About Blank? My computer is running slower and sometimes at the bottom of the screen where information?

September 23, 2009

appears about the progress of the page that is loading I see "waiting for About Blank." I’ve heard that AB is a virus and a hi jacker. It doesn’t hijack my home page but it does seem to slow progress. What is it and how can I make it go away?

Can someone suggest some free programs to make my computer better?

September 23, 2009

I have windows xp. I use ccleaner,using registry cleaner,advanced windows care v2,norton,spybot,windows defender, anymore programs I need to keep it clean and run faster it seems like its running slow i have dsl net.I ran disk cleanup and defrag. my drive.

Best Software to Repair Windows XP?

September 23, 2009

I need a software to repair everything in my windows xp ranging from usb driver to registry. Do you know what the best software for this matter is?
FYI, i lose my xp installation disc and the windows that i want to repair is on my really old laptop which dvd drive is broken.

I need help w/ a corrupt registry-I have a windows xp recovery disk but have never used it?

September 22, 2009

It started several months ago, my system 32 files pop up @ startup-so I ran a free scan of my registry and it shows over a thousand errors-the free downloads only fix a few of them in the trial version-I DO have a windows xp recovery disk, but I am afraid I will do more damage that good. I have tried to use the restore feature, but the only dates it will let me select are for this month only-the pc is 3 years old…I tried to toggle back a year or so, but the month on the calendar is stuck on December. (I was under the impression that restore points auto-set when new programs are added ???)
If I attempt to install flash on my secondary user accounts, I get errors saying a system 32 file can’t be found.
I have used the uninstall program from adobe and reinstalled it then ran c-cleaner, cleared cookies, I have rebooted, adjusted all user accounts to have admin. privledges, tried everything I can find online with no luck. Can someone help, please?

Windows corrupt after Vundo removal?

September 22, 2009

Hi

i finally could remove the Vundo trojan using avast… now i guess im clear, nothing suspicious in the register or system32 or windows, etc…

BUT after i removed it, i said i need to repair windows (using the windows XP CD)… after the repair, some things began going weird:

1- i have no sound. At each boot, windows says it found a new hardware (the "Realtek High Definition Audio Device")… i got the driver for this on a CD, windows begins to install it and copy files, then says "installation of the device fails"…
2- i got an ATI Radeon X1950 pro which has a driver and a control software… the driver is OK, but then the control software (MOM.exe) takes much CPU time and so do csrss.exe and vsmon.exe (zonealarm)…
3- when browsing a CD, opening some folder then another etc… and then using the "Up" button to go to the parent folder, the path shown in the address bar goes like C:\Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\CD Burning\setup where setup is the folder inside the CD… this problem doesnt show up when i browse into folders on my drives…

I dunno if these 3 problems have to do with Vundo being removed or with the windows repair (i think it’s the first time i do a repair since i got my computer 6 months ago)… or maybe the combination of both…

thank you for ur time reading what i wrote… any ideas are welcome.. the 3rd issue is very secondary as it doesnt affect anything im doing, so u may want to forget about it, but it also may give u a clue…

everything else looks normal.. no CPU time consumption, no suspicious processes, no viruses/worms found by either adaware or avast, browsers and other applications run normally…
I just tried to reinstall the CCC (catalyst control center of ATI), and when the installshield begins to copy files, at each step i get a dialog saying "incorrect command line parameters

windows installer V 2.00.2600.1106
Copyright 2000 Microsoft Corporation. All rght reserved.
Portion of this software are based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG group."

i can only click on an OK button, and i need to do that like a hundred times until the install shield completes (i keep pressing on the Enter button)…
about the CCC (MOM.exe): i have noticed that this process causes a consumption of the CPU time because it is being constantly restarted (like some other process keeps it from starting normally)… im saying this because the memory usage of MOM.exe keeps on swinging between something like 200 Kbytes and 8,000 Kbytes… at the same times, csrss, vsmon and also zclient use up to 60% off the CPU time until i kill the MOM process…