Thanks Niki, I downloaded the bazooka spyware programme (even though I have ad aware!) and foillowed all the steps, but its still happening. It probably is caused by 'adult' material, its a new (to me) PC and the woman I bought it from hadn't cleared ANYTHING out. All I can say is that I'm glad I didn't plug it in and let my kids on it! And it had 6 virus' too. She obviously didn't have a clue how to care for a PC. Less than me, even! I think I sorted most of the things out, but this error message has me beat.

I have searched everywhere and still can't find what it is. :o((

I've narrowed mine down a bit, it belongs to a 'my MP3' and 'my downloads' folders. If I double click on them, it tells me there is no such folder, but if I remove them it stops other things working!

well, something is crashing, you just need to find out the name of the executable. Monitor the task manager, see what processes are in the memory.

What's in your HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry?

Where can I find that???

That is your registry Gooner. Be very very careful playing with files in there. If you arent sure what you are doing get a tech to look in to it. I and many others I know have gone in to the registry to fix things and crashed the machine to the point of no return.. it isnt a place on the machine to be messing with if you dont know what yer doing.. just a lil note there!

To see what is running at comptuer startup, I use THIS SOFTWARE - StartUpRun - It's free, and shows you what is starting up (From registry, Start menu, etc...)

Rose I agree with you. I messed with my registry and did not have a computer for 1 month. It had to go to the doctors LOL

Yuep! I found out the hard way that the registry is nothing to be played with if you have never bene in it afor!

LOL... it only cost me over 100.00 to find ithat out LOL

lucky for me my hubby is a tech so he came to the rescue!

Does he have any suggestions for Pat??? Pat is pretty smart...although I am bias as well :OD lol

Thanks to all of you for the advice.

BBW! I see the files that are causing the errors after downloading the program in your link. Would you recommend I disable them and try to restart windows???

your windows are not waterproof?

Trust you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL

ughaibu: since you already gave it water, add an aspirin. maybe that'll help

SHUT THE WINDOW!! LOL

(looks up autophagia in dictionary.com)

hmmm, seems to be a weird habit no matter what language I use

almost as if I was having stewed rabbit for dinner :)

Thanks everyone for your help, it's sorted now.

:o)

Does anybody have any experience with Voice-over-IP companies like Vonage or Lingo?

an english version is also available here ...
- the hardcoded windows-limitation, to 10 tcp/ip connections
(as it is in servicepack 2) cAn be patched to 50, p2p users will appreciate :) ~*~

can anybody tell me if this is a reasonable connection speed please because i dont understand it fully .

Your Connection is currently:
732.90 kbps
which equates to 91.61 Kb/s

how do you define "reasonable"? I think it's a fast connection. People have 3mb/sec and 5mb/sec, but if all you do is just browse the web and play brainking that's more then enough.

I have one gmail invitation. Anybody?

I'm really surprised that it is not open to the public yet. I figured it would be public when they released their stocks or what not.

BBW, so what do you think of gmail? are you sticking with it after all?

I've always liked my gmail account. I'm not going to use it as my main account, but I will continue to use for something - just not sure exactly what.

Will someone please explain what Gmail is?

gmail.com - email offered by google.com

first company to offer 1Gb of space

P.S. I don't have any invites any more.

Does anybody know an easy [and preferrably freeware] tool for automated image processing? For example, I have 100 or 200 images of different sizes and I need to scale them to 70% of their original size.

has batch processing - automatic numbering too, not ? ~*~

If you have Photshop7 you can do it in there really easily. There is a batch processor built in

I have only Photoshop 5 and although it has a batch processor as well, I couldn't find a way how to set it up for the task I need. The "image size" function has no percentages, only exact dimensions to change to.

percentage, proportional or one side preset ~*~

And I actually had used the ReaGif, but it looks like they also have a ReaJpeg - even though they both look to do the same. (But ReaGif is what I actually used.)

Thanks, I'll try it :-)

I like ACDSee, but not the latest version, i like 5.0

ok, i got more invites from gmail. Message me your email address if you want to get one.

Fencer: Use Photoshop or ask LIQUID ;-) for help. ;-)

Uh uh, that's what I've been thinking about :-D

I also have a couple gmail invites if anyone is interested

Outliik Express on a Macintosh, that is - system 9.1. Any applications that can stop it, I am getting about 50 spams a day, now, almost ALL about the same thing, and I'm sure most people know what THAT is!