is this a genuine windows program or a virus\trojan thing any1 got a clue,i cant delete it

I was tweaking the "startup" section of "MSCONFIG" to de- select some programs that somehow were loaded from a virus of soe kind and when I was finished I had no sound. There is no sound from the pc speaker or my external speakers. Can someone please tell me what I might have done wrong? Is there a...

I did get rid of this curse but! I will begin with how to get rid of what is them. According to Symantec (norton) anti virus, click the start button, go to programs, look for GAIN* and then "about GAIN" then click "supported product or service". Write down the names of the GAIN- enabled programs....

During a recent virus scan, I received the following message: C:\windows win386.swp Access denied! Error during file opening! This is a windows swap file. This file is locked by windows. Error code etc etc. Should this be locked? Or do I need to do something to enable it to scan?

The exception message reads: "An exception OE has occurred at 0028: C00AB35D in VxD MPFBOCKS (01) + 0000FE15. This was called from 0028: C00AE9DE in VxD MPFBOCKS (01)+ 00013496" This occurs when I'm shutting down. Prevents shut down. Have recently tried unsuccessfully to install McAfee Security 6.0...

What are the progams that are in my startup folder. I have four user names on this computer and they all have unnessesary programs on startup.I know I need systray and explorer and antivirus. Also when I do add a program that I want to run in the background by installing it by clicking cancel when...

Hello. Is there any file or little program that will give me a complete list of all loaded drivers when running Windows98 (First Edition) - and will the list say what piece of hardware (or whatever) these drivers are connected to and/or why they were loaded in the first place? Thanks. Bob

Hi, not sure if this is the right NG but here goes: I have a Win98 machine which has AVG6 free edition on it, Due to a recent known problem with older versions I decided to install a newer version. Anyways after downloading the lates free version I run the *.exe file to install, but after the...

I have Win98 and I am trying to upgrade from Acrobat reader 5 to version 6. I need this to use the PDF forms the IRS has on their web site (Acrobat 5 cannot save info added to forms). I downloaded Acrobat 6 and it seemed to install OK, but when I try to open it I get an error message that says: ...

Any documents I download from the "File Download" box are in binary code. It doesn't matter if I save to a disc or open in current location. how do I get it to read plain english. All other downloads are fine. Its just the file download box. Any help appreciated. Bob K.

What does this file do? It is slowing down my system by "not responding" - I have to End File ... what is Sear1? What Do I need to do? Thanks!

MSPaint will not load. I have removed it and reinstalled but still get the same error: MSPAINT caused an invalid page fault in module MFC42.DLL at 0187:5f40f9eb. Registers: EAX=00000000 CS=0187 EIP=5f40f9eb EFLGS=00010202 EBX=005846f0 SS=018f ESP=0056f91c EBP=0056f940 ECX=00007fff DS=018f...

When accessing my TDK CD burner,with Nero software, I get the following message" Win-ASPI file '?.?' is missing. Able to write only to the image recorders, which is extremely limited and will not burn any informational or music files onto my CD Burner. I have been all over the microsoft site...

Hello you are my last hope. I hope that you can help me, I use windows 98 on 40gb 126mb pc and I have a number of problems I cant seem to solve, 1) My maintenance wizard cant complete its action it will reach 100% files scanned and will stop and wont complete the action 2) My pc is very slow to...

Is there anyway to get netsend (command prompt) on older operating systems, specifically win98 because I will soon lead my household as the server and without the ability to netsend, i have no way to annoy, i mean update my friends and family without getting up, and getting up is unreasonable! Any...

Hello, well Im sure you have heard this before. I have had some system problems due to you guessed it.......spyware/virus. I had some spyware stoping programs on my computer and all seemed to be ok. Then I found by downloading a free trial of Mcafee anti-virus that I had a virus on my computer (did...

How do I get my computer back to what I had yesterday? I tweeked registry and returned it to original. I ran regcomp and have restored but I am still not back to where I was! Running in 16 color only choice . I need the resistry I had yesterday but don't know where or how in dos. Any help would be...

The Alert window which states "there is no data on page" keeps popping up for no apparent reason. I don't even have to go to a new page and it pops up. How can I disable it?

I'm running Windows 98 SE. I'm having problems with the computer hanging when shutting down. I get the message, "Windows is shutting down," then it stops there. When I restart then it goes through the ScanDisk thing. It is very irritating and wasting lots of time. I've tried to use the Trouble...

I'm trying to transfer files from an old computer running Windows 98 (it was originally running Windows 95 but was upgraded) to a computer running Windows XP. The computer running Windows 98 will start up, but it comes up with an error message and then the blue screen of death almost right after it...