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It will be buried inside one of your Chrome add-ons. Delete the lot and reload the ones you want.

Well, there's Google... But if you'd like some help, press the Report button and post the content of the notepad that pops.

And so long ago, it probably doesn't even smell bad now.

Hello, 2rti, as you might have worked out, HijackThis is incapable of working with W7, and it is no longer being maintained. In my view, as a malware revealer, it was at the end of its rope years ago, even with XP. MAlware moved on, HT did not. Anyway, with …

Michael, I do not know where you got to in your installation attempts, but if the MBAM program folder exists, check in there for chameleon.exe; if it exists then run it, and again try to install MBAM immediately afterward (no restart beforehand). If you don't have chameleon, then here it …

Cuzintone has it pretty right. You don't have a SATA mode option in your BIOS simply because HP decided it was not necessary - they built the thing with a SATA drive, after all. But I'm guessing that your XP installation medium (CD?) does not have the SATA driver slipstreamed …

Midi, it would be churlish of me to offer a solution to your problem. Cos you're having so much fun, and further, investigation is a great source of (self) learning. Besides, I don't have one... Okay, I think your BIOS sucks... I might try flashing it if it was mine. …

There is Java, and there is Javascript. Totally different. Some applications use/require Java, and some applications that are run through websites for specific purposes, oh... like share trading displays, engineering functions and so forth. Most people don't require Java at all. It is not related to browsers, but some sites …

Aw, heck... I thought the chap hoping to make a living writing batch files would have helped you with this. Because you mention dir I assume you are using the cmd window? Well, these two lines in a batch file will give you a listing.. put it on your desktop …

An administrator does not normally have access to the personal files of other users, those in their My Documents folder. But it's a computer, the stuff is there....

Yep. It's called the Shutdown button. Cleans memory totally, quite risk free. The other software, called Restart, does not remove power from memory, so content is retained.

It seems that you have specified a paging file size that is rather too small. On the Performance Options page that pops choose the Advanced tab, then click Change on the Virtual Memory section; in the new Window set a Custom size, as a guess 1000MB min and 1500MB max, …

Or the CCF (cold cathode fluorescent) lamps in there are going bad (they do fail, but rarely) or the lamp power supply is overheating. If you are competent with such electronics a replacement is straitforward enough; if not competent then it's a job for a tech. The CCF lamps provide …

I take it that your phone numbers are strings, so you would start with this command to extract the fourth digit: MID("Text"; Start; Number) - replace "text" with your cell number, so: MID(D1; 4; 1). You will then need to compare the returned value with the contents of an array …

I'm gunna guess that he wants w8.1 in Macedonian (Windows 8.1 for Emerging Markets). Or just W8.1 with the Macedonia language pack. Easy enough, you just select and pay M$.

randaril, first help us n yourself by doing just what caperjack suggested in #10 above. BUT START a new thread. Please.

That code is reporting what is normally (and in your case would be ) a software error, likely a driver because the system worked in safe mode. May I suggest that you force another bluescreen and read the faulting module (likely a .sys file), or download a file called BluescreenViewer.exe …

The Delete key will take you into the AMI Bios. There, I think, under Advanced Options you should find you hard drive listed along with any others, eg. an inserted UFD key or drive. Switch the orders. Alternatively, press F8 key immediately after power on and you should be presented …

"the highest users are "system" and "Service Host:local Service (Network Restricted)(7)" is what you see in TM. That's a restricted view. Download Process Explorer from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb795533, check in properties of that svchost which service is being run by it.

Hello, Tazman. I suggest you update and re-run MBAM; in Settings, Detection and Protection set PUP detections to "Treat as Malware". When MBAM completes have it quarantine and delete all that it finds. Your various PUP detections are pests. GMER log is okay. I suggest you also get a good …

A continuing, working AV is important. AV-TEST has some interesting reading on that subject re XP. http://www.av-test.org/en/news/news-single-view/artikel/the-end-is-nigh-for-windows-xp-these-anti-virus-software-products-will-continue-to-protect-xp-after/ Reading a few of the linked pages, one can conclude that XP users should be using Panda Security: Cloud Antivirus FREE vsn 2.2, if a free aV is your style. Kaspersky is still …

