Hello bobemartin, That SpyBot "locking the home page" feature is for mult-user systems. Does nothing against outside attempts. Tom Coyote's...
Hi ski, Take a look at this thread: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/index.php?board=9;action=display;threadid=4164 Specifically Tony Klein's...
Hello ski, These are harmless, can stay or go: R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page = R0 -...
Hi Mike, *and then run scandisk and defrag.* XP's equivalent to scandisk is Chkdisk and XP insists on running it in safe mode :-) I know...
Hello hinata_sama, I re-read your post: *my soundcard, printer and ethernet connections don't work! so I tried reformating again.... I've...
Hi Johanna, Defrag seems to go faster with nothing else doing random writes to the HD. I got into the habit of doing so from my experience...
Hello Rev, One more piece of advice: do the defrag in safe mode and shut the screen saver off. The background programs are never really idle...
Hi Hugh, Thanks for the follow up; if you do get it working, post back. Regards - Charles
Hi BB, *But. Don't they still have ( or possibley have ) on the drivers and apps disk, machine specific hardware and drivers for same ?*...
Hello hinata_sama Need more info on the system for one thing. You have bigger problems than "settings ". Settings in this context means...
Hi BB, *If so then you more than likely will need a recovery disk made special for that machine.* That may be true of HP/Compaq - IBM, not...
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