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| #1 By 655 (24.162.17.184) at Monday, February 13, 2006 10:10:42 PM |
| Sounds like you've either been hacked or have a virus or worm that's damaged WinXP. You can try to run Restore (boot with the WinXP CD and run from there). But you may be looking at a complete format/reinstall. ---------------------------------------------- Work is for people who don't know how to surf Gateway Performance 1800 - P4 1.8gz, 512mb RAM, ATi Radeon 8500; SB Live Value; Windows XP Professional, Photoshop CS2, Nikon D2Hs and D100 |
| #2 By 655 (165.125.144.18) at Tuesday, February 14, 2006 03:22:14 PM |
| To do a clean install, Reboot and as the computer starts up, you'll see a text line that says "Press any key to enter startup". Do that. Go through the screens and choose to delete the partition and reformat it. This does a clean install of WinxP. Make sure that you download/install a good spyware program (Spybot - it's free), a good antivirus (anything but Norton), at least a free software firewall (if at all possible, use a router to put a hardware firewall in front of your computer connection). ---------------------------------------------- Work is for people who don't know how to surf Gateway Performance 1800 - P4 1.8gz, 512mb RAM, ATi Radeon 8500; SB Live Value; Windows XP Professional, Photoshop CS2, Nikon D2Hs and D100 |
| #3 By 655 (165.125.144.18) at Wednesday, February 15, 2006 09:40:11 AM |
| Go into the computers BIOS (usually at startup, press either F1 or F2 - check your computer's manual) and set the first boot drive to the CD-ROM, 2nd to a floppy and 3rd to the HD ---------------------------------------------- Work is for people who don't know how to surf Gateway Performance 1800 - P4 1.8gz, 512mb RAM, ATi Radeon 8500; SB Live Value; Windows XP Professional, Photoshop CS2, Nikon D2Hs and D100 |
