Hi...I keep doing a scan of my computer and spysweeper keeps finding Trojan Horse: trojan-downloader-zlob. I also get little popups in my toolbar at the bottom saying I need to download software to get rid of it. How do I get rid of this. My spyware isn't fully getting rid of it. It always comes back.

Had WinXP Pro with IE 7 and Media Player 11 with no problems playing online content. Bought Windows Vista Home Premium. Did a completely clean install on a Athlon 3800 X2 PC I built (Same one that had XP before). I can no longer play audio or video files on websites that are directly linked. Microsoft has a web page with test files: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316992/en-us and I can't...

I installed vista on my machine (the 30 days test periode) but aero doesn't work. Processor: 3.8 Memory: 2.9 Graphics: 5.9 Gaming graphics: 5.7 Primary hard disk: 5.2 I have just 512 ram, Is it a problem?

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I shut down my notebook one night and when i turned it on the next morning my entire desktop and some other programs on my computer where entirely in wingdings and other symbols for all the words. I have found out this was not a prank and i was told by a computer support group that i may need to uninstall Vista completely. Has anyone else had this problem or is anyone aware of a way to fix...

I'm attempting to use the "Backup and Restore Center" to back up my computer. However, whenever I click "Back up computer" I get the following error message: "Windows could not find backup devices on your computer. The following information might explain why this problem occurred: Incorrect function. (0x80070001) Please close the backup application and try again."

I'm currently running Vista Home Basic on a Dell D620 laptop, with the Vista Basic visual theme. So far I've been quite impressed with Vista's power management features and am quite happy. I'm on the verge of doing an Anytime Upgrade to Home Premium, primarily for Aero but also for some of the extra Mobility, DVD playback features etc. Looking around the web there are quite a few articles and...

Hi i am tring to do a defrag on my c drive, but it seams to never end, i have been running it over night at least 15 hours on a 60 gig drive but it just does not finish? any ideas what to do

About every other day, my Vista Ultimate system slooooooows down and I notice that explorer.exe is taking everybit of the 4gb of RAM I have. I tried to take a look at what was going on using Process Explorer but I'm afraid I'm not able to see what's going on. Can anyone point me in the direction of what I should be looking for? -- Sandy Wood Orange County District Attorney

Hi Guys I posted this question in the General group but no one want to try to answer the question. Hopefully there is someone here who can help me out. This is my Problem. In windows XP ,when you burned to CD ,XP always put the temp files on the drive so you could look at them and edit them. In Vista it burns them directly to the CD. You have no chance to edit or look if you even have the right...

My system won't use power options--ie wont sleep or turn off monitor even though I have it set to through the control panel

I am going away on holiday and am taking my Vista backup disc with me. The problem is that the machine I have use of is an XP machine. I suspect it wont allow me to restore to it. What can be done to get around this potential problem ?

I've noticed that there are a number of threads started by people struggling with the speed of Vista, so I'll try to make some (non-hardware) suggestions, as to how you can get Vista zipping along like lightning.... The suggestions are offered as is, and if you have any criticisms of them, or (better still) have any better suggestions then you are welcome to add them. They may not leave...

My Icons are all messed up. They have been that way since I installed. For example, instead of a folder, it will show the recycle bin. Is there anyway to reset the icons or reload them? Pressing "use default" doesn't work. It not a big deal, but it makes me wonder if something more fundamental might be messed up in the installation.

hi when i sign out of windows messenger, i get a error and it has to close, i can not open it again unless i restart, any ideas what i can do

I checked my indexing and it says 507 items and completed. I checked my task manager and it shows my CPU usage as 90% or greater, average is 93% but generally hits 100%. I've done adware searching and had 102 items and removed them. still no help I've turned off unneeded services like auto updates with no help against my CPU usage. I've indiscriminately combed through my task manager...

Ok, I've currently 512 MB RAM installed in my PC, with Vista Ultimate Edition. I'm thinking of buying the Kingston DataTraveler ReadyFlash(Enhanced for Windows ReadyBoost) in 1 GB size. I would like to know, if this is the right setup... because, currently Kingston is offering in "1 GB" and "2 GB" only(for ReadyBoost). If that's the right setup, what are the best settings for that setup?

Hi there, I recently installed a software on my pc and the notepad icon was automatically replaced by a 'printer' icon. There are some other icons like the zipped file folder icon whcih were automatically replaced by another icons. I know that this may have occured due to a problem with the shell32.dll file or imageres.dll file, however how do I repair /replace these. I do have an orginal...

Ive checked the settings and a screensaver is selected but will not start, I tried shutting down the sidebar to no avail. I checked the power settings and they are activated and the computer wont sleep the screen stays on? Anyone got any ideas please. Jen not techy