Operating system: XP home edition
AMD athelon 2000+ ~1.7Ghz
512 MB, 240MB used, 1005MB available???? (i got all this info from dxdiag)
My problems started with a game i have called dark reign 2. I have had this game for several years, but all of a sudden one day everything jams and goes really slow and very jerky for like three minutes and it clears up again. This happens at intervals of five minutes or so. I reinstall the game and the problem becomes more regular
My little paper notebook of passwords is falling apart.I want to save my passwords on my PC.Saving them in Norton Password Manager does not allow me to see what they are.
I want to save them as graphic objects that can be displayed.
What is the kind or type of software that causes a password to be displayed in a graphically complex format that is not readable by software but is readable by a human
My desktop has decieded to add the 'menu' bar down trhe left had side of the screen. It is the same as the type which appears on the left hand side of open folders in XP. I created a new user account and it was OK until the screen went into screen saver and I needed to log back in and the problem was there again. This appears to have only started to happen when I added my XP laptop to the wired network.
I know this sounds crazy, but for the last two or three days...my computer will be online and then about three hours later...I am offline. What could cause that? then a box kept coming up asking what connection I wanted to use and if I pressed one, it would dial up and thank God, in a way..an error message came up. I supposed I should never have entereded anything in that box.
What i am experiencing is when i have my home page up---i try to go to a different site and the page will close only way to get to a different site is hold the ctrl key down and then click on a site i want to go to. I tried going to add/remove to try and repair ie6 but it will not let me repair it. I also tried to over install ie6 and says i have latest version- i can't even uninstall ie6--not sure why? This is what i have: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) as i said it is strange having to hold the ctrl key sown togo to other sites.
Norton keeps popping up with this file trying to access the 'net: xflplkdxjv.exe. I think it's spyware, but sometimes it has an AOL ISP address, sometimes not. I have deleted the file more than 15 times, permanently deleted from recycle
The menu bar (File-Edit-View-Help)on many Windows applications such as Notepad has changed from beige to a white box behind the menu item. When I click on a menu item, such as "File" for example, the menu item background changes to a larger rectangular white box around the word "File" instead of the normal blue and stays white. And, so forth with the rest of the menu items. There is no affect on the drop down menu. Selecting still highlights the item in blue. I have had this problem before. It begins after a program uninstall, I think. I have restored to a previous point as a fix in the past, but Restore can't restore past the point I need. It just seems to be a cosmetic problem, but it bugs me.
Running XP Home, SP2 w/1 gig. All of a sudden my machine is beginning to do strange things. First of all my second hard drive (D disappeared...it didn't show in My Computer. "Add New Hardware" didn't bring it back. Then, all of a sudden it was back. Secondly, something changed my screensaver, but I was able to restore it the usual way. I've used Registry First Aid to check on registry content, and, I've run a virus scan (NAV) and I've defragged the drive. Also, neither Counterspy nor Spybot could find anything wrong.
Here i have a Desktop PC, since a few days past i am getting an strange type message on the screen and it keeps coming up every few minutes i have attached an screen shot of what i get.I highly appreciate if some one could help me out fixing this problem.
I was recently issued a new laptop at work and after a few pushed updates from our IT department, I discovered that everytime I boot I now get a strange screen just after the Windows logo but before the login prompt. The OS continues loading about 5 seconds after this message is displayed. I've contacted our IT department but they don't seem to know either.I have a strange feeling it was caused by a failed update. Judging by the spelling mistake in the message and the timing of the error, my guess is that it originates from a 3rd party driver/software. It is interesting to note that when booting up in safe-mode the error screen does not present itself. This further makes me suspect a driver of some sort. There are also no related errors in the Application or System Event Logs.
I have an 300GB Maxtor drive with a 234GB partition (drive C and an unallocated unformatted partition covering the rest (after I accidentally deleted it).Windows XPSP3 shows the partition in explorer as drive E: but with no size and I can't access it.When I right click the partition and choose Format it shows as 257GB big so I backed out.Acronis shows the drive the correct size but won't let me format it.
