I am experiencing problems with Windows XP S2. This comes as a surprise as i have just bought a PC and am so suddenly recieving errors! Below are the details of what happened:NOTE: This problem occured twice, once on my account and the second time it happened on my brothers account.Whilst i was browsing the internet, the computer just switches off! i then start it up log on to my account and a window appears detailing the error (take a look at the following screens below)
It's just happening in P2P programs, eg. Limewire, and .torrent files.It use to be somewhere around 55kb/s, and recently it dropped to about 1 kb/s.I ran lots of spyware/virus scans, but it didn't help, it's still downloading really slowly. If I download something straight of a link on a website, then it's really quick, still about 55kb/s.
The problem started when I was listening to iTunes, and all of a sudden I lost my internet connection. I checked the Network Connections but it said I was still connected. I ran Spy Sweeper and it detected a "threat" and said it had to restart the computer, which I said "OK" to. Then it froze up, so I just turned the computer off.Now when I turn the computer back on, everything goes through normal, I get to the windows "Welcome" screen and then it goes into Windows, but the only thing that shows is my desktop background. No icons, no start button, no toolbar.I can however, press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and run new tasks that way
I had a problem blue screen had to do a clean install of xp pro. I managed a successful clean install, however, I am now unable to connect to the internet, my wired pc doesnt seem able to automatically obtain the ip address from the netgear router. I am able to connect my vista notebook wirelessly using the router.
When I attempt to open internet options the window flashes open and closed. If you blink you miss it. If I click on " Delete Browsing History" nothing happens. Everything else seems to be working. I have Zone Alarm running for virus, spyware, firewall. I scanned with Spybot and SAS.
I’m having problems with my laptop, which started today. Whilst browsing the internet the system locked up, leaving me with no alternative than to hold down the power button until the system turned off. When I turned the computer back on it froze shortly after logging on, before going to a blue screen saying,
‘A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer
Technical information: *** STOP: 0x0000008E (0xc00000005, 0xEE1A8B3A, 0xF70E97E8, 0x00000000) Beginning dump of physical memory Dumping physical memory to disk: xx’
I’ve booted Windows several times and the hex addresses all stay the same. I’m thinking it might be useful to upload the memory dumps, but don’t know how to do this. I have made several small attempts to repair the system. Firstly I started the computer in safe mode and scanned the hard drive using AVG Free, which (surprisingly) found several Trojans and other viruses. This made no difference when starting the computer, so I pressed F8 again when Windows was starting and chose ‘Last Known Good Configuration’ which again made no difference. Finally I started the computer in ‘Safe mode with Command Prompt’ and ran ‘chkdsk’ which found no errors...........
i just bought this new computer for 1 of the staff and i have configured his profile. but then i tried to browse the internet and found it very slow, not in opening the IE, but in loading the pages. it takes around 20 to 30 seconds to load a page. when i use ping to check the connectivity, it takes a long time to display the first line, but it gives me a 1ms when pinging the server, which is good.
now i login with the administrator account and find the internet browsing is fast, but again the ping takes a while to display the first line. i did give that user Administrator permissions and tried again, but it's the same issue. i thought it would be higher permissions which could affect the user. So, i added the user to "domain admins", "administrators" groups, and i tried again, but the same situation
Hold CTRL and use the scroll wheel on the mouse to increase or decrease the font size.Hold Shift and use the scroll wheel to go back or forward between webpages.
I just bought a laptop off ebay and it has windows xp pro installed. I did not recieve a recovery disk or a windows xp pro disk, but its has a Certificate of Authenticity sticker (the licensed product key associated with the computer). I have a xp pro disk from my install i did on my desktop, can i use my xp pro disk from my desktop and the license from the COA sticker and do a fresh install of windows on the laptop with no problems.
I have AVG and now I cannot receive emails unless I do a hard reboot of the computer. I can get the initial emails, but once the AVG runs the email scan, it times out and says cannot find the server.I have to hard reboot again in order to receive the emails. I have tried everything my limited skills allow me.This is frustrating.I am running Outlook Express for my emails, through Comcast.
