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I used to recommend Norton AV (standalone not NIS or system works) because it had the best detection around, but the problem with Norton since about version 2002 (although got really bad with 2004)...

Did you try what I said in my last post? If you do and that does not fix it, then yes you can install a "parallel" copy of winxp and retrieve your data if it is still there. All you have to do to...

My link is the same exact solution as the experts exchange one, it's just easier to understand. :)

Boot off of your dell cd (which is just an oem copy of windows btw), then go to the recovery console. Try running "chkdsk /r" without the quotes. I have seen this fix maybe 75 percent of the...

Try this solution, I have seen this problem several times at work.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_wel_screen.htm

Are you sure Best Buy told you 70 dollars to do that? I work for Best Buy repair and we only charge 40 dollars to do what you are asking.

Toshibas in my experience aren't very difficult to...

Well without another processor or board to test with you aren't left with a lot of options. But again as I said the code FF is pretty much universally a dead board. Even with nothing else plugged...

I haven't read the manual for your particular system, but for every motherboard I've ever looked at (which is a lot) the code of FF means your board is dead. If you have already pulled all cables...

When you look in device manager and it shows a yellow exclamation and says "multimedia audio controller", it means that windows has detected you have a sound card, but does not know what sound card...

FYI this is usually caused by spyware problem. It causes a problem with the userinit.exe file or it's registry key (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

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Right click on my computer, choose properties. Go to advanced tab, under startup and recovery hit the settings tab. Uncheck "time to display list of operating systems" then reboot, you won't have...

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see anywhere that you said you tried running cwshredder? From what it looks like to me you have a variant of coolwebsearch.

Why not just use the newdotnet uninstaller which fixes all the problems it causes? The uninstaller removes all network settings changed by it and removes all files. You can find it at their website.

Just an fyi here. This problem is almost always due to Nero's Incd being installed on the system. I think out of the 50 or so systems I've seen with this problem on them, maybe 2 or 3 were not...

Sounds like you fried your cpu :(. That nice burning smell is usually a result of that.

The other day I had someone come into the shop and ask me about cpu fans. He said that he had an Athlon...

You have the KlEZ virus. Installing antivirus software won't do you any good because it will not work.

To (hopefully) fix your problem, go to www.symantec.com and search for "klez". Download...