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Posted by Blue. on Aug-19-2003 03:55:

XP Is Fucked

Every so often for no apparant reason my computer will pop up a windows message saying that my computer will shutoff in 60 seconds. Why is this happening and what can I do about it? I'm not experiencing any other weird behaviour and it comes on without warning, what can I do?

Posted by Keith on Aug-19-2003 03:58:

Click Here

Posted by Blue. on Aug-19-2003 04:01:

quote:
Originally posted by Keith
Click Here

Thanks a lot, that thing has been annoying the hell out of me for a while.

Posted by Keith on Aug-19-2003 04:19:

hehe i rebooted, then it came back. was like WTF lol
Then i got the patch

Posted by SuperFarStucker on Aug-19-2003 04:43:

you can disable distributed dcom as well or just have your systems properly firewalled to avoid this problem.. i didn't patch for 3 days and i was never affected

Posted by NooKLeaR on Aug-19-2003 05:40:

Yay Mac OS X.2!

Posted by infinity HiGH on Aug-19-2003 11:52:

how would someone go about fixing this problem if they have an illegal copy of XP? the comp i'm using right now (my dad's) happens to be running on a pirated copy and I doubt that dl'ing the patch from MS would help.

any suggestions?

Posted by sash on Aug-19-2003 12:08:

i dont think you need a real copy to use windowsupdate.microsoft.com
you could change that dcom service thingo so it doesnt reboot

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Aug-19-2003 12:17:

Posted by DJGoodey on Aug-19-2003 13:10:

quote:
Originally posted by infinity HiGH
how would someone go about fixing this problem if they have an illegal copy of XP? the comp i'm using right now (my dad's) happens to be running on a pirated copy and I doubt that dl'ing the patch from MS would help.

any suggestions?

I fixed this problem without using the microsoft patch. What i did was press ctrl + alt + delete and then ended the msblast process. I then did a search on my computer for the msblast file and deleted it. I know have my firewall running all the time now.

Posted by infinity HiGH on Aug-19-2003 13:29:

the msblast thing didn't help....it still shows up

i need to somehow dl the patch in 5 minutes on a 33k......

Posted by placebo on Aug-19-2003 14:24:

quote:
Originally posted by NooKLeaR
Yay Mac OS X.2!

Mac's are for people who don't know how to use computers. *Opens up iBook*

Posted by Domz on Aug-19-2003 14:30:

get someone to put it on disc for you, thast what i had to do with about 5 of my friends as im the only clever one who has dual boot so i went on 98 and downloaded the patch, lol

Posted by surferfb on Aug-19-2003 15:25:

I have a pirated copy and I downloaded the patch fine.

Posted by jon on Aug-19-2003 15:27:

quote:
Originally posted by surferfb
I have a pirated copy and I downloaded the patch fine.

The only thing not to work with pirated copies atm is SP1, all patches, and the patch related to the msblast worm will work.

Posted by NooKLeaR on Aug-19-2003 17:42:

quote:
Originally posted by placebo
Mac's are for people who don't know how to use computers. *Opens up iBook*

Or for people who don't want to deal with the crap Microsoft puts out. (Open's up 12" Powerbook....o so sexy)