Windows 98 Stuck in Safe Mode – Defrag errors out

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Name: Mary Helen McEvoy
I have windows 98. My computer is genuine interx86 family 15 model 2 stepping 9 608.0mb ram. Fat 32 with more than 31.gb It will not come out of safe mode. I ran scan disk, etc and it says it has corrected [...]

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My computer is infected with worm.win32.netsky spyware..!! – Removal Instructions

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Name: Karthik
Hi,

My computer is infected with worm.win32.netsky spyware..!!
Advise me on its removal..!!
Thanks
Well, I suppose that your request is straightforward enough. Netsky is one of the most common viruses that I would run into back when I was primarily on-site for my customers. Sasser was a close second.
Anyway, first off, if you have not updated your [...]

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World of Warcraft and Ventrilo keep crashing!

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Name: Rob Mackay

    Hi, I have a Pentium 4 3.6 Ghz processor (on an Asus P5N32 motherboard I think), 2 gigs of RAM, and 2 nVidia 6600’s in an SLI configuration. The problem that I am having is that if I am running Ventrilo, World of Warcraft, and some other applications at the same time [...]

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My PC Keeps Killing Hard Drives! – Recurring HD Failure

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Name: Robert Malone
PC keeps killing hard drives. install new hard drive, load all software, seem to run fine for a while then hd dies, machine will no longer see hd. Had done this to 3 hd’s, scared to put anything else in. Any ideas?
I suppose the first item of business is: Are you completely [...]

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Trying to remove Spyware – Safe mode cannot be accessed!

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Name: Ryan
When i try to access safe mode in attempting to remove spyware, it does not work; as in, it wont load the safe mode.
Is there something i need to do to allow it to work?

Getting into Safe Mode is pretty straightforward. You simply reboot the computer, and press F8 a whole bunch of times [...]

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“Operating system not found” – HP Pavilion 7925

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Name: Terry Robinson
“Operating system not found” is the only thing my H.P.Pavilion 7925 do. Please help.

Well, in order to be more helpful it’d be nice to have some clarifying information, so feel free to post a reply on this page if you feel it necessary.
First and foremost, you will want to remove any [...]

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OS will not reinstall after partition merge

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Name: Shannon Louden
Im the computer genius of the family. I havent encountered a problem I
couldnt fix until now.
I have a toshiba satellite a200 with a 160gb hard disk drive. I had 2
partitions set up (using partition magic) as I was going to run 2
systems. XP and Vista. I had only installed xp on both, [...]

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Rebooting in circles – Laptop overheats

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Name: Christopher Smith
Hi,
My computer a Toshiba Satellite A35-S159 very often over heats and
shuts off. horrible design by Toshiba engineers. fans on the bottom
to get air by the heat sink?
anyhow i usually just restart my computer.
this time however when i restarted, it went to a safety mode restart.
i choose to restart normally, which it started [...]

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