You didn't boot up in safe mode and run your antivirus and anti spyware
programs from there. Therefore, you didn't do everything.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Bill" <bigbill52@yuckawin.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.06.08.03.06.00@yuckawin.com...[color=blue]
> On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:59:32 -0400, Jimmy Brush wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Bill wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> My customer has had Vista for three months. He called me. Vista is in
>>> an endless loop. The Windows Explorer fails repeatedly and restarts.
>>> If you are lucky, the loop will last long enough to see that one of the
>>> anti virus programs has identified a virus. It was too stupid to
>>> prevent the virus from infecting the system. With a great deal of
>>> effort, I was able to run msconfig from the task manager, but to no
>>> avail. Windows explorer continues to fail repeatedly. I tried
>>> restoring to an earlier date. This attempt also failed. The restore
>>> function is broken and the shadow is not working correctly. It may
>>> have been broken by the virus, for all I know. I tried restoring the
>>> system using F11, but the customer had ignorantly formatted the restore
>>> partition (Compaq). There is no restore cdroms. He didn't get any and
>>> he didn't make any. At this point, he can order the restore disks from
>>> Compaq,
>>> and
>>> he can use his computer in the meanwhile with an installation of
>>> PCLINUXOS.
>>> I may tell him to try out Linux before ordering the disks.
>>>
>>> A number of my customers have shown a great deal of excitement, when
>>> they first see the Linux desktop. They find the gui easier to use than
>>> Windows. Of course, I spend a little time setting it up for them.
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> A friend of mine just had the same problem - he was tricked into
>> installing a virus while he was browsing myspace.
>>
>> System restore worked perfectly for him.
>>
>> All the security in the world won't protect you from yourself,
>> regardless of OS.[/color]
>
> As you can see from my post, I had tried all the options. Nothing
> worked. Right now I am downloading loads of programs and games for my
> customer. The only problem that I have experienced so far...was locating
> the drivers for his wifi. The device was clearly identified in the
> control center, so I could look for a specific device (Dell 1390 wlan).
> I downloaded the driver from Dell (although it was a Compaq), used Ark to
> extract the files, and then used ndiswrapper to install it to Linux. It
> worked immediately and asked if the wireless network detected was
> correct. I used the resources for finding the driver from Sourceforce.
> I have spent as much time in the past looking for and installing a driver
> for Windows XP. The rest of the drivers for this brand new Compaq were
> built-in except for the Video Drivers which were installed with one click
> in Synaptic. I have noticed a big speed increase when using Linux over
> XP or Vista. Programs load fast.
>
> It took over two hours last night to install Windows XP from Hp restore
> DVD-Roms on another new computer (hard drive died). It took another 30
> minutes to remove the craplets. It took 30 minutes to install PCLINUXOS
> and another 30 minutes to find and install the Wifi drivers. The rest of
> the time is spent downloading and installing lots of free and useful
> programs. You do not have to reboot, sometimes you have to log in and
> out. You can always use your computer, while installing programs...It is
> up to the customer. He will either like Linux and continue using it, or
> he will spend the money for the restore disks from Compaq, but in the
> meanwhile, he will be able to use his computer without fear of viruses or
> spyware.
>
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