I won’t spend someone’s time writing such a huge message. But, look at here:
As for SP2 - I don't blame you for not wanting to install it. I won't touch it w/a 10ft pole. I have heard of to many things not working anymore after an install of it and also someone at work installed it on one of the puters there and the results were so bad the entire thing had to be reformatted to get rid of that monster!]As for SP2 - I don't blame you for not wanting to install it. I won't touch it w/a 10ft pole. I have heard of to many things not working anymore after an install of it and also someone at work installed it on one of the puters there and the results were so bad the entire thing had to be reformatted to get rid of that monster!
“Won’t touch it with a 10ft pole” ? Wasn’t that offensive ? I’m computer technician and that’s my profession. I never force people to install something that is not reliable. I never advise people to upgrade to some huge, major change before they do backup of whole system. Everyone should know that by now… backup will save you million times. Eddy said well… users needs to take care of what they are doing. You can’t just go with SP2 dwonload and proceed with instalation just like it is some of your little freeware programs we’re talking about. You need to do some checkings… thanks God for internet, you can find info regarding any driver, card, or anything else. You can not just go and install it and blindly believe that this will solve all of your problems. You need to put yourself into it. Microsoft wouldn’t release something officialy, that is not checked million times before. Of course, people will always find something to complain. Isn’t always like that ? SP1 is safer ? I don’t now anything about that. We all are aware of all those complains from the past. Linux ? They found so huge security hole in Linux as well… what is secure today ? Your common sense…
In this case the originator of this post had already installed SP2 and had at least one problem. She said she would rather not install it again. I admire her caution. Watching her movies was imiportant to HER and she could no longer watch them after installing SP2. I would be cautious, too.
Well, she/he doesn’t have those problems any more ? How is it possible ? Maybe he/she didn’t do something properly when he/she installed SP2 first time ? The facts is, SP2 has nothing to do with your DivX codecs. Even if for some reason, something doesn’t work properly, reinstallation of codecs or some drivers in general wouldn’t hurt. If you switch from Windows to Linux, you think everything should work ? No… of course Linux is completely different OS, but that’s just example. If you make some major changes to your system, be prepared to work on it… there is no guaranty that it will work perfect on everyones system, 'cause people like to “mix” all kind of third party hardware in their computers just to go few dollars “cheaper”. There is no magic stick that will make everything for you… you need to do something sometimes instead of just blindly waiting that computer will do everything for you.
Hi all!
Well, I have not tried with another mouse, as I do not have one… But I feel somewhat more at ease as long as I think of it as a hardware problem.
BUT, problems never end. I am sorry if you get tired of me. On startup I never seem to get a netconnection. It turns out svchost.exe takes 95+ of my resources, and it will never end. I also have 4 svchost.exe processes running simultaneously… (only one using the CPU). I did a restore point to a place I know was OK, but still it is there. I can terminate the svchost.exe process that swamp my resources, and finally I am back on the net. What is this, and how can I stop it fromrunning at boot?
Never ever terminate svchost.exe !!! It represents all the services running in your computer. You can always type this:
tasklist -svc
in the command prompt to get a list of services running on your machine.
Why is SVCHOST using 99% of my CPU? Chances are you have a virus. Several viruses manifest as problems with SVCHOST -- typically it either faults, or eats CPU time as in this question. It's proving a challenge for everyone to repair, while most anti-virus programs can detect the viruses, not all are doing the job to clean it up. Reader comments following the article svchost.exe has generated an error - now what do I do? have been particularly helpful in guiding many folks to a resolution.
So, go to Housecall online scanner and scan your computer ASAP… just to be sure. Also, your weird problems with mouse pointer… If I were you, I would go to Housecall right away…
Housecall did find a worm immedialtely: worm-agobot-2. It is still running…(Housecall that is). But I am a little dissapointed that neither Avast, A-squared or Spybot found this.
Right now it has added 4 viruses, all non-removable. The ‘funny’ thing is that 3 of these reside in the HOSTS file. How is that possible, as they are merely text files? (Infected with DOS AGOBOT.GEN).
As for the tasklist command, It was not recognised as a internal command…
Housecall did find a worm immedialtely: worm-agobot-2. It is still running..(Housecall that is). But I am a little dissapointed that neither Avast, A-squared or Spybot found this.
Well, that is another story, you should ask guys from Alwil, 'cause I’m not the competent to give an answer.
As for the tasklist command, It was not recognised as a internal command...
What version of Windows you have ?
Don’t type it in RUN command, open your DOS window instead (Command Propt) and type it in there. I’m not sure is this suppose to work on Windows 98/ME… see my attchment to see results…
Tasklist.exe should be in Windows/System32 subfolder, but you don’t have to type full path in command prompt. If you take a look at my screenshot again, you’ll see that I was in documents folder while I was typing tasklist command… it doesn’t really matter…
Oh, sorry I just read that you have Windows XP Home Edition… tasklist comes in Windows Professional edition only… sorry again…
Read everything that is written on that page, and also, you’ll find a link where you can download tasklist.exe. Just place it in your Windows/System32 subfolder and you are ready to use tasklist.exe command… just like you have Win Professional edition.
But I feel somewhat more at ease as long as I think of it as a hardware problem.