You may be right, but would you agree that it wouldn't hurt and since it's easy, something to try before a reinstall?
I swear, Mudd, that if you carved yourself a working computer out of a bar of soap, you'd still call yourself a "beginner" :eek: .
I caught a touch of that infirmity myself ;) .
Thanks, Bill. That link to repair IE/OE should be: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318378 You'll find a lot of useful...
Try removing it in Safe Mode or run : msconfig, choose selective startup, and uncheck all the boxes beneath. Maybe something in that folder is...
I'll take the easy way out and send you to these first :) : http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14428...
Miz -- I think that's exactly the problem. Without the switches, all you get is the starting window. But at least that could be used to remind...
Alternatively, you could try fixboot and fixmbr from the Recovery Console.
Welshjim Do you have any links to 3809? Since I have it securely tucked away, I've lost links I could be giving to others. Edit----...
Well, I said it was a long shot. Have you tried this link? It won't need the DNS: http://140.183.234.10/
You have XP! System files are protected, so go for it. After that, we'll look for traces left behind. Let me know how you make out. The...
Not really trying to cross-examine you here, but the sequence of events would make it easier for us to understand what happened. So, if the new...
It would help some, Blu, if we knew what you were shooting for. ACPI is Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. It is, among other things,...
Unless someone knows differently, this applies to XP, too: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;223146 Many third-party...
It may not be all that quick! This may be more complicated than you think. Before we go too far, though, if you know where you got the file to...
Admittedly, these errors are sometimes pretty cryptic and uninformative. One thing you could do is to right-click on each of the items in the...
Look in Tools, Internet Options, Security. Click Internet, then Custom Level. Scroll down to Scripting and see if you have enabled it. (The...
Follow Miz' suggestions, and then----------> Though your present boxes will have the .dbx ending, older ones may have been renamed. Search for...
What are the symptoms? Are js buttons non-functional? Do js redirects fail? Did you also reinstall IE, preferably 6? The IE installation...
Actually, I use one of these: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?sku=S199-1002...
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