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Old 05 January 2004, 04:29 PM
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I recently ran Disk defrag on my lap top
since then it has been running very slow & has been bring up an error message (virtual memory low)
is there a simple solution ?

ALSO running Windows 2000 & there is something in it which keeps changing my homepage ! where do I find the details to delete it changing it ! I change it in Internet tools but it keeps changing it back !

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Paul
Old 05 January 2004, 04:34 PM
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You need to edit the following key in the registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Old 05 January 2004, 06:08 PM
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SOunds to me as if you have some spy ware installed on your machine.

What is the homepage it changes too?

DOwnload a copy of AdAware from www.download.com and get rid!

David
Old 05 January 2004, 06:22 PM
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thanks for the info guys just downloading that software now
as altering the registry scared the life out of me !

anyone know whats causing my first problem
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Old 05 January 2004, 08:01 PM
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totally confused now installed that software & still does the same thing
it always redirects internet explorer to

http://www.coolsearch.com
Old 05 January 2004, 08:16 PM
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Have a look at this :


http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
Old 05 January 2004, 08:17 PM
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Download this tool

http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe
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