ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

tman

can anyone explain just wtf is going on here???
i'm running windows xp home, and the only software that i installed in the last 3 days was hardwarehq tools (a couple of .reg files for speeding up windoze)
but this morning the computer started displaying numerous error messages like the one above, and running extremely slowly (took me 2 mins to copy & paste the pic above) not sure if it's some kind of virus, or something to do with those fecking reg files that i installed:mad:
anyone got any ideas???

tman

the .reg files i mentioned above...

ando

have a look in the event viewer, what error's are there?

ando

go here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q321733

NOTE, its talking about windows 2000 ....

there's a fix iswell

tman

the errors in event viewer are the same as the bubble in the pic above...

that win2k fix was no use, it tells you to change a value in regedit to 0, but it was already 0:mad:

tman

this >< close to fdisking the mf

KdjaCL

System restore not do the job?

kdja

magick

more importantly whats that weird picture your trying to hide in the back round eh eh eh eh?!

Dun

Did you disconnect it from the internet (like pulling out the phone line) or was it cut off or anything? Looks like it was complaining that it couldn't write a file to your cache (Temporary Internet Files) cause it was cut off in mid-flow, so it's having a good wah about it. Can't say I've seen that happen before though.

But hey, another reason not to 'upgrade' to xp

tman

see, totally innocent!

it's been doing this since 11 o clock this morning:mad:
you can use the computer for roughly half an hour, after that you have to restart the ****ing thing because of all the error messages popping up & the treakle like performance of the pc

tman

Originally posted by kdja
System restore not do the job?

kdja

don't ask

ando

edit

sceptre

<nutty but sensible suggestion>
Go through the .reg files and manually delete everything it did to the registry through regedit
</nutty but sensible suggestion>

Dun

Originally posted by sceptre
<nutty but sensible suggestion>
Go through the .reg files and manually delete everything it did to the registry through regedit
</nutty but sensible suggestion>

But if it just changed something instead of creating something new, it might prove worse, might it not?

spongebob

go start run cmd

in the dos window type

chkdsk /f /r

hit return yes to all and reboot.

the chkdsk will then kick in...it takes a while to complete

M

tman

that chkdsk thing seems to have worked, i did it earlier, but had to reboot the system after 2 minutes... but the error messages didnt show up for at least an hour after rebooting, as opposed to the normal 5 minutes.
i've let it run to completion now, so fingers crossed.
cheers muck