xp, dual core 2.5ghz, 500gb, 1gb of ram, hp

hello to all, i made a post earlier this week about how my pictures were not saving, i followed all tips in the post and none helped. i saved to my desktop, documents, picture folder, external hd, did a computer search, cleared cache, did a restore, etc..........

nothing helped, now to go along with pictures not being able to save i open mozilla firefox and my yahoo toolbar is gone but google toolbar is still there, i click view and yahoo and another toolbar aren't even listed. an even bigger problem is idm (internet download manager) is no longer viewed when i right click.... actually when i right click several things are missing. the only things i see when i right click with firefox open is view image, copy image, properties and a couple of others----several things are missing including download with internet download manager, and several firefox extension programs. this hurts can anyone help? thanks, the only thing i've changed lately is after running no virus program for the past 5 months i decided to download avg free, i ran a scan and it caught a few things and cleaned them, then websites were moving slow, lots of hesitating, so i decided to uninstall avg free, i actually had avg free a few months ago but it kept making websites move slow and a bunch of false warnings so i deleted it. could the problem with my computer not saving pics and not being able to use idm be a virus/trojan or do you think avg deleted something critical? i did a restore to before avg but no luck. thanks

o yeah, and all of a sudden websites aren't remembering my usernames and passwords. thanks

This isn't really hardware related. You may want to PM Justin Weber, ask him to remove this post, and follow up on your other one. Just a thought though, did you try a System Restore to a time before all this trouble started?

Life's more painless for the brainless.

Are you running without any antivirus protection then?

I'm not familiar with IDM...I haven't used a download manager since I was on dial-up. Yahoo & Google toolbars are spyware though. Whatever disabled them did you a favor. Read these clips from their privacy policies:

"Any time you use the Google Toolbar to contact Google, such as by sending a search query to Google, the Toolbar sends standard, limited information including your machine’s IP address and one or more cookies. This data is retained in Google's server logs and protected according to our general Privacy Policy."

"Yahoo! Toolbar will transmit the following information to Yahoo!: complete web site addresses (URLs) from all the web sites you visit, referring and redirect URLs, unique Toolbar identifier, product performance data like page load speed, and other information provided by your browser including yahoo.com domain cookies."

You'd be wise to get them both off your system ASAP. Makes me wonder what other stuff you're running?

If you don't have CCleaner, download it, install it (make sure to uncheck the box for Yahoo toolbar) & run it regularly...both the cleaner & the registry scanner.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_c...

"all of a sudden websites aren't remembering my usernames and passwords"

Do you mean that you have to manually enter the name/password after closing the site then returning later? And that's a bad thing?

thanks for all the responses, and thanks also for that detailed message Jam, i get what your saying but something is not right... i went in my videos folder and all the icons have changed, i ran anti-virus and nothing came up. i tried system restore 3 times taking me back to a month ago when things were fine, and it says NO CHANGES WERE MADE DURING RESTORE. i can't save pictures etc.... this is a bad thing, but i understand what your saying. thanks

Too many people think that System Restore will save them. A common misconception is that it allows you to "go back in time"...it does not. System Restore doesn't backup the entire system, it only backs up certain critical files & folders. Not only that, but viruses tend to hid in the restore files. Personally, I have it disabled on all my systems.

My guess is that you have a lot of garbage on your system. The fact that you run Yahoo & Google toolbars & had been running without any anti-virus tells me that security isn't a major concern. I can only guess what other garbage you have installed...Quicktime & RealPlayer? And you probably have AIM & Yahoo messengers installed & configured to load automatically at startup? File sharing programs such as Limewire? It's all a recipe for disaster. Take out the trash, THEN worry about your picture files.