Recent content by Shockwolf

And that's exactly the attitude I'm talking about. Speak for your self why don't you? Some of us still enjoy old software and games that Windows 7 simply can't handle. So flogging that dead horse is absolutely necessary. Laugh all you like jitpublisher, but at the end of the day you are the...

I'd just like to point out that I too bought this very same motherboard based on the fact that it stated it supported Windows XP in the description. The manual also confirms this and that the drivers are included. I have attempted to install both 32 bit and 64 bit Windows XP and both produce...

Hate to say I told ya so. Like I also say, you should invest in copy of Drive Image for creating an image of your freshly installed healthy system, NTI Shadow for backing up your files and a USB drive. It will save you all of the ball-ache and time wasting next time something like this happens.

It may or may not have been the wrong choice of words but what I meant by backwards compatible is; why do the later service packs have to render the older Windows CD repair jobs useless? Sure, it would be ridiculous expect a Windows XP CD to fix a Vista install but should it not work for a CD...

I just knew my comment would get some Microsoft fan boy’s back up… *snigger* :lol: :bounce:

Ah so… just another way that Microsoft are refusing to become backwards compatible and encourage people to spend more money on their products eh? :pfff: Why am I not surprised by that one?

Then I’d definitely do a fresh format and install of Windows. Then invest in a USB hard drive, Drive Image 7 or higher and NTI Shadow. It’s well worth it! :sweat:

In that case it still sounds like the problem I’ve just cured by restoring an old image on both my PC’s. Still don’t know what caused it mind you but it’s not returned either and I’ve just put back all the software I had installed before. I am still keeping a close eye on the Windows Updates...

Sounds to me, Simdude that you may just have hard drive failure. Both drives? Yes it is possible that both hard drives have taken a hit from something that’s happened somewhere. It’s happened to me in the past and I needed to perform a ‘Low Level Format’ of both my hard drives to fix the...

Indeed it could be that DX9 update then. Normally I have my automatic updates set to notify me before downloading and installing however I noticed that somehow they have been set back to automatic. So it is likely that it may have been the August DX9 patch and I use Nvidia cards on both...

Ok the problem is definitely back on both of my PC’s but it only seems to occur when messing about with Application files, like if I select them, copy and paste or view the properties of them. This causes Dr Watson and Explorer to crash and I need to use Task Manager to end task on the open...

That sounds worse than my situation then. Though mine hasn't come back on my server PC since luckily. However on my Main PC I have noticed that Explorer and Dr Watson also crashes, but only when I right click and bring up the properties of some Installer.exe files. This very strange indeed...

I also had Dr Watson and Explorer crashes on my Internet PC very recently. Though I think I’ve solved it. If you use AVG8 then try uninstalling it, including all of the user settings and reinstalling it again. Also try running a ‘detect and repair’ through MS office if you have it. (Open a...