OMG Windows sucks! Windows SUCKS!!!

[slave]

SO ya know... I thought I'd install Windows XP because I wanted to play Morrowind since it doesn't work on wine yet and all.  Anyway, I was replying to a post here and suddenly the computer rebooted for no reason, and it's been doing this every 30 minutes or so ever since.  I think I have a virus or something, I was usin' kazaa earlier.  ERRGH.  Now all my phoenix bookmarks are screwed up for some reason and I can't even add new ones.

SO MUCH FO' THAT LEGENDARY STABILITY

[slave]

I downloaded norton and scanned my hard drive, no viruses.  I guess it's all windows's fault.

[Ice-9]

Try the pc-cillin on-line scanner from Trend-Micro.
Back in the days when I was still using Windows it discovered a virus on my drive which Norton and McAffee did not find.

After searching for a while it seemed that both Norton and McAffee did not scan for polymorph virusses.
Since then they probably adapted this but it says enough about their scanners imo.

[Faust]

I had the same problem...
Random reboots every couple of minutes followed by the mother of all corrupted boot.ini's...
Come to think of it I was using Kazaa just before that too...
Guess it serves me right for using such a virus weak OS and such a shoddy, spyware laden file share client.      

edit : btw morrowind gets pretty dull after a while... even if you up the walk speed past "crawl."

[ April 06, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]

[bling]

quote: OMG Windows sucks! Windows SUCKS!!!

[CaptainCool]

Heh, It's funny how Microsoft keeps saying how stable XP is but for some reason they have to hide the Blue Screen of Death by having it auto restart.  :rolleyes:

[devlkore]

No, they like the bluescreen, but they can't even get that to show up !


I actually had a program a few years back that let you customise loads of things in windows, including the bluescreen of death colour scheme, so mine was red with black text.

[mattymanx]

The bit about XP rebooting all the time is common.  I can't remember alot of details but there are some tweak programs that will fix it for you.  TweakXP is free and really good:

http://www.totalidea.de/tweakxpdown.shtml

[Lord C]

quote:Originally posted by devlkore:
No, they like the bluescreen, but they can't even get that to show up !


I actually had a program a few years back that let you customise loads of things in windows, including the bluescreen of death colour scheme, so mine was red with black text.

ROFL, straight up?
I actually thought the BSOD was something M$ couldnt find in their source, a bug so to speak? Although M$ source is also another word for BUG. lolz

[mushrooomprince]

Gee i have never heard anything about this "automated rebooting" before

So they just got rid of the bluescreen and made it reboot ?


Sounds about right.


Thanks Bill !

[theangelofdeath69]

No, it doesn't.  You should see the Blue screen for roughly 1/4 of a second.  Yes, it auto reboots after that.

It is possible that a core windows file has been corrupted, and therefore windows will fail and reboot.

By the way, try VMWare

[ShawnD1]

quote:Originally posted by CaptainCool:
Heh, It's funny how Microsoft keeps saying how stable XP is but for some reason they have to hide the Blue Screen of Death by having it auto restart.   :rolleyes:  

the sad thing is that you're right. my computer will go blue for 1 second or so then reboot. i can just make out the words "memory error in" then a long hex number.