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Well what version of Windows are you currently running and what version is on the CD? Please try to provide more information in your inital posts to cut out all these questions and answers back and forth.

Remove all the following entries: O2 - BHO: (no name) - {132F98C9-58EA-17A2-F65E-263ECFE9E6DC} - C:\DOCUME~1\ELAINE~1\APPLIC~1\SUPPOR~1\Up online[Caution: ExecutableFile] (file missing) O2 - BHO: Viewpoint Toolbar BHO - {A7327C09-B521-4EDB-8509-7D2660C9EC98} - C:\Program Files\Viewpoint\Viewpoint Toolbar\ViewBarBHO.dll O3 - Toolbar: Viewpoint Toolbar - {F8AD5AA5-D966-4667-9DAF-2561D68B2012} - C:\Program Files\Viewpoint\Viewpoint Toolbar\ViewBar.dll O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [surfAccuracy] C:\Program Files\SurfAccuracy\SAcc[Caution: ExecutableFile] O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Microsoft Windows System] srwhost[Caution: ExecutableFile] O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Obj Test Size Enc] C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ref wave obj test\deletelies[Caution: ExecutableFile] O4 - HKLM\..\RunServices: [Microsoft Windows System] srwhost[Caution: ExecutableFile] O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [road draw] C:\DOCUME~1\{A}DRIAN\APPLIC~1\FORDER~1\DVD OPTION START[Caution: ExecutableFile] O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [srshost[Caution: ExecutableFile]] C:\WINDOWS\system32\srshost[Caution: ExecutableFile] O4 - Global Startup: GStartup.lnk = C:\Program Files\Common Files\GMT\GMT[Caution: ExecutableFile] O4 - Global Startup: PowerPanel.lnk = ? O8 - Extra context menu item: &Viewpoint Search - res://C:\Program Files\Viewpoint\Viewpoint Toolbar\ViewBar.dll/CXTSEARCH.HTML O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\MSMSGS[Caution: ExecutableFile] (file missing) O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\MSMSGS[Caution: ExecutableFile] (file missing) O16 - DPF: {1D6711C8-7154-40BB-8380-3DEA45B69CBF} (Web P2P Installer) - O16 - DPF: {3FE16C08-D6A7-4133-84FC-D5BFB4F7D886} (WebGameLoader Class) - http://www.reflexive.net/rlwweb/Reflexi ... Loader.cab O16 - DPF: {7C559105-9ECF-42B8-B3F7-832E75EDD959} - http://www.tbcode.com/ist/softwares/v4. ... egular.cab O16 - DPF: {87056D28-9730-4A47-B9F9-7E890B62C58A} (WildfireActiveXHost Class) - http://www.arcadetown.com/swf/tumblebugs/axhost.cab O16 - DPF: {9FC5238F-12C4-454F-B1B5-74599A21DE47} (Webshots Photo Uploader) - http://community.webshots.com/html/WSPhotoUploader.CAB O16 - DPF: {D54160C3-DB7B-4534-9B65-190EE4A9C7F7} (SproutLauncherCtrl Class) - http://www.arcadetown.com/feedingfrenzy ... uncher.cab O21 - SSODL: seclogon - {E5F27771-4997-86C5-DCA7-1DFF1CD0F62F} - C:\WINDOWS\help\reader.hlp Restart your computer after making these changes, then follow on below. You are only running Service Pack 1. You need to update to Service Pack 2 before doing anything else. UNINSTALL your antivirus application then please run Windows Update and get Service Pack 2 aswell as all the critical patches. After you have updated Windows, restart your computer then reinstall your Antivirus software, and make sure you run an update on it. Run a full scan with your antivirus software then post a new HiJackThis log. [/i]

Is it a System Restore CD or an actual copy of Windows XP?

Basically what you need to do is a reformat of your harddrive and reinstallation of Windows. By the sounds of it you haven't done this before. Do you know someone that could help you do this? Check the Stickies for some guides for reformating your computer.

Could you please post a HiJackThis log? You might have some nasties messing with your IE. That version looks fine to me. http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html

If you don't recognise the URL in this entry then you can safely remove it. O14 - IERESET.INF: START_PAGE_URL=http://www.startpagina.nl Then you can remove this entry: O2 - BHO: HomepageBHO - {1ca480cd-c0e5-4548-874e-b85b17905b3a} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\hpCF4F.tmp Everything else in your log looks fine.

ps3guy1 is just seeking attention. I would suggest no one reply to this thread again. Don't give him the satisfaction.

Yup. *hopes for a better trading system in their next game* *Put's on auto-follow-block* Stop following me around you little nuisance board troll! :lol: I plan to be a massive addicted geek on Jagex's next game :D You wanna be my friend on it Duke!????

