I'm grabbing a straws here. Here's the problem;

I recently decided to wipe the computer and set it back to factory condition.

I shove my Recovery disk in the machine and followed the prompts. After all that was done I reinstalled my video card drivers.

Everything works well except for whatever reason 9 out of 10 videos on youtube don't show. I just get a blank black screen. No error message, no messages stating I need to install or upgrade anything. Nothing. Just a black blank box where the video should be.

Anyone got any idea WTF happened or what I may need to do?

Have you tried reinstalling Adobe Flash? That's what videos use.

Adobe Flash probably won't be the last thing you need, either. There are many small applications required by the internet that are not actually built into most browsers.

Downloaded and installed Adobe Flash.

Same problem. I downloaded and installed lastest browser version. Success.
Which is strange as I never had the lastest version before. Had the same one I had before the wipe. Thanks for the hints, I would have never thought about the browser unless steered in that direction.

Thanks again.

Why do you need to wipe your computer?

Do they still put out codec packs?

Are you using Media Player or something else?

(April 20, 2010 at 2:41 am)theblindferrengi Wrote: Why do you need to wipe your computer?

I dunno. Probably did it just for fun or because the plumbing got clogged with porn. One or the other.

It was just a crazy idea of mine. Comp was moving slow. Way too much starting and running in the background and even if I do the msconfig thing and have nothing starting and then go into the task manager and shut down applications and processes manually, for some reason, given a few minutes, the damned things would restart on their own. And Nortons antivirus shit, once that gets on your comp is there no way to remove it? I tried uninstalling whatever Norton things I could find, manually deleting whatever I could find related to Nortons, stopping all processes that have to do with Nortons. Yet I still get fukin' popups telling me to update my Nortons, warning me Nortons is out of date etc etc.

I wipe the whole thing, but damned Nortons is reinstalled with my Recovery Disks. So that is one problem that shall never go away it seems.

So my wipe has cleaned up background processes and apps., computer responds faster than before the wipe so I'm happy with the results.

Anyone know how to erradicate Nortons from a computer?

(April 20, 2010 at 9:00 am)Dotard Wrote:

(April 20, 2010 at 2:41 am)theblindferrengi Wrote: Why do you need to wipe your computer?

I dunno. Probably did it just for fun or because the plumbing got clogged with porn. One or the other.

It was just a crazy idea of mine. Comp was moving slow. Way too much starting and running in the background and even if I do the msconfig thing and have nothing starting and then go into the task manager and shut down applications and processes manually, for some reason, given a few minutes, the damned things would restart on their own. And Nortons antivirus shit, once that gets on your comp is there no way to remove it? I tried uninstalling whatever Norton things I could find, manually deleting whatever I could find related to Nortons, stopping all processes that have to do with Nortons. Yet I still get fukin' popups telling me to update my Nortons, warning me Nortons is out of date etc etc.

I wipe the whole thing, but damned Nortons is reinstalled with my Recovery Disks. So that is one problem that shall never go away it seems.

So my wipe has cleaned up background processes and apps., computer responds faster than before the wipe so I'm happy with the results.

Anyone know how to erradicate Nortons from a computer?

I just removed Norton from my sister's laptop. All I did was go into control panel>programs>uninstall a program and uninstalled Norton.

Zhalentine is right. I hate Norton too, and I just uninstalled it from the control panel.

FYI, Microsoft Essentials is my virus software of choice. Used to love AVG but then they added too much shit to it and it got annoying.

Also, your computer is kinda old and you want to get more out of it, by some ram. Best thing I did for my sister's desktop.

I don't trust Microsoft when it comes to virus scanning. They've failed far too many virus tests (anyone remember OneCare) to be trusted. G Data, FSecure, and Kaspersky are all great paid apps. Avast! has a free edition that is ranked as "Advanced+" by AV-Comparatives in their semi-annual report: http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/st...port25.pdf

In comparison, Microsoft Essentials only gets an "Advanced" ranking with 96.3% of viruses caught. G Data won again with 99.6%.