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trying to fix a friends comp.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Posted by jesse
(1 messages posted)
Hears the deal. I got "selected" to fix my bosses computer. She said it was slow,
and i figured it had some spyware, and/or viruses. When she brought the tower, i
noticed its old school, with the big mouse/keyboard jacks. i was like ok, ill just
take out the HD and boot it up on my pc (winXP mine, win 95 hers), using my software
to scan the HD. Found 70+virus and a lot of spyware. Got ride of it. But, now I can't
boot up here hard drive. Got the Insufficient memory error. fixed that. Now i got
this IOS, windows protection error when windows tries to boot. anything to help will
be nice ;)
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re: trying to fix a friends comp.
Friday, February 2, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Posted by Jerry
(874 messages posted)
Hi Jesse:
Bad malware infestations often hook so deeply into
Windows System components, it's virtually
impossible to restore them to working condition.
It's often easier to reinstall Windows.
Remember, you don't have to re-format the hard
drive and lose all your data, although if you can
backup the data first by putting the hard-drive
into to another computer, that would be a good
idea.
Often you can reinstall Win95 "over the top" of
the existing installation, repairing it.
You can also boot into DOS with a floppy boot disk
which includes DELTREE. You only have to remove
the C:\WINDOWS folder, and you can start a
complete, brand new Win95 installation. The
installer will leave all the other folders intact,
but you will have to reinstall your other
applications, even though they remain in the
C:\Program Files folder. The new Win95
installation won't know they're there until you
reinstall them.
Jerry
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re: trying to fix a friends comp.
Monday, February 5, 2007 at 9:13 am
Posted by Ed
(59 messages posted)
Check the video card drivers or drivers or something. The last
time I saw that error in windows ME (bleh), it involved a video card driver failure
every time.
On Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at 4:54 pm, jesse wrote:
>Hears the deal. I got "selected" to fix my bosses computer. She said it was slow,
>and i figured it had some spyware, and/or viruses. When she brought the tower, i
>noticed its old school, with the big mouse/keyboard jacks. i was like ok, ill just
>take out the HD and boot it up on my pc (winXP mine, win 95 hers), using my software
>to scan the HD. Found 70+virus and a lot of spyware. Got ride of it. But, now I
can't
>boot up here hard drive. Got the Insufficient memory error. fixed that. Now i got
>this IOS, windows protection error when windows tries to boot. anything to help
will
>be nice ;)
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