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Phantom, Aha, I follow ya and that explains that lol, admittedly I haven't used Sys Works for ages and only briefly on NTFS systems anyway, but that will be noted for the future, so thanx m8 !! Craigs.......Can you access a copy of IE6 off a CD that comes free with a lot of the Computer Mags or summat m8? Obviously that way you could try ya re-install of IE6 at least without having to d'load it if there are those files missing etc, and they could well be part of the problem!!

Heya Bluerose, As said m8, I couldn't remember who's post it was and didn't go back and check m8 lol......But todays events definitely highlighted that there is a distinct possibility that MSBlast could be floating around here unfortunately !!! I'm fairly well protected too and touch wood, haven't been infected and won't be either taking all reasonable measures. Obviously not all that share the forum either have that luxury or maybe the experience to know what to look for etc and it's mainly there for them to help them avoid a nasty brush with the Dark side of computers...... Despi

Bummer....hhhmmm.....try this then, Go to the Run Command Line in ya start menu and type -> drwatson.exe <-, in the pane at the bottom it should tell you of any problem applications etc that may help or guide you to a potential issue somewhere so that you can then fix it?? Also it won't do any harm to have a browse thru ya "System Information" Utility either that may show something up if ya Norton Utils isn't helping you out a great deal either, (found in All Programs, Accessories and then System Tools of the Start Menu (and not wishing to patronise you if you know that too lol,

First up, this post is ONLY here to help and for information. I personally am not making accusations of any kind lol, and my only intent with this post is to aid people in protecting their PC's and also importantly, also hopefully helping to protect the interests of GR.net too ! I Haven't gone back and read it again, but I remember someone posting the other day that they "suspected" that a Virus (Trojan, Worm, whatever) had infected their PC after visiting GR.net, obviously nobody could be sure and it seemed that it was mostly speculation at the time!!! I was over at a freinds today and

Craigs, Well that gives a clue m8 and may get you on the road to some sort of recovery soon !!! "Nmain.exe" is a shared Symantec file, so you probably have one of the Norton Apps installed, most likely Norton AV tho, yes/no??? It may be that your Norton AV has become corrupted and is the culprit, (why would that affect the Internet though you ask? I have no bloody idea myself lol, but mine got corrupted for absolutely no reason once too, and it did very similar things to my Internet connection, causing problems where you'd never expect it to)!!! Try an un-install of Norton AV and

Is it an "Original Disc", a back-up, or (AHEM), d'loaded from the net and burnt to CD-R/DVD-R too lol????

Hehehe, First up, in the minds of some it may have paid you to be slow to make the change hehehe, to many Win XP has been the bain of their lives rofl, to others it's absolutely fine granted !! For you only time will tell hehehe!! As for ya Partition Sizes.....Are you reffering to the ones you often needed to make when installing Win ME or 98 using FDisk prior to an install for example?? If you are, there's no need to create a partition for that purpose prior to installing XP as at least it does actually completely do all that for you. It is a lot easier to install than Win ME and 9

1st.....What connection do you have, (DSL, 56k, etc)?? 2nd, when your AC went off, were you changing any of the properties to your connections etc or to any other features of XP (obviously something was open that wasn't able to be saved fully when the sys went down and the Sys Restore failing isn't exactly good news for you either . If it also won't Restore to one Date and Time have you tried another too, maybe a day further back instead of the one closest to the crash, a different Resore point may work for you too?? Can you also remember what you were running at the time your sys wen

Cobblers, Sorry m8, I should have put a link in for you last time so you can see what I meant lol.........Go to the following link, then in the Blue Banner at the top of the page you will be on there are a load of links to the many different sections of the differing components that they supply. Choose the "Hard Drives" link from the "Blue Banner", and then you will be on a page of their full Hard Drive listings alone. Scroll down the sections on that page, past the 2.5"/PCMCIA and External Drives sections, and the 3rd section down is for the standard "IDE" Drives !! Scan (with links b

Not sure on the exact specs and useage for that particular game, but I play the odd old game that simply won't run on WinXP at all (Goldarnit lol)!!! You may have to get a DOS Emulator so that the game can run if it was designed to actually run fully in DOS and now Win. Then you may need to also go into the properites for the shortcut etc and set-up the DOS options too blah blah. That may or may not sort it, depending exactly on how ya old Game (Demo) was meant to run obviously !!!

Hiya m8, Yeh, the Scan site is very good !! No, SATA isn't the same as a normal IDE drive, it connects using different Cables and yes it takes a MoBo with the capability onboard, or the use of a standalone PCI controller. The Mobo you have chosen tho is SATA Enabled so don't worry about that, your compatability will be fine !! The question I'm raising is just if you can have solely SATA devices in use without any IDE Drives being present, hopefully someone using them or someone with further info will be able to answer that question for you, me and any other interested too lol!!! Obvio

Hehehe, Hey Cobbler...... Specs look very good m8, you should have fun building it (mucho swearing and banging hehehe (JK)), and then have a very good system to show for it afterwards too !!! You gettin it all from Scan, or a mixture of sources too m8??? SATA is also summat I'm going to look into next and haven't really read up on it much at all yet etc................But, noticed from ya wishlist that you list a SATA drive only.....Hopefully someone using SATA already could answer a question for us please??.......Can you just plug SATA devices in without having any normal IDE devices

