I have Windows XP and I use AOL. For the past few days, every time I sign onto the internet, blocks keep appearing on the bottom bar, next to my start button that have a round ball on the left side and then it says Aurora, part of the ABI network. I have no idea what this is or how to get rid of it. When I right click and get the drop down box, my options are: move, size, or close group. What is this and how do I get rid of it?
When I left my computer on (like usually I do) to eat lunch and watch a movie. When I came back to my computer I got a lot of ads like Aurora. But that's a city in CO. I got pop ups from my computer saying it has pop ups. Does anyone know a really good pop blocker I can use? Also I get The Web Search, Yellow Pages on my desktop and it's very annoying.
I'm getting constant Aurora pop-ups along with a bunch of internet windows popping up, and my CPU usage, is always at 100%, and I have over a gig of ram.
I am 30sec away from loosing my mind. I have spyware that I can not remove from my PC."Aurora" which associated to the registry key HKEY_CURRENTsoftwareAurora.and THNALL1A.exe, which my firewall (ZoneAlarm), tells me has been trying to access the internet. THNALL1A.exe or THNALL1Z.exe or some incarnation of THNALL will appear in the prefetch folder. Something to do with VX2.transponderAs long as the firewall is up the only two that repeatedly appear are the registry key HKEY_CURRENTsoftwareAurora, and the repeated attempts by THNALL to access the internet.I have scanned with: Norton; Ad-Aware; Microsoft Antispyware; Scan Spyware; NoAdware; Spybot Search and Destroy; and XoftSpy.
I'm trying to get rid of abetterinternet.aurora which I believe to be some sort of adware or spyware. I get appeox123 problems from it everytime I run Spybot. Spybot get rid of the problems but they keep coming back
I've got three or four spyware killing programs on this hunk of junk and none of them will recognize and kill Aurora. If anyone knows how I can do it, please let me know.
by posting this here but the threads go by so fast I don't think someone that may have an answer can help. My topic, the title of this post is now on page 10 of the XP forum. I hae a Dell e310, xp home, sp2, IE browser, optical kb and mouse. Itried a usb kb on here but same thing happens. I am handicapped and most everything I do has to be doe twice....another typo.....t wrks ok in OE, notpad etc, but not in boxes like this. anybody ever heard of this? I've correced many keystrokes in this ost just to make it readable.
I have a Compaq S4120WM with Windows XP Home. I would like to be able to copy the restore information from the D Partition to a DVD so I can restore should I lose the drive. I can simply burn the info to the disk but how would I start the restore process
I was hit by the hurricane when it was a category 1 hurricane and lost power for several days. During this time I had my computer off. When power finally came back on I turned on my computer, but even though I didn't lose power again the phase went up and down. When I tried to turn my computer on again I got a blue screen, and then I started getting an error message when it tried to load windows 2000.
The Windows tool tip isn't the problem. When I connect to the internet the tool tip says 'Connected at 2.2mbps. However when you close the tool tip it's hidden, not actually terminated. Are tool tips part of shell32.dll or explorer.exe?Is it possible to terminate it? I don't mind RCE either of the files.
My pc will not reboot it will go only so far and then nothing or it will freeze in the early part of the reboot and i have to then go and turn of the power at the wall which dose not do my hard drive any good or my pc and once i have cut power and only then will my pc boot up and go all the way through the start up process so can someone please help me thank you oh my operating system is xp home edition.
I've noticed that the dot-url part of the file name does not show in Windows Explorer for web link files/shortcuts even though I have Explorer set to show the entire name, including extensions.Why is this exception made in Windows Explorer to only this one extension?
A client of mine has a Gateway 300s PC. She has two CD's that came with the computer that sound somewhat relavent: A drivers CD and an Applications CD. Unlike most Dell PCs of today, she does not have an Operating System CD that can be used to reinstall Windows. I was wondering if any Gateway owners for PCs purchased around 2003 know if Gateway actually sent recovery CD's out with their PCs or not. If not, is there a recovery partition on the Hard Drive? If not, are there steps that can be taken to obtain a recovery CD from Gateway?
my compy has been broken for almost a year, but i finally took it upon myself to find a solution. i followed the instructions for the problem "the system is not fully installed. please run setup again." and it seemed it was going to work. but now i'm getting stuck at this screen that says "please wait while windows prepares to start" and the dots just keep going forever! XD it feels like i'm close to finally fixing the frickin thing, but i can't get past this. so if someone could please tell me how to get past it, i'll give a virtual pat on the back. oh, and it's a compaq windows XP.
I have Windows XP Sp2 whe i try to chanhe ip in "Local Area Connection" i got following message:" Network Connetion Folder was unable to retrive the list of network Adapters":i checked "Services" .Ok working fine then what 's the problem??
I haven't heard anything from my other post, so I thought I would make a new one. I am actually on the computer I was having problems with. I got my anti-virus loaded and ran, found 4 viruses. I also installed Ad-Aware, and Spybot S&D, and ran, keep finding spyware, especially one called Admess. I keep getting pop-ups saying that I have problems with regeristry files, and wants me to download some regeristry repairing software. I can't understand how this stuff was missed by the format?
I have actually had it working right 3-4 times, but everytime I install something that needs to restart to finish, I have this problem. Like the first time I had it working, I didn't have any problem with my internet connection, because the first thing I did was start downloading & installing the windows updates. When it was fiinished installing, and wanted to restart, I started having problems with it rebooting again.
I try to run network set up wizard but it wont find my network device.It finds my network card but i installed a wireless card. It wont find that. Its a linksys and I am using the linksys software to run it.
I have a gateway 6520 gz laptop with IE6 and XPHE, I 'm on a network with two computers and use NETWORK MAGIC for the network, when I turn the laptop on it wants to display {the page cannot be displayed} instead of going online! Then NETWORK MAGIC pops-up and says {YOU ARE NOW CONNECTED} then I have to manually turn on IE6 button to go online, almost like the page {the page cannot be displayed} wants to come up first instead of the connection?
I need to have network drive on my Windows XP computer. In order for a software to work, there needs to exist a network drive, named N, existing on my PC. Since there's not a second PC to link to, what I did was to created a directory named est on the same PC , share it out, and then, map a network drive, named N, to it. When my PC has an Ethernet cable connected to a switch, Windows XP will see that N drive (existing on the same PC). The moment I disconnect that Ethernet cable from the switch, the N drive is gone. Is there a way to have a mapped network drive on XP (as mentioned above), without the need to have a network cable connecting that PC to a switch?
i have a problem with my network folder.It seems that I can't see my existing network connections in the folder! I first noticed this when i click on my dial-up connection the connection window won't come up.When i open the network connections folder in the control panel, an error message comes up with this message:The Network Connections Folder was unable to retrieve the lsit of Network adapters on your machine. Please make sure that the Network Connections service is enabled and running.
My network adapter does not appear in Device Manager, until I "Show hidden devices". And then it appears as a "Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC", whereas I actually have a D-Link DFE-538TX 10/100 adapter. Furthermore, I get no icons (at all) in the Network Communications window. So if I want to change any settings of my LAN, for example, I can't, because I can't select the LAN icon or right-click on it. The LAN is working though. The current driver for the Realtek adapter which is listed is a MS driver.
When I am using a program, whether it's Word, or internet, or just looking at a folder, the blue part of the screen at the top just "deselects" itself, and turns that pale blue/gray. This happens about every few minutes.If I'm in the middle of typing when it happens I hear the "beep" error sound and I have to click on the window for it to be "chosen" again (turns blue) to continue typing. This happens whether I have one program open or many.
I have a Gateway CX2618, w/ windows XP tablet edition 2005 version 2002, sp2. And wanted to wipe it clean and reinstall just the things I use. Plus my Tablet side of things hasn't worked in a long time and I was hoping the clean install would fix that. But my recovery DVD isn't working (could be user error). I DO have apps that I need to keep and I think I've backed them up to my external HD correctly.
We have a vender that wants to use our printer at work which is hooked up to our network but he can't join our network because he is not an employee.Just spoke to him and he has a Sony Vaio laptop and DOES NOT WANT ANY DRIVERS on his machine. Im lost. I was just going to install drivers on his machine and hook the printer up USB but he just formatted his machine and now doesn't want any drivers at all.
when I browse "My Network Places", the browsing is so incredibly slow. It takes a long while when you click one icon in the “My Network Places” for that to open up and go to the next directory or when just first displaying the computers in “My Network Places”, it goes so slow. I use Windows Workgroup on the LAN to share out internet. Everything else, other than browsing the network, works great. The internet browses nice and fast.
This morning I opened My Network Places while my pc was still loading all the programs at start-up and "My Network Places" was fast. After a few minutes it was back to normal low pace. Now I guess it is something running on my pc slowing it down. Is it maybe to do with XP Service Pack 2? Before installing SP2 the network browsing on my pc is fast, after installing SP2, it is slow. Other computers on the network without SP2 browse the network quite fast. All the pc's on the network has XP Pro.
How can I reconnect to the two printers that are connected to a w2k pc, in every login on a wXP? When I try to print, the system asks me to log in the w2k machine.
I'm running Windows XP on a stand-alone pc. I have Norton Internet Security/Anti-Virus installed. I have encountered a pop up window (which will not go away) with the message "New Network Detected". It wants me to select home, office, etc.I don't have any windows firewall enabled, but have Norton taking care of it instead.The consensus I'm getting is get rid of Norton, it stinks. But I would think there could be something simpler/makes more sense to do.