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U.S.Robotics SureConnect DSL modem with 4 port router and firewall. As new with ethernet, modem cables and 2 microfilters £50 Still under warranty, Free local installation if necessary. Sale due to being replaced with wireless router...

Keep an eye on your broadband speed @ http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp and PC Wizard 2004 is a good one for checking your PC speed. plus keep checking for viruses.

Have a go with spybot 1.3, click mode then advanced. click tools and check your system startup programs, (untick all the ones you dont know). good luck Its a good start for speeding up your PC.

Its possible that scandisk has brought your files back. run windows scandisk and then delete your old files again.

The first thing you need to try is create a new user account. Are you on home or pro XP ??? log off the default account (click start log off) and logon as administrator control alt del twice. create your new account and restart your computer. this is a good way to find out whats going on and may...

Sounds like you need a good clean up, not found any clean up programs i like, prefer to do it myself. i would start it limiting start up programs from running in the startup menu and the registry. If you like i can send you detailed instructions how to do this safely. There are some good web...

Nice to hear you are working again these viruses are are a pain in the ass. Have a look at my bug killers thread. Quite like AVG and KERIO both are free.

I have very nice ways of removing viruses and can help with repair of file. Which Windows are you running? Send me a PM and we will arrange a time to do it. :) PS no charge i do alot of this for free. :)

Nice one, still get viruses sometimes but AVG works ok

What AV are you using. I always used norton but it got to be a pain in the ass. I now use AVG which when i install it found viruses norton did not, plus its free. Nice one AVG http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php

Thanks that link helped. The problem lies in the Layered Service Provider. http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/p2pnetworking/index.phtml Some file sharing software uses this (explained better in the links) and when uninstalled stops the internet working...

No not yet, i came across it again tonight but saw it happen for my self. I uninstalled a program call "P2P networking" and after i had "The page cannot be displayed". i've seen this program before on other computer with this fault but don't know a lot about it!!!! Will have to look into it, If...

Sounds like you had a lot of fun with your network! Have you tried SP2 for XP its got a new ICF with more controll allowing File and Printer Sharing to be enabled or disabled and many other things aswell...

Sorry can't find the microsoft patch, when i do i will post it here. It is in the windows update.

These were not at home and not all installed by my self. Some were on dialup and one or two on NTL broadband. I have had many years of networking but have only come across this problem in the last 6 months. I was thinking on the lines of hacker or spy ware causing this problem. The one I’m...