PeteC: That did the trick. Actually, it didn't at first. In addition to deleting the file from the C:\*\All Users\ folder, I wound up having to...
Steve: Thanks for replying. The E:\Netscape 7.1 folder contains the Netscape program itself (netscape.exe) as well as many of NS's subfolders and...
That thread title may not be too clear, but here's the situation. My HDD is partitioned as follows: C:\ Windows XP and other system stuff D:\...
Ever since I set up a new user profile, when I switch to it a Desktop - Notepad window opens: [.ShellClassInfo]...
It's 256 KB. EDIT: Good heavens! I just did a Search and there are 25 of the things, NTUSER.DAT and NTUSER.DAT added together. They range from...
Bill: Not that I was aware of. Unless you count that strangeness I told you about earlier, with the reg fix command window immediately closing...
Bill: Those 3 files were the only ones I did not copy over. I just checked the Profile folders inside the respective Mozilla folders, and their...
Arie: There are 4 of them. Two are 32 MB each, the old main one is 960 MB, and the new one is 635 MB.
Bill: I thought I'd get back to you to let you know I went ahead with Method #2 and set up a new user account as per your instructions. It went...
Bill: With all the new User accounts, the 16 GB C:\ partition in my HDD shrunk from having 24% of free space to only 3% and I couldn't run a...
Bill: Hoping to avoid the complications of creating a new profile, I first worked on your suggestion that a malware program might be making...
Bill: Sorry you felt I was blaming you. I wasn't. As you say, "there is no reason on earth you should have permissions issues," so I wondered...
Bill: I printed out your instructions to be sure I could follow them. All went well until I got to Highlight 'Users' and click Full Control....
Bill: An interesting development. In RegEdit I got down to Internet Explorer and when I highlighted Toolbar an Error Opening Key message popped...
Zander: No luck. I tried the EXE file first and then the VBS file. Neither worked. I noticed the file that adds the TweakUI icon to Control...
surferdude2: My RegEdit change was from 400 to 5000. Thought that should suffice. I checked TweakUI and couldn't find the Explorer >...
sir gerald: Several people have had the same problem. When I had it, the solution was to do a System Restore back to a time before the IE 7...
TeMerc: Did the remaining fixes. Most everything seems OK now except for one frustrating issue I started a thread for yesterday in the Windows XP...
TeMerc: After the fixing, I ran a Spybot scan and found several tracking cookies but no Pipas.A, so we appear to be winning. Here's the latest...
Welshjim: Checked out your link. I found the same sort of thing when I did a Google search before opening this thread -- lots of references to...
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