I have a Dell 6400 laptop that is less than a year old and have had no problems up to now, and I could use some help. Upon startup Windows will launch and then I receive a error which reads.svchost.exe-Application Error. The instruction at "0x745f2780" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read" Click on OK to terminate the program.Click on Cancel to debug the program.I have tried both to terminate and debug but nether works the laptop locks up.Do I have to reinstall Windows?
I have windows XP professional and recieve automatic updates on my computer on a regular basis. Does service pack 3 automatically install? I receive a yellow shield on my task bar informing me that updates are ready to install, I click the update button and it tells me to install service pack 3. I try the install and when I get to the halfway point of Performing Inventory I receive an error message: Service pack 3 could not back up registry value....ABORT-RETRY-IGNORE. no matter what button I select the results are the same Failed to Install.
Okay, so I had installed IE 7 Beta, but then I went back to 6. I used the Change Icon feature to put the desktop icon back to the 6 style, because ironically I like it better. But when I download something or IE opens a seperate window, the bar still has the IE 7 icon. For some reason, this BUGS ME to no end. How do I get all of IE's icons back permanently to the 6 look?
I'm going to try a system restore and I need to close all open programs. Does this mean I need to close Norton Antivirus, Spybot and Ad-Aware too? What about programs that run in the background that you don't see? I've never worried about this when installing software--just left them running--but I don't want to mess up with system restore. I have lots of disc space and plenty of memory, if this makes any difference.
Can anyone tell me how to modify the user profile so that the default directory for queries is located on a server. I have to create and share queries with several different users and I would like the default to be on the shared server.
last time i was to format the hard drive of my hp laptop while files were copied through os cd all of sudden due to power cut the installation had to cancelled,when next time I tried to install the os my laptop screen showed a message "NTLDR IS MISSING..TO RESTART PRESS CTRL+ALT+DELETE" BUT EVEN TRYING TO RESTART IT COULD NOT
I am not sure I am in the correct forum, but I recently started having a problem with an application starting to load and then a message coming up stating that there was a problem with the "ntdll.dll" file.
I even located a copy to download, placed that in the WindowsSystem32 folder and each time I continue to attempt to launch this application, it partially starts up, then hangs and then gives me the error message.
Is there something I am not doing correctly? Any suggestions? It had been working just fine for the past year or so and about a month ago, BOOM, this error message came up.
I'm on WinXP. I have a 2.4GHz PC. It used to take just 40 seconds to boot up my computer. Now it takes at least 7 minutes and then if I try and open Outlook, another 5 minutes. It was working fine a week ago, and oddly enough, this sluggish performance seems to be at the same time I installed a bunch of Windows updates.
I try and run Norton to check for viruses, or burn a DVD, everything works okay until about 5 minutes into it, and then suddenly I can no longer move the mouse and everything seems to be hung up. I can't even do a ctrl-alt-delete.
I'm not sure how to proceed.If need be, I am willing to back up all my files and initialize the hard drive and start with a clean slate, but I'd prefer not to.
1) Should I re-install Windows? It says the version on my CD is older than what's on my computer, and I think it said I should back up my files.
2) Should I run hi-jack this? Never run that before but maybe someone can see something that doesn't look right.
3) Is there a good free utility out there that can help diagnose the performance issue?
4) I know I have too many processes running in the background at any given time, and I'm not entirely sure which ones are necessary. Maybe some process in the background is slowing everything down?
I haven't been able to run Norton or anti-spyware, because the computer just stalls several minutes into the scan. I'm just thinking now, maybe I should run in Safe Mode to see if I can run Norton or Ad Aware?
My bookmarks all of a sudden have disappeared on me. I did nothing out of the ordinary last night, shut off my cpu, went to bed, woke up this morning andvoila
All of a sudden my computer slows to down. When I open task manager there are 15-20 programs running. But all the programs just say task manager.I delete them all but they come back a few hours later. I have run a virus scan with my Norton program but nothing. What is causing all this?
