windows xp clean install drivers problem?

December 31, 2009

i also forgot to mention that since the new install the text on the screen and the screen resolution seems to be going a bit strange. Ive tried all the different settings like 800×600 and it doesnt help. maybe something to do with missing drivers?
Hey i recently came home and found that my computer wouldn’t boot up and got stuck on the screen before log in.

I refused to ask for help and pay money at PC world so after i few days i was able to get all my files from the harddrive and i did a clean install with a spare windows xp disk.

Since then ive found that i cant play games and my graphics card isnt showing up, i think the sound is messed up aswell. I used an xp disk thats not from my PC so it doesnt have the drivers and i didnt get a disk with my computer because xp was already installed

Can anybody give any suggestions on how i could get my drivers working again?

thanks

I cannot seem to login in my computer ever since i cleaned up the registry, can anyone pliz help??

December 10, 2009

My computer had been sending up various ads whenever i went online so i went to PC world and downloaded a adware and registry cleaner. Indeed they helped and my system ran a lot faster but one every now and then the registry cleaner would keep track of any unknow entries. I just deleated them and now i cannot login to windows anymore. Evertime i type my password and press enter it starts loading but then immediately logs off. I remember being unable to open any applications or programs that day that it first did that and when i restarted my laptop it just wouldn’t load. Does anyone have any suggestions on how i can repair this or do i need to reboot?

Who else agrees that PC virus protection software is a total scam?

October 14, 2009

I have had computers for the last 10 years and never used virus protection software. I do use a firewall, but I prefer hardware ones, as stuff like zonealarm just doesn’t work. And as of yet, I have never had a virus/worm/trojan which threatened the data on my PC.

PC World makes out that without McAffee or Norton, you WILL get a virus as SOON as you switch your modem on.

I’ve read so much about registry cleaners but still clueless if its good or bad on my PC. What is it actually?

June 23, 2009

I've read a number of articles from PC World to Computer Hope extolling the necessity of using registry cleaners which carry the names as 'Registry Cleaners', EasyCleaners', 'RegistryOrganizers', 'RegCure', among other names. However, when I came across a book (McGraw Hill Osborne) entitled "The Healthy PC" by Carey Holzman, a PC Repair Specialist of 15 years, it stated (Chapter 12, p.195) that these are softwares to avoid. The reason is simply that based on his years of experiance, they create more problems than it solve. He compared it to putting a band aid to a gapping wound.