Steve - Thanks for the info.... I'll assume that XVA is indeed at least as good as TFT ... This stuff (and my familiarity with it) gets obsoleted...
Sorry for my ignorance, but a 67-year old friend wants to get into computing with a new laptop, and asked my advice.. One of the things I told him...
Thanks guys... have now downloaded Spybot1.3 and run it.. found three aparently insignificant things - removed them and still running OK..
Could someone direct me to where I can learn what 'spyware' is, please.... and other similar insidious things that might have been implanted...
PeteC - thanks so much for the info.... have modified registry entry and removed from Favorites, so we'll now see if it STAYS gone. Thanks again....
Is there a way to prevent the LINKS folder from re-appearing in my Favorites list? Even though I can remove it by 'organiozing favorites' it...
BillyBob - well I now appear to be stable!! Thanks to you guys and some increased awareness on my part I'm now up 'n' running. The ESS website...
BillyBob - yup, the modem is an ESS voice/fax/wave modem and when i drill into the driver files I've identified at least 4 drivers for the Audio...
Well guys I'm sorry to put a little blight on your day, but I ain't cured... yesterday the modem hung with refularity - once even emitting a...
Suddenly dawned on me (Duuhhhh !) that a wave device is to play .wav files.... tried to play one and it didn't work. So, went to Add Hw, Windows...
pstanhope... Well, I may have made some progress.. I followed your navigation to find what was using IRQ5 and there are three things: ESS WDM...
BB - there is a modem listed on both the Control Panel and the Device Manager; however, when I look at the properties there is no way to see what...
BillyBob - well my connection just went down again - I was on Outlook Express. As always, nothing short of a reboot will re-enable it......
BillyBob - you may have hit on something.. although I can't see any conflicts this morning, in all my efforts on Saturday I do remember seeing...
OK, I'll get into autoexec.bat and edit it.. thanks for the tip. I don't have anything exotic running on this box. Still not completely stable...
I don't know if this is too trivial to post, but here it is.. For months I endured very slow dial-up connection to my ISP... it would connect,...
One more post-mortem observation: Now when I reboot, I get a whole page full of MS-DOS commands between the Windows98 logo appearing and my...
Billybob: Thank you also for your insight.. and the observation that COM1 is a committed port that will not be corrupted by my antics.. I will...
pstanhope - I wish I knew what I did, or at least what it was that got me back to 'useable'... I did end up removing (via Device Manager I think)...
Well guys (and gals?) .. thanks a lot for all your insight and suggestions..... I've gone batty working on this thing all day and have been...
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