Computer Questions

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 9/18/2004, 2:17 am

Both times I installed Ad-Aware on my machine, it immediately screwed things up so bad that I had no other choice but to format.

It's a piece of crap.

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 9/18/2004, 12:35 pm

Weird, it always works for me.

Joey · Post by **Joey** » 11/7/2004, 2:09 pm

has anyone installed the microsoft 2000 windows xp service pack 2 thingy?
i keep getting these error messages, a pop window from windows will come up saying there's an internal error, do i want to send an error report etc ... and i keep getting that message all the time and it will close out the windows i'm working with ... now i tried downloading it before and it screwed up my computer huge so i ended up uninstalling it ... now it's telling me to fix it i need install it ... when i try to install it just says 'you're trying to install something that doesn't match what you already have' basically .. i'm so confused .. i don't want to reformat again

i've had this computer 6 months and it's given me more problems then my old computer that i had for years and years

Blister · Post by **Blister** » 11/7/2004, 4:46 pm

Windows Media Player is driving me INSANE. It keeps shifting all my MP3s around and renaming the folders and taking the pretty pictures of the album covers off. It's misbehaving and it's making me angry :mad:

Lando · Post by **Lando** » 11/7/2004, 4:48 pm

Don't use WMP then!

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 11/8/2004, 12:01 am

Winamp's the way to go.

And, Joey... SP2 is a piece of crap... I installed it too, and I wish I hadn't. I don't really know what to tell you to do to fix it, short from formatting and reinstalling Windows. :neutral:

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 11/8/2004, 12:57 am

My "friend" keeps telling me to download it.

Joey · Post by **Joey** » 11/8/2004, 11:07 am

gah, i downloaded it before and it messed up my computer so i uninstalled it .. so i don't recommend installing it .. hmm i might just have to burn all my songs and start fresh again .. i don't mind reformatting, except for losing all my music :freak:

Korzic · Post by **Korzic** » 11/8/2004, 11:50 am

I dont have any problems with it

And you dont have to reformat to reisntall windows either.

Joey · Post by **Joey** » 11/8/2004, 11:53 am

i dunno i've heard lots of issues with the service pack, my friend had the same problem and when he called tech they told him to uninstall it and reformat .. how do i reinstall windows without reformatting? do tell .. and i'm a computer idiot so go sloooooowwwww

whatever will save my music!

Korzic · Post by **Korzic** » 11/8/2004, 12:12 pm

Its pretty simple.

Put XP cd in CD drive. Reboot your computer. When you reboot your computer and it says Press Del. to go into setup. Do that. I have no idea what your BIOS looks like but you'll have to poke around for something that says Boot Sequence and that will have a number of options attached to it. Change the first option to your CD drive. F10 saves and exits. Computer reboots. Computer then boots from CD instead of HDD and goes into windows setup. Read all the jargon go through it all. It will ask you if you want to format or install XP on the existing partition without formatting. Choose that

and everything afterwards is pretty simple and straightforward. Follow screen prompts.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 11/8/2004, 4:53 pm

Yeah, but I'm thinking SP2'll leave crap behind if she just does that.

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » 11/8/2004, 7:17 pm

Supposedly you can't have any spyware on your system when you install service pack two.

Korzic · Post by **Korzic** » 11/8/2004, 8:46 pm

Nikki nope, because it deletes the previous windows directory.

Rusty again a fallacy. SP@ just makes it more spyware proof.

gavtodd71 · Post by **gavtodd71** » 11/9/2004, 9:24 am

nikki4982 wrote:Winamp's the way to go.

And, Joey... SP2 is a piece of crap... I installed it too, and I wish I hadn't. I don't really know what to tell you to do to fix it, short from formatting and reinstalling Windows.

is your sollution to all comptuers problems format?

Korzic · Post by **Korzic** » 11/9/2004, 9:27 am

Format is my comedy solution to all things computer related

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 11/9/2004, 2:10 pm

It's my answer to Windows problems. Possibly because it's the only thing that ever fixes my dumb computer when it starts acting weird.

Joey · Post by **Joey** » 11/9/2004, 2:13 pm

Korzic wrote:Its pretty simple.

Put XP cd in CD drive. Reboot your computer. When you reboot your computer and it says Press Del. to go into setup. Do that. I have no idea what your BIOS looks like but you'll have to poke around for something that says Boot Sequence and that will have a number of options attached to it. Change the first option to your CD drive. F10 saves and exits. Computer reboots. Computer then boots from CD instead of HDD and goes into windows setup. Read all the jargon go through it all. It will ask you if you want to format or install XP on the existing partition without formatting. Choose that and everything afterwards is pretty simple and straightforward. Follow screen prompts.

ok so by doing that i won't lose anything i have saved?

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » 11/9/2004, 6:59 pm

I can't un "rar" my stupid U2 album ause it says I'm low on memory. I know I need more...but is there anything I can temporarily do so it will unzip?

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 11/9/2004, 7:00 pm

I assume you are using WinRAR, right?