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  1. Trebax

    XP Pro SP2 Downloaded and disappeared

    Good point - Thanks. I was just curious as it is quite a large file and I didn't just want it sitting on my machine not being used - I'd rather delete it and retain the HD space. But I have no idea where it mught be?! Also, will I have to go to the window update site and download it there or...
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    XP Pro SP2 Downloaded and disappeared

    Hi all, Please can someone give me some advice here... I recently tried to upgrade my XP pro with service pack 2. The windows update icon appeared in my system tray and i began to download. However, after the downloading finished my computer suffered a crash. After rebooting my machine...
  3. Trebax

    Constant restart and disk error :(

    Hi there, Any advice or tips on this would be most welcome - I've been scratching my head for ages... Sometimes when booting windows XP pro I get to the welcome to windows page and then the computer restarts itself. This may happen 2, 3 or more times before I get into windows. However...
  4. Trebax

    Auto Reboot (mini mem dump) at Welcome page

    Hi All, Thanks for eveyones help. I now have more information... Firstly I tried to install Ad-Aware SE to detect and remove any conflicting spyware but unfortunately it kept stalling and couldn't complete the scan (it stopped at the system condition checking). Then I noticed that it had...
  5. Trebax

    Spyware removal softwar - conflicts with Norton AV

    Hi All, Please can someone offer some advice... I've been having a couple of start up issues with my system - so under the belief that it could be a some form of spyware conflicting with my system I downloaded and installed Ad-Aware SE. Unfortunately this caused more problems - firstly when...
  6. Trebax

    Auto Reboot (mini mem dump) at Welcome page

    :) I'll get a new firewall. I will also download ad-aware and get that to check my system also - good point. I will let you know how I got on tomorrow. Thanks!
  7. Trebax

    Auto Reboot (mini mem dump) at Welcome page

    Thanks for your replies :) First of all - yes I have all 4 of the essentials (Norton AV, Spybot and XP firewall)and I have run them all since the problem started and everything seems fine there. When I get home I will check the event viewer (currently using work computer) - I haven't checked...
  8. Trebax

    Auto Reboot (mini mem dump) at Welcome page

    Hi, Please can someone offer a novice some advive... Lately my computer has been loading up to the 'Welcome to Windows' blue page and then reseting itself and rebooting. This can often happen 2 or 3 times before it actually manages to load into winodows and when it does I get the message -...
  9. Trebax

    MS Works crashes my computer (Works dont Work)

    The file was written on the same computer - before a fatal crash which meant I had to format the drive. So unfortunately I can't do that. I just wondered if there was anything I could do to the actual Works programme to stop it from crashing?
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    MS Works crashes my computer (Works dont Work)

    Hi there, I have a slight problem with my MS Works. Whenever I try and open a saved file it crashes my computer (blue screen). I have tried opening the same files on other computers and they open fine. I think it must be a problem with my MS Works itself. I have tried uninstalling it and...
  11. Trebax

    a .WDB file keeps crashing my system

    Thanks, but I have tried Access and with no luck. It just says that this file can not be opened with Access. The same happens when I try and open it with Excel. Any other suggestions?
  12. Trebax

    a .WDB file keeps crashing my system

    Hi please can someone help... I have a file which ends in the extension .wdb I think this is a works database file. However, whenever i try and open it with ms works it crashes my computer?!? - I get the warning this is read only then I get the blue screen of death. Then I have to reset. Can...
  13. Trebax

    Help using Clone with Norton 2003

    Excellent - thanks again Wolluf. I'm still not sure whether I should purchase Norton Ghost though. The reason I want to buy it is so as I can clone my hard drive and use the cloned version as a backup if my master fails. But I'm thinking that I may be better off using the Windows back up...
  14. Trebax

    Help using Clone with Norton 2003

    Ok thats great - thanks for your help. I'm just wondering though, having 2 identical drives in one computer... will it have boot up problems not knowing which disk to boot from? and/or will I be able to access the cloned drive in windows XP explorer?
  15. Trebax

    Help using Clone with Norton 2003

    Hi, please will you advise me... I intend to purchase Norton Gost 2003 today. Before I do though can I just check a couple of things with you experts... 1) I have 2 physiscal hard drives - using the Norton Clone function I wish to Clone my master drive to the Slave drive. When I have done...
  16. Trebax

    Please help with my configeration with new back up HD

    Ok, well I gues the main thing is that there isn't a wrong way of doing it. But I will follow your good advice - Thanks! On another note. I would like to use the new HDD to completely back-up my current system. So as I can use it if my master hard drive fails in any way. At the moment my...
  17. Trebax

    Please help with my configeration with new back up HD

    Hi, I'm about to adjust my hardware configeration and I would really appreciate some expert advice. Currently I have one master HDD on EIDE1 with a CDR as the slave. On EIDE2 I have just a master DVD drive. I want to add another HDD so as I can backup my windows and all of my files. I'm...
  18. Trebax

    How do I back up before Format?

    Hi there, Please help. My dads windows ME computer is suffering continous regular crashes and I've come to the conclusion that I need to format and reinstall everything for him. Is there any way I can back up everything onto CD and then reinstall it all sequencially. I.e. simplify the...
  19. Trebax

    HD just died - Please Help

    Hi I was using XP pro yesterday to copy some CD's, when all of a sudden I tried to access my C drive and I got an error message: C:/ is write protected or corrupt - can not access. I immediately decided to restart the computer, but when I tried nothing happend. So I decided to restart using...
  20. Trebax

    P2P file sharing software

    Hi, I am very much into my file sharing at the moment. I use Imesh and Kazaa and sometimes WinMX. All these, in my opinion, are great (despite the spyware;). Anyway, my question is.... does anyone know of a P2P software programme that searches all other P2P programmes? I.e one piece of...

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