Heya Cobblers, First off, I have used both Pentiums and AMD's in the past, at present I prefer AMD's as they just seem to suit me better, it really is a personal preference thing as ever tho TBH. Indeed, with AMD having just released the 64 bit CPU's, you can get a stunning deal on the 32 bit CPU's from places like SCAN at the moment, the prices of AMD's there at the moment are stupendously low !! AMD's certainly give the performance too m8, there's no doubt about that either ! yes, if you order 2 x 512 modules of Corsair Ram then you'll get 1GB (not 1mb, but I know you made a typo the

Cobblers, I buy most of my Components and bits from Scan Computers m8. Scan I generally build my own these days as it's so much cheaper and obviously you can customise to excactly what you want, over the pre-builds almost always having something you don't want or like lol!! They are pretty cheap and often beat many other retailers on prices too, and they always have Weekly and Daily offers on too that are worth checking regularly !! Delivery times and costs are good too and for the 2 items that I have had to return out of Dozens, the back-up has been very good as well! Worth a

LOL Bluerose....... I was actually JK m8 lol, sorry......Hence the cheeky lol !! Never mind lol, no harm done I hope !!

LMAO Prozac hehehe !! Well, gotta have some sort of "throttle to rev up" after I had to sell my Motorbike a couple of months back, (a much loved and missed Suzuki GSX-R 600). It's not quite the same obviously <GRIN>, but the withdrawal symptoms are just too much to take hehehehe. Now I can happily sit and Rev the CPU Fan instead. Doesn't quite make the same sweet noise of the Exhaust I had fitted to the bike either, but ya can't have it all can ya hehehe !

LMAO...... Well spotted Firefly hehehe, that had me chuckling away for 5 minutes m8 !!!!

StormCrow.....You need to be looking exactly in the Directory that AVG has highlighted for you m8, not in the Registry!! You obviously have ya Sys Restore on and monitoring ya H/D's etc, so browse your C: Drive for the Dir called _Restore, but there's the usual 2 quick ways to find the Files you need anyway obviously. 1. Use your "Find Files and Folders Search" options from the Start Menu, type in the name of the file that you posted about right here and hopefully it will then find it and you'll be able to deal with it from the Find Files Dialogue, (subject to possibly having to Disable

LOL Bluerose...... Is there an ECHO....ECho.....Echo....echo, in here hehehe !!! Albeit with less information for the man, you repeated exactly what I posted m8 hehehe !!!!

AVG is telling you you have something so....... Isn't strictly true unfortunately !! The quoted location and filename is synonimous with Virus or Trojan type files and it looks like you have something there. Norton or AVG just maybe not be able to fully identify it that's all, there is no present definitions or information on these latest "MultiDropper" Trojans !! It may pay you to isolate that file at least if you don't want to fully delete it, just to be on the safe side as if it is what is suspected and it does manage to get to its grim task then you'll be well miffed obviously!!

Heya Dark Ranger, Yeh certainly impressed with it thanx m8, but to a certain extent it all becomes academic once you get down to a certain point anyway doesn't it lol, or at least I tend to think so rofl. The next thing that we'll all be complaining of is that our processors are running too cold from the next generation of super efficient HSF's and thus not getting up to the most efficient operating temps hehehe !!! We'll be spraying bloody De-Icers on em or summat next <GRIN>!!! For 80 degree ambient temps at your end, you're looking pretty damn good too m8 with those specs an

Check out the recent post by Spyder on AntiVirus Help, it very much covers the subject and there should be enough there for you to then remove your unwanted guest files with your AV Apps !!

Christ you've suffered some problems recently haven't ya Cpl Ledanek !! Hope ya getting em sorted tho !! Try turning off the "Track At Once" feature too, (or in other words where the process of Burning goes along the lines of.......Media from Zip Drive, - Physical RAM/PageFile, - written directly to CD-RW). Adjust it so that it basically records an "Image" of the media on to ya H/D first, and then afterwards writes that Image to the CD-RW. It's obviously a little slower as you are adding another process into the loop by going that route, but it might cut out the errors you are receiving

Heya Cpl Ladenak, With regards ya RAM question......."In theory yes", you can mix and match DDR memory sizes the same as you could with standard SDRAM, so if you have 2 x 256mb modules populating banks 1 and 2 for example, you could put a 512mb module into bank 3. However, it's recommended that IF you do mix sizes that you obviously put the largest module in bank 1, and then the smaller chips in banks 2 and 3!! IF ya get that 3rd module @ 512mb, then pull the present module out of bank 1 and stick it in No. 3 !! It is generally recommended that where possible you try to keep all of the R

I have just brought the CoolerMaster that SI Prozac pictures and mentions too. I wasn't displeased at all with the Stock Heatsink that came with my XP2400+ though as it was more than efficient. But, I also just brought a new MoBo too (an MSI KT6 Delta KT600) after getting more and more fed up with the Gigabyte GA-7VAXP that I posted about a week or so ago too lol, so decided what the hell, whilst I'm at it and the guts are out, I'll upgrade the H/S/F too !! I mounted the controller knob for mine at the front of the PC (you can either have it at the back positioned in a PCI bay as mention