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AVG is bloated and slows PCs up. Avira is the best but has very slow updates MSE is very good light on resources and has a Spyware resident sheild as well. Avast is on par with MSE. Please do some research before stating something is rubbish when its not. There nothing wrong with windows...

You can download it from the internet. If you're after it functionality there are loads of better programs such as Winpatrol, Starter, Autoruns etc, to name a few.

Ok microsoft have something for this http://download.live.com/familysafety and theres this as well http://www.parentalcontrolbar.org/. If you're technically minded: https://www.opendns.com/ which imho is the better. Ditch AVG its rubbish go for either Avira or Microsoft Security Essentials...

Heres a few that might help http://www.boozet.org/dd.htm Double Driver which also backs up you drivers as well. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/driverview.html Driver view does what is says.

As far as I'm aware Virgin medias security is a rebadge kaspersky, my flat mate uses it its rather good and shes had no problems. I personally use windows firwall and security essentials and have had no problems.

Try http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/ which has realtime protection for spyware and viruses has good scan reviews and intergrates very well with windows. Turn on windows firewall and you are covered. Remember if your uninstalling antivirus programs to use their removal tools to...

Right click on the driver with the yellow triangle, then click uninstall and wait for it to do its thing. Then restart your computer.

Have you ran its self cleaning? Epison will always recommend their own ink thats where they make their money.

Did you try winsockxpfix? Did any of the virus/spyware scan pick up anything? Oh and are you sure its SP2 of XP you're using, if yes update to SP3.

Its really simple, I normally recommend Ubuntu but Mint comes with all the propriety software you'll need. You just download the .iso file and burn it to a CD. The reason why it'll rule out a hardware fault is simply because it runs from the cd without using any software installed on the...

Totaly agree, but its not recommended that you take a heatsink off then put it back on without removing and applying new thermal paste. Mainly because of the reasons you've pointed out.

Before doing anything drastic try the linux option it'll confirm whether its a hardware or software issue. How old is the laptop.

Always worth downloading, running and posting the log of a HiJackThis scan as well. Though if you do dont do anything else until advised.

I used to have a duff MB thats integrated nic never showed up until the computer was warm. Sounds like a hardware issue if its like this. One way to confirm this for sure, burn a livecd of linux (mint is a good option) boot the computer up with this and if the sound aint working its def not...

Isn't a more uniform heat transfer providing better heat transfer??? I personally wouldn't risk it, but then its not my computer.

Sometimes they do, windows is good like that.

I wouldn't use it till then, you might be safe for a while but thats a real good way of borking your rig up!

When you say took it out I hope when you put it back in you put new thermal grease on the cpu!!!!! :!:

I've come across connection problems like that that were malware caused by either being infected by them of having removed them. After that I always check specific applications which is why I asked about the browser, then resetting the winsock and tcp/ip sack completely rules out the computer...

I've been using vista since sp1 and its fine as long as you can run it. Much better than xp. I'm upgrading to 7 soon as its meant to be less resource hungry. If I had a computer that couldn't run vista I'd plum for linux over xp everytime.