Recent content by shiphen

>> Can anyone else here at least understand how this might be irritating? > Definitely and i feel your pain, I'm just not sure where to go next.. Apologies. Dear Microsoft, Are you listening to your customers? J

Kemical Thanks. No, it's as simple as clicking on something, anything that you DON'T want to see and then clicking on what you DO want to see. But WTF? Why the extras step? Why should I ever have to click on something that I DON'T want to see, just to see what I DO want to see? It's a small...

Apologies I genuinely misunderstood about the "NOY" thing. Yes as far as I can see, it is nothing to do with applications "closing" as such instead and, as discussed, it's all about what has focus and what is being minimised. My central point stands however, which is that if you have 2...

OK so how do I stop Windows from doing "NOY close" (whatever that is) on something that is already active?

I have probably explained it badly. In simple terms, ff you click on the same thing twice windows takes you somewhere different the SECOND time you click on an application. Yes exactly! Apparently, this is the way Windows has always worked. i.e. In your example if I keep clicking it takes...

Hello One long-standing feature of Windows really, REALLY p*sses me off. All I want it that when I click on an icon on the taskbar, I want to be taken to that application. Every time. With no exceptions. However, it seems that in Windows, the SECOND time you click on any application, it takes...

Btw, before running (/re-running) the above scans that you list, what do I need to turn off? e.g. On my other (WinXP) computer I am currently running "BitDefender Internet Security", which seems to do about a million different things at once...

HI Mike Sounds like good advice. Is your advice the same for my Windows XP laptop? J

OK I have now scanned one of the the external 1GB HDs wit BitDefender. It took about 2 days to run, and if found about 500 threats - mostly in archived Outlook PST files. So I have simply deleted all my .PST archives. Any other suggestions about what I should scan with?

So... now what? If I am to scan my 2 external drives, with what should I do the scan(s)?

Now you need to scan you external drive.... A) I'd rather make completely sure my Win7 and WinXP devices are clean first. B) With what utilities should I be scanning it and in what order? e.g. With my newly installed antivirus software BitDefends? (trial version)

> When the screen goes blank does CTRL+ALT+DEL bring up the option to run Task Manager? No > Do you have a recovery disk? I dont think so, although I did do a backup on to my external hard drive. Meanwhile I persisted WITHOUT using safe mode, and I think everything is good. SpyHunter 4 is no...

I have a problem. If I run in safe mode, I think that the screen saver kicks in - at least the screen goes blank - and then it stays blank. Perhaps the PC is over heating. Perhaps it's a virus. HELP!

Now what?

OK I have (finally) managed to get AdwCleaner to run. Here are the logs: # AdwCleaner v2.306 - Logfile created 08/01/2013 at 16:13:12 # Updated 19/07/2013 by Xplode # Operating system : Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (64 bits) # User : Alec - ALEC09 # Boot Mode : Normal # Running from ...