No Video Thumbnail in Windows XP?

December 13, 2009

I am facing a similar problem on my Windows XP Home Edition SP3.

The thumbails for all types of pictures are generating, but not for any videos including .wmv .avi .mpg. I don’t know since when this is happening, I observed this recently.

I was using Windows Media Player 11, KMPlayer v2.9.4, K-Lite Mega Codec Pack v5, Format Factory v2, Nero Vision (Nero 8). I had uninstalled these softwares and then reinstalled them one by one as I was testing thumbnails between every installation, but even though nothing worked out.

I tried to correct it by going to Windows Explorer’s Folder Options and the restoring the defaults and applying it to all folders. I cleaned my tracks, junk files, registry issues using Ccleaner & Wise Registry Cleaner. But nothing really worked out.

Please Help !!!

CPU usage 90-100% Windows vista?

December 4, 2009

Lately ive been on my laptop and my CPU has gone up to 100%,ive done virus scans,registry clean ups,CCleaner,Spybot and AVG.

And it dosent come up with any virus or anything just cookies,also my laptop is starting to get really hot and overheat and i use a program to moniter how hot it gets and it reaches from 70-95.

Heres the log file from hijackthis:

Running processes:
C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe
C:\Program Files\TuneUp Utilities 2010\TuneUpUtilitiesApp32.exe
C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe
C:\Program Files\RegCure\RegCure.exe
C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe
C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\avgtray.exe
C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe
C:\Windows\System32\mobsync.exe
C:\Program Files\MessengerDiscovery 2\MessengerDiscovery 2.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Contacts\wlcomm.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmpnscfg.exe
C:\Program Files\ManyCam 2.4\ManyCam.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe

R0 – HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.google.co.uk/
R1 – HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R0 – HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant =
R0 – HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,CustomizeSearch =
R0 – HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =
R0 – HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =
R0 – HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar,LinksFolderName =
O1 – Hosts: ::1 localhost
O2 – BHO: Adobe PDF Reader Link Helper – {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} – C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll
O2 – BHO: RealPlayer Download and Record Plugin for Internet Explorer – {3049C3E9-B461-4BC5-8870-4C09146192CA} – C:\Program Files\Real\RealPlayer\rpbrowserrecordplugin.dll
O2 – BHO: WormRadar.com IESiteBlocker.NavFilter – {3CA2F312-6F6E-4B53-A66E-4E65E497C8C0} – C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\avgssie.dll
O2 – BHO: Search Helper – {6EBF7485-159F-4bff-A14F-B9E3AAC4465B} – C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Search Enhancement Pack\Search Helper\SEPsearchhelperie.dll
O2 – BHO: Windows Live ID Sign-in Helper – {9030D464-4C02-4ABF-8ECC-5164760863C6} – C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll
O2 – BHO: BHO – {BF8292B6-699B-45c7-B412-1A5CF2C51C6B} – C:\Windows\system32\winbhsdll.dll
O2 – BHO: Ask Toolbar BHO – {D4027C7F-154A-4066-A1AD-4243D8127440} – C:\Program Files\Ask.com\GenericAskToolbar.dll
O2 – BHO: Java(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV Helper – {DBC80044-A445-435b-BC74-9C25C1C588A9} – C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jp2ssv.dll
O2 – BHO: Windows Live Toolbar Helper – {E15A8DC0-8516-42A1-81EA-DC94EC1ACF10} – C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Toolbar\wltcore.dll
O4 – HKLM\..\Run: [AVG8_TRAY] C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgtray.exe
O4 – HKLM\..\Run: [ZoneAlarm Client] "C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe"
O4 – HKLM\..\Run: [Kernel and Hardware Abstraction Layer] KHALMNPR.EXE
O4 – HKCU\..\Run: [msnmsgr] "C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe" /background
O4 – HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\Run: [Sidebar] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /detectMem (User ‘LOCAL SERVICE’)
O4 – HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\Run: [WindowsWelcomeCenter] rundll32.exe oobefldr.dll,ShowWelcomeCenter (User ‘LOCAL SERVICE’)
O4 – HKUS\S-1-5-20\..\Run: [Sidebar] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /detectMem (User ‘NETWORK SERVICE’)
O4 – .DEFAULT User Startup: TRDCReminder.lnk = C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TRDCReminder\TRDCReminder.exe (User ‘Default user’)
O4 – Global Startup: Process Manager for Windows 1.6.192.lnk = C:\Program Files\Process Manager for Windows 1.6.192\Arif-Process-Manager.exe
O6 – HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions present
O9 – Extra button: Send to OneNote – {2670000A-7350-4f3c-8081-5663EE0C6C49} – C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\ONBttnIE.dll
O9 – Extra ‘Tools’ menuitem: S&end to OneNote – {2670000A-7350-4f3c-8081-5663EE0C6C49} – C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\ONBttnIE.dll
O9 – Extra button: eBay.co.uk – Buy It Sell It Love It – {76577871-04EC-495E-A12B-91F7C3600AFA} – http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-44557-9400-3/4 (file missing)
O9 – Extra button: Amazon.co.uk – {8A918C1D-E123-4E36-B562-5C1519E434CE} – http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect-home?tag=Toshibaukbholink-21&site=home (file missing)
O9 – Extra button: Research – {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} – C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\REFIEBAR.DLL
O13 – Gopher Prefix:
O18 – Protocol: linkscanner – {F274614C-63F8-47D5-A4D1-FBDDE494F8D1} – C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\avgpp.dll
O18 – Protocol: skype4com – {FFC8B962-9B40-4DFF-9458-1830C7DD7F5D} – C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\Skype\SKYPE4~1.DLL
O23 – Service: AVG Free8 E-mail Scanner (avg8emc) – AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. – C:\PROGRA~1\AVG\AVG8\avgemc

