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I thought I removed the adware just fine using your help. Then my computer started to randomly restart. At first like once a day, but then upwards of 3 or 4 times a day. I think, but am not positive, that it was hard drive read errors.
Then one time it restarted and windows booted to the blue screen of death (I couldn't access actual windows in regular or safe mode) giving a C0000218 error message saying it couldn't load the hive file. I looked this up online and basically my only recourse I could find that worked was to reinstall XP. I reformatted my HD and installed XP. No more blue screen of death on startup but my computer still randomly restarts.
I was trying to get the system updates for XP and had problems with that. It downloaded the files, but then when it went to install from the location where it had downloaded the files to it gave an error message saying it couldn't find the files.
Now to make things even more annoying/worse whenever I right click while using internet explorer, IE crashes and I get a window to send error report to microsoft.
Do you think the adware somehow caused this? Do I need to replace my hard drive? Any help/insight would be very much appreciated. You guys are great.
Thanks a lot,
Tad
I thought I removed the adware just fine using your help. Then my computer started to randomly restart. At first like once a day, but then upwards of 3 or 4 times a day. I think, but am not positive, that it was hard drive read errors.
Then one time it restarted and windows booted to the blue screen of death (I couldn't access actual windows in regular or safe mode) giving a C0000218 error message saying it couldn't load the hive file. I looked this up online and basically my only recourse I could find that worked was to reinstall XP. I reformatted my HD and installed XP. No more blue screen of death on startup but my computer still randomly restarts.
I was trying to get the system updates for XP and had problems with that. It downloaded the files, but then when it went to install from the location where it had downloaded the files to it gave an error message saying it couldn't find the files.
Now to make things even more annoying/worse whenever I right click while using internet explorer, IE crashes and I get a window to send error report to microsoft.
Do you think the adware somehow caused this? Do I need to replace my hard drive? Any help/insight would be very much appreciated. You guys are great.
Thanks a lot,
Tad