Screwed Up My Computer At Work
Jul 28, 2005
I had a worm or something so I downloaded a adware and spyware program along with the virus protection that was already onboard. Now I get a RUNDLL error message that says C:winntcfgmgr52.DLL as well as a box that says Program Error and inside the box says whatever I'm opening has generated errors and will be closed by windows. I took the liberty of doing a Hijackthis log. Please give advise as I'm going to stay here tonight til I fix it.
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Mar 15, 2007
my computer for some reason thinks I'm in the Atlantic (Canada) time zone (GMT -4.00 hrs.). That's what I had to set it to to get it to sync to the correct time. Fact is, I'm in the Eastern time zone (Delaware, to be exact) which is GMT -5.00 hrs.
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Feb 7, 2007
My cat walked all over my laptop and must have pressed something because now webpages are all screwed up. They show up out of line and with no color. What should I do to fix this?
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Oct 8, 2008
I am in over my head... My big hard drive just came up as a grossly smaller size and I got a message from the OS saying "this drive needs to be formatted."How I got here is kind of long, but bear with me. It started a few months ago with my screen randomly not working when I'd turn on or restart my computer, as if my cable wasn't connected or something. I spent hours and days on forums and help sites trying to figure it out, with the general response that either my crappy motherboard was dying or my video card.
D: all my stuff. programs, files, etc. Nothing os'ey so it'd be relatively protected. important.
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Oct 4, 2008
I recently screwed up my computer by running a crappy reg-edit program which deleted a bunch of important registry and I started to get messages asking me to insert XP SP3 CD to install the files but I didnt have one so I tried rebooting. Upon rebooting I got a black screen saying "ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupted please reinstall ntoskrn.exe" In my panic state I used my XP recovery disks but they just installed another version of windows on my HD. So I used my XP install CD to get into the recovery console and I copied over the files from the CD to my HD.
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Jan 11, 2007
I accidentally dragged my Startup folder and dropped it into my Microsoft Office folder. I tried to move it back; but, Widows gave me an error box that said it was a System folder and could not be moved. I tried renaming it, deleting it, nothing worked. I made a new Startup folder (like a dummy) and then used an OS that boots from a CD to delete it.
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Feb 19, 2005
Today I got a new computer, and set up a home network with my DSL connection. Well, I noticed that my older computer hadn't been updated in a while so I downloaded/installed all the new XP updates, including SP2. Well as soon as I did that, Windows would not boot. So I turned off auto-reboot when it encounters an error. Even worse. Now I can't even go into safe mode, unless it's the command line. So I decided, what the heck, I need to clean up anyways. And I try to reinstall windows, my CD won't load. So now I'm stuck with a nice blue paperweight that won't boot windows and I can't boot the XP CD. If anyone has encountered this problem, and fixed it, please reply. If not, I'm getting Redhat right now, and going to install that, format, uninstall and put XP back in. I was just hoping for an easier way out.
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Nov 14, 2008
nothing will open..i know it has to do with the file associations, and all that stuff.. i have looked everywhere about how to fix it, and nothing will work.
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Jan 12, 2005
I screwed my desktop anf lost all its icons including the taskbar, all you can see is the background.
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Mar 21, 2005
1) My desktop got screwed up. I opened a paint file, something happened, and now all of the icons on my desktop have a gray box around their text that is noticeable against the background. It's really weird, because it's only happening on this one user account, the other accounts on my computer are normal. How do I fix this?
2) Could someone please check my HijackThis log? I suspect there are a few things to be removed, but I'm not sure exactly which ones...and also, someone please explain to me why I have two instances of svchost.exe running....
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Jun 20, 2010
I wanted to install Windows XP on an old computer. Its CD drive was broken, so I installed XP from its hard drive instead. When everything was finished, I ended up with two drives, D and E. Unfortunately, I was tempted to change the letters (OCD, much?) to C and D, and did so (via regedit).Now, my computer won't boot up; the welcome screen shows up, but it freezes there.