I have an intermittent problem that causes a left click on my mouse to highlight not only the item I'm trying to select but everything below the selected item. For instance, clicking on a link on a web page causes the whole page below the link to become selected as if I was selecting the whole area. This happens across all programs when it happens including Explorer, Outlook, or anything where a selection can be made which leads me to believe it is an XP problem. The only way to resolve the problem is to reboot. I'm running XP Pro SP2 on a 3.4 P4 with 1 Gig of memory. This is a fresh install of XP on a new SATA drive but the problem occurred before this install as well. I thought the new install would cure it.
I have a strange problem, everytime that I boot my machine, for the first 15 mins or so it is kinda frozen. Let me explain, If I open any program, it appears to open and then freezes.I have close it with task manger. I can open folders but I cannot open any items in them. I can open control panel but none of the tools, if I click say printers and faxes, an hourglass shows, then nothing. Now 15 mins or so later, magically everything works, printers and faxes pops up and i get notices about force closing the programs. The computer will run fine after the first 15 mins, I have left it on for 2 days straight with no problems. This has been happening for 6 months.I have tried msconfig to try and narrow the problem down, the problem did not occur until i got to services. I went through each and everyone of them and I got to a "Server" service ,this is a Microsoft Service, i disabled it and rebooted, the issue stopped! So I am thinking maybe this is related to the issue. I believe I need this particular service because I share files and printers between the computers in my home and this is my primary desktop.
I open files to read them from the web--whether from MSN or from someone's website--they read fine except for the odd looking Japanese looking character.This mainly seems to happen on the letter "s" and usually at the end of words.At first I thought it was an error on the personal website I was looking at, but it was also in Yahoo and a Google page. It's very annoying.
The problem is my Dell Inspiron 600m laptop running Windows XP Home has a weird symptom that just started up. Literally, every second my system has a brief pause or stutter for just a brief moment, like clockwork. From playing a game or video, to just moving a window around on the screen, or even just moving the mouse about, every second it'll just pause or come close to pausing, and then jump to where it should be. Almost like every second some background process is briefly using all the cpu.Here are the series of events, and then I'll give some more details of the problem itself.
I had this strange icon appear in my start tray. It looks like 3 letters spread out in a fan, with a blue light in front of it. When you hover the pointer over it, these numbers are displayed; 212.250.162.8,62.253.162.50. I'm having trouble sending emails, and was wondering if this was part of the problem as the numbers looklike port addresses. I'm using windows xp and outlook express.
I have some trojan issues which I thought I had gotten rid of...but I guess not. I was in the middle of taking a test for university, the monitor screen went black and this folder appeared, it happened twice.The file has a brownish diamond.goe010202b
If i double click the icon on the destop it opens a command window with the message, waits for input, i type a number and press enter and then the same message apears on the following line, i type again, press enter and the same thing happens. It doesn't work. If i enter in Total Commander go to the desktop dir and execute the same batch file. IT IS THE EXACT SAME FILE
After my computer starts there is this buzzing sound that continues. It didn't happen when I got the computer. This buzzing sound keeps continuing.When I play games and some minutes into the game computer starts to slow down and it starts to freeze.Then I try to alt tab or all the shortcuts control alt delete. Doesn't work. I also see tiny little grey lines around my mouse, I can move my mouse but everything else has frozen. I then have to restart computer. When I restarted my computer there was like little blue lines going down my screen not many only 3 or 4 or something.
The blue lines happen when it goes to the loading screen where it says windows is loading and has a blue bar that goes across. It also has a few blue dots near the bar that goes across. When that loading is finished nothing appears on my screen it is just black. Just now I turned off my computer for a while hoping that it was just a heating problem. I turned it back on and it works I just have the buzzing sound.
Ok, a little worried as I've never experienced or heard of this before... This isn't the first time I'm hearing this random strange recorded noise that goes something like "ho ho ho ho!" (in a scary santa-like way?!) followed by a female voice saying "hello?" and then another female voice saying "you better be behaving yourself" - something like that anyway.
I've just installed Service Pack 2 and a load of security updates.I've looked in Control Panel > User Accounts, and it has created "ASP.NET Machine A"? What is it, and most of all can I delete it?
I hope someone can help me. I can't login to my laptop. When I try to type my user name and password, a strange font appears. I would have thought it would not effect the login as long as I was typing the correct keys. But, it's not working.
So I got my computer back from the repair shop. I was under warranty, so I figured I'd let them do the work than pull my own hair out. However, this time, I feel as though I need to deal with my problem.So everything boots fine; the welcome screen for XP shows up and suddenly the computer will flash to a blue screen and reboot. Restarts, loads into windows; so I disable the automatic restart option.These restarts happen randomly; either right as I load into Windows, or as I am loading the system up. Usually, when Windows loads up fully it rarely, but still, reboots. The first message I got was a problem with savrt.sys... a Norton Anti-Virus file. So I uninstalled Norton, and installed AVG instead. Rebooted 3 times, no problems...thought everything was fixed.
I started getting some strange files in the TEMP Folder (located in Documents and Settings)Here are 2 examples: sqlite_2oRFEX2SK0bVcQP.CMLS-2005-12-18-07-41-08.log.There are 4 of the first example and more than 200 of the 2nd the total size is approx. 350 Kb.I'm using W-XP Home and a brand new computer.Have never seen anything like these before.
PC has recently started hanging in a particularly strange way. Most commonly, the screen blinks to black, then comes back, and the PC is frozen not even Num Lock will turn off. Sometimes however, it doesn't do the blink and just stops. This seems completely random, and isn't to do with any particular software that's running at the time. The only evidence is this entry in the Event Viewer - System Log: The browser service has failed to retrieve the backup list too many times on transport DeviceNetBT_Tcpip_{FF038570-7316-4F6A-8817-2B5B9C597E73}. The backup browser is stopping. And The browser was unable to retrieve a list of servers from the browser master \H_LPTP1 on the network DeviceNetBT_Tcpip_{FF038570-7316-4F6A-8817-2B5B9C597E73}. The data is the error code. H_LPTP1 is my laptop, usually on the network, but it isn't even switched on.
Okay first I'm going to have to give a little background on what this problem may have to do with. A couple months ago this computer I am using was was infected with a dialer that I could not get rid of for the life of me. I asked for help on this forum, and all help given, was useful but could not get rid of the dialer permenantly. Ever everytime I would wipe the dialer from my computer (and by "wipe" I mean, I would fix it in spybot, Hijackthis, then delete it fromt the windows/system32 folder, and delete it from all TEMP folder, all in safe mode.) the dialer would return 6 hours to 2 days later. $teve recommended the Idea of making a Dummy Prvdi.exe file. but this didn't work because it would just be overwritten with the real file. I then decided to just live with it, but I couldn't take it anymore. So I came up with the Idea of make the Dummy File Read-only so it cannot be overwritten, and it worked. right now I have dummy files of Prvdi.exe and Tibs3.exe in my windows/system32 folder, but ever since I created those files, this strange phenomenon would occur:
after booting up my computer, when I open up Mozilla firefox 1.0, I will get a Barrage of error messages, LITERALLY a barrage! I'm talking 2 or 3 alerts per second, and they won't stop coming. the only way I can stop the stream of alerts is to stop the explore.exe process in the windows task manager, then run explore.exe again.
I received the following message upon doing a simple Restart routine (never happened before today) Run Time error ' - 2147023841 (8007041f)' Automation error The Service Database is locked.[ OK ]I replied 'OK' and the message cleared from the Desktop screen. I opened my browser with no problem and just continued along. I am running WindowsXP SP2 Home Edition with IE6. My processor is 2.4 GHZ, 256MB of RAM, and 40GB hard drive.
