Well if you could either transcribe the whole message or post a photo of it, that would help a bit, although it may be simpler to just mount your HDD into an external casing, copy what you want to save onto another computer, then reformat and start with a fresh install.

>>111

This. Windows is notorious for killing itself slowly for little to no reason coughregisteryerrorscough, so it's actually a bit recommended to reinstall windows about every 6 months.

What I do is install and set up all your programs, drivers, games and the like, then image your newly installed system and store the image somewhere else, preferably with multiple copies to ensure that your optical medium doesn't become corrupted from sitting on a shelf for a few years. Then, when it comes time to reinstall everything, back up your saves and documents onto something else (or better yet, build a symbolic link in your My Documents folder that directs to an external HDD). Then, when you re-image your HDD, you'll have everything already installed and set up, then you only really need to move over your documents and the like.

If you've purchased a new game during those 6 months, re-image your HDD with the old image, then install the new games over again and make a new, updated image of your system before restoring your document backup.

Oh yes, and considering that none of us on IRC know what the fuck zfnnrfamf7.sys is for, and nor does google, yahoo nor bing (plus, no one with XP SP3 has it on their system on IRC either), it's safe to say that you should probably do a virus check on your backed up documents when you plug the old HDD in from an external case.

I recommend this as starting in safe mode and doing a virus check rarely seems to work these days, considering they tend to infect other system files, leave thousands upon thousands of entries in the registry to prevent their removal, and those entries help keep the virus in tact by redownloading or recovering said deleted virus.

Do you want to nuke the site from orbit, Aliens?
Do you want to have a massive land war, a la Vietnam?

Worse comes to worse on the getting a new HDD and installing then running a virus scan on the old HDD is that everything may be infected and you will have to nuke everything from orbit all your files are lost. However, it rarely is ever that bad. The scanning from a seperate operating system ensures that things aren't being masked by your own, and removing such viruses this way tends to keep spreading down. However, I wouldn't try running that old HDD again after using this method as chances are it may pop up again on the old HDD.

Just random thoughts.

>>112
>reinstall windows about every 6 months.

Are you kidding? I'm lucky if my Windows installs last a month, heavy tweaking or not.

solution my dad and i (mostly my dad) came up with was to reformat and partition so i have one with Windows and one with Linux. kinda start weening me off of Windows. more than likely, it was some virus that caused the whole problem but wiping and reinstalling fixed it enough to work on it. thanks, i will more than likely start backing up with image files soon.

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