Joe Hobart makes an excellent point. If you are not an experienced computer user who understands the effects of shutting down this process-...
Clarification If you have SP2 installed, AU in Services must be enabled in order to use the MS ver 5 Windows Update site. Johanna
If you have installed SP2, or are considering it, you should know about this guy. It stands for Windows Security Center Notify, and it's a...
I Can Confirm This Charles This was true for my system, too. I made a list (of course) of the security changes SP2 made (which overrode my...
SLK230MB Next time I'm in New York, I owe you a drink!!! :D THANK YOU!! Johanna
Hey, Dob, isn't there a backup and restore feature in C Cleaner of your cr*p? you need any files w/ .dmp I think this is an SP2 thing. You...
Anyone know how to force XP online in Safe Mode (cable or dial up)?? Johanna
WelshJim, In the nearly 3 years I've used XP Pro, I have had very little success with the Recovery Console. I would have to agree that a Image...
First, try another mouse. If that works, take yours apart and see if there is dust or lint messing up the right click connection. If still no...
I would follow Bill's advice in Post #9 before proceeding. Johanna
SP2 and Norton are playing pretty nice, for the most part, but this might help you if you decide to reinstall Norton:...
Two things may help. First, try right clicking on your attachment- and you should get a "save as" option. If there are more than one...
Joe, When I broke msconfig, there were two Dr. watsons running in my Task Mgr, too, like Abraxas. It's the name, "postmortem" that bothers me!...
WelshJim, I don't know how much text work you do, but Open Office is a great program. It works similarly to Office, except it has more features...
Christer You have the affliction, too, I see... Perhaps you are an engineer? You are welcome to join our Tweakers Anonymous meetings- it's a...
Any other problems with IE or OE? You may want to try this. Since OE wants to close unexpectedly, I'd start with the SFC (System File Check)...
I came up with 3 wordpad.exe Program Files\WindowsNT\Accessories Windows\SevicePackFiles|i386 Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\ whole...
Right click on the drive from My Comp, choose properties. Click disk clean up, and uncheck any boxes you do not want XP to use (scroll down for...
Try creating a user 3 and selecting new wallpaper. If you can, one of the user accounts is corrupted. If you can't, something in Appearances is...
Christer, Why? I mean no disrespect, but I burn regular backups, and I just proved (to myself, anyway!) that my partitioning strategy works....
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