James Martin - Sounds like the two of us or about egual in experience (or lack thereof) and I built this one with much reading of the mobo manual...
PrairieLily - What type and how fast/slow is your connection? IM has some min. specs. to run Messenger and if your connection is dialup and much...
Buttermilk substitute I know this is facitious but here goes anyway. For a buttermilk sub. use regular milk and add some lemon juice and it will...
I acquired one too and love it. Not nearly as mysterious as the internals when they have a problem. Has been very steady.
She has a Compaq of bout 2 yrs old and something like 475MB processor. I don't think she has kept up with Compaq updates and her monitor is kinda...
It might be one of those you can't get rid of in msconfig. You might see if it is in the list at Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs and if so...
ladyLuck - Wouldn't hurt. Have you ever ran a defrag? It is part of Maintenance Wizard and probably the most important, esp. if you haven't run...
FWIW and opinion only I just know what I read about this subject but if you are looking for an off the shelf then a Dell is the one as they have...
bobw - I have a USR 5686D I just acquired (Used) and the improvement over my old Diamond Supra Internal is remarkable. Used to connect 28,800 max...
Your welcome And now I guess I'll have to change my signature.:)
USR external modem Just a comment to an old post and directed mostly at Billy Bob. I just purchased a USR external and replaced my hastily...
I don't do preview pane and also usually check email with MW before email program. It has reduced spam by a great amount. I still get some but...
Billy Bob, straighten me out if I have a misconception about Auto Protect. Way I figger is that email protect catches 'em when being downloaded...
Steve R Jones I like your new avatar.
Well, picky, picky but in fact, I guess that's what I did. The dots get kinda faint to these old eyes sometimes. Times goes by and we slide...
Thanks for links Mike. Tis strange indeed but your links told me more than I had found out to this point.
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