Recent content by hikey mikey

Thanks for your answer, but to be clear-- I'm not asking about deleting stuff from the newly restored laptop, which is back to its original factory state. I'm going to download PC decrapifier and go to town. I'm talking about the old files that were salvaged from the crashed computer, which...

Ah, I'm new to this forum, and I didn't see that there is actually a good guide to removing malware in a sticky thread in this forum. Check it out!

First of all, There are several good (and free) anti-virus programs out there, I like MS Security Essentials. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials Download it and do a full scan and then remove the malware it finds. I've never switched an OS from one to...

Hello, My Sony VAIO with Vista crashed-- I got the blue screen of death repeatedly. Fortunately, with the VAIO on-board diagnostics / recovery software I was able to retrieve almost everything from the c-drive. I copied it all to an external hard drive. Then, after nothing else worked, I did a...