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Hey guys. monkey_05_06 made me check this out and write something, so... I will try.
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The conductor raises his baton. I can see out of the corner of my eye shiny brass awaiting the downbeat. Oh look-- he has paused to babble, much to my annoyance. We secretly threaten him with death. We get the cue to play again and are actually able to start.

Symphonic Band makes me bitter.
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The end.

[edited for name un-capitalization  :]

Perfect, thanks!

@SSH: Loved the song heh.

@All: I ended up re-installing XP.... but thanks for everything.

Woo... umm I havent been around to get back to this cause for the longest time it wouldn't display the page. For some reason it is now. When I type in "youtube.com" it sticks a little 'tw' in, from Taiwan indeed as has been mentioned, so the result is http://tw.youtube.com/...

Does it in Firefox too.

More computer grievances, but not nearly as serious as the other one. I'm on Youtube, but for whatever reason a lot of the characters are showing up as those little rectangular boxes instead of normal letters.

For example, on youtube's startpage: All the links at the top-right are messed up, login box excluding the word 'Google', and most of the titles on the list on the left. Anyone know the cause of this? Does anyone else get the same thing?

Funny how so many threads are on computer problems now...

Thanks for any answers

the sound went when I was getting rid of some tasks. I know I helped screw it up.

I don't think it much matters now, the computer's home (and I'm here home with it), and I didn't bring a monitor home (as per my dad's instructions) so I can't really work on it... I think he's just going to go for the re-install, unfortunately. Unless somehow he lets me set it up and try with the instructions from InC.

I've been 'well-trained' to stay away from downloading toolbars and smileys and the like, so that's not the cause of all this. I'm quite certain I know what I did....

Wow.. thanks for all the advice here, you guys. This has been great.

I must be fast here as I have hijacked roomies comp and she doesnt know it (as opposed to hijacking with permission...). I was careful to take note of the recommended programs, I'll doublecheck what it is I have. I already had S+D from last time (thought I'd update, if possible), I don't know how I couldve possibly ended up with something else.

Thanks for the new suggestions

Thanks for these suggestions! I'll try them right now. Uhh... probably a dumb question, but will doing this restore my sound and ability to connect to the internet?

Edit:

encountering a few problems running sypwarebot and adaware... spyware bot is asking me to register so that it can clean selected infections, but the site that it brings up is 'unavailable at the moment'. As for ad-aware, it won't let me re-install the latest version without uninstalling the previous version, but it won't let me uninstall the previous version I have in the first place "installer service could not be accessed. ....or if it's not correctly installed". What now?

Edit 2: I figured out the problem wiht the spywarebot, but as a poor university student I don't want to pay. Heck, I don't want to pay anyway. Is there another way to remove files?

I knew about the Microsoft vs Apple thing. Oh well, she'll have to decide what she wants to change it to if she wants an update so badly I guess. Thanks.

it's a thought, but she had msn working for her so far, I guess I'm wondering why it won't work so easily now.

So.. since my compy's not being to happy right now, I borrowed a friends laptop. She wants me to update her msn messenger (so that the webcam will be compatible), but when I try to run the .exe file, it says I need to choose a program to open it with. I am completely unfamiliar with mac, so I have no idea what to do with it.

Anyone have suggestions for me?

Safemode... system restore.. sounds like great ideas, but I don't know how to do that either (miez I see your post now. press f8 during startup to get to safemode? can I get to system restore from there?). I've borrowed (I'm hesitant to say 'hijacked' considering the circumstances) a different friend's computer this time, so hopefully I can get this mess sorted out before I have to return it.

I had considered reformatting the only option, I forgot about those other two. (sorry if I'm repeating myself or I'm not making sense.. I'm not thinking well at all.)

Well thanks for the help anyway :S

Hmmm I thought I had it figured out, but I think I killed it... I was going through task manager deleting stuff (I really didn't know what I was deleting, but it worked just fine for me last time...), when I got a message saying that a critical process had been terminated without warning and the computer would shut down in a minute. I figured it would restart normally (as was mentioned in I think InCreator's post), but nooo it didn't. I can't remember exactly what it said when it was restarted, but the effect now is that my 'sound device' won't work, and I have no internet connection. Oh, and it doesn't even look like an XP anymore, the start menu and taskbar have gone back to Win98 style (the option to change it back isn't there on the properties menu)... Gah! Looks like I'll be taking my compy home over the Christmas break...

(Thanks for all your help, LF!)

P.S. I'm using my next-room neighbour's laptop.. :\

Well I'll follow the instructions.. I don't think I have much choice either way, do I?

Edit: YES!!!!! It worked! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!! I have my task manager back!

Now to get rid of most of those 44 processes :|

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NSIS Error
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The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete.
This could be the result of a damaged disk, a failed download or a virus.

You may want to contact the author of this installer to obtain a new copy.

It may be possible to skip this check using the /NCRC command line switch
(NOT RECOMMENDED).
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OK   
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^ result of download. Also, none of my other downloads seem to work either. Not stupid downloads either, like Adobe updates

Didn't work. I got the same message 

And I am the only account on this computer

Hey guys.. sorry to dig this up again, but I think I've screwed compy here up worse. Today I awoke to find 27 internet pages (accursed pop-ups!) that had apparently sprung up in the night. When I tried Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up Task Manager so I could get rid of them all, it came back with "Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator." which can't be right.

Anyone know how to re-enable it? What I ended up doing last time to fix the problem (and the incessant freezing that was also happening, if I forgot to mention it) was going through Task Manager and deleting stuff I didn't recognize. Oh yes, and InCreator, I just tried your method too.

Thanks again... 

Well. A kamikaze rabbit sitting in a shark-faced missile thingy is quite strange, right ? I guess I'm not off-topic...

OT I know (I also know I do that a lot), but the 'shark-faced missile thingy' looks a lot like a Bullet Bill from SMBW... did you do that on purpose?

Thanks, guys!

sylvr: why did you change your nick? Just wondering?

Erhm... felt like it? Don't know really. Guess I just wanted a change. Why, is it bad?