Windows installation and seemingly whole harddrive ruined thanks to a retarded wireless adapter from netgear?

December 27, 2009

my dad bought the WG311 v3 wireless adapter from netgear for his computer. after installing the software it disabled user switching and logon…only the administrator that installed the software could logon. it said I had to uninstall the software so I did and next time I tried to find a way to just install the device driver without the software…well I did and then windows wouldent boot…it said NTLDR missing so I booted from the XP disc to do a repair…I ran bootfix…it didnt work. then I ran mbrfix(master boot record) and that didnt work…I also copied ntldr and ntdetect to root from XP cd. now here I am with the harddrive in my computer on vista and Im looking at the drive with computer management\disc management and it shows the drive as a single partition with 76.33GB FAT file system (which is correct) but if you explore the drive or check its properties it says there is only 10MB total space with 3.4MB used the only files on the drive are ntldr and ntdetect
wyntry is absolutely right(I especially like your reply to dwight lol) but I ran out of text space for the original question(evil 1000 character limit)…anyway as for that downloadable hotfix I did find that and wanted to use it but I made the mistake of researching the problem after trying to fix it myself and thanks to that wrongly installed driver I cant boot to windows to install the fix. thing is…I was going to reinstall XP but as I mentioned b4 even tho it is an 80GB HD and disc manager sees that…explorer itself only sees it as 10MB and when I go to install XP thats all it sees as well. so it wants me to format the drive but thats not an option for me as there are important things on the disc…is there a way to access the data so I can copy it to my HD’s on my computer so I can reformat the drive safely and then reinstall XP? that looks like what Im gonna have to end up doing…I just dont know how to access the "vanished" data on the drive…

Ever since my brother installed this virus protection we baught, i lost the tabs. How do i get them back?

October 4, 2009

Ever since my mom baught this virus protection, my brother installed it (hes 20) and im 15, but im pretty good with computers, just not the best. Lol, Well, I lost limewire, and tabs, and now my computer wont recognize my mp3. It was a while back, but i really wanna add songs onto my mp3 and i want my tabs back, i dont care about limewire though. Can someone help me?

Windows Vista Problems?

October 4, 2009

I’ve had Vista Home Basic for about a year now, never had any problems with it been going great. But last week the electric went so my computer wasnt shut down properly. Since then had a few problems….

Firstly sometimes when I turn my computer it keeps asking if I want to start in Safe Mode, or some of the other options… Whats that about?

Secondly, when I do get logged in, my time and date keeps changing EVERYTIME!!! And to something stupid… My date at the moment is 1601 lol

Thirdly, also when I log on I get a load of pop ups from windows saying a load of my programs are not working properly….

And finally… Firefox, keeps playing up. Whenever I try to get onto sites I always visit… Hotmail, Facebook, etc etc, even this site. Keeps asking me to get a security certificate.

Can anybody please help me with any of these problems? I’m pulling my hair out here lol 🙁

P.S – I’ve ran all my virus protection, Registry cleaner etc etc, and tryed system restore but nothing seems to work. Really don’t want to have to do system recovery 🙁

Thanks in advance!

About malware, registry, and internet?

September 7, 2009

I have a little question about malware, registry, and internet. By the way I’m using Vista, but if u give suggestion for xp too, it would be great. ^^

1. How can I lock my registry so that programs (especially malwares) cannot write a value there without my permission?

2. If I backed up my clean registry, and restore it when my computer infected by a malware, can it render the malware unfunctionable?

3. Which key inside the registry that mostly infected by malware?

4. How can a malware starts up automaticly other than write a value to "HKLM/…/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run"?

5. If I use the limited account, does it prevent the malware to write the value into the registry? How?

6. Can I infected by malware by just browsing the internet? How can I prevent it?

7. I’ve heard that a malware is infecting through media player classic and video codec. is it true? How can i prevent it?

Thank you so much. I’m sorry for my messy english. LOL.
For DAVID:

5. Why a malware able to infect my computer then? I haven’t recieved any notification about my registry. Is it possible that a virus doesn’t write or modify a value on a registry?

6. If I am not download anything, how the malware infect me? (this is the part i have been very curious since a long long time ago. LOL)

7. Is antivirus that reliable? Why mine never works? It’s always bypassed.

btw i used AVG Free and MCAFEE Comercial. Is kaspersky FREE good? What’s the diffrence between the comercial one?

Once again, thank you so much. ^^

Where can I find a registry cleaner for Windows Vista that is a non trial download? I want free & does the job

June 1, 2009

I don't want a free tiral version. It must be completely free, no money to buy it for it to work, cleans everything immediately and not just a few things then it asks you to buy it, and something that will work with Windows Vista Home Premium. I'm having major problems and can't seem to find anything to help me clean up my pc. I'm not computer stupid but I am computer smart enough to know if I don't find something, I'm gonna be up shits creek. Can anyone helps me out? Do you have something that works? Can you tell me where to go and I don't mean to hell lol!