When I go to google and do a search and then click on any found link, the
program jumps to other sites with ads on them

The imbedded sound card on my mainboard worked fine until  I installed SP2,
now it shows the sound device in device manager but not in the properties
what the hell

An ad for Spyware removal has down loaded in my System tray and I can't
remove it. I have searched all files and folders for any trace of the  
SPYLOCKED and removed it. It is still in the System tray and shows an alert
ICON every few seconds. I have tried System Restore but to no ...

WXP Pro SP2   Following the entry of a Trojan Horse with an Ad to buy "Pest
Trap" a cpl days ago, within mins  I ran NAV Sys Scan, Ad-Aware Pro, JV
Registry Clnr, deleted the "contents" of Prefetch including the layout.inf,?
TIF, Temp History and Cookies.  The invasion knocked ...

I recently reformatted my XP Professional laptop. When I did so I must have
missed some security setting or user or something. From the laptop I am able
to access files on other pc's in the domain as well as connect using SQL
Server to other PCs. The problem is the reverse - the ...

Prior to our time change recently, I started up my home computer to make sure
all the XP updates were installed (I don't very often turn it on, so I knew I
would have some updates).
Not very far into the download, I got a blue screen with this error message:

My system is hanging on the Blue XP Logo Screen at startup.   I can get into
Safe mode, but no matter what option I try, including command prompt, it
still hangs on the blue logo screen.   I tried going back to the XP install
disk (all I have are upgrades), but the system won't ...

Something happened to my pc.  I woke it up and all of my programs are in
virgin state as if never used.  I have no pictures in my pictures
folder, no music in music folder, outlook express has no saved mail,
limewire acts like its never been used, itunes has none of my music.

Recently my CD-RW drive on my laptop stopped reading discs that were created
on my desktop or other friends PC's.  This includes data, photo and music
CD's.  It will read pre-recorded DVD's and CD's that I've purchased.  Any
suggestions as to what may be causing this problem?

I have a new PC with XP media edition on it.
I'm getting a bunch of random directories being created in my root
directory. They all have names like "3K3LVBD03VD3" (I'm just typing
randomly). Some are empty, and some contain installation log files from what

If I am playing a game or if I am in the middle of some other program I
sometimes get the message:
...has to close down, we are sorry for the inconvience.   How do I rectify
this and why does it happen?

I've looked into this and can't find why this happened to my XP Home.  The
only way to fix this is according to error messages in help file, that i'm
having to find on daughters laptop is going into boot.ini    This is not
working for me.  I can't even get it to rebott from the ...

Is there any possible way to not allow a user to delete a program using
add/remove in the control panel? I know that you can block out all of control
panel, but can you do it for specific programs?
For instance, can you password protect the removal of specific software on

Please help!! I  installed ms updates then i lost my audio.  When i check to
see if it is working it says it is working properly, I tested for sound in
diagnostics and it says it is working but when you go to check the mute it is
all greyed out My husband thinks it was hijacked ...

Too frequently the Magnifier Tool pops up without request and I cannot
close it without re-booting.  Is there any way to totally disable this
tool by changing its file extention? Where exactly is this tool
usually located?