I just upgraded to Norton Antivirus 2006 (whereas I should have just renewed my subscription to Antivirus 2005, because the **** thing doesn't...
Whiskeyman, because msmsgs is disabled at the moment (although who knows if it'll reinstall again?), the Windows messenger item on the Outlook...
Yeah, I use Outlook Express. Is there some way to shut off that program's invocation of msmsgs?
Kind of surprised that you need a third-party program to shut it down completely, but what the hey. Thanks, Pete.
Every few days or so, msmsgs (Windows Messenger, I think) reappears in my startup program list. In fact, if I uncheck it from the startup tab in...
Thanks, Whiskeyman, I'll check those things.
Does anyone know how to ensure that "system checkpoints" are automatically generated every day in System Restore. I've got a new Dell laptop,...
It worked perfectly, Charles (finally!). Thanks for your help. David
Okay, Charles, I have two possible solutions that I dug up thanks to Google, and I wanted to get your opinion before trying either of them. 1)...
Thanks Charles. I'm nervous about uninstalling the printer since I'm not sure the software I have from HP is enough to reinstall it -- it was a...
Any Solutions Yet Hey Charles: Any solution to the continually re-appearing "new hardware found" wizard? I've had this problem ever since...
Oh yes. A perfect example of user stupidity rather than Windows obscurantism. Thanks guys.
Ooops, I take that back ... I just recked the registry and found that I neglected to change the "search bar" value although I did everythinmg...
Thanks, but been there and done that. Really, I've checked everything via regedit. I can't figure it out.
Thanks, guys, but I'd rather avoid putting another toolbar in. I cannot believe thyere is NO way to reset google as the default search engine...
I installed SP2 on XP Home the other day, and now nothing I do can make IE go back to using google as the default search engine. Trust me, I've...
Good idea. Thanks.
Oh God, it was tricky enough installing that printer for XP originally. I don't look forward to doing it again. The event viewer showed only a...
Thanks, Charles. but none of those proposed problems or solutions are relevant. Nothing's wrong with device manager -- although the printer isn't...
Hi, I just installed SP2 for XP Home and everything's fine except that everytime I boot up, I get a "new hardware found" wizard that wants me...
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