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Kwiksta
Joined: Jul 17, 2004
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great job your doing here cycovision 
sent my pc to pc world, and sent it back without doing a thing, saying that its not thier job to repair the annoyings but to check for annoyings....
the main problem im facing, is in the 'my computer' folder, (i have a vaio) which reads compact flash, smartmedia and memory stick, but a few months back, the memory stick icon was replaced with 'removable disk' it didnt bother me that much that the name and icon ahd changed, but whenever i insert a memory stick, the files are listed under compact flash 
any help?
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Cycovision
Joined: Nov 30, 2003
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From: England
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@tempsonyfreak
The only things I can think of are:
1. Did you install anything just before the icon changed, like a sync suite update or similar?
2. Try right clicking on the 'removable disk' and exploring through all of the properties tabs for it. You might see something in there that you can change to get it back to normal and working properly.
3. Get the latest drivers for the card reader from the Vaio site. Even though XP supports card readers natively, Sony do provide their own drivers for their built in card readers if I remember correctly (or is it Advent?  )
@Max
Yeah, you should be able to install it again without problems but I would recommend downloading a fresh copy from the limewire site, just in case.
Then, have a look at this to show you how to stop limewires more annoying side!
http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/ResNet/P2P/limewire.html
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slattery69
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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From: north east england
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alternativly have a look at some of the alteratives ie bit comet a good free program spyware free.
also if you dont have its check out peer guardian 2 from www.phoenixlabs.org as a nice run alongside your p2p program |
max99
Joined: Nov 24, 2004
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From: Manchester (@ Uni)
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Cheers cyco 
and slattery
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BlueQuill
Joined: Jul 29, 2005
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From: India
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My PC has become a sloth.
So slow, so slow, so slow that it seems dead.
this is the configuration that I am using -
Microsoft Windows XP version 2002 Service Pack 1
HP Compaq dx6100
Intel P4 CPU 3.0GHz 120 MB RAM
It ws working ok till a couple of days ago,,its become very very slow now....
please help before i break it !!
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dude_se
Joined: Dec 16, 2004
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From: Evesham, UK
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such a powerful pc and only 120mb of ram???? i would of said 128mb minimum for xp. get some more ram and just do the general bits and bobs like disk cleaner and defrag
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BlueQuill
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have done both defrag and disk cleanup , but no use....
i mean just till a couple of days ago, my pc was my heaven..and now..its hell...worse than that...
something wrong with the registry??
pls help me..otherwise i may go mad soon
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dude_se
Joined: Dec 16, 2004
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installed anything new? oh make sure you do virus, spyware checks etc....
the registry cant go wrong for no reason
if your pc has been fully cleaned of all the crap and stuff then post here again
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BlueQuill
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I have limewire and webshots installed on my pc.
My Norton Anti Virus is upto date and have done a complete check of my system. Also did a disk clean up and defragmentation.
The specific nature of my problem is as follows-
When I double click any icon (for eg. say My Documents) the entire computer freezes for anthing between a few seconds to a minute or so...even opening files causes this to happen.
simple apps like MS WORD etc take atleast a couple of mts to open and during these couple of mts the pc turns into a zombie !!
Similarly editing any thing anywhere causes that to happen......
My PC is clean of any virus...
What could be the problem??
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dude_se
Joined: Dec 16, 2004
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From: Evesham, UK
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i would say the 120mb of ram. maybe your pc cannot cope anymore. i deffinately ass win xp machines should have atleast 256mb of ram. well mine has 192 but im upgrading soon. limewire shouldnt casue a problem but norton can be a bygger eating up your ram. try avg free and and another firewall. norton is the worst for eating up all your memory so with that amount of ram i would ditch it.
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BlueQuill
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Ok....thx for ur adivse...
any good firewall u suggest??
Also one favor...if u have the AVG free can u gmail it??
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dude_se
Joined: Dec 16, 2004
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just go on google and type in avg free. i can email it if you want though. zone alarm is ok. i dont really know a lot about firewalls. its just a google thing really.
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BlueQuill
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An e-mail would be great....pm'ing you my id.
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Cycovision
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AVG Antivirus: http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/
I agree that you definately need more memory, but what worries me a little is that the slowdown occurs when you try to open a folder or application. That's often indicative of errors on the hard drive. chkdisk sometimes (although very rarely!) helps, but if I were you I'd be backing all of my stuff up just in case.
Hopefully, it'll just be down to Norton and / or spyware but bear in mind that it could well be your hard drive 
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BlueQuill
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@cycovision
what could have possibly caused any error on my hard drive?? Anyway I can find out if its ok or not?? And if there is any error, any way to fix it??
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Posted: 2005-10-26 18:31
