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Hey Pros, I have a very weird problem with my windows xp. When I click once on the Volume control icon on the system tray, it brings up a multitude of the small control bars and the only way to get rid of them is to use the task manager to stop the processes. This weird problem happens only...

Thanks for your suggestions. I have kept my hard drive in a freezer now and will be trying to recover data from it tomorrow. Inaris. If you can find that page I would like to know about it.

Really need some help here. I have a laptop and the hard disk has got messed up. It started giving some noise and right now I get a message asking me to insert a system disk. Looks like my hard drive has lost its Master boot record. I have ERD commander software. So I thought that I can use...

Hi, Whenever I try to open an atachment in my email like say file.ppt, the system shows a dialog box with the options Open,Save and Cancel. When I use the Open option, the system displays a message like "c:\Documents and Settings\Questionbob\Temporary internet files\content.IE5\file[1].ppt not...

thank u. it is working now.

Which application should I specify in the open with option?

I dont have any special program for the screensaver

I downloaded a screensaver with a .scr file extension. But scr extension has somehow been alloted to autocad script file. I had autocad once in my system but removed it later. Now when i open the scr file it opens in a notepad with unreadable contents inside. How do I allot the scr files back...

Found the other one too....It is PC Magic Folders. I am using it to protect some of my business documents. When I open Magic folders to look at my files this 78875.sym file is being created at c:\ folder. The file is about 3kb in size with encrypted data inside. Now that the software has been...

My friend runs a windows 200 sp4 system. He has been complaining about this. Under his Documents and Settings his profiles are named in a confusing manner like "larry.LARRY". I looked to see if his computer is part of a domain but it was not so. He likes it to display only as larry. Is this a...

I deleted the files and restarted my system. They are not getting created on restart. This pretty much rules out all the startup programs in the tray. Gotcha!!!Now when i poked around I think I found the culprit. I am using a program called Kill Winamp to close winamp after a specific time or...

They are not hidden files. I have a huge list of programs. But these were most of the programs that I had run after the last time I cleaned the files. 1. Azureus 2. Konfabulator 3. Google Desktop 4. Zonealarm 5. Windowblinds 6. Maxthon browser (with roboform and net snippets). 7. Windows Media...

Both the files 78875.sym and debugoutput.txt have been created again on my system at C: drive. Is there any method through which i can track the program which creates them? If I know the program I will be able to uninstall it. They cause no harm but the debugoutput.txt file just keeps increasing...

Thanks a lot Warez Monster. It looks like the problem has been fixed. Now i dont see the file. I ran CCleaner and it did a good job cleaning out the crap. I also get another file called c:\debugoutput.txt. When I open it in notepad I see just numbers in it. It does a similar thing too. It gets...

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 4:19:39 PM, on 9/7/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe...