Avast folks, I made a mistake

[Mac_Muz]

Tarq, My wife has 2 of the flast devices, but she calls them a 'stick'. This tower has 4 port for USB, 2 on the back both used, and 2 of the front not used yet. I also have a USB port with 3 spare ports so far. This hub? is using one of the back 2 ports.

Dch, I got the 2003 excel reader from Brothersoft yesterday and can read the file now. Thanks.
I am glad i screwed up and couldn't get the file on here. It contains a lot of folks, real names exact addresses, phone numbers, and other things anyone broken down would want to know to make contact for help, but in the wide open internet world could be a disaster.

Yokenny, Is this correct now? I will have a look at this link http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html. And I had the idea I had xp home. It seems to be I have xp pro and service pack 3, not that I really know what that is.

I planned to come back in here last night but just before i did, I came down with nasty flue like symptoms, but i seem to be fine now. One minute i was fine and the next i was pretty ill, cold, back cramps, and it was 80+ in my room. I am in the sun, or a barn to be working, and this heat wave hasn't been fun. To hot to ride my motorcycle after work even. maybe that had something to do with getting ill so quickly.

[YoKenny]

Yokenny, Is this correct now? I will have a look at this link http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html. And I had the idea I had xp home. It seems to be I have xp pro and service pack 3, not that I really know what that is.

That signature looks fine.

This weather is unbelievable as we just had a thunderstorm go though here and hopefully a cooler front is behind it.

I use MWSnap on my XP Pro system. 

[mkis]

The unit is built with one of these motherboards

http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=searchresult&keywords=ms-7309


you will have to look for the tell-tale signs yrself to identify the exact model
- usually on the case somewheres, if not then on the motherboard (use magnifying glass if need be) - maybe in the Belarc report

when you click through on the correct model
you will find link to the Manual on toolbar up / right hand of screen

   

[MikeBCda]

Another good freeware tool for identifying installed hardware on your system is PC Wizard.

I don't like it quite as much as I did its predecessor (now discontinued), which included suggestions about things like apparently inadequate video or RAM.  Even better, it included links to the appropriate manufacturers' download pages for up-to-date drivers for just about everything on your system.

(edit) Just to clarify, by "predecessor" I meant the discontinued app I was using then (can't remember its name), not an earlier version of PC Wizard.  I did try Belarc for a while, but its only real advantage to me was that it also checked whether you were missing any critical MS updates.

[YoKenny]

Another good freeware tool for identifying installed hardware on your system is PC Wizard.

Speccy is as good as PC Wizard if not better:
http://www.piriform.com/speccy

[mkis]

... it also checked whether you were missing any critical MS updates.

I like this about Belarc as well

[YoKenny]

... it also checked whether you were missing any critical MS updates.

I like this about Belarc as well

If you are using a Celeron 2.2ghz, with only 256 meg RAM, XP-Home SP3 then it could take many minutes to see any results. 

[Dch48]

I use Everest and SIW which will tell you more than you ever needed to know .

[mkis]

... it also checked whether you were missing any critical MS updates.

I like this about Belarc as well

If you are using a Celeron 2.2ghz, with only 256 meg RAM, XP-Home SP3 then it could take many minutes to see any results.  

I know, tis a monster blurb of a report really and the gaps (doesn't know) in specs are always very annoying cos you knew they were coming anyway.   fortunately you can uninstall le bete belarc

[Mac_Muz]

Just so everyone knows I am no stickler for staying on topic. Take this thread anywhere it want/needs to go.

The mother board at the top says K9N6SGM-V. There is nothing on the tower case that say so. So far as i can see the only sticker on the case says AMD 64 Athlon X2. IO see no numbers on the case anywhere The case is black with silver tone covers where drives could be. The power button is silver chromed like and apx 1 inch across.

Above the power button is a transparent lime green bar with a light on behind it, I guess to show power is on. below the big power button is a smaller one for restart i assume. At the botton is a small door to flip up where 2 usb ports are and 2 ports on pink, the other green I assume have something to do with mic, and head set options, if my guess is correct. If it is then I think the mic if i wanted would plug in to the pink port, jacks is what i used to call them, and green might be for ear phones, aka head set.

So The mother board at the top says K9N6SGM-V, and before i go and get myself into a Royal Mess  at the site, what is it I am after? The manual right? I can tell you right now I have no bee's wax doing a thing in BIOS. I have no idea what RSS might be. I am scared to update drivers. And I don't understand what utility is going to do.

Maybe these will take me to a description, but i don't know that, and i have no idea what will happen if i investigate these buttons.

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next These MS updates, at least i think so, are killing me. 3 came yesterday and gagged the system up bad. Another came a half hour ago and gagged it up again. I don't know for sure what these updates are, as all i see is a yellow shield with '!" in the middle of it. I just go away, pet the dog, maybe go kill bugs in the garden, crack a few brewski's and the shield goes away in a long time. Then if I go to shut the system down it says to click on Turn off and there is another shield in 4 colors, which there is now waiting for me to turn the system off.
 So I really need this update to come any time it wants to huh?

