As long as Microsoft wants.:D
To be honest, I have not seen any WinXP computers running chkdsk /f automatically in the last approx. 4 years, even if the volume is so badly...
Very well said ReggieB and very true.
Wow & I thought that this forum was strictly for Windows users. Now I know that there are more people like me out there. :) Comforting thought. :)
Zander, as per your description of things, I think that XP is running autochk. But it always reports the volumes as not dirty even if chkdsk finds...
Christer, its too hot to go out here. Why don't you just try it - you may be surprised :)
Not difficult to install, but difficult to setup/install/uninstall programs & getting it to do what you want it to do.
I quite agree with your cousin. Linux is a beast to setup properly and if new you are completely at sea. The things never seem to work the way...
I am using UPS for all my computers and have 2kvA online UPS for servers - but the outage & voltage fluctuations are such that even the UPS fail...
Since Linux was written by & for nerds, its cryptic and on top of that the manuals (man pages) are very terse and technical. You need a lot of...
Sparrow , as I said in my earlier post, we are facing weather & power problems out here. There is nothing implicitly wrong with the computers as...
Well the problem with Linux is that there is so much info available about it that you get lost while searching for it, but you do get answers &...
Gary, don't disable the Windows firewall in either of the system - it would be automatically configured to allow access when you run Networking...
It's not an one off experience. I have been facing this problem for long and on different computers. The computers would hang or reboot & then the...
Added the /sos switch to boot.ini & did just what you suggest above, yesterday. (just to make sure that it fixes them too) Though Windows...
Just rename the original file to something else, create anew hosts file & enter the following line: 127.0.0.1 localhost...
Englishbob, check if you can download from other account (Administrator) - maybe some policy is in force.
I personally never had a problem with OEM version. The only thing is that you can buy it with any new hardware (as per Microsoft) - it can be...
Downloaded 200mb on dial up using DAP - took 2 days but it always recovered gracefully
To each his own. I have been using DAP for last so many years & don't want to risk any damaged file or wasting my time with IE built in support...
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