If for some reason you buy an Intel processor I wouldn't buy anything under 3Ghz, just for future performance expectations. Also I agree with what most people are saying above that 2gb RAM is very overkill. Most businesses don't even run that much RAM on their server's, our MSSQL server at work only has 1.5gb RAM in it. From what I've read and been reccommended, 64bit AMD processors are they way to go at the moment, along with some nice fast RAM and a decent graphics card. Can pick all these up for decent prices. Don't have to go out and spend 2K+ for a decent desktop. And monitor, I would suggest at least a 19in LCD, they are well priced nowadays. Also if you suspect you might be watch movies on this new computer alot a widescreen 22-30in LCD wouldn't go astray if you have a little extra to pay. Widescreen monitors are AWESOME.

I'm going to guess you are using Internet Explorer. What you could try is removing all Runescape files and reinstalling your Java Virtual Machine from scratch. Try the following steps. Uninstall your Java runtime from Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. Delete the folder C:\Windows\.file_system_32\ from your computer. Restart your computer then go to http://www.java.com and download the latest Java Runtime (JVM). Let me know how Runescape goes after this.

One line says WINDOWS and the other WINNT. Look in your c: drive and see which of the two folders exists, either C:\Windows or C:\WINNT. Delete the entry in the autoexec.bat file that isn't on your c: drive. Also how big is your computer's harddrive? Below 2gb is quite low. Do you have alot of files on your computer? Games, Movies, Mp3's etc.

I don't see any nasties in your HiJackThis log. But I noticed you do have way too many things running on startup. It would be best to keep the amount of applications that run on startup down or your computer will not perform as best as it could. Open up Start Menu > Run. Type msconfig and press Enter. Go to the Startup tab and it lists your startup items. You have some HP and McAfee items set to startup, as well as I can see Nero, iTunes, MS Anti-spyware, Java updater and Quicktime files. Are they all neccessary? From my understanding McAfee already starts up the Antivirus protection services on startup and the ones you have listed are part of their online scanning (Not sure how they work this, I don't have McAfee). I normally have absolutely nothing running on startup for my computer at work and at home. I'm pretty sure those applications that startup for McAfee etc aren't part of the actual virus protection. There are services running for that. They are probably just for the console and updaters. I'm seeing no indication of this SpyAxe in your log, doesn't look too bad.

I don't think he is getting any such NT authority system shutdown error.

Yet it's ok to pay Runescape money for forum image signatures? Hello Original Poster. Could you please show us a HiJackThis log? This will help us quickly determine if you have any nasties running on your computer before trying to do other things.

Is this the only world has these issues?

Jagex have plans to release a brand new game. They won't do a major update to Runescape like RS1 > RS2 until this is well and truely done.

In which case it would look different from the example I gave so he should post it as I requested.

When you reformat your computer or do a plain reinstall of Windows sometimes the old autoboot (autoexec) information isn't removed, I can't remember why this happens. But here is the fix for it. Right click your My Computer icon on your desktop (or in your Start Menu) and select Properties from the dropdown menu. On the window that opens select the Advanced tab then click the Settings button under Startup and Recovery. Then click the Edit button at the top. This will open up your autoexec.bat file in your default text editor (probably Notepad). This file will probably look something like this: What you need to do is remove the second line under the [operating systems] heading. So you are only left with one multi(0)disk(0) etc line. It might look something like this before and after. If for some reason the contents of your autoexec.bat file are nothing like what I have shown above or if you are completely confused by what I have said then could you please post the contents of your autoexec.bat file. I can then tell you exactly how it needs to be altered.

Windows XP doesn't do this by default, it just restarts the computer if Windows encounter's an error it cannot recover from. To tell Windows to dump the memory (and display information in a blue screen) you need to follow these steps. Right click your My Computer icon on your desktop (or in your Start Menu) and select Properties from the dropdown menu. On the window that opens select the Advanced tab then click the Settings button under Startup and Recovery. Then untick the Automatically restart checkbox and select Complete memory dump from the button dropdown menu. This is shown in the image below. Click Ok then restart your computer. You can then report to us information found in the blue screen Stop error message. Any information relating to files (might be a .dll or [Caution: ExecutableFile] file) would be helpful in finding out what the cause is.

What is the future of RuneScape? Jagex has statement for quite a number of years that they plan to release a brand new game. This new game would obviously be their flag ship game. So what is to become of RuneScape? We can expect to see a brand new game from Jagex within 5 years, as they grow and grow as a company and obtain the resources to do so. At the moment I feel RuneScape is still held back because of direct hand Andrew Gower has on the game coding. I believe he does all the coding himself if not has the last say in what happens. I direct you to Jagex's corporate website. Ok the reason I state "without 5 years" is because Jagex is really still a small and not very effective games developer. They can't keep deadlines and the fact that they had ambitions to move RuneScape into the non-english language market and begin development of a completely new game (both which I have seen no evidence of) shows that they haven't got their timeline of the company completely worked out right yet. Now that RuneScape is one of the top 5 played games in the online multiplayer world I can see a couple of things happening. Someone buys out Jagex and trys to market the RuneScape style game into a brand new game. Jagex do indeed develop a brand new MMORPG and release it in the next 5 years. Probably a game that is still run through, *gasp*, a Java applet. Or perhaps Jagex will release RuneScape as something like RS3 with again a major step between releases (like RSC was to RS2). Personally I hope it is the latter, with greater improvements to the gameplay of the current game, to keep the same audience but invite new players from other gaming styles into have a look :) What are your thoughts?

