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Excellent. Thankyou!

I ununstalled it instead. Re-installed it later on.

It works now, thanks for the help.!

I'm on IE, and I've just been wondering, it's really annoying for me to scroll down when I can't be bothered to type the URL, is it possible to get rid of that box that comes down with lots of recent sites?

I know you can do it on FF but I'm not allowed to download it.

Go to Control Panel - Internet Options, and click something...along the lines of Clear History. It should clear then.

Open Internet Explorer
Goto Tools - Options
Content Tab
Auto Complete - Clear Forms will remove the previously typed web pages in the address bar

I have a question. I'm very non-technical and get confused really easily. I also don't want to do something that'll asplode my computer!

I was on Newegg last night searching for power supplies (I need a new one) and found a help/faq page with some links. One was for something called DriverDetective.

What this seems to do is search your computer, then you get a report on what drivers need updating. There is an option to have this find and get the drivers, but it costs $29.99. I have uninstalled this, as I'm not sure if it's really legit.

According to the scan/report, I need to update drivers on:

Logitech mouse (which is p&p, no software with it),

Display Adapter - hercules Kyro based 3D Prophet 4500,

IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller: VIA Bus Master IDE Controller

Universal Serial Bus Controller:
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Constroller
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal-host companion controller

Vinyl AC'97 Codec Combo Driver (WDM)
VIA USB Enhanced Host Controller

My Realtek RTL8139 Ethernet

My dial up modem

and my Visioneer scanner.

Now, I went to My Computer, Hardware, then the Device thing ... where the driver info is and clicked to update driver. The wizard found nothing that needed updating.

But I am having some problems with things like animations (making it kind of laggy/jerky) and some of my shockwave/flash games are running jerky or shutting my computer down. So maybe I do need drivers.

I went to the AMD athlon site (I have a Gigabyte mobo and AMD athlon XP 1800+), but I have no idea what they're talking about as to which driver I would need for the VIA Bus stuff. With the Universal Serial Bus Controller VIA stuff I have no idea what that even is!

Is there a good, known, stable and trustworthy utility I can get (even if I have to pay for it) that can/will scan my computer, find what drivers need to be updated and do that for me?

Thanks.

You don't update the driver that way, unless you have a new driver installed. (updating it from Microsoft sucks).

http://www.logitech.com for your mouse (Not really needed though, if it works fine now, just let it be)

http://www.powervr.com for your graphic driver.

Drivers for your motherboard: http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?Pa ... CatID=1070

Soundcard: http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?Pa ... CatID=1010

Although I don't think any of this has anything to do with your stuttering. And don't trust that kind of program, just after yer money

Hi Ibis

Thank you! I told you I was technically challenged. Everything confuses me.

I did have the strong suspicion about paying for something like that to get updated drivers.

I went to the viaarena and got the motherboard VIA-Hyperion 4in1 v456 driver update, installed it, rebooted and all seems well. I wasn't sure which one, the Hyperion or the regular 4in1 to get actually. My VIA chipset is apparently an Apollo KT333 (whatever that means). I figure that would be the place to start - if there's something wanting updating that would be the big one.

I went to powervr, and there is a new driver, but it's a beta. I never, ever get a beta version of anything. I've bookmarked the page and will check back for my Prophet 4500 display adapter.

Thank you again so very much!

There won't probably be any newer driver developed for your graphic card, PowerVR have all but given up on the desktop market :/ Although I don't think there is any risk with using the beta drivers, but if you haven't got a problem with the current one, stay with them, unless they are REALLY old (The ones that came with the card etc).

I have a little problem. My brother walked into the cd drive while it was open, so now it is off the track and stuck. Is there anyway to get it back on the track and working again?

Edit: Nevermind, I fixed it.

I was trying to find out if my net was working again, I had cancelled it and kept resetting the modem but it wouldn't work. I thought it might be b/c my connection on my lingo box and router was iffy and I had the wires in the wrong place. Anyhow, since I was going to work and wouldn't have time to fix the wires I decided to connect the cable connection directly to my laptop. Now, I did this and the net still was not working, I forgot to unplug and left my computer connected with no firewall or anything but avast running on it.

When I came home, I saw my computer had a little box from "microsoft messenger" it might have just been called "messenger" it was like those window prompts. It read something about "a virus has been detected fix the register" I can't recall exaclty and when I tried clicking the x to close it, it wouldn't close, it would prompt a similar message but and then had some like website on the second prompt http://www.register...somethihng I can't recall. I kept clicking the X and nothing, so I clicked OK and nothing...kept prompting the same thing until I had to restart the computer.

The only thing I could think of was that the internet connection started working while I was at work and someone hacked in and sent me a virus or something b/c I was unprotected...or the virus was that annoying window prompt that wouldn't go away. I assume it was just the annoying pop up window thing b/c avast would have had some warning if it was a virus it knew...and I can't imagine microsoft would make a messenger warning that just won't go away.

Has anyone heard of this? Should I be worried? My computer is working like usual, and I now have the router connected and that has a firewall so I should be okay, but I don't know if someone is still out there with my stuff

Nah, it's nothing, just spam sent with an internal messaging service. Has nothing to do with MSN Messenger or Windows Messenger. You can turn it off with "net stop messenger" in the Run Dialogue, or disable it fully in Computer Management -> Services and the Messenger Service.

We are running Firefox, with McAfee and Zonealarm for firewalls/virus protection/whatever. My sister recently updated Zonealarm, and now sometimes we can't connect to the internet. It just says "finding host blah blah" then "cannot find host blah blah". Then 10 minutes later it works again.

If we have some active pages open, they don't get affected and still work properly, but any new sites won't load.

I don't think this is happening with IE, but I'm not positive. I do know it affects our email (through Outlook express).

Any ideas what's wrong?

my guess based on expirience is that the mcfeee program and zone alarm dont play nice with each other - they are both competing to do the same thing. Mcfee has a firewall, windows xp has a firewall, and zone alarm - to many - computer gets confused

Fizzy, right now I have mcafee a/v and zonealarm pro. The za update, unless there's been another one in the last 2 months has done a number on alot of peoples' computers.

I had gotten the pop up that there was an update and was ready to do so. But I went to the za forum first. So many problems!

I haven't been back to read the forum for awhile now, I've basically decided to not get the update. Apparently, it's not "just" an update, but really an uninstall older version/install new one.

At this point I'm just waiting for my mcafee and za subscriptions to run out (paid for) and just going to go with the ezarmour firewall and av offered by roadrunner.