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RSBandD have recently made changes to the signature which puts it over the sig size limit for these forums. When they change it back to being below 30k the block will likely be removed. Actually, we are being Mass Punished because too many people are using the larger RSBandB sigs and not using the ones that fit within Tipit Guidelines. Pretty silly if you ask me...the last time I was mass punished was when i was in Basic Training for the US Army, and the time before that I was in grade school. This irritates me a bit because I used *very* good judgement when I chose my sig. Now to have to use a work around to show it, well, lets just say im not pleased :roll:

My recent favorite has been Third Day. They are very good, have a sort of nickelbackish sound and dont make the music too preachy. If you like the grungy alternative seattle-band style, pick up a Grammatrain CD. Pretty good stuff, soundgardeny.

I think you misunderstand. This problem is only happening to him when he is running RS. RS is a huge memory hog and if you have tons of other junk running at the same time, your just asking for trouble. Jaklumen, my advise to you is to look at each of the processes that run from the boot, and decide if it is something you need all the time (obviously firewall and active spyware and virus protection are needed). if its any of the other junk, you most likely dont need it running at all times. For a list of programs that load on boot go to: Start > Run... > type regedit > click ok > HKey_Local_Machine > Software > Microsoft > Windows > Current Version > Run and Start > Run... > type regedit > click ok > HKey_Current_User > Software > Microsoft > Windows > Current Version > Run Be sure about what you are deleting from these locations, but as a general rule, the only things that I load on boot with my systems is FW/AV/Spyware and Trillian. Anything else is not really needed. Also using Cntrl+Alt+Del and clicking the processes tab gives you a list of processes that are currently running on your box. Once again, be sure of what you are looking at and deleting (Google helps a lot), but once you have identified what each process is, you can use this tool to kill some proccesses that are not needed at the time. I use it often to free up memory on big tasks. I hope this helps.

i'll look at the HJT log later when ive had some sleep, but after talking to jaklumen in IRC, it really seems to me that the problem stems from him loading so many processes from the boot (41 i think). I think it needs to be trimmed down quite a bit to fit the amount of RAM he has. Anyone have any other ideas that my tired eyes didnt see? /me kicks Norton for being such a memory hog...

additionally, there is a folder called System Volume Informationin the root folder of your C:\ drive. This contains all of the restore points for your computer and can get VERY VERY large (I have seen some in excess of 15 GB). IT is hidden so, if you cant see it you need to go to the tools menu > folder options > view tab > select the "view all filles and folders" redio button , uncheck the "hide protected operating system files (recommended)" box and uncheck the "use simple file sharing(recommended)" box. Next, go back to the root folder in wondows explorer, right click on the system volume information folder and select "sharing and security". In the window that pops up, select the "security" tab and add your user name to the permissions list with full control permissions. Click ok. Now, open up the folder and delete as much as possible from the folder. Usually it will not allow you to delete everything, but if you select all > delete, when the error message pops up the first file in the list is the one it will not delete. Skip that one and continue, until you have as much deleted from the folder as possible. This can be a huge hog of space on your HDD.

Dude... he doesn't know how to move a folder, I wouldn't recomend him bothering to try this :roll: So you would rather have her picking through registry hacks where she most definitely has a chance of screwing up her machine to where nothing is recoverable...lovely. Carry on then. Windows installs are set up in a way that just about anyone can do them with a little guidance. If it is a new computer, the provider most likely has a pretty super simple instruction set that is targetted at beginners. I mean, for christs sakes, its been 11 days already and no one has offered a credible piece of advice to him yet about what he needs to do and how he needs to do it, and the bottom line is, going through the registry hacks needed to clean up this machine is something I take care at doing and I have been doing this for almost 17 years now. Yes draven, I mean reformatting your system. its not hard...get out the recovery instructions that came with your computer, burn all your personal stuff to a cd if you cant stand to lose it. Plop in your recovery disks and have at it. Its a fairly simple process and you shouldnt run into many problems. If you do, contact the customer support for the company that made your computer. The help desk personnel are paid to help you . Utilize them. This will give you a fresh install that is certain to be free of any viruses, spyware or keyloggers. Once you have it installed, you really need to get firewall and antivirus software if you dont already have it and spyware software. Spybot, Ad-aware, and MS Antispyware are all free and work pretty well. If you dont have a firewall, there are several available, but remember that you get what you pay for. Sometimes free doesnt necessarily mean good, and on the flip side, sometimes expensive doesnt necessarily mean best. The internet security suite that I use and have had great success with is bsecure from bsafe.com. It runs about 70 USD a year, which for the security of your computer, really isnt that expensive. Hijackthis logs and all that neat stuff are nice, but if you are not at least an intermediate level computer user, you wont have any idea what to do with it, and the turn around time in here has been horrid in your case. Utilize your customer support, they are there at the touch of a button. And you never know, you just might learn something :wink:

ah, the beauty of ghosting :) my advice? You have an updated copy of win XP, so it is most likely legal. This means to me that you most likely have a newer machine, probably with a cd burner. Take all your personal files (i.e pics, music, documents....no programs) and burn them to CD. Then use the recovery disks that came with your computer to do a fresh install of everything. The ruls of thumb in the IT industry is: If it takes you longer to fix the system than it would to do a fresh install or a re-image, then do the fresh install or re-image. For me that is about 20 minutes. So if i have to work on something longer than 20 minutes, I just re-image. Too easy. Now some poeple are more stubborn than that, but the bottom line is you should wipe your machine at least twice a year anyway, just for GP (general purpose). As long as you have a good back-up method, this is too easy.