Podnutz Daily #144 - Remove Multiple Registry Items

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Philly Tech Guys this Saturday February 14th at 2pm

IBM Think Pad work PC needed files removed and cleaned
before turning it back over to the company
- File Shredder Shred unwanted files beyond recovery
- Registry Crawler Delete multiple registry entries at one time


Did a virus removal job for a customer and he brought it back in
the next day complaining that it had virus/pop up issues again.
- Where has this person been on the internet since he took it home?
- Super Winspy tells you the computing history
- Super Winspy proves to the customer their unsafe internet habits caused re-infection



Dell Power Adapter broke at the power brick
- Repair tips using hot glue
- Video resolution fix via a bios settings


Doctor Watson starts on its own and utilizes the majority of memory
- Tried turning off all instances of Dr Watson in the registry
- There was still corruption in Windows. Reinstalled Windows



Vista with critical error "Windows will shut down in one minute"
- stop the auto shutdown via command: shutdown -a
- used msconfig to turn off all start up items and all non microsoft services
- Service Pack 1 install was causing the issue. Reinstalled SP1


When smart malware will not allow you to run Malwarebytes
- RENAME the malwarebytes exe file to something different and then it will run



Outlook stores all of its files in one large .pst file
- if this pst file becomes corrupted you lose all of your data
- Windows offers a Inbox Repair Tool called Scanpst.exe


Email from Tommy:
- Tom states all of the laptops he has worked on
had the harddrive installed upside down
- Do-It-Yourself malware and virus creator


Warnings on 809 area code
- it is a toll number and you will incur charges if you call it


Received a solicitation for "managed antivirus" to offer to my customers
- monitor the antivirus from your home base
- I am happy selling Norton 2009


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