First, I just want to let you know, I don't know that much about computers, so I'd love all the help I can get.

My MAIN Problem:

I had lots of viruses on my computer recently and my dad wiped my whole C drive "clean." It's hapened before, but now certain sites won't view properly. When I went to a site yesterday, everything was in a list, there was a whole bunch of red Xs, there was no color, and the loading was extremely slow. (I have high-speed internet, so I know something's messed up.) It was even slower than dial-up. It took about a minute to load a new page, sometimes more. I don't know what to do, we tried enabling a whole bunch of stuff, including Java Script, but still nothing works. I really need help.

My other problem:

My screen sometimes goes yellow-ish or stays that way. It looks like you're looking through a yellow sun visor. It's more annoying than harmful. I've had this problem for a while. I haven't told my dad yet. Any ideas?

UPDATE: My dad got on his computer and tried to go to the website. It wouldn't load either, but then tried to go to his website, and that wouldn't load properly. His website was working before he went to the one I'm trying to get to. On mine, I think the same thing happened, because my dad's website won't load right.

Also, my dad's computer somehow installed a Yahoo! toolbar when he didn't even want it to. He just opened his browser and there it was. AND we just found out the CSS isn't working.

Yahoo Toolbar is installed by Adobe Macromedia Flash Player unless you stop it. That maybe that issue. He should be able to remove it from Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.

Are these two computers networked together? Sharing the same ISP connection?

When you say he wiped your C: drive did he do a Clean Install of XP? If so did he add SP2?

Did you reload all your drivers? Sounds like you need your Graphics drivers and maybe your Network card drivers. Perhaps all your motherboard drivers.

Originally Posted by jephree

Yahoo Toolbar is installed by Adobe Macromedia Flash Player unless you stop it. That maybe that issue. He should be able to remove it from Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.

Are these two computers networked together? Sharing the same ISP connection?

When you say he wiped your C: drive did he do a Clean Install of XP? If so did he add SP2?

Did you reload all your drivers? Sounds like you need your Graphics drivers and maybe your Network card drivers. Perhaps all your motherboard drivers.

Thanks. Sorry for the late reply. We got figured out. It was the firewall not allowing us to view the site. But thanks a lot.

Thanks for the update and the thanks!

Let us know if we can help further in the future!




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