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Ok Telstar – upgrading your RAM is probably the best option. It depends on your motherboard configuration as to how much you can insert. Most modern MB’s will have at least two slots for RAM some may have three or even four. If you have currently got 256MB of RAM installed – chances are that you have 2 X 128MB sticks. Ideally you can never have…[Read more]

Cheers for that Dave – I will let Anubis do the honours with Lucky (if there are any to be done that is) as he is far more technically proficient than I am. Anyway my wife may well want to delete my Operating System if I went ‘surfing’.

As for your ME issue. As ME does not require registration as such you could borrow a copy of Windows ME from a…[Read more]

Hi Telstar – sure no problem please join in as well.

Where I am going with this is to reccomend that 1) you insert…[Read more]

Ellen, the immediate this to tell you is that if you are using Windows XP Home and have only 64 MB of RAM you simply do not have enough RAM for your computer to operate properly. Are you certain that you have only 64MB???

On your desktop RIGHT click ‘My Computer’ and on the pop up menu LEFT click ‘Properties’. You will then see the processor type…[Read more]

Hi Bis, Yes I totally agree with you on this. I have talked a few people through a system restore on Windows ME and frankly it doesn’t do exactly as it says on the tin. For some reason it always seems to retain fragments of stuff in the registry – god knows how.

I…[Read more]

Ok guys I have watched this thread with some fascination. Rather than go out & buy a new computer Dave maybe the final solution to removing this persistent litte sod is to re-instal your Operating System. At least that way you will start over with a totally clean environment.

What do you reckon to this Bis??? Is is worth a go??? I sure don’t…[Read more]

Oh !!! :( :( :( I feel all left out now.

Unlike Tommy – with all my computers, I have…[Read more]

If this assists you I Googled the Minibug spy and found the following removal instructions:

How to Remove Minibug ?

Search…[Read more]

Yes I know you think this – but I am curious to know what exactly it did to make you feel this way about Uncle Norton.

I have used it for several years now and have had no problems with it so I am left to wonder if I am missing something here?

Awwwww Tommy. Its easy to say I guess – but seriously why do you think that Norton is crap???

Bis – would you like to do the honours???

Awwwww Owen. Don’t have a go at the bloke because he uses Norton. We all have our likes and dislikes as far as anti virus etc software is concerned. So he maybe didn’t have the latest virus definitions installed and got bitten in the bum. There but for the grace of God ……..!!!

I have been using the Norton / Symantec suite of products for the…[Read more]

Hi Ellen, so that we can assist you can you post the answers to the following:
1. What is your computer’s Operating System? (e.g. Windows 98SE; ME; 2000; NT; XP Home; XP Pro etc).

3.How much RAM do you have installed at the moment? (e.g 64MB; 128MB; 256MB etc…[Read more]

Hi Bis,

No I wasn’t referring to your entirely correct instruction to start up in diagnostic mode and clean out the malware from there. I was rather poorly attempting to explain to Dave that his uninstal wasn’t complete and – as you quite rightly pointed out – he must have left some traces of IE behind which will naturally corrupt his new…[Read more]

I do not understand the ”restore previous windows configuration” option. My understanding of Super’s solution was that you remove IE 6.0 (and any and ALL previous versions that you may have lurking around on your PC) and any and all component parts, add ons, upgrades etc etc. Restoring Windows to its previous configuration would surely simply…[Read more]

Hi Dave, From what I have read so far it looks to me as if you haven’t FULLY removed the old version of IE from your PC.

As I…[Read more]

Thanks for posting this extremely helpful article Super – I am sure that a lot of members with IE problems will find it most useful.

Is he able to log onto Norton / Symantec’s site to download a tool to remove the virus that he obviously has got? Also it would be a great idea if he updated his Norton anti virus with the latest definitions.

Of course he does have a backup…[Read more]

On the same theme, and for the benefit of any other users, I came across an issue a while ago . When you run an ADSL modem from an USB port running directly off the motherboard and which therefore takes it power from the Motherboard’s power supply, sometimes your PC freezes on boot up or the PC boots but won’t fully go into Windows. You get a…[Read more]

It is quite likely that both USB ports run directly from the mother board and share power provided by it (500ma I think). Chances are that the webcam AND the ADSL modem together are taking a load greater than 500ma so they won’t both work at the same time. In essence one gobbles up a large chunk of the available power and doesn’t leave enough for…[Read more]