Recent content by Nirvana1979

I had a particular file named vietcong.exe, and whenever I opened I browsed a folder that contained this file, my hard drive would run for 4 minutes. I ran several virus scan programs on it but it didn't return any results. So I was finally able to delete it and I haven't had that problem...

I have Pc-cillin 2002, and it put about 4 GIGABYTES of data files(an example vss9afuf.001, which is 300 MB) on my hard drive. I'm assuming these are binary virus definition files, but do I really need ALL of them? Four gigs just seems ridiculas to me. Another problem, EVERY DAY pc-cillins...

Update you're computer programs? Some developers release patches; all you have to do is go to their website and download/install them.

I've found Nvidia's drivers crash a lot with DirectX games. The only solution I could find is using microsofts drivers....but then I can't play my open gl games!

If you game, don't even consider getting a pci card! AGP is so much faster.

I have windows xp pro and a geforce2 ti video card. When I use the latest video driver provided by microsoft all my games work beautifully, except games that were programmed using OPENGL(mostly 3d shooting games like half-life and jedi knight) in fact, these games won't even LOAD because...

Can you get a virus or trojan through instant messaging programs WITHOUT clicking or downloading anything? A few days ago, I was on yahoo chat, and a guy said he was going to fry my hard-drive(with one of those "loader" programs people use in chat rooms or IM's. I didn't believe that he could...

The network graph is merely displaying how much data is being transfered over your network medium as a percentage of your total bandwith capability(or the capability of your actual cable). I for example have a cat5 cable for my broadband internet, so the networking software reads my bandwith as...

When I run netstat -a, I get about a dozen readings of java-script-of-unknown origin.netscape.com listening on my local ports.. Does anyone have any idea what this is?? Thanks.

I am trying to open a c# project file named WebApplication1. I am able to open .aspx files and any other file individually with visual studio, but I cannot open up project files. The exact error messages is Unable to open webapplication1, the filepath c:\inetpub\wwwroot\webapplication1 does...

I'm having a very frustrating problem with visual studio.net. I have a webappliction project in my wwwroot directory, but when I try to open it I get the error c:\localhost\webapplication1 does not map to inetpub\wwwroot. My IIS is working and everything, and I can load html documents...

Whenever I try to create a new project in visual studio.net, I get an error that says, in essense, localhost/webapplication1 does not map to inetpub/wwwroot. I do have IIS up and running, but no matter what I do, I can't get a new web project to open!! Can anyone give me some guidance...

Actually the answer to your question is quite simple. Windows XP comes with an automatic re-boot "error handling system" that's a big pain in the butt. Theoretically it's supposed to re-boot your system instead of throwing one of those blue screen errrors. You can turn this auto-reboot...

Your hard drive might be thrasing, meaning you need more RAM. When programs run out of main memory, windows uses the hard drive as virtual memory and swaps stuff in and out. This could be the case with your computer.

I have the same problem with my surfboard modem from time to time, but not as often as you. My network "connection" would always crash every other time I left a game room at zone.com. It would also crash periodically when my dad used Kazaa. Like yours, all the lights are on and I still have...