Why does my computer crash and reboot after I installed windows xp?

August 24, 2009

I installed windows xp home edition on an older computer(emachines, 366mhz, 128 ram) and now it crashes constantly. Sometimes I get the blue screen of death. It always says there is a different reason for the crash though. Other times it just reboots. I have tried registry cleaner programs but they seem to have made the problem worse. My computer only crashes occasionally if I use one program at a time. Using morpheus, winamp, and windows media player seem to increase the frequency of the crashes. Maybe my computer shouldn’t be running windows xp? But is there anything I can do to make my computer run smoothly?
Windows xp needs 128mb to run, so my ram should be good enough.

No Sound after Windows XP Repair Install?

June 30, 2009

We had a virus problem last month. Our Kaspersky 6.0 wasn’t able to detect the virus because it’s not updated, we didn’t have internet connection until last week. The virus had corrupted important files of some applications and we ended up having trouble installing new softwares, so we then decided to repair the OS using the Windows installation CD. It went well. Programs are now running smoothly and we’re able to install new softwares. But here’s the problem: WMP cannot play audio files. We get this error "Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There may not be a sound device installed on your computer, it may be in use by another program, or it may not be functioning properly." Volume control is also missing from the system tray. In the Device Manager, there’s a yellow exclamation mark on "Realtek High Definition Audio". We installed Realtek Driver from the mobo CD — No go. Got an onboard audio. Mobo is ECS 671T-M. Help please…
Thank you for all the response! I appreciate it! But we still got the same problem after installing the driver from the Realtek website. If this might help, here are the things under "Sound,Video and Game Controllers" in our Device Manager:
– Audio Codecs
– Audio Codecs
– Legacy Audio Drivers
– Legacy Video Capture Devices
– Media Control Devices
– Realtek High Definition Audio ** (with a yellow excamation mark)
– Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device
– Video Codecs

I’m not sure if one of these is causing the problem… Do you think I should uninstall/remove all of them and reinstall Realtek?