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  1. drjohnbullas

    Removal of orphaned profiles

    I am amazed no one has ever had to deal with this OR had to deal with this without resporting to a hard disk format...
  2. drjohnbullas

    Website Shortcut Not Working on Desktop

    downgrade to IE 6 or use Firefox :)
  3. drjohnbullas

    CD-ROM not seen

    I have had to load drivers for DVD combos before now which only appear as CDs otherwise.....
  4. drjohnbullas

    CD-ROM not seen

    find the DVD/CD in control panel / system / device manager and uninstall it - turn the machine off , and on again, if you can then enter BIOS by holding DEL down on bootup, is the DVD recognised in the device list?? ..... See if the device has reappeared in the device manager list as a DVD and...
  5. drjohnbullas

    how to get pc ip address from a removed hdd

    best to try and find connection logs on the disk drive that might be generated on connections.... why not list the *.log files and look for anything there... now i have the advantage of knowing my local IP not my WAN IP so searching for that confirmed that logfiles generated by mcafee stored...
  6. drjohnbullas

    Need help to delete a trojan

    http://www.av-comparatives.org/forum/index.php?page=Board&boardID=17&s=f9f8a2753dd130ac69529d9db3a2714b20e9550d aka http://tinyurl.com/5vrwrk is quite informative: http://www.av-comparatives.org/
  7. drjohnbullas

    BiosAgentPlus.com updates fail ......

    The specified location does not contain information about your hardware".... Tried your tip ( Many thanks) for I guess I need to ignore that flagged out of date driver as the Clevo card reader looks to be incompatible with the upgrade biosagentpuls.com suggest? It doesn't even recognise the...
  8. drjohnbullas

    Need help to delete a trojan

    McAfee commonly offer alternative processes to deal with trojans outisde of their mainstream AV & "anti-whatever" programmes as the trojans commonly have processes built into them to prevent visits to AV online resources and block commonly applied solutions SO this can sometimes favour less...
  9. drjohnbullas

    BiosAgentPlus.com updates fail ......

    this is the same update as I have been trying to install without sucess, device is grabing the 2002 MS driver for some reason
  10. drjohnbullas

    Slow boot when disconnected from network

    do thse laptops typically syncronise with network drives as a matter of course or download email into outlook from a network outlook server.... if these processes are run on bootup they will be tried and tried again until they timeout / fall over .... then allow other things to carry on... Dr B
  11. drjohnbullas

    Need help to delete a trojan

    have you explored what else might be online via the likes of the Hijackthis resources online? some of the other AV vendors might offer a solution... would suggest some intensive googling ...... the website hosting the Hijackthis application might be a good start, does addaware and/or spybot...
  12. drjohnbullas

    Adding New Motherboard Errors

    it probably can't find an essential driver as it still thinks it is running on a MSI PN4 ---- can you log the errors and put the drivers it can't find onto the HDD somehow Amazed you got as far as you did :) The technique for swapping MBs but keeping the same boot drive is documented on the...
  13. drjohnbullas

    RDP - Whats going on?

    http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/05/21/xp-sp3-breaks-whs-rdp/1 ditto
  14. drjohnbullas

    BiosAgentPlus.com updates fail ......

    Good Morning My laptop ( a clevo M540 variant) was provided by a UK company with a less than enviable support service, clevo could not offer the bios upgrade that existed so I paid my bucks and signed up to the lazy option of having BiosAgentPlus.com do the work of finding driver upgrades and...
  15. drjohnbullas

    Endnote number format in Microsoft Word 2007

    Sincere apologies ..... endnote not EndNote .... BTW try the word-ms yahoogroup if you don't get sorted out .... apologies again
  16. drjohnbullas

    Endnote number format in Microsoft Word 2007

    I wrestled with Endnote for my PhD .... http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnbullas/230030595/ search my photos for "endnote" for other terrors! if the numbering is associated with content delivered by endnote and embedded in your word document, try changing the reference format endnote is set...
  17. drjohnbullas

    RAID...?

    Ah.... you want seperate drives for RAID as the whole concept is you can get data security (preservation) if one drive out of a number physically fails and speed as you sequentially write to seperate spinning disks among a number, both these benefits cannot be achieved if you are writing to...
  18. drjohnbullas

    RAID...?

    the decision is faster safer or both.... if you run a RAID card with the controller on the chip on the card it might be more robust than trying to do it in software... two drives can EITHER save the same data (MIRRORING) so one drive can fall over and recover the data from the other later OR two...
  19. drjohnbullas

    Windows Installer starts on clicking a folder

    do you know what is in the folder? file extensions?
  20. drjohnbullas

    Removal of orphaned profiles

    Good Morning A simple question, is there any way to remove a profile** on a hard drive that is a remnant of an earlier XP Pro install **that was encrypted content and the encryption key is now lost and any associated login password are lost Typically any attempt to remove/erase it comes back...

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