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All user pages. How about something official?

Nice catch. I just checked and you're right. I just went to make a shortcut last night and it wasn't there.

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Good idea, as you still had some malware in your last log.

Very well said jcarle.

It shouldn't be doing that for a USB drive. It's a plug and play device. First, try a reboot.

Never trust those sites, they get payoffs to be rated best. Trying it on my server and... ...ugh, popup ads while updating? Used Ghost to revert my drive since I had major work to do and just trash AntiVir. Oddly the license was only good from now till the end of February, whereas Avast would be good till the end of next year with a free renewal.

Yeah, I do too! Thanks Zxian for helping verify that the information provided is indeed accurate and correct.

You haven't proven otherwise. Bottom line of this thread is leave your services alone. Don't "tweak" your system by messing with the services.

Here's another one missing. File > New > Shortcut

There actually used to be text appearing when you hovered the flags.

Will there be a detection in the near future for IE7 to clear up these issues?

You are unfortunately still highly infected. Please run SpywareBlaster, CCleaner, CWShredder, Ad-Aware, and Spybot again. You can also run AVG Anti-Spyware (formerly ewido) if you wish. Then please repost your log, as your current log has numerous visible infections that the aforementioned programs remove.

I checked over the files, all of them have SpywareBlaster in them. Windows Defender was removed as it was still beta and not really necessary. Go ahead and scan with Avast, let it do a boot time scan first, then a thorough scan in Windows.

So christopher, you're following my PC Maintenance guide and running the applications from one of the Anti-Malware packages? If so, which package did you get and are you having any problems with anything?

I'd be willing to bet that had you left your install alone as a normal Windows XP install, you wouldn't be having these issues. You disabled or removed a needed service, you can't figure out why, and now you're blaming the OS for your mistakes. If people would just leave Windows XP's services alone and not try to "tweak" them, they wouldn't have any issues with their software or hardware.

Try it, and then get back to me. How come there are no links to prove what you're saying about converting to NTFS is bad? Hm? Did you guys not fully read the test? Didn't say to keep it as NTFS nor did I specify size. Why? Because it is a test and it's a user's choice if they want FAT or NTFS. My 5GB pocket hard drive is converted to NTFS and works far better using NTFS, same with the 256MB stick I have. You should also read about Choosing between NTFS, FAT and FAT32. "Recommended minimum volume size is approximately 10 megabytes (MB)." Note it says a minimum of 10 MB? Therefore, no warning is needed as most USB drives are 128MB+ now-a-days. Tyvm.

You can also read this thread which will help you clean your PC with freeware applications.

Very valid question, as IE7 updates a lot of the files that XPize patches. I was actually just about to post on this myself.

Proof NTFS is better and faster: Take a USB flash drive. Now, copy a 100MB or larger file to it and see how long it takes. Now delete it and test the time it takes to delete it. Now it's back to it's original state so convert it to NTFS via cmd. Copy that same file to the flash drive and then delete it. Tell me which is clearly faster and better.

If you don't report it, they won't be able to fix it. When you report it, they do indeed fix it.

Thread cleaned up so the original poster won't get confused or follow misinformation.

On the Date & Time tab, wasn't this at one time updated for a better looking clock, or did this cause issues? I searched before posting on this and found talk of a similar thing, but wanted to clarify. Perhaps it could be patched again without issues, if that is why it isn't patched now?

Ooh, harsh! I just cover the most common possibilities, including that of which I just recently had to resolve at the shop. Those just turned out to be virus/malware related. Glad yours isn't though.

No one was flaming you here dude, relax. You are right on one thing for sure. BlackViper is not the smartest apple in the bunch. Check out where they debunked his entire tweaking guide. Services tweaks - debunked (XP) - with special focus on BlackViper You just said yourself a security program required the Task Scheduler service to be running. So you had to go back in and set it to Automatic. Now, what do you think your customers do? They won't know to go in and configure their service back. More likely than not, they will either call you and complain since it was you/your shop who "fixed" their computer. Since it would be your shop causing the problem, do you think they'd return to your shop in the future if you broke their computer by tweaking it? No, they won't be back; and believe me, they'll tell their friends too. As much as you may think you're helping them, you're actually hindering them and their computer experience. While they may think it's a problem with the OS, it was actually the one who disabled the services which should be left alone. None of this is flaming dude, it's common sense and the truth.