I have just completed a clean installation of Windows XP professional (in German but thats a different story), and I currently have two problems that I would greatly appreciate any help with.

I have installed my ADSL modem sucessfully, (so far this is the only thing I have done after installing XP), however when I connect to the internet, after about one minute or two, I get a dialogue box that pops up to the effetct that the computer has malfunctioned and will shut down in 60 seconds. In the box there is a reference to RPC and Win32 Generic Host, (can't translate much further, cos my german tech speak isnt too good:sad: ). I think that a patch or update is required from microsoft, but the only problem is that I cant get online long enough to do it, I am in an internet cafe at the moment) Any ideas as to how I might get the updates back to my pc?

Secondly, when I installed XP It asked me which keyboard I had, but only gave me the option of a german one. I have a Swiss-german one. The resultant is that I can't enter the "@<hidden>" symbol. Can anyone tell me how to get XP to tecognise my Swiss keyboard?

Thank you in advance for your help, and here is some free advice:

Installing a foreign language version of Windows XP is inadvisable, when your knowledge of that language only extends as far as Beer, Food, and finding restaurants. (I thought to myself as I bought it "How difficult can it be?" answer: Very :O :mad:

WinXP should be able to connect and stay connected with ADSL without further patching. Are you using a "connection program" provided on a CD from your ISP? Win XP has its own connection set up accessed from Start->Control panel->Network connections->Create a new connection. The ISP type programs frequently has errors or compability issues.

Your keyboard can be set from Start->Control panel->Regional and language options->click Languages tab->click details button. From there you can add you current keyboard swiss? and remove the settings for the present one. I could not find Swiss settings in winXP english edition but maybe yours have it. the @<hidden> symol is usually accessed by alt gr+2 or shift+2.

Misshandled,

Go into Control Panel then Network Connections, and enable your firewall for your ADSL connection. It keeps the "joker" out

Reference connecting. You may have been infected straight away by the Blaster Worm virus. see here (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99666).

Blaster Worm can be disabled in the Task Manager Processes. That will stop the countdown so you can download the MS patch and disinfect. Known variants of this worm may show up as "msblast.exe", "teekids.exe", or "penis32.exe".

Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete key combination.
Click "Task Manager" button.
Select "Processes" tab.
Highlight "msblast.exe".
Click "End Process" button, answer "Yes" to warning dialog.
Repeat previous two steps for "teekids.exe" and "penis32.exe".

Once you've done that, see here (http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/w32_blaster.html) and the links on the forum linked above.

Thank you all for your replies. Once again Pprune comes up trumps!:ok:

Mishandled,

Here is the thread we have running on the MSBlaster:

RPC/Blast worm virus (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99032)

If you need any more help getting rid of it, let us know,

Richard

On my favourites I have a Windows XP tips and tweaks site called xp-erience.org.
This was very useful, but it is now unavailable, any ppruners know if there is a replacement for this site?
TIA