Charlesvar Do you remember any specifics that might help me find the thread you are referring to? I must have missed it. I still don't...
Ha! Easier said than done. Mike has found his lady, and we can't compete with that! It would take a powerful incentive to get him to give up...
Reboot Please tell me why rebooting is a bad thing? I thought it was used to reset XP, and that when in doubt, reboot. Please teach me, because...
You folks know how I love lists. I would appreciate comments, corrections, additions, etc When to reboot XP * after updates, patches MS or...
You may want to delete your prior System Restore Points in case AdAware is picking up something in there. SR files are protected, and AV software...
Have you tried using a different mouse? Or taking it apart and cleaning any crud out of it? Just a thought. Johanna
NEWT What are you trying to do????? Martin has enough problems without us asking him to rename system folders on an operating PC!!!...
LOL, Martin... when are ya gonna learn to stay out of No Man's Land! Viewing Hidden Files, now? You could play games, surf or write a book on...
Okay...first of all, you don't "download" XP from a cd, you "install" it. Software (which is XP and all the additional programs on the...
Did the cd rom work before you took Windows off of the computer? Did you change the BIOS to boot from cd first? Johanna
You may have already done this, but for anyone reading this who hasn't shut off the auto-restart, enabled by default in both HE and Pro: Turn...
I really like the "Immunize" feature in Spybot. It protects you from "accidentally" acquiring known bad guys. Johanna
Martin, we love you. If it weren't for you and Catastrophe, we would be bored out of our minds telling people how to disable a firewall or find a...
Christer There is about a gig in the inaccessable Norton Protected Recycle Bin. I was throwing stuff away, and not paying attention to Norton...
Thank You Jim & Newt Okay, disabled Hibernation, no Pagefile on C (I have 2 512 sticks of memory installed) and dumped all the MS uninstall temp...
I didsabled Hibernation (I don't use it!) and went from 16% free space to 29%. How do I move the pagefile? It's a gig and a half, and won't go...
Open Office www.openoffice.org is very functional, and Free! I use it as my default editor, and no reg hacks required. Johanna
TonyT That's why I dumped NU- it was redundant. On my older systems, there were features I liked, Speed Disk and Win Doctor in particular. But...
You should never be online, even for a few seconds, without your firewall enabled. If your firewall is not on, you need to be offline....
Newt Didn't think about moving the pagefile. Zander I probably would have cut it from 10 to 6, but I knew I was going to put Norton on there....
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