In Windows XP. What is the difference between a Clean Boot and Safe Mode Boot?

November 26, 2009

Basically I can boot in safe mode but a clean boot won’t work (give the dreaded blue screen of death). If I can understand the difference then may be I can identify which windows file, driver or whatever is causing the freeze.

Thks

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.?

November 25, 2009

i have an acer aspire M5640 and when i press the start button a few seconds later i it fails to boot up with the following symptoms:

I get a message saying "Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. i says something about a installation disc and i dont have it. it also gives me the following options 1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart the computer.
2. Choose your language settings and click next.
3. Click "repair your computer"

It also gives me the following options:

4. Safe Mode
5. Safe Mode with networking
6. Safe Mode with Command Prompt
7. Last known good configuration
8. Start Windows normally
none see to work. what can i do only a true geniusis can answer this so please help:)

How do you get rid of WinFixer????

November 19, 2009

I have gone out to their (extortionist!) site but nothing has helped. I have recently downloaded Norton 2006 and it hasn’t detected ANYTHING. I have found pieces by doing searches in safe mode but when I think I have everything deleted it shows up again. Anyone successful???
PS I have MS Anti Spyware and have done several full scans, in safe mode and in normal. I’ll try the earlier suggestion of restoring back to a future date. I have already backed up all docs.
I’ll let you know if it works. Has anyone contacted the FCC??

I need help with a really bad virus?

November 15, 2009

I’m currently experiencing a really bad virus.

First, I got a Windows Antivirus Pro, but managed to remove it and run Malwarebyte’s Anti Malware. After that, I thought it was all good, but my search results on google started redirecting to other things. Then, I got a Windows Police Pro. I removed the program files and fixed the registry so I could run programs. But there’s still something on my computer. Whenever i try to run an anti spyware or anti malware program, it halts abruptly and then I can’t open it at all. Also, my registry cleaner had the same problem. They all failed when they got to a cirtain part of the registry. AVG got through the registry without failing. I also have some suspicious processes:

msiexec.exe
mscorsvw.exe
b.exe

Also, when I was playing a game, I noticed a whole bunch of clicking sounds, as if the web browser went to another page. There was no web browser running at the time though.

Can anyone help?
Some more details:

I’ve tried SuperAntiSpyware and it won’t work. It always stops and crashes, even in safe mode.

For some reason, All my system restore points are gone.

Windows failed to start?

November 13, 2009

Okay so i got spyware today on my pc. Then i downloaded a program that found the spyware and said it would erase it. But it said it had to restart the computer to completely remove the spyware. I restarted my computer and its says "windows failed to start. a recent hardware or software change might be the cause." I tried windows memory diagnostic, doesnt work. I tried all the options of starting it, such as safe mode, doesnt work. and i dont have a windows installation disc. I dont know what to do.
this probably isnt gonna help but the file is " CI.dll" and the status is "0xc0000098" and it says windows failed to load because a required file is missing or corrupt.