Jeremy

Ok, you'll have to press F8 after it's reformatted and rebooted and tell it to boot to the HDD to begin installation.

The Windows firewall is garbage. Get yourself a hardware firewall or use Outpost Free or Comodo Pro.

What do you mean by "loosing contact"?

So you've compared Everest to actual hardware monitors?

For future reference, please post in the appropriate subforum. If you go there now I'm sure you'll answer your own question.

So you're saying that when you press a key, the PC just loads Windows as usual? This sounds like the installation CD isn't actually bootable.

Yes, never do that.

SpeedFan - Before And After (Full Load) All my temperatures seem to have dropped and the reason is because my previous VGA cooler simply blew air away from the video card to still be ventilated around the case. My new one blows air outside of the case. My Blog - Anything's Better Than Stock I checked my temperatures with Everest and got totally different readings. I'm going to get some hardware to do this accurately instead of inaccurate software.

The easiest and least time-consuming process would simply be to reformat your system. Backup your drivers and any personal documents to flash drive, CD, DVD, external HDD, whatever. Any ideas on how you managed to become infected in the first place?

You can troubleshoot further by entering those event ID numbers on http://www.eventid.net.

My apologies, I just noticed two topics with the same title and put two together. My bad.

Ok, that's enough.

Hahahaha! Excellent!

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=91529

Ah, good points. Question answered. Cheers, Crahak.

What do people need from a web browser? Honestly... I have my bookmarks, my tabbed browsing, my stability, the customizability of the GUI/appearance, behavior and preferences. When I want to watch a trailer of a new movie, I can do so. What more do you do with a web browser? This is in no way directed at you Crahak. It's more of a semi-rant towards Joe Blows who want everything from fancier bookmarks to scrambled eggs. Maybe I'm too basic...

RegMon is by no means easier to use in order to achieve the goal the user is aiming for. It's freeware, sure, so are the two I mentioned. Wrap is much quicker and will give him a LOG file with the registry entries. RegMon will save a log file but it will be of everything it detects which will be useless to him for what he wants.

Yes, but you simply shouldn't have to. That's part of my point. I used FF for a year and checked out the forums each day for nightlies and bugfixes, the most common "resolution" was deleting your profile and recreating it. It's a hassle, especially for a newbie trying out extensions. It's like the Format of Firefox.

Reinstall? See this is what I don't like about FF. Regardless of whether it is stable or not, one bad extension or theme will break something.

As I said, I think you should reformat your HDD to get a clean slate. Your PC is hosed in dozens of programs you are both unfamiliar with and will likely never use. To reformat you will need your Windows XP Installation CD that should have come with your PC when you bought it. If it doesn't contain Service Pack 2, you may download this freely from Microsoft at this location. To integrate this Service Pack 2 into your XP CD, you will need to copy the contents of that XP CD to your HDD, preferably to C:\XPCD. Then, providing that you have .NET Framework 2, you may use nLite to slipstream the SP into the XPCD and create a new bootable ISO. Now just before formatting, you should make backups of your drivers. There are several applications you may use for this purpose. My preferred one is Driver Genius Professional 2005. However, some freeware alternatives include Double Driver, DriverMax, and IceManND's DriverBackup tool. Just keep these handy on a flash drive, CD, seperate partition/HDD, external HDD, whatever. What would be even better is if you updated all your drivers to the latest versions before backing them up. The drivers that come with brand-name PCs are usually outdated. In regards to "What is <this>?" questions, I strongly advise you to become familiar with the Search function of Google and/or any forum you become a member on. Avast Homepage Avast! on AV-Comparatives.Org Symantec isn't a bad product detection rate or memory-wise, the GUI isn't bad, either. However, I've rarely heard any user make a positive comment or observation of this product. There are freeware products such as Avast and AntiVir that have very good protection, good use of memory and many featurs/options to configure. For more information on anti-virus keep in touch with that AV-Comparatives website as well as my blog section here(Under Construction). I've currently tested 19 anti-virus products. The top 3 are: Kaspersky NOD32 Avast! As for updating or replacing the software you currently use, I will recommend the following: Update Adobe Reader to 8 or Foxit PDF Reader which is much lighter. ATI Radeon Driver (just use the driver and not the bundled software unless you have an AIW card that you use to capture video or watch PC video on TV.) All the Canon programs can be forgotten. You already have Picasa installed which will take care of that digital camera for you. Replace CheckIt Diagnositics with the freeware tool SIW DubIt, the audio editor? Audacity is a popular alternative. Nero, replace with Nero Lite Micro Norton SystemWorks & Symantec, please remove these with SymNRT 2007 and go with Avast as previously mentioned (if you reformat) Photo Gallery and Photo Stitch (also replaced with Picasa and either IrfanView or XnView.) QuickTime, replace with Media Player Classic and FFDShow. This will also replace Windows Media Player. IE7, switch to Firefox or Opera. WinZip, replace this with the superior 7-Zip that offers better compression, or IZarc which supports more formats. I hope this information helps you. Jeremy

No worrries, each PC will have the same default settings, until you tweak it with that application of course.

Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition v10.1.5.5000 Main GUI Advanced Scanning Options Processes (While Idle) Processes (After Manual Full System Scan) I like the GUI, features and options and the memory usage is not disappointing. I've tested 19 products and I've seen the worst of the worst, believe me. However, 9 Services later and in my entire history of dealing with anti-virus, reading user comments, talking with IT Techs and half a dozen popular forums, I haven't read a single positive thing about Symantec. Not even once. I'm not being biased, but absolutely truthful. I've yet to personally test it against some test viruses. I shall do that soon. Cheers, Jeremy

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I'd suggest using RegSnap to take a before and after snapshot of your registry and compare them, and save the differences to a reg file and take a look at that afterwards. You could also install the software, and use Wrap to capture the registry keys after installation. That would be easier, actually.

Start > Search > Files and Folders. Search for images or .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .bmp, .png. Then analyse the results.