TheTerrorist_75

185W is about right for that PC.

Nope. I could devour half that "cake" right now. YUM!

Sometimes you have to run HJT on each profile to find all malware. SO when you posted the HJT log from your account it didn't see what was on the other accounts.

The difficult part will be finding the drivers if you don't have the disks for the motherboard and etc., unless you know what your hardware is and can locate the drivers..

If you are finding all that malware I would definitely format the drive and install a fresh copy of XP, drivers and updates. It sounds like the person you bought that PC from wasn't on the up and up.

Sounds like you need a larger hard drive with a fresh install of XP and required drivers.

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Moving to PC Support. You will get more answers there than in the tip section.

Right click My Computer then select Properties. Click the Advanced tab then the Settings button under Startup and Recovery. Make sure that "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /TUTag=7OHJEB /Kernel=TUKernel.exe shows in the window for Default operating system and uncheck the two boxes below the window. Click Apply then OK. This will remove the other boot options. What the seller did was install a backup program and the Recovery Console which can come in handy if you have a problem. If it was me I'd leave it alone. It is just a slight annoyance.

Read my other reply and follow the directions.

How many hard drives / partitions are shown in My Computer? When you open My Computer and select Tools then select Folder Options. Under the View tab check the box for Show hidden folders and files plus uncheck and Hide protect operating system files (Recommended). Click Apply then OK. You should now be able to find the boot.ini file.

Get the one from Sony. Yes you can revert the driver.

He might not have wiped the old OS off and installed XP a second time. I'll neeed to see the boot.ini file. He may have forgotten to remove his own account/profile. In Safe Mode log in as Admin and see what is listed in User Account.s

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This is not from any malware or hacker. If this laptop only has XP loaded on it and the person who sold it reloaded XP he may have installed it incorrectly and you now have two installs. Open My Computer and double clcik your hard drive. Double click boot.ini, it should open in Notepad, then copy and paste the contents in a reply here.

That's normal for svchost.exe. I have five instances of it running with many more processes than you. I would say this is an issue with your boot. What is your boot setup, through Vista or one of your 'nix OSes?

They're right about fragmentation: it shouldn't affect maximum VM or drastically affect VM performance. Even if it does, file-level defragmentation isn't going to solve the problem: the page file is internally fragmented (i.e., the pages belonging to a given process aren't stored contiguously), non-copy-on-write pages mapped from files (e.g. EXE and DLL code segments) are backed by the mapped files rather than the page file, and paging is non-sequential. But that was probably lucky guess on their part. I use PageDefrag from Windows Sysinternals. The Windows XP Page File

512 MB of RAM equals 768/1536 for the VM. Seeing as onboard video is reducing the available RAM to 504MB the VM should be 756/1512. The OP does suck at math as well as the other members who didn't note what was posted..

Looks like Avast has become corrupted and is missing the second file.

Still under construction.

Click the Start button the select Run. In the Run box type eventvwr.msc and press the <Enter> key. In the left hand window select each item one at a time and look in the right window for any red Xs. Double click each one with a red X then click on the clipboard symbol below the up and down arrows and paste the contents here in a reply.

Did this computer come with Vista pre-installed? Have you changed any hardware or drivers? Are the temperatures okay?

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