Jeremy

Boot to CD and delete shell32.dll and have a nice day.

You're wasting your time with Symantec, anyway. Everyone I've ever known and read about online that's ever used Symantec has encountered many problems while using the software, ones that aren't even related to anti-virus. Leave it up to the very manufacturer of the product you're using to send you the wrong disk with a password on it and not inform you. My blog post about Anti-Virus. You're using this for use at home? Grab a copy of Kaspersky or NOD32. You want proof that these two products rock? AV-Comparatives.org And for even more info, check out this topic.

Temper temper. I mean it's dead in one sense but not in another, of course. Microsoft sure feels that's it dead, otherwise they'd still support it. I'm not an XP fan. I started on Windows 95, then 98, then ME, then Win2k and at this moment XP. I'm considering trying Linux virtually soon. I'm not trying to fight anyone here. That statement defeats your entire argument. It IS ridiculous, and we choose not to follow that.How does that defeat my... argument? I'm not arguing. I didn't say that you would have to. But you're sure not going to play a DirectX10 based game on Win9x (or XP for that matter it seems). I'm not directing what I say at you specifically, BenoitRen. That's your interpretation, not my intention. I run a D-Link DI-604 router and the latest weekly of the Opera web browser. What I'm saying is, just because you and I do, doesn't mean everyone else does too.

Nothing is perfect, but I have no problems with Windows XP, and no malware in years. How is that poor?

Never remove IE Core.

Yes, that's the way it works.

You don't need to disable many Services. Just make sure that when you playback movies on that slow machine that you don't have many, if any, things running in the background at the same time. Media Player Classic + K-Lite Codec Pack + QuickTime Alternative + Real Alternative + Windows Media 11 Runtimes = Play every media format you can imagine.

When you reboot after reformatting, hit F8 to access the Boot Menu. From there just select the normal OS boot option and it will continue with setup.

They come in handy for a lot of people. Not everyone is as smart as you.

@E-66, I understand all that as well. However, even for the most basic person may become exploited by some flaw and have their personal info that's saved in IE's AutoComplete feature stolen. M$ wouldn't be able to help them with it since 9x is in the dust now. I'm not saying I know of a particular exploit that results in this, it was just an example. @awergh, You remind me of Commander Data from Star Trek - The Next Generation. Always trying to give time down to the very second. 9 years and 8 years, 4 months, 8 days... I'm not trying to get the time exactly right, I'm just pointing out that it's been a long time and it's old.

I'd say a real router's job is to provide firewall protection...

Read this: For future reference, I got that from this website, an excellent resource in troubleshooting Windows STOP/BSOD messages. I'm assuming you only use those drives for storage, thus they don't have an operating system installed on them, right? This is why you get that error. You removed the drive that's bootable to Windows and replaced it with a OS-less drive. You'd need to boot to your XPCD and partition it so you could have a few GBs to install Windows thus making it bootable. Either that or try to do some maintenance on the C drive based on what that BSOD description says.

No, only Professional. However, you can still make the same changes. Enabling something in the Group Policy Editor is just carrying over to the registry. I'll try to find it sometime tomorrow if someone hasn't already done so by then.

*clears eyes* Did I read this correctly? Do I see "I'll just install iTunes"? What "WMP thing"?

I think most people who p*** on new IT's (anything before 2000) just have trouble coping with how big Windows is, since you're probably some 35 year old whose been using PCs since the day they only needed such-and-such KBs of RAM to run, and with how "insecure" and "unstable" many "pioneers" seem to believe XP is. Don't get me wrong, I think needing 512MBs of RAM just to run a vanilla default OS is rediculous, but it is the way it is. With RAM drives and dual core becoming main stream soon and 1GB sticks of RAM becoming cheaper, the filesize of an OS just doesn't matter to as many people as it used to. Not to mention all the drivers for hardware and compatibility for devices and new technologies being implemented into games, and M$ not supporting Win9x... bigger harddrives, more RAM, faster CPUs, dual core, SLI, upgradable GPUs, etc... Windows 9x is Dead. I'm not trying to shove my opinion up anyone's a** here, I'm not saying you can't stick with what you like, but I believe someday... and sooner rather than later... it is going to catch up to you. Let's face it... times change, people change, everything changes. It's inevitable. 1995 was nearly 12 years ago. 1998 was nearly 9 years ago. Technology now changes by the month, if not every few weeks....

You are not your #$#%&^ khakis!

Ah yes, I keep forgetting AVG bought out Ewido. Anyway, Ad-Aware SE and Spybot pretty much take care of all spyware from my experience (dozens of PCs brought into a tech shop).

For future reference, please attach logs to your post, don't make them so inconceivably long. Don't scan with AVG, you have AntiVir installed, which has a much higher detection rate than AVG (and Symantec, believe that?). AVG is a waste of harddrive space and time at this point.

PuntoMX is pretty much what I'd call an expert. He should be a SMod of this subforum. He doesn't need help learning anything, really... it's just that English isn't his first language and he knows all this stuff in his head so he usually fails to go into a lot of detail when defending his knowledge against others effectively. I sometimes proofread things for him. PuntoMX helped me make very wise financial choices that ended me up with very reliable, stable and compatible parts for the system I'm running right now. Now... how's that for covering your 6, eh Punto?

The only things there that look suspicious are the Internet Download Accelerator and the SysEnforce. Do full system scans with Ad-Aware, Spybot and Kaspersky next.

Hahaha, I should do up a seperate VMware machine and just fill it with garbage. I wonder at which point I won't be able to boot Windows afterwards. lol... I wish AV-Comparatives would just hand me their entire collection of viruses.

As usual, HijackThis log.... Ad-Aware SE Spybot CWShredder Kaspersky or NOD32 (anti-virus) Try Unlocker if files refuse to be modified/moved/deleted. Use CCleaner to clean out temp/cache. Use FileMon when you have Firefox open to see which files are trying to access others. If the file(s) persist after this (unlikely), boot to a CD and delete them.

I don't trust anything on Download.com.

Hehehe, I was wondering why Bledd made that response when Cluberti's post was not too far up the page. It's not fake and it's explained right there. But it's not like I really needed to say that, right?

Just for future reference, see the "Find" button on the lower right-hand corner, just above the "Next" button?