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Other possibilities include: the MBR of the drive is corrupted or missing, the bios is trying to boot from other media like usb or cdrom, the sata mode in the bios was altered.

Can you mount the hard disk in another computer, that is not subverted, and scan it from there? I would suggest booting from WinPE since it would be in RAM and not susceptible to whatever is on your system. Rootkits, especially kernel mode ones, can modify windows api so they are invisible to any other processes. Only way to see and remove them, other than a reformat, is with a better kernel mode driver or by analyzing the disk 'offline' as I suggested above.

Safe Mode > Autoruns (Options: Hide Microsoft Entries) > Refresh 'Explorer' Tab > Uncheck things... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb963902.aspx

IEAK RC1 is now available update previous post. BTW although I am addicted to Firefox because of certain addons, but IE8 has some nice improvements over IE7, notably: Tab Isolation - Seperate Processes like Google Chrome Crash Recovery - Automatic Zooming - less horizontal scrolling and improved high DPI support. Hide/Show Command Bar and Favorites Bar from toolbar context menu

Is this an onboard NIC, aka LOM, or is it a discreet card and in that case PCI or PCI-e? What is the controller and driver revision? If it is onboard also tell us the motherboard model and bios revision; and try updating the bios. Your device may not be sending out the gratuitous arp, unless its a cold boot, and hence not pulling an ip from the dhcp server.

A model # would help... NDAS is apparently a proprietary solution by Ximeta; it's difficult to guess whats wrong with it. Since it uses the network interface it is limited by its signaling rate, which is 1Gbps. eSATA (3Gbps) is probably the fastest direct external connection for hard drives right now. USB 3.0 (5Gbps) will be a little faster when that appears later this year. Also although Ximeta claims it does not use TCP/IP and uses a special driver, which I am guessing is not based on NDIS, it still probably has its own encapsulation protocol and thus overhead. If your using an onboard NIC, or LOM, this encapsulation will be limited by your cpu. It then must be decapsulated by the NDAS device, wich will be limited by its cpu. And then finally read or write to the disk, which would be limited by the actual hdd. You'd probably be more successful with a SMB 2.0 network share. BTW The fastest is probably Infiniband.

I have been using the Vista "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security" aka advfirewall with netsh scripts. I disable all rules and block traffic by default in both directions for all network profiles. I then create very specific rules to allow things to work, for example: netsh advfirewall reset netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state on netsh advfirewall set allprofiles firewallpolicy blockinbound,blockoutbound netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name=all new enable=no netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Internet Explorer x86" dir=out program="%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" enable=yes profile=any action=allow protocol=tcp remoteport=21,80,443 netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Internet Explorer x86" dir=out program="%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" enable=yes profile=any action=allow protocol=udp remoteport=53 I disable the DNS Client service so I have to manually allow DNS (port 53 udp) per process. For my gateway I currently have a WRT54GL running Tomato Linux firmware, but I switch back and forth to another WRT54GL running DD-WRT sometimes. I am working on replacing it with pfSense, just building a list of rules in a virtual network and deciding if it should be run natively or virtually.

What version of RivaTuner are you using? Have you tried any other tools? http://majorgeeks.com/Riva_Tuner_d737.html http://majorgeeks.com/ATI_Tray_Tools_d4569.html http://majorgeeks.com/AMD_GPU_Clock_Tool_d5989.html

BTW FileHippo keeps a good history of versions available for download and its fast: http://www.filehippo.com/download_ad-aware/ Question I have is, why bother with older versions since they will probably become ineffective against newer malware? I would try to figure out the conflict you were having with Spybot or contact its developer. My guess is it had something to do with this:

Hmm, the screenshots look like they were taken from two different desktops. My guess is as rendrag said a permissions issue, or the files are in use so you cannot write over them. I would do a malware scan, things like dddd.exe and clean on your desktop are suspicious...

That's why "buffer underrun protection" was invented. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_underrun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BurnProof#Buf...rrun_protection If this was to be done professionally I would look for a way to memory map whatever is going to be burned and using SATA drives in AHCI mode, because that would eliminate almost any I/O interruption IMO.

thanks for the news cluberti Release Notes http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949787 Upgrading to Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/01/2...andidate-1.aspx Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Now Available http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/01/2...-available.aspx Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) RC1 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/bb219517.aspx

Is Java is working in other browsers like IE and Firefox but not Opera? http://www.java.com/en/download/installed....t=jre&try=1 I am almost certain you need the x86 Java installed, because that is what most java applets on websites are compiled for; the x64 JRE is useful if you have a Java program that can use it. Also Opera is only available as a x86 application, so it cannot use 64bit plugins. http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?custom=yes A notice on the JRE 64bit download page:

Maybe it just doesnt recognize the media code of that particular dvd. The drive is not a burner, only a reader. Have you tried different dvds? And make sure they are in good condition.

Please run and post a screenshot from Nero InfoTool (freeware) ftp://ftp6.nero.com/tools/InfoTool.zip for example

what version of virtualbox are you using? can you give us details of the guest configuration? can you be more specific than a "line of garbage"? Screenshots? what type of boot discs are these? DOS? WinPE? Other? what is an "old copy of windows"? Win95? WinME? Win2000? WinXP? JO.SYS or IO.SYS?

why? maybe a host file entry?

VirtualBox 2.1.2 (released 2009-01-21) http://www.virtualbox.org/ http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog A "maintenance release", notably improved Windows 7 support.

ImgBurn does support multiple writers and queuing, but I am not sure if it can write to multiple burners simultaneously. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=930

I was looking for a way to skip the gamespy login and go straight to the full multiplayer menu, turns out its very easy to do Copy mainmenu.xml mainmenux1.xml mainmenux2.xml From Atari\Neverwinter Nights 2\UI\default To Documents\Neverwinter Nights 2\ui\default Edit Alternatively you could have it go straight to the LAN menu (LANBROWSER) or DirectConnect (DIRECTCONNECT). Since the menus are all XML you can really redo them any way you want, e.g changing graphics or adding and removing buttons.

Ok, winlogon.exe is actually an extremely important file included with Windows since NT. It is supposed to be in the I386 folder of your install source and during setup it is expanded to the System32 folder. However the winlogon process on your system has been hijacked by malware. Most likely you can suspend and then kill the rouge threads using Sysinternals Process Explorer. Then you can try running some AV software or a manual cleaning. I think you were doing the right thing though going for a reinstall or repair install, because it is difficult to know the extent your computer has been infected. Just backup everything to a secondary drive or partition.

Check the file and folder permissions, make sure your user has at least 'read' rights to those files.

I would unpack the driver installers and study the inf files; sounds like your going to be doing that later anyway. Also might want to check out these free tools: UniExtract, Orca, Process Monitor, Sandboxie

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The plugin requires that Nero API be installed in order to work. You can probably extract it from the cd but you will still need the API installed and activated for it all to work. Nero Lite is basically Nero API plus Nero.exe I suggest ImgBurn or InfraRecorder, both are free and small. http://www.imgburn.com/ http://infrarecorder.org/