Hi Barbee, A minority. There will be a lot of new dialog boxes and windows, the Security Center and security dialog popups by Internet...
Your welcome Barbee. I did answer your question about where to find out whether you have Service Pack 2 or not. Regards - Charles
Hello robv, I'm assuming that you don't have Automatic Update turned on because you write While trying to access the Windows Update site I get...
Hello No1UNo, Go into the control panel. You will see a new entry - Security Center - and on the left under resources > "change the way...
esc - shift -ctrl works faster and works everytime. Regards - Charles
Hi Barbee, Appologies for using terms that I forget not everyone is conversant with. To answer your question: Go into the Control Panel,...
Do you have something called a Security Center window that popped up on bootup? I don't think so, or you wouldn't be posting now. BTW, what...
Hello BarbeeGee, If you had it, you would know. Set AU on one of the two middle options: Download auto matically Notify before download and...
Hi Jerry, Either buy one, barrow one - think that will work, or ask the OEM for one. Regards - Charles
Hi Sparrow Thanks for the Newegg link. I've been holding off on software upgrades/updates until after SP2. Now that I've have it, I can...
Jim, Forgot to add that right clicking on that IE blocking symbol will re-open the blocking dialog - settings, temporary block?, and others....
Paul, Forgot to add that there are other $NtUninstall files in Windows taking up a lot of space - can be treated the same way. And if the SP2...
Hi Jim, Do have javascript enabled, IE will stop those. As for the popups from IE, I got it initially but told it not to do that anymore....
No one's mentioned the new SP2 IE popup blocker, I like it alot. At the test sites below, run the tests both w/ and w/o your regular blocker...
Have seen that complaint a lot. Try shutting AU off,thru the Control Panel if you don't want to shut the Service down completely - it wants to...
Hello Rancher, Wasn't aware that Sonic purchased Roxio, thanks for the info. BTW, wlecome back - long time no see :-) Regards - Charles
Yes, you insert the new XP disc and you install it. Regards - Charles
Hello jbarker, I run 2002 and the "fix" will come later for rest - that's one point. "fix" is misleading: thru the combination of SP2's...
I had no problems and the system runs better. Did get rid of the Security Center tray icon, annoying as hell. Regards - Charles
Uninstall them or disable them? Regards - Charles
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