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  1. caudalie

    Virus Problems when windows starts up the screen is just my wallpaper.

    lhuegele (IS/IT--Management) - Thanks for the tip! yes its a labtop and I tried the external monitor and No i couldnt find anymore other than my wallpaper.. - thanks
  2. caudalie

    Virus Problems when windows starts up the screen is just my wallpaper.

    Thanks for the replies everyone much appreciated! GrimR (IS/IT--Management) - No i did not try launching taskmanager. I dont know what run explorer.exe means.. sorry. I didnt turn off system restore before i deleted the virus. I downloaded a free virus program recommended from a friend...
  3. caudalie

    Virus Problems when windows starts up the screen is just my wallpaper.

    Hello Everyone! I have a problem with my computer obviously... I got some strange viruses on my system and When i removed them using my anti-virus software It did somthing weird to my computer and now when i restart it and It goes to the windows screen Its just my wall paper and nothing more...
  4. caudalie

    Somthing is wrong with sound recorder

    Hello guys! I have a problem with my mic and recording sound using my mic. this problem started a couple days ago and for some reason i cannot record sound or communicate with other people through my mic. "Teamspeak,ventrillo etc." It's really annoying me and i have absolutely no idear what to...
  5. caudalie

    Red lines on my screen

    ah i see, but my monitor isn't wide screen. It's just a regular samsung 17' CRT monitor... My screen area is 1152 x 864. these lines are really annoying... - thanks
  6. caudalie

    Red lines on my screen

    umm i believe my video card setting is at the latest, and how do i tell what aspect ratio my screen is in? - thanks
  7. caudalie

    Red lines on my screen

    Hey guys, I just purchased a new monitor for my computer and well i noticed there are red lines that run across my screen when i open a folder or browse the internet. A friend of mine said that perhaps it's my refresh rate or i should adjust it. So i did, i went to the properties menu and set it...
  8. caudalie

    .sif file error

    hello everyone, i was installing windows XP into a new harddrive, so that means i had to pop in the 6 DISK in order to start it up. the menu asked to format to NTFS or leave as is it's FAT32 at the moment, the installer already highlighted "leave as is" so i pressed enter, and after it scanned...
  9. caudalie

    Invalid FAT32 stuff

    hmm a memory problem? maybe, maybe not cause if i connect another HD that has windows 98 in it "the original one that died" [a previous thread i started about formating hardrive looking for allocation tables message came up and someone told me that the HD basically died] windows 98 works and...
  10. caudalie

    Invalid FAT32 stuff

    umm the hardrive is... 40 GB roughly. but it's 38gb if you want the exact size. soo you think that the HD is too big for windows 98SE? if thats so, then damn that sucks alot.
  11. caudalie

    Invalid FAT32 stuff

    thanks, i followed the directions and installed windows 98... but there is still a problem. okay, i ran the installation process and everything seems to be going well, it installs all the files and stuff like that and then it makes the system restart automatically. So i let it handle it's...
  12. caudalie

    Invalid FAT32 stuff

    hello everyone, i posted here earlier about some harddrive issues and someone told me that my hardrive has died, and so i got a new one. Anyways i pluged it in and put in the windows 98 startup disk and i let it handle it's business till these messages popped up. "windows 98 has detected that...
  13. caudalie

    I cannot format my harddrive.

    i remembered the message that it gives me when i try to format it. Checking existing disk format recording current bad clusters complete verifying 2,957,29 then after that it stops at "trying to recover allocation unit" -------------------- i don't have a video camera driver in that system...
  14. caudalie

    I cannot format my harddrive.

    thanks, i will try that. i think this problem has been happening for more than 5 days though... But i will try that
  15. caudalie

    I cannot format my harddrive.

    hello everyone! i have this older computer in my other room that is running windows 98 and it has two cd-rom drive and a hard drive with C: D: & E:, somthing strange happened to it after i installed some digital camera driver and the D: & E: mysteriously disapeared... So i installed norton...
  16. caudalie

    Java Doesn't work

    thanks guys i'll see if this will work
  17. caudalie

    Java Doesn't work

    I cannot view a website and on the page it says "please turn on java to view" my question is... "how do i turn on or activate java..." thanks!
  18. caudalie

    I HAVE NO DESKTOP!!!

    hi guys, ummm i fixed the problem my boyfriend came over and tried to fix it by installing some nortons 2004 on my system and did a virus scan. That didn't work no infection found, we decided to format until he decided to go on to google.com and look up somthing and we stumbled upon this one...
  19. caudalie

    I HAVE NO DESKTOP!!!

    bcastner - okay, i went to the website... you want me to download, "Full install Ad-aware 6 from Majorgeeks.com | 1.7 mb?" and on the second link you gave me i downloaded... "Spybot S&D [recommended]" [Downloaded] "Ad-aware" [brought me to the same website as...
  20. caudalie

    I HAVE NO DESKTOP!!!

    marcdoyle - this is the key that could be missing/corrupted: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "Shell"="Explorer.exe" is this what you were talking about?? http://www.angelfire.com/ex/chobits/editreg.JPG

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