I consider that processor, the AMD Dual-Core A4-1250 1GHz almost cripplingly slow, more for a tablet than a laptop. Forget games. It's for simple office stuff, processes which are not at all demanding. I would not expect it to perform well with video editing/playback. Okay, I'll say it: Acer should …

This is BIOS not detecting the hdd. Of course, with the power off you first try replugging it a couple of times to clean the contacts, try with the plugs almost fully engaged to get a different contact area on the pins and sockets, try different mb sockets and power …

Reference the sheet named sales in the formula for the cell in your sheet named stock, so: ='sales'.cellname eg. =F16-'sales'.F16 or =F16-'sales'.C16 Consider arrays.eg {B3:B10-'sales'.B3:B10}

Hi, cat. If you are able to log into windows now without the Windows Accel Pro screen, then running malwarebytes will clean it from your system completely. http://www.malwarebytes.org/ -the free version will do it. At completion of installation, let it start and update, then do the quick scan. Set it …

Silly question, really, but does your router know the correct IPs of your new DNS?

The .sii files are encrypted now to prevent editing. You need a decrypter... : http://eurotrucksimulator2.com/mod_tools.php

I suspect that a lot of security scare stories will circulate, they make easy copy, sell a few pages. I remember the exploding butane lighter stories, those deadly things with the power of 3 sticks of dynamite.... anyway, in the mining game we use lots of explosives but of course …

Hello, Karen, to help us understand where the problem might lie, would you please run the little bit of code below? It is a non-invasive query; will not damage your machine. Copy the code below into notepad, save it as RQ.bat to your desktop, then dclick RQ.bat to run it. …

You remove the password; the owner will of course notice this. Look, it's a Windows OS; if you lose the laptop, it is OWNED by the taker, so don't use complex login passwords. They are NO protection at all. Your favourite food, dog, town.. anything simple will do.

Aw, Rev, why did you have to put that link up? The comments and links from there wasted so much of my time! Thoroughly enjoyable. skip[42] indeed.

"safely kept in the City Hall's vault for some reason" Gosh. Just... gosh. Microsoft has an official download site for the W7 installer flavours. Free....

Because you are using W7 you must use the program bcdedit.exe to repair your boot manager files. I have not ever had my hands on an upgrade disc, so I shall take your word for it that it cannot help. But you can download freely the w7 setup isos from …

Those things work only if the MFT has not been corrupted/overwritten. With a recovery... only the slightest chance of success.

Digitalriver.com is where you go - it's the official download site. This site gives the links to available versions. :o Pretty much with W7, you choose SP1, media refresh, and 32 or 64 bit. Then, before you burn your disk (or load your UFD) you simply delete a file (sources\ei.cfg) …

Don't delete C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore - it is your update history; wuaus checks that. The service will download a couple of files that it needs if you delete the rest of SD. Can the Administrator account succeed with desktop saves?

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I always wonder in these cases whether the OP is the legitimate owner of the login... but this stuff is all over the web, and the real owner would likely prefer to have his system whole and workable, if indeed pryed into. A sys in someone- else's hands is a …

I'm thinking that since you activated your machine with your product key that same key has been used on another machine. M$ has thus invalidated your activation. It could have been copied from your machine's sticker or from the cd case, in your home or the store.

Oh dear. Mods!! I don't think that this site is one that encourages the use of "loaders". And a Loader will not make your Windows genuine, it will merely make it appear so by modifying the BIOS certificate to one from an OEM. But it's Microsoft's war, not mine...

Yes, usp10.dll is a protected file. Renaming it will generate another copy from cache. Or should... And then restart... see *. Renaming... it's easy to lose track of renamed files, I put a couple of zeroes in front, then they go to the top of the list for easy deletion …

When in setup, reset BIOS to defaults, save and see what happens.

Interesting how often this question crops up. Go to this page... you can either follow the instructions or wait a few seconds and the page will tell you. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827218

Have you tried the procedure on this site? Tuvaro is not a virus, it's just malware of the advertising variety but with the possibility of inserting more malware in a pooorly protected system. http://www.techsupportall.com/solved-how-to-remove-tuvaro-search-from-chrome-firefox-ie/

Follow that scan with a run of memtest86+ from memtest.org. Coincidences do happen, it is likely to be a RAM module failure.

I don't know much about different soundcards/sound chips on mobos, but I do know that Realtek has a built-in equalizer which allows frequency band adjustments.