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This other things like the spirit catcher (prt screen) down loads I will try to check out. I just don't know why I need them. I can hit Ctrl and prt Scrn easy enough and then make it happen in paint. One advantage i can understand is the DL MWSnap has 5 file types over the one file type MS paint seems to allow. I hardly know the difference between a jpeg and a bit map. The end results look about the same to me, but the file size is different.

I tend to keep files as they are, but understand files type say for Kodak not converted to jpeg make a mess for everyone else. Or my buddy sending me anything but jpegs. These 3 letter things drive me nuts. I think what he sends is pss files, probably I have that wrong, and my alledged brain is stuck and i can't think to call that by a name.
I have a day and time set I think. I set it, but these things just come at wild random and i am not liking it much.

[Dch48]

Mac, if everything is working, I'd leave well enough alone. You don't need to update the BIOS unless you're having a problem. The motherboard manual will just give you a lot to read that most likely won't help you at all. The Windows updates you definitely do want though and you might (after the critical and important updates stop flowing) want to go to the windows update site and check for the optional updates. There might be something you could use like updated drivers for the hardware or new versions of media player and a lot of other things. You won't absolutely need to install any of them but they will show as optional. I also don't think you need to be fooling around with all those security utilities until you actually get infected by something. Just run Avast!, schedule it to do a full scan either weekly or monthly, maybe do a malwarebytes quick scan every now and then and you should be fine.

Oh, by the way, your motherboard does have SATA connectors so you would be able to install that drive you bought. You'd just need to get the cables if they didn't come with the drive. Again though, if the drive you have is working fine, maybe just let that alone too.

[Mac_Muz]

Dch, The drive I bought is wired up to be plugged into a IDE port. This mother bord only has one port and it's used up. When i bought the drive i didn't know what IDE was, and didn't know to buy a SATA wired same dvd , so I guess this new drive can stay in the box, since returning it isn't a great option as shipping will cost more than the thing is worth. If the dvd I have in the box goes bad, I have a back up.

So far as i can tell everything so working albeit slow, but that is the 56 k dial up.

I did suffer a wild glitch yesterday. I have no idea what the cause was. On a site i frequent quite a bit I opened a page reading, and page went straight to the bottom, and the slider on the right refused to scroll up any and made the page shudder when I tried. I tried another site, and got the same thing, The page opened and slammed to the bottom and was uncontrollable.

I closed out both browsers and went to re start the system, but ended up being ramrodded to Stand By mode. I had no choice about that so I let it happen. Never used that feature in all my life so I wasn't sure how to get out. After the monitor went black a while i moved the mouse and the screen woke up. At that point i seemed to have control again and did a cold boot. Since then everything is normal again.

I think demons live inside these boxes to be frank. 

No doubt some setting somewhere is wrong, but what and where i have 0 clue.

[mkis]

Mac_Muz  - may be time to run one of these analysis - and we can tell you a bit about state of yr system

Run HijackThis

Click here – (will take you direct to download)
http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/download/8571e06e5eb8ab03c649f3b5d647c599/

Download and run.
Then do scan and save a log file.

Post the log file to this thread (copy and paste it in). If it is too large you may have to post in two parts.
or alternatively, attach the log file using the Additional Options at down left hand corner of screen.

[Dch48]

I misunderstood you about the drive you bought. I thought you were saying it was a SATA drive and you only had IDE connectors. I would do as you said now though. Keep the new drive as a backup in case the old one goes bad.

[Mac_Muz]

Dch, Yeah, that is all I can do with the dvd drive I bought with the wrong connector. There is 2 other choices though. 1 is buy the same drive which is made by the same company, that is a SATA cabled drive. 2 is buy a card that is sata drive that IDE fits. Either way i don't really need it.

mkis, I guess maybe.  Down loads were coming fast and furious as suggestions for a while there, and I was after trying to figure out which were the most relevant, which for me isn't easy.

Just doing that will take me some time, in part depending on how the down load goes, then making the program do what it does, which i am not sure of, and last posting what ever happens on here.

There is a a part of posting what ever happens on here that is a little scary. Some bookmarks I found yesterday in Fire Fox escaped the cleaning someone did before me. Little by little I have been finding things I wouldn't have on my own. For example there were some sex/porn related file topics in recent documents, left over. The real files were missing, and just titles were left over. I got rid of most of that so far as i can tell, but as i said yesterday i found book marks. One to a My Place site. I never had a an account at My Place, so all I get to see is 1 picture, and the woman is dressed in a provocative way. There is other pictures I guess as the pop up message says this pic is 6 of 25. LOL I don't know, but i sure don't want to cause trouble here, or worse get busted by some digital police.

Not knowing what the file i would create, all I can see is risks, perhaps banning, which i don't want, and I have no idea if I would understand the file I created to fix it first.

Looking for the excel reader I almost placed an emergency list of every MC rider on a long list open to public view here. I am pretty sure the guys that help me would not have done bad things, but then I don't know who else might read and remain silent. I know hunters are on line, and what i do and say about me is one thing, but I would have put risk on other people I haven't even met, if i had placed that file on here.

I will do that down load and see what it looks like. From there I will see what i can make of it, and then let you know. Maybe then in a PM to you and anyone else interested I will post it up in that way to limit risk.