just about to give up

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Hi again
If anyone at all has any suggestion on what might help me please let me
know, ive been sent to one site to another and still no one either bothers to
help me or just has no idea.

I had the about:blank and i ran every single program that every person told
me from ad aware to spybot destroy to cwshredder and then i ran the programs
to fix my internet connection if this virus had harmed it.
The about:blank killed my norton therefore i dont have norton a nymore, it
killed me connecting to any servers (in which i couldnt update anything) it
also killed my web pages.
I managed to be able to fix it to the point of being able to connect to
servers but i can not load NOT ONE WEB PAGE. All i get time after time after
time (enough to make me go completely insane) is the "this page can not be
displayed" error no matter what i try to look at.
I can not search my computer (to ensure my hosts are correct) because my
search engine (start~search) does not work (along with many things but i will
fix them later i hope.

Im honestly at the stage of just giving up and throwin gmy computer away 2
damn weeks i have tried to fix this - yes i have had progress very very slow
progress
ppl keep telling me to scan this or scan that but i cant see a webpage to
download anything all i can do is download to disc from work (where i am now)
and install it that way and not everything works that way!!
Ive also been told to search my computer for this or that but my search
engine has decided to kick the bucket

any help or another forum that might be able to help me would be appreciated
in sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many ways

thanks guys!!

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Hello Aussie,
I do not want to confuse you any farther nor do I want to butt in where
others are helping.
Unless I miss my guess, it sounds like you don't have much left to
back -up.
Do you have your windows XP CD? Or does your system have any factory
restore CD's. ? If you have your XP CD you are half way home. Put your CD in
the drive and be prepared to boot from CD. ie, you will see a prompt to hit
any key to boot from the CD. After this you should be able to follow the
steps to perform a clean install. It is really pretty simple just follow the
directions. If you have a factory restore CD it will do most if not all the
work for you and the machine will be back to the way it left the factiory.
You will have to reinstall any programs you added after you bought nthe
system.
It sounds like your search was hijacked and although it is too late
now the first thing you should have been told to download was hijack-this.
best ofluck to you.
Ron J







" wrote:

> Sometimes when things are impossible to fix - It's time for a clean install
> of XP. You will have to backup any important data before doing the clean
> install. Also make sure you have all the drivers needed for Video, Sound,
> Motherboard etc.
>
>
> "The Aussie Girl" <TheAussieGirl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:06AC231A-9745-4A69-9273-A10EC324185A@microsoft.com...
> > Hi again
> > If anyone at all has any suggestion on what might help me please let me
> > know, ive been sent to one site to another and still no one either bothers
> > to
> > help me or just has no idea.
> >
> > I had the about:blank and i ran every single program that every person
> > told
> > me from ad aware to spybot destroy to cwshredder and then i ran the
> > programs
> > to fix my internet connection if this virus had harmed it.
> > The about:blank killed my norton therefore i dont have norton a nymore, it
> > killed me connecting to any servers (in which i couldnt update anything)
> > it
> > also killed my web pages.
> > I managed to be able to fix it to the point of being able to connect to
> > servers but i can not load NOT ONE WEB PAGE. All i get time after time
> > after
> > time (enough to make me go completely insane) is the "this page can not be
> > displayed" error no matter what i try to look at.
> > I can not search my computer (to ensure my hosts are correct) because my
> > search engine (start~search) does not work (along with many things but i
> > will
> > fix them later i hope.
> >
> > Im honestly at the stage of just giving up and throwin gmy computer away 2
> > damn weeks i have tried to fix this - yes i have had progress very very
> > slow
> > progress
> > ppl keep telling me to scan this or scan that but i cant see a webpage to
> > download anything all i can do is download to disc from work (where i am
> > now)
> > and install it that way and not everything works that way!!
> > Ive also been told to search my computer for this or that but my search
> > engine has decided to kick the bucket
> >
> > any help or another forum that might be able to help me would be
> > appreciated
> > in sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many ways
> >
> > thanks guys!!
>
>
>

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Hello Aussie ,
OK. Where to start? First af all relax, your computer is not going to
die. You just need to stop deleting everything. If your CD will not boot,
and if you have only the Up-grade version of XP (do you have the full version
?) or do you have a factory restore CD or CD's. Telling you to do a repair
install is no good if you don't know how or what to repair. You need to
reinstall or restore back to factory settings.
We need to get that CD to boot. Do you know how to enable "Auto Play" on a
CD drive? It is worth trying. If not post back and we can take it from
there. Some computers do not support starting from a CD. Do you know if yours
does? This is why I always recomend getting the Full Version to home users.
Ron J not ronk Ron J
No wonder you are confused.... Hang tough we will get it!

"The Aussie Girl" wrote:

> Hey Ronk
> You cant confuse someone that has already lost it hee hee thank you very
> much for your time and effort.
>
> I have the xp pro disc that i only recently upgraded from xp home about a
> month ago. Is that what your talking about?????
>
> i did run hijackthis and deleted all the messed up files but hey i think my
> computer is about to die (although its only a year old)
>
> anyway when i put the cd in and restart my computer im not prompted to do
> anything it just goes to the windows professional window then to the log in
> window
> am i confusing???
>
> please help if your still around as
>
> "RonK" wrote:
>
> > Sometimes when things are impossible to fix - It's time for a clean install
> > of XP. You will have to backup any important data before doing the clean
> > install. Also make sure you have all the drivers needed for Video, Sound,
> > Motherboard etc.
> >
> >
> > "The Aussie Girl" <TheAussieGirl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:06AC231A-9745-4A69-9273-A10EC324185A@microsoft.com...
> > > Hi again
> > > If anyone at all has any suggestion on what might help me please let me
> > > know, ive been sent to one site to another and still no one either bothers
> > > to
> > > help me or just has no idea.
> > >
> > > I had the about:blank and i ran every single program that every person
> > > told
> > > me from ad aware to spybot destroy to cwshredder and then i ran the
> > > programs
> > > to fix my internet connection if this virus had harmed it.
> > > The about:blank killed my norton therefore i dont have norton a nymore, it
> > > killed me connecting to any servers (in which i couldnt update anything)
> > > it
> > > also killed my web pages.
> > > I managed to be able to fix it to the point of being able to connect to
> > > servers but i can not load NOT ONE WEB PAGE. All i get time after time
> > > after
> > > time (enough to make me go completely insane) is the "this page can not be
> > > displayed" error no matter what i try to look at.
> > > I can not search my computer (to ensure my hosts are correct) because my
> > > search engine (start~search) does not work (along with many things but i
> > > will
> > > fix them later i hope.
> > >
> > > Im honestly at the stage of just giving up and throwin gmy computer away 2
> > > damn weeks i have tried to fix this - yes i have had progress very very
> > > slow
> > > progress
> > > ppl keep telling me to scan this or scan that but i cant see a webpage to
> > > download anything all i can do is download to disc from work (where i am
> > > now)
> > > and install it that way and not everything works that way!!
> > > Ive also been told to search my computer for this or that but my search
> > > engine has decided to kick the bucket
> > >
> > > any help or another forum that might be able to help me would be
> > > appreciated
> > > in sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many ways
> > >
> > > thanks guys!!
> >
> >
> >