Have you done this yet then tried reloading Runescape?

My only concern is that alot of the raw material prices are controled by their High alch price. Yew logs aren't magically at 300gp as one example. I can't see some raw materials changing much at all without a change to their High alch GP return.

Hm, big mistake in your reasoning here IMO though, especially for someone who says 'rares are nothing'... It's only relative when we compare the richness as Buying Power In Rares. Hypothetically: someone who could afford 50mil worth of rares in 2001, would have had 1bil gp now, because rares went up by 20 times in that time. Like you already gave away yourself too, the person's Buying Power in any non-rare item, rocketed in the meanwhile. There's nothing relative about that - the person actually became 20 times as rich as back in 2001. Doesn't the fact that all big name merchants only deal in rares these days, make you realise that the rares market is much bigger then you may think? The total value of the rares market is going in the 100's of billions... I'm sure you realise what the consequences of that are: other items will have to make up for the 'gone' item worth, while the total gp stayed the same. Prices can't stay constant while at the same time billions upon billions of pure gp are introduced. The worth of gp's deflates due to all this pure money production, so other things have to inflate. If you take away the only items inflating in the current situation, rares, other items will have to take over the rares' role of inflation-correction. The only items suitable for that are materials. True - they will not be rising at the same rate as rares currently do, but it will definately be noticeable that they rise in price. Mornin' Duke. Yes. I did not word that sentence completely correct. Of course the player is now 20 times richer. What I was meaning is compared to the amount of money in the game the player still had a similar proportion. People with 1 billion gp now are considered very rich while people with 50 million gp in 2001 would have been regarded at the same level. You are completely correct about the the inflation. I've always wondered how the inflation would effect raw materials if there weren't Rares to waste your GP on. But what you have to consider is there are people out there with pure GP only, who are billionaires. These people are still paying the normal price for materials. I just see Runescape working different than real life scenario's if there weren't Rares involved to counter the inflation. The way I see it is there is still the same amount of GP around the game and the supply and demand of raw materials is always at the same level. If for some reason Rare's disappeared alot of players would lose billions of GP in value. Not in actual wealth, but value. Now you have a whole lot of players with billion's of GP and even more players with very very little money. I don't see how this would mean the price of raw materials would change drastically. Sure you might see more people trying to buy Coal 200gp each, or buying Shark for a little more than usual. The demand for the items would still be the same and the supply if anything would go up, not down. Because Rare's don't effect the inflation of money into the game not alot would be effected if they were gone. In arguement to your 100's of billion GP market of Rare's in the game. I remind you of my point earlier. Those Rare's don't atually have any wealth for a player, they are just a worthless item that add's wealth to their account. The amount of money in the game does not change so not everyone can sell all their Rare's and only have GP at a time. If Rare's didn't exist like I said, alot of players would have very little GP. The players that did have alot of GP would just continue to play as they normally do, they don't overpay for raw materials, they can just afford more of them. I think the value of Rarer armor and weapons would go up if Rare's didn't exist, because as you stated, players have to spend their money on something. And with the flaws in the High Level Alchemy spell and lack of money drains in the game there will always be billions and billions more GP coming into the game. The amount of new players probably doesn't cater for this. The supply of raw materials would still remain the same, only changing if the gameplay is altered, which has been normal throughout Runescape's history. The demand for these items I believe would not change much either. I have always been a true believer that half the reason the price in Rare's rise is because they are infact rare. People that lose their Rare through a ban or another reason may want to get them back after time. Not everyone that has Rare's buys them just to merchant them and profit. Alot of the Rare's that are sold are to players that just want a Rare and have no intention of selling it. Which takes more Rare's off the market, leaving less in Rare's to be traded and therefore harder to find many of them, rising the price. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the amount of GP in the game isn't effected by Rare's. The party hat duping on RS1 was a good example of what might happen if Rare's didn't exist. When Party Hat's where duped alot of wealth in player's accounts was lost, but however there was no change to the GP in the game. Raw material prices didn't care about this. Then people went and bought more Rare's with what money they had (remember there were still a smaller amount of Rare's in the game after the duping as there were around a year prior). Therefore less money was spent on the Rare's that were still in the game. What did players do with the extra GP that was left over after the dupe? Nothing? How could so much wealth be lost from the game but the actual GP that hadn't changed not effected anything else? I'll tell you why, because Rare's have no major impact on the Runescape economy and therefore if they were no longer around the price of raw materials would not alter drastically. If Jagex changed the High Level Alchemy GP returns you would see a significant more drastic economy change than if Rare's disappeared :)

Some boards on these forums do not add a post count to your total. I think the marketplace boards function like that. I'm not sure of any others.

You really aren't being much help lately for a "Tech Head" You are more than welcome to have the title from me Chris, I didn't ask for it.