-6D32-4fe6-8A56-BBB695989046} - C:Program FilesICQToolbar oolbaru.dll O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:Program FilesAdobeAcrobat 6.0ReaderActiveXAcroIEHelper.dll O2 - BHO: (no name) - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - C:Program FilesSpybot - Search & DestroySDHelper.dll O3 - Toolbar: &Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:Program FilescontMediaAnatomical Atlas HRMSDXM.OCX O3 - Toolbar: ICQ Toolbar - {855F3B16-6D32-4fe6-8A56-BBB695989046} - C:Program FilesICQToolbar oolbaru.dll O4 - HKLM..Run: [UpdReg] C:WINDOWSUpdreg.exe
O4 - HKLM..Run: [CTStartup] C:Program FilesCreativeSBAudigyProgramCTEaxSpl.EXE /run O4 - HKLM..Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:Program FilesQuickTimeqttask.exe" -atboottime O4 - HKLM..Run: [TkBellExe] "C:Program FilesCommon FilesRealUpdate_OB ealsched.exe" -osboot
O4 - HKLM..Run: [KernelFaultCheck] %systemroot%system32dumprep 0 -k O4 - HKLM..Run: [CTHelper] CTHELPER.EXE O4 - HKLM..Run: [mmtask] C:Program FilesMUSICMATCHMUSICMATCH Jukeboxmmtask.exe O4 - HKLM..Run: [version] C:WINDOWSsystem32Srkgph.exe O4 - HKLM..Run: [secure] C:WINDOWSsystem32Ubxoiw.exe O4 - HKLM..Run: [gcasServ] "C:Program FilesMicrosoft AntiSpywaregcasServ.exe" O4 - HKCU..Run: [ctfmon.exe] C:WINDOWSsystem32ctfmon.exe O4 - HKCU..Run: [TaskTray] "C:Program FilesCreativeTaskBarCTLTray.exe" O4 - HKCU..Run: [TaskBar] "C:Program FilesCreativeTaskBarCTLTask.exe" O8 - Extra context menu item: &ICQ Toolbar Search - res://C:Program FilesICQToolbar oolbaru.dll/SEARCH.HTML O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:Program FilesJavaj2re1.4.2_05in
pjpi142_05.dll O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:Program FilesJavaj2re1.4.2_05in pjpi142_05.dll O9 - Extra button: Research - {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} - C:PROGRA~1MICROS~2OFFICE11REFIEBAR.DLL
O9 - Extra button: ICQ 4 - {B863453A-26C3-4e1f-A54D-A2CD196348E9} - C:Program FilesICQLiteICQLite.exe O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: ICQ Lite - {B863453A-26C3-4e1f-A54D-A2CD196348E9} - C:Program FilesICQLiteICQLite.exe O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:Program FilesMessengermsmsgs.exe O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2- 9E-00C04F795683} - C:Program FilesMessengermsmsgs.exe O16 - DPF: {0A5FD7C5-A45C-49FC-ADB5-9952547D5715} (Creative Software AutoUpdate) - http://www.creative.com/su/ocx/15009/CTSUEng.cab O16 - DPF: {2BC66F54-93A8-11D3-BEB6-00105AA9B6AE} (Symantec AntiVirus scanner) - http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/S...in/AvSniff.cab O16 - DPF: {640B39C1-D713-464F-92C3-75BD972B95EE} - http://www.sidestep.com/get/k42037/sb02a.cab O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class)- http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.co...?1094006758724 O16 - DPF: {644E432F-49D3-41A1-8DD5-E099162EEEC5} (Symantec RuFSI Utility Class) - http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/S.../bin/cabsa.cab O16 - DPF: {74D05D43-3236-11D4-BDCD-00C04F9A3B61} (HouseCall Control) - http://a840.g.akamai.net/7/840/537/2...ll/xscan53.cab O16 - DPF: {917623D1-D8E5-11D2-BE8B-00104B06BDE3} (CamImage Class) - http://floridakeysmedia.tv/axiscam/C...CamControl.ocx O16 - DPF: {B8BE5E93-A60C-4D26-A2DC-220313175592} (ZoneIntro Class) - http://zone.msn.com/binFramework/v10...o.cab33902.cab O16 - DPF: {E5D419D6-A846-4514-9FAD-97E826C84822} (HeartbeatCtl Class) - http://fdl.msn.com/zone/datafiles/heartbeat.cab O16 - DPF: {F6ACF75C-C32C-447B-9BEF-46B766368D29} (Creative Software AutoUpdate Support Package) - http://www.creative.com/su/ocx/15010/CTPID.cab O23 - Service: Adobe LM Service - Unknown - C:Program FilesCommon FilesAdobe Systems SharedServiceAdobelmsvc.exe O23 - Service: Creative Service for CDROM Access - Creative Technology Ltd - C:WINDOWSsystem32CTsvcCDA.EXE O23 - Service: NVIDIA Driver Helper Service - NVIDIA Corporation - C:WINDOWSsystem32
vsvc32.exe
Every time I start my pc or during day I get this error message.It usually stacks like that because my pc was left on overnight, so it happens every 2 hours or so. I have no idea what this links to but it just started happening after I formated my pc, although I dont know why this started coming after many formats.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI get this popup/flag about once every 20 minutes on my computer. Not the internet, just my computer. Below is exactly what it says:oobebaln.exe - Application Error <X> The instruction at "0x77f517e2" referenced memory at "0x76fd7896". The memory could not be "written".Click on OK to terminate the program<<OK>>..I've searched the registry and all I can find is "oobe.exe" but that's all. Nothing containing the dialog in the popup at all. Has anybody experienced this? I'm running XP(home) on a Sony VAIO computer.
View 7 Replies View Relatedi have a really annoying problem where my computer wont let any windows pop up at all, for example, when i try to open the save as window, it will just sit there and not do it, when i try to open the shut down window, it wont do it, just sits there like i did nothing, extraction wizard windows wont come up, i cant open any of my anti virus programs or firewalls because they wont come up, not even installation windows and windows to play certian games come up, so i really need help on how to fix this, its not really crucial, but its a VERY big nuciancse
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