Jeremy

Contact your system administrator. If that's you, then you're obviously not logged in under that account.

Download and install the User Profile Hive Cleanup Tool. This will take care of the registry values not being unloaded properly. In regards to your other errors, can you please copy the event log itself, paste them individually into notepad, save as text files (per each error) and attach them to your next post?

Which media player are you using? That doesn't look like a normal Windows-based error message.

Ok, based on the first sentence in the first post: It's Windows and judging by the specs, it's probably FAT32.

Is the laptop new or no? I suggest you download Ultimate Boot CD 4.0, burn it to a CD and boot to it on your laptop and run a HDD and memory diagnostic. Although it sounds like a HDD issue, it never hurts to verify the RAM is good. You take your XP source, copy it to a folder on the HDD, download and install nLite, browse to your folder from within nLite, choose to integrate a Service Pack and also Create Bootable ISO, browse to the folder you saved SP2 after you downloaded it, proceed. Then create the bootable ISO. Burn it, done.

The easiest and least time consuming process to accomplish this would be to download and install the freeware virtualization software called Sandboxie. You can install Adobe PSCS9 into it, patch it, then explore the sandbox and backup the files and registry information that's also logged in the Sandbox. Read the FAQ and forums there for any additional information.

You might get better/more responses by posting in the Media subforum, but also on a site/forum dedicated to audio/video. These two links should offer enough information for you. A little reading and trial goes a long ways. VideoHelp > Tools > DigitalTV/DVB/HDTV VideoHelp > Tools > HTPC

Google: Norton +BSOD

I'll give that a try tonight when I get home, thank you for the links, Mortov Molotov.

What sort of errors do you get in your Event Log under Application and System. A good idea is to clear the logs altogether, reboot and check them again. A repair installation will fix the OS but not necessarily any problems you might be having. What do you mean by not being able to use FireWire? Slow uploading of Windows components? Please elaborate.

MAReames82, if I were you I'd appreciate any response from someone such as cluberti regarding an issue you probably would have found tons of duplicate threads in a 30 second search. People who know their s*** who post it in great detail are few and far between. I think you should revise your attitude.

Even after you reformat it the data should be recoverable. I've done this before successfully with the following software: FinalData Enterprise v2.0 Runtime GetDataBack R-Studio They are payware but you get what you pay for, beyond a shadow of a doubt.

So ideally you'd like a method to export only Warning and Errors from the 30 servers on the network (or are they networked even?) to a single log file or folder of logs, right? Try this: Linky Looks to me like it will be exactly what you need, and it is free for personal use from what I can see there.

Which the people who made the packs should have seen coming. The only people to cry over this spilled milk are the "packers".

I've removed IE and: Comodo works fine. I don't play website games but I have played on shockwave.com which uses flash, no issues. Skype works fine, so does PD, O&O and every .NET app I have used.

A friend of mine said some girl at his university (who knows nothing about computers) was working on a 1500 word essay and went to save it. She was asked about some conversion, clicked cancel, closed Word, re-opened her file and suddenly 95% of it was converted to those square box characters. Here's a screenshot of exactly what it looks like: Clicky The data seems to still be in the document, just in some strange format. Does anyone know of an undo method, or is this file FUBAR? Thanks guys/girls, Jeremy

Please obtain any updates for Windows via either Windows Update, the Automatic Updates service, with Jcarle's WUD or AutoPatcher, and not some file put on MegaUpload. This leads me to believe you're acquiring updates for a pirated copy of Windows.

Excellent! Thanks for that, Dig.

First of all, that's Messenger spam, nothing more. Disable the Messenger Service. Secondly, download and open Dial-A-Fix. Go to Tools (the hammer icon), highlight "Reinstall WMI/WBEM". You'l need your Windows XP Installation CD. Reboot. Everything should be good now.

Options > Messages > Show Handwriting Tool in Conversation Windows, checked?

If the software uses the registry to create Services, then it can't be made portable. It would have to run completely standalone or use an .INI or .XML file. Application Data, of course. DLL? You mean system32? The more directories it installs files to, the harder it makes it to be made portable. You'd need some method of logging/monitoring where files are being written to such as FileMon or Process Explorer. Regardless, I think there's already enough portable programs to accomplish what someone would want to do. Finding them is the hard part, but the website I linked to is a good start.

Right click on My Computer > Properties > Advanced > Performance Settings > Select "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop". Click OK.

The quickest and easiest solution I can think of is to do a repair install. Try that.

This file isn't found in my XP Pro SP2 source and there's no mention of it on Google. Is your new PC a brand-name one like Dell/Acer/HP/etc?