can anyone suggest a method of removing the vir.protect (Virus Protect)
parasite from my notifiction bar on the desktop. i have found out this thing
is a rogue anti-spyware but my norton didn't stop it..... you assistance in
removing this virus would be very much appreciated as ...

I rarely use the3 1/2 inch floppy disk drive on my Windows XP Home ed.
Compaq pc, but I recently attempted to use it and  it apparenly has
failed. I am unable to format or write to the floppy - it just hangs
and I get a pop up that says the disk cannot be formatted or if I try

Please excuse, I posted on another windows board, but didn't realize it
didn't get much traffic. Here is my question-
When I defragment, my outlook files and some other large files 2gb + will
not drfragment.  I don't believe they are in use, and even when I defrag at

I need some help recording sounds in Windows XP.  I have a microphone that
came with a tape recorder, and I assumed it would also work on the computer,
but when I plug it in and try to use sound recorder, I get nothing.  so my
questions are:

When my other laptop tries to boot, I get to the black XP page for starting
then a blue screen with the following error code:
***STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF796E528, 0xC000000E, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
Any ideas greatly recieved.

I have a new PC which I have installed a second hdd as a slave. The
slave drive is seen in the bios and in disk management but not in
windows. Disk management does not give me the ability to right click
and enable the drive so there is no drive letter assigned. I know the

Due to the system crashes I have reinstalled and did activation number of
times. Today after I install QuickCam Pro 4000 software my computer had
crashed many times. I was unable to use "safe mode" and within a seconds of
reboot my computer shut down automatically so I ...

I had a file where all of my newborn Son's pictures were being kept.  I went
to access the file folder this morning and the folder is gone.  I don't know
if I or my Wife accidently deleted it.  I did a search for the file name and
say file not found.  If it did get deleted, is ...

I had been having big problems and someone took me back to factory settings
and uninstalled everything on my pc.   I now don't have
Windows/excel/powerpoint and don't know what else I've lost.  I tried putting
in the original Windows disc to install again and it keeps saying that ...

I have a Toshiba Satellite A100- LE6. It's only about 13 months old. For the
past 3 months it has been giving so much trouble. It freezes up when I using
the laptop, I need to force to turn off the power by holding down the power
button. When I try to re-start it will stop at ...

During the bootup process I get a message in a box that says "Setup
encountered an error during installation. Error code 000D."
There is a box to click on OK. I click on OK, and the boot process
continues with no problems. I'm not aware of any problems. Is there any

I was downloading a large file earlier, but had to cancel it.  Now when I try
to download the file (enter the URL in IE7), the download/save prompt is
displayed.  When I select the option to save, it allows me to designate where
to save.  All is well so far.  The problem is when ...

Hi, how do I disable the warning prompt for gmail that occurs when
sending an email without a subject? I often do not want to send
emails
with subjects, and the prompt is annoying. I think it's actually a

Like probably a lot of people, I have Winamp installed on my PC to play MP3
files.  Does anyone know how I can get rid of the File Type that Winamp
forces Windows Explorer to show?  Basically, I want my MP3 files to show as
"MP3" and, similarly, I want MP2 files to show as "MP2" ...

Unable to get bootcfg /rebuild to work properly and then run Repair Install.  
After downloading and trying to upgrade my onboard RAID driver, it turned
out to be older than my current driver, my RAID mirror was turned into
STRIPED.