I think ZA high setting is only available to subscribers to ZA Pro.
First easy step is to go to 'My Computer', right click Main Drive (Probably C) & click properties, then do disk clean up & remove everything not wanted.
Also, in 'Internet properties' (Control Panel) you can select the drive to clean out the temporary Internet files every time you shut down (In 'Advanced' tab).
Sounds like too much junk being stored, rather than a virus.
I will leave the tech stuff to others more competent.

I'm trying RUBotted.exe for a while just to see what happens, though nothing found as yet. Although I would have thought, that my other housekeeping stuff would have done this program's job.

It's supposed to show up the fact your machine has been grabbed by one of them robot thingies - the ones that go out on to the Internet , grab someone's computer and then use it to send out spam.

I use CCleaner for cleaning out crap and can recommend it. It's so very thorough and so very easy to use.

Fired up the comp last night-svghost.exe prog error.
" " " " this AM -cannot initialise AVG kernel intreface.
mac

May be unrelated, but friend of mine downloaded AVG 8.0 recently (as he was running 7.0 which expired) & download corrupted his existing AVG & IE. Had to format & start again having tried to remove & reload AVG & IE. Then downloaded AVG 8.0, which is running o.k. so far.

If you are wanting a 'safe source' (if there is such a thing?) for your downloads:

http://filehippo.com/

There are also other features and facilities at this site.

Tried using RUBotted, but keeps saying internet speed too slow.
Checked on two sites and both came up with 3900k and 355k,
so nothing wrong with speed.
Somthing straaang going on.
mac

Some good advice here, so as to help minimise PC problems:

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=13250

Anybody else finding problems with Firefox lately? Mine opens my google home page fine but then is very slow or fails to open a window at all but if I close the browser the PC thinks firefox is still running and I have to restart.
I bet a microsoft update has scewed firefox :-(

I have a corrupted Excel 2000 XLS file. Anyone know of a free utility that can fix it? Any tips that can help?

Thanks.

Here's a Free one called

RegCure

However, there is a downside to it:

From http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080610195440AAuZIim

"RegCure is scamware made by Paretologic, the same company that makes Xoftspy. RegCure will claim to find registry errors on a fresh-from-the-box machine, and then you have to buy the product for it to fix what it claimed to find."

I suggest you go to the 'Answers.Yahoo.com' link above and read a bit more on what might happen and how to fix it after you've used some of these so-called Free 'sort out a corrupted XL File' programs.

If you want to spend some money, then have a look at a more reputable 'costs money' program, such as 'Kernel - XLS File Recovery Software'. If you like the look of this, then you might need to shop around for the best and cheapest place to buy it.

Life ain't easy, is it? :-)

Do you have Detect and Repair off the Help menu in your version of Excel?

I called in an IT techie today for a PC problem - he fixed it in minutes and told me it was a users 'id ten t' problem...

Only grasped what was meant when I wrote it in capitals... ID10T ... litle smart arse :(

Thanks for the help guys. I actually managed to fix the problem. Used my good ol' trustworthy Spinrite (hard disk maintenance and repair utility). It's never let me down. Phew!

Time to fire off that long overdue backup! :-)

Struggling with my new PDA phone. I have an O2 Orbit and have run Active synch 4.2 with this phone. I now have an Orbit 2 and am wanting to transfer the contacts to the new phone. To do this I had to install Active Synch 4.5 on the same machine. When I try to synch the contacts, the contacts option on the Orbit 2 is greyed out. I can't understand - running Outlook 2007 on the PC.

I did install the trial version of Pocket Informant on the old Orbit, but not the new one - but I would have thought that wouldn't matter - the information should transfer easily shouldn't it?

Edit, done a reboot of the PC and all seems to be sorted now. Bloomin' Microsoft - they don't make it easy!

Double edit - have got the contacts from Outlook but none of the phone nos from my old phone. Struggling here - I can't find any reference in the software to transferring this sort of info.

Where is all this fing Spy Ware coming from, I just keep having to clean my PC every few hours now and more and more Spyware pops up, I am using ZoneAlarm Internet Suite and Norton Internet Secruity,

I use Adaware Pro for cleaning spyware but it can take 12 hours sometime and this is on smart scan

I use both virus checkers and again this takes hours and hours to check PC recently had AVG Free and AVAST running in the background

Need fast and relaible spyware killer and firewall virus etc any suggestion???

Richgit

You could try Microsoft Windows Defender.

I've recently added some indicators to my charting software which seem to be quite memory hungry. As a result, the software now seems to take a fair bit longer to load and, shortly after loading, I get a yellow warning triangle to say that my Virtual Memory is too low and that Windows is increasing it.

I guess I need to buy some more RAM to whizz things up again, but is there anything that I should do to my settings in the meantime or should I just sit with it and leave it to Windows to sort out?

One of my favourite AntiSpyware programs is SuperAntiSpyware Free Edition.

In fact it's the one I mostly use and I find I now rarely bother with Spybot Search & Destroy or Ad-Aware because when I do, having used SASpyFE, they don't find a single thing.

Before I use SASpyFE for a sweep, I always use CCleaner to clean out all the crap. With CCleaner it takes just seconds to analyse and find the crap and then seconds again to delete it.

If you want to find out exactly what is actually running on our machine and whether it is SAFE or UNSAFE to have on our computer then there is a link from the control panel on SuperAntiSpyware to File Research Center.com to enable you to do a sweep. The subsequent report can also be printed out and referred to so that if you do find anything by way of some hazardous program or weird facility, it can be deleted.

Hilary

Although Windows insists that you use some virtual memory, you should make sure that you have enough RAM so that you don't need to use it. Easiest supplier that I have found is Crucial.

In the meantime, you can improve the way that VM works.

Go into the virtual memory settings, and set the maximum VM to zero or the smallest that it will allow.

Reboot the computer and defragment the disk.

Set the VM min and max settings to the same figure which should be approx 3 times your installed RAM.

These steps will ensure that you have a permanent fixed size VM swap file that is hopefully in a continuous piece of disk. Therefore Windows will not have to waste time changing the size and access should be quicker.

You could also try to reduce the amount of memory that you are using be closing some of the processes in your system tray.

ok and excel question. If a cell drops below a certain value say 4 then post a piece of text in another cell saying "Warning below 4"

Thanks in anticipation

M