KAndle

Make a special user that only has NTFS permissions to that folder. Share it out to everyone. Map that share from the computer you want to connect from as the user you created and granted permissions to and presto. You can log that user in from any computer and use those rights and logoff when you are done. I think that makes sense, it's late.

Bloatbusters Sliencer automates this process with many known ad sites. Download.com shows page cannot be display very often where ads should be.

Try this. Go to a command prompt & type: netsh diag connect ieproxy that should tell you what you currently configure proxy setting are.

I have a bit of info on my web site discussing command prompts for beginners. i'm not done with it yet but it's a start.

Have you tried going into Internet Options from the Control panel. On Windows ME this was a workaround for that I'm not sure with XP.

I would try creating a boot floppy from a similar XP machine and copy format.com, fdisk.exe, sys.com and put them on the floppy. Boot on the other machine and fisk & format from that. Not dos or 2k or anything like that. Create the boot disk on XP.

What options do you get when you right-click? How about when you select properties after right-clicking?

You could right click on links and select Save as... or learn about download managers. Try Star Downloader Free (free) or FlashGet (adware - Cydoor) Search Google for them.

You could try comletely reinstalling the theme under the user account. The theme could be installed in a place only admin has right too.

Did you completly remove the old version of Norton BEFORE installing the new version or did you do it as part of the install? It doesn't work as part of the install that I know of. You must find the manually uninstall for the 2004 version and do that before install. You have the Norton 2005 virus... haha

I think those are all ads that are being blocked. I'm not sure you need to see them. I have similar results on computers with Bloatbusters Silencer installed. It writes all kind of ad sites to the LMHOSTS file and points them to localhost so they can't load. It may not be broken but a feature of something you installed.

Are you running a Norton Firewall? Try disabling you firewall first and then try. I've seen Norton cause ie6 to not load all pictures. It was an incorrect setting.

You could create a reg key and add that from the command line. Reg keys can add and remove keys. Other than that can you be more specific about what changes you are looking to make?

If you put every single folder on your hard drive into the path you would probably run out of memory. Any executible you want to use the start command with needs to be in a folder included in your path like windows/system32 is. go to where the other guy said and add those folders you want to the path and start will work without typing the full locations. The more you add to the path the slower the searching will be and less resources you will have available. We aren't in DOS anymore so I don't know when that becomes an issue.

I don't use Window Washer but I would think that it would keep happening to the same programs over & over again if Window Washer is doing it. Try All-In-One Secret Maker. It is a good free spam marker and history cleaner.

Try going to a command prompt and type 'ping www.google.com'. Is there a slow down from there as well or is it seem pretty fast moving? the command 'tracert www.google.com' will give you some network times they should all be > 300 ms or so. ipconfig /all will give you the DNS numbers and you can ping/tracert those as well. Run Spybot, Ad-aware, & anti-virus too. You can do a free online virus scan at http://www.trendmicro.com. Search Google for Spybot & Ad-aware or get them from http://www.download.com.

You could try uninstalling LiveUpdate and reinstalling LiveUpdate from a download. I don't believe when you remove Norton that LiveUpdate even changes at all. The manual way involves some files under Documents & Settings/username/Local Settings/Application Data/Symantec and Documents & Setting/All Users/Application Data/Symantec/LiveUpdate. Remove the apps through Add/Remove Programs and then delete these two location manually if they still exsist. As well as anything Symantec or Norton related under Program Files. That should work wonders. The most important parts of the manually uninstall. You could delete the entire Symantec tree under All Users if you remove both products (Anti-virus & LiveUpdate) and have nothing else from Symantec on your machine. There are reg keys also but you don't always have to play with those. Try that if you can't find the document from Symantec for the manual removal instructions.

I use Trend Micro myself it's just that you can't buy that at Staples. Norton is good and easy to come by. I really like the Corporate Edition & the Exchange scanner when I have dealt with them in the past. I don't trust free virus protection much though. I want to know they are working on making it a better product and not trying to pay their bills through other ventures. Do you know of anything free for Exchagne though? I'll try it if you do. I am going to try those AV CD's too, thanks. I didn't mean to be a jerk I just didn't think your comments related to the original problem. Well thanks all the same.

Not to mention if the system is crashed how should they download the CD? Not to mention that every Windows user isn't comtfortable running things under Linux and I was just offering an alternative to reformating and possibly not burn the email files or favorites because of inexpierence. Or for whatever reason...

dude if your system is crashed then try turning off system restore... i have seen his problem before. if the vierus isn't cleaned properly it is written to system restore in some cases. Norton makes a boot cd does anyone else? I don't know of one. Firefox or not you can still be infected with spy and adware if you download programs. And there are Linux viruses dummy.

Run this command systeminfo > c:\sysinfo.txt Broswe to the file and look that over maybe post the pci device info section...

You may need to download XP drivers for your system board. The sound and everything is built-in to the computer or are they add-ins?

You could have also tried to purchase Norton 2005 and boot to their CD and try to clean it with that. I've seen that exact problem and Norton saw 3800 viruses on it. They get written into the System Restore Information and it's hard to recover after that. Your best bet now is to buy a new hard drive and load that. Add the infected drive as a secondary and clean it. Run virus protection always though. Also Spyware/Adware too. These things will kill an XP machine in that manner if you do nothing.

You are better off running the Deltree command to do something of that nature as huge hidden subdirecties exsist under Temporay Internet Files. Don't forget about the Temp directory as well that fills up with virues and garbage too. You actually better off to download SafeXP and check off Empty Temporary Internet Files on exit for the Internet thing though. http://www.theorica.net/safexp.htm KAndle http://www.KAndleConsulting.com

FlashGet is adware. It uses Cydoor. You could also use Star Downloader Free but it only downloads the entire page you can't select just RAR files with it I don't think.