Hey, Recently my computer would just restart all of a sudden. I would be doing something and then all of a sudden the computer screen goes black and I hear the computer restarting
The problem I got is that suddenly my trusty notebook started taking 10 minutes to start up while it usually took it 30-50 seconds, I really hope this is not a hardware/RAM issue as I don't have the money right now to buy required parts to fix it and my job depends on working in my computer. And in case it's useful here is a logfile of hijack this I just did.after the 10 minutes it takes it to start, it works as smoothly as it have always done,
Problem just started a day ago but it's really got me down. I'm freezing/hanging up in any graphic intensive program from Photoshop to games. PC will either freeze up needing a reset, or hang up then crash and restart Anyway, I've been through all the preliminary steps, did viral scan, spyware scan (CA AntiVirus and Ewido), cleaned the disks, defragged, etc. I updated my card drivers, made sure I'm up to date on all drivers actually. Still same problem. I tried even removing my antivirus program just to see if that was the problem (I just renewed it several days ago) but to no avail.The event viewer gives me no clues about what's going on. Hopefully someone can help me out, just started all of a sudden! Here's some system specs:
My comnputer just started freezing randomly, and I cannot listen to music and do something else anymore. Any action that MS Word, or Firefox, or IE, etc, takes, and the music starts skipping. Same thing with videos. The computer has just become very uncooperative in general. And the "activity light" of the computer that normally blinks, sometimes stays on, without blinking, for minutes at a time, and I am not doing anything.
I was playing world of warcraft while watching a video and chatting on msn. My character died, and then suddenly BOOM, my computer restarted for no reasons (I ever saw my light turning down in my room) Now, its all screwed up. It takes AGES just to open winamp, most of my applications just won't open or take too long.
So I reinstalled XP Home on an MPC Pentium 4 HT. After installing all the windows updates, including SP3, and some basic programs, I was up and running. The pc was running fast, and it was a joy to use. Then, just 1 week after the initial install, I'm on the computer playing a flash game, when it suddenly shuts down. I reboot, and instead of going to Welcome screen, then desktop with all my icons, it's showing the factory default resolution (you know, huge mouse cursor and all), and asking me to activate Windows, which I did about 6 days ago
Everything was fine last night when i was on my computer but when i woke up this morning and booted her up i recieved the "NTLDR is missing" error message with instructions to use control+alt+delete to restart and try again. I have not recently installed any new hardware or changed configurations and the only new software is Diablo2 and its expansion which has been on my computer for a week now (its run fine in the past and never caused any problems). I've been reading through the forums for most of the day and tried several different suggestions to fix my problem but to no avail. I've tried using a boot disk i made off of a friend's computer, rebuilding the boot record using the recovery console, and i even tried that NTLDR "fixer" disk that i downloaded from a link i frequently see posted. Nothing has worked. The only interesting thing is that when i use that fixer program (the one that gives you 10 boot options and you have to go through every one to find one that works) is that instead of getting a missing NTLDR message, i get a hal.dll error instead! So i go back into my XP cd and expand the hal.dll into the system32 folder on my drive and try again but now i'm back to the NTLDR error!
I really dont know what to do here and any help is appreciated! Also, i'm not tp sure how vital this is but my drive is labeled D: although it is the only HDD in my computer, when i try to use the recovery console i only have one option for an OS to explore and it is labeled C:. I'm not sure if how this happened is important to my current situation but i can explain it if necessary. Again, any suggestions here would be a big help and hope to hear from you soon. Oh, formating is also out of the quesion as i have no backups of my current papers, projects, and other data.
My computer has been working fine. But all of a sudden my computer started hanging. Im sure it's not viruses or anything because I have ran many scans over and over.I have no clue what could be causing this. I've included my HJT log even though I've looked it over many a times and have found nothing.
There's a very annoying program called dfg shutdown installed on my computer that shuuting down my computer at certain time.I can't uninstall that program.Is there a way to prevent my computer from shutting down?
I'm having the same problem with my Acer Aspire 5100....computer all of a sudden goes to blue screen and restarts. It's never long enough to read the blue screen though.
I just reformatted by Toshiba laptop computer to take it back to original state. I have installed minimum programs at this point. Before I do any adding I go in and set a system restore point.When I went in to do this the first time I found that there was a whole list of system restore points for a program install. It is not a program I installed on my computer this time around, although it was installed previous to my reformatting.System restore shows this program installed every 10-15 minutes ad there's a list of at least 30 or 40 restore points each day.
