LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.—In a rare discussion about the severity of the Windows malware scourge, a Microsoft security official said businesses...
Hello jbarker, Use this program to search the startup locations: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html Regards - Charles
Hello abx, http://www.freedownloadhq.com/Acrobat.html There's a catch though. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php a free .pdf...
Jim, he's running W2K. Don't know if Taksklist.exe will run on that OS. If its not there: Download from here...
Hello rocko1, You can try deleting IE (I'm assuming a 5.x IE version) and installing IE6: http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html Before you...
Hello Kimberley, You're going to have to go back to the person that installed the modem. Any number of things could be wrong: The modem...
Hello Ruth, Does this happen in Safe Mode? Tap the F8 key on bootup. If it does not, there is an application that is doing this. Then start...
Hello Cynic, Memory management for 9X and starting programs. http://www2.whidbey.com/djdenham/index.htm Regards - Charles
Hello abx, Control Panel > Add/Remove > left panel: Set Program access and Defaults. Regards - Charles
File extensions monitored by SR: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sr/sr/monitored_file_extensions.asp The...
The other issue is one of speed - how fast can MS respond in the way of updates to virus/spyware/trojan sigs compared to the current industry?...
Have you tried a System Restore to just prior that update? Regards - Charles
IE5 shouldn't be use anymore, period. As far as IE is concerned, IE6 should be run. Basically FF doesn't have ActiveX built in, a vector for a...
Not as far as I know. One XP per computer. If you get an XP labeled "upgrade" - costs a lot less, that is the full XP, you just need proof of...
Hello Sashank, Check your RAM and get that out of the way: Windows Memory Diagnostic http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp Have you...
Hello ron, http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm RegSeeker free http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/version.html Registry First Aid v4.3.1 paid...
Hello freddie, You need a new XP cd for this - the HP installation is activated for the old computer and couldn't be used on the new system...
Hello mojo13, It might be the power supply, in that case you need an external powered hub. Regards - Charles
Thinking about the booting issue some more: You probably can use the XP cd as a boot cd - I say probably because I don't have two C...
Hi TurboFool, And would I be correct in assuming that I can't simply manually edit the boot.ini file on the SATA drive to include the boot...
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