Recent content by smashguy37

I’m trying to fix a laptop that apparently had water spilled on the keyboard a few months ago and the keyboard hasn’t worked since. The track pad works but isn’t as well as it should be. The laptop works fine with external keyboard and mouse. I opened everything up and don’t see any evidence of...

I am trying to finally clean up all my MP3 tags after doing a clean install of Windows 10 recently. I am trying to use MP3Tag to do this but I keep getting errors about not being able to write to the directory. I checked the ownership column in explorer for my music folder and instead of...

I believe it was viruses. Wow. I've dealt with a lot of malware but not like this. After a Windows update I was getting driver messages when booting up so I stupidly downloaded some stuff to update my drivers -- I think maybe that's where this came from. Probably explains why I kept seeing quick...

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I've been working the past two days straight and haven't been on my desktop. This morning I noticed a program wouldn't open a project file. Then I realized it wouldn't open any and then I realized almost all of my files would not open. Even worse, I later discovered a SECOND hard drive was doing...

Normally I would, I tend to use systems until they fail (sadly, since I have been building my own systems this one at 4 years lasted the longest). I remember I bought the CPU right before the i7's came out..probably should have waited. I was hoping to hold off because I shouldn't be throwing...

I have been sitting here wishing I had extra compatible boards and chips completely forgetting about my Pentium D! It's been so long since I've had to fiddle with this stuff I forgot. Unfortunately, I swapped out the CPU's and the board does the exact same thing - the first button push a quite...

Running a Core 2 Quad on an ASUS P5Q board. Was having random freezing, narrowed it down to a stick of RAM. Removed it to run on 2gb. Installed new RAM (2x2gb) and then tried to incorporate the one old stick of RAM that still worked and my computer worked for 10 seconds and booted then turned...

...However after reading more about Droppers I wouldn't mind any tips on programs to run or registry entries to check or anything to ensure my system is clean. Thanks.

I think I solved it, but I can't see if I can delete this post or not. Went back into Safe Mode and Spy Hunter restarted my task manager then I used Malwarebytes to scan again and it found "Trojan.Dropper" and I removed it and everything seems to be fine now, but I'm scanning again to see if...

Every time I boot up my computer does not display my desktop items or start menu and bottom bar, it also disables task manager and only opens a Windows Explorer window and takes me to some phony gov't website. I ran Malwarebytes and it said it removed and deleted a malware packer it detected but...

I left memtest 3.4 running overnight and it came back clean. Is that okay for my 64 bit OS though? I'm going to try to make a disc for the latest memtest. Update: I've wasted two discs trying to make a bootable CD out of the ISO image in Nero. I've looked online and it seems easy to do, but I...

I tried the auto installer for booting from a USB key, but my computer won't boot from it. Maybe it doesn't support keys? Memtest is just a headache for me, I'll try dig up some old discs though.