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Mar 9, 2008
About 4 months ago I tried to make a partition on my HD to install XP SP2 on it, while running Vista Business, which I installed on the laptop (it originally had XP), but something screwed up while making the partition and Vista was erased from my laptop and XP was installed on both partitions. When I turn on my laptop a boot screen comes on to choose which partition to boot up. I've always chosen the larger partition, I've never tried booting the other partition, I'm scared it will screw something up. All of my files are on the bigger partition, the one I always use. But I want to know how to delete the other partition so that there is only one partition and I can use the space on the partition I don't use at all. I want to do this without deleting my files if possible.
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Aug 2, 2005
My son went and downloaded that new crap from micrsoft.the windows verifications thingy the one that verifies if your version of windows is ligit. well apparently mine isnt I am going to the guy who buily my computer in a few days.. HOWEVER .. in the mean time my son tried to FIX his mess and reinstall winxp pro with the disk we have at home Well that didnt work I now have updates to do to my computer and know way of knowing what the heck needs it there are a zillion security fixes etc according to belarc advisor any idea on how I can go about finding out what exactly needs to be updated then getting them?
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Sep 18, 2006
I was using system restore with Windows XP SP2 to restore my system to an earlier point, and when the system restarted, everything was extremely slow, none of the drivers were working (graphics accelerator, internet, etc), and half the programs, including virus scanners, won't work. I've tried starting the computer in Safe mode, but it's still slow, and when I try to open system restore, I get the message: "System Restore is not able to protect your computer. Please restart your computer, and then run System Restore again", and this reapears no matter how the computer is started.
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Oct 27, 2009
My computer at work won't open IE for me, I used it last night and this morning I come in and everytime I try to open it an error message pops up, and says Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. No one else used the computer while I was home last night and I absolutely need IE as my customer management system is only usable with IE, it will not work with Firefox or Chrome. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this problem, sadly I'm pretty useless without my computer at work.
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Sep 14, 2008
I installed quicktime trying to get a video to work for an online class. However, it didn't work so I installed it again thinking it didn't take the first time. The video still wouldn't work. So now I have quicktime installed twice and would like to remove them if it's not going to work, isn't it stuff like this that slows down the PC? When I find it I only get the option to delete not uninstall.How do I uninstall these? And if anyone knows why Quicktime won't work on my computer could you tell me if I can make it work somehow? I have a windows xp home edition about 5 years old, 2600+ processor,512MB,80GB, HP Pavilion 525C(hope this is the info you need) Worse yet, I'm a clueless newbie who don't know much of anything. I would like to get quicktime to work, but if I can't to get rid of both installs. I get a message that says something about needing xpsp2, whatever that means.
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Dec 20, 2005
while i am playing a game or watching a video, my computer tends to either freeze or just completely shut down.
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Dec 7, 2006
i believe i may have a virus that has deleted or tampered with the file windowssystem32configsystem it also says "you can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using the original setup CD-ROM" i have an hp laptop that runs XP. i need it up and running ASAP.
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Jul 9, 2005
My computer has several problems. The most serious is not being able to get Windows XP to load.I have tried booting in safe mode (F8) but I keep getting an error screen. I installed a game on the computer today that apparent has caused this problem. Any advice on how I can boot to safe mode to remove the program and do a system restore would be appreciated.
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May 6, 2008
My computer has slowed down to nearly a crawl.I do bookkeeping and income tax and it is getting so back I am having problems getting all my work done each day.
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Nov 12, 2008
I know I'm low on memory, but I can't afford more. It was running okay until two days ago, when it became impossible to work with. I've run intelliscan, spybot and adaware.
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Apr 10, 2005
As advised from another thread to use EasyCleaner by ToniArts to speed up your computer.. I've done one for cleaning the registry but haven't deleted anything yet.. It's supposed to speed up my computer but im scared i might delete the wrong thing.. can anyone see anything in the attatched file that I should NOT delete?
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Dec 7, 2006
I cant install Flash Player 9 on my computer at work, it is running windows xp. I can install other programs like Google earth, but the installer for Flash Player 9 asks for admin priviligies. actually it doesnt even ask it just says you do not have admin rights. My questions is, is there another way around it?. I have downloaded the program to the computer but just cant open it to install. Maybe there is a trick or maybe another version of flash player that doesnt have the install searching for admin rights first like Google Earth.any Flash Player will do. If anyone can maybe find a version that I can install or maybe a trick I can use to install it. My boss is on vacation untill after the new year, and nobody in my office has the abbility to log on as admin on my office computer.
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Feb 1, 2005
My PC has been acting dicey lately. I have run ad-aware, spybot, etc.
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Jan 11, 2005
my computer is running very slow and i have also checked it for viruses but wont find any thing
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May 10, 2006
when I started my computer this morning it was stuck on the start up screen where it says windows like it kept showing the bars moving for like a long time. So I just turned it off by pressing the power button (wrong I know). Then I turned it back on and it went to a black screen giving me the options to run it in safe mode, start it from the last known date it was working, or start it normally.
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Sep 26, 2006
My problem is is when I booted my comp up yesterday, norton comes up with some odd error about not being able to scan e-mail or instant messenger for viruses, and my internet on just this computer will not work. Now this happened with my other comp when the hard drive was failing. The computer will also at some reboots take forever to get into windows.Sometimes when I try to get into network connections or my computer, it will just hang or I get the flashlight icon scanning. I was able to back up most of my stuff, but when I tried to reformat, it kept saying to close all windows and I ended every program I could think of.I also tried a system restore to Saturday when it was working normal, but I have had no luck. Is it something with windows or is another HDD going? I'm thinking of just RMA'ing the HDD and do a whole new install. My only other option is to use a Linux Suse disk I have and boot from that and see if it works. Here are my specs:Athlon 64 3200+ | Asus A8N5X mobo | 5.1 surround soundcard | 2 GB Corsair PC3200 Ram| 250gig Hitachi Hdd/60 GB WD HDD | 420w PS | EVGA Geforce 7800GT | Logitec 5.1 surrond sound speakers w/subwoofer z-560
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Jul 17, 2009
I'm trying to help a friend with a Dell Dimension 4700 desktop with XP home. It suddenly started getting a BSOD with some error messages. Now here's the big problem. The computer doesn't recognize the disk. I've gone into setup and changed it to boot from the DVD-ROM. It still doesn't recognize the CD-ROM. Actually, it has a CD-ROM and a DVD-ROM. BIOS only see's one of them but I've changed the plugs to both of them to eliminate the bad one and still nothing. It's set to boot to the DVD.
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Feb 27, 2006
my computer wont connect to the internet, some files wont work and it all started after i finished scanning with mcafee
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Jul 30, 2007
Hello, I am new to this website, and need some serious help. I have a Gateway GT 5028 that is about a year a half old. I came home today to turn it on, and the only thing that happens is the fans both work, the cd drive lights come on, the power button light comes on, and the orange cpu light comes on. After a few seconds the cd lights flash again, and they repeat this process. The screen, keyboard, and mouse do not work. The monitor stays black the whole time. It has windows xp on it. I got it at Best buy, but it is out of warranty. It seems as if the computer continually restarts?
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Mar 3, 2008
When I try to boot my computer reaches the windows screen then restarts, and keeps repeating this. Sometimes it throws up a bad pool caller error and a bsod. It gives me a Stop code: 0xc2 (0x43, 0xc3af4000, 0x0, 0x0) Additionally my keyboard no longer works, at least during startup which is all I can access. True for both USB and ps2 keyboard. The numlock light can be turned on but that's about it. So I know the connection is working but the boards still don't work, which means I've been unable to get to safe mode or into bios settings.
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