Tarun

No idea where you heard that Comodo AntiVirus is good. It's far from it actually. Though avast is one of, if not THE BEST freeware antivirus available. Comodo Firewall Pro is an excellent firewall and it works great with Vista.

You can run avast real-tiime just fine. Enable everything for them though. Windows Defender and Spybot both have real time protection for free. I'd say go with Windows Defender and enable Automatic Updates so that Automatic Updates will apply Defender updates. Do you have a firewall installed? That can help deter a lot of infections, though you may need to help it learn for a bit before turning it over to them. Also considering giving them individual accounts that are limited and running only one Administrative account (or two for in case you're not there).

Have you tried installing over it, and then uninstalling?

I receive a redirect to http://www.msfn.org/board/ when I try to view http://msfn.org/board/ Considering www is a subdomain, I don't know why you'd redirect to a subdomain since www is deprecated. Maybe it's the CommunitySEO doing it. If people want to learn more about why www is deprecated, they can learn more here.

I had a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 that made a slightly audible high pitched whine. Annoyed me to no end so I returned it.

It's possible that your motherboard doesn't support it. What does the Intel Chipset Utility tell you about your board?

Delete your cookies and then log in again and reset it. This can happen if you have more than one MSFN page open, such as having multiple Firefox tabs opened to MSFN. You can also view this FAQ - most commonly asked questions thread.

Any word on if this is going to RC or final soon?

I don't believe you ever see the update reminder if you do the Windows Updates manually.

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Boot into Safe Mode and run sfc /scannow

Try it tain, you may be surprised.

You can read all about it in WikiBooks and of course the official Tomato FAQ.

No idea where you read that it's discontinued, but that's incorrect. tofu was discontinued but Tomato is going strong. Tomato will work perfectly with your router. http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

Have you tried Tomato firmware?

It's pretty typical that toolbars can crash and mess up Windows since it hooks into Explorer. Just avoid toolbars altogether.

What is the exact version of your WRT54G router?

I do, which is why I suggested it.

WoWWiki's Patch Mirror page has a lot of links to everything you need, and their wiki may include the install switches.

Have you tried using the Network Wizard from XP? It has an option to create a disk so 9x/ME machines can see more of the network.

What theme is that and where did you get it? Just wondering if perhaps it's a theme related issue.

Glad to hear everything got fixed! Just a small tip, but if your Maxtor drive is noisy, you can try and use Hitachi's Feature Tool to enable Automatic Acoustic Management and a few other features. I was surprised when it worked on my server's Maxtor, but it went from being loud when it was seeking, to whisper silent. Usually a manual setting of 253-254 will work, but you can test it in real time to find the silent spot.

Get Seatools from Seagate and use that. It'll work like a charm and it's amazing at fixing the drive.

According to HDTune, who is your hard drive manufacturer? Unfortunately, Spinrite (like everything else at GRC, including Gibson himself) is utter garbage. Once we get your hard drive's manufacturer, we can get you the hard drive diagnostic utility from the manufacturer.

Have you tried the cds